University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 10, 1980
Vol. 91, No. 13
USPS 650-640
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
The setting sun turns 10th Street just west of Indiana Street into a river of light, silhoueting $ neighborshored resident.
SUA seeks monthly concerts
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA WEEMS Staff Reporter
The SUA Special Events committee has set a goal of presenting one concert a month this semester.
Last semester, SUA reached that goal.
Only one concert was scheduled during
Harel 1972.
This semester, the committee already is working to secure concerts, Duke Divine, special events chairman and SUA board member, said Kevin McKay, who has worked with concert promoters to sign contracts early.
The committee has scheduled Johnny Paycheck, a country and western singer, for Oct. 29.
Ticket sales for the concert began Aug. 29. Because the contracts were signed earlier, Divine
Last year, he said, SUA had many good concert offers, especially when the roof of Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., was under repair, but he decided to settle any contracts with concert promoters.
Divine said the music industry was picking up because of a slight strengthening of the economy. But the market is tight in Lawrence and it cannot compete with the Kansas City area for concerts.
The death of concerts last fall was clear partly a University policy forforbidding the use of music from concerts by students.
decreased the number of acts SUA could book,
Divine said.
In the spring of 1879, SUA A presented the Doobie Brothers, who had suspended equipment. However, adjastments were made so that they could do the show.
"A lot of bands don't want to do that (make
makes them look bad and it is expensive). Do you
When Cheap Trick came to KU in April, the adjustments made in stage equipment and sound were complete.
Another reason for last fall's dearth of concerts, he said, was that student support was not as strong as it had been in the past.
A Ramsey Lewis concert, scheduled for Dec. 3, 1979, was cancelled because of poor ticket sales. However, the promotion of the show began only a few days before the concert was to have been presented. Divine said there may not have been enough time for students to hear about the concert.
Timing also could have been a factor.
SUA usually sponsors an outdoor show with local talent the week before enrollment, but decided against it this year because other activities already had been scheduled.
Divine said SUA was attempting something different this year by scheduling Paychec because most KU students prefer rock, jazz and rhythm and blues music.
however, Divine said he thought at least 20 percent of the student population could be interested.
Lack of quorum delays vote on petition to shrink Senate
By DIANE SWANSON
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate spent an hour and a half last night debating a petition to cut the size of the Senate in half in hopes of creating a more efficient voting assembly.
When it came time for a vote, however, the petition went unconsidered because a roll call showed that the Senate lacked the quorum needed to do official business.
After the roll call, Matt Davis, student body vice president, said that the lack of a quorum was "exactly why the Senate needs to reduce its size."
During the evening's debate, proponents of the petition argued that the Senate's size was cumbersome and that it was getting harder to get quorum at Senate meetings.
"If we don't improve our efficiency, no one will have respect for anything we do," he said. "Student Senate will begin losing its legitimacy."
The petition proposed that the number of Senate seats be reduced from 129 to 60. Three of the seats would be special representatives to the Senate, and five remaining 57 would be distributed to the schools.
Now, there is one senator for every 200 students. Because of an enrollment increase, the number of senators is expected to increase from 120 to 130 this year.
If the petition passes, the number of Nunemaker district senators would be cut and Nunemaker would be considered as a school. Nunemaker districts would be elected as those in the other schools.
NUNEMAKER CONSTISTS of freshmen and sophomores who have not declared a major.
This section came under attack, and an amendment calling for five housing representatives was added to the petition. The amendment gave Senate representation to the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence Halls, the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Association and off-campus housing.
The amendment, proposed by Bill Venable, IFC senator, passed 25-21-1, increasing the number of proposed seats from 60 to 85.
In explaining why the seats had been omitted, Davis said living groups would be represented by senators elected from schools. He cited an engineering seminar living in a fraternity as an example.
"From my experience, there always have been people representing living cities, always have people representing living cities, always have people representing living cities." Davis said.
Davis also said he didn't think living group senators really represented their living groups, and he didn't.
But Venable said he was an example of an active living group representative and said the additional representation was necessary for the future. Active living groups would be represented in the future.
Dan Cunningham, All Scholarship Hall Council senator, said the living group senators were needed to provide communication between Senate and the living groups.
VENABLE IS VICE chairman of the University Senate executive committee.
Jim Borelli, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator,
effects Cunningham's views.
"Senators from living groups are vital to
keeping the communication system open," he said. "It's more like an insurance policy. I think representation by both schools and living groups is important."
A move was made to table the petition, but it was vetoed. A motion then was made to call for a vote, after which John Macchiotto, graduate student senator, called for a quorum.
