University Daily Kansan, January 27, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Overland Park legislator enters congressional race
TOPEKA — Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, yesterday became the first member of her party formally to announce as a candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr.
Meyers made the announcement at a morning conference. She said the race for the nomination could cost as much as $300,000, but she
Meyers in 1978 ran beside Nancy Landon Kassebaum in a crowded field for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Kassebaum
The state senator said she always had supported the Equal Rights Amendment and did not see the "frightening things" that some opponents see in the ERA.
She also said she supported the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion and did not expect anti-abortion groups to oppose her strongly in the race for the nomination.
Soldier could be freed,lawver savs
LEAVENWORTH — An Army private who had been sentenced to death could be eligible for parole in five years, his attorney said yesterday.
President Reagan Wednesday signed an executive order revising the rules under which military courts may impose the death penalty. The order closes loopholes under which the U.S. Court of Military Appeals overturned a death penalty in October.
The court overturned the death sentence of Pfc. Wyatt L. Matthews, who was found guilty of stabbing camp librarian Phyllis Villaneueva more than 50 times with a pair of scissors in 1979 at Camp Algiers in West Germany.
Water-safetv classes to begin Feb. 6
Water-safety instructor classes will be taught Monday evenings beginning Feb. 6 at the Lawrence High School swimming pool, the director of the Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross, said yesterday.
Jo Byers, the director, said that prerequisites for the classes included owning a current life-saving card, and pre-enrolling at the Red Cross office at 11th and Vermont streets by purchasing an instructor manual packet for $10.
A pool fee for $14 will be charged, she said. The classes will be held from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every Monday through March 26.
The class will hold as many as 20 people and those who enroll must be 17 on older, she said.
For more information, contact the Red Cross office at 843-3550.
Phi Delts plan a benefit tournament
The Lawrence chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity will hold its annual basketball tournament to help fight Lou Gehrig's disease on Feb 3, 4. and 5.
This year, Phi Delta Theta has named the event the Keith Worthington Memorial Tournament, in memory of the University of Missouri Phi Delta Theta alumus who helped establish research on the disease at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Worthington died Jan. 20 of Lou Gehrig's disease, or amytrophic lateral sclerosis.
Money will go to the Med Center's research and care unit for ALS victims. The tournament raised $11,500 last year.
Tickets for the tournament, which will begin at 6 p.m., Feb. 6, at South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St. are $1 at the door, or $3 for those wanting to attend a pre-game party from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Lawrence Arena House, 642 Massachusetts St. The $3 tickets will be sold at the party.
ON THE RECORD
FURNITURE AND WALL-HANGINGS valued at $1,230 were reported to have been stolen from the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, 1540 Louisiana St., sometime last week, police said.
A KU STUDENT REPORTED the theft of a radar detector, a pool cue and case and a cassette tape case with 36 tapes, valued at $645, police said. The items were stolen sometime Wednesday from a car at 2111 Kasold Dr.
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The University will have to raise $3 million by July 1985 in order to be eligible for a $1 million contribution from the NEH, he said.
Esmark Inc., the holding firm, pledged the $50,000 to help raise funds for a challenge grant made by the university in connection with initiatives to the University. Mennaugh said.
A KU student was charged with vehicular homicide yesterday in Douglas County District Court in connection with the Sunday fatal car accident that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old KU student.
Bud Overfield, KU facilities operations electrician supervisor, said that a repairman was to examine the Carpaniie and correct the problem this
By the Kansan Staff
Student is charged in fatal accident
Dale Seuferling, the Endowment Association director for constituent fund raising, said that including the $50,000 grant, the University had raised about $1.5 million in its effort to meet the NEH challenge grant.
Susan June Shaw, 20, of 1044 Alabama 3, according to police reports, was the driver of the vehicle that struck the side of another car, driven by Christopher J. Nourot, 1226 Haskell, at 10th and Kentucky streets.
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Alice Nourot, his wife, was also in the car at the time. She was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for facial cuts and later released.
In addition to vehicular homicide, a class A misdeemment charge, Shaw was also charged with failure to remain at the scene of the accident.
University will receive $1.25 million
The Endowment Association will receive about $1.2 million from a Tulsa, Okla., resident, and $50,000 from a holding firm based in Chicago, said Steve Menghau, public relations co-ordinator for the Endowment Association.
The University of Kansas will receive two donations amounting to $1.25 million, Kansas University Endowment Association officials said yesterday.
