THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 86 No.20
September 22.1975
Lewis case charges out
Charges have been dismissed against three University of Kansas students who were convicted of battery April 10 in connection with a Feb. 24 disturbance at Lewis Hall.
Doug Walker, assistant county attorney, said yesterday the charges were dismissed because the three women agreed to testify at the trial of Karen Raynes, North Hopkins, Minn., sophomore, which begins on Monday. Judge Frank Gray, Raynes is appealing two misdemeanor battery charges in connection with the incident.
Charges against Denise Brown, Overland Park parker, Helen Pilot, Kansas City Kan., sophomore, and Mary Stuart, Greensboro, N.C., sophomore, were dismissed Friday.
Although the four women were convicted of battery in Douglas County Court, the conviction was nullified as soon as they were released. Also guilty is Mike Malone, assistant county attorney.
If an appeal is made to a District Court, he said, the conviction is reversed annually and the state must prove its assault if there never had been a trial in the county court.
The Feb. 24 incident involved two sisters, Jeannie Denise and Debra Lee Wastell, both Topka sophomores, who told police they were shot by several women in the Lewis Hall basement.
The Wastes originally signed complaints against them, and in 1985, he upped its wards. The Wastes were also, Levy's business.
The fights between the Wastalis and the other women allegedly was prompted by an act of vengeance.
Since the charges have been dismissed against the three women, Walker said, they will have no criminal record relating to the incident.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Historical reflections
Allen Harvey spends at home between church services yesterday to reflect on his years of farming and his ancestor's history.
Harvey's father, Ed., was the University of Kansas' first black professor. He served as president from 26, 1833, three weeks after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on June 25.
Group defends teaching report
By STEWART BRANN
Staff Writer
The Student Senate's Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction decided last night that documentation wasn't required to support most of its proposals.
The commission was answering charges made recently by some University of Kansas organizations that the preliminary ill-researched and unsubstantiated.
The report is being prepared for presentation to the Senate Oct. 1. There will be an open meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday to finish the report.
CHRIS ILLEY, commission chairman, said about 90 per cent of the report dealt with issues that didn't require documentation. Most of the proposals are mere guidelines suggested to improve classroom instruction. he said.
THE COMMISSION heard responses last week from members of the Graduate Student Council, who said many of the propositions were unqualified by quality of instruction rather than improve it.
"We aren't capable of, nor do we want to, lay down specific guidelines on classroom education," Hliff said. "The report is a general guideline."
The graduate students said an example was the commission's proposal that a three-story building with two classrooms and assistant instructors (AIs) and teaching assistants (TAs). According to research at
Lliff said the commission would separate its proposals into two categories: those that don't require documentation and those that need further research. The proposals that need research will be investigated after the final report goes to the Senate, he said.
other universities, they said, such a selection process wasn't effective in improving job quality.
Lliff said at last night's meeting that the commission is intent to deal with individual instructors.
"I'm not so sure that we absolutely bound to improve individual teaching but to single out good teachers and weed out the bad ones," he said, "which thereby would improve the quality of overall instruction at KU."
Hff said the best way to improve teaching at the University was to make it known that good instructors were recognized and rewarded.
The graduate students also criticized the report for not suggesting that newly hired professors undergo the same hiring and integrating process for AIS and TAs.
LIFFAIS the graduate students had a valid argument and that new professors should receive the same treatment given to Als and TAs.
But he said the commission would stick to its original proposal that some kind of hiring and evaluating process be established.
The commission criticized Edith Hetherington, commission member, for issuing a dissenting minority report last without first consulting the other members.
Hetherington presented her report to the Senate at its meeting last Wednesday and again to the commission immediately after the Senate meeting.
Grandsons of slaves made Kaw valley home
Staff Writer
She told the commission she would have presented her report Tuesday night if the commission meeting hadn't been postponed.
By JOHN P. THARP
Seven miles southeast of Lawrence on almost 300 acres of fertile Kawai valley farm land live the three Harvey brothers, David, Allen and Dean, grandons of slaves and sons of the University of Kansas' first black football player, center Ed Harver.
