University Daliv Kansan, October 27. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Out-of-court settlement ends civil lawsuit against Seurer
A civil lawsuit filed in February against KU quarterback Frank Seurer Jr. has been settled out of court.
Stephen Robinson, Lawrence, had filed the lawsuit, which said that on Aug. 28, 1982, Seurer struck him in the face and on the head while they were at Off-the-Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
Seurer was charged in Lawrence Municipal Court on Aug. 29, 1982. With misdemeanor battery. He was convicted of that charge on Dec. 10 and 14.
In the civil lawsuit, stemming from the same incident, Robinson sued Seurer for personal damages. The suit, filed Feb. 14 in Douglas County District Court, asked for actual damages of $300 and exemplary damages of $500. The court required medical care and that they also caused him to work.
An out-of-court settlement for the personal damages suit was filed in Douglas County District Court on Oct. 13. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The document on file says that both the plaintiff and the defendant have expenses of a trial, "settled their differences to their mutual satisfaction."
Halley E. Kampschroeder, Seurer's attorney, said yesterday that part of the settlement was an agreement not to disclose the terms of the out-of-court settlement.
Owner of killer terriers posts bond
ANTHONY — The teen-age owner of two pit bull terriers that mauled
a boy in the street to determine his $10,000 bond today,
and authorities were waiting for him to leave.
"They will definitely be destroyed," Harper Assistant Police Chief Bill Smith said of the animals. "They won't be allowed back in the public."
The dogs, one 2 years old and the other 3 months old, attacked Grace Parsons as she stepped outside to get her morning paper Saturday, police said.
The dogs' owner, David S. Reynolds of Harper, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and two misdemeanor offenses of permitting a dangerous animal to be at large.
Reynolds, 19, made his first appearance in Harper County District Court yesterday and押定了 $10,000 bond. His preliminary hearing was戴ed on Thursday.
Associate District Judge Bill Yandell issued a gag order to prevent law enforcement officers from further discussing the case and refused to speak with reporters.
Reynolds could not be reached and his attorney, James Turner of Wichita, said he had no comment on the case.
County to pick restorer of building
The Douglas County Commission is to choose a construction company today to begin a $65,000 renovation of a county ambulance service building.
Four companies submitted bids to remodel the ambulance building at 1839 Massachusetts St. The Commission looked at the bids yesterday but did not approve them.
County Commissioner Beverly Bradley said, "We always take these bids under advisement. This is so we can let the people involved
The bids the Commission received for the project were: B.A. Green Construction Company, Lawrence, $61,500; E.B. Nordgreg Construction, Inc., Topeka, $63,280; Kansas Construction Company, Lawrence, $63,545; and Reiz-Morris Construction Company, Kansas City, Mo.
Walter J. Hicks and Associates, a Lawrence architectural firm, planned the renovation of the ambulance station, which was built in the 1920s as a fire station. Jeff Messick, associate architect, said the firm was planning the project because it had worked with the ambulance station.
Messick said most of the inside of the building would be gutted to create comfortable quarters for ambulance crews.
The heating, air conditioning, electrical and plumbing systems will be replaced, he said, as well as a staircase to the second floor. The building
"The building is structurally sound," Messick said. "The problem is that it was never built as an ambulance station."
Originally, the Commission looked at three bids for the project in September, but they were from $17,000 to $21,000 too high, he said.
The construction will begin within two weeks, and Lawrence Fire Station No. 2, 1941 Haskell St., will house ambulance crews until construction is complete, he said. According to Messick, the renovation should be completed by mid-February.
The KU Division of Continuing Education announced yesterday that it was introducing four new correspondence classes and a non-credit class.
The four correspondence classes are Intermediate Algebra, Analysis of Everyday Behavior, Social Psychology, and Education in a Community Environment.
The non-credit class is called A Family Day Care Provider, and is designed to help people with child-care skills and inform them about the care.
For more information, people may write to Independent Study, 101 Continuing Education Building, KU, Lawrence 66045. Kansas residents may call 1-800-532-6772.
