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VOL.101.NO.43
THE UNIVERSITY DAL KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA KS 66612 KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER23,1991
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Fulcher blasts Senate
Tired of what he calls Senate's ridiculous demands, student body president Darren Fulcher, left, talks at news conference with Carlos Fleming.
Student body president condemns waiving mediation in case review
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
Student body president Darren Fulcher decreed yesterday what he described as the back door politics of Student Senate.
Fulcher called a news conference at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union to object to Senate's waving arm gesture. The KU Judicial review of his case.
John Robertson, Senate representative to the Judicial Board, questioned Fulcher's statement.
"[Senate] proposed illegal and unreasonable time constraints within which to start and finish mediation," Fulcher said to about 50 people.
"What's he saying?" Robertson said. "That the evil Student Senate is trying to tawfur him from his God-loving line is he battered my ex-girlfriend."
"Because I would not roll over and die, because I could not accommodate (Senate's) outrageous, ridiculous, ludicrous," he said. "I will be no mediation of the matter."
Pulcher was charged with battering his ex-girlfriend during a domestic dispute in February, according to Lawrence police and court reports.
The Judicial Board is reviewing an appeal to Senate's removal motion of Fulcher.
Questions raised about Fulcher's credibility after the charge was made public led Senate to vote for his removal Sept. 12.
According to the Judicial Board rules, the parties in an appeal can
compromise during mediation. A solution reached during mediation would eliminate the need for a hearing.
However, the Judicial Board rules state that mediation can be waived if one party does not want to mediate.
"Darren needs to understand that the mediation process is a voluntary process," Robertson said. "This is not illegal."
The next step in the Judicial Board review of Fulcher's case is a hearing.
Robertson said Senate had waived mediation because it could not reach an agreement with Fulcher on how long mediation should last.
senate requested on Oct. 1 that the Judicial Board put a two-week limit on the mediation period, Robertson said. The period usually lasts about a month.
Robertson said Senate had requested a shorter time period because the year-long presidential term was too short to prolong the board's review.
Fulcher rejected the proposal, he said.
"I think Darren's interest is in relying on the Judicial Board time frames," Robertson said. "The normal Judicial Board time frames, however, are not constructed to deal with an issue as big as this."
Senate gave the board a new proposal Oct. 11 requesting that mediation begin Oct. 15 and last a week, he said.
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Fulcher said Senate had never
Fulcher did not approve of this proposal so Senate decided to waive mediation, Robertson said.
people who want to fight me every step of the way toward justice," he said.
intended to participate in media room.
"I am tired and disgusted with these
Robertson disagreed and said he was still willing to mediate with he
"We communicated clearly to his side that we were very interested in mediation," he said. "Our stipulations concerned only the time constraints."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that to his knowledge, no rules had been broken in the board's criminal Board's review of Fulcher case.
He said he feared Fulcher's speech had made it look as if the Judicial Board process had broken down.
Fulcher said that on the day Senate had decided to start mediation, he would have been unable to attend because he had prior Senate commitments.
Fulcher would not say what his obligations had been and said that revealing that information would violate the Judicial Board's code of confidentiality.
Eric Strauss, head of the Judicial Board, said that if either of the parties were to breach confidentiality, he could throw the case out.
All Judicial Board proceedings are confidential unless involved parties agree to make the proceedings public.
Strauss declined to define what kind of action would violate the code of confidentiality.
Fulcher and Robertson have said they have no objections to making the proceedings public.
However, if both parties file an agreement with the Judicial Board to open the proceedings, they will no longer be confidential.
KU officials won't discipline director
Administrator implicated in hearing
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
KU administration will not take any action against the director of the office of affirmative action, the interim executive vice chancellor said yester-
The director, James Turner, was implicated during a preliminary murder hearing earlier this week.
Two Lawrence police officers testified Monday that the murder suspect, Kenneth Moor, told them that Turner was drugged during the early hours of Aug. 8.
"Insofar as we know, there are no charges pending or proposed against Mr. Turner, and no evidence has been made available to us that would indicate that Turner has participated in illegal activities," said Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, in a predeigned statement.
"Our own inquiries have not produced any evidence to substantiate these allegations. Should information be shared, we would take appropriate action."
Shankel could not be reached yesterday for additional comments.
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said KU officials had
Morris was arraigned Monday in Douglas County District Court on charges of murder and aggravated burglary in the bludgeoning of Danny Davis, 40, with a golf iron Aug.8 at 619 Illinois St.
Davis died Aug. 18 of severe head injuries at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
not known
about Turner's
alleged drug
selling until the
preliminary
murder hearing
Monday afternoon.
Eversole also said she did not know whether Shankel had
spoken with Turner about the alleged drug deal.
She said the administration did not speculate about actions it would take against an employee before he or she was found guilty of a crime.
Turner became director of the office of affirmative action in 1987 but had worked as associate director and acting director in the office since 1984.
He could not be reached for comment yesterday because he was on University business in Topeka, said the executive director of the office of affirmative action.
Berger declined to comment about the incident.
