CAMPUS AND AREA
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University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1984
Ruddv Manoine/KANSAN
Vincent Atwell, Lawrence junior, plays with his Great Dane, Lancer, between classes on the front lawn of Stauffer Flint Hall. Atwell chains his 175 pound dog to a tree in the yard during his 12.30 p.m. class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Winter's icy fingers hold onto Lawrence
The first week of December will bring the lowest temperatures so far this fall to Lawrence, weather service forecasters said last night.
The KU weather service said the temperature last night was expected to drop to 17 degrees. Today's high should reach only 39 degrees with winds from the northwest at 5 to 10 mph, and tonight's low should be 16 degrees.
Phil Rislove, of the National Weather Service in Topeka, said a high pressure system centered over Kansas should keep the sky clear until Friday. Cold air moving into Kansas from the north will produce high temperatures in the 30s and low 40s all week.
"We should be under the influence of that high pressure system until the end of the week," he said. "There is a chance of rain or snow for this area on Friday."
The system moved into the area yesterday, producing a high of only 38 degrees. The KU weather service said tomorrow's high should be 42 degrees.
Rislove said similar systems were located over Montana and western Canada.
"The central United States and western Canada are covered by this type of system right now," he said. "The lows at night will stay right around the high teens or the low 20s."
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
Agreement reached in KU prof's suit
Staff Reporter
An out-of-court settlement was signed Saturday by some of the participants in a lawsuit brought by a professor against another professor, a graduate student and a former graduate student.
Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, filed the $1.5 million suit in 1980 against Henry Lundgaarde, professor of anthropology, Elizabeth Grady, professor of geography, student, and Nancy Stempkii, former graduate student.
The suit, which alleged that Crawford was slandered by the defendants, followed complaints made in 1977 by Murray and Sempolski. The complaints alleged that Crawford used unethical research and medical procedures
The trial in the slander suit ended in April in a hung jury.
during a 1976 expedition to the Central American country of Belize
A retrial was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. today in Douglas County District Court and was expected to last three weeks.
DAN BILES, ASSISTANT attorney general, yesterday said that he and Deputy Attorney General Bruce Miller, co-counsels for Lundgarsa de in the case, had signed the settlement Saturday in Topeka. Biles said that the signatures of Crawford; his attorney, T. Dale Nicklas of Kansas City, Mo.; and Fred Phelps Jr., an attorney for Murray and Sempolski, were on the settlement when he signed it.
Lundsgaarde probably will sign the settlement today. Biles said.
No one at Phelps-Chartered, the Topeka law firm representing Murray and Sempolski, would comment yesterday on the case.
The settlement signed Saturday was a rewrite of a settlement brought to Topeka Friday by Crawford and Nicklas, Biles said.
one of the conditions of the settlement was that the settlement would remain confidential, Biles said.
CRAWFORD WOULD NOT comment on details of the settlement. But he said, "I wouldn't have signed it if I wasn't pleased."
Biles would not comment on whether the settlement would have any effect on a separate lawsuit filed on Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court in Topeka by Murray and Sempolis
That suit, which names Crawford and 10 other current and former professors and administrators, alleges that the defendants harassed Murray and Sempolski. The suit asks
that Murray and Sempowski each receive more than $1.35 million in actual damages and more than $0.35 million in punitive damages.
Fred W. Phelps Sr. of Topeka, who is representing Murray and Sempolski in the harassment suit, yesterday said that the agreement in the slander suit would not affect the harassment suit.
In addition to Crawford, the defendants in the harassment suit are Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies; Scott McNail, professor of sociology; William Argeringer, professor of chemistry; Nicklas, former assistant professor of anthropology and Crawford's attorney in the slander suit; Robert Squinta, Anta Monte-White; John Janzen and Felix Moos, professors of anthropology; and David Frayer and Donald Stull, associate professors
Fund increases unlikely, officials say
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
Graduate students probably will have a difficult time again this year obtaining increases in certain funds from the Kansas Legislature, local legislators said yesterday.
State Reps, Jessie Branson, John Solbach and Betty Jo Charlton, all Lawrence Democrats, told the executive coordinator for the Graduate Student Council that legislators might not allocate any additional funds for graduate teaching assistants or research assistants in the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 14.
"We have to sell the Legislature on the fact that high-quality graduate assistants mean better quality programs at the University," Branson said.
SOLBACH SAID ANY additional funds would be tough to secure this year because state revenues would be low, particularly if the Legislature failed to re-enact an upper-income booster tax that will expire at the end of the year.
The Graduate Student Council was one of many groups that participated in pre-legislative hearings offered by Branson, Solbach, Bolach and State Law School. The hearings were a testament and Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
The hearings were designed to allow groups without permanent lobbyists in Topeka to air their concerns before the presidents, Charlton said.
Roshan Parris, the executive coordinator for the council, presented to the legislators the proposals the Board of Regents made to Gov. John Carlin for graduate
student financing in fiscal year 1986 which begins July 1.
THESE PROPOSALS INCLUDE a 12.9 percent increase in graduate teaching assistant stipends for research and a three-year program to increase the teaching assistant fee waiver from 60 percent to 100 percent.
The fee waiver, which Parris said was the council's highest priority, releases teaching assistants from paying the annual incidental fee most of tuition.
A push by local legislators to increase the fee waiver from 60 percent to 75 percent failed in the last legislative session. Parris said KU's teaching assistant fee waiver had not been increased since 1975.
The Regents proposed three-year phase-in calls for an increase in the waiver to 75 percent for fiscal 1986, to 90 percent in fiscal 1987 and to
100 percent by fiscal 1988. Such a plan would cost the state $77,055 for the University of Kansas next year.
THE PLAN, IF approved for all Regents schools, would cost $900,000 Solbach said the proposal would cost about $400,000 if just the three largest Regents schools — KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University — offered fee waivers.
However, Charlton said any move to kill the fee waiver at other Regents schools would meet with stiff resistance from legislators representing those schools.
"We are accused of being parochial in support KU now," she said. "That kind of plan might really lose support in the Legislature."
The plan to increase research stipends would cost $455,000. Parris said.
ON THE RECORD
AN AM/FM CASSETTE STEREO and an amplifier, valued together at $700, were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 1:45 p.m. Saturday from a student's car parked in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police said.
an equalizer and two speakers, with a total value of $1.113, were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 a.m. Friday from a student's car parked in the 2900 block of University Drive, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A CAR STEREO, two amplifiers.
A 1978 TRIUMPH SPITFIRE
convertible belonging to a student was overturned between 9 p.m. Friday and 12:34 a.m. Saturday while parked in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The car recently had been repossessed and the former owner is a suspect, police said.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE BLACK STUDENT Union will meet at 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Union.
THE STRATRO-MATIC BASE-BALL Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.