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University Daily Kansan, January 20, 1983
Leffel award still has meaning
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
The Rusty Leffel Outstanding Student Award, an annual award established during the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s, still has meaning despite the milder campus activities of this decade. Leffel said this week.
The $400 award is given to the student who has "made a significant commitment and contribution toward furthering the goals of higher education at KU and in Kansas," said Steve Menaugh, public relations coordinator for the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Tomorrow is the deadline to nominate a student for the award. Nominate in person or online.
LEEFFEL SAID the award was established in the spring of 1973, the same year he graduated from the KU School of Law.
An an attorney in Overland Park, Leifel said that although the times were not as turbulent now as they were when he was young, the need for the award had not waned.
"People truly concerned still need to be active and seek out concerns and act on them." Lefof said. "Students have much to learn, but we will this University in 10 years."
"The needs and concerns may be slightly different, but there are still real issues that face students and face the University."
He said the award was put together by a group of 40 students and friends who worked together as a "behind-the-scenes" group in the late '60s.
THE GROUP, the Students Concerned About Higher Education, worked independently of other campus organizations to build what Leffel called an atmosphere of responsible progress at the University.
He said that by grassroots lobbying through newspapers and legislators, his group tried to get others to respond to campus unrest linked to the war in Vietnam, the killings at Kent State and the burning of the Kansas Union.
They also sought to bring conservative, liberal and radical groups
together to work toward a common goal, Leffel said.
"The group tried to moderate the far right and far left into a legitimate atmosphere conducive to a university and an academic setting, rather than the tense relations of that time," he said.
LAST YEAR'S winner was Rod Bremby. Leavenworth graduate student.
Ann Eversole, director for student organizations and activities, said that students making nominations for the award did not need to turn in as much information on the nominees as they have in the past.
The nominees will be asked to provide information when contacted by the Committee.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said the committee would select one to three finalists who would then be considered by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
In addition to the monetary award, past winners have received a certificate, and have had their names printed on a bronze plaque in the Union.
Crime decreased last year in Lawrence, according to a report released yesterday by the Lawrence chief of police.
In the report, homicide was the only crime that showed an increase. In 1981 there were no homicides, but two were reported last year.
Ron Olin, assistant chief of police,
said, "We cannot attribute the decrease in crime to any special police tactics. It
reflects a national trend of decreasing crime."
Police reports show decline in crime
OLIN SAID the assumption that hard economic times caused increased crime was erroneous.
"People frequently use that argument." he said, "but that's too narrow a statement. That view is certainly not reflected in our statistics."
or a momentary drop.
The report said:
OLIN SAID he did not know whether the decrease represented a new trend
- Burglary was down from 988 cases in 1981 to 675 cases last year, showing a significant drop.
*Auto theft was down 21 percent, from 190 cases in 1881 to 150 in 1982.
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- Rape was down from 19 cases in 1981 to 18 cases last year.
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