University Daily Kansan, January 25, 1984
Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
School's car used in drive to dismiss KSU professor
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University faculty member yesterday defended the use of a forestry department car to gather names from across the state on a letter against a professor who has been recommended for dismissal.
John Strickler, assistant state Extension服务 forester, testified before a faculty board hearing the appeal of Ben Mahaffey, an assistant professor of forestry who could become the first tenured professor to be fired at K-State in its 110-year history.
Another department member took the letter to extension foresters throughout the state in a two-day trip, he said.
Strickler said his letter was drawn up in 1980 in support of the university after Mahaffey filed a third faculty grievance over what Mahaffey claimed were unfair faculty evaluations and merit pay increases.
During questioning Strickler said he thought the trip was department business. The letter expressed concern over the amount of department time being spent on the grievances filed by Mahaffey.
Yesterday was the sixth day of the hearing.
Events to mark Chinese New Year
The Chinese Student Association will sponsor a Chinese New Year Festival at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
The festival will celebrate the lunar year of the rat. This year will mark the beginning of another 60 years of the lunar calendar cycle.
The celebration will include two short cultural movies, "Chinese Folk Art," and "Treasures of the National Palace Museum." Admission is free
A Chinese banquet and a dance are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Lawrence Community Theater, 9th and Vermont streets. Admission is $4 for members and $6 for non-members. The Chinese New Year will begin Feb. 2.
Seminars offer help to job-hunters
The KU Business Placement Council is sponsoring placement preparation seminars to inform students about skills they may need to
The seminars will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday and next Wednesday in Room 305 of the Frank R. Burge Union.
The council has invited company representatives from large firms to speak during the first seminar about cover letters, employment communication and resume preparation, said Mark Limones, president of the council.
ON THE RECORD
A MANAGER AT the First National Bank of Lawrence Monday reported a counterfeiting incident that occurred Saturday at a Derby service station. 2330 Iowa St., police said.
An unidentified person apparently passed a $1 bill as a $20 bill to a clerk at the service station, police said. They have no suspects.
A KU STUDENT reported the theft of $818 worth of firearms, scopes and rifle cases, police said.
The theft occurred early Monday morning in the 500 block of Fireside Drive. Police have no suspects.
WHERE TO CALL
Do you have a news tip or photo idea? If so, call us at 864-4810. If your idea or press release deals with campus or area news, ask for Jeff Taylor, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, check with Christy Fisher, entertainment editor. For sports news, speak with Jeff Cravens, sports editor.
For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Knox, managing editor.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 664 4358.
ALL YOU CAN EAT Biscuits & Gravy
RUSTY'SIGA
The University Senate, comprised of KU faculty, administration and Student Senate, has not achieved quorum at a meeting since 1971, said James Carothers, chairman of the Senate Executive Committee.
The University Senate last night decided to subject a proposal to regulate the elimination of KU academic programs to a mail vote.
At a special meeting called to review the proposal, the University Senate failed to achieve a quorum. A quorum is necessary for a vote.
Policy will be decided by mail vote
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
JAMES SEAVER, chairman of the University Council, the executive group of the University Senate, said that the
A. Budig must approve the proposal.
Carothers said he hoped and expected that Budig would accept the proposal if it were approved by the University Senate. But he said that a letter he had received from the Chancellor fell short of asserting this.
Breakfast Served at these Rusty's Locations:
WESTRIDGE *6* & ksask *841* - 01-0144
HILLCREST *9* & thaw *843* - 2313
SOUTSIDE *23rd* & Louisiana *843* - 8588
University governance has been working on a policy for academic program elimination since April 1982, when the Kansas Board of Regents asked its six schools to devise a new policy.
The University Council approved the program discontinuance proposal Jan. 12 and decided the issue was of sufficient importance to call for a University Senate meeting to review the proposal.
1971 quorum was in response to disruption on camus at that time.
The University Council also provided for a mail ballot at that time because a quorum was not expected at the Senate meeting.
A quorum is 20 percent of the University Senate, which has about 1,224 members. At last night's meeting, 14 University Senate members were present, including two Student Senate members.
The University Senate last spring rejected by mail ballot the original proposal for a discontinuance policy. A subsequent resolution approved the new discontinuance proposal.
Members of University Senate presen- at the meeting decided to have a mail ballot vote so all Senate members could participate. Carothers said.
The ballots must be distributed to University Senate members within seven academic calendar days of the meeting and must be returned to the SenEx secretary within 10 academic calendar days after the ballot is issued.
would be due at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.
Carothers said the ballots will be counted that evening and will be validated as they come in.
SENEX WILL TRY to get the ballots
out by tomorrow. In that case, the votes
The policy would apply only to locally initiated program eliminations, and would not be binding to the Board of Regents.
Before becoming effective, both the University Senate and Chancellor Gene
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter $ ^{1} $
Carothers said that with a KU discontinuance policy, the University could conduct its own program reviews.
Cameras bring judicial drama to masses
Kansans are not accustomed to seeing the judicial drama from inside the courtroom reproduced in newspaper articles. Kansans have been barred from trial courts.
After weeks of hiding his face from cameras, photographers snapped the telling picture of Michael Peterson as he was killed in a guilty verdict for first-degree murder.
Staff Reporter
But because of a new Kansas Supreme Court ruling, judges now have the option of letting cameras in the courtroom. And Kansans will be seeing a lot more pictures taken from inside
"This is a classic example of technological change. The only reason cameras weren't previously allowed was because of their bulky design, so they were created a circus-like atmosphere, which would have denied defendants due process."
Emil Tonkovik, KU associate professor of law, said he was in favor of cameras being allowed in courtrooms, because he understood why there was opposition.
Local television stations did not film
them because they did not have the
necessary equipment.
The Supreme Court ruling includes Shawnee, Chase, Lyon, Johnson and Sedgwick counties. It took effect Jan. 1 against an experimental basis until Dec. 31.
Johnson County District Judge Lewis Smith, who presided over Peterson's trial, said that he thought the photograph was a good job and were unobtrusive.
"Sometimes people tend to do things differently in front of cameras — it may incriminate them," he said. "But, on the other hand, cameras to make people handle themselves more professionally."
courtr rooms, both in print and on television.
THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT appeared Monday in newspapers was taken at Peterson's retrial, one of the first two trials last week in which judges allowed cameras in the courtroom.
CLAUDE ROWLAND, KU associate professor of political science, said he thought "the more public involvement in a trial, the better. The most important component of a fair trial is that it be public."
Peterson's first trial last month ended in a hung jury. Not until Monday morning, after jurors had reviewed a videotaped confession by Peterson revealing details of the murder, was jury convinced that Peterson was guilty.
The jury found the 20-year-old Kansas City man guilty of shooting Mae Adele Hilleary July 14 in a Merriam Christian Science Reading Room.
AN ECONOMIC EQUATION:
quests
Fuzzballs and lint on - carpet
coming over this
very few bucks in pocket
weekend
purchase of a used vacuum at WHITE'S
At WHITE'S, you can purchase a used vacuum cleaner for just $29.95 and up. New vacuums sell for $69.95 and up. Come into WHITE'S for a vacuum, and vacuum repair and supplies, at economical prices, so you'll still have money left over for the
843-1267
JANUARY JUBILEE
PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA
PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA PLAZA TOYOTA MAZDA