University Daily Kansan, November 5, 1980
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Vehicle rental policies to be reassessed
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Policies concerning University-owned vehicles will be reassessed because of controversy about the recent use of a KU van by a student group, Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said yesterday.
The reassessment was prompted by an incident Friday in which members of KUY- rented the van and participated in a commemoration Kansas State University in Manhattan.
According to Keenan Gentry, a KU-Y member, group members went to K-State to meet with similar student groups to exchange ideas.
The group members were protesting a K-State visitor, Ian Smith, former Rhodesian prime minister. Smith spoke there Friday night.
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Anderson said that to his knowledge, this was the first time a group had rented a University vehicle and had ended up protesting. He also said he was not sure what action, if any, the administration would take.
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Scott G. McNall, chairman of the sociology department, said the policies for graduates and un-graduates should be more parallel.
The College Assembly voted last night to lengthen the period in which a student can drop a class, without it appearing on his transcript, from three weeks to five weeks. From the sixth to 10th week, under the new policy, undergraduates can withdraw with an automatic W and graduate students can withdraw with a W or an F.
Once someone checks out a vehicle, the reservations are not checked by the motor pool staff, unless they are suspicious about the given information.
From the 11th week on, students will be able to withdraw only by petitioning. The petitioning period now begins after the eighth week.
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Even though the length of the drop periods was the major issue under consideration, the fact that graduate students are assigned a W or an F during the second period and unassigned one during the third period, helped an automatic W drew much discussion from members of the Assembly.
"It is a possibility that the group will be deregistered, but I don't want to be vulnerable," Ambler said. "We don't know what wrong, if any, was committed."
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Usually a professor or staff member checks out the vehicles, although student leaders have done so in the past. Danielson said.
Graduate students should be subject to stricter grading rules, according to proponents of the different grading periods.
He first proposed that undergraduates be assigned either a W or an F during the second period and then proposed that graduate students simply be assigned an automatic W.
Anderson said that when the staff did check out the renter, professors often took the time to explain their plans.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said yesterday that an employee of the University must accept
McNall complained about undergraduate students who "ball out in the fifth week with an F." He said they should not simply get off with a W.
"One of the requirements is that an employee of the University must be in the van or in the caravan if there is one vehicle in the group," he said.
Kenneth Armitage, professor of biology and chairman of undergraduate studies, said that a W was not without consequence on a student's record. He said some professional schools would not accept a student if he had too many withdrawals.
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That is when the group members became confused, she said. They did not understand that a state employee could be a state employee what a state car could be used for.
JOHNSTON ALSO said that she did not think the group members were deceitful when they signed the vehicle contract. The state employee would accompany them.
The vehicle was checked out Thursday afternoon, for what Rosie
Danielson, motor pool manager, said was for University business. She said the person calling to rent the van said the group wanted it to go to K-State and meet with similar groups to exchange ideas.
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Gentry said the group did not falsify the records, nor was the intent of their visit to demonstrate at the Smith speech.
He said the group had heard about the speech, but had not made plans to attend it until they got to K-State and attended the groups they met invited them to go.
He said they met with members of the African Student Association and the Iranian Student Association before and after the speech.
"The speech just happened to coincide with our visit," Gentry said.
THE RULES OF the motor-pool policy state that vehicles can be rented out to departments, University organizations and authorized people who are engaged in official business or activities.
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