The men, lifetime farmers and Lawrence High School graduates, come from a family rich in America. Their grandparents David and Rebecca Harvey arrived in New York in 1905. In Jan. 26, 1863, three weeks after Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
"The Negro problem has never affected us," David Harvey, 61, eldest of the three, said last week. He explained how his grandparents raised three sons, Frederick Harvey and his father Edward S. Harvey, who graduated from KU in 1894, and lettered on the Jayhawk football team in 1892 and 1893. S. A. Harvey earned his KU in 1892, followed by Frederick in 1892. They both received letters in baseball, as did Edd.
"He was always a person to better his condition, and better the condition in the neighborhood," Allen said, noting his father more widely as a farmer and stock raiser.
for this admiration not only sports, but his agricultural abilities.
ALLEN, 89, the second son, remembers
thoughts in Lawrence and KU. Reasons
Following his graduation, Ed farmed all but two years of his working life. Those two he spent as secretary to Rep. J. D. Bowersock, Second District of Kansas, and attended the 1897 inauguration of President William McKinley.
THE COMMISSION received a letter dated Sept. 17 from the Graduate Alliance of Students of History that said the Commission should continue to assist and lacking in some important policies.
Ed married Maud Henie in 1912. Besides being a farmer and a family man, he was secretary of the Farmers' Council with whom school improvement methods. He also was secretary of the Taxpayers League, a school board member in the Blue Mound district, and was active minister.
Allen, a farmer since 1935, is an ex-school bus driver, who retired from 13 years of hauling kids. "When a 6-year-old called me a S.O.B."
SQUINTING FROM under his worn hat,
he looks like a man of the land, his once dark hair now graying. He rests his strong, black hands inside the bib of his overall, recalling lightning, crops, birds, family, dogs and KU students.
"Yeah, I used to haul fraternities and
scorerites on hayrack rides in the late '60s, some pretties will carry on, Allen said.
He quit in 1970 and today works for the Waikuna township, "Because farming's good."
He's been out of state once (to Colorado) and is quite proud of his family history. "My father was a lawyer, and when then served two terms as elected clerk of the district court. Uncle "Doc" (Frederick Harvey) and he were both officers in the department, and I am grateful for this assignment, during the Spanish-American war.
GRINNING, Allen told of how Sherman travelled to the Philippines, opened a law practice there, and became a successful farmer-businessman, while "Doc" spent the last years of his life as a surgeon in Lawrence.
"She was a tiny woman, under five foot,
and she was on her way home when she saw
them coming," he said. "She laid down
a big weed and hid while they rode by."
All of Allen's favorite stories is about an unnamed aunt, who was nearly captured by the mob.
Besides his sons, Ed Harvey had two daughters, Helen and Joyce. Joyce Harvey Washington is employed at Naimshi Hall and attended KU two years, 1936 and 1937.
She said he father never failed to go to a KU football game, and always admirablen his teammate.
jobs. They would have attended college, but the board said. "Times were hard in the 80s."
ALTHOUGH ED ED died in 1853, his spirit seemingly lives on through his grown children. The Harvets raise soybeans, wheat, oats and corn, besides working eight hour
Hliff said the alliance apparently had interpreted the report negatively even though the commission had drafted in good form a statement in laying the quality of classroom instruction.
All of them are proud of their father, and Allen summed it up while stepping into his shaking truck. Shouting over the motor, he said, "None ame better than dad."
He said those criticism would be considered with suggestions made by other organizations when the commission drafted the final report.
Committee discusses StudEx role
Defining the role of an institution like StudEx is no easy job, members of the Student Senate Rights and Responsibilities Committees are finding out.
The committee spent more than two hours last night interviewing StudEx members and analyzing 12 pages of Senate regulations. It was the second consecutive committee meeting devoted to defining StudEx power.
