Friday, November 17, 1978
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Harper, legal board to discuss litigation
By MARY ERNST Staff Reporter
The Legal Services Governing Board will attempt to take the final step today toward the approval of a student legal proposal for the University of Kansas.
The board is scheduled to meet with Mike Harper, student body president, to try iron out differences over the expansion in the first phases of the program.
Harper was scheduled to meet with the four-member board Wednesday night, when he met with the two members present that he did not think the administration would accept a proposal that included court proceedings during the first year of the program.
"IF THIS board says that it wants litigation," Harper said, "the chancellor will vet the entire thing."
The board submitted a proposal to Harper late last month that included court representation during the first year of the program, but Harper sent letters to board members last week suggesting he be removed from the proposal.
Harper said he could submit to the administration a proposal that did not
"I don't think I've been shortsighted," he said. "A program such as the one that we have proposed, but that does not include litigation is not uncommon to students in schools our size. One year's waiting to be a waste of students' money."
include litigation without the board's approval, but that he would not do that.
ALTHOUGH HARPER said he did not favor litigation at the beginning of the program, he said he thought the chancellor might be willing to allow litigation if the first six months of the program were successful.
"There is nothing stopping us six months from now from going to the administration and saying 'we've proven ourselves, the attorney here is not a lawyer', the program is stable, why don't we initiate litigation in the program," Harper said.
Harper said he thought there might be a fear in the upper echelon of the administration that an outer fringe of students would take over the program and use the money for causes that did not represent the entire student body.
Hal Eden, SUA travel adviser, said the Rocket basket sales forced cancellation of baggage fees.
"The football team was a little bit better that year," he said. "It was a hot rivalry and people know there is a good chance we'll lose this year."
"The events of the 1960s are still fresh in their minds,"Harper said.
SUA cancels ski and game trips
Two trips sponsored by Student Union Activities, a trip to the KU football game at K-State tomorrow and a ski trip to Red N.M. in January, have been canceled.
SAU will refund money to people who lost their job in the cost of transportation and tickets was $15,238.
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Refunds also will be given to those who signed up for the ski trip. The cost was $230 and included transportation, three nights in a hotel, a day, lift tickets and ski equipment rental.
A teller at the bank tripped a silent police alarm at approximately 12:20 p.m., sending a police helicopter and patrolmen to the scene.
TOPEKA—An unidentified young man escaped with between $2,000 and $3,000 after a brazen midday robbery at the downtown branch of Merchant's National Bank here.
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game and 13 of the 37 tiketies for the ski trip
had been sold when the deadline came.
FBI agents at the scene took the film out of the bank's cameras and took it to Kansas City.
Eden said SUA would lose about $180 it had need to advertise the trips.
Eden said he thought there were several reasons the ski trip was not a success.
"This lobby is fairly well bugged with cameras and they were turned on," he said.
The teller gave the man the money in plain envelopes. The robber then turned and asked, "What did you do?"
Bold bank robber escapes
Oliver Hughes, chairman of the Merchant's National Bank, said it was the first robbery at the bank's main branch and he expected the man to be caught.
Eden said that five years ago SUA took three buses to the K-State game.
According to bank officials, a slim white male, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and dressed in a CPO jacket, entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding money. Although the note said the robber had a gun, none was ever displayed.
At 10 last night FBI officials had not released the film.
"Part of it is the name. People are influenced by that," he said. "If you say 'Ski Aspen,' you get a better response than if you say 'Aspen.' You don't know all the parts of the Aspen, Col., highlands."
Only four of the 34 tickets for the K-State
ALTHOUGH NO bus is going to Manhattan this year, the remaining football tickets are on sale for $2.50 until 5 p.m. today in the SUA office at the Kansas Union.
Eden said other ski trips offered at the same time also hurt ticket sales for the Red Ski resort.
SUMMIT TRAVEL INC., Columbia, Mo., has been advertising in Lawrence for a ski trip to Winter Park, Colo. for $139. That company is also lodging, lift ticket and ski equipment rental.
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Summit also is sponsoring a trip to Aspen,
Colo., with the same arrangements and
"If their location was not so far away they would have had a better response," Herman
Brad Herman, Smith Center freshman and employee of Summit, said he thought SUA's trip failed because of Red River's location and reputation as a ski resort.
Neither of the Summit trips include transportation or food.
About 70 persons have signed up to go on a Summit's trins, he said.
Eden said sign-up deadline for the Red River trip was Wednesday and could have been extended. SUA could not get back a loan from deposit after Wednesday, however.
Last year, SUA saved two trips, one to the Bahamas and the other to FL. Lauderdale, Fla. Eden said ski trips normally were successful.
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SUA's ski trip to Taos, N.M., during Thanksgiving vacation is sold out.
He said it was not uncommon for an SUA trip to be canceled.
SUA has not been alone in trying to sell teams for tomorrow's K-State football game.
The SUA Travel Committee decides which trips to schedule, based on past experiences and the location's reputation and availability.
Allen Field House's ticket office returned
900 unticket to K-Stat this week,
including 428 from January 1.
KU received 4,500 tickets this year and usually sells all of them, she said. Fewer than 100 tickets are available until 4:30 p.m. on Friday to the ticket office. About 3,600 tickets have been sold.
Eden said the Taos trip, which cost $12.80, was more successful because it was easier to get from New York to Taos.
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