Because there was no quorum, the meeting was dismissed and the petition now must be resubmitted to the Student Senate executive committee.
After the Senate makes a decision, the petition will be submitted to the University Council, which will approve.
If acted on soon, the petition will take effect before student body presidential, vice presidential and senatorial elections in November.
Because Senate was dismissed, two bills listed on the agenda failed to reach the floor.
One would increase Senate committee powers and the other would improve inventory control
Under the inventory control bill, the replacement cost of Senate-funded capital equipment that is damaged, destroyed, lost or stolen through the negligence or fault of an organization will be charged to that organization.
The Senate also heard a report from Bob Bingaman, executive director of Associated Students of Kansas. Bingaman said ASK was succeeding in its lobbying efforts on student issues and was working to increase political awareness and political participation among students.
The Senate is considering whether to continue Kylie membership in the statewide student lobby.
Committee ponders sentencing system
Staff Reporter
Bv BILL VOGRIN
The inmate slouched in a swivel chair in his sloppy blue den uniform, facing three members of the Kansas Adult Authority parole agency and members of the Kansas Legislature and three reporters.
In 30 minutes, the Lansing State Penitentiary prisoner retold his life story, emphasizing every encounter with law enforcement officials and the fact that he is arrest and conviction for the crime be committed.
He spoke freely to the KAA board members, two men and one woman, and answered every question, regardless of the often intensely personal nature of the questioning. He also looked to the future and divulged his plans, should he be granted parole.
Attorney General Robert Stephan has criticized the KAA for releasing inmates he knew had been held.
report will be published in December,"Hoagland said.
Haagland said the committee only made occurrences to the Legislature. It will make no decision.
THE VISIT YESTERDAY by the legislators was part of a review of Kansas sentencing laws by an interim judiciary committee. Although the review was initiated by the committee, it came after strong criticism of the Adult Authority's process by Stephan. It also followed a proposal by Gov. John Carlin at the beginning of the 1968 midterm last year for changes in the sentencing system.
"We are not investigating the parole system," said Rep. Joseph Hoagland, R-Overland Park, chairman of the interim committee. "We are reviewing the sentencing laws of the state, and that includes observing the Adult Authority process."
"The committee will make three or four propositions regarding sentencing and give its final decision."
The questions about sentencing laws on three types of sentencing—mandatory, indeterminate and presumptive. The philosophy behind each sentencing procedure is distinctly different, which makes a change more than a simple policy decision.
Kansas now has indeterminate sentencing. It allows a person convicted of a crime to serve half of the minimum sentence, plus six months, and then approach the KAA for parole consideration.
Presumptive, or determinate, sentencing,
which is favored by Carlin, will set strict
"At the other end of the spectrum—what do you do with violent offenders? Should a Class A felon ever be paroled?"
Rep. John Solbach D - Lawrence
guidelines for sentences. A person convicted of a crime would serve the entire sentence, regardless of extemal circumstances. There is no good behavior or rehabilitation while incarcerated.
MANDATORY SENTENCING establishes precise sentences for certain serious offences.
The inmate choked as he told of misfortune and a bout with alcoholism that fogged his mind when he had committed his crime. He said he was a survivor of the bombing, whose relation and the mistakes he had made.
He obviously was nervous, and he fumbled with envelopes and papers from relatives and employers who had promised help and support should he be released. He pleased his case and
stared into the eyes of the three KAA board members.
The panel questioned the prisoner, delving into every aspect of his life—both outside the prison and since his imprisonment. They ignored the evidence of the drooping, glazed eyes that pleaded with them.
"Opponents of presumptive sentencing call it a passing fad," said Rep. John Solbach, D-Dawrence, a member of the interim committee. "They say it will have little impact on the crime rate and will increase the cost of running the prison system by $10 million a year."
SOLBACH RECCOUNTED the case of an inmate who was sentenced and served two years in prison for a non-violent offense that defrauded three parties of less than $100.
"This person had no previous convictions." Solbach said. "At $2 a day (the cost per prisoner in the state penitentiary) the state threw $18,250 to the police." The governor bably reinforced irresponsibility in that person.
But Solbach admits that sentencing is a complex question with no absolute answers.
"At the other end of the spectrum, what do you with violent offenders? Should a Class A felon
Stephan argued that all discretionary questions should be taken away from the Secretary of Corrections and the KAa. He said he thought the judge who assigned a sentence should maintain full control over extinguishing wrongdoing, but the judge suspended sentence, sending the convict to a rehabilitation center for several months, an immediate parole, or a strict sentence.
