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Friday, April 4, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Beisner to draft Buckley guides
John Beisner completed his term as student body president at the University of Kansas in February. Now he's ready to tackle the Buckley Amendment.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Thursday that Beiser, Salina senior, will organize the writing of guidelines to be followed by University students, faculty and administrators to comply with the amendment.
Beinner emphasized that he would be used mainly as an organizer in writing the book.
"It's not a matter of making decisions," he said, "it's just to put in a form you understand."
To do that, Beisser said, he will take the information and decisions previously gathered by other organizations at the University, and will attempt to structure them to comply with guidelines for the amendment already released by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
"TT'S JUST BEEN a long process of finding out what he will have to do and what his team will have to do."
A plan approved recently by the University of Missouri at Columbia that will allow students to receive free legal advice deserves consideration by the University of Kansas, according to Ed Rolfs, student body president.
By DIERCK CASSELMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Rolfs says the program, which combines legal education and individual counseling, is effective in helping children.
Rolfs backs free counsel for students
The plan provides for a three-faceted program of legal education and advice, according to James N. Banning, MU dean of student affairs. Seminars on current legal topics like consumer protection and landlord-tenant relations, as well as professional training, accompanied with a part-time lawyer are main parts of the neogram, he said recently.
AN EARLIER PROPOSAL drawn up by Dennis Viehl, former president of the Missouri Students Association, would have given students free representation in court. Banning said recently that he rejected the plan because it would have violated state law prohibiting use of public funds for an individual's private benefit.
Student fees will fund the salary of the part-time educator-counselor, and the office of student affairs will provide office space and equipment under the approved plan.
comply with those wishes," Beisner said
Michael Davis, University counsel, said a court battle questioning the ethics of free-paid legal services had raged for 10 to 15 years. The problem with real student-related problems.
comply with those wishes." Besner said. The Buckley Amendment, signed into law last year, calls for free access to personal records by students 18 and over, but forbids the release of this information without written permission from the student.
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WHELTHER THE UNIVERSITY would adopt such a plan depends upon the demand for its services, Davis said. He said he couldn't gauge the demand and had no way of knowing how great it was. On the one or two occasions when students had to come to him for legal advice, he said he had referred them to a lawyer.
Jed Berlin, one of five ombudsman,
said, "We are a mediator of service, not an arbiter of disputes. When there's student dissatisfaction with some part of University life, we'll listen and then refer the party to some other party."
THE CONSUMER PROTECTION Association handles complaints concerning everything from unfair sales tactics to tenant-landlord relations, he said.
Rolfs said, "It might be feasible if we could consolidate all ongoing programs."
Mike Davis, University general counsel, and Balfour have been working several months to establish guidelines that would let KU's organizations know what information they can and cannot release. Weber has been selected to complete this job.
He said several other agencies existed to help guide a student through University life.
"A program like this is an excellent idea." he said.
Beisner said he would be combining the decisions made by University organizations pertaining to the amendment with those of his drafting his draft of the University's guidelines.
However, Rolfs said that if it came into competition with other student service organizations still on the funding waiting table, they would assign it a low priority ranking.
"I're not really making any decisions," he said, climbing down what's been decided elsewhere.
THE OFFICE OF ADMISSION and Records probably will be the office most affected by the guidelines, Beisser said, because it handles the greatest amount of travel.
Balfour said Beinser was chosen for the job because of his organizational ability, interest in the University and understanding of the amendment.
"It's just a moment of sitting down and writing something now," Balfour said.
While Beisner said no timetable had been established for completion of the guidelines, Balfour said he hoped to have a final draft completed within the next month.
Douglas County will apply soon for $310.000 in federal community development funds, according to Ernest Coleman, county federal funds, consultant.
Py PETER PORTEOUS Kansan Staff Reporter
the request will include $22,000 for baccalaureum and $48,000 for Eudora, he said recently.
The county's decision to include the two cities in its application followed much discussion and negative responses from federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials regarding the cities' preapplications for funds.
County seeks community development funds
Laboror's preapplication, which requested $200,000 for construction of a swimming pool, scored 10 points on a scale of 200 that HUD officials use to evaluate applications. Baldwin scored 30 points on a proposal to build a new pool that increase Baldwin's water supply pot.
LECOMPTON GOT A more favorable response to its preapplication for more than $200,000 for street and sewer improvements. Lecompton's request scored 70 points, but with a notation that the final application shouldn't exceed $100,000.
