University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin may avoid lawsuit with discrimination study
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin's decision ordering a study on whether female state employees are paid as much as male employees holding similar jobs might have averted a sex discrimination lawsuit aimed at him, statehouse sources said yesterday.
A spokesman with the Kansas Association of Public Employees told the Kansas Information Network this week that the organization was preparing to use Carol for sex discrimination. The source told KN that the state that female state employees were paid less than men in similar posts.
But because it would be "political suicide" to sue the governor, the state employees' organization has decided to wait a year for the study to be completed, the spokesman said. The Legislature then can address sex discrimination in 1985.
K-NEA wants higher school budgets
TOPEKA — The Kansas-National Education Association yesterday urged the Kansas Legislature to allow public schools to increase their budgets more than the amount Gov. John Carlin recommended Tuesday.
For fiscal year 1985 Carlin recommended that districts be allowed to raise their budgets between 4 percent and 8 percent, depending on how much money was in the district. He also recommended that an additional 2 percent increase go for teacher salaries.
The teachers want the budget lids to be between 6 percent and 12 percent, with the same 2 percent set out for teacher pay.
The K-NEA yesterday released the results of a survey that indicated that a majority of those questioned would favor a tax increase to maintain the current quality of education in Kansas. The findings said 68 percent supported an increase, 28 percent opposed it and 3 percent
The survey was conducted by Capital Research Services Inc., which telephoned 627 Kansans at random Dec. 6 and Dec. 17.
Attorney wants conviction dropped
TOPEKA - The attorney for a man convicted of first-degree murder yesterday asked the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn his client's conviction because there was insufficient evidence to support the verdict
The defendant, Rodney L. Brown, was convicted in Harvey County of killing Naomi Ingham on Nov. 5, 1981. Ingham's body was found in the bathroom of the Econ-O-Wash laudromat in Newton. Police found her body when they learned a man had locked himself in the bathroom and would not come out.
Craig Cox, Brown's attorney, told the court that the state's case against Brown was built on "presumption based on presumption and inference upon inference."
James Modrail, arguing for the state, said the state's case against Brown was based on circumstantial evidence, but the evidence was strong enough to "allow the jury to form a reasonable inference of guilt."
Legislators criticize defense of PIK
TOPEKA—An assistant U.S. secretary of agriculture drew fire from some Kansas legislators yesterday for his comments defending the payment-in-kind program for price guarantees and production limits for U.S. agricultural production.
Assistant Secretary William Lesher told the Kansas House and Senate that the 1983 program had provided "a year or two breathing space to decide what direction we want to take on farm policy."
But State Rep. Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, said, "Evidently the feeling in the Agriculture Department is that we got time on our hands." A number of officials have a clear complaint.
Lesher defended the PIK program but said some farmers were in "tough shape."
The 1984 program sets a $50,000 limit on PIK payments. In order to sign up for PIK, a wheat farmer first must reduce planting by 30 percent to reduce production.
However, Lesher said PIK and acreage reduction programs were only a "short-term fix."
Prize offered for clock-tower design
The Theta Tau engineering fraternity is accepting designs for a solar-powered clock tower that may be built on the north side of Wescoe Beach.
A $100 prize will be awarded for the winning design
The fraternity has not gained approval or funding for the project, said Phil White, a fraternity member. But he said the fraternity would give the winning design to the Kansas University Endowment Association, which may provide the funding.
Entries for the contest must be submitted between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Feb. 20 to the School of Architecture and Urban Design in Marvin Hall.
Any student may participate. Entries should be submitted on two illustration boards, 24 inches by 36 inches.
Designs must allow for storage and access to batteries and time-setting equipment.
K-State schedules Landon Lectures
MANHATTAN — Sen. Edward Kennedy, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and journalist Hoddling Carter III are scheduled to deliver Landon Lectures at Kansas State University during the spring semester.
The lecture series is named in honor of former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon.
Lecture chairman William Richter said that Kennedy, D-Mass., is scheduled to give the lecture on Jan. 30. Carter is to appear on Feb. 13 and Bradley is scheduled for April 16.
Talk on conflict resolution planned
James Reagan, co-founder of Conflict Resolution International, will speak at 8 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Room of the Kansas Union.
Reagan recently returned from the Middle East, where he trained Arabs and Israelis in conflict resolution and mediation strategies. He has a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado and has 22 years of experience in family therapy, conflict resolution and intercultural exchange.
He will also speak about "The Peace Movement in the Middle East: Win-Win Alternatives to Coercion for the Arab-Israeli Struggle" at 8 p.m. Jan. 18 in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
A 15-INCH COLOR television set worth about $200 was stolen sometime Jan. 9 or 10 from a home in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. Police have no suspects.
