The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, September 13,1982
Vol. 93 No. 16 USPS 650-640
Vol.93, No.16 USPS 650-640
The night sky at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson is lit with numerous carnival rides. The fair opened this weekend and
features agricultural, commercial and entertainment events. See story on page 6.
Law prof suggests TA contracts legal
Bv DEBORAH BAER
Staff Reporter
The controversial contract issued this fall to KU graduate assistants probably could not be challenged successfully by those students, a law professor said Friday.
Sidney Shapiro, KU professor of law, told members of the University Senate Executive Committee that he thought the contract was legally binding.
The contract prepared this summer includes a new paragraph, which is the center of the controversy. It says, "All appointments of student employees are contingent upon available funding. The appropriate dean, director or vice president may be appointed if (funding is not available.)"
The addition to the contract also says that written notice of cancellation on the grounds of inadequate funding must be given as least one candidate a student's work responsibilities are to begin.
SHAPIRO SAID, "I ended up not being very optimistic that th. graduate students who signed the fall contract could do very much to change it."
SenEx asked Shapiro to examine the contract to determine whether it was legal. Shapiro wrote a letter stating his opinion about the contract and attended the SenEx meeting to answer questions. He said the information he gave was for demonstration" use and was not intended as a legal opinion.
Charles Kahn, SenEx secretary, said he thought the contract was unfair because it did
not protect students against cancellation by the University.
"It ifpt the student in the position of signing a contract that is not a contract," Kahn said.
BUT SHAPIPRO SAID most contracts protected both parties only because they were usually of relatively equal bargaining power.
"The fact that the term of employment is conditional on available funding does not prevent a binding agreement from occurring," he said in his letter to SenEx.
The controversy about the contract does not involve only the University's right to cancel a letter.
Members of SenEx and the Graduate Student Council are angry also because the change in the contract was not announced before the contracts were given to students, and SenEx was not consulted before the change was made, SenEx members said.
Tom Berger, coordinator of the Council and member of SenX, said the Council had not been informed by the committee.
"ON JULY 29, we were told that there weren't any anticipated contractual changes," Berger said.
He said students who had noticed the change called the council office during the first week of the semester to complain. That was the first time the council knew of the change, he said.
Jim Carothers, SenEx member, said many graduate assistants had been signing their contracts for years without a change in the contract ever occurring. He said that because of changes in the contracts, many students probably did not read this somester's contract before signifying it.
Quarterback scheduled for arraignment
See CONTRACT page 5
By CAROL LICHTI and SALLY OMUNDSON Staff Reporters
KU quarterback Frank Seurer is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in Lawrence Municipal Court on charges that he struck a KU student at a local bar, Steve Robinson, the student who filed the complaint, said yesterday.
Searer, Huntington Beach, Calif., junior,
declined postment.
Police said they received a report alleging that Seurer hit Robinson, a Wichita senior, on Aug. 28 at Off-The-Wall-Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence City Prosecutor Mike Glover, who would not comment on the detrils of the case, confirmed that a complaint had been filed and that the mayor in municipal court had been sent to Seurer.
GLOVER WOULD NOT release the record of Seurer's case because he said it was standard procedure not to release any information until arraignment. He said it was not known whether a person had received a summons until he appeared for arraignment.
Police said Robinson, 27, 1047 1/2 Delaware St., reported that he was hit once in the lip and twice on the side of his head while trying to break up a disturbance at the bar.
Robinson, who called police from his home
after the incident, said, "I called the police because I was a victim of a senseless, cowardly act. No punches had been thrown until the time I was trying to prevent a fight."
Police did not arrest Seurer because Robinson was not in immediate danger when the report was made, said evidence officer Jack Elder.
WITTENESS SAID Securer and his brother, Troy, Huntington Beach, Calif., sophomore, who is on the football team's disabled list, entered the bar at 11:15 p.m.
A witness, Leslie Short, 24, of Overland Park, said, "It made me nervous the way he (Frank Seurer) walked in."
According to reports, witnesses said Frank ran on stage and yelled loudly into the microphone while the band, Kelley Hunt and Metis mathematics, was coming on stage after a break.
AT THAT POINT, witnesses said, a member of the band's crew tried to get a microphone away from Troy, who apparently also yelled into a mike.
Robinson, who was dancing near the stage,
tried to break up the struggle when Frank
taught him.
Short said, "People just started moving. Then I saw a bunch of people rolling on the floor."
No charges have been filed against Troy.
Weather
Better rope than dope
Today will be cloudy, with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms.
Kansas marijuana worthless as drug
The high today will be around 50 with winds at 10 to 15 mph. The low tonight will be around 30.