Lecompont officials agreed with other
victims and accusers to file Lecompont's
infection, separation, appeal.
Douglas County's preapplication of $443,000 scored the highest on HUD's survey in that county and was recommended that the county file a full application with a target amount of $200,000.
Coleman said 120 points on the scale of 200 were based on population and economic qualities of the area and 80 were based on the quality of the application itself.
THE TARGET AMOUNTS established by HUD are guidelines set by the HUD area
office in Kansas City, Kan. he said. Limits of $100,000 are set for populations less than 10,000, and $300,000 for larger populations.
The county's final application, as it stands now, will be 55 per cent higher than the recommended target amount because the application will include the populations and needs of Baldwin and Eudora. The county will provide the agreed-upon amounts to the cities only if the county's request for $130.00昂少, Coleman said.
Housing rehabilitation is a high priority item in the county's request, as required by HUD, he said. Another important item, is the implementation of a county-wide solid waste disposal system, which will include a dumpster and a compactor in or near Baldwin, he said.
SOME OF THE MONEY will go to the intensive planning that will be needed to come up with high quality applications for federal funds in the future, he said.
Coleman said a copy of the county's final application was due April 12 in the office of James Bibb, director of the state budget, in HUD's office at Kansas City, Kan. In HUD's area office in Kansas City, Kan.
Professional preparation of the Lecompton and Douglas County applications is being handled by Obinger Browne, representing the consultants' Kansas City office, has said that if the applications were approved, payment for preparation would be built into the grants. If the applications are approved, the finger Smith will bear the preparation cost.
If the county's application is approved, Baldwin and Eudora will still have to raise large amounts of cash in consideration, Coleman said. Baldwin's lake-dredging project will
Baldwin alters open meeting rule
By PETER PORTEOUS Kansan Staff Reporter
In response to a bill about to become state law, the Baldwin School Board will loosen its policy toward the use of "mechanical devices" during school board meetings, according to Robert Green, the board's attorney.
The bill, which is designed to prevent subversion of the state's open meetings law, is awaiting Gov. Robert F. Bennett's signature. The Kansas Senate approved the bill Wednesday, 39 to 1. The House had previously approved the bill.
The bill (HB 2101) would strengthen the open meetings law by sharpening its language and stressing the need for the public to have access to public meetings. The bill specifically states, for example, that cameras and recording devices are to be used at all public meetings subject to rules designed to ensure the orderly conduct of the meeting.
The Baldwin School Board's present policy prohibits the use of tape recorders or cameras during regularly scheduled public meetings.
GREEN SAID THURSDAY that the school board would consider its policy on the open meetings law at its next meeting, April 16.
'I'm certain that the board's position will
be in line with the statute as passed by the legislature," Green said. "They will abide by the spirit of the law as the legislature intended."
The board's policy has been a source of conflict since the present open meetings law went into effect in July, 1972, according to Lance Ross, station manager of KBNU, a Baker University radio station. The issue was heated since last November, be said.
On March 11, KNBU was barred from taping a school board meeting. Matt Fozel, KNBU reporter, and Adam Ambrose, reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World, were denied the use of their tape recorders, according to Ross. David Klamm, reporter for the Baker Orange newspaper, was prohibited from taking pictures, he said.
ROSS SAID THAT Jim Huskey, investigator for the Douglas county attorney's office, had attended that meeting and that he had later discussed the situation with him. Ross said the sign of a complaint was finally decided against because the county attorney's office wanted to see what the impact of the new legislation would be.
The new bill, if signed, will take effect July 1, but Ross said he would prefer to begin using recording devices immediately to "break the ice."
"If they violate the new order after July 1 the county attorney's office will take action," he said.
Green said that the school board had an understanding with the county attorney's office that the new policy would become apparent soon as it was passed by the school board.
The new bill is a great boost to the idea of public access. Ross said, He said he was pleased with the support that the Senate had given the bill.
THE BILL, in addition to allowing recording devices, would also:
Declare it to be against the public policy of the state to adjourn a public meeting to another time or place to subvert the policy of open meetings.
Require that notice of the date, time and place of any regular meeting of a public body be furnished to any person requesting such information.
Require that an agenda of the meeting be made available to any person requesting the agenda, unless the order of business is unknown.
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probably cost $40,000 and Eudora's may cost as much as $100,000 he said.
BOTH CITIES have also applied for a share of county revenue-sharing funds, but they may not receive the full amounts of these requests either, Coleman said.
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