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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Friday, October 23, 1981
Vol. 92, No. 45 USPS 650-640
Judge finds visa violations: deports 2 Iranians
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Lawrence Iranian men have 10 days to appeal a deportation order an immigration judge handed down yesterday in a Kansas City, Mo., immigration court.
Judge Jesse M. Sellers found Amir Kezguro, 24 and Siazah Khagjeh, in violation of their rights.
Taking into consideration the financial status of the two men, Sellers granted each of them a voluntary deportation, allowing them to leave the country in a designated amount of time.
Owner voluntary deportation, the deportee finances his own passage from the United States.
If he refuses to leave, and is forcibly deported, the government will pay.
Sellers told Zekrgoo and Khagei they had until Dec. 2 to leave the United States.
Henri J. Watson, the Iranians' attorney, told Sellers he intended to appeal the decision.
Mason said he thought he had enough evidence to reverse the judge's opinion. He said this type of case centered on foreign students too often.
If the case is appealed, it will be heard in an Immigration Board of Appeals court near New York.
university, a requirement for foreign students to remain in the country.
Zekrigo, however, who is enrolled in three hours at KU, testified that the School of Art and Design told him last spring he would not meet the requirements had completed a three-hour sociology course.
According to Zerkgo, it was too late to enroll in the class when the school notified him, so he
Zekgrzo testified that John McKay, acting chairman of design at KU, advised Zekgrzo to enroll in only the three-hour course this fall so he could graduate in December.
Sellers said Zekrogo should have checked with immigration and Naturalization services before payment.
Khagei testified that he had not enrolled at Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kan., where he transferred from KU in 1980, because he had not received the student aid check from the Iranian government.
Officials at Donnelly College sent a letter to the court, used as evidence, that said Khagej enrolled in 15 hours Oct. 20 after receiving his student aid check Oct. 14.
However, the judge said he also consideredphanthropy, because the counterterrorist of the University of Northwestern Louisiana
Foreign students must receive authorization from INS before transferring schools.
Sellers said that his decision to deport the men was based on their academic records and was
not connected with their arrests by KU police last month.
KU police arrested Zekrigo and Khagei in connection with a fight between two factions of Iranian students at the Kansas University last month. One student was injured in the incident. Two other men also were arrested.
At the time of the arrest, Khagei told police his name was Khagavi. However, during the hearing yesterday, he testified that he had never used a second name.
Zekrgoo and Khagei are scheduled for arraignment Nov. 7 in Douglas County district court on charges of disorderly conduct and battery.
Deportation judgment no surprise to students
The other two Iranian men arrested in the incident will also be arraigned then.
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Staff Reporter
Iranian students were not surprised or concerned by the move that two Iranian men were arrested.
Some students refused to comment, but members of the anti-Khomeini Iranian Student Association said they the two men, Amir Zerkogru; 24, and Siazash Khager, 26, would accept their debate.
"I predict they will appeal the recommendation because I think those two guys are afraid to go back to Iran," Mansour Mojad, president of the ISA, said yesterday.
Zekrogo and Khagei were recommended for deportation because they had violated their immigration status by failing to be enrolled in at least 12 hours at the University of Kansas.
THE TWO WERE arrested Sept. 25, in connection with the Sept. 12 fight between the anti-Khoemini ISA and the pro-Khoemini Muslim group (Persian Speaking Group) at the Kansas Union.
Zekrgoo said last night after the hearing that he probably would appeal the decision within the 10 weeks to a higher court.
"I may appeal," he said, "I'd rather not talk about how I feel about it thouh."
Khagei was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Reza Shams, MSA(PSG) member, said he did not want to comment on the matter.
"It will interrupt my privacy and I don't like it," he said.
BUT MOJADAJ said the pro-Khomeini students on campus were afraid to go back to Iran because they knew that the Khomeini regime would fall.
"The action in the Sept. 12 attack showed they are afraid of revolutionary organizations because they attacked from fear of these revolutionary organizations," Mojadad said.
"It was a hopeless attack," he said.
Shahrok Azedi, spokesman for the ISA, said he did not think the court's decision was discriminatory or a punishment for what happened in the Union.
Daylight-saving ends Sunday; Congress considers extension
Staff Reporter
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
Lawrence residents will "fall back" an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday when daylight-saving time comes to end.
Although that extra hour is scheduled to be dropped on the last Sunday of next April when the period begins again, Congress is considering raising taxes and cutting down on crime and help conserve energy.
Congress has repeatedly changed daylight-saving time since the six-month period was started.
In 1974, Congress passed a law that established a year-round daylight-saving time as an energy conservation measure. It was modified to eight hours of daytime in 1975 and reverted to six months in 1976.
Since 1975, the U.S. Transportation Department, which administered the act, has been authorized to issue visas.
The bill before Congress would add March and April to daylight-saving time and would provide additional days of daylight.
If the extra two months were added, medical studies estimate, the traffic death toll could be reduced 1.5 percent and the extra hour of daylight is the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day.
No state is required to observe daylight-saving time, and areas of the nation that don't observe it include Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and parts of Indiana.
Action in the Senate is not expected until next year, but if legislation is passed and signed, it will be taken.
Davlight-saving time is also observed outside
the United States. In the United Kingdom, for example, the period is called Summer Time and begins one month on the last Sunday and also ends on the last Sunday in October.
SPRING FORWARD FALL BACK
This stretch of Massachusetts Street is part of the Town Center development of the downtown comprehensive plan. Most of the retail development will take place in this district.
