University Daily Kansan, January 20, 1984 Page 8
CAMPUS AND AREA
Trial to be set on fire, fraud in February
By the Kansan Staff
The trial date of a Lawrence businessman charged with arson is expected to be set in February in Douglas County District Court. The district court is awaiting official notification of a Kansas Supreme Court order for the trial, the Court's press aide said yesterday.
The Court ruled Jan. 13 that Thomas Harvey Black St., owner of the now-closed Royal College Shop, 837 Massachusetts St., would have to stand trial on charges of setting fire to that business and of making a fraudulent insurance claim in 1982, court records indicate. Prosecutors have sufficient evidence to proceed with a trial, the Court ruled.
The high court's ruling for a trial came after District Attorney Jerry Harper appealed a district court decision to throw out the case because of lack of evidence. The proceedings were halted during pre-trial hearings in November 1982.
An official decision from the Supreme Court usually takes about 23 days to reach the lower courts, said Ron Keefer, the press aide.
Court records named 89 witnesses, including 16 who had been subpoenaed for the original pre-trial hearings.
The Supreme Court's decision was delayed because the prosecution had difficulty finding transcripts of the pre-trial hearings to send to Topeka. The Court reporter left the transcripts messed when she resigned in April 1983.
Group approves appeals proposal
By JENNY BARKER
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
A University-wide grade appeals board is one step closer to being a reality.
The KU Organization and Administration Committee yesterday approved sending a proposal for a grade appeals board to the Senate Executive Committee, Earl Nehring, a committee member, said yesterday.
Nehring, professor of political science, said that students who had complaints about grades now must go to a departmental grievance system.
"Now there is no way for a student to change a grade if the instructor doesn't change his mind," he said.
SANDRA CRAIG, committee chairman and associate professor of law, said, "This proposal is just aimed at remedying what might be thought of as a defect in the code where only the instructor can change a grade."
a grade. Craig said that the board would be allowed to order grade changes. The proposal would create a board of four faculty members and two students that would hear grade complaints.
senex would appoint the faculty members, she said, and the Student Executive Committee would appoint the student members.
Nehring said the idea of creating a grade appeals board had been considered for about two years and Privilege and Responsibilities Committee submitted a proposal for an appeals board to SenEx.
If the University Council passes the proposal, he said, it will probably be sent to the University Senate.
THE PROPOSAL WILL be returned to SenEx for consideration, and Nehring said that he expected SenEx to submit it to the University Council.
SenEx questioned the proposal's wording then forwarded it to the Organization and Administration to review it and reworked, Nehring said.
The Senate comprises faculty, administration and Student Senate members and has about 1,224 members.
Neighborhood group may avoid cut in funds
By SHARON BODIN
Staff Reporter
The North Lawrence Improvement Association may escape cuts in federal community grants if it can prove that a majority of its residents earn a $150 million bonus, the director of community development block grants said yesterday.
Lynn Goodell, the director, said that the 1980 census indicated that the average income in north Lawrence had risen, making the neighborhood association ineligible for grant money this year.
The Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board uses the census to determine eligibility for the community development funds.
However, financing for development of a park near downtown will still be
cut, said Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation.
PLANS TO ADD $14,000 worth of improvements to the park will be dropped because the financing is no longer available to the neighborhood, DeVictor said.
The improvements were $6,000 to renovate a basketball court, $5,000 in landscaping and $3,000 in new park benches.
Census figures for 1980 recently showed that three neighborhood groups — Old West Lawrence, Pinckney and North Lawrence — could no longer be considered low-to-moderate income neighborhoods. This meant they were no longer eligible for Community Development Block Grant funds.
Those findings could also jeopardize projects submitted last year as well.
But both the Old West Lawrence and
Pinckney neighborhoods can still propose individual projects that might qualify for grants. And future housing projects submitted by the groups could be financed if the occupants of the housing had low-to-moderate income status.
The $25,000 of community development money and $25,000 financed through parks and recreation will be used for earthwork, walkways, landscaping and an irrigation system to expose the existing ice rink. DeVoir said
To obtain community development block grants, a neighborhood must submit a project to the CDBG Advisory Board. The board then reviews the project and gives a recommendation to the City Commission.
The commission has the final decision on whether to grant financing for the project.
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