University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Hyatt trial may be moved if impartial jury not found
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys who failed to convince a judge to move a scheduled for Monday in the Hyatt Regency disaster may get to refile their motion if it is impossible to select an impartial jury. Jackson County Circuit Judge Forest Hanna Tuesday denied a defense request to move the damage trial from Jackson County. But Hanna said the motion for a change of venue could be reified if it later becomes apparent that a fair and impartial jury cannot be selected.
be outside appalled by the designers, builders, owners and operators of the luxury hotel had requested the move, saying an impartial jury could not be found in Jackson County because of intense publicity since the July 17, 1981, accident.
High court to hear Hobson appeal
TOPEKA - The Kansas Supreme Court will hear several murder appeals next week, including one in the first-degree murder conviction of an Overland Park woman who hired two youths to kill her stepson
Susanne Hobson was convicted by a Johnson County District Court jury last year of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the slaying of her 13-year-old stepson, Cristen Hobson. Her son, James Crumm, and his friend, Paul Sorrentino, also participated in the murder of Cristen, who was ordered to dig his own grave before he was shot.
Crumm implicated his mother during her trial, saying she promised to buy him a new car and to furnish money to repair Sorrentino's motorcycle if the two would kill Cristen, who was killed May 3, 1980.
Associate dean of journalism named
Dana Leibengood has been named associate dean of KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Allen White School of Journalsist and Mass Communication, Leibengoed, assistant dean of the school since 1971, replaces Susanne Shaw, who resigned last year to become editor and publisher of the Coffeyville Journal.
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Anne Leibengood is responsible for the organization and supervision of undergraduate journalism programs. He will continue to be the journalism school's placement director and executive secretary of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association.
K-State to charge fee for use of logo
MANHATTAN Commercial vendors wanting to use the Kansas State University logo or official Wildcat symbol will have to pay a royalty fee, with the proceeds going toward scholarships, officials say.
"In recent years we have received numerous requests from vendors and manufacturers to use the logo on such things as hats, T-shirts, mugs, wastebaskets, toilet seats and wall paper," said Rob Bower, publications editor in the Office of University Relations.
University officials have entered into a licensing agreement with International College Enterprises of Woodland Hills, Calif.
ON THE RECORD
MORE THAN $500 was embezzled between Aug. 5 and Aug. 27 from a gas station in N. Third St., Lawrence police said. The cash seemingly was removed a little at a time from the station's cash receipts. Police have a suspect.
receipts. Police have a suspect.
A STEREO AMPLIFIER worth $199 was stolen about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday from Team Electronics, 2319 Louisiana St. A customer entered the store and took the amplifier without paying, police said.
VANDALS SPRAY-PAINTED profanity and symbols on the stone masonry, windows and doors of KJHK-FM, the student-run radio station, sometime between 4 a.m. Sunday and 2:18 p.m. Monday, KU police reported. The police estimated the damage at $100.
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Public school teachers were on strike in seven states yesterday, idling 230,000 students while other threatened walkouts clouded fall classes in school districts across the nation.
Teachers' strikes in 7 states delay school openings
Strikes were under way in Missouri, Washington, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New Jersey.
Strikes kept students from attending their first day of school in several Washington state districts. Some 30,000 students were affected. Classes for 44,000 students in the Seattle School District, the state's largest, began on time.
time.
In St. Louis, striking teachers disrupted the opening of fall classes for about half of the 66,000 public school students and hampered the landmark voluntary metropolitan school desegregation plan.
TEACHERS SET UP pick lines outside the city's 127 schools. No violence was reported, but pickets prevented food service trucks from making deliveries at many school cafeterias. Police were called in to
St. Louis school officials threatened to fire striking teachers and asked a federal judge to order an end to the walkout.
clear away the picketers.
St. Louis schools attorney Kenneth Brostron asked U.S. District Judge William L. Hungate to issue an injunction requiring the teachers to end lunchtime at school yesterday. A similar injunction was sought from a city court judge.
Jerome B. Jones, St. Louis superintendent, said officials would begin firing teachers if they did not report to work by Monday.
NO NEGOTIATIONS to end the dispute over pay and class sizes would be conducted until the strike ended, Jones said. He said officials would attempt to conduct classes during the strike.
School officials had no idea how many of the 3,400 union teachers had crossed picket lines to report to work, although Jones said at least two or three students were fully staffed. Officials estimated that half of the students attended classes.
Local 420 President Evelyn Battle White of the American Federation of Teachers said she was willing to
UNION TEACHERS by a 21- to 1-margin Tuesday authorized a last-minute strike in a dispute over pay raises and class sizes. The teachers, who had sought a 17 percent pay raise, had rejected an 8.5 percent increase.
resume negotiations but said teachers would remain on strike "for as long as it takes."
No talks in the contract dispute were scheduled and both sides said they were prepared for a long strike. Polcyn said school officials were considering seeking orders in city and federal courts to force the teachers to work.
gation plan with 23 school districts in suburban St. Louis County.
In Michigan, nearly 3,900 teachers were on strike in 23 school districts,affecting more than 88,000 students.
She said the strike would "be disastrous" to the voluntary desegre-
In Chicago, the teachers union's contract with the Chicago Board of Education expired last week but the union said it would decide on Sept. 15 whether to strike if an agreement had not been reached. About 420,000 Chicago students would be affected by a strike.
A Pennsylvania State Education spokesman said about 204 teachers in the Lebanon School District of Cornwall, Lebanon County, walked off their jobs, affecting 4,049 students.
KU police seek rape suspect
the KU police department.
KU police are looking for a black male about 5-feet-10 tail and weighing about 165 pounds who they think raped a KU student early Sunday morning.
Capt. John Courtney said the police were following several leads in the case, but he encouraged anyone with any information about the rape to call
The 20-year-old student was sleeping when someone entered her unlocked room in McCollum Hall about 6:30 a.m., police said. The woman slipped into the attacker threatened her with a steak knife and tied her hands.
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