Kuby considers filing rights suit
By DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
Ron Kuby, a 1979 KU graduate, said in a press conference yesterday that there was "a very strong possibility" he would file a civil rights suit against KU officials.
Kubi contended that his constitutional right to freedom of speech was denied at the Commencement May 21 when he was pleaded guilty for the murder of KU investments in South Africa. He was arrested for interfering with the duties of a police officer and to have appeared in court on behalf of his client.
However, charges were dropped by Coll Knutson, Lawrence city prosecutor, Kuby said.
In a statement released yesterday Knutson said, "The basis for the city's motion was a policy decision to not prosecute this matter any further.
"The legal basis for the complaint was sound and, in our opinion, the Kansas University Police Department acted most appropriately in this matter."
KUBRY SAID THAT although he was
UKRIBY said he agreed with the statement and he would strongly consider a suit against all those directly or indirectly involved in his
After he was arrested May 21, Kuby petitioned the University Judiciary Commission to dismiss the ministrative officials who had violated the Repeals' Code of Student Rights, Respon-
The officials charged by Kuby in May included Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Dylan the executive vice chair of Wade Ridge, padre of Cindy Cobbs, sergeant of the KU police department; Mike Hill, former KU police chief; and Mike Thomas, director of University police and
Kuby would not say which officials he would name in the suit until the matter was investigated.
J. HAMMOND MENISH, chairman of the hearing division of the University Judiciary Committee ruled June 5 that Khalu violated a law by displaying a banner in an enclosed area.
The Regents' policy says, "Political advertisements shall not be permitted in enclosed areas of the campus devoted to political events." Enclosed areas during nonpolitical events.
Kubu contended that the rule applied mainly to classrooms, but McNish said commencement was an enclosed area and attendance on the rights of others at the ceremony.
Kuby did not appeal McNish's ruling.
"My personal feeling is that the policy is not really the problem here." Kubv said.
"It's the peculiar interpretation the present administration has given to that policy."
THE UNIVERSITY Senate executive committee recommended Aug. 31 that the policy be changed, but Kuby said the issue no longer concerned only the University.
"We've moved beyond the Board of Regents and the University," Kuby said. "This is a freedom of speech issue that the courts must decide."
If the suit is filed, Kuby said he would seek declaratory statement which, according to the law, would be an expression of his expresses the opinion of the Court on a question law without ordering anything to happen.
Kuby said he would not ask for a great amount in personal damages, but said he would seek "injunctive relief," which could prevent a party from carrying out an action.
"WE WANT AN injunctive relief to prevent the University from doing the same thing to someone else," he said.
Dykes said yesterday he had been advise by Mike Davis, University general counsel, not to comment on suits involving the University.
Tom Gleason, Kuby's attorney, said he would have to investigate the matter before naming any individuals in the suit.
"It is a matter of following essentially the chain of command to see at what level the command was idous." Gleason said.
Dykes said he did not know who gave the final order to have Kuby arrested.
"I'm not sure, but I think it was the order of the ranking police officer," Dykes said.
KU police officials would not comment about the incident.
"THE NATURE OF the action we on
contemplating is against individuals acting
under the color of state law." Gleason said.
Individuals are not required to act individuals
rather than a government agency.
"The further question is whether or not the ordinance of the city of Lawrence permits criminal enforcement of an interpretation by University personnel."
Gleason said the biggest issue of the suit was freedom of speech.
Dykes said yesterday that a statute gave the University Police the authority to arrest Kuby.
The statute says, "the chief executive officer of any state educational institution may employ campus police officers to aid and protect students and local law enforcement agencies.
"IN ADDITION TO enforcement of state, “IN county and city laws, resolutions and order of government,” the state force rules and regulations of the board of regents and rules and policies of the state government."
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AAUP to investigate complaint procedures
RINVASAN SAID complaints from a professor and two graduate students involved in a controversy over human exposition of the Tupaia found were factors in the AU's decision.
Staff Reporter
By JEFF SJERVEN
Complaints about KU grievance procedures have prompted the American Association of University Professors to take action. A spokesman, Susan Kanan, president of the AUA, said yesterday.
Students and faculty members with
administrative roles in the College and
University policies, Srinivasan said,
often find themselves facing a morass of
administrative red tape and confusing
The two main problems with the procedures, Srinivasan said, are the time it takes to file complaints and the lack of confidence in the results.
"Often people don't seem to know where to go with a complaint," he said, "and even if they get to the right place, they find that the process doesn't always work."
The graduate students, Elizabeth Murray and Nancy Sempaki, filed complaints with the Advisory Committee on Human Exposure. Mr. Sempaki met with Michael Crawford, professor at anthropology.
