FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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This Is YOUR Campus
—Photo by Bob Blank
In the court room of Green hall, Emerson Shields, clerk, is shown swearing in William Holloway, graduate student for trial of a traffic violation, as the student court begins a session.
Left to right is Holloway; Marvin Rowlands, justice; Shields; Allyn Browne, justice; Laird Campbell, prosecuting attorney; Patrick Thiessen justice; Joe Bailey, chief justice; Marie Schumacher, justice; and George Lowe, student defender.
Court Conducted By Students Who Set Fines, Pass Sentences
The student places his left hand on the Bible and raises his right hand. With the clerk's familiar question, "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth . . . ,?" another student court trial begins in the basement court room of Green hall.
Chief justice Joe Bailey, third-year law student, listens from the bench while the attorney for the Associated Students questions the defendent. Six other justices, students in both the School of Law and other schools in the University, sit near the bench.
All students connected with the trial sit within the "gate." To the left of the chief justice and in front of him sit the clerk of the court, Emerson Shields, College senior, and the public defender (defense attorney), George Lowe, third-year law student. At a table opposite them sits
the prosecuting attorney, Laired Campbell, third-year law student. The sheriff of the court, John Fader, first-year student, sits by the clerk. He issues the summons.
Outside the "fence" the visitors and other defendants sit on long benches which have writing desks attached to the backs. An aisle down the middle of the room leads to the gate. Law books fill shelves on some of the walls of the room.
Six justices and the chief justice try the cases brought before the student court. Two of the six are law students; Darrel Havener, third-year law students; and Patrick Thiessen, second-year law student. The remaining four are from other schools in the University: Stanley Englund, engineering senior; Marvin Rowlands, journalism senior; Allyn Browne, College junior; and Marie Schumacher, education junior.
The justices are appointed by the president of the All Student Council with the A.S.C. advisory committee, and approved by a two-thirds vote of the Council. The chief justice is appointed by a majority vote of the faculty of the School of Law. The justices serve terms of two years, and the chief justice serves one year. The justices are appointed in the spring three weeks before the end of the semester. Half of them are appointed each year.
The student court has jurisdiction in:
1. All cases arising in violation of the A.S.C. constitution or legislative bills.
2. All cases arising among students or groups of students.
3. Sitting with the faculty advisory committee, it has final decision in questions of interpreting the legislation of the A.S.C.
The most frequent cases heard in the court arise from traffic tickets received on campus and from smoking violations. When a student receives a parking ticket which he believes to be unjustified, he may appeal it to the court by requesting an appeal slip at the traffic office. If he believes that the ticket is obviously unjustified, he may appeal it to the court through the assistant dean of men. Appeal slips are taken to the court, which publishes notice to appear in the Official Bulletin in the University Daily Kansan.
Any defender may either tell his own story to the court or he may request the services of the public defender or any other law student. A student may appeal a decision of the court. If it is a question of constitutionality the appeal is taken to a court composed of members of the student court and the faculty advisors to the A.S.C. If a student is defined in excess of his ability to pay or is expelled from school by the court and there are mitigating circumstances, he may appeal to the student disciplinary committee now being set up. This committee will be composed of the deans of men and women and five students.
Kansas ranks fifth in the nation in miles of railroad track.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dameron o Kansas City, Mo. announce the pinning Dec. 23 of their daughter, Marcene, to Mr. James L. (Jim) Grimes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Grimes, also of Kansas City, Mo.
Dameron-Grimes
Miss Demeron is a College junior. Mr. Grimes is a first year law student and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
R. T. Kingmans Have Son
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Kingman Kansas City, Kan., announce the birth of a son, Kirk Cullen, on Dec. 10, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Mr. Kingman was graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism in June, 1947. He was city editor of the University Daily Kansas. Mrs. Kingman, who is the former Jeanne Carey, received a certificate of nursing from the University in 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. Kingman have a daughter, Barbara.
Ash-Curtis Engaged
Ash. Curtis
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ash of Neodesha, Kan., announce the engagement of their daughter, Oralice, to Mr. Willard Curtis, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Curtis from Bluff City.
The announcement was made Dec. 27 at a formal party in Neodesha. The wedding has been planned for August.
Miss Ash is a business junior and a resident of Templin hall. Mr.Curtis is an engineering junior and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Oliver Elects Longstaff
Oliver hall has elected the following officers for the spring semester:
Robert Longstaff, president; Donald Lanning, vice-president; William Behrmann, secretary; Bill Hampton, treasurer; Thomas Schoeh, social chairman; John Mann, intramural manager; Tom O'Neill, publicist; Richard Lovett, I.S.C. representative; Robert Kite, song leader; Richard Monical, librarian; and James Lovett, historian.
Eslack Elected President
Sigma Kappa sorority has elected the following officers for the spring semester:
Jamie Eslack, president; Dorothy Glamann, first vice-president; Barbara Burnham, second vice-president; Carol Dunn, treasurer; Mary Jewett, recording secretary; Anneliese Schnierle, corresponding secretary; Gay Bonney, Triangle correspondent; Pat Davis, song leader; Pat Davison, librarian-historian; Shirley Reams, assistant treasurer; Elda Lou Phillips, registrar.
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