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Monday, November 6, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Board feeds reply to striker
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
The hunger-striking Fred Markham does not have a case, according to the board of directors of Independence Inc., a Lawrence social service agency for the disabled.
Bob Mikesic, acting director of Independence Inc., read Friday from the board's prepared statement, "Our board reviewed Fred's concession to our community there was any retaliation. We are not going to engage in a public debate."
Markham, 40, of Lawrence, is refusing to eat because the Kansas Civil Rights Commission will not accept his retaliation complaint against the agency. His neighbor and friend Markham would try to contact Gogel Mike Hayden and a Topteka legal aid agency today about his complaint.
which impairs his speech and confines him to a wheelchair, filed an employment discrimination complaint against Independence Inc. in December 1988 when he was not hired as director of the center.
Markham, who has cerebral palsy.
He said he was discriminated against because of his disability. The commission accepted that complaint and took action on it in the next few weeks.
For the past two years, Markham said he wrote a monthly column for Independence Inc.'s newsletter. He said his photo appeared with it and the last line of the column always read, "Talk to you next month." He said because the newsletter editor always left that line in and had always published his columns, there was an implied contract.
Markham said that after he filed the complaint, Independence Inc. quit publishing his column in retaliation. However, two of his columns
were eventually published, so the commission would not accept his retaliation complaint.
Robert Lay, assistant director of the commission, said Thursday that Markham did not have grounds to file a retaliation complaint but would not comment further pending investigation of the first complaint
"I do have a case," Markham, who is drinking fluids on his doctor's advice, said yesterday. "I've got enough strength to ride it out. I'm not going away. They're going to have to deal with me."
In March 1968, Markham went on a six-day hunger strike to protest because a friend was placed in a nursing home. The strike ended when Hayden wrote to him about the issue.
Mikesic also said in the board's statement that "We are genuinely concerned about Fred as an individual, but I want to make complaints and raise issues."
Engineers gear up for 'real world'
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Faculty members in the School of Engineering met last week with members of the business community to exchange information to engineer a better curriculum
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said the purpose of the exchange was to let the business community know about the research and educational programs at the school. He said the business representatives advised faculty members of the changes that could be made to their curriculum so the graduates would be more prepared.
"The boards have no direct responsibility or authority to the school," Locke said. "Faculty members listen to them and normally will take their advice, but they don't have to."
Locke said the board members mostly were presidents and vice presidents of companies in the Kansas City area, but the boards had members from all over the United States.
He said several boards met Wednesday through Saturday. Some of the boards that met included a public relations board to examine options on promoting the school throughout Kansas and a facilities board to discuss developments needed in laboratories and academic boards.
Richard Moore, director of the radar systems and remote sensing laboratory, said his department created
He said courses in remote sensing had been taught at
KU for 25 years, but no formal program had been created.
Discussions for a formal program started five years ago, but because one of the professors of remote sensing had problems with visa delays, the department created what Moore called a "strawman program."
Remote sensing is a radar systems program that Moore created and is used to take comprehensive "pictures" of oceans, land, wind currents and other elements.
"We set it up as a strawman the advisory board could shoot at," he said. "Our board is mostly from individual companies, but there are a couple from the government."
The nature of research done in the engineering departments necessitated contact with the outside world, especially for departments in highly changing or pioneering fields. Moore said.
Moore said the main focus for discussion sections during this session would be research and ideas for the doctorate program in radar systems remote sensing.
"In remote sensing, there is most likely a military application," he said. "We decided that since most of the jobs were there, we should get their opinion on courses and research."
He said the board convened in May and discussed several general matters. He said the board members supported a television link to the Regents Center in Kansas City, Kan. Locke said this also was a topic of discussion for the general assembly last week.
Lawmakers call for special session
The Asociated Press
TOPEKA — A group of 11 Republican lawmakers who are alarmed by citizen protests over higher than expected bill bills have asked Mike. McHaskey to call a special legislative session before those bills may be paid.
State Rep. David G. Miller, R-Eudora, and 10 other lawmakers wrote a letter to the governor asking him to call a special session allowed by the constitution for "extraordinary occasions."
"We believe such an extraordinary occasion is upon us," the letter stated, referring to higher real estate tax bills based on property reappraisal and property classification. The bills are being mailed by county offices this
"Based upon reports we have received from our varied House districts throughout the state, we believe the combined effects of these two, simultaneous policy decisions are considerably different than what many members of the House expected when they were approved by the Lezglature," the lawmakers wrote.
The letter also said the tax shifts appear to be greater than estimated, and lawmakers need to act before the taxes come due Dec. 20.
Kathy Peterson, Hayden's press secretary, said Saturday the governor has taken the letter under advisement.
The governor wants to confer with legislative leaders about reappraisal and must wait for several House and Senate leaders to return from a foreign trade mission, she said.
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