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University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1983
Papal assailant implicated in slander
By United Press International
ROME — Italian investigators said yesterday slander proceedings have begun against papal assailant Mehmet Ali Abqa in a move that could shatter the alleged Bulgarian connection to the May 1811 shooting of Pope John Paul II.
The investigators confirmed reports published in most leading Italian newspapers that Judge Ilario Martella has notified the jailed Turkish terrorist that he is being investigated for slander.
It was on Agca's testimony that Martella in 10 months ago ordered the
arrest of Sergei Antonov, station chief in Rome for the Bulgarian Balkan Air Line. Antonov was accused of "compliance in Aegae's attack on the Russian air force."
MARTELLA, IN CHARGE of the investigation into the papal assassination attempt, refused to specify why he ordered the slander investigation.
But sources close to the investigation said it was related to another Bulgarian plot alleged by Agca, one to assassinate the late Georgian leader during his visit to Italy in January 1982.
The sources said if Agca's testimony were ruled false on the Wales plot, the jury would be indicted.
papal assassination attempt could collase.
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EVEN THOUGH THE allegedly slanderous statements were made by Agca after his original accusation that led to Antonov's arrest, they could cast doubt not only on Antonov's alleged complicity but also on the case of two Bulgarian diplomats for whom Italian authorities issued arrest warrants last July. They were wanted in connection with the alleged plot against Walesa.
Plans announced to protect tenants
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In response to residents' concerns about vandalism, a security entrance limiting access to the main entrance of Tower C in the Jayhawk Towers will be later this year, Steve Keel, assistant director of housing, said yesterday.
Residents of Tower C asked for a security entrance in a petition most of the time.
Keel said that the housing department decided to accept bids on building a security entrance yesterday
after Keel, Nick Moos, Towers man-
fond, from each floor met Wednesday night.
The petition asked housing to provide a security entrance similar to that of Tower B, which is restricted to women. Tower C is now open 24 hours a day.
but Keel and Scott Joslove, assistant manager of Tower C, said that hours would be designated by the housing representatives from Tower C's floors.
THE PETITION ASKS that residents of Tower C, which is coed, receive keys to the Tower entrance in addition to their apartment keys. The security entrance would be built adjacent to the main entrance, which would be locked.
Inside the entrance would be a phone on which guests could page residents during designated hours. The petition asks that the hours be 10 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Keel said the new entrance would probably be built and in use by January.
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Joslove said the petition was approved by nearly all of Tower C's residents.
"I DON'T KNOW offhand how many residents there are exactly, but I would say that more than 95 percent signed it. I think that at least some were worried about vandalism and rowiness," Joslove said.
AURH assembly elects communication chairman
By the Kansan Staff
The Association of University Residence Halls elected Laurann Fulk, Platte City, Mo., sophomore, as its national communications chairman at a meeting of its general assembly last night.
Fulk was elected despite objections from some guests and delegates of the general assembly about her relationship with AURH president Alan Rowe.
The debate over Fulk's nomination lasted nearly half an hour. Rowe admitted to the assembly that he had a "personal relationship" with Fulk, but said he thought such a relationship would not hinder either of them in their jobs.
regional leadership conferences, and exchanging ideas with other schools about such conferences and educational programs.
THE DUTIES OF the national communications chairman include coordinating trips made by hall government officials to nationwide and
"I know that you're definitely concerned about whether this can work, and that concern is legitimate — to a point," said Rowe. "However, we should put that concern behind us. She has coordinated conferences before. She is fully capable of handling this job."
Charles Shirley, Wichita senior, disagreed with Rowe. He said that Fulk should have been "disqualified."
The amount by which Fulk won was not announced. Her nomination survived a motion to rescind.
In other business, AUHI approved a budget for the 1984-84 school year of $246 million.
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Charles Lawhorn, Kansas City, Kan., senior, a member of the Student Rights Committee brought up the discrepancy of having regulation changes from a special committee brought to the Student Senate without first passing through a standing committee.
