The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, October 9, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 34 USPS 650-640
Law students gain expertise in traffic court
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
In the small Green Hall amphitheater where KU parking and traffic court is held, all eyes were focused on a lectern, a black desk. At the first law year student in the center of the room.
"If you'll take a look at section 7.3 of the parking regulations, you will see that the appellant, knowingly violated an existing notice, the prosecuting attorney said in one breath.
To punctuate her statement, she removed her over-sized glasses and shook them at the three justices, all second-year law students, who presided over the court.
"Could the counsel come to a conclusion, please?" David Stutzman, the chief justice, said.
The traffic court, which meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m., runs on a right schedule. Each case should last from 20 to 40 minutes, and the area Ramsay, associate chief justice, said.
THE FIRST-YEAR LAW students who act at attorneys'法庭 time limitations and the law professionals'
Although the court is run by KU students, it is an official court of law, falling in the specialized Division A of courts in the 7th Judicial District of Kansas.
DANE XRAUSIKONER STELL
Karl Schmidt, Wichita law student, questions a witness during a session of the university of Kansas law students are the attorneys and judges. The court rules on appeals of campus parking violations.
Before swearing in each witness, the court reporter makes sure they are aware of the fact.
The court is real and so are the parking times that each applicant comes to fight. Fines are imposed.
"This is a real court, so you have to swear," she whisks to each witness.
The procedure for appealing parking fines is outlined in a parking information booklet the owner will even to student at registration, Ramsey campus and campus is responsible for reading the brochure.
TO APPEAL a parking ticket, a student must fill out an appeal form at the KU
See COURT page 5
State marshal orders Bailey fire plan
The state fire marshal has ordered the dean of the School of Education to submit a plan for correcting Bailey Hall fire code violations by the middle school in Knoxville, a state fire district on Monday.
The correction plan should outline what will be done to correct five violations on Bailey's fourth day.
closets and that storage materials were blocking doors.
DALE SCANNELL, dean of the School of Education, said Monday that he had received the fire marshal's order and that he would work with facilities operations to correct the violations.
The state fire marshal's office received a complaint last month about alleged fire code violations. The complaint alleged that fire doors were locked, that papers were scattered around
*Part of the problem is that there were a lot of materials stored—books and stuff for the classroom.*
Anderson also received the state fire marshal's letter.
The "books and stuff" belong to a faculty member who is on sick leave, Tom Anderson. He works at the law firm.
ANDERSON SAID that most of the violations were minor ones, and that a simple request to clean up an area usually was enough to correct the situation.
Anderson said Scannell was responsible for cleaning up the boxes and correcting the broken ones.
"He's in control of the building. He takes care of it," Anderson said.
Islamic nations overcoming West,prof says
Bv LINDA ROSEWICZ
Staff Reporter
The end of world domination by the West is near, despite efforts by western powers to seal their strength in Islamic countries, according to a Pakistani professor of economics.
The professor, Khorshid Ahmed, a former minister of economics in Pakistan, spoke to about 75 students and faculty members in the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon. His lecture, "Islam and the West," was sponsored by the Muslim Students Association.
"The western countries have dominated the world because people with small populations have been made to live with western ideologies," he writes. "The eastern countries have been set to their own house in order."
Ahmed presented a dismal view of the West. Islamic countries were the only source of resentment.
DESPITE WESTERN attempts to horde technology, the Islamic countries have become
very powerful and important without much help, he said.
Ahmed was referring to oil production, which he said proved that the oil-producing countries were overcoming the West's attempts to "enforce natural resources culturally, politically and economically."
First, men in the western countries tend to be too self-sufficient, and western world secularism and materialism tend to be the concepts to which they adhere.
The fall of western domination, Ahmed said, is caused by "the three basic problems that are the core issues."
THIRD, MEN in the west wore their nations as their Gods, and instead of letting God rule on them, they were enslaved.
Second, westerners tend to rely on inductive reasoning to solve their problems.
This is wrong, Ahmed said. In Islamic principle, all men look to God for answers.
Because of these basic fallacies, the power of the West will soon diminish. Ahmed said,
policies, Ahmed said the Islamic countries did not "hold anything against anyone."
In spite of his arguments against western
"We have only an effort to seek justice," he said, "and if the western countries are not prepared to accommodate and readjust to these changing ways in a harmonious way, then we are heading for revolutions, convulsions and violence."
"In Iran and Iraq, Muslims are destroying each other," he said. "And why? We are fighting for others and destroying each other. To us, all are fingering shadows of western imperialism."
AHMED BLAMED the conflict between Iran and the hostage situation in Iran on the United States.
Americans' reactions to the hostage situation shows ignorance of their own past activities, he
"Why, they have held whole nations captive," Ahmed said. "They developed Iran as their bastion of power. But now the new developments are showing the limit to that power."
Regents say ASK has representation
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Before students ask for a representative on the Kansas Board of Regents, they should make better use of the Student Advisory Committee to help them. Franklin, Regents chairman, said yesterday.
