Candidates point to Senate training
(Editor's Note: It is the second in a series of four stories on teams of candidates running for student body president and vice president.)
O'Brien
By DON SMITH Kansan Staff Reporter
experience will be stressed in the cam-
pany and O'Brien candidate for
student body preserve.
O'Brien, Boner Springs junior, and her running mate Steve McMurry, Norton junior, think their student government experience will be an asset to their cam-
"Experience will be the key word because it will help you look at the look of the records." McMurray, 67.
"We have seen a lot of work on various boards and feel this experience and the relationships we have developed can help us identify a resident body president and vice president."
O'Brien, who is finishing her second term in the Senate, is past chairman of the Rape Prevention Task Force, a member of College Assembly, a member of the Liberal Arts and Sciences governing board and formative vice president of the Commission on National Defense.
Mc Murray, who is also completing his second term in the Senate, has served on the Student Services Committee, the Student Health Advisory Board and the Presidential Policy and Task Force. He was the chairman of the Senate Transparency Committee, the Senate Privacy Senate and is now chairman of the Senate Calendar Committee.
O'Brien and McMurray said their experience would be beneficial in pursuing their platform, which includes planks relating to academics, the Security and Parking Department, athletics, and money allocated by the Senate.
Academics would receive first priority in
were it is important that the president and vice president work closely with policy making boards and committees," McMurry said.
her administration, O'Brien said. She said she would emphasize academics by seeking to increase student activity on KU policy making boards.
McMurray said a close working relationship with policy making boards would result in an increased awareness of student opinions. University policy making boards must have a 20 per cent student membership. O'Brien said she would work to emphasize the importance of those student members.
"We feel the students have the imagination, the intelligence and the initiative to solve problems on campus but they haven't been given the opportunity to be involved in the policy making area," O'Brien said.
She also would support the development
of departmental pre-enrollment systems, O'Brien said.
Mc Murry said departmental pre-enrollment, similar to that used by the School of Journalism, could be feasible for other KU departments.
O'Brien said her administration would attempt to make the Security and Parking Department aware of campus security problems.
"We'd like to see more Security and Parking men and women walking on campus, O'Brien said. "We feel this is essential for physical security but psychological."
However, O'Brien said, she would place no extra emphasis on the rape problem.
"Here we would place only needed emphasis," she said. "The administration, though, still needs to know students are aware of the problem and are concerned."
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Vol. 85-No. 83 Tuesday, February 4,1975
Tapes dispute halts sex bias inquisition
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By DEBBIE GUMP Kansan Staff Reporter
Questions arising from use of taped interviews temporarily have halted investigation of charges of sexual involvement within the political science department.
All work of the investigating committee, except routine paperwork, has been delayed until Feb. 10, Jadwiga Mauer, chairman of the committee, said Monday.
One of the complaints about the investigation is that use of taped interviews is inappropriate because the investigation is more likely to be carried out in the science department's guilt or innocence in
Hearing postponed by judge
Arrangement of Terry J. Haffield, 21,
819A; Vermont, on a charge of second
degree murder was postponed Monday by
Douglas County District Court Judge Frank
Gray postponed the arraignment until 9:30 a.m., Feb. 20.
Haffield is charged with the Jan. 6 shooting of Sally Dee Spears, 16, at allied Allen Waters, 1112 Connecticut. He was in Douglas County jail under a $300 bond.
the matter, according to Russell Getter,
assistant professor of political science.
The case was carried over to District Court after Douglas County Court Judge Mike Elwell ruled in a Jan. 24 hearing that the plaintiffs' desire to connect Haffield with the slaying.
Representatives of the investigating committee will meet with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes on Feb. 10 to determine the status of the case, which copies made during the investigation.
The committee was organized last month by the Office of Affirmative Action to investigate charges brought by Ann Willner, professor of political science. It was also directed to review Affirmative Action legislation in investigation of similar charges made by Willner in 1972.
The tapes originally were to go to the Office of Affirmative Action, where their public accessibility would be determined by the affirmative action director.
The decision to suspend the investigation came after several questions on procedures were raised by the committee and by some people outside the committee.
Getter, one of those questioning committee procedures, said a whole new set of procedures should be used if the committee is to establish departmental guilt or innocence.
But Muurer said the committee's legal adviser, Webster Golden, associate professor of law, never has attended meetings while interviews were progress.
The legal purpose of the investigation also has been questioned.
AMONG THE NEW procedures Getter called for were allowing those interviewed to have lawyers present during questioning of the questionnaire of the questioning before being interviewed.
"If the committee has an attorney, why not the department have an attorney?" And if the department has an attorney, will he pay him?" Getter asked.
The official directive to the committee asks for a written report of its findings and to provide an explanation.
warrant further action. The report then will be forwarded to the Academic Affairs Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.
If the advisory committee and the affirmative action director find that the department is "guilty on one or more of the charges brought against it," the directive calls for "appropriate corrective measures."
Getter also said the use of tape recorders brought the possibility of libel charges against those who testified if Willner's charges are taken to court. He said that individual comments on tapes might be misinterpreted.
"IT SEEMS TO ME that the people who are to testify before the committee ought to know what will be asked of them, particularly if their comments are to be taped and available to anyone who wants them," Getter said.
Maurer said she had taken the questions of Getter and others before the committee for a decision last week. He then decided to take the question of the tapes and transcripts was resolved.
Among the possible solutions would be to give the tapes to Dykes instead of to the Affirmative Action office. If Dykes agrees to the proposal at Monday's meeting, he would keep them either permanently or until there was no further need for them.
what will happen to the tapes is under discussion." Maurer said. "We as a committee were giving it some thought, although when we set up the procedures we didn't really know what we wanted to do with the tapes."
