University Daily Kansan, December 7, 1981
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Javhawk West bus, pool anger tenants
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Former tenants are jiting reimbursed for months-late surry deposits from Jayhawk West Apartments, but present nants have a new complaint: to bus service.
At least four students who depend on the bus to get to claas have served 30-day lease termination notices to the Jayhaw West management unit and have been in service this semester is unreliable and restricted.
Dozens of others have coplaimed about new bus policies throughout the semester, but for one, last week was the culminatin point when manager Dennis Clauser distributed a notice that residents who hadn't paid rent by date of the day of or get bus accordion, also according to the lease, rent is not considered overdue until after fifth.
If the manager catches someone without a pass on the bus, he will suspend the bus driver antherre suspend services for three days, the
Complaints about the bus prompted David Zimmerman, off-campus student senatorto send a letter Friday to U.S. Selco.
which is based in South Carolina and owns the company that manages Jayhawk West.
The letter questioned whether it was fair to penalize the entire complex for one resident's sheglect.
TENANT ROBIN JUAREZ,
Wichita sophomore, said the new policy posed problems for her and her roommates.
"We always turn the checks in on time,but we post-date them."
"We all work for the University so by the time we get our checks deposited, it isn't until the third that you'll go through okay," she said.
Juarcz, who will be moving out with her rommates next month because of the bus problems and a 'lot of other things', said problems started this semester when the management cut the bus runs in
"I to have catch the bus at 9 a.m.
just to make my 10:30 class," she said.
"And I get out at 1:30 p.m. and
to have wait around an hour.
"I would have made my schedule up differently if I had known, but they didn't change it until mid-semester."
selenator
Patricia Venable, Lawrence
junior, said she was leaving for the
same reasons.
"They've changed the bus schedule about three times this
semester," she said. "When I moved in, here that's what I liked about it—the free bus. But now it's just a real basle."
ALTHOUGH MANY tenants are unhappy about the bus, as well as the indoor pool in the apartment complex, which hasn't worked for several weeks, Jayhawk West, 524 Frontier Road, is still advertising "free bus service" and "indoor pool."
"I got a big joke out of the ad in the Journal-World today," said Lisa Levand, a tenant and Wichita junior.
"I'm telling people by word-of-mouth not to move here," she said. "They advertise on false pretenses. Nothing in the lease says that the bus will be running, but that's what the ads say and that's what they tell you when you first come out. I've gotten a rotten deal."
Clauder refused to comment.
Another tenant, who asked not to be identified, said that the pool had not been filled for the past two weeks.
"There hasn't been more than six inches of water in it for weeks because the pump has been broken," she said. "But they made up new signs last week and put them on the bus advertising the pool at Jayhawk West when they knew it was out of service."
Earlier in the semester, it was
past tenants who were complaining about Jayhawk West because they had not received their deposit refunds after having moved out.
TEN TENANTS filed garnishment proceedings against the management company, Gold Crown Properties, of Kansas City, Mo., which was recently bought by U.S. Shelter, after already winning small claims suits against the company because they were not paid.
They started the garnishment proceedings because they were not paid 10 days after the small claims judgment was made.
The court is withholding money from the company's Douglas County Bank account and will pay the awarded tenants on Dec. 15, according to David Ramos, one of the awarded money.
Tenants began filing suits as early as July because Gold Crown, which manages Jayhawk West in Lawrence and other properties for absentee landlords across the state, will make prompt refunds of deposits.
According to the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, the landlord must refund deposits 30 days after the tenant's lease expires or 14 days after the damage is assessed. Otherwise the tenant may sue for $1\frac{1}{2}$ times the amount of the deposit withheld.
Hall residents angry about searches
The resident director | Ellsworth Hall, Tom Coombs, agreed week to write an apology to a Ellsworth residents for confiscatingcontraband from the rooms in the saly check of all rooms over Thanksgiving break.
Residents complained itl there was clear evidence that tlr closets, dressers and desk drivers were searched.
Searching a student'sroom in a residence hall is a violation of the Code of Student Rights.
Residents of fifth and sth floors at Ellsworth submitted a pelon against what they called the illege search and seizure of their propy to the police. Another Hollis, asking that some acn be taken to protect their student rig.