Why make a ruckus about having a student on the Board when they're not using the oppo-
tions?
The Student Advisory Committee consists of the student body presidents of the Kansas State Reserves.
But Bob Bingaman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, the group proposing the measure, said the presidents had to properly represent students to the Keenets.
He said a full-time member of the Regents would have access to the information that Regents members used to make decisions affecting the universities.
"Decisions are not made on the 14th floor of the National Bank building in Topeka during meetings," Bingman said. "They're made at the bar at the Damra Inn or over the phone."
FRAKLINKI SAID students have access to the information used by the Regents if they ask for it.
Bingaman also said the Student Advisory Committee did not have the power to vote, make decisions or conduct business.
The proposed student representative would have such power, he said.
A student vote is needed to gain political equality with other Regents members, he said.
"It's a way to get input and access to the decision making process of the state," Briggs said.
He said that the group must be and always had been without a constituency and that a student must be a constituent.
But Glees Smith, Board member and former board member of the group, said the board could run the objectivity of the group.
MEMBERS WOULD begin speaking for their constituents, he said, reducing the credibility of the Board with the Legislature by making trade-offs to accomplish goals.
He said that if students received representation, then faculty and classified employees also would want to be represented.
Margaret Glades, Board member, agreed with Smith.
"Other groups do not have representation," she said. "I think the work it is works very well."
Bingaman said, however, that the statutory requirements for Regents members were inherently biased.
BY STATUTE, the 10-member Board must have one member from each of the five Kansas legislative districts. No two may be from the same district. The members of the Regents may be of the same political party.
According to Bingaman, some of the Board members either have been or are involved in various alumni associations, proving they are not totally unbiased.
Smith said the Board listened to the constituencies that were concerned about Regents' bureaus.
"I think we listen to students well and to the other constitutions as well," Smith said.
Franklin said he thought the input the Regents received from students was important.
"I think the input a student could give would be valuable." Franklin said, "but I don't think we have a problem with the system we have."
ASK PROPOSED the addition to the Board at its Legislative Assembly last week, but the proposal was not named a top priority issue by the board, among members of the Student Advisory Committee.
Randy Tosh, Kansas State University student body president, said the Board did not need a student member because the committee had been able to receive any information it needed.
"My feeling is that student body presidents who disagree with the bill should remember that the majority of students want it. They should put them in charge and work as hard as they can for the bill," he said.
Bingaman said the student body presidents who disagreed with the proposal should put their hands on the desk.
Bingaman said that if ASK was unsuccessful he would prefer the Student Advisory Committee to take action.
The Student Senate wrapped up supplementary budget hearings last night by dipping into its contingency account to allocate the remaining total amount available for supplementary funding.
By DIANE SWANSON and MIKE ROBINSON Staff Reporters
Senate funds directory with emergency money
By a two-thirds majority vote, the Senate suspended its rules and allocated the People's Yellow Pages $3,659.20 from the Senate contingency fund.
The additional $185.57 was supplementary funding, and other allocations had been made by the Senate.
The Senate had half the amount in its unallocated account to distribute in supplementary funding. The remainder of the unallocated account is considered a contingency fund to use in "emergency" situations, according to Senate regulations.
THE PEOPLE'S Yellow Pages is a publication put out by the KU Information Center that lists a variety of organizations on the KU campus and in Lawrence.
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee did not recommend funding the People's Yellow Pages because it did not consider the group's priorities, though it thought it could request funding in the spring.
Rose Kuo. a holdover senator, said that
Weather
The Music Therapy Club was allocated $108.35 for supplies and expenses. The group had not been recommended for funding by the finance committee.
A $75.00 film rental recommendation for the Turkish Club was cut by the Senate, lowering the fee.
Today will be sunny and warm with a high around 90, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be variable at 5-15 mph.
Tonight will be cooler with temperatures in the upper 40s, northwesterly winds and partly cloudy skies.
THE SENATE accepted the zero funding recommendations for the Art Education Club, the Kansas Engineer Magazine, the Kansas Telos Group, Graduate Students in Urban Planning, Hilltop Child Development Center, the Hispanic American Law Students Association,
Tomorrow will be sunny and cooler with brisk northwesterly winds and a high in the upper 70s.
The Senate voted to restore a $168 capital equipment request for the Kansas Defender Project, increasing its allocation to $318. The project will include books and magazines needed for legal research.
IN OPPOSITION to his committee's recommendation, Mikl Mordan, former chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, said, "Allocations were pretty much bare bones, but I feel the People's Yellow Pages allocation is necessary."
Three other budget recommendations altered by the Senate were the Kansas Defender Project, a $17 million project to help the state recover from
although she thought the group was worthwhile, spending a portion of the contingency fund could jeopardize groups that might need emergency funding in the future.
See SENATE page 7
The recent warm temperatures gave Caroline Grootes, Amsterdam, Netherlands, graduate student, a chance to catch some sun on the lawn east of Wescoe Hall. Grootes said her country had nothing to rival the even hotter Kansas summer temperatures.
DAVE KRAUH/Kansas State University