University Daily Kansan, November 21. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Bell's lawyers file motions for acquittal and new trial
Attorneys for Bryan Keith Bell, who was convicted Nov. 10 of the second-degree murder of Frank Seurer Sr., last week filed a motion for acquittal and a motion for a new trial.
Seurer's body was found on the morning of Aug. 2 in the kitchen of Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale road.
The motion requested that the verdict of second-degree murder be set aside because the evidence had only established that Seurer had been killed during a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion, which is classified as voluntary manslaughter, not second-degree murder.
The motion also said that Douglas County District Court Associate Judge Mike Elwell, who presided over the trial, was incorrect when he allowed a confession Bell made to police when he was arrested on Aug. 17 to be admitted into evidence.
The motions will be ruled upon at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in Douglas County District Court.
Student injured after fall from roof
An 18-year-old KU student was in critical condition last night after he fell from the roof of a fraternity house and struck his head.
Rappoport said that about 4 a.m. yesterday Findley and two other men were on the roof of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, 1645 Tennessee St., looking into a window. While they were running along the cell wall about 10 feet and landed on a concrete porch, Rappoport said.
Tim Findley, Overland Park freshman, underwent about four hours of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center to relieve pressure on his brain, Paul Rappoport, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said last night.
Findley was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then to the Med Center, where he underwent surgery about 8 a.m., he said.
Parents lack medical fund records
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An area couple has no accounting records for $14,000 spent from a $90,000 special charity fund for their daughter who suffers from a rare and often fatal skin disease.
Douglas and Carolyn Sue Henderson said they had no records accounting for $14,000, but the receipts they have show some of the donated money was used to remodel their home and to purchase imported tableware, the Kansas City Star reported yesterday.
The Kansas City couple appealed to the public because their 11-year-old daughter, Tami Hendrickson, has a disease called dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and sometimes fatal disease that makes skin so sensitive it blisters or tears at the slightest touch.
Officials still searching for man, 72
TOPEKA - Police and Osage County Sheriff's Department deputies were unable to find an elderly diabetic man who has been missing since last week, officials said yesterday.
Irvin Wagner,72, was last seen Tuesday leaving a Topeka restaurant. His car was discovered by hunters near Lake Pomona Thursday. It was stuck in mud.
Wagner is black, 5 foot 6 and weighs 135 pounds. Police said he suffered memory lapses and sometimes confused.
Five homecoming floats win awards
This year's homecoming theme, "Under The Big Top," inspired many KU students to create colorful floats for the homecoming parade.
KU students to create colorful floats for the homecoming parade. A group of five faculty members, alumni and local merchants judged the floats.
First place for floats with movable parts was awarded to Alpha KappaLambda fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority for their work on the FLOAT project.
Second place for floats with movable parts was awarded to Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta sorority for their float of a merry-go-round.
First place for floats with non-movable parts went to Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Second place for floats with non-movable parts went to Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Sigma Kappa sorority for their float of a float that met the criteria.
The judges gave a special award for spirit and theme excellence to Joseph R. Pearson and Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin residence halls for their float.
ON THE RECORD
TWO KU STUDENTS were arrested early yesterday morning and was booked on a charge of criminal damage to property, KU police said. The two had allegedly damaged a study table in Oliver Hall. One of the students was released at 10:30 a.m. yesterday on $1,500 bond from the university to appear in Douglas County District Court at 4 p.m. on Nov. 28. The other student was still in jail yesterday morning on $1,500 bond.
ABOUT $300 IN cash was stolen between 12:30 and 12:45 p.m.
Saturday from Morris Sports, 1016 Massachusetts St., police said. The money was taken from a cash drawer during business hours. The police have no suspects.
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KU profs could gain from merit-pay plan
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Stanley Kopik, the executive director, spoke at a meeting of the Regents Fiscal Affairs Committee, at the Regents会议 at Fort Hays State University. The committee reviewed the recommendations from the budget to Gov. John Carlin and to Kansas legislature for the next fiscal year.
