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Tuesday, June 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Students give convicts legal help
BY ALICE DELEHANTY
Kansas Staff Reporter
more than 200 cases a year are handled by students participating in the University of Kentucky's Student Government.
During the year the project had a continuous backlog of 50 unassigned cases, primarily because of the often lengthy litigation of the cases, Rick Miller, one of the summer student directors of the project, said yesterday.
The project provides law students with an opportunity to interview prisoners, advise them of their legal rights, research points of law, draft legal memoranda and documents, teach them about prison administrators, Keith G. Meyer, director of the project said.
Fifteen second and third year law students are selected each year to participate in the project. They receive four hours of credit for the program, which includes a course in Post-Conviction Remedies taught by Meyer.
During the summer there are usually five student directors. Summer directors may choose a salary instead of credit hours and work a 40-hour week.
"Very close faculty supervision is required in dealing with criminal cases," Meyer said. "I certainly an author of programs for the college and secondarily it's a service organization."
The project originally served only inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth. It has been extended to the state penitentiary and the Kansas Institutional Institute for Women at Lansing.
Students are required to log 45 hours of work during the fall semester and 90 hours during the spring semester.
Jerry Shelor, director of Legal Services for Prisoners, Inc., a non-profit corporation in Topaka that provides legal services to the prison officials and staff to project and supervise the Larsing cases.
Applications for assistance are submitted on a form provided by the clinic and supplied to inmates through institution caseworkers, Meyer said. A case is then assigned to a student who interviews the inmate and determines whether there is a legitimate argument. If there is a probable remedy for the inmate's problem, a motion
is filed in the appropriate court, including a motion to have an attorney appointed.
Only in very few instances, on the state level, will a law student appear as an advocate before a judicial or administrative body. Mever said.
Usually, the Project attaches a legal memorandum setting forth what are considered to be the issues involved and why they should be addressed. The hearing and appoint counsel, Meyer said.
Summer exodus of KU students affects some local businessmen
Business for some Lawrence merchants is not so hot this summer. Four out of five local merchants interviewed last week said they had suffered from decreased sales.
John Goddish, manager of Cassern's Clothing, 811 Massachusetts St., said his sales always decreased a year over the years because he was due entree to the loss of students.
"The majority of my customers are businessmen and this is the season when they take vacations," Godophin said. "People just don't buy as many clothes in the summer but still buys them out to run out to buy a suit, they take clothes off to go wash their cars."
Bill Nye, owner of Nye's Flowers, 939
Neville Ave., where he definitely missed a
full University.
"You bet we miss the students," Nye said.
"Our sales have decreased 35 per cent this summer, so we've had to let four employees go.
"Those students still at the University probably had a boyfriend or girlfriend leave them and we're now looking forward to the rose buys. We sell a few single red roses but we're looking forward to the fall. Students are more likely to come back next semester than they buy an arrangement of flowers."
Chuck Murtagh, manager of J.B.'s Big Pigs said he actually had more employees. Big Pigs also has an office in New York.
"My sales haven't cut off a bit," Murtag said, "and I don't really know why. I know it doesn't matter."
reversed from the way it was in November and December. This summer we've been very busy at night with just an average number of people here, but I know we all were in a restaurant was most
Murtagh said his restaurant was most active between 12:15 and 1 a.m.
"That's what we call our 'bar rush' because a lot of people come here after the bars close," Murtagh said. "We really get socked."
Larry Alley bought the Sizzler Family Steak House, 1518 W. 23rd, in February. He said he didn't have any past summers to compare with this one.
"What I did notice," Alley said, "was a 20
week after school was out."
Alley said the big change was the drop in
the number of customers on Sunday nights.
"During school the fraternities, sororites and residence halls don't serve an evening meal on Sunday." Alley said. "We get a lot of that traffic."
Alley said he was now advertising in the Kansan and receiving a good response.
Kathy Dolan, manager of the Village Set,
922 Massachusetts St., said she could always tell when the students left the University because her sales dropped about 30 percent as a consequence of that drop, she has had to drop three of her employe
this summer.
"I try to keep the summer season just as short as possible," Dolan said. "In fact, we're selling winter coats right now we'll come in will and put them on la-way."
"You don't make very much on shorts and ballers," she said.
Affirmative Action discusses revisions
Dolan said the summer season was not very profitable.
So if you're a student at the University and you ever feel depressed and as if the world against you, go talk to a Lawrence you'll make you feel great in no time at all.
Revisions in the student section of the Affirmative Action Plan were discussed during a meeting yesterday of the Affirmative Action Board.
Insurance coverage of students undergoing abortions was discussed under possible revisions of the Student Health Service Plan.
The board discussed possible revisions in the section dealing with financial aid to students. Several members expressed a desire to establish personnel in the financial aid office who would inform students about their obligations associated with receiving loans.
Future revisions will include changes in the complaint procedures, hiring practices and general policies of the present Affirmative Action Plan.
Laurel Wise of the Office of Affirmative Action said that the board hoped to communicate with the public about the issue.
The committee is researching modes of transportation for wheelchair users.
Restrooms in Fraser, Murphy, Hoch and widow Library are being to include wide
Building obstacles eased
even with the best wheelchair, it takes over 15 minutes to get from Lindley to the Union, and an hour to get from Oliver to Fraser." Williams said.
