University Daily Kansan / Fridav November 21, 1986
Judicial role may shrink, judge says
By PAMELA SPINGLER
The role of the judiciary might shrink in the next few years, Harold Herd, a Kansas Supreme Court justice, yesterday told 30 students at the Student Bar Association's Noon Forum at the law school.
Herd, who has been on the state's highest court for eight years, said the debate over the ex-convict's sentence Court's powers would continue.
The debate would be fueled by Attorney General Edwin Meese's public attitude that the U.S. government should "originate intentions," he said.
The problem would be trying to decide what the original intentions of constitutional fathers were, he said. If the Supreme Court didn't have the right to declare laws unconstitutional, Congress could repeal the Bill of Rights.
"I've always wondered if you submitted the Bill of Rights to a vote, if it would be voted out," he said.
The court system is set up so it protects the minority of the population, Herd said. The other branches of government are directly answerable to the public by elections, but the court system
The federal judiciary is not directly accountable to the public. That is one way in which its role is not limited. Herd said.
is independant, he said.
"It it seems to me the idea of an independent judiciary is essential," he said. "I don't think one small judge should want to control the court."
He said the Reagan administration's recent appointments didn't affect the Supreme Court's decisions.
He added that because federal justices can be removed only by impeachment, the president doesn't have control of justices
Meese would like to change the Supreme Court's powers by limiting rulings in cases to the participants, thereby allowing courts to ignore precedents, he said.
"I think that stare decises (let the decision stand) and precedents are very important," Herd said. One of the decisions from which the court is trying to deviate is school prayer, he said.
The law doesn't state that students in public schools can't pray, only that the state can't prepare an official prayer for classes, he said.
Harold Herd, Kansas Supreme Court justice, speaks to law students about constitutional decisions. Herd spoke yesterday at a Noon Forum in Green Hall.
Student Alumni Association created
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
The University of Kansas Alumni Association wants better communication between students and alumni, so it is forming a Student Alumni Association, an Alumni Association official said.
"We see a need for students to be aware of programs while they're still on campus," said Judy Ruedingel, coordinator of membership and should know what their Alumni Association does."
She said the association had decided to organize a student group after attending a national conference for alumni associations this summer at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
"There are 250 student alumni associations at colleges and universities across the country." Ruedlinger said. "We are the only school in the Big Eight that doesn't have one. We're a little behind the times."
Deans and campus organizations have nominated students as charter members to the Student Alumni Association, she said. From those charter members, a seven-member executive council will be formed.
"It is very important for the first executive group to be very dedicated to the association." Ruedlinger said. "These students are leaders."
Students will be able to join the association after the seven-member executive council has been
formed. she said.
Ruedlinger said the group's goals included involving students in regional and national conferences and improving contact between students and alumni members.
"It's another opportunity for them to grow," she added
Karen Neilsen, Sioux City, Iowa, senior, and one of the charter members, said she thought the organization was important.
"We have such a strong alumni at KU and this gives the students an opportunity to, first of all, get involved and second, to establish a tradition," she said. "And I think that it's exciting."
Jail requested for fraud defendant
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Prosecutors in the $80 million Culture Farms fraud case want one of the defendants sent to jail pending his trial on grounds that he has threatened a witness and may flee.
A hearing will be held Monday in U.S. District Court on a motion to revoke the $250,000 surety bond of Frans J. Theeron of Palm Springs, Calif.
"The government advises the court that threats have been made against a government witness by defendant Theron." prosecutors said in a motion filed last week. "And that the government has learned of new evidence that suggests that defendant Theron is a risk to flee."
Theron, who is required to report once a week to federal authorities in San Bernardino, Calif., is scheduled for trial Jan. 20.
Theon, a native of South Africa, was one of 12 people who were charged in the case. The case involves allegations that investors were biked in a mail fraud and pyramid scheme in which they bought "activator kits" for milk cultures that they were told they could sell for cosmetics production.
Eight of the defendants pleaded guilty to one of 42 conspiracy counts in return for dismissal of the others. The latest plea, to one count of mail fraud conspiracy, was entered Monday by Ronald L. Rakow of Los Angeles.
Rakow was accused of attending a promotional sales meeting in Nevada and falsely representing that there was unlimited demand for the milk cultures. He was also accused of forming corporations to promote the culture sales in Colorado and New Mexico.
Theon's brother, Gert, pleaded guilty in May.
"It was unbelievable," Officer Daniel Stewart wood said. "There's an old saying that police work is a lot of luck. That's what this was."
The people inside the house fled and left behind an estimated $175,000 worth of narcotics and $12,600 in cash.
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