By the Kansan Staff
Menaugh said he could not reveal the name of the private donor or how the donation would be used.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Campanile chimes silent on the hour
Shaw is scheduled for arraignment
Bah 6, when the charges will be read
and Shaw's account will be re-
A broken clock has silenced the hourly chimes of the Memorial Campanile for about a week. Albert Gerken. University carillon, said yesterday.
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Kerken said he didn't know why the cloak's automatic striking mechanism worked.
By the Kansan Staff
The failure has had no affect on the chimes' performance, except that they no longer ring on the hour.
Robert Stephom, Kansas attorney general, speaks to the KU Pre-Low Club. Stephom spoke and then answered questions from the small gathering last night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Stephan speaks of problems in law
By STEPHANIE HEARN
Staff Reporter
Attorney General Robert Stephan told the KU Pre-Law Club last night that practicing law could be "disgusting, as well as rewarding and exciting."
Stephan spoke to about 50 pre-law students in the Big Eight Room at the Kansas Union.
Stephan, who reiterated after his speech that he was considering running for governor in 1986, has been a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a judge, before becoming attorney general in 1978.
He said that he was concerned that no attempts were being made in the teaching or practicing of law to imbue students with knowledge a taskivity has to do with new kinds of
lawsuits," he said. "There are no real attempts to separate problems to see if we're incarcerating the right or the wrong people.
"I defended criminals I knew were guilty," he said.
'LAW OUGHT TO be an honorable profession. It ought to be a search for truth and justice. Unfortunately, it is not.
"I hope for a wave of lawyers to take on the system and try to change it."
But Stephan said that he had never sentenced anyone and then doubted that the person was guilty.
"In fact," he said, "in the 13 years that I was on the bench, I don't know anyone that went to trial that I thought was innocent."
Stephan believes that the system can be improved by giving more say to judges than to the lawyers in
selection of the jury. "Lawyers don't want a fair and impartial jury," he said.
WHEN STUDENTS ASKED what undergraduate major he suggested for law school hopefuls, Stephan said that people with an accounting degree and a degree in law were worth their weight in gold.
Although lawyers are probably far from scarcity now, he said, those who are doing well in school and are willing to work hard to establish themselves after they get out always have a chance.
Stephan wrapped up his 15 minute speech by asking, "How many people here are registered to vote?" and "How many people here have ever voted?" Nearly overwhelmed in the audience answered "yes" to both questions.
State hears plea for battered wives
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Battered wives and children in Kansas are desperate for help, according to a woman who told a State Senate committee yesterday that she had been beaten by her ex-husband for 20 years.
The woman, Rickie Slecha, a mother of four from Overbrook, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that not enough was being done to help victims of the shooting. She said the Legislature should appropriate money to start shelters across the state.
"There's so much to be done," she said. "It's unreal."
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, agreed.
"It's important to get (the victims) out of that kind of situation, even if it is a real crime."
A SHELTER FOR battered women in Arizona "saved my life," Shelta said, adding that creating such shelteres is crucial to the important step in curbing domestic violence.
"If we do nothing else, we need to get a place to get the victims out of the line."
The Legislature should help finance those shelters, he said, and should make their position on domestic violence clear to law enforcement.
"The laws don't need to be changed." he said. "The problem is there is a lack of leadership. Prosecutors and law enforcement know the position of the legislature."
Harper said he met last week with Douglas County law enforcement personnel, and that county officials were considering making more arrests and filing more charges related to domestic violence.
STATE SEN. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, told the committee that he was working on a bill that would raise about $500,000 annually to create and fund shelters for victims of domestic violence across the state.
The money would be raised by
increasing the fee for marriage licenses in Kansas from $17 to $25.
Slecha spoke during most of the hour-long hearing, and gave the committee what she called a first-hand account of domestic violence.
She said she and her teen-age children still lived in constant fear of her ex-husband, who, she said, pursued her through three states — Colorado, Arizona, and Kansas — and made her life miserable.
"BELIEVE ME when I tell you I have not had a day without fear for myself and my children for the last 20 years," she said.
Slecha testified that her ex-husband gave her both physical and mental scars. The back of her neck has been marked since her ex-husband wired her head to a chair with a coat hanger, she told the committee.
Committee chairman Elwaine Pomeroy, R-Topema, said the committee would continue to hear tessimony next week. He said the committee might suggest revising laws to curb domestic violence in the state.
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