"This is going to take a while," Debbie Krueenel, committee co-chairman, said. The committee is studying StudEx because of a Senate resolution passed two weeks ago calling for a definition of the role of StudEx.
The resolution was introduced by Dave Flood, student senator, who said StudExacted improperly July 27 when it overturned an earlier Senate decision and restored full prescription coverage to the University health insurance plan.
Steve McMurray, committee co-chairman,
told the committee not to spend time
discussing whether StudEx did the right
thing when it restored prescription
blood from a kidney transplant in the
committee wants to use it as a case in point, he said,
but they shouldn't debate it.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said he took the role of Studs, like the role of Jared.
He said it was impossible to define a group'sowers perfectly.
The student body president, Rolfs said, has in recent years lost his Senate vote but managed to retain his mentions gradually are splitting student government into executive and legislative branches, he said. Bruce Woner, StudEx chairman, said he had the power to elect a Senate decide.
The Senate code says StudEx has the power to act "in lieu" of the Senate, he said. When something important comes up in a debate, it can be someone has to act for the absent Senate.
See STUDEX page five
Budget breeds optimism, caution
By GREG HACK
Staff Writer
Lawrence area legislators expressed both optimism and caution yesterday regarding the fate of the University of Kansas budget for fiscal 1977.
KU's legislative budget request, submitted, 15 to the state division of budget, calls for $84.4 million for the Lawrence district from state educational and general funds.
An increase of more than $5.9 million over last year is requested, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. He said the main increases were a 10 per cent, $2.67 in faculty salaries and a 12 per cent, $1.1 million in other operating expenses.
STATE SEEN. ARDEN BOOTH, R-Law,
adds optimism about the two main increases.
"I continue to be optimistic about the University's budget," Booth said. "If the state had sent into trouble financially I would have never hadn't experienced any revenue loss."
He said the legislature like the way Chancellor Archie R. Dykes was running KKJ
"The University now has the support of the people of Kansas and the legislature,"
the third consecutive year. The Board of Regents decided in 1972 that faculty salaries should be increased 10 per cent each of three years in an attempt to make Kansas salaries competitive with other Midwestern universities.
HE SAID THE LEGISLATURE had a commitment to increase faculty salaries for
"It's difficult to say right now because we haven't had a chance to view the entire state budget," he said. "We have to keep in mind the whole school for education and the local economy." He said that increase in educational expenditures don't lead to the need for a tax increase."
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said the legislature probably wouldn't make a final decision on the budget until late March or April. Vogel said the higher education budget was one of the last bills passed this year.
The budget, approved by the Regents earlier this year, must undergo hearings before Gov. Robert Bennett and James Coffey to discuss division of budget, sometime in November.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, wouldn't say whether he thought the incumbent was right.
Vogel, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said his committee would probably have hearings on the budget in February.
State Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, said, "It would be a little untreater to say that we have no need for him."
There's a good chance the increases will go through, but we have to watch financial trends.
BUZZI SAID there was no question that all Lawrence area legislators wanted KU to receive the requested increases in faculty salaries and other areas and that the legislators would make every effort to help the University.
The other local representative, Mike Cailor-Lawrence, wasn't available for comment.
Shankel and Nither said they expected requests for more than $1.2 million in improvements and new programs to be challenged by Bennett and Ribb.
Nichter said the division of budget would send a letter to Dykes before the hearings outlining what the governor and director of budget didn't approve.
Shankel said, "Frequently, Bobb will recommend elimination of many or all new other cuts. We may make some other cuts. Then we have to consider other justification material together for the hearings to try to convince him and the other doctors that these cuts are necessary to maintain multiple ears."
NITCHER SAID that the governor recommended cutting the programs so that he could find out about them at the hearings and never truly because he was opposed to all of them.
See BUDGET page five
Where credit's due
Jay McShannon, a Kansas City city jazz pianist in the 1930s and '40s, will perform a concert Friday night at the Meyer Jazz Center to accept appearances as host.
Ballroom. About 600 people crowded into the ballroom to hear the musicians and 10 of their contemporaries recite the Kannas