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University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1982
Top Kansas court hears suit against KU officer
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide in the next five to eight weeks whether a KU policeman was negligent in pursuing a traffic violator, the assistant attorney general said yesterday.
Leslie Kulick, assistant attorney general, said the Tort Claims Act, which grants immunity to government employees, was a main argument in the case presented by the Supreme Court. The act says that the employee acting properly in the line of duty cannot be sued.
The case was brought to the Supreme Court by a Lawrence lawyer, James Rumsey, representing the relatives of Margie Thorning, who was killed in a two-car accident during the police pursuit of a former KU student.
THE KU POLICE officer, Victor Shore, was pursuing Dondner Bender, Kansas City, Kan., who was later convicted in Douglas County district court of involuntary manslaughter; the Dennese, KU director of police.
Bender served 121 days and was then placed on probation.
Thornton's father, Charles, filed the suit claiming that the accident was caused in part by Shore's pursuit of Bender.
Douglas County District Judge Ralph King Jr. rulied that Shore was immune from being sued in two
separate civil suits in March and July 1981.
He said he argued Tuesday that a jury, not a judge, should decide whether Shore was operating negligence or neither he should be legally liable
DENNEY SAID Shore was pursued Bender after he tried to stop Bender for speeding on Jayhawk Boulevard. Bender pulled over to stop, but pulled away, Denney said. The pursuit lasted for 90 to 100 seconds and covered a slightly more than a mile, Denney said.
Bender drove from Jayhawk Boulevard to West Campus Road, traveled north past the stadium and east on 11th Street. Denney said.
At 11th and Connecticut streets,
Bender's car collided with a car that
was traveling north on Connecticut
Two people were killed in the accident.
At the time of the accident, Shore was a half block behind Bender, Denney said.
"The blame should be placed on the idiot who refuses to stop," he said.
BUT DENNEY stressed that officers should react responsibly during a pursuit and not go beyond the danger the safety of civilians.
But Denney said that when pursuing traffic violators it was hard for officers to know when a pursuit should be terminated.
"THE OFFICER should stop pursuit when he can't control his vehicle," he said.
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The state needs more revenue, and Jessie Branson thinks that imposing a severance tax would help.
It's this simple. The revenue would support public education and highways. That, in turn, would increase the pool of money available for higher education. In these matters, Lawrence has an interest.
But that's only a fraction of the answer. The state must grow, too. Jessie will promote economic growth by seeking ways to make partners of higher education and industry.
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Student financial aid figures similar to national averages
By DONNA KELLER
Staff Reporter
KU students applying for financial aid have family profiles very similar to those students applying for aid across the country, Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said yesterday.
But KU students' average family income of $29,973 exceeds the typical national family, which has an average income of $22,163, he said.
ROGERS SAID his office recently received the 1982-83 aid applicants statistical profiles, which were prepared by the American College Testing Program and lists data for KU students as well as data of student aid applicants
The typical dependent applicant at the University comes from a family of four, with $2 percent of those families living from two incomes, Rogers said.
"Really, the report is interesting to compare our students to others," Rogers said. "We don't really use it as much for teaching computers, but it still good (for reference)."
He said the ACT report, based on a 10 percent sample of college financial aid reports submitted to ACT, represented about 30 percent of all aid applicants in
the country, with a high percentage of the students from southwestern. Midwestern and southeastern public institutions.
Rogers said the report showed that 35 percent of the, 7,193 KU students applying for aid were freshmen, 17 percent sophomores, 20 percent juniors or fifth-year students, and nine percent graduate or professional students.
THE ACT NATIONAL norms showed 41 percent of aid applicants as freshmen, 23 percent sophomores, 18 percent juniors, 14 percent seniors or fifth-year students and 4 percent graduate or professional students, he said.
Students are classified as either dependent or self-supporting students, Rogers said. The report showed that 72 percent of KU students were dependent students and 28 percent were self-supporting. The national data show 71 percent of the applicants as dependent and 29 percent as self-supporting, he said.
THE TYPICAL KU dependent aid applicant had savings and assets of $551 and expected to earn $747 during the summer of 1981, compared with $365 nationally, with expected summer earnings of $627, he said.
The average dependent KU student contributes $1,045 of his own money toward his education. The national figure is $1,004, he said.
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