University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, August 29.1978
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Student legal service expected by January
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
Plans to provide prepaid legal services for University of Kansas students should be approved and put into effect by January, Mike Harper, student body president, said
Routine legal services and counsel will be available to students who have paid a legal fee.
Every student enrolled in six or more semester credit hours would pay the fee.
A report containing recommendations for implementing the program and for supporting the staff, such as be provided was given to Harper last week by Jeffrey Arnold, administrator assistant to Jeffrey Arnold.
Harper said copies of the report were sent Friday to Chancellor A. R. Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; and Dr. Mike Hassan, academic affairs; and Mike Davis, University general
counsel, for recommendations and approval.
"I THOUGHT IT was an excellent report," Shankel said. "It really points in the direction of some of the kinds of things the Student Senate might want to implement as far as legal services at KU are concerned.
Ambler agreed with Shankel. "I think some form of legal services could be successful at KU," he said. "I was impressed that I had the opportunity to be well documented and well thought out."
Ambler said he would make suggestions to Harper about problems he found in the report.
"things like this require a lot of thought before you enter into them," he said.
Harper said that after the other administrators had read the report, he would sit it, along with their suggestions, to members of the Legal Services Board
After the board members have made their recommendations, Harper said, he will give
working under his direction to establish the program.
Harpar that because students entered contract schools, they are legally considered to have legal rights that they need legal protection.
Harper said the program also would discourage unfair business practices.
"STUDENTS AT KU have a lot of landlord-tenant problems," Harper said. "The office of consumer affairs handles about 250 complaints a month, which is an unfair burden on them. Since most students cannot afford a private attorney, it would be much more helpful for them to be able to go to a legal service and get advice from a naive lawyer."
"If the landlords in town know that students have easily accessible legal recourse, they'll be much less likely to pursue unfair business practices," he said.
He said students would not be charged additional cost to fund the program. Operating costs will be covered by Senate funds the first semester, he said, and student activity fees students already pay will fund it the following semester.
PROPOSED SERVICES under the program are: preparation, drafting and documentation; legal research; drafting and review of agreements; settlements or releases; executions by notaries; and incorporation of groups for training. Groups are recognized as student organizations of the program.
Legal services would be denied in the following instances: criminal cases; tax matters and estate planning; cases involving KU and claims against employees of KU, its programs or activities; and incorporation of groups for private profit.
According to the report, implementation of the program would be in three phases.
appearance clause would be lifted in cases when students have been sued by parties
In the third phase of the program, Jan. 1,
1800 to May 31, 1800, the courtroom applauded.
The report recommends that an evaluation of the effectiveness of the program be made at the end of the third quarter. The program should be staffing and services should be made.
Heating systems to be analyzed
Franklin Associates Ltd., Prairie Village, was contracted by the Kansas Board of Regents in May for slightly more than $100,000 and began a one-year study to recommend which type of plant to build and where to locate it.
Jake Beechy, senior analyst for the firm, said yesterday that the firm was in the early stages of its study and was examining the need to heat and aircondition the University.
By JAKE THOMPSON Staff Reporter
He said the firm would study the five systems, the projected steam demand through 1990, possible locations, local conditions, and equipment before making its final report in June 1990.
Five different solid-waste-burning systems will be analyzed over the next seven months by an engineering firm to determine the best replacement for the present gas- and oil-burning steam plant at the University of Kansas.
If built, the earliest a new plant would be operational would be 1982, he said. The present plant then would be used as a back-up system.
The present plant is south of Flint Hall.
THE NEW PLANT would burn solid waste collected from the Lawrence and Douglas County arenas Beechy said a new site should be chosen in the west campus area.
Each of the five systems has advantages and disadvantages. Beechy said,
The direct-burning method would have a wall of water—like a medieval moat—surrounding a pit where the solid waste was buried. The method would heat the water and generate steam.
fits,俩轴承,solu,or ruler.Hawaii. Of the five, two stand as the most feasible, according to W.P. Smith, KU engineering adviser. The two,a direct-burning solid waste system and a refuse-derived fuel system, are both in operation in the United States.
SMITT SAID the additional cost of the refuse-derived system incurred by this process would make it less desirable than the direct-burning system.
The refuse-derived-fuel system would use the same pit and water wall, but a process of compacting and removing all non-burtable trash would precede the burning.
Beechy said all systems had to be taken into consideration because of special advantages. For example, he said, the refuses derived system would provide steel and other metal which could be recycled.
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Copies of the evaluation would be sent to the student body president, the chancellor and the National Resource Center for the Defense of Legal Services in Washington.
Before the facility would become
operational, the Kansas Legislature would have to approve state funds, then Gov. Robert F. Bennett would have to give final approval for construction of the plant.
An early estimated cost of the new facility was more than $1.5 million, but Smith said recent technological advances could lower costs and will be determined by the engineering firm.
31, 1979, the Legal Services Board would hire an attorney at a salary of $18,000 a year. A legal secretary, at a salary of $9,000 a year, and four-part time paraprofessionals at a combined salary of $12,000 a year also would be hired.
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During the first phase of the program, the report recommends that the attorney be restricted from courtroom appearance so as to effectiveness of his counsel can be judged.
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