Student dies when truck overturns
Bryan G. Dickens, Topeka junior, was killed yesterday afternoon in Topeka when the delivery truck he was driving rolled over and crushed him.
Dickens was driving a delivery truck for Prairie Schooner, 935 Iowa St., Lawrenceville, collided with Meredith Miles, 24, Topea, at the location of 20th Street in Wilmington.
When the two vehicles collided, the truck veered off and hit the curb, which caused it to tip over, said Sgt. Jim Austin, Topeka police commander.
Dickens was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka. A hospital spokesman said he had died of severe internal chest injuries.
Austin said the accident was still under investigation.
A MICROWAVE OVEN worth $500 was stolen sometime between 3:30 and 6 p.m. Monday from the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, 1911 Stewart Ave., Lawrence police said.
ON THE RECORD
Police said that they did not know how burglaries entered the fraternity. There are no suspects.
FOUR DOUGLAS COUNTY Ambulance Service shirts were stolen between 8 and 10:30 p.m. Monday from an unlocked car in the parking lot of the Lawrence Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, police said. The blue shirts were worth $68. The police have no suspects.
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McFarland says Regents problems same as in '70
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
The last time the Board of Regents reviewed all the programs at its schools, it was tackling some of the same problems it has today but its method was decidedly different, the work of academic affairs said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The last review on the scale of the one in which the Regents are now involved began in 1970, the director, Joe McParland, said. The present review began last summer and is scheduled to take five years.
The 1970 review covered only graduate programs, and was followed by a review of undergraduate programs that was adopted by the Regents in 1983. The first review was the first done by the Regents in 20 or more years. McFarland said.
THE GRADUATE-PROGRAM review was done with the primary intent of eliminating unnecessary duplication among the Regents schools' graduate programs, a concern of the present review as well.
"The magic words 'unnecessary duplication' have been around ever since there were only five universities that the Regents system," McParland said.
Francis H. Heller, Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor of political science and law, was the chief academic officer of the University of Kansas while the review of graduate programs was conducted.
Wichita State University became a Regents school in 1964, and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina joined the system in 1976.
McFarland said, "The board was in a way holding the institutions' feet to the fire. There was a lot of blood shed in some of those meetings."
Heller agreed that the council method of review made for interesting work. The council agreed.
the largest schools in the system, both had extensive graduate programs in engineering.
"The magic words "unnecessary duplication" have been around ever since there were only five universities in the Regents system."
Joe McFarland. Regents director of academic affairs
As such, he represented the University on the Council of Chief Academic Officers, which hammered out the most recommendations for the report.
watched out for the interests of his school. Heller and John Chalmers, Kansas State's chief academic advisor then, often squared off.
BUT IN THIS round of reviews, it is the Regents themselves, with the Regents staff and Stan Koplik, executive director, who are pouring over the data, visiting campuses and making recommendations.
"NOBODY WANTED TO take his own institution and put it on the chopping block." Heller said "Fortunately, we all knew each other very well, and we all got along very well. We had a lot of fun back having a ball, while Chalmers and I had it out. We said to each other just exactly what we meant."
The council made many recommendations to the full board, among them
In the early '70s, the Regents asked the council to especially look into unnecessary duplication in engineering. KU and Kansas State University.
the advice that only one doctoral program of the six or seven available in engineering should be kept. That was a time of declining engineering enrollments nationwide, Heller said, and the programs were costly to maintain.
He said he had mixed feelings about whether the Regents present method of review was better or worse than the method," said McFarland called it.
Heller said, "I think that all six of us on COCAO quite often wished the Regents would take a more direct interest. On the other hand, one of the Regents is unique in having a very small office to serve the Regents."
THE COUNCH SYSTEM was formed by the school president "to forestall the emergence of a very large Regents staff." Heller said.
The current method of review, in which the Regents collect data from and visit the departments under review, probably will not be disputed unless the Regents later recommend measures including setting faculty and staff, Heller said.
"The proof is in the pudding, obviously," he said. "If a program recommendation involves people in the wrong way, I expect that somebody won't like it."
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