University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1982
Stephan discusses legal opinions at forum
About 30 percent of the inmates at Kansas State Penitentiary do not belong in a maximum-security institution. About 40 percent of Kansas attorney general, said yesterday.
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Stephen told an audience of about 30 people at Green Hall that Kansas should develop a cheaper and less severe measure for non-violent criminals than sending them to the penitentiary at Lansing.
same money to lock up a bad-catch writer as we do to lock up a murderer." Stephan said, "I don't want to say it's idiotic, but I guess I should."
The prison problem was one of many that Stephan addressed at a forum sponsored by the KU Student Bar Association. He also remarked on the need for better law enforcement in the practice flourished because Kansas suffered a shortage of law enforcers.
"I don't understand why we spend the
"The drug problem in Kansas is very, very serious," he said. "It's not the high priority in the state that it should be."
Culture show part of festival
Students of about 30 nationalities will participate in the 30th Annual International Festival of Nations and Banquet on Sunday.
Krupadanam Billa, president of the International Club, said yesterday the event was the highlight of international students' activities.
include artifacts from different cultures, with slides and films.
The banquet will include food from 11
and 12 noon, a mariachi band
will play during the dinner.
Twenty national groups will present the cultural show, which will include music, belly dancing, a Malaysian show and a Chinese show in the show of costumes of different cultures.
Tickets for the festival are $4.50. All interested persons are welcome.
STEPHAN SAID his opinion of drug laws was forged in the same way he developed many opinions—by talking with officials from other states.
There will be an exhibition at 5 p.m. in the Big Eight and Jayhawk rooms of the Kansas Union. The exhibition will
Although he once favored legalizing or decriminalizing the use of marjuana, he said, his thinking changed after he talked with officials where offenses involving marjuana had been reduced to a misdemeanor.
"They told me they thought they'd made a mistake in decriminalizing it," he said. "Their drug problems radically increased."
Stephan said that of the opinions he had issued during nearly four years as attorney general, the most popular involved a law that forbade alcoholic drinks on airplanes that flew over Kansas.
Stephan's opinion was that the law seemed ridiculous. By pointing to court cases on the issue in other states, he manages to get liquor back on flights from New York.
One of the more interesting opinions stephan said he had issued involved a statement that he did not believe.
the names of doctors who received Medicaid for performing abortions.
BECAUSE THESE doctors received taxpayers' money, Stephan said, he determined that their names should be a matter of public record.
NOW, STEPHAN is working on an antitrust case involving companies that do highway construction for the state, he said. Several companies were found guilty regularly for contracts, and altogether they pay as much as $4 million in penalties.
But, Stephan said, he was surprised when the American Civil Liberties Union, which once had supported the rights of Nazis to march in a Jewish neighborhood, said taxpayers had no right to the names of those doctors.
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The case went to the Kansas Supreme Court, which this year upheld Stephan's opinion.
But Stephan, a Republican, also is concerned with his re-election campaign. Rumors last year said he would nominate Joe Biden, dismissed those speculations in October by announcing his intention to run again for attorney general.
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