Thursday, February 8, 1979
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Prof gathers evidence to fight death penalty
Most of the arguments against capital punishment are well known to William R. Kearns.
Although he hardly looks the part of a hard-bitten detective, the soft-spoken, conservatively-dressed professor spends most of his time investigating the implications of capital punishment.
Arnold, who has a specialty in criminology, is active in state groups that have lobbied against reinstatement of the death penalty. He has testified before the House Judiciary committee for six consecutive years.
A version of a bill providing for the execution of persons convicted of first-degree murder and murder while com- mitted in Kansas by the Kansas House today for final approval.
Although he admits to a "moral predisposition" against capital punishment, Arnold said that the data he has compiled shows that death penalty is neither necessary nor useful.
ARNOLD'S STUDIES indicate that it canmore to execute a murderer than tokeep him in prison, that the public wantsthe death penalty only because they believe it tobe a deterrent to capital crimes and thatdeath does not act asa deterrent to murder.
The reasons it is more expensive to
execute a criminal than to keep him in jail are the additional time and personnel required to execute the charge.
Persons accused of capital crimes require more security procedures, more court appearances, longer trials, more appeals, more printing and greater legal support. The actual execution requires a rehearsal and a check of the electric chair.
All of the extra procedures mean a total cost greater than if the convicted murderer had been charged with a lesser charge.
ARNOLD SAID the reason many people support the death penalty is they believe it to be reasonable.
When the same group was asked if they favored capital punishment because "the criminal is an animal and deserves to die," 51 percent said no and 41 percent said yes.
A 1973 Harris poll showed that of the people asked if they favored the death
Other reasons for the apparent popularity of the death penalty are the public's desperation and a desire for revenge, Arnold said.
penalty if a prison sentence were equally
widely accepted, 48 percent said no
gird 35 percent said no
"Many people are so desperate to find a way to deter murderers that they apply what seems to be the common-sense approach, making the punishment worse than the crime.
"Also, many people get excited about the
damage done by a murder, so their motive for supporting capital punishment is one of
However, he said, persons supportive of the death penalty have not considered the issue carefully enough because documented crimes are too capital punishment is not a deterrent to impunity.
Studies done in three cities show that capital punishment has little or no effect on the homicide rate and, in one city, caused the rate to increase.
Arnold said the increase might be attributed to persons who wanted to die but were afraid to kill themselves, so killed them and knowing they would be sentenced to die.
Indian students face delay of aid
Some American Indian students at the University of Kansas are facing their worst delay in the receipt of Bureau of Indian Affairs aid money, according to Jeff Weinberg, assistant director of Financial Aid.
Weinberg said yesterday that there were tener than 100 Indian students at KU, and they had made up about $350 million.
problems getting their student aid money from the BIA.
Weinberg said he thought the source of the problem was in the BIA area offices, which must give final approval for grants requested by the students.
JRP says cold shower deserving of steak dinner
Residents of Joseph R. Pearson residence hall hope to get an extra steak dinner as compensation for the hall's hot water problems of a few weeks ago.
JRP was without hot water in many of its showers for over 10 days because of some inoperable mixing valves. As compensation for their inconvenience, JRP residents plan to ask the administration for an extra steak dinner this inconvenience.
Bain Menezes, Overland Park sophomore and a JRP resident, said yesterday that JRP representatives will try again Monday to get AURH's support.
Representatives of JRP asked the Association of University Residence Halls to support the plan, but AURH turned them down. Jan. 25.
Menezes said JRP representatives would
draft a letter to J.J. Wilson, director of housing, outlining their request. He said the letter would be asked to AURI Monday and decide whether to endor JRP's request.
"No matter how many times we provide the area office with the enrollment dates," he said, "they send the money when they get good and ready."
"The assembly will be voting on whether they'll endorse our letter." Menges said.
Menezes told he was confident that AURH would vote to support the request.
"I can't project how I'll vote and I won't
guese as to how the assembly will vote," he
Mark Myers, AURH treasurer, said yesterday he didn't know what the AURH assembly would decide Monday because he unsure of what JRP would be asking for.
Menezes said they would go ahead with their request whether AURH supports them.
applied for aid from the BLA did not find out
who would get any money until he
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The problem, Warner said, was at the tribal office, at the desk of an educational specialist whose job is to grant or deny academic aid money requests.
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But this is not the case, according to Turner Bear, Financial Aid officer (Higher Education Assistance Bureau) for the bureau.
WARNER SAID HE thought that often a student's application sat on the educational specialist's desk until it was buried in other workpaper that it was either forgotten or destroyed.
He said this semester's delay was unusual because of the number of applications. Bear said the paperwork backlog was in his office, so that he had always been able to handle it.
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Bear said the delay was the result of the steps he must follow in processing the grants that the BIA awarded to 2,700 students this semester.
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Weinberg said his office received money Monday for 15 students who had been recommended in August. Money for six or seven students has not yet arrived, he said.
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Air Force program faces uncertain future
The KU Air Force ROTC program is faced with the prospect of being disbanded if employment declines next year. We need a World Class professor of Air Force ROTC, and yearly training.
The Army and Air Force ROTC programs at the University of Kansas were observed earlier this week when a group came to KU to evaluate the programs.
"Congress insists you must have 17 juniors enrolled to maintain a unit and to be cost effective," Wondrack said.
He said an Air Force ROTC program was disbanded if it had less than 17 students. The program is the third year KU has failed to meet the requirement. Seven juniors are in the program.
But Wondrace said he was not worried because there were 17 sophomores enrolled in the program and he expected that at least two more students next week on two-year scholarships.
Wondrack said the three Air Force officers from Alabama who visited the Mount Si summit in a scouting team, but were trying to find ways to increase enrollment in the program.
"They're taking a hard look at higher institutions with low enrollments like KU," Wondrack said.
The main reason for low enrollment, Wondrack said, was that Air Force ROTC had not been able to commission many of its 1975 and 1978 graduates because Congress had put a limit on the number of Air Force officers.
"It'll take us years to get out of that," he said.
"It's a new ballgame now," he said.
"Our nits are leaving en masse."
Wondrack said he thought enrollment would increase now that there were more opportunities for pilot training because expansion of commercial airline services.
But although the Air Force ROTC program is plagued by low enrollment, a seven-man Army ROTC evaluative team from Fort Riley, Kansas, found the enrolment of the Army program to be acceptable.
"They thought the facilities were quite adequate and the instruction quite good," Enos said.
Capt. Gary Erosa, assistant professor of cry rotC, said the annual inspection team tested the program a satisfactory rating. He said the team gave only satisfactory or unqualified ratings.
Enos said there were about 210 cadets enrolled in the Army ROTC program.
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