THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA KS 66612 KANSAN
VOL.101,NO.17
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1991
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Judicial Board to hear case
Fulcher's expulsion stayed until board completes its deliberations
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
The KU Judicial Board will hear an appeal of Student Senate's decision to expel student-body president Darren Fulcher from office.
He will stay in office through the appeal process, which could last years.
Eric Strauss, chairperson of the board, made the decision to hear the appeal yesterday, just a few hours before Fulcher was to leave his nest.
Senate voted 42:19 early Thursday morning to expel Fulcher, and the motion would have taken effect at 5 p.m. yesterday.
Fulcher said that he appealed the motion late Friday afternoon to the Judicial Board, but Struqua said that he had not heard anything from Fulcher as of 1:30 p.m., yesterday.
However, Strauss said he received an appeal from a student senator yesterday morning and that appeal would the basis of the board's consideration.
Strauss said that the name of the senator who filed the appeal would not be released. All Judicial Board proceedings and records are closed to the public.
The chairperson of the Judicial Board decides whether the board will hear an appeal.
"It is my position and that of University lawyers that the University Rules and Regulations provide for the Judicial Board to hear the case," said Strauss, who is an associate professor of architecture and urban design.
Fulcher said, "It shows that Student Senate perhaps did overstep its boundaries, and, hopefully, some justice will come out of this."
Fulcher said that the board would look only at whether Senate had acted within its boundaries when it decided to vote him from office.
"They won't hear anything about what happened between Audra and man," he said.
Fulcher was charged with battering Audra Glasav, his ex-girlfriend and a Kansas City, Mo., senior, during a domestic dispute in February, according to Lawrence police and court reports.
Disclosure of the battery charge charged to questions about Fulcher's ability to be an effective president and event manager to adopt the motion to expel Fulcher.
Before the decision to hear the appeal was made yesterday, the board
put Senate's action on hold and requested more information. What information the board was seeking was not specified.
The board consists of three professors who are licensed to practice law, 24 other faculty members, nine staff members, two administrators and 16 student members.
According to the University of Kansas Senate Code, any member of the KU community who feels threatened by security action may appeal to the board.
The board acts to resolve conflicts, complaints and grievances that arise from the actions of employees.
According to a statement released through University Relations, the board might attempt to mediate the dispute.
In that case, each of the parties involved would name one member of the board to serve on a mediation team and would select chairperson for the panel.
The first step of the appeal, which must be carried out within seven days, calls for Strauss to inform all members of the Judicial Board of the case.
It could take up to 36 class days until the six-step selection process is complete.
If the parties fail to reach an agreement, or if medication is waived or omitted, the case would come before a judge to decide up of five members of the board.
At least two of the members would have to be students in this case because there are two student parties involved: Student Senate and Pulcher.
The hearing panel members DarrenFulcher would be selected by Straus
During the hearing phase, each
person and cross-examine the other party.
After hearing all the evidence, the hearing panel would make recommendations to the appropriate administrative unit. In this case, recommendations would be made to the office of student affairs.
The parties can appeal the recommendations of the hearing panel only on grounds of procedural errors during the hearing phase.
Alan Lowden, student body vice president, said that he had asked Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday to issue an injunction to stay the Senate's decision. But the injunction came from the Judicial Board.
"I just wanted to make sure that an appeal was heard," Lowden said. Until an appeal is heard, this matter will be addressed and we want what whole controversy to end."
Federal judge dismisses charges against North
The Associated Press
An exultant North declared him self completely exonerated.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed all charges against Oliver North, the central figure in the Iran-conflict affair, yesterday after the special prosecutor gave up trying to reinstate him.
"Idon't have another word for it," he said. "I've had my last hearing forever, I hope."
North hugged his attorney, family and friends in the courtroom after U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell dismissed the charges and said, "This terminates the case."
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh said he had decided it was unlikely he could win reinstatement of North's three convictions, for destroying documents, acceptance of evidence, and obstruction of Congress, which were set aside by a federal appeals court in July 1990.
The appeals court had ordered Gessell to determine whether testimony at North's trial was tainted by use of the defendant's own forced testimony before Congress, given under immunity in 1987. Last
week, better National Security Adviser Robert A. McFarlane, North's White House boss for a time during the Reagan administration, dea heavy a bake to the prosecution by saying in court that his testimony had been influenced by North's statements to Congress.
North was a little-known Marine colonel detailed to the White House at the time of the main events of the Iran-Contra affair; the illegal resupply at his direction of the Nicaraguan rebels and the eventual diversion to the contras of money from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran.
Disclosure of the basic facts in late 1986 was the worst blow to the Reagan administration during its eight years, but the televised congressional hearings that followed made Northa national figure.
President Bush, who has referred to North as a hero for his Vietnam exploits, praised yesterday's action.
"A long period of suffering for
aim and his family is over," Bush
said. "It sounds like the system
worked very well."
However, Walsh said the dismissal should be taken as a warning that immunity would not be granted lightly.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Blind ambition
Strange circumstances surround disappearance of two KU students
Regan Wheat. Lakin freshman, sketches a tree for her drawing class without taking at her sketch pad. Students used a technicolor called "Paintbrush" to paint the tree.
By William Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
Two University of Kansas students and their mother disappeared a week ago from their hometown of Russell, leaving friends, family and police puzzled.
The mystery has prompted a multi-state investigation, perplexed residents of the small, western Kansas town and raised questions about the involve-ment of most orthodox religious group in the disappearances.
