Page 10 University Daily Kansan, September 1. 1983
False identity angers judge, creates havoc
By United Press International
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 16-year-old boy, who tried to convince authorities he led a strange, vagabond life with the romantic name of Raven and himself confessed his true identity to his lawyer, who is keeping it to herself
The boy, who was picked up by police July 29 at a bus station when he reported his luggage stolen, would not tell anybody else who he or who he came from — not even a Broward circuit judge at a hearing Tuesday.
The judge, Robert Scott, was so angered by the boy's refusal to reveal his identity that he threatened to hold him in contempt of court.
The teenager original, told police his name was Raven Darkholme and he had traveled around the country since childhood with a mystery woman named Amanda Steuart. He said he never attended school and learned arithmetic and history from television and magazines.
THE BOY SOUNDED so convincing that lawyers, psychologists and police believed him. But two weeks ago, embarrassed detectives realized the boy's life story was a fantasy inspired by a comic book series.
Now, his court-appointed attorney said he has told her who he is.
"He wants to have a normal life," said lawyer Caryn Grainer, "and from that he has gone."
Grainer said the boy had no family and was involved in something illegal. She would not give further details because of attorney-private privilege.
Grainer said she was still trying to confirm what he told her.
Last week, police and Scott were prepared to allow the boy to be injected with sodium amylat, known as "truth serum," to learn about his past.
BUT AT THE hearing Tuesday, psychologists said the injection could harm him, and Scott decided against the procedure.
SUWANEE, Ga. — Firemen looked around the upper floor of the "sleeping cottage" — a home for the mentally handicapped which was leveled by a fire in Suwanee yesterday, killing eight people.
Federal slip may cost wheat farmers
By United Press International
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University wheat researcher says the federal government's misclassification of wheat could cost the nation's farmers millions.
"To misclassify it would be unfortunate because of the significant impact it could have on Kansas agriculture and Kansas farm income," said Kurt Feltner about the wheat, the Alkan and developed by K-State.
THE NEW STRAIN was released this year jointly with the University of Nebraska.
Hard winter wheat brings more revenue since it bakes better bread, and the government's classification could mean the potential loss of millions of dollars to hard-pressed farmers.
Arkan is a hard winter wheat, not a soft wheat as the Federal Grain Inspection Service claims, Feltner said. The new classification was just relegated.
"The value of a hard winter wheat over soft winter wheat is about 50 cents a bushel," said an agricultural spokesman.
KANSAS FARMERS EXPECT their second largest wheat crop, 453.6
million bushels, this year, but were skeptical about next year's crop
"Most of the 130,000 bushels of seed wheat available to Kansas farmers for planting this fall have already been sold." Feltner said.
Feltner said Akran met all the proper standards and passed screening tests in large-scale milling and baking operations.
KU ASK chapter tries to shed 'beer lobby' image
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Scott Swenson, the director, said that he wanted more students to know that the services provided by ASK in Topeka will propose proposals to raise the state drinking age.
The KU chapter of the Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, is trying to shed its image as a liberal institution. ASK's campus director said yesterday.
"Last year, we worked on over 14 legislative matters besides the drinking age law."
This year ASK's legislative lobbyists successfully helped to fight attempts in the state Legislature to raise the drinking age for 3.2 beer to 19 or older.
SWENSON SAID THAT ASK would now try to justify its victory by stressing the need to be aware of the problems of alcohol abuse.
"Hopefully, we will promote the idea that alcohol is something that should not be taken lightly," he said. "We will be actively promoting responsible social drinking and we will be proactive in providing drinks should be served at parties."
The blitz against alcohol abuse will be highlighted during an alcohol awareness week scheduled for Oct. 3-9 at all university campuses that have
Another ASK concern is a national trend to reform education in elementary and secondary schools. Swenley and others argue that because low college test scores and
students deficient in educational basics could, in the future, affect enrollment in college.
ASK will sponsor a conference Sept. 24 in Wichita at which student leaders from state universities and high schools have participated in such subjects as declining test scores.
"If we can better prepare high school students so that more become college bound, then hopefully more would be taught in schools to attend institutions here," Swenson said.
IN TOPEKA, where ASK's directors and lobby operations are based, executive director Mark Tallman said the state staff this summer gave input to the Board of Regents proposed budget for fiscal year 1985.
student worker salaries, the amount allocated to work-study programs and the amount allocated for the State of Kansas Scholarship Program
Tallman said that the Regents agreed to ASK's suggestions to increase
Tallman said the changes in the proposed Regents' budget still had to be approved by Gov. John Carlin and the Legislature.
"Obviously we're bound to lose something along the way." Tallman
Swenson said that KU's chapter would meet tonight to organize for what he called a year of visible service to KU in the state. He initially will be informational, he said.
SWENSON WILL. ASSIGN KU ASK members to various state legislators. They will closely observe the legislator's voting record, he said.
Group proposes policy on class discontinuance
By DONNA WOODS Staff Renorter
Because of concerns about the current procedure for eliminating academic programs, a temporary committee of the University Senate Executive Committee has drafted a new discontinuance policy
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David Shulenburger, associate professor of business and the committee's chairman, said the proposed policy would ensure that anyone suggesting a program's discontinuance would have to be able to prove that strong educational reasons were behind the cut.
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One of the academic reasons for program discontinuance, Shankel said, would be if the program was expensive. The students were enrolled in the program students were enrolled in the program.
Even so, faculty members want a written policy spelling out the steps the University must take in dropping a department, school or college for academic reasons. A financial exigency policy already exists
The University Council would have to give final approval to the drafted plan but it has not been approved.
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"We wanted something written in case the Chancellor or Board of Regents feels a program is not needed at KU and decides to discontinue it," said committee member Thomas Mulanazzi, associate professor of civil engineering. "Call it preventive maintenance," he said.
Sulenburger said that under the proposal, faculty members would be given two years pay or a two year bonus if the decision to discount a program.
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Compensation, whether in the form of extra pay, relocation or retraining.
Shulenburger said he thought those problems had been addressed.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she was unaware of any programs currently being considered for discontinuance.
"I believe we have answered most of the criticism of the earlier proposal," he said. "We are not wed to this proposal, we're going to take input."
Financial exigency occurs when University funds are so low that there is a need to borrow.
He said such a provision also meant that juniors and seniors would be given two years to complete their fields of study before a program was cut
A program might also be cut if it meets financial exigency re-
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and a member of the temporary committee, said that a program could now be discontinued after a reevaluation of the curriculum and approved by the office of academic affairs and the chancellor's office.
The new proposal will be discussed at a forum at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. It is open to the public.
"Iill feelings and low morale would be much less," he said.
He said evaluation criteria must be established that would be applied evenly to all departments. That way, he said, everyone would know the University's expectations and it would be clear why a program was eliminated
Dismissed tenured faculty would also have the right to appeal to the Board of Directors.
A program might also be dropped from KU's curriculum if all seven Regents schools offered the same course. But it would not be for these programs was low, he said.
Srinivasan said the proposal failed to provide reasonable criteria for program review, a viable appeals procedure, a compensation package for tenured faculty and priority consideration for rehiring.
The University of Kansas has not had a program discontinuance policy (or academic reasons since an all-faculty mail vote rejected the University Council's discontinuance policy last summer.
It was the first such policy at KU and it lasted less than four months.
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics and a University Council member, cited four objections with the original proposal.
The rejected policy, passed on April 14, was defeated by a faculty vote after more than 100 faculty members per proposal for reconsideration of the proposal.
Objections cited
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