The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, September 12, 1980 Vol.91, No.15 USPS 650-640
ROBERT POOLE/Kansan staff
KU electrician Bob Perkins, Oskaloosa, spends a tremulous morning removing chairs from a storage area at Hoch Auditorium. The chairs were moved to make extra room for storing unsused electrical fixtures.
Petitioners want bus service restored
By DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
Five residents of Wood Creek Apartments yesterday presented a petition signed by 62 Wood Creek residents to the Student Senate transportation board urging the board to resume bus service to the north Lawrence apartment complex.
Steve McMurry, board chairman, said that although he was sympathetic to the Wood Creek residents, there was little the board would be able to do this semester.
The board voted last March to eliminate Wood Creek Apartments, 255 N. Michigan St., from the Wood Creek route, incorporating the remainder of the route into the Frontier Ridge route. It is now called the Trailride route. The board then added a new East Lawrence route to Ninth and Massachusetts streets and Pine Tree Townhouses, 149 Pinecone Drive.
"We wouldn't have signed a lease out there if we had known there wouldn't be any bus service." Alan Wells, Hutchinson junior and Wood Creek resident, said.
Wells said that he was told by the manager of Wood Creek and someone in the Student Senate office that Wood Creek would have bus service this semester.
"It's too far to ride a bike, especially when it gets cold, and if I walk I would have to leave an
Another Wood Creek resident, Tim Jacobs, Pfeifer friend, said that the distance from his
Wood Creek parking place to O-zone parking lot on campus was three miles.
In response to board members who said that Wood Creek residents did not have to live that far from campus, the residents said they chose to live in the community because the least expensive places in Lawrence to live.
Reiterating the board's reasons for its decision to cut service to Wood Creek last spring, McMurry said population and ridership surveys indicated that fewer students would be riding the bus on the Wood Creek route on an East Lawrence route.
He added that the Wood Creek manager, Alta Weems, had said the number of students residing in the neighborhood was 136.
McMurray said that in the two weeks the buses had been running this semester, there had been 30 percent more people riding the East Lawrence route during the same period last year.
Wischa Braun, Wood Creek resident and Wichita junior, argued that there were more little kids at the school.
She said that in circulating the petition, she visited 50 of the complex's 225 apartments and got signatures of 62 people who said they would ride the bus at least three days a week.
Several options have been mentioned, including the possibility of running a bus to Wood Creek once in the morning and once in the afternoon, taking some time away from another route to run to Wood Creek, and using one of the service's extra buses.
"KU on Wheels" uses 14 buses a day and has two extra buses in case of breakdowns.
McMurray said the board had to look at a few students attending KU as possible. To as many students attending KU as possible.
"I don't care if we can serve 2,000 or 2,000 students at Wood Creek, if we can serve 15,000 at 24th and Ridge Court, that's where we need to run the bus," he said.
McMurry said the board would look into alternatives.
In other board business, McMurray told me in April up 1,328 over the last 177 days; from 40 RPG titles to 42.
He said "KU on Wheels" finished the 1980 fiscal year with about $10,000 remaining in its budget. The surplus was applied to the summer bus service.
McMurry said serious consideration would have to be given to discontinuing bus service next summer because of increasing costs. He said there were only 9,000 riders during the eight-week period. Revenues totalled about $3,000, he said.
He also reported that service requests had been received from Quail Creek Apartments, 29rd and Kasad streets, Hillcrest Shopping Center, and the rest be considered in future route changes, he said.
Mc Murray also said there had been fewer passes reported missing this year than last.
A 48-hour notice is required before a replacement pass can be issued. Beginning this week, a replacement pass can be bought for $20. From Oct. 6 to Oct. 31, replacement passes will cost $15, and from Nov. 3 to the end of the semester the cost will fall to $10.
Turkish army overthrows government
ANKARA, Turkey (UPI)—The Turkish army, apparently seeking to end widespread political violence, seized power early today, overseeing the government's handling of Syrian Denyment Dagen, Turkish radio announced.