Srinivasan said both the graduate students and Crawford had complained about the University's procedures in handling their problem.
The students questioned Crawford's conduct during a research trip to Belize, a small Central American country.
THEREFORE, SRINIVASAN said, the AUP next week will have its committee on equal opportunity consider the prerequisite demands and make recommendations for change.
Srinivasan said that although the committee probably would not have time to study each procedure in detail, it should be noted that different areas that need attention.
"There will be no limitation on what we will study," she said, "but we may find that we don't have the time to examine every grievance procedure."
Rosemary Donough, chairman of the committee, said the inquiry would not be limited to any particular type of grievance
The Equal Opportunity Committee will faculty executive committee's committee faculty rights, privileges and responsibilities faculty executive committee's committee procedures, Srissamuan said.
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Pro Salt
United States Sen. John C. Culver. D-Iowa, said the SALT II Treaty must be analyzed
against the backdrop of what the world would be like without it. Culver lectured about the advantages of the treaty last night in the Forum Room of the Union.
Culver says SALT II essential to security
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Renorter
The Salt II treaty* must be analyzed against the backdrop of what the world would be without it. Sen. John C. Nelson, a Republican from the lecture in the Kansas Union last night.
Because the United States and the Soviet Union are involved in a "no-win arms race," Culver said, without SALT II the United States would have to spend
Culver was invited to speak in support of the arm court treaty by former Kansas with his wife, Amanda Culver, with the KU course Pearson is teaching this semester. "The United States in World War II," he said.
“billions more” to keep pace with the Soviets and would feel “less secure”.
The SALT II treaty is ratified, the United States will spend $50 billion on defense in the next five years and without SALT II the amount would be 30-40 percent
"THE STARTING point of wisdom in dealing with arms limitation is that we would like to be more powerful than the enemy, but it is also necessary to be more powerful than us." Culver said.
But although both have the capacity to destroy each other, Culver said, neither will ever be forced politically or militarily to accept military inferiority.
"Both nations will be more secure if we put a limit on arms now, start capping it off, and eventually start reducing arms supplies," he said.
However, Culver said SALT II would not abolish nuclear weapons, nuclear war or the tensions arising from the existence of nuclear arms.
HE SAID THAT the agreement might reduce nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war, and might make tensions between the nations of a "less fundamental nature or easier to handle weapon" in which weapons would be involved.
Culver said, "I think the living will envy the dead."
"If nuclear weapons are ever used."
both the treaty limits arms build
although both nations, it leaves
deviation on their own program,
within the guidelines of agreement. It
"disciplines the threat" of war, Calver
The treaty places prohibitions on concealment of arms, insuring that both nations comply with the agreement, and that the guarantor of absolute compliance, he said.
"We DON'T RELY on trust to enforce it, "Culver said. "We rely on the in-
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Strategies change in battle for prairie park
Rv TONI WOOD
Staff Renorter
The strategy is changing in the battle to establish a Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas, but fighters on both sides of the issue are sticking to their guns.
Elaine Shea, executive director of Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc., said yesterday several environmental groups had joined in calling for new legislation for the proposed park.
The bill, to be introduced in Congress by Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., would give the National Park Service first rights in buying any tallasque prairie on the market.
It would mean a gradual takeover of the land by the government rather than immediate acquisition, as proposed by Winn in 1972.
Shea said the plans for boundaries and the amount of acreage in the park had not been finalized, but it would be in parts of Chase,
Lyon, Butler, Greenwood, Wabaunsee, Cowley and Chacaquah Counties in Kansas and Osage County in Oklahoma.
WAYNE ROGLER, a rancher in Chase County, said, "The only difference in the new bill is that the government would give it to you. And they'd say, 'Now we'll take what is between.'"
"I'm not in favor of the park because it can't understand the reasoning behind it. I feel the land is better preserved under water, but it could be more worse if the government took over."
"Our folks fought and died to get this land and to own it. It's my only way of making a living."
The association's president, Jim Hess of Alta Vista, has several thousand acres of land at stake.
Rogler is a member of the Grass Roots Association, a state-wide group formed to omitheark.
Hess' wife, Judy, said, "Most ranchers feel they're protecting the prairie. And most of them believe in free enterprise."
SHEA SAID THE ranchers opposed to the Park should learn more about the new legislation.
She said the bill would be written, approved by each of the 18 environmental groups and sent to Winn. He is expected to introduce the bill in October.
None of the land proposed for the park is in Winn's 3rd district. Most of it is in Rep. Robert Whitaker's 5th District and in Rep. Jim Jeffries' 2nd District.
