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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 8, 1989
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Fatality ruled as self-defense
Eudora man regrets homicide
By Jim Petterson Kansan staff writer
A jury of a coroner's inquest yesterday returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the Aug. 23 killing of Danny L. Padgett, 18, of Lawrence.
Besser had been under investigation for his involvement in Padgett's death.
The jury ruled that Ryan Besser killed Padgett in self-defense during a fight in Besser's home at the Grandview mobile home park in Eudora.
Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner, had requested the inquest to determine if Padgett died as a result of injury, accident or justifiable homicide.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said that coroners were authorized to request and administer such tests in circumstances surrounding a death.
Alan Sanders, Douglas County deputy coroner, testified that Padgett's death resulted from traumatic injuries received during the fight.
Besser said during the inquest that the only time before Aug. 23 that he had met Paddett was on Aug. 20, when he had gone to the house where Paddett was living to pick up his daughter.
"I met Danny Padgett once," Besser said. "I couldn't say I knew him, though. I went to drop our little girl off for my wife to watch her. When I came to get my kid, Danny comes up to my truck and (Besser's handwife) Stephany says something, and he turns around and says nothing."
Besser's brother, Jimmy, said that on Aug. 23 he and his brother had returned from Lawrence and had decided to go out to eat. Before they
went out to eat, he said, he left Besser and went to their parent's house to get a pack of cigarettes.
Besser said that while Jimmy was gone, Padgett came to his trailer and started running.
"The first thing he said was, 'Come on outside and let's fight,'" Besser said. "I told him to get out of my yard. He wouldn't. I started screaming and yelling and shut the door. He didn't leave."
"I opened the door again and he came towards the door." he said. "I had a small 2-b-y and I tossed it at him. It kind of nicked his shoulder. Then I slammed the door and locked it and headed out the exit door."
Besser said he then heard a crash at the front door as Padgett broke out the window on the door.
Besser testified that as soon as Padgett told him he was coming over he found a 4-foot steel barbell he kept on his back and put it where he could easily crach it.
"It was a dog-and-cat chase around the yard," Besser said. "He put down the 2-by-4 and I chased him with the pipe."
Besser said he hit Padget several
wheels with the pipe, but did not inten
t in kill.
"It it's hard to sleep." Besser said. "By no means did I wish to harm him or anybody. I wish he wouldn't have died."
Before Besser gave his testimony, Flory informed him of his right to remain silent and to have an attorney present at the inquest.
"I figured, 'Why do I need an attorney?' Besser said. "It would have made it seem like I was trying to convince all. All could do was tell the truth."
"I hope people won't look down on me for what happened and just treat me like an average human being." Better said.
Student Senate to alter campaign budget rules
Kansan staff writer
By Lara Weber
The Student Senate Rights committee met on Wednesday night for the first time this semester, already having plenty to do, including rewriting part of the Senate Rules and Regulations.
Senate has asked the Rights committee to review and rewrite Article 6 (Elections) of the rules and regulations, following the controversy of the Spring 1989 elections.
The University Judicial Board in July ruled that the Common Cause coalition, headed by student body president B. Jake White and vice president Jeff Morris, violated campaign spending rules by exceeding spending limits for each Senate candidate.
The board recommended that White and Morris forfeit 10 percent of their salaries and perform two hours of overtime. The board also approved the duration of their terms in office.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, in a letter to the Judicial Board, suspended the sanctions contingent upon the presentation by Dec. 11 of a comprehensive plan to ensure fair and honest Senate elections.
'We planned to revis the rules and regulations long before the letter
from Dr. Ambler," White said.
He said Senate needed to clear up some ambiguities in the election law.
"In addition, we think there's a need for a packet to be given to candidates and coalitions to answer questions and provide information (about election rules)." White said.
The Rights committee, which has 84 members, elected Aaron Rittmaster, Overland Park senior, as chairman.
He said the committee would begin the process at its first business meeting Tuesday. He said they probably would break into three subcommittees, and that one subcommittee would work on Article 6.
"Hopefully, we can keep about 60 active people because there's a lot of work to do." Rittmaster said.
In addition to other projects, the Rights committee's biggest job will be to rewrite Article 6. he said.
"It's our job to take that and rewrite it so that similar problems don't occur again." Ritmaster said.
"The they (the Judicial Board) want a report on Article 6 by Nov.1, so that means we're going to be pushing pretty hard," he said.
Rittmaster said he would be meeting with Ambler in two to three weeks to discuss the progress.
Elichi Shimizu is trying to forge a closer relationship between Japan and Kansas.
East meets Midwest with KU alum's help
By Beth Behrens
Kansan staff writer
A former Fulbright graduate student from Japan returned to the University of Kansas this week, bringing 25 Japanese telecommunications executives with him to attend a conference co-sponsored by the School of Business.