The announcement said the constitution had been suspended, the Turkish Parliament had
In Washington, the State Department said the military chief of staff, Gen. Ken Evern, led the
been abolished and members of Parliament had lost their immunity from prosecution.
Diplomatic sources said the chief of the military general staff took control of the government. The diplomatic sources first confirmed that the government later confirmed the government's overthrow.
The coup followed reports of political violence
several Turkish cities during the last several de-
cades.
Turkish authorities said left-wing activists hung about 20 body-trapped banners across the capital city of Ankara to mark the 60th anniversary of East Berlin-based Turkish Communist Party.
The sources confirmed that parliamentary immunity apparently was canceled.
Gunmen shot and killed a man kidnapped in the Mediterranean city of Tarsus, where two houses were bombed and four workshops were burned down by suspected terrorists.
Almost 1,800 people have been killed so far this year in political violence in Turkey, authorities said.
A bomb expert was slightly injured trying to remove one of the devices, police said.
Weather
2 draft protesters convicted; 1 freed
Another member of the group charged in the same incident was acquitted.
Two KU students, members of the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization, were convicted yesterday of criminal trespass charges brought against them. They are also in anti-draft leaflets at Lawrence High School April 18.
Found guilty by Lawrence Municipal Court Judge George Catt were Doug Bradley, Cedar Rapids, Ia., junior; and Juliet Matumau, Lawrence, Ia., junior; and Idid McCullough, Lawrence law, was acquitted.
Staff Reporter
Catt granted a request by Jack Klinknett, defense attorney from Lawrence, that the three have separate trials. Before the trials began, however, Catt sequestered the witnesses and the prosecution out of the courtroom. He told them to him in the hall and not discuss the case among themselves.
Bradley was tried first. His trial began after Catt admonished the crowd of 30 spectators, who nearly filled the courtroom to be quiet or they would have in leave.
"I will not preside over a circus." he said.
Bradley's trial began with Colt Knott, city prosecutor, calling Bred Tate, Lawrence High School principal; Max Rife, division principal; and Jeffrey Hearn, division officer, to give their versions of the incident.
Tate, who has been principal of the high school for seven years, said he was informed that several anti-draft members were distributing literature on school property and in the building.
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He said he told Bradley and McCullough, who are outside the building's northwest side, to stay on the board.
Tate said he then went to the parking lot in the rear of the school to help remove other anti-draft barriers.
He said he saw Bradley again in the lot with the other members.
Under Klinkett's cross examination, Tate said the group did not have his permission to be
Max Rife, who has been division principal at the high school for 10 years, took the stand next and identified Bradley as one of the anti-draft members he had seen in the parking lot.
Tate said about five minutes had elapsed from when he told Bradley to leave the grounds and the time he saw him with the other anti-draft members in the parking lot.
Jump, one of three officers at the scene, also identified Bradley as one of the group, who were told by police not to leave the parking lot until their names had been taken.
When Bradley testified in his own defense, he admitted being in the parking lot. He denied, however, that Tate told McCullough and him that he was the principal.
He said he thought Tate was a teacher or an assistant principal and did not have the authority to supervise.
on school property nor did they leave when asked to do so.
"I don't recall anyone identifying himself," he said.
Bradley said he was trying to organize the members of the group to leave when the police were called.
Klinknett then called Brian Shulte, a Lawrence sophomore and anti-draft member, who said he had attended the meeting between Kuby and Tate. Schulte said that although he had arrived early, he was in a hurry to impression that the group had received permission from Tate to distribute their literature.
Tate was then recalled to the stand by Knutson. Tate denied telling Kuby and Schultz that they could pass out literature on school property. He said they discussed the use of public property such as the street, surrounding the school and any possible problems that might occur.
The judge refused to consider Klinknet's closing argument that the group had permission to file a lawsuit.
today sales. The high Saturday and
Sunday should be near 80.
to the KU Weather Service.