Commission to adopt downtown plan
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
After nearly a decade of debate and public pressure, the city adopted a comprehensive downtown plan.
The Lawrence City Commission will review the proposed plan Nov. 3 and will add its own recommendations. It will be sent to the Planning Commission for final approval. Planning Commission for final approval.
The plan is designed to enhance the area and provide expanded shopping and leisure space.
MAYOR MARCI FRANÇISCO said, however,
MAYOR MARCI FRANÇISCO said, however,
    the plan was also a framework
City officials said yesterday that what had seemed like "perpetual discussion" on the downtown had actually been "prudent planning" aimed at retaining the character of the area, while keeping a plan that was workable for developers.
"Any downtown is a fragile entity and that is why there has been a lot of commitment to it," Dean Palos, advance manager, said. "The health and stability that exists in the downtown is the result of planning that took place in the 1980s."
"No one is saying right now that we want all that is in the plan to happen," she said. "But people do want to see additions to retail shopping. Things are happening downtown."
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said the commission had to work steadily toward a deal.
*Step by step we have to keep moving*, Shortz said. "Otherwise it appears that we were doing nothing."
"Then we would have that same battle all over again, and we don't have the time and resources to do it."
BUT SOME LOCAL businessmen are eager to implement the plan.
"We've been working on it for two years," Robert Miller, owner of Miller Furniture, 739 Massachusetts St., said. "We have to start with the new kitchen and to put something in writing and concrete."
Larry Flannery, president of Weavers inc. store, 901 Massachusetts St., said he supported the plan but it was "too big" to if it will attract department stores.
But what is a comprehensive plan?
The comprehensive plan actually consists of eight separate development districts.
The district that has drawn the most attention is Town Center, an area of nine commercial blocks bounded by Seventh, Tenth, Vermont and Rhode Island streets.
According to the plan drawn up by Robert B. Teska Associates, an Evanston, Ill., consulting firm, Lawrence could have 385,000 feet of new downtown retail spaces lv 1995.
THIS SPACE includes one or two new spaces and the redevelopment of existing structures.
The commission must also consider three alternatives to upgrade the downtown retail area.
Weaver's already has taken steps to expand its present location, and the J.C. Penney Co., 830 Massachusetts St., has asked for a new store.
The first plan calls for two new department stores extending between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets and an expansion of Weaver's.
Three other sites are chosen for department stores: the northwest corner of Massachusetts and Eighth streets; the northeast corner of New Hampshire and
See DOWNTOWN page 5
Weather
SenEx preparing for possible financial emergency
Today will be sunny and cold with a high of 48, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be 6-12 mph from northwest to southeast, shifting during the night to the south.
Tenight will be fair with a low around 30.
Tomorrow will be clear and windy with a high of 55.
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
With funding and enrollment levels dropping at universities around the country, KU faculty members have become more fearful for their jobs.
Since 1973, University officials have worked to
specific procedures in case of financial
exigence.
A financial exigency committee, appointed by the University. Senate, executive committee, dean of law.
The University may declare financial exigency when funding is drop so low that the university cannot operate.
UNDER THAT POLICY, a new committee was formed this year to go over the document once more, and, according to Ernest Angina, William, those revisions must go to SenEx by DeT.
Joel Gold, professor of English and chairman of the committee, said yesterday that this time
the work of the committee had a better chance of becoming a reality.
"Other universities have run into these problems," he said. "All of a sudden, the system has gone wrong."
'Sports across the country suddenly discovered there wasn't the revenue in the league.'
Gold referred to Washington state, where a rising deficit and sluggish economy forced the governor to order a 10 percent cut in state spending.
University of Washington administrators,
oversees the employees, and they would
become a partner in the company.
Gold added that Michigan State University suffered similar problems because of troubles in the university's financial system.
THE UNIVERSITY had no financial exigency policy, and, according to a letter from a faculty member there, the president of the university could arbitrarily fire faculty members.
frustration, the loss of confidence and sense of betrayed loyalty of students and faculty alike."
The letter said, "It is impossible to convey in words the malaise that has befallen us, the state of our nation."
Gold said that former KU Chancellor Archie R. Dales was very receptive to the financial benefits.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will review the policy in December before it can go into effect.
policy in December before it can go into... But Gold said the purpose of the committee's financial exigency policy was to make sure the chancellor could not wield unlimited power.
"The purpose of the document is to lay out all the steps the chancellor can do and make it clear."
"It should only happen at the last moment of urgency, and then it tells what will happen every time."
"We don't want to negotiate under the gun," he said. "We don't know all the facts now, but at
least we'd have a general procedure to follow. If not, I think we'd agree to just about anything.*
In addition, the policy ensures that crucial personnel decisions are not made only under circumstances where a specific policy is in place.
THE POLICY also requires the chancellor to discuss the declaration with University govern-
Now that five years have gone by and the possibility of exigency growth, Gold said he saw a
"We didn't build in the kind of safeguards that should have been built," he said.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said he had second
chance at giving so much power to the
chancellor.
"We say to him, 'You decide after consulting with us.' " he said.
In addition, Gold said the time constraints stated in the policy may not be practical. For example, the policy gives SenEx 30 days to do so the chancellor's proposed declaration.
In Washington, the governor gave the university only three weeks to cut faculty
"We've been assuming a little more warning time."
This year, the committee has reviewed the history of financial exigency at KU and has recommended a change.