The three women were last seen at a funeral service for a friend at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Russell before noon Sept. 9., said Russell County Sheriff Bob Bolloum.
The mother, Marcia Brock, and her daughters, Sonya Brock, a KU senior, and Stephanie Brock, a KU junior, were reported missing Wednesday by Sam Brock, the students' father. Boloum said.
Sam Brock said yesterday that he had no idea where his wife or daughters were and that he had not seen Sonya or Stephanie since Labor Day.
In a recent photograph, Stephanie Brock (left), Russell junior, and Sonya Brock, Russell senior, pose for a portrait
He would not comment further Balloum.
Bolloum said that evidence pointed to the theory that the women left town on their own.
"We're leaning toward the assumption that this was a spur-of-the-moment thing," Bolllon said.
Bolloum said that Sonya and Stephanie's car was missing and that police had put out a nationwide call.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has three agents working on the case. A KABI agent said.
Megan Crawford, Wichita senior and a Lawrence roommate of Stephanie, said that Stephanie went to bed at 10 p.m. sept. 8, the day before the disappearance, but said nothing about leaving.
Sonya's roommate at Miller Scholarship Hall, Julie Deneshe, Mission senior, said she had last seen Sonya about 12:30 a.m. Sept. 9. She said that Sonya upset but she did not she had said she was leaving.
Denesha said Sonya had been upset three days earlier but that she had not been willing to talk about what was wrong. She said Sonya left early in the day because she was unusual for her not to tell anyone where she was going.
"You think you know someone, and then they do something really bizarre and freaky like this," Craig Amstrup said.
Vickie Polycyn, a friend of Sonya's from Russell, said that she got a letter last week from Sonya that waited for me.
She said that the letter seemed normal except that Sora wrote a few lines about the things they used to do by hand.
Polycyn said that Sony mentioned graduation and the "real world" briefly in the beginning of the letter and it seemed as if Sonya was not looking forward to it.
Some people have suggested that the women's disappearance may be tied to an unorthodox group of about 20 people in Russell that has apocalyptic religious views.
Chris Belsk, first-year medical student from Topeka, said he last saw Sony about Sept. 4.
Balk said that he was friends with Sonya and that she had told him about some religious ideas she had heard.
"She told me at one time about some group," he said.
Bekal said Sonya told that the group consisted of Ru. well residents, including Trudy Furrey, the caretaker of a nursing home.
In 1988, Furney, who died of cancer, designed a statue called "The Seventh Trumpet" for the city Plaza.
G. Jason Long, a Russell artist who constructed the statue, said that Furney was a member of the
group and that the piece was inspired by the Bible's Book of Revelation,
The statue was supposed to symbolize a new beginning for the town. Long said,
Eric Fowler, an artist from Russell who now lives in Wichita, said that he had been in the group for a few months in 1989 and that Marcia Brock was part of the loosely-formed organization.
Furrye's niece, Delphin Becker, said that she thought the Brocks' disappearance had nothing to do with her.
KU police are involved in the investigation but
do not want to talk about the sister's disappearance,
said LaJolla Police.
"We did not find any indication that either had been back in Lawrence since they left," he said.
Changes in the U.S.S.R. make Soviet studies spontaneous
By Jennifer Bach Kansan staff writer
One professor calls the New York Times his text
Some classes at the University of Kansas are trying to keep up with recent changes in the school.
Paul D'Anier, professor of political science, said his original syllabus for his Soviet Foreign Policy class had changed with last month's Soviet coup and the events that followed.
Professors who have prepared a schedule for their classes find themselves wandering off their prepared paths, leading spontaneous and unexpected discussions.
During the first two weeks of classes, he took one day a week to discuss current events.
"It's good in that it makes the material inherently interesting," he said. "The students can go to class and see how the material relates to the world."
Instead of reworking the syllabus, D'Anieri said he was putting the entire second half of the semester on hold in anticipation of more surprises in the Soviet Union.
He said he did not want to plan another sylabas for fear that he would have to revise it and write it again.
A problem D'Anieri noticed was the use of
reading materials. Before the coup, he made photocopies of articles that were relevant to him.
Now, what is relevant has changed.
"Everything that was written before a month ago is now obsolete," he said. "I had chosen articles that focus on issues between Jan. 1961 and 1963. These aren't issues that exist any more."
"Textbooks are outdated. The main textbook becomes the New York Times."
He said teaching about the history of Soviet politics was difficult because many students did not feel that what happened 50 years ago was important now.
"History is still relevant," he said. "I'm just going to have to do a better job of selling it now."
He said faculty members would need to keep students informed as current events evolved.
William Fletcher, professor and director of the Soviet and Eastern European studies department, said that although no department was established yet, they were seriously being considered.
"Very often you're at the mercy of what's available," he said. "Now it may be more of a problem. What the student reads will depend on the texts we can get."
Stephen Parker, chairperson of the department of Slavic languages and literatures, said that although class materials in the department were not directly affected by the changes in the Soviet Union, future availability of Russian literature might be.
Alexander Filatov, visiting associate professor from Moscow, is teaching an introductory course on Soviet economics at KU this semester. He said he was using the changes in the Soviet Union to supplement the course work.
They have contacts with my friends and colleagues in the Soviet Union," he said. "So I try to keep them informed."
Next semester Flatov plans to teach a more focused economics course on Soviet enter-
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He said students needed a more generalized course because many were unaware about what was going on in the Soviet Union.
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