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Wednesday. October 24,1973
University Daily Kansan
Airport Bond Vote Set for Dec.11
By LYN WALLIN
RapeanStaff Reporter
Lawrence residents will have a chance to vote Dec. 11 on a proposed city bond issue for airport improvements. The Lawrence City Commission set the date for the election at the regular weekly meeting yesterday.
James Bucher, of Bucher and Willis Co., a Kansas City, Mo., engineering firm, attended the commission meeting and outlined the plans for the airport. Bucher listed possible sources of funding for the proposed expansion.
He said that the Federal Aviation Agency would provide a grant of $1268,000 for construction at the airport. These federal funds, Bucher said, can be used in all phases of the airport construction with the exception of buildings.
The city bond issue would provide $64,000 for the completion of the project.
"I might just point out that this plant has no frills," Bucher said. "This is the minimum facility. There is plenty of room for expansion."
BUCHER SAID THAT in five years the yearly security facility would be handled to need only one on site.
40 or 48 using the Lawrence airport now,
the traffic, he said, would be
company-owned.
In other business the commission approved a site plan for a new K-Mart store to be located on the southeast corner of 31st and Iowa streets.
The commission and K-Mart officials differed about landscaping for the site. The city had recommended to store facilities that are used for landscaping by K-Mart than is in the present plan.
Commissioner Barkley Clark expressed concern over the "ocean of asphalt" effect that the K-Mart parking lot might have without additional landscaping.
we teed that what we are doing in that commercial zone is very critical," said Mayor Nancy Hambleton. "We feel that we must consider the aesthetics of that area out there," which she said was larger than the entire central business district.
K-MART AND CITY officials agreed on the additional landscaping and the plan was approved.
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The commission also approved a repair program for three sidewalk areas bordering the University of Kansas campus. The locations are the east side of Mississippi
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member, said recently.
David Holmes, associate professor of psychology at the university that the committee had selected.
"No one would budge." he said.
Skidmore said the college office expected an examination of grading practices in all departments within the college and a uniform set of standards from the com-
"This conflict of purpose was never
the same. he said to me,
photography is ending from the beginning."
HOLMES said that committee members initially elected SAID Pitman, a former KU student, as the chairman. Pitman later resigned, and Holmes was appointed to lead
"We felt that the plus and the minus should carry grade points, in addition to the other grades."
The other faction thought there wasn't enough discrimination among the grades assigned. Holmes aligned himself with that group.
After about three meetings, a split developed in the committee. Holmes said one fact thought grades were wrong and should be abolished.
He said the assignment of a B-plus,
without extra grade points, did a disservice
to the student. Holmes then he favored a 9-
percent grade, utilizing both the plus and the minus.
Without some standard of comparison, students from gradeless schools couldn't get into graduate and professional programs, Holmes said.
A SIMILAR system is used by the University of Kansas School of Law. Law students receive the following grade points: A equals 4.0; B-plus equals 3.5; B equals 3.0 and so on. No differentiation is made for minus grades.
The committee discovered that several universities and colleges had partially or completely discontinued the use of grades, textbooks and reinstituted the original grading system.
"YOU OBVIOUSLY wouldn't want someone doing heart surgery who had failed the beginning course," he said. "Without grades, how would you know?"
The other faction within the grading committee didn't advocate total abolition of the committee.
Holmes said he didn't favor the elimination of grades at KU.
"However, it is irrational and irresponsible to base admission to graduate schools on GPA alone," he said. "Even if it is the best measure, it is a very poor one."
Skidmore said he thought the committee should recommend more use of the credit-aware banking model.
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uniform grading standards for all departments within the college.
THE COMMITTEE did examine grading practices within the college and found major differences among departments for the fall 1971 semester.
"We felt the committee should do much more than merely scrutinize grading
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THE STATISTICS revealed an even greater range among departments teaching between 200 and 2,000 credit hours each semester. Majors in radiation biophysics held an average GPA of 3.68 in the semester shown (3.74 in Italian in showed an average GPA of 2.51).
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"Some departments attract brighter students, and motivate those students better than other departments." Homes said, explaining the wide range. He said that highly scientific departments were the best examples.
Holmes said the committee could have quickly produced a uniform standard of equipment for the new site.
We could not set policy, however, because the faculty handbook clearly established grading guidelines," he explained. "I thought our job was nearly completed."
WHEN OTHER committee members
didn't agree that the charge had been
applicable, they were denied.
"Second, the division in philosophy between committee members ... would result in a compromise which would be a continuation of the present policy;
In a memo to committee members he said.
"First, the policies concerning grading were clearly spelled out in University administration."
"Third, while there appeared to be abuses of the current system, the committee has been given neither the charge no the power to enforce the current policies."
Street from 11th Street to the KU campus, the west side of Indiana Street between 11th and 12th streets, and both sides of Oread Avenue between 12th and 13th streets.
Holmes recommended the committee's dissolution.
The city has sent a letter to property owners along those streets instructing the owners to repair the sidewalks. If repair work isn't finished by May 1, 1974, the city will have the work done at the property owners' expense.
The commission he recommended on the proposed use of the old library building at 9th and Vermont streets as a cultural arts center. The commission agreed to suspend efforts to sell the property and asked the city staff to prepare an estimate of the cost of repairs and maintenance of the building.
—Approved a site plan for an addition to the McDonald's restaurant at 901 W. 23rd St.
- Approved a site plan for Mills' Auto Savage to be located on the south side of each building.
- THE COMMISSION ALSO:
- Approved a site plan for Garbornos
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Massachusetts St.
- Announced the appointment of M. Gavin Rd. Foley, Rd. Ford Rd., to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
- Made minor additions and corrections to the new dog control ordinance. The new ordinance will be presented for a vote at the next commission meeting.
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SHIRICA OPENED the hearing at 2:05 p.m. by announcing that the decision of the court of appeals had been delivered to him. He read the order dated Oct. 12, 1973, including the portion saying, "the President's petition is denied."
The judge, his voice occasionally faltering, then said, "This filings make effective the order of this court dated Aug. 20 except as modified by the court of ap-
Sirica then read portions of the appeals court order that modified his own to permit the President to withhold portions of the documents in his own foreign policy or national security information.
Sirica then read his own order which said,
"it is by the court . . . ordered the respondent President Richard M. Nixon . . . is hereby commanded tc produce forthwith for the court's inspection in camera the suboenaed documents . . ."
Then he read "the President will present to the district court all other items on the
THE JUDGE NEXT TURNED to a footnote that provided the ground rules under which the higher court would concur with the lower court, and matters the President chose to withhold.
Then Sirica looked at the counsel table
where Wright and White House counsel Leonard Garmat sent and asked, "Are counsel for the President prepared at this time to file a response?"
Wright, a law professor from the University of Texas, strode to the podium directly below Sirica and said, "I am not prepared."
It was then that Wright made the dramatic announcement that the President had finally given up his long battle to keep his tapes.
His voice faded and then he told the judge,
"As the court is aware the President filed a response"
and then he added that it was now "withdrawn."
Outside the courtroom, Wright commented that "the President made on Friday what he thought and I thought was a very reasonable proposal to accommodate the president's vision of an intrusion on presidential confidentiality and bring a constitutional crisis to an end."
BUT, SAID WRIGHT, "it was obvious the constitutional crisis was not over."
He said, "Even if, as I hoped he would, Judge Siraca accepted the presentation we had planned to make as satisfying commendation," he said. "I said that she said the President was defying the law."
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