The budget includes $10,000 for programming, $5,000 for administrative costs and $1,500 in sponsorship money for the Progressive Women's program, an independent organization that hopes to bring prominent speakers on women's issues to the University of Kansas.
As a result of the discrepancy, which is not made clear by existing Student Senate rules, the Senate opens the ear hearing as a compromise.
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The suggestions made by the rights committee are not binding, but the committee voted 11-1 to support minor changes in the Blue Ribbon Committee's recommendations. Lance cast the sole dissenting vote.
Lawhorn the meeting was a good, effective compromise to the situation, but said he voted against the motion on the basic principal of allowing students their rights to have access to the Student Senate through committees.
On Sept. 6 the Senate approved three of the eight articles that were revised, before the issue was brought up.
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The regulation changes were prepared during the summer by a special Blue Ribbon Committee that was not a standing committee, but an ad hoc committee organized to create a committee of suggesting regulation changes.
In an open hearing last night on proposed changes in Student Senate Rules and Regulations, the Student Rights Committee suggested several minor changes in the regulations.
Open hearing held by Student Senate to fix regulations
The open hearing was brought about as the result of a declaration presented to the Student Senate last week, saying that proposed regulations were unenforceable and a standing committee before being brought before the full Senate.
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Although the class maintains one of the highest enrollments with 2,600 students in 108 sections, English 101 has the most courses of all the one of the dreaded classes at KU.
KU administrator defends reputation of English 101
"English 101 is a weed-out class for freshmen who are stupid and don't want to work." said Katie Cole, Livingston, Texas, freshman.
Michael Johnson, director of freshman and sophomore English, said that many students were afraid to take the test because the rumor that it has a high failure rate.
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classes last year showed that 13.7
percent, or 337 students, failed the class
on math, 25 percent, or 76 students,
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"I've had students come and tell me they heard the class has a 60 percent failure rate," Johnson said. "The failure rate was only about 13 percent."
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"About one-fifth of those who failed did not fail for academic reasons. It is usually because they leave school, they are ill or they have medical reasons," he said.
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He said the actual failure rate in the fall semester was about 10 percent and it was about 20 percent in the spring semester.
But the idea that 101 is a "weed-out" course persists.
Johnson said the failure rate doubled in the spring because the classes had a high enrollment of students who failed English 101 before, students from the remedial English class. English 050, and students new to the University.
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"I TO THINK IT'S a flunk-out course," said Holly Poe, Wichita junior. "Basically, because they want to weed out the kids who won't do well.
It's a shock treatment to enforce good study habits."
Johnson denies that such a conspiracy to flunk students exists.
"The general philosophy of this institution is to set high standards and to help students reach them, not to wash them out."
But Dee Dee Leach, Independence,
Mo., senior, agreed with Poe.
"IMPOSSIBLE," HE SAID. "It couldn't happen. There is no formula at all like that. The comprehensive final is not graded by counting words. It's graded by a holistic grading procedure, which is a grade on basic overall sentence level problems. We don't start counting errors. It's the overall importance of the particular students' work."
But Johnson thinks differently.
Earning an A in a class is not as impossible as some think. English department statistics from last year reveal that 5.9 percent or 146 students received As in the fall semester and 2.2 percent in even students received As in the spring.
"It's a weed-out class. My roommate had a teacher who would never give an A. The teachers take all the creativity and make it just basic sentences."
Some students said that they were also warned to take English 101 at another school to avoid taking it here. And some people said it was not as bad as what they heard.
Cole said, "I haven't had any trouble. I don't find the work any harder than my classes in high school, except that they grade tough."
Brian Courtney, Desoto sophomore,
said he also heard it was a weed-out class with a high rate of students who fail, but he thought it was easy.
Andy Foster, Overland Park junior,
said, "The grading is strict and the
class is tough, but it all depends on how
you concentrate and how prepared you are."
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