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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE BIG BURN
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
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By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
A KU associate professor of English opposed the nomination of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, as judge for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter mailed yesterday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
The attorney of Myra Hinman, associate professor of English for 25 years, sent a letter by express mail to the Board of the R.S.C., chairman of the committees.
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Phelps said that Hinman filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Kansas and some faculty members in the late 1970s, before Tacha was appointed vice chancellor in 1981. The lawsuit, which is pending in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, exceeds the statute's limit. The suit includes promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
Tacha was nominated for the position Oct. 30 by President Reagan. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
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The letter, written by Hinman's st
Hinman said Tacha wasn't upholding an agreement signed by the University with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982 that emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
Two football players arguments at a hearing t that the College of Liber Sciences interpreted satisfactory progress rule give them any chance of ble to play this season, co show.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the University.
Gary Hunter, assistant atha said no final decision had been Athletic Department officials ploring their options.
However, it appears now that playing either Detroit or Louis
According to document tailback Lynn Willi linebacker Dane Griffin County District Court or the players also say that or interpret the rule, the College wrong criteria to detain status.
Faced with a Michigan jud prohibits the men's basket play playing a game with the Louisville unless it also play, the University of Detroit, KU play neither, an athletic Depa said yesterday.
The National Collegiate Association established the
The court documents players' response to the Urtmotion for dismissal of the on Oct. 8. The University for a change of venue at t asking that the case be in Douglas County.
Student Senate elections will as scheduled.
Officia
The players had filed suit the University Sept. 19 at were declared ineligible for lying with the satisfactory rule.
StudEx
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The Student Senate Exec Committee last night approved same Senate seat distribution rejected last week.
The 20th-day figures represent official enrollment of the Univers
They are used in figuring the Uni
sity's budget.
David Day, Elections Commit
studEx rejected the seat dist
disture the first time because
numbers were based on enrolin
in University schools on Oct.
rather than on the official 20th-
enrollment figures that the Univ
ity used, Tony Arnold, chairman
StudEx. last night.
See related story
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
LECOMPTON — Dorothy Shaner, left, is owner of one of the three businesses in downtown Lecompton. Shaner has owned an antique store since 1975, when she retired from farming. Herman and Allie Banks, above, of rural Lecompton, can remember when farming was done with a horse and plow Herman, 86, a retired farmer, has lived in the Lecompton area since 1902 and Alie, 83, since 1927 Herman and Alie now use their backyard as a flowerbed.
'Now I have to look around to find an old face. It's changing all the time.'
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Paul Sommer Eudora resident
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educate young immigrants. But in 1857 a group of German immigrants, who were looking for a
Fern Long, president of the Eudora Area Historical Society, said the town sailed the military branch of the Ft. Trait trail which extended from Pl. Leavenworth to Santa Fe, N.M. in 1846 the trail was traveled by military men with their wagons and provisions to join the American
cause during the war between the United States and Mexico, she said. Methodist
In 1851 the Wakarusa Methodist Mission was established at the request of Chief Paschal Fish Jr., to educate young Indians, she said.
sold in the town.
"We keep digging up history all the time." Long said.
place to start a new town, secured the 747-acre tract of land from the Shapira Indians. Chief Fish Instituted the settlement, and the site was named after the chief's daughter, Eudora, Long said.
daughter, Eutoria, longtime. This year, members of the historical society were looking for a site which used to contain mineral water springs, but instead discovered an old bar with beautiful woodwork, she said. The barn is thought to have been a dance pavilion where bottled mineral water was sold in the 1800s and 90s, she said.
time," Long said. And just down the hill from the
barn were bolts and concrete founda-
th which probably came from a bowling alley used in the early 1900s, she said.
Mattie Kindred, 86, who has lived in Eutulla since she was 3 years old, observed seeing a bank robbery in 921, which the cashier and robber were shot. Officials put the wounded robber in the back of a wagon to haul him to jail — a sight he will never forget, she said.
But it was pleasant growing up as the daughter of a barber, Kindred said. Her father charged 25 cents for a haircut and 10 cents for a shave.
a haircut and to cease. "I think Eudora is fabulous. We had pleasure without spending a lot of money," she said.
--sits atop a slope with tall trees, off Highway 1029.
The city of Lecompont, with its scattering of historical buildings and small homes with groomed lawns,
Herman Banks, 86, who lived on farms around Lecompton since 1902, recalled a day when his mother had saved money to buy him and his brother new straw hats
his brother
Banks. Born mother, the boys and their baby sister traveled to Lecompion in a wagon, but on the way home they were hit by a hailstorm with no protection other than the spree of the wagon's sprinkle. Banks' mother, the only both the baby and under the seats, but the boys had to sit on top.
hard to sit on top.
"Money in those days came pretty hard," he said.
hard, "de baum"
Pala Bahmani, president of the Lecompton Historical Society, said the region was founded in 1854 and
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