Winn's original park proposal was opposed by Joe Skubitz, former representative, who successfully blocked the plan from a position on the House Interior Committee.
REP. WHITTAKER, R-Kan. who succeeded Skubitz, also opposes the park
proposal and is on the Interior Committee,
but has not seen the new park legislation.
Steve Lottner, "Whittaker's press
of the 2015 school year," in the SB
District, had responded to a
asking: "Would you like the federal gov-
ernment to create in Tallaghan National
Schools?"
About 63 percent opposed the park and 25 percent favored it. Of those wives who would be directly affected, 90 percent favored the park and 6 percent favored it. In Chu County, 88 percent favored it.
The environmental groups will be discussing the issue this weekend at the Sixth Annual Tallgrass Prairie Conference at Junction City.
The Grassroots Association will respond Sunday morning to the park legislation designed by the environmentalists.
Increased med scholarships reflect need
Bv ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Reporter
"We have a 9 percent increase in the number of students in the program this year compared to the number enrolled last year and we feel that is a large improvement," she said. "Our student financial aid at the Med Center, said last week."
KANSAS CITY, Kan.--The number of University of Kansas Medical School students enrolled in Kansas Medical Scholarship Program is being increased, convincing some KU Medical Center officials that more students are in need of the new medical school.
Of an estimated total enrollment of 655,476 students received the scholarships which pay for the student's tuition, Robins said. In return, that student. received a residency in Kansas after completing a residency program.
The student must practice a year in the state for every year that he accepts the scholarship.
The program, which was approved by the Kansas Legislature in 1978, came after the Board of Regents
decision to raise medical school tuition approximately 250 percent.
A CONTROVERSY WAS Raised by students who thought the scholarship program, together with the increase in tuition, forced them to practice medicine in Kansas.
Last year, which was the first year for the program, 406 students received scholarships out of an enrollment of 838. Hohns said figures indicated that the program had a significant advantage of the Type I program over the Type II.
Type I scholarships, which include full tuition and an additional $60 monthly stipend for living expenses, have been received by 349 students. About 125 of them are enrolled in the Type II program, which pays tuition only, she said.
Under the Type I program, the student promises to practice in a medically underserved area of Kansas following graduation. Under the Type II program the student agrees to practice anywhere in Kansas.
ROBINS SAID that the approximate $2.9 million appropriated by the Kansas legislature for the
scholarship program had been sufficient as far as she could tell.
"I understand that if we do run out of money, we will receive additional funds from the state," she said.
An unexpectedly high enrollment in the program last year resulted in the Kansas Legislature appropriating an additional $1.125 million to fund the scholarships.
Thorki Jensen, associate dean of the school of medicine, also said he thought the program was
It's obvious that people know about it now and most students have accepted it and are taking admission.
"A lot of students were unhappy with the idea at first, but now that it has been implemented, I think it will be OK."
MARK PROCHASKA, Ellsworth, first year student in the school of medicine, and a member of the scholarship program, said he was in favor of the program.
"I'm for it because otherwise I would have to go
through a big hassle to finance my medical education. As far as paying back goes, it's pretty restricted because I will have to serve in rural Kansas," he said.
Prochaska, who is enrolled in the Type I program, said he hadn't decided if he was going to serve in Kansas or repay the scholarship at 10 percent interest.
I've got a lot of time to think about whether I want to get a loan or if I want practice in Kansas, 'he said.
Hamel, a Type I scholarship recipient, said he didn't object to having to practice in Kansas because the underserved areas included almost all of the state.
Greg Hamel, Concordia, second year student, said he agreed that the program had saved him worrying.
"I GLAD DTs available because I wouldn't have any other way to pay the tuition on their borrow
"Some people say the program commits them to
practicing in Kansas but I'm used to a small town and wouldn't object to serving in one, he said.
Scott Robinson, Wichita, first year student, said he favored the program because he planned to practice it.
"I'm getting free tuition, which is great, but the chances of practicing in Kansas were already pretty high," she said.
"I COULD HAVE gotten a loan at 6 or 7 percent interest to pay for tuition but I didn't." This way, if some offer comes to me from out of state and I decide to go there with the other person or 3 or 4 percent, so really it isn't much of a risk."
Robinson said that not knowing if the program will be renewed from year to year bothered him...
"theyJackup up the tuition, but with the program that doesn't matter. But if they take away the program, they aren't going to lower the tuition. It's kind of a bad situation," he said.
Steve Handele, Kansas City, Kan., first year student, also said he would hate to see the program
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