The high today should be near 87. Tonight should be partly to mostly cloudy with a chance of sunning from 10 to 15 mph and a low near 59. There is 20 percent chance of widely scattered thunderstorms today and tonight.
A mild weekend is expected, with fair to partly cloudy skies. The high Saturday and
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Today should be mostly cloudy with southerly winds at 10 to 20 mph, according
Branson spoke last night at the first meeting of KU's Commission on the Status of Women. She said her decision to run for state representative was based in part on her observation that Kansas had more women than combined chambers of the Kansas Legislature, there are nine men for every woman, she said.
During the 25 years she has lived in Lawrence, Branson has been an advocate of programs designed to help handicapped and senior citizens.
Branson, 800 Broadview Drive, is running in the newly structured 44th District, which was created by the Legislature's reapportionment last year. The district had included the KU campus and most of its surrounding student facilities. The former Rep. Mike Glover, a Lawrence Democrat.
Advocate for disabled campaigns for state rep
IN THE REAPPOINTMENT, the 44th District was moved to the west and a new district, the 46th, was created in East Lawrence. The KU campus and the Oread neighborhood now belong to the 46th District, and the 44th has the Republican districts in west-central Lawrence.
Even as a Democrat running in a predominately Republican district, Branson said she was not discouraged. Many of the district's candidates have state independently of party affiliation, she said.
By KATHY BRUSSELL
Jessie Branson, 59, who takes on Republican Wint Winter Jr. this fall for state representative from the 44th District, describes herself as a "professional volunteer."
She serves on the board of directors for Kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes and is a former member of the Governor's Committee on Nursing Homes.
Staff Reporter
When the Kansas Legislature refused to act on
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JESSIE BRANSON
of Branson's goals over the past few years has helped improve the quality of care in nursing home.
College cheating, plagiarism rampant, officials say
By CHICK HOWLAND
Staff Writer
As professors prepare to give the first examinations of the semester, students will be taking different steps to assure good grades. At this point, they should come before the exam. Some will wait until the last night.
According to Vern Stadtman, vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching, cheating is a big problem on college campuses.
"The thing that is disturbing is that we think colleges and universities are places where moral standards are high," he said. "Any cheating is shocking."
Some will cheat.
The Foundation, based in Washington, C.C., did a study last year of cheating on college examinations.
James Gowen, head of KU's freshman and sophomore English, said cheating had done the bulk of it in recent years.
It was a bigger problem in the early 1970s when students were more cynical, he said. But Chuck Baer, who taught at Wheeling University,
Gowen said some freshman English students cheated without really knowing what they were doing.
"Some will read the book and Cliff Notes and then we leave some of those notes into the tapestry of their own story," he said. "They are uncertain as to extent to which the material is borrowed."
Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said stronger punishment was needed for those convicted.
Section six of the University Senate rules and regulations says that any instructor may, with the written permission of the university, teach
any student work that is a product of academic misconduct, such as cheating or plagiarism.
"Usually their reaction is, 'Well, why don't you
at the student?' my reaction is, 'Well, he's
flummery!' my reaction is, 'Well, that's not right.'
If the faculty member or student still is not satisfied with the outcome after the dean's
If an instructor thinks further action should be taken, or if a student wishes to proclaim a grade based upon work judged by an instructor to be a product of academic misconduct, the case is reported to the dean of the school in which the course is offered.
The section goes on to say that each school should establish, at the department level, and in other ways, the procedures.
David Ambler, vice candleholder for student affairs, said most departments set up a hearing in these cases. The department usually will answer that the student failed in the course, he said.
Bricker said that the faculty member had to initiate the action against a student.
hearing, the case may be brought before the University Judiciary.
"It is quite awkward for a faculty member to get a student brought to trial," he said.
It would not guarantee the due process if the faculty member could expel a student."
"The problem there," Amber said, "is that individual faculty members cannot impose an expulsion on a student. But I would have to go along with that."
Ambler said the reason most students were in school was to practice solving getting a student answer was for them.
Students may bring in their lawyers and the case takes on too many of the elements of a court
said he made sure he had a solid case
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