October 9,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Man pleads no contest to sexual battery charge
A man charged with the June 10 rape of a KU student pleaded no contest Friday in Douglas County District Court to a reduced charge of sexual battery.
Mayo Feliz, Lawrence, was placed on two years probation with the conditions that he pay court costs, that he leave court and that he have no contact with the victim.
The first trial in the case ended in a hung jury on July 20.
Freshman elections to begin
Freshman class officer elections will be tomorrow and Thursday. Freshmen can vote from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fraser Hall, Wescue Hall and the Kansas Union.
Bill Ronan, assistant Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday that the plea bargain had been made at the victim's request.
Candidates for the office of president are Craig Abraham, Wichita fishman, Look Coalition; Paul Eberhart, Baldwin freshman, independent; Neil Erickson, Prairie Village freshman, Action Coalition; Jim Johnson, Wamego fishman, indeterminate City Advantage Coalition; Steve Wanamaker, Leavwood fishman, Imagine Coalition; and Tedra Wilensky, Overland Park freshman, independent.
Gender gap film to be shown
"Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie" will be shown at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas University's Resource Center will sponsor the film.
The movie will feature the first animated film about Sylvia, a greeting card character, and a discussion of the gender gap by women.
Home violence is forum topic
Violence in the home will be the topic of a forum from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Lawrence Public Library.
The Douglas County Domestic Violence task Force will sponsor the forum as part of the efforts to increase awareness.
Meeting's focus is humanities
A presentation about violence to children, the elderly and between couples will conclude with a question-and-answer session by sponsors.
Changes in values and cultural perceptions will be discussed at a conference sponsored by the KU Center for Humanistic Studies and the Kansas Committee for the Humanities on Saturday and the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holdome.
The conference, called "The Humanities and the Future: 1984-2001," will feature a keynote speech by J. David Bolter, professor of classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Today will be partly cloudy and the high will be around 65 to 70. Winds will be light and variable. Tonight also will be partly cloudy. The low will be around 50. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and the high will be near 70.
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'Manifestoto' gets no ahhs from senators
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Dennis "Boo" Highbgerer said he wanted to fulfill a campaign promise.
Higherberger, student body vice president, and Carla Vogel, student body president, said during their spring campaign that they would restructure Student Senate.
Now Higherbager has a plan that he calls an experiment in popular democracy. It includes a 400-member student assembly and an executive committee that would eliminate his job.
"I said a long time ago that I'd be happy to be the last student body president of KU," he said yesterday. "Being the next-to-last vice president is close enough for me."
THAT PLAN, HIGHERGER said, will be an issue in the Student Senate elections on Nov. 14-15 Vogel and Higherger are both running for office that will advocate the plan or one similar to it.
Highberger plans to run for one of nine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seats, and Vogel plans to run for at least a
Highberger said the group's plan was to elect enough senators to put their ideas into effect.
special-student seat. She said yesterday that she had not decided whether she would run
"I'd do it right now, except the current Senate wouldn't go along." Highberger said yesterday. "I don't know of any case in which the government has voted itself out of existence."
- The formation of the Associated Students of Kansas University, which would include all students. Campuswide referendums would be held once a semester.
- THE PLAN'S BASICS are spelled out in "A manifesto," which Highbender wrote during the past few weeks. It calls for:
- A student assembly elected by all students. Each fraternity and sorority house, each scholarship hall, each residence hall floor and every 50 off-campus students would have one representative. The assembly would vote between four and eight times a year, and debate would be separate from voting.
- A seven-member executive committee that would replace the president and the vice president. The committee would be elected by students.
- A seven-member finance committee that would be elected from the student assembly.
The plan is still in its rough form, Higherberger said, and members of Toto Too held a press conference.
Three chairmen of Senate committees said yesterday that although Senate had its problems, Highberger's plan wouldn't solve them.
"The problem lies in the ignorance on the part of senators and office staff. And only a few individuals, numbering four or five, know what the rules say," said Jeff Polack, chairman of the Rights Committee and a Nunemaker senator.
"RATHER THAN AN experiment in democracy, I think it would be a failure in student government," he said.
Highberger said the plan would increase participation in student government because students would know the people who represented them.
Russ Ptacek, co-chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee and a Nunemaker senator, agreed that representation by living groups might be an improvement.
"Representation in Student Senate is just not working." he said. "As a Nunemaker senator, I'm supposed to represent 400 students." However, he said that he and the 17 other Nunemaker senators actually represented about 7,000 students.
Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
But Ptacek said restructuring the Senate was not the answer to its problems.
William Easley, chairman of the University Affairs Committee and a Nunemaker senator, said representation by living groups would divide students.
"It goes back to frat rats, schol dogs and GIDs," he said.
IFC places fraternity on social probation
Easley also criticized the proposed elimination of the student body president and vice president.