Benjamin Day, a member of the KA parole board, sat at the table listening attentively to every answer from each inmate, and speared each candidate with probing questions.
"Determine (presumptive) sentencing does not take into account the circumstances of the case."
See COMMITTEE page 5
Parents' Day festivities conflict with Jewish holiday
By KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
To many students, the shorter days of September have come to signify the end of a season, but to those of the Jewish faith, the month also represents a new year and a time to reflect on the past.
Jewish students who have made arrangements with their instructors will be excused from classes and tests to attend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.
Sunday tonight marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the holiday celebrating the start of the Jewish New Year. It begins a 10-day period known as the holiday months, the most seldom in the Jewish tradition.
HOWEVER, YOM KIPPUR 'tis this year on Sept. 20, which is scheduled as parents' Day at the University of Kansas. The Jayhawks will play their first home football game against the University of Pittsburgh, and many living activities for students and their parents.
Ending with Yom Kippar, the Day of Atonement, the High Holidays are traditionally a time of inspection and reconciliation of one's behavior with God.
Most Jewish students are obligated to spend
Ellen Kort, KU Hilier director, said yesterday that the conflict was discovered last April and that the group petitioned the Parents' Day Committee to change the date. Hilier is a religious, social and cultural organization for Jewish students at the University.
Saturday attending religious services, and many of their parents have commitments at home and will be unable to come to Lawrence, Barry Mandelbaum, Leawood sohomore, said.
THE COMMITTEE AGREED that Parents' Day should be changed if possible, and made that recommendation to former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. Myers said.
According to John Myers, former chairman of the Parents' Day Committee, the KU athletic department sets the dates for all special football games on Friday and Day, Parents' Day and Homecoming Day.
The final decision came from the chancellor's office, however, and the date for 'Parens' Day was November 15.
Hillem made another appeal to Del Shankel after he was named acting chancellor. Kort said.
Shankel issued an apology to the Jewish
Chronicle and appeared in the Kansas City
Chronicle on Aug. 29.
In his letter to the editor, Shankel said, "I also was distressed when I discovered this scheduling system."
Day be rescheduled so that our Jewish students and their parents would be able to participate in the activities. Unfortunately, the date had already been publicized, and it was therefore decided that the schedule for 1980 could not be changed."
The University has a policy of not scheduling events in conflict with the primary holidays of any religious group and tries to adhere to that policy, Shankel's letter said.
The chancellor's office subsequently requested a list of dates for the major Jewish holidays for the next several years to avoid similar conflicts, Kort said.
"Shankel has been extremely helpful in the matter, but there are still lots of irate parents." Kort said. "The freshmen are especially upset because it's their first Parents' Daw."
AT LEAST 1,000 KU students and several teachers are Jewish, Kort said.
"The situation is terribly fortunate and is something that everyone feels very bad about." Myers said. "It's a problem you run into when the boss says you're not in advance. We just hope it won't happen again."
Rosh Hashanah is celebrated on the first two days of the Hebrew month of *Tisrih*, which usually comes at the end of September or the beginning of October.
The Jewish calendar traditionally dates from
Rosh Hashanah is a festive occasion and a time of family gatherings, but it is also a solemn time of reconciliation and reflection on the past year, Jane Litwin, assistant Hillel counselor.
the creation of the world, which was said to occur on Tishir 1, a date roughly corresponding to 3761 B. Thus, the year 1800 in the solar-based calendar corresponds to 5741 of the lunar-based Jewish calendar.
MANY PEOPLE accompany meals during this period with apples and honey, as a sign of hope for sweetness in the year to come. Litwin said. The traditional challah bread also is prepared for holiday meals, but instead of braided, it is round to symbolize a crown, or, in a more modern interpretation, the whole circle of life.
Some people send Rosh Hashanah cards,
to friends. Let them greet you with a
card, to friends. Lukas
The celebration of the new year begins with a dinner followed by sundown services, she said.
Hillel is sponsoring a Rohr Hashannah service at 7:30 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Morning and evening events will be held Monday afternoons at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center.
The Ten Days of Penitence traditionally mark
See HOLIDAYS page 5
Weather
See HOLIDAYS page 5
Today's high should be near 84,
according to the KU Weather Service.
Skies will be mostly clear, with
increasing cloudiness by late afternoon.
Winds will be from the north at 8 to
the low tonight will be near 63. Skies
will be partly cloudy, with a chance for
widely-scattered thundershowers.
Thursday, skies should be fair to partly
cloudy, with a chance for thunder-
showers in the early morning. It will
become more clear by late afternoon.