Eliichi Shimizu, who attended KU in 1968, is now the executive vice president of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph International Corp., the Japanese equivalent to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Most of the visiting Japanese executives work for NTU.
Shimizu has his goal in returning to KU to attend the KU-NTTI Telecommunications Conference was to bridge the cultural gap between Japan, the United States and, in particular, the Midwest.
"Very many people on the West Coast are Japanese," Shimizu said. "Many others visit Japan, and on the East Coast, it is in the Midwest area, there is a large gap.
"But the state of Kansas wants to be internationalized. I am always discussing with (former Kansas governor) John Carlin about having a closer relationship with Japan because Japanese don't know Kansas."
Carol Nalbandian, director of the KU School of Business management development programs, said the three-day conference was Shimizu's idea.
February and presented the idea, she said. The school was involved in the planning because of its strong ties to United States Telephone Association, the other sponsor of the conference.
Shimuza attended a conference at KU in
U. S. representatives included several professors from the school and 15 executives from the United States Telephone Association, including Southwestern Bell, Missouri Telephone Co., United Telecommunications and US Sprint.
Joseph Reitz, associate dean for external affairs, said the conference was created to allow executives in telecommunications learn more about each other and to develop contacts in the two contries.
"Just reading a letter without seeing is not enough to understand, but seeing and talking to each other is different," he said. "By seeing people we can have a deeper understanding."
Shimizu said that Japanese and U.S. business relations were strained because of the trade imbalance between the two countries. He said the conference went well because the executives got to know each other better.
After several panel discussions, the executives went to Alvamar Golf and Country Club. 3000 W. 15th St., for a round of golf
Yesterday, the Japanese visitors toured US Sprint in Overland Park and United Telecommunications Corp. in Shawnee. Today they will leave the Kansas City area to visit telephone companies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Wash., and Hawaii before returning to Japan.
Students stash store receipts to save money
By Steve Buckner
Kansan staff writer
It's all there in pink and white: "SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS."
And it can mean big money for students who comply with the garish message on the envelopes given out by the cashiers at the KU Bookstores in the Kansas and Burge unions at the start of each semester.
In fact, students save 7 percent on each purchase, said Mike Reid, manager of the book stores. This amounted to about $80,000 in rebates last semester.
The Student Dividend Rebate is available to students who save their receipts from the purchase of books, school supplies, T-shirts and candy bars at the book stores, Reid said.
"It is not offered on sidewalk sale items or computer sales." he said.
Students must pay for their purchases with cash or a check to qualify for the rebate, Reid said. Bank-card purchases aren't eligible because the book store must pay a percentage on those transactions, he said.
Reid said the program was in its 43rd year.
"We've been doing the rebate since the start of our organization," he said. "It's just a way for the book stores to give something back to the students, who are our primary customers."
The rebate rate is based on how well the book store is operating. Reid said.
"The national championship increased our income." Reid said in reference to the 1988 NCAA men's basketball title. "We still have maintained a good job and hope to give 7 percent for a long time."
He said that the book store did not have any records showing how many students took advantage of the program.
Students don't have long to wait to cash in last semester's receipts, Reid said.
Reid said receipts from this semester's purchases could be redeemed next spring.
"There should be an announcement for redemption next week," he said. "The students will have a minimum of six months to redeem last semester's receipts, but we have allowed up to a year for redemption."
Students and other customers who don't want to bother saving receipts can give them to the women's athletic teams. Boxes for this purpose are at the cash registers in the book stores, said Billie Inlese, cashier at the Union Reid said that the women's athletic teams had raised between $700 and $3,200 each semester through the system.
"I'll probably spend the cash," he said of the $20 he expected to get back.
Jeff Harshbarger, Hutchinson junior, was less pragmatic.
Dave Price, Lodi, Calif. junior, said he hadn't taken advantage of the rebate but was going to start to in the future.
"In my first year I used credit cards," he said. "I've got one more book to buy, and I'm going to save this receipt."
Four KU professors each receive $10,000 for research grants
Bv a Kansan reporter
Four KU professors received the 1989 Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards during the second annual faculty convocation yesterday.
The awards were established in 1981 by Takeru Higuchi, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and his wife, Aya. Higuchi died in March 1987, but his wife has continued the faculty awards and was present for the ceremony.
The awards carry a $10,000 stipend to the recipients to use in support of their research, said Frances Horwitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service. Horwitz announced the four winners.
George C. Coggins, professor of law, received the Balfour Jeffrey Award in the Social Sciences area.
Robert Hanzik, professor of medicinal chemistry, received the Olin Petefish Award.
Billy G. Hudson, professor of biochemistry at the College of Health Sciences, received the Dolph Simons Sr Award
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