By DAN PARELMAN
Tomorrow will be cloudy and cooler. The high will be in the low- to mid-70s.
Staff Reporter
Growing on secluded Kansas River banks, along solitary backfaced banners and in deserted corners of farm fields, the leaves of thousands of shrubs spread out like tiny hands toward the sun each day.
The plants become increasingly bushy, and develop "flower tops" by summer's end.
Although marjuana grows abundantly in Douglas County, dope dealers are not beating a path to Lawrence — University of Kansas and law officials say most of it is worthless.
LOCAL MARLIUANA CONTAINS minute
But, as if to blow smoke in the face of marijuana users, area pot is not of much value unless someone is short on rope, said Ralph Brooks, research assistant of the Kansas Biological Survey and assistant director of the KJ beberium.
Hundreds of acres of marijuana grow in the Wakarau Valley of the Kansas River, Leroy McDermott, director of prevention for the Douglas County Citizen's Committee on Marijuana, said he was shocked. Other marijuana fields can be found along all the highways that run through the county, he said.
amounts of THC — delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
—the active ingredient in marigolds that
encases the plant's drug affects, Brooks said
recently.
Instead, the local strain is high in fiber content, he said. It was introduced into the area in the 1880s when it was grown commercially for its hemp, which was used to make rope.
In fact, the U.S. government printed pamphlets in the 1920s, before it outlawed pot in the '30s, urging farmers to grow marijuana for the
However, the market for the wild weed apparently has dried up because Kansas is nationally as being useless and because high quality pet is now grown in Douglas County, McDermott
DEALERS ALSO have dilted high quality pot with the Kansas variety, he said.
Monday Morning
hemp, said Leroy McDermott, director of prevention for the Douglas County Citizen's Committee on Alcohol-Drug Abuse Council.
"It's been a traditional scam to sell K-pot (as it's known among law enforcers) as well."
Despite the local plant's lack of potency, it has been sold, McDermott said.
said. Wild marijuana tends to camouflage foreign plants, he explained.
And Kansas pot smokers are having no trouble obtaining the foreign variety.
According to a poll conducted last spring for Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students, a KU group that taught students in A-DAC, 63 percent of KU students have tried pot.
NATIONALLY, MARJIJANA USE among high school seniors has increased in the last half of the 70%, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse Annual Incidence and Prevalence Study. In the school Seniors, a survey conducted by the University of Michigan for the federal government.
According to a DCCCA-DAC telephone survey conducted last winter, 49.5 percent of Douglas County residents surveyed said they had tried to smoke in the past month and smoked pot within the 15 days before the survey.
Daily marjuanja use among high school seniors was 11 percent in 1979 and 8 percent in 1981. McBermott said that drop is the only decline he has seen in mariuanja use in any
See POT page 5
In 1975, 47.5 percent said they had tried marijuana; in 1978, slightly more than 60 percent said they had tried it; and in 1981, slightly less than 60 percent said they had tried it.
Carlin, Regents disagree on budget requests
For 1983-84 school year
Staff Reporter
By DIRK MILLER
The Board of Regents and Gov. John Carlin disagree on the amount of money to be spent at the University of Kansas in the 1983-84 academic year, Ward Zimmerman, the director of the program.
Budget requests prepared by the office of business affairs show Carlin asking for a budget $5,640,180 less than that proposed by the Regents.
Carlin asked for two different general-use budget requests levels: level one holding the budget at $98,206,380, and level two holding the budget at $100,351,389. Zimmerman said.
Part of the difference between the two levels of requests would be that level one would extend Carlin's temporary 4 percent budget cuts for a second year, while level two would not. Last year the cuts returned $32,174.44 from the 1982-83 annual budget year to the state, Zimmerman said.
THE REGENTS' PROPOSAL authorized KU to spend up to $10,846,437, he said.
But Zimmerman said the Legislature probably would not approve all of the Rentals' request.
Jim Bibb, associate director of business affairs, said this request followed the Regents' guidelines, but translated its spending limits from percentages to dollar figures.
Zimmerman said the requests would be submitted to the Legislature's budget division
Wednesday. The division then will recommend the final budget to be voted on by the Legislature in May.
The "significant difference" between the budget requests was salary and wages, he said. The Respondents included a 9 percent salary increase for unclassified employees and student assistance as well as a 7 percent increase for the unclassified students and student assistants at both levels.
"THE BUDGET is dominated by salary and wages. Seventy-five percent of the general-use budget is salary and wages." Zimmerman said. "Level one will severely hurt the University. If we increase faculty salary at that rate we will lose quality faculty."
See REQUEST page 5
Illustrated by Rita Bogg and Din Deinphail/AFNAF
Although pot users at KU are surrounded by thousands of native plants, most prefer the imported varieties.