Student killed in car wreck
David L. Gore, Pawnee Rock junior, died Thursday at 11:15 p.m. as a result of injuries received in a three car accident at the intersection of 19th and Iowa Street.
Others involved in the accident were: Danny J. Jennings, 20, RR 5, Lawrence; Herbert Williams, 41, 1002 W. 24th; and Richard H. Huff, 42, 2514 Cedarwood, a passenger in the Williams car.
Jennings was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and is reported to be in fairly good condition. Huff and Williams were treated for minor injuries and released.
David L. Gore
Williams and Huff were in one car and Jennings and Gore were alone in their cars. Both Gore and Jennings were travelling south on Iowa while the Williams car was north-bound on Iowa.
Lawrence police decline comment as to the cause of the accident, pending a thorough investigation and questioning of Jennings.
David Swenson, Sioux Falls, S.D., sophomore, an eyewitness to the accident, said the Jennings car flew into the air after hitting the Gore car, flipped over on its top and traveled approximately 100 feet in the air.
Lawrence police said Jennings' car skidded on its roof until it came to a halt 708 feet from the point of impact.
The impact of the collision was severe enough to tear the engine completely away from the Gore's car and hurl it several feet from the car's final resting place.
Police said Gore was thrown from his car, probably out of the drivers side. Williams and Huff said they thought Gore was thrown from his car before it struck them.
Swenson, who reported the accident to police, said he parked his car in the Alpha Kappa Lamba Fraternity parking lot, looked north of Iowa and the collision.
Swenson said as the Jennings car was sliding on its roof, sparks from the friction of the roof sliding on the pavement made the car look as though it was on fire. Swenson said, "metal was being torn and glass was breaking, it sounded like a metal crusher in a junk yard."
Several persons in the immediate area of the collision who did not see the wreck, but heard the noise, said the collision sounded like an explosion
Williams and Huff said it appeared to them that Gore's car was rolling over and over when it hit them. Swenson added that after the two cars
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Photo by Joe Bullard
Photo by Ron Bishop
Mangled cars reflect tragedy at 19th and Iowa Street
Two of the three cars involved in a fatal accident at 19th and Iowa Street Thursday evening show the destructive nature of the collision. The top picture shows the shattered Volkswagen driven by David Loren Gore, who later died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The overturned Chevrolet was driven by Danny J. Jennings, Route 5, Lawrence. The Jennings car slid more than 200 yards on its top after striking Gore's car from the rear.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Code changes discussed
A special meeting of the University Council was held yesterday at 3:30 p.m. in 409 Summerfield Hall to discuss recommendations which would make changes in the Senate Code.
Following an Organization and Administration Committee report from chairman Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology, discussion ensured on three issues which McCluggage thought to be the most controversial.
The planned discussion recommending a University Judiciary never occurred in the two-hour session as members debated changes in terminology and voted on recommendations to improve present code regulations.
The issues were (1) Final Examination Schedules which read: The instructor of a course shall decide whether a final examination is necessary unless the department in which a course is given makes that decision. Decisions by the department or school would normally relate to multi-sectioned or service courses. As early as possible in the course the instructor shall inform the students of the function
of the examination in determining the course grade.
At one point in the discussion a motion was made to exclude the credit/no credit grading system from the University but an amendment was introduced and after some discussion, the credit/ no credit system was saved when Rick Von Ende, Abilene, Tex. graduate student and vice-chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee moved to retain the grading system.
(2) Grade points and grade point averages which states: Grade points are numerical weights assigned to completed hours of academic work, according to the following schedule of values: For each hour of grade A—four grade points; grade B—three grade points; grade C—two grade points; grade D—one grade point and grade F—zero grade points.
Von Ende said, "We need to keep a credit/no credit system within the rules of the University. I think in the future that we will get to a credit/no credit system with some real meaning and we will eventually move away
from letter grades. In keeping the system it will protect the student who decides to advance his education by going to graduate school."
The third major issue discussed was academic dishonesty to which was added the following sanctions which may be imposed upon a student or an instructor for academic misconduct. It read:
- Admonition: An oral statement that his present or past actions constitute academic misconduct.
- Warning: An oral or written statement that continuation or repetition, within a stated period, of actions which constitute academic misconduct may be the cause for a more severe disciplinary sanction.
- Censure: A written reprimand academic misconduct. Censure may include a written warning.
- Other sanctions which may be imposed upon a student for academic misconduct are:
- Reduction of Grade: Treating as unsatisfactory, work which is a product of academic mis- (Continued to page 16)
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Cigarette-cancer link found
NEW YORK—Two scientists produced Thursday what they said was the long-sought direct cause-and-effect proof that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.
They got it from 62 dogs who were required to "smoke" nine unfiltered cigarettes daily for up to 875 days or two years and more than four months. Fourteen of them developed lung cancers.
Carswell vote delayed
WASHINGTON—A delay of 10 days in the committee vote on G. Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination has given his opponents more time to search his private and public record.
They are seeking any evidence that Carswell's well's performance as a federal judge in Northern Florida shows an anticivil rights bias. They are also probing his private life for instances or suggestions of racial discrimination.
Hanoi objects to delegate
PARIS—Hanoi has all but ruled out secret peace talks with the United States so long as Ambassador Philip C. Habib heads Washington's delegation in Paris.
Habib's presence as the chief U.S. negotiator, a North Vietnamese spokesman said, means "the United States is downgrading the talks with the ultimate aim of sabotaging them."