"It looks as if the resident director made a mistake," said Breda Darrow, AURH president. "Ims were in the rooms. If they were put back."
AURH asked Coombs to write an apology to the residents, return any items taken under the false pretence of a safety check and remove from hall records that the items were confiscated.
Coombs agreed only to write an apology. He was not available for comment.
The said some empty liquor bottles, 3.2 beer and personal dishware were confiscated. Not returned were some used items, and Elsworth Hall cafeteria dishware.
Residents said some of the articles were still missing, that some had been returned to the wrong rooms and that not all of the confiscated Items were
Scott Dold, Wichita junior and Ellsworth resident, said a fork was taken out of his dresser drawer.
"I don't care about the fork, but I do care that they were in my drawer. This bit with looking through the drawers
According to the Code of Student Rights, students have the same rights of privacy as other citizens and are becoming members of the academic community.
FREED MCHILEHENI, director of the office of residential programs, said that he was not sure whether the violations occurred in 2014 or in two other occasions in recent years.
goes against the Bill of Rights— harassment is what I call it."
When resident directors are trained, they are clearly told that there are to be no illegal searches during vacation safety checks, McElhene said.
Group receiving funds for Poland food shipments
A flyer, one for each room in each hall, goes out before each student vacation. The flyer tells students that hall staff members will check each room for safety reasons and that "rooms will not be searched."
In an effort to give "turkeys, not tanks" to Poland this holiday season, Friends of Solidarity in Lawrence is raising money to send supplies that will help relieve food shortages in Poland.
Friends of Solidarity will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Tony Backus, Friends of Solidarity and the Marianne Lee museum, to plan the food shipments.
The organization already has $100 in its accounts, 404-743-0 at Douglas County Bank. Ninth and Kentucky counties opened to receive contributions.
People wanting more information should call Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, at 864-3523 or 843-4834.
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Report on harassment ready for SenEx early
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
In a feat of administrative finesse, the chairman of the Sexual Harassment Committee announced Friday that her husband would be done three weeks before it was die.
Shirley Harkess, chairman, told Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and the University Senate executive committee, "It is my intention to have a completed report to you next Friday."
The department will examine the University's Affirmative Action procedures as part of a routine investigation of Board of Regents
Cobb was pleased with her speediness, he said, because he will need a sexual harassment statement in the Department of Labor next semester.
Harkess said she wanted to submit a co-counselor report to the University Covenant and next meeting on.
For a year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has required universities to develop sexual harassment governing employers and employees.
IN A MEMO, Cobb asked SenEx to submit a suggested draft but said the committee could go back and work on revisions.
It appears the University may have a petition form to be given the investigation begins.
George Worth, chairman of University Council, told Cobb, "It is entirely possible on the 22nd of January you will receive a policy statement in
Cobb said that a work-force analysis, another component of the Affirmative Action statement, was "virtually completed."
The analysis is a demographic study of the University's faculty and students that will include such figures as the number of minority professors.
"The work is done on it," Cobb said.
"It's simply a matter of putting it together and editing it."
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will run the investigation early next semester. Since its inception in 1978, he office has periodically checked on federal contractors, including universities; General Motors Corp.; and Ford Motor Corn.
It investigated the University of Kansas Medical Center this semester.
THE INVESTIGATORS will look at the report along with any complaints submitted to the EOCO the Kansas Department of Education University's Affirmative Action office.
University administrators drew up two policy drafts—one for employers and employees, one for professors and students.
The most recent bit of information the committee picked up were the results of the Student Opinion Survey conducted Nov. 16-20.
The sexual harassment report that will be examined is a product of months of work.
THE POLICY draft for students defines harassment as compelling a student to engage in sexual relations.
Since September, the sexual harassment committee has examined those drafts. Committee members talked to experts, sought comments from around the University and examined policies at other universities.
The survey gave different scenarios and asked if they constituted sexual harassment and if the University should have a procedure to deal with them.
Harkess said the survey clearly showed that harassment should have a broader definition. For example, 79.7 percent of the students surveyed said they were harassed and deliberate to touch, leavering or corring a student.
In other business, SenEx examined a report from the Committee on Financial Exigency. The committee worked to examine the costs of Joel Gold, and Joel Gold, chairman, said it didn't make very many changes.
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