Monday, September 27. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Alleged stabber of KU employee to go to trial
By Katie Hollar
writer @tansan.com
Kangan staff writer
Bowen P. Dino, 25, will be tried Dec. 1 for allegedly stabbing a University of Kansas employee the morning of Aug. 21. Assistant District Attorney Dave Zabel said Friday.
A preliminary hearing was held Friday at Division 2 court. Dino, a transient on jail records, faces felon charges of aggravated battery.
Dino allegedly stabbed Aron Guthrie, 21, following a fistfight shortly after midnight at 12th and Ohio streets. Both men were attending parties in the are-
Guthrie was stabbed multiple times with a 4 3/4-inch buck knife, Lawrence police said.
Dino's charges have progressively lessened since Aug. 21. He was arrested on charges of attempted second-degree murder, and prosecutors then held him on a voluntary manslaughter charge.
The judge formally charged Dino with aggravated battery on Aug. 23, Zabel said.
The suspect remains in custody at the Douglas County Jail.
Witnesses and the victim testified Friday in a preliminary hearing at Division 2 court.
When he testified Friday, Guthrie displayed wounds on his chest, arms and neck. Immediately after the fight, he was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then transferred to the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he was treated for nerve damage to his jaw.
On Friday, Guthrie said he has had no feeling on the left side of this face since the incident.
After hearing from Guthrie and five witnesses, Judge Jack Murphy set the Dec. 1 date for a jury trial.
Guthrie has been employed by the University of Kansas at the Gertrude Sellards-Pearson dining hall since August.
Nona Golledge, assistant director of the department of student housing, said Guthrie had returned to work.
"He's been kind of in and out," she said. "He's been going back to the doctor."
Edited by Mike Loader
Luncheon addresses fairness
Attorney leads talk about whether policies in classroom are legal
By Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff write
Students can express themselves however they want to, and there is little a profes-sor can do about it.
But a professor can dock students grades if they choose to remain silent and not participate in discussion.
Those were just two of 16 issues discussed at luncheons on Thursday and Friday, presented by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Rose Marino, an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, gave a talk titled "Classroom Policies: Are They Arbitrary, Unreasonable, Capricious?" which detailed whether the General Counsel thought certain classroom policies were legal based on law and University policy. About 50 people attended the two-day event.
Much of the discussion centered on whether professors could force students to change clothing that contained offensive messages or pictures.
"We can't disregard, even if we wanted to, the First Amendment right of expression," she said.
Marino said that the answer was generally no.
She said that all words would always be protected, but that the U.S. Supreme Court had been less protective of images — so things like a shirt with the picture of a nude Playboy model fell in a gray area. A professor might be able to force the removal of clothing like that because it could create a sexually hostile environment.
At the same time, however, professors can threaten students who may be shy with a grade reduction if they don't speak in class, she said.
Test your knowledge on what professors can and can't require of students. Can professors legally enforce the following classroom policies?
1. You are expected always to attend class.
If you miss a class, you are responsible for work you miss. Your grade will be lowered three points for each absence beyond the first two. More than six absences for any reason will result in failure of the course.
2. Involvement in an official sports event is not an excused absence.
QUIZ ON CLASSROOM POLICIES AND BEHAVIOR
3. A religious holiday is not an excused absence.
4. Class begins promptly at 11 a.m. at that time, classroom doors will be closed. Students arriving after the door is closed will not be allowed in and will be counted absent.
5. Students must write all out-of-class work using WordPerfect 6.0 and must turn in a disk along with a hard copy.
6. Every group member gets the same grade for a project, regardless of the quality of individual performance.
8. You should shut off and remove headphones during class. You should place beepers on vibrator mode. Cell phones should be turned off. If you use or activate one of these devices, you will be asked to leave and will be counted absent.
7. You should come to class dressed in a presentable fashion. This means no bare feet, jeans with holes, tank tops, short shorts or caps. Failure to dress appropriately will result in a lowering of your course arade.
9. Every student must attend a conference at the professor's office outside of class. Missing the scheduled conference is an absence.
"It's not a recognized disability," Marino said. "But you should try to figure out a reasonable accommodation."
Now consider the following situations. Can the teacher legally take the actions described?
Some professors would meet after class with shy students to talk one-on-one or allow students to submit written responses to class discussion.
the teacher legally takes
10. A student wears a t-shirt with the words
"F--- this" or "White supremacist and proud of it" on front. The instructor tells the student she must wear the shirt inside out or leave the room.