HAYS — The University of Kansas could receive $644,000 next fiscal year from a proposed $2 million fund to reward superior classroom teaching at Board of Regents schools, the Regents executive director said Friday.
THE SPECIAL FUND would be used by the schools as an additional source of merit pay, and would be distributed throughout the schools based on evaluations by students, other faculty and administration, Koplik said.
The University would receive $64,400 in the next fiscal year, Koplik will pay the $2 million was divided among the schools based on credit-hour enrollment.
The $2 million fund proposed by Carlin is in addition to his recommendation that a pool of money equal to 5 percent of the system-wide unclassified salary base be available for merit raises.
The University of Kansas and the Regents, however, had requested a merit-pay fund of 7 percent for unclassified employees, said Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs.
The 7 percent figure would make $3.54 million available for unclassified funds. The budget director's recommendation for KU, at 5 percent, is $2.53 million.
AFTER INCLUING THE money
the University would receive from the special $2 million fund if it was distributed based on credit-hour enrollment. KU would have $3.17 million available for unclassified merit raises less than the $3.54 million it requested.
The Regents and the University requested a 5 percent merit-pay fund for classified employees, Nitcher said. The budget division controls classified salaries statewide, and it had recommended a 5 percent figure. Therefore, he said, the University and the Regents could not realistically ask for higher classified merit raises, even though they wanted to.
KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig said,
"A 7 percent adjustment is a reason
one — it deserves to be supported.
I believe that we view it as
realistic. A 5 percent adjustment for
faculty and classified staff is not
enough."
HE SAID THE 7 percent raises were needed to draw and retain good faculty, many of whom were attracted by higher salaries in the private sector.
"The University of Kansas is on the verge of losing some of our most able faculty and classified staff," Budd said. "Many of these individuals would view the 7 percent figure as being realistic."
Koplik said he was optimistic that the Legislature would be receptive to the 7 percent proposal because of the recent improvement in education and thus improving the quality of education.
Archie Dykes, a Topena regent and former KU cancellation, said the Regents would have to decide whether to continue to support its original 7 percent request or to work with what Carlin has proposed. Several of the regents also approved of the fund for superior classroom teaching.
Good teachers stay interested in work, prof says
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
A good teacher has to be interested in people and in the subject he teaches, Kenneth E. Rose, this year's winner of the National Teacher Training Award, said yesterday.
Rose, professor of mechanical engineering, received the award during Saturday's homecoming luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Teaching the same subject for almost 40 years can be exciting if the teacher still wants to learn what is new in the field, he said.
"There is always some change," he said. "I learn to when I am teaching."
AND STUDENTS' ATTITUDES play an important role in how well a teacher can do his job and how much he is able to enjoy teaching, he said. Students who study the class often show interesting and rewarding. Most of his students fall into this category.
Students don't often directly express their appreciation to a teacher for his efforts, but seeing years of teaching fruitful is rewarding enough, he said.
"You can tell by their attitude," he said. "The greatest satisfaction is,
after they graduate, to see them succeed."
And he enjoyed having students keep in touch with him after they graduated.
"They come to see me and I hear from them at Christmas," he said.
HE TAUGHT AT the National University of Engineering and at the University of Lima in Peru, and at the University of Zulia in Maracau, Venezuela, before coming to the University of Kansas in 1947.
Teaching has been part of Rose's life for 40 years, he said. Before coming to KU, his profession took him to South America.
When he first came to KU, Rose was chairman of the department of mining and metallurgical engineering. Now he teaches courses in the science of materials, corrosion, metallic materials and manufacturing processes.
The Chancellor's Club, which chooses the recipients of the Career Teaching Award, was founded in 1977 and has 500 faculty members. A minimum of $1,000 to KU each year.
Rose is the third professor to receive the $5,000 award J. Eldon Fields, professor emeritus of political science, received the award in 1981 Barbara Craig, professor of French and Italian, received the award in 1982.
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