MAURER SAID that all testimony would be confidential and anonymous. Transcripts would have been identified by name, she said, in the letter to the system that concealed her's identity.
Huh? By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Non-student fines pose problems
How is an unwieldy cardboard tube transported across campus? Bob Price, 1105 La., and Deborah Coffey, Lawrence senior, seem to have found a solution.
By BILL GRAY
Kausan Staff Reporter
upper yesterday. Fast said the new tire was probably punctured in front of GSP Hall.
The Parking and Traffic Board has been searching all year for a way to collect non-student traffic fines, but it hasn't found one. The Friickey, chairman, said last week.
John Beissner, student body president,
said last summer that more than $30,000 in
faculty and staff tickets were left unpaid in
fiscal 1973.
Last semester the board attempted to collect from violators who hadn't paid their fees by sending unpaid fines to the office of the University general counsel. From there the fines were to be sent to the Douglas court where violators were to be prosecuted.
This plan was sidelined when Douglas County commissioners expressed their disapproval because of unpaid fines that would flood the county court, causing added expense and delays in conducting court business.
Frickey said the fines currently were collected as they had been in the past.
Mike Davis, University general counsel,
said his office decided who would be prosecuted.
He said he and the board had
discussed the minimum number of
violations a person could have before he
would be prosecuted.
Frickey and Mike Thomas, director of Security and Parking, said violations were considered excessive if five or more tickets were received.
Thomas said Monday that his department was trying to compile statistics on the number of parking fines that were currently unpaid.
He said the statistics might be available later this week.
Ron Hamilton, University compraller,
said his office had a student accounts
receivable program for unpaid accounts.
He said that the office used a collection
A flat tire on the campus-downward bus disrupted service during the noon rush. Kirk Fast, 1105 La., driver of the bus, waited for repair equipment to arrive in front of the Kansas
Flat tire blues
He said he favored referring excessive violence to police, and course for law enforcement there were no officers present.
According to current policy, a non-student who hasn't paid previous fines isn't allowed to purchase a parking sticker until the fines are paid. The University withholds a student's grades and won't allow him to reenroll until fines are paid.
agency to collect some unpaid accounts, but that a collection agency was never used to collect accounts containing only parking fines.
Thomas said his department placed a person's name on a tow list if that person committed five or more violations. A person was arrested, and the officer away if it were found illegally parked.
Faculty collections aren't involved, in and, unless their accounts are forwarded to the Superintendent.
A new policy of direct billing from the department has helped in the collection of
The Board had discussed the possibility of withholding faculty paychecks until fines were paid, Thomas said, but Davis had told the board that would be illegal.
David said that Kansas State University used the practice of withholding paychecks until fines were paid. He said it was a difficult question between himself and the K-State attorney.
Mike Seaton, K-State attorney, said there was a provision in K-State parking that would allow him to afford the withheld at the discretion of the university president until fines were paid. He said he thought the provision had been so well-executed that he had become a part of the employ contract.
Oil profits spout foreign students
By RAFAEL SANTOS Kansan Staff Report
Foreign student enrollment at the University of Kansas decreased this semester, but the decline probably will be due to Clark College, dean of foreign students.
Coan said last week that the governments of several oil-producing countries were planning massive scholarship programs
Economic gains made through oil marketing and production enabled the Venezuelan government to introduce last November a massive new scholarship program, the Programa de Becas Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Coan said.
Under this program, he said, about 10,000 Venezuelan students will be selected each year for training abroad. The University has an open enrollment program led by the scholarship program, Coa snil.
The Lybian government also has a big program which sends students abroad and finances them, he said. Two Lybian students participated in this program, Coan said.
"Most of the Lybian students are sponsored in one way or another by government agencies," he said. "One is sponsored by the Ministry of Science and the other by the University."
scholarship programs, most of the Iranian students support themselves.
However, Coan said that although Iran is an oil power with a lot of potential for
Last year 232 students from the Near East and South East Asian geographic areas were enrolled at KU. A total of 268 students from the Far East and 263 from the Arabian Peninsula were enrolled to the International Campus, the newsletter for foreign students.
According to preliminary enrollment figures released by the Office of the Dean of Foreign Students, between 850 and 900 foreign students are expected to attend KU this semester compared with 623 and 514 semester, 879 in spring 2014 and 864 in fall.
The decrease in enrollment resulted from failures, students who graduated and students who for personal reasons had to return home, Coan said.
"I don't think the provision has ever been used, though." Season said.
These countries traditionally have contributed the greatest number of students.
owever, Venezuela, Lybia and Saudi
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Final official figures of foreign student enrollment weren't available, pending late enrolments and drop-outs, Coan said.
According to the newsletter, the countries with highest student enrollment at KU last semester were Iran, the Republic of China, and Japan, with 113, 79, and 67 students respectively.
He said he had suggested to the K-State parking board that the provision be changed so that the fines could be deducted from his paycheck, but he might that might be more legally acceptable.
Davis said deducting the fines from faculty paychecks would be illegal.
Ford speech in Topeka still in air
No official announcement has yet been made on whether President Gerald R. Ford would be president.
Leroy Townes, press aide to Gov. Robert F. Bennett, said Monday that his office was still investigating the possibility of a visit by Ford
"We're still checking on it," Townes said. "Our office has been the focal point for inquiries about it, but we really don't know what has been published since last Friday."
Published reports speculated Friday that Ford would speak next Tuesday at Topeka's municipal auditorium. The reports stated that Ford wanted to speak to an audience in a midwestern state outside of major urban areas.
Ford is scheduled to speak in Atlanta late this week. His next week, possibly about the program, programs.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce reportedly invited Ford to speak in Lawrence several weeks ago. The invitation made through Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan.
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