11. A student says aloud in class, "This test was b----s..." The instructor demands an apology and that the student leave class. The student refuses. The professor tells the student to officially drop the class.
12. A teacher needs to find a student in class to assist a disabled student with notetaking. After identifying the disabled student, the teacher appoints the student sitting next to him as notetaker.
Source: Office of the General Counsel
classes. Rosalea Postma-Cartar, director of the basic Spanish language program, attended the discussion in part because she supervised several teaching assistants and wanted to make sure their practices were compliant with the University.
She said she was relieved that none of Marino's standards were at odds with what she was doing.
"From my point of view, that's the best part," she said.
Edited by Brad Hallier
Campuswide party attracts 600 students
Mike Watkins, Newton senior, holds on tight while riding the "bungee bull" at Hawk Night. The semester's first campuswide alcohol-free event was held Friday at Memorial Stadium. Photo by Lucas Krump/KANSAN
By Emily Hughey
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Despite the University of Kansas' attempt to throw a campus-wide party, less than 600 students attended the alcoholfree Hawk Night on Friday.
Cameron Popp, Student Union Activities president and Hawk Night planning committee member, said the crowds drifted in and out of Memorial Stadium throughout the evening. He said about 150 people stayed to watch There's Something About Mary on the MegaVision at 10 p.m.
"People will come for a little while and leave and some would come back," Popp said. "It was kind of a transient crowd."
At 8 p.m., the stadium was bare, but visitors gradually trickled in the rest of
the night. Barbara Ballard, assistant dean of student affairs, said the numbers were close to what she expected. She said she thought 8 p.m. was too early for most students to arrive. However, she said the event had to start and end early so that the neighborhood would not complain about noise.
"Right now, we're right on target," Ballard said. "Eight o'clock is early and we have to be considerate of others."
The students who attended said they came for a variety of reasons.
I thought it looked fun," said Alicia Sanchez, Hutchinson sophomore. "I think it's important to let students on campus know there are other activities to do and you don't have to use alcohol." Ben Treweke, Towanda junior, said he came because he wanted to support the alcohol-free event.
said. "We need to have more alcohol-free events. You don't have to have a beer to have a good time."
Some families came, too. Courtney Kimple, Ellinwood freshman, brought her parents, Linda and Richard.
Friday's event was the first Hawk Night of the semester. Five more are scheduled for Oct. 22, Dec. 7, Feb. 18, March 31 and May 8. Future Hawk Nights will be held in the Kansas Union and organized by different student organizations.
"We're just trying to take in some of the activities," Richard Kimple said. "Just soak up a little time."
"I'm having a great time," Treweeke
Friday night's organizers were SUA, KU LEAD, Student Alumni Association, Association of University Residence Halls, All Scholarship Hall Council, Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Theta.
Edited by Katrina Hull
Commerce Secretary Daley wants free trade
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said. "We took that as a challenge, and we have taken the first step by beginning to pay off our enormous debt, and if we continue this trend in 15 years we would have no debt."
The panel fielded questions on the North American Free Trade Agreement, environmental conservation and the Kansas and U.S. standing in world trade community.
Daley was joined on the panel by businessmen from Lawrence and Topeka and Lt. Gov. Gary Sherrer, who also serves as Kansas secretary of commerce and housing.
Last year,
more than 500
Kansas businesses contributed to $4.5 billion in export sales
in K a n s a s ,
Sherrer said,
an increase of 42 percent since 1993. But
he said small and medium-sized businesses in Kansas should become more informed about the benefits of international trade.
Daley: Proponent of free, global trade for U.S. products
"Somebody in some other country may be making your product, and you may be walking down the street one day and see it being sold in your town," Sherer said. "There's a market force out there."
He said that it was important for local businesses in Kansas to aggressively pursue preserving existing foreign markets and continue to develop new ones.
"We cannot also at this time keep this hypocrisy about 'We want to sell to the world, but we fear buying from the world,'" Sherrer said. "It's not and cannot be one way that why it's called trade."
Charles Ranson, president of Kansas Inc., a Topeka-based economic institution, who served as moderator for the forum said he thought Daley and Sherrer were effective speakers and made the event was a successful one.
“It's important to remember we can not make fundamental changes overnight,” Ranson said. "It's a long process and this tour is just one step in the direction of informing the public the importance of international trade the local economies of Kansas."
—Edited by Brad Hallier
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