ABOUT $495 WORTH of jewelry and furniture was stolen sometime between Dec. 15 and Jan. 1 from the home of two KU students in the 1000 block of New York Street. Police have no suspues.
BURGLARS STOLE A pistol collection worth about $600 Jan. 8 from a Lawrence resident's home in the 900 block of Availon Road.
One of the seven pistols was an 1860 model. 22-caliber Smith & Wesson with a brass grip
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Three neighborhoods to lose funds
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Three Lawrence neighborhoods will lose federal money for benefit projects because they are no longer considered low-income neighborhoods, the director of Lawrence Community Development said yesterday.
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however, the neighborhoods — North Lawrence, Old West Lawrence and Pinckney — may still receive funds for projects directly benefiting low-income people in the area, said Lynn Goodell, the director.
Goodell said the change in the status of the neighborhoods became official this week when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development clarified some of its new rules regarding community development block grants.
CENSUS RESULTS INDICATED in early December that the average income in the neighborhoods was too high for them to qualify as as a low to
The Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board reviews applications for money and will make its preliminary recommendations to the Lawrence City Commission at a public hearing in mid-February. The City Commission makes the final decision on the requests.
To receive block grants for area projects, Goodell said, at least 51 percent of neighborhood's households are successful in paying people with low or moderate income.
moderate income areas, he said, which is necessary to receive block grants.
About $74,000 will be available for grants this year, Goodell said. At Wednesday's meeting, the advisory board had hear requests for about $1.4 million
Because he just received the HUD information this week, Goodell said, he has not contacted officers of any of the neighborhood associations involved to notify them of the change. Each association will also lose block grant
ALTHOUGH SOME PROJECTS directly benefiting individuals in the three neighborhoods may still be financed, Goodell said he would speculate that fewer projects would be approved in those neighborhoods than for areas that continue to be designated as low income.
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money for administrative uses such as publishing a newsletter.
Oliver Finney, president of the Old West Lawrence Association, said that about 90 percent of the $1,300 the association received last year from the block grant program was used to publish a newsletter.
FINNEY SAID HE had not been officially notified that the neighborhood was undergoing demolition.
However, the loss of administrative funds would not cause the neighborhood association to die, he said. Membership will be increased to pay for the newsletter.
The association could rely on other sources for its administrative funds, he
Terry Summers, president of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association, which received just under $2,000 last week, said she had no problems in the immediate future.
Summers said the association would have to concentrate on getting block grant money to finance specific project funds, such as sidewalks in front of some house.
Bob Moody, vice president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association and a member of the block grant advisory board, said the area would be eligible for block grant money to help the city had designated it as blighted.
Judge to rule on altering suit against KU
HOWEVER, HE SAID, to be eligible the projects in the area would have to be directed toward improving a spec-化疗 as outlined by the City Commission.
Moody said the association last year received more than $2,300.
By MARY SEXTON
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Rogers is expected to rule this month on a motion to amend the discrimination suit brought against the University of Kansas by a KU professor.
Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology, filed suit against the University a year ago for alleged sex and race discrimination.
Last December, Wilner filed a motion to amend the suit, requesting that an additional charge of "intentional collection of emotional distress" be added.
quested that six additional defendants be named in the suit, including the Kansas Board of Regents, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and four other KU students.
WHEN THE CAUSE was originally filed in the December 1982, Willner asked for more than $3 million in damages. Her charges included "sex- and mass employment discrimination" and "negligence of free speech," according to the suit.
In the same motion, Willner re-
In the motion to amend, Willner said that she had suffered "physical, mental and emotional pain which have brought her to near valandism and international professional activities and relations, and her personal life."
General Counsel filed a response it opposition to the proposed amendment
In that response, the University's lawyers said that Willner's assertions of "near invalidism" could be the result of "unwillingness or of a 'an overworked imagination'."
The General Counsel's response said that Wilmer should have included Budig and the five others among the defendants she named in the original suit. The original suit named 12 defendants.
ALONG WITH BUDIG and the Regents, the others named in Willner's motion are: Robert Linebery, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in celler for academic affairs; Alan Hanson, professor of anthropology;
In the original suit Willner included:
former KU chancellor Archie Dykes;
Debbie Bunkel, former acting vice
president; University
administrators and faculty.
Last December, the University's
Alfred Johnson, chairman of the department of anthropology.
Wilmer joined the KU faculty in 1966 and was granted tenure in 1977. She
She states in her suit that the discrimination began because of her involvement in the women's movement in the 1970s.
CONGRATULATIONS
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a report filed in April 1982 that there was reasonable evidence of unfair treatment some of Willner's charges could be true.
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