University Daily Kansan, November 10, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Phone company executive denies donation allegations
TOPEKA — A Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. top executive yesterday called a state utility regulator's allegations of improper political contributions a cheap shot and upheld the donations as being appropriate.
Edward Whitacre, vice president for Southwestern Bell's Kansas operations, said Commissioner R.C. "Pete" Lux's comments Tuesday were "outrageous" and inappropriately timed on the last day of formal hearings on the utility's request for a $204.5 million rate hike.
A state senator Tuesday asked Attorney General Robert Stephan to investigate Southwestern Bell's contributions, worth more than $6,500 last year, to its Kansas Employee Political Action Committee. PACs make contributions to political candidates.
In his letter to Stephan, State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, said he uncovered records in the Kansas secretary of state's office showing that during the 1982 election period, Southwestern Bell made the demands for the PAC's salaries, postage, printing, mileage and stationary.
Local soldier implicated in sex case
FORT CARSON, Colo. — Army officials said yesterday that three male senior sergeants at Fort Carson had been charged with sexual misconduct resulting from alleged incidents with three female soldiers, including a Lawrence woman, during military training maneuvers in Honduras.
Elaine Strong, a fort media relations specialist, said that Command Sgt. Maj. Wayne Cantwell Jr., Sgt. L.C. Stephen Schleiker and Master Sgt. Delmar Eldridge had been charged with adultery, lewd and lascivious conduct and fraternization. Schleiker also was charged with sodomy.
The sergeants and the soldiers were assigned to the 43rd Support Group that went to Honduras in August and September.
Maj. Terry Monrad, a fort spokesman, said that an investigation was underway to determine whether the sergeants would face court-martial. Sexual misconduct charges may also be filed against the three soldiers involved.
Strong said that one of the three female soldiers, Teresa Lane, 23, Lawrence, had been charged with perjury for allegedly giving false testimony in the investigation.
A 35-year-old woman was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with three counts of battery in connection with the stabbing of her husband.
Wife charged in husband's stabbing
Giuppia Rayburn, 1333 Kentucky St., pleaded not guilty yesterday to one count of battery and to two counts of battery of a police officer. A second count was adjudged by the jury.
Gerald Rayburn was stabbed in the center of the chest about 8 p.m. Tuesday night, police said. He was in satisfactory condition last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a nursing spokesman said.
Diplomat to talk on Africa relations
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, will deliver the keynote speech tonight in the first day of a three-day conference at the University of Kansas on U.S.-Africa relations since 1960.
Crocker's speech, on current issues in U.S.-Africa relations, will be at 8 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. He will be introduced by Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., who is visiting conference along with several departments and offices of the University.
Other speakers at the conference include Timothy Tahane, vice president and secretary of the World Bank; Princeton Lyman, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs; and several professors from KU and other universities.
KU faculty, students and staff will be admitted free.
Ex-KU dean takes Northwestern job
Edward P. Bassett, former dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, has been named dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Bassett, who came to KU in 1970, is the editor of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman Journal. Bassett, 54, is expected to start work at Northwestern as soon as possible after the first of the year, according to a Northwestern official.
Bassett served as the KU journalism dean for four years and then worked for a year as vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Bassett left KU to become director of the school of journalism at the University of Southern California. He took his post at Salem in 1980.
Del Brinkman, dean of the KU School of Journalism, said he was surprised to hear that Bassett took the job because he thought that Bassett was enjoying his job as editor. However, Brinkman said that Bassett had always enjoyed journalism education.
Bassettt succeeds I. W. Cole, who has been dean at Northwestern since 1957. Cole will continue as director of the Gannett Urban Journalism Center at Northwestern, a position he has held since 1966.
IFC picks sophomore as president
An Overland Park sophomore was elected president of the Interfraternity Council at a meeting of the council Tuesday night at the Sigma Nu House, 1501 Sigma Nu Place.
