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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL. 102. NO.6
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1992
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Planes enforce no-fly zone without force
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. warplanes swooped into southern Iraq yesterday to enforce a coalition ban on all flights by Iraq aircraft.
32nd parallel.
Saddad Hussein's government denounced the no-flight zone and threatened retaliation. But the Pentagon said no Iraqi planes had challenged the prohibition of flights below the
Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall, speaking at a news conference almost two hours after the 9:15 a.m. ban went into effect, said: "As of this moment, or as of about five minutes ago, there had no activity to prevent the monitoring regime that we've undertaken."
patrolling the skies of southern Iraq and that the military was adding a RC-135 reconnaissance plane force in the Persian Gulf, British and French planes are moving into the region to participate, Hall said.
He said that F-185 based on the aircraft carrier Independence and F-15 fighters were
President Bush announced the ban on Wednesday, saying one purpose was to prevent any attacks on coalition surveillance planes monitoring Iraqi military activities in the marshlands of southern Iraq. Bush
accused Saddam of attacking the Shiite people of southern Iraq, a violation of U.N. Resolution 688 that requires Iraq to cease all suppression of its citizens.
Pentagon sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they fully expected Saddam's forces to test U.S. and allied resolve with possible cat-and-mouse ploys, perhaps by flying aircraft just over or quite near the border of
the no-fly zone.
But Hall said that so far the Iraqis were avoiding confrontation. He said Iraq had moved all its fixed-wing aircraft and most or all of its helicopters above the 32nd parallel.
In Baghdad, the government denounced the ban as "aggressive, illegal and unjust" and said Saddam might order action against allied aircraft.
Former law student testifies in hearing
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Law professor Emil Tonkovich, center, leaves after the first day of his dismissal hearing. Tonkovich cross-examined the first witness.
Tonkovich's dismissal hearings mirror courtroom atmosphere
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
With so many lawyers at the dismissal hearings for Professor Emil Tonkovich, the atmosphere often resembled that of a courtroom, not a faculty hearing.
Many times, the proceedings were emotionally charged. Throughout the hearing Tonkovich snapped objections, and he complained about not having enough time to prepare for University general counsel Rose Marino's witness, Kari Schmidt, a 1983 KU law school graduate.
Tonkovich said the administration was not giving him evidence far enough in advance for him to prepare a defense.
"I've been handed evidence that I've never
seen before," he said. "I'm sitting in the dark here about these allegations."
Marino often objected that Tonkovich was being argumentative with the witness, and at one point Rud Turnbull, committee chair, warned both parties not to be too emotional.
The hearings do not act as a court of law, and the committee has different standards by which to judge Tonikovich's guilt or innocence in the violation of faculty codes.
In her opening statement, Marino told committee members that the standard for reaching a verdict was not guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" but that the evidence needed to be only "clear and convincing."
"The University of Kansas is not prosecut-
in professor Tonkovik for a crime, but his peers will determine if he should continue as a faculty member of this institution." Marino said.
Lisa Ford, attorney for Tonkovich, said evidence must be certain, understandable, unambiguous, and reasonable and persuasive enough to believe it.
"Thus, it is not enough to find that an allegation might have occurred and that it might be a violation," Ford said. "It is not even enough to find that an allegation probably occurred and that it is probably a violation.
"You must base your finding on clear evidence and be convinced or certain that the allegation occurred and that it is a Faculty Code violation."
1983 graduate tells panel professor made sexual advances during summer of 1982
By Lynne McAdoo and KC Trauer Kansan staff writers
Testimony in yesterday's Emu Torkonkov dismissal hearings included opening statements from both sides and testimony from the University's first witness, whose statements stemmed from an alleged 10-year-old incident.
In her opening statement, Rose Marino, associate general counsel for the University, outlined the accusations against Tankovich, the director of curriculum and violating professional ethics.
Marino said student testimony would make clear that the law professor's interaction with students "showed a pattern of conduct of making suggestive remarks, talking about grades in social situations with first-year law students, attempting to elicit unwanted perceptions and abusing his position as a faculty member to take advantage of his students."
"It was a course of conduct that worked quite well for Professor Tonkovich," she said. "As a professor in a school where grades are stressed as the key to employment and economic success, he had all the advantages and he used them."
Marino said that Tammee McVey, a 1991 law school graduate, would be among the students testifying. Marino alleged that in the course of his study he was a professor to pressure McVey into felony.
Lisa Ford, a graduate of the KU School of Law and a former student of Tonkovich's, represented the law professor and presented
the defense's opening remarks.
Speaking in Tonkovich's behalf, Ford said that McVey's allegations were false and her story ever-changing. McVey will testify Thursday.