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
Disciplinary action has been taken against a KU fraternity after a member of neighboring sorority contended that several men exposed themselves after a party last month, the president of the Interfraternity Council said yesterday.
The IFC's Judicial Council on Thursday placed the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity on social probation for the semester and on disciplinary probation for the rest of the school year, said Bill Wiedeman, IFC president.
Glenm Jewell, AKL president, said last night that he planned to appeal the Judicial Custody Court's ruling.
THE ALPHA GAMMA DELTA sorority filed a complaint with the IFC on Sept. 26, alleging that several members and pledges of the AKL fraternity had arrived at the house in their underwear, removed the underwear while outside and then entered the house, exposing themselves to an AGD member.
Jewell said, "All I want to say is that no AKL members were naked inside the house.
"I think we should go the appeal route before I talk about our side of the story. We want to get this thing resolved through the proper channels."
The incident is said to have occurred after a function at the AKL house Sept. 12.
Jewell said a special meeting of the IFC's executive board probably would be called this week to hear the fraternity's appeal. The IFC officers and IFC adviser Scott Hartman
HARTMAN SAID NO other fraternities has been placed on probation in the past year.
At the Judicial Council meeting Thursday,
Weddeman said, the council heart confessing
that he would not attend.
AGD president Jennifer Gibbons said yesterday that an AKL member had followed an AGD member, whose name she would not be given, into a side door of the sorority about 1 a.m.
Once inside, the AKL member let six or seven more fraternity members in the door, Gibbons said. The door is locked from the outside but can be opened from the inside.
The fraternity members arrived at the AGD house in their underwear, she said, but removed their underwear before entering the house.
"THEY SURROUNDED HER so she couldn't leave." Gibbons said. "They were verbally abusive, but they didn't make any mans. They didn't restrain her or touch her."
Jewell said, "That's not true. No one was naked inside the house."
The social probationary period, if upheld, restricts the fraternity from having functions with any sorority until next semester. Wiedeman said. Rush activities and other activities may be affected, but under disciplinary probation, the FCW would monitor AKL activities.
The council also sent a letter notifying the fraternity's national office of the complaint
Formal letters of notification were sent to both houses on Friday, Wiedeman said. But because mail was not delivered yesterday, Columbus Day, the houses hadn't received the letters, he said.
WIEDEMAN SAID MOST OF the AKL men involved in the incident were pledges.
The two houses, which are next door to each other on Stewart Avenue, have played "your basic fraternity-sorority pranks" on each other for years. Wiedeman said.
Gibbons said that water rights, panty rays and stolen composite pictures weren't uncommon, but that the incident after the attack was quite enough to file a complaint with the IFC.
Bill Medlen, a facilities operations worker, stretches to trim a tree in front of Watson Library.
12 professors selected as semifinalists for HOPE award
By CHRISSY CLEARY Staff Reporter
Twelve professors from a variety of schools were selected yesterday as the semifinalists for the 25th annual HOPE conference, which is held at the Board of Class Officers said yesterday.
"Judging by last year's figures, there were quite a few more students voting this year than in 2015," she added.
most Outstanding Progressive Educator, was originated by the class of 1959 and first given in 1960.
Fifty six professors were nominated by 304 seniors last week. Lowe said, seminalists were selected by the number of votes each professor received.
THE HOPE AWARD, the Honor for the
Seniors will vote for the winner of the award on Oct. 24 and 25. The winner will be announced Oct. 27 during a ceremony before the KU-Oklahoma homecoming game.
The HOPE winner receives a plaque and a cash award between $200 and $500. Lowe
The 12 semifinalists are Curtis Besinger, professor of architecture and urban design; Richard L. Branham, professor of design; Dorothy Elsberry, associate professor of occupational therapy; Don W. Green, professor of chemistry and petroleum engineering; Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism; Dwight C. Kiel, acting associate professor of political science; Linda McClain, instructor in occupational therapy; Frank S. Pinet, professor of business; Donald Robertson, professor of microbiology; Philip Share, associate professor of biology; Gerhard Zuther, associate professor of occupational therapy; Gerhard Zuther, professor of English
AFTER A CHANGE in policy last week, a BOCO committee consisting of seniors and a faculty adviser, Fred McEhlenne, director of the University of Georgia's seminalists on Oct. 16 and 17, Lowe said.
BOCO decided that interviewing the semifinalists would make the award less like a winner.
Last year seniors voted for six finalists from a field of 12 semifinalists after they nominated their favorite teachers.
Lowe said he would choose other committee members from the BOCO Senior Committee, which plans activities such as the senior breakfast and senior homecoming events.
Love, who will be on the committee, will appoint other committee members later this week. He said he hoped representatives from each committee would be on the committee to provide diversity.
The committee is expected to announce six finalists. Oct 18.
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