The `committee` is also studying methods of reserving parking for members of the
Ten or more curbs have been cut around Murphy hall and in front of Hoch Auditorium for wheelchair ramps, but no ramp at Hall have been unlocked on a trial basis.
Construction to eliminate barriers for physically handicapped people in Lawrence is occurring on and off campus, Roger Williams, chairman of the Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped, said Friday.
Wheelchairs are too wide to fit into most stalls, and a 6-foot person on crutches needs a one yard wide space while walking along, making stalls hard to enter. Williams said.
In Joseph R. Pearson and Oliver residence halls, wider toilet stalls and elaborate provisions for bathing are being installed on ground level wings, Williams said.
Showers are being added that have attached seats. A person in a wheelchair can lift himself into the seat and swing himself into the shower to bathe, he said.
university community and for the public, be said.
"We're trying to change things so they're usable for everybody," Williams said. "We don't try to make things so they're for handicapped only."
The committee, which began in 1972, submitted its first requests for eliminating physical barriers to the Office of Facilities and Planning in the spring of 1974.
The Veterans' Administration sent the committee a letter saying it was pleased to see the changes instituted, he said. Previously, it had been sending statically printed materials state because of the lack of facilities to handle them in schools within the state.
Mideemane battery charges against James Dillard, Springfield, Mo., senior, who was accused of throwing a pie at a professor, were dismissed yesterday.
The dismissal will allow new charges to be filed in Douglas County District Court so Dillard can have a jury trial. The action was taken at the request of his attorney.
Pie pelter gets jury
Dillard was arrested on May 6, accused of throwing a chocolate cream饼件 at David Holmes, professor of psychology. He was to be sentenced to three months in County Court before Judge Mike Elwell.
With the new proceedings, Dillard will be arraigned before a district court judge and given a new trial date. An arrangement date after he is arrested under the new warrant.
Peace Corps to pull back
WASHINGTON (AP) --Assured that Peace Corps programs will be phased out in oil-prospering countries, the House voted to allocate $186.4 million for the corps next year.
About half of the requests for assistance concern the process which has resulted in conviction and imprisonment, Meyer said. These claims usually involve asserted trial errors or violations of constitutional rights during the trial or investigation process or
Chairman Thomas E. Morgan, D-Pa, that the house in his International Relations Committee was assured by John Dellenback, Peace Corps director, that the company had outsold out these countries that can pay for their own economic development."
country with substantial oil revenues," was one example of a place where the Peace Corps may no longer be needed and that Iran was another.
3116.4 million a for a corpsman level
of 8252 around the world, compared with
6,870 in the United States.
Another large group of applications involve detainers, which are hold orders lodged against inmates by authorities in other jurisdictions.
Morgan named no countries, but a report by his committee said that Venezuela, "a
The authorization for the 15-month transition fiscal year starting July 1 was approved by the House 303-70 and sent to the Senate.
If the inmate hasn't afforded a space, the detective may drop the detainer to the dropping of the detainer.
Several students have successfully negotiated the dropping detainers, Meyer
The House also approved 336-46 an $733
million appropriation to the State
Department for the same period.
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Other problems handled by the project include parole revocation, extradition, divorce, credit problems, loss of good time, inability to work and eligibility for social security benefits.
Joe Johnson, one of the summer student directors of the project, said even if there was no legal remedy available, the student acted as a combination social worker, friend and legal voice, all of which are important to the inmate.
*Dealing with people is what the law is all about. We have to put the law into practice, everyday language.*
Bett Meyer, also a summer student director, said he saw the defender project as an educational experience considerably different from classroom experience.
"You learn different skills." Meyer said, "Puzzling out a problem by yourself, questioning people who don't know about the law and who are more articulate than they are," he says. But only sense that something is wrong, they can't put their fininer on it."
Ideally, the students leave the project with a better appreciation of the correctional system's operational problems and challenges faced by the practicing bar, Meer said.
"If the students learn nothing else, they should understand the tremendous need for good communications between client and lawyer," he said.
Application approved
Preliminary application for renewal of an Elementary-Secondary Education Act (ESEA) grant was approved last night by the UD No. 497 School Board.
The $110,760 grant would provide finances for a remedial reading program in USD No. 497, which was funded by a similar grant last year. A carry-over of $13,000 from the 1974-75 ESEA grant of $130,306 was also approved.
The general objective of ESEA Title I is to provide a part time or full time reading teacher for school elementary and secondary classrooms. The teacher would work with children who were reading problems that could be improved through remedial reading techniques.
The program objective in Lawrence is to improve children's reading skills on a monthly basis by using Title I reading instructions.
The same schools that offered the 1974-75 services will offer the 1975-78 services.
The program serves nine elementary and two junior high schools.
The 1975-76 grant would increase the number of regular school year elementary students who can be served and would maintain the present level of coverage to target secondary students in the seventh grade. In addition, a math consultant-teacher for the first time to work with an estimated 80 students who have severe math deficiencies.
6th & Missouri
Taking The Annual Student Senate Inventory
SUMMER JOB
- INVOLVES DESIGNING AN INVENTORY SYSTEM FOR YEAR-ROUND ACCOUNTING
- REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to work on your own initiative
- Ability to prepare a comprehensive report
- Computer skill (suggested)
- Ability to work with students and faculty
- Typing skill (suggested)
- EARNS $3/Hour
Apply at the Student Senate Office 105 B Union
Paid for by Student Activity Fees