Police said Monday that Turner had not been charged in connection with the reported drug sale at 619 Illinois St. the morning of the bludgeoning.
Turner is one of about 160 people on the prosecution's list of potential witnesses.
Detective Kevin Harmon of Lawrence police said that he had talked with Turner about the beating. He could not divulge what they specifi- cated about his injuries but he be important testimony when the case went to trial in January or February
LAWSCHOOL HARASSMENTCHARGES
ACLU attorney meets with KU about complaints
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
The cooperating attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union met with University officials yesterday to discuss complaints about sexual harassment by faculty members of the School of Law.
"We just wanted to make a report on where things are," said Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"It itwent well," said Ron Nelson, cooperating attorney for the ACLU. "They listened very well. Their intentions are to proceed with the complaints as best as they can."
because the Kansas and western Missouri chapter of the ACLU does not have staff attorneys, it hires private attorneys. Nelson was hired to act as the women's cooperating attorney because he had no ties to the University of Kansas.
Two former and two current law students filed complaints of sexual harassment by law school faculty earlier this year.
The remaining three complaints were filled with the office of academic affairs. However, action on any of the complaints became known only after the ACLU announced Friday that it was investigating how the University had handled the complaints.
"Our whole emphasis in releasing the matter to the press was trying to break the silence." Nelson said. "We never intended to attack, and I hope the administration does not see us as trying to attack."
One complaint was resolved by the office of a affirmative action Oct. 1.
he snanked, interim executive vice chancellor, said earlier this week that he had been wrong to tell
Del Brinkman
He said that yesterday's meeting had clarified Shankel's action, but he would not comment on specifics of the action or the people involved.
But the faculty member that the complaint was directed against has appealed Shankel's action, Nelson said yesterday.
Del Shankel
The action and the recommendation for it were based on the Faculty Code of Conduct, a document that outlines the rights and
responsibilities of faculty, Nelson said. But Nelson said that he still was waiting for recommendations on the two other complaints.
Brinkman said after the meeting that his office had made recommendations on all three complaints. But the other two recommendations had not yet been acted upon by the executive vice chancellor.
"We're concerned that all of the matters be considered together," he said.
Nelson said he would keep close contact with the University.
Nelson said that the dean of law, Robert Jerry, had distributed a memorandum emphasizing the University's policy against sexual harassment among the school's fac-
Victoria Thomas, University general counsel, said the University had to work through the process as thoroughly as possible.
"I think things are now headed in the right direction," he said. "It's my understanding that various things have already happened in the School of Law that address our concerns."
But the investigation by the ACLU will continue. he said.
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, was attended by Nelson, Shankel, Brinkman, Thomas, associate general counsel Rose Marino and the woman who filed the complaint that Shankel acted upon on Friday.
She said she could not comment any further because personnel matters had to be kent confidential.
Botany basics
Pulling off a leaf from a tree growing next to Strong Hall, Philip Wells, professor of botany, center, asks his students to identify the walms and members of his urban botany class spent yesterday studying botanum plants.
Playboy interviewing KU students
ByRochelle Olson
Kansan staffwriter
April issue will feature women from Big Eight
Playboy magazine has come to the bread basket of the United States seeking wholesome women for a college pictorial.
Women are more down-to-earth here, said David Chan, a Playboy photographer.
Chan is looking for three to four women from the University of Kansas to appear in a picture-tellings competition.
He said that he had interviewed about 75 women Monday and yesterday. He expects to interview 50 more today. Already he has seen people tell him who he thinks could appear in the magazine.
But you always expect the perfect one to walk in tomorrow, Chan said.
The pictorial will appear in the April issue, which will come out during the NCAA basket-
balltournament
Instead of showing guys playing basketball, Playboy wants to display the more beautiful aspects of the Big Eight. he said.
Chan snaps a couple Polaroid photographs of each woman who applies at a suite in the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive. The women pose in their clothes or bathing suits.
A woman must be 18 and a KU student to apply.
Chan, who has been a Playboy photographer for 25 years, said that he had once photographed the mother of one of the women who applied Monday. The mother was a "bunny" at the now-closed Playboy Club in Kansas City, Mo.
He said that usually one woman from a college pictorial feature went on to become a centerfield playmate. *Playboy pays models about $20,000 for centerfold shots.*
Although women's groups in cities he visits sometimes express their dislike of Playboy by protesting, it has not been a problem in
Lawrence, Chan said.
Julie Cohen, Northbrook, Ill., sophomore, said she applied to be in the pictorial because her boyfriend urged her to do so.
Marda Mills, a freelance makeup artist from Chicago, accompanied Chan.
"I probably wouldn't pose for Playboy," she said. "I think the whole crux of the matter is you have a choice."
She said she was doing it for fun and was not concerned with what people would say.
But Playboy college pictorials featuring nude women are anything but funny, said Connie Burk, member of Students Against Violence against Womyn.
Although Playboy is soft pornography, it leads to the use of harder pornography, she said.
"It has been clearly demonstrated in study after study that pornography perpetuates violence against women," she said.
But Burk said she did not judge the women who posed for the magazine.