Ford said that the administration supported its decision to fire 'Tonkovich through intimidation and disregard for due process. She also said that law faculty members had used McVey's allegations for personal gain.
"This case is about using lies, innuendoes and the media to create a rumor-frenzied atmosphere that grossly distorted perceptions and intentionally prejudiced the process," she said.
Although Ford delivered the opening statements, Tonikovich made his own objections.
Kari Schmidt, a 1983 KU law school graduate and an attorney in Wichita, testified that in the summer of 1982 Tonkovich made a sexual advance that began a series of events leading to the professor docking her grade on an independent research paper.
"His eyes teared up," Schmidt said. "He thought he had liver cancer and that he might need exploratory surgery between the summer and fall terms.
Schmidt, who had taken two classes taught by Tonkovich in previous semesters and had considered him a good friend, said that in the summer of 1982 Tonkovich told her that he feared he had cancer.
"I started crying at one point, sitting on the
See PROFESSOR, Page 2.
Law professor's sexual harassment hearing
Excerpts from the opening statement of Rose Marino, general counsel for
"Prof. Tonkakw may argue that these students were consenting adults, ignoring the disparate power between a teacher and pupil. He may argue that these were "dates". These were likely preyed upon vulnerable students. He fostered his reputation with first-year students."
Excerpts from the opening statement of Isis Ford, attorney for Prof. Emil Blanker.
"Several law professors will also testify about how they tried to be supportive of students when the students were afraid of Prof. Tonkishikwu and of Prof. Torkishikwu to the Dean or Vice Chancellor."
*Prof. Torknawk is charged with sexual assault on a student in early spring dating students was not prohibited. Prof. Torknawk, like several other single law professors, opened dated cases against Torknawk.
"Students do not set the tone or the parameters of interactions with their professors ...Choosing to become a member of a profession ... means committing oneself to adherence to its ethics. Well may students worry that a rejection of a professor's advances will damage his reputation, or that a professor fails to make the distinction between his professional jurisdiction and his private life."
"I'd like to go back now and elaborate on what I said earlier — that this case is about a few law professors who used a false-allegation to promote their own political and personal agendas ... The process, but the allegations themselves."
"It is important to know that the atmosphere in the school law is very different than it is in other students regularly socialize at sporting events, parties, or by just going out for a beer. . . Also, undergraduate students are all adults with college degrees."
Source: Opening statements from the Tonkavich hearing, 8/27/92
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By Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
Students attending the KU School of Law will pay $20 more a credit hour starting in Fall 1993.
The Board of Regents in June approved a proposal put together by law school administrators and the Office of Academic Affairs.
Robert Jerry, dean of the law school, said the school's budget had slipped in relation to its peers. The slip ultimately would have led to a decline in the quality of the school's program without the tuition increase and placed it at a competitive disadvantage.
According to the proposal, the fee will increase to $30 a credit hour in Fall 1994 and to $40 in Fall 1995.
"Our faculty is rated ninth among the nation's schools," he said. "with a low budget, our libraries will be affected, our support services will be affected and our ability to recruit and retain quality faculty will be affected. I don't want that t6 happen."
Frank West, law student and president of the Student Bar Association, said this was the first time the law school had imposed a fee.
"If you increase tuition then the money goes to the school, which holds it until the Legislature allocates it to the University," he said. The chancellor's office and the budget office then divide the money throughout the University.
West said that a departmental fee guaranteed that the money would be used in the law students' interests. He said that with an average load of 15 credit hours per student per semester, the fee would raise a projected $600,000 in 1996.
were made during the summer when they were not around and could not contribute their comments. He said the majority of the students found out last week, when the first memorandum was sent out.
West said students thought the decisions
"I have a feeling that we're just little numbers on paper for them," she said.
Allison Cumberbatch, Lawrence second year law student, said students as well as the school could certainly use the money.
"Our library has a lot of problems," she said. "They were thinking of cutting off one of our legal computer services. A school of our stature needs both those services."
Cumberbatch said she did not like the fact that the decision was made during the summer.
Jerry has scheduled to meet with students to discuss the issue at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in 104 Green Hall.
Law school fee increase
Law school fees first
Law students will pay an additional $20
fee per credit hour starting in fall 1993
and a higher fee in following years;
The revenue will be used to augment the law school in several ways:
The average increase in the faculty salary will be $9,000.
$100,000 will go to needy students
who need further aid and program
probably on a work-based grant program
$130.00 will be used for law library
acquisitions, maintaining periodical
subscriptions and the computer lab
$330,000 will go for faculty and administrative staff salaries.
$40,000 will be used for a new position in the school's placement office, job fairs and other programs.
Source: Frank West, Student Bar Association
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN