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demic advising of student athletes, he said.
"In the past, some athletes have been given academic advice by people other than faculty advisers or academic counselors in the Athletic Department — advice that turned out to be wrong." Yetman said.
He said the committee reviewed policies that had been discussed and agreed upon last year, but the policies have not been fully carried out.
The committee discussed ways to guard against such situations hap-
William Hanna, Newton senior and student member of the KUAC academic committee, said he thought the proposals would be acted on soon. "Generally, a lot of the things we talked about were good ideas," he said. "I think the important thing is that the ideas don't remain ideas.
the local Ivy League focus.
"I think it's important for students
in general — and athletes in particular — to get good advising. I think it's also important that we don't have athletes who are majoring in eligibility."
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology, who advises some student athletes, said other situations besides poor advising could lead to ineligibility.
Shankel said the freedom of KU students to add or drop classes without the approval of advisers was one issue he thought the Athletic Department should deal with.
"The University of Kansas traditionally has given students more responsibility for their own academic programs than other institutions," he said. "But I think it might be advisable for the Athletic Department to establish a monitoring system."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A state appeals court yesterday upheld a judge's decision to dismiss a suit in which a man sought $185,000 in damages because a dog mauled his 5-year-old daughter.
Court upholds suit dismissal
United Press International
Michael L. Swain in July 1982 filed suit in Pettis County Circuit Court on behalf of his daughter, Stacey Lynn Swain, and himself, charging that Kathy L. Simon was negligent while caring for the child and that the dog's owners should have known the animal had vicious propensities.
During a jury trial that began June 5, 1984, Judge Donald Barnes dismissed the case because of insufficient evidence, and on June 14, 1984, the plaintiffs filed a motion for a new trial. The judge, however, on Aug. 17, 1984, disqualified himself. The Supreme Court then appointed Judge William Bellamy, who subsequently denied the plaintiffs' motion for a new trial.
approached them. The two stopped to pet the dog. As Simon and Stacey turned to go into the house, Stacey ran ahead. At that point, the dog, Champ, knocked down Stacey from the back and began mauling her
According to court documents, Simon was babysitting Stacey on May 1, 1982, and took the child out to her family's farm in rural Johnson County. As the two pulled up to the farm and got out of the car, the dog, a golden retriever-colle owned by Simon's brother,
Stacey, who was 5 at the time of the incident, suffered lacerations to the scalp and left ear, puncture wounds in the right cheek and left ear, and abrasions, court documents indicate.
The plaintiffs had argued that it was "an abuse of discretion" for Bellamy to deny the motion for a new trial, because he did not have an opportunity to hear the evidence, did not have the transcript available to him and did not receive findings of fact.
However, the appeals court noted that while the judge had the power to grant a new trial, he also had the ability to deny the motion.
The plaintiffs also claimed the trial court erred in dismissing the case.
However, the appeals court said the plaintiffs failed to prove two issues needed to present a submissible case. It said they did not establish that the dog had vicious or dangerous propenests and they did not show that the owner of the dog had knowledge of the dog's vicious propenests.
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nomic death blow to family farms" in America.
Reagan addressed the sticky trade issue the same day the Senate Finance Committee, amid growing concern over the record trade deficit, approved the first of many trade bills designed to force American trading partners to open their markets.
Reagan also defended his policies toward South Africa's white-rules government. He said he "must be pretty near the middle" if some critics say he should do more while others say he has done too much to end apartheid, South Africa's government-sponsored system of racial segregation.
On his administration's efforts to combat the deadly disease AIDS, Reagan said, "It's been one of the top priorities for the past four years."
Next year, he said, $126 million will finance research on AIDS.
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