The new president, Bill Widemann, is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Also elected to IFC offices were: Scott Williams, Lawrence junior, vice president for fraternity affairs; Mason Linscott, Shawnee Mission junior, vice president for membership; Grant Tennison, Leawood junior, secretary; Jess Commerford, Elkhart junior, treasurer; and Scott Nations, Overland Park junior, vice president for public relations.
The newly elected officers took office immediately following the meeting.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT $36 WAS stolen from a vending machine in Marvin Hall sometime between 1:30 and 3:45 a.m. yesterday, police said. A pry tool was used to enter the machine, which is on the first floor of the building, police said. Damage was estimated at $125. There are no suspects.
A WALLET WAS stolen sometime between 3:15 and 4:45 p.m. Tuesday from the third floor west stacks of Watson Library, police said. The loss was estimated at $47, and there are no suspects.
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SenEx fails to endorse Regents proposal
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday failed to endorse a recommendation that would allow Board of Regents universities to deny admission to Kansas high school graduates if they did not meet certain
Educational Planning Committee, Regents schools would have the option to deny admission to Kansas graduates if they had not successfully completed a core of 15 classes, the chairman of the committee said.
SenEx members were asked by the office of academic affairs to respond to the Regents proposal, but because members had not previously seen the plan, the group did not take action.
Under a proposal by the Legislative
REGENTS SCHOOLS NOW admit any student who has graduated from an accredited Kansas high school. High schools must require a core of three English classes, two science classes and one math class for graduation.
If the legislative committee and the tull Legislature approve the proposal during the 1984 session, high school English classes; three classes in social English classes; three classes in social
State Rep. Denise Apt. Republican from Iola, said the proposal would not take effect for three to four years so that school systems would have time to adjust their curriculums.
science, mathematics and natural science; and two foreign language classes.
A letter sent to University officials by Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director, said that the proposal was being considered because, "several in the committee felt that many students who are not adequately prepared or who are most assuredly not able to complete rigorous university work,
ought not to be at the university in the first place."
Apt said that too many students were entering Regents schools and having to pay for their education.
Junior colleges and community colleges are a more viable alternative to students who are not prepared to enter a university. Apt said.
APT SAID THAT the committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday during a meeting on Tuesday.
A second alternative would outline the same reasons for denying admission, but Regents schools would be required to follow the policy.
KU law graduate takes assistant DA job
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission yesterday approved a recommendation by the district attorney to hire a lawyer for the case of Law as an assistant district attorney.
Margaret Lindeberg Johnson, 33, will fill one of the positions left vacant by the Oct. 3 resignations of assistant district attorneys Mary Prewitt, Jean Sagan and Harry Warren. Lindeberg Johnson began work Tuesday, and she will be paid about $17,500 a year.
dations of department heads, unless there is some big problem." Commissioner Beverly Bradley said "Legally, control over bottom line budget figures."
"We usually approve the recommen
LUNEBERG-JOHNSON graduated from the KU School of Law in May 1982, and was admitted to the Kansas Bar Association in September. She had worked for Rogers & Dib, a Huntington Beach, Calif., law firm as a legal clerk until her University 1982 to January 1983. She said she been unemployed since January.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, described the position of a judge in the court system.
"entry-level" job and said that the other two open positions required prosecution experience.
"She seems very qualified and has an interest in prosecution," he said. "She is a lawyer."
Lindeberg Johnson said she had seen a notice advertising the position on a jobs board at the School of Law and that the job's location made it "ideal."
"I was still interviewing for other jobs, but none of them were in the area," she said. "I would have had to leave, and I wasn't looking forward to that."
"The job was an excellent opportunity. It will provide extensive trial
work, and I can stay in Lawrence," she said. "I also have a strong regard for the district attorney."
LINDEBERG-JOHNSON said her workload would be light until she became familiar with her job. That orientation, Harper said, would include becoming familiar with office and local court procedure.
The two other vacancies in the district attorney's office have not been filled. Lindbergh-Johnson said the pearl had not been fit because palace rules prevented him from being as the Bryan Keith Bell second degree murder and aggravated robbery trial.
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