Wednesdav, March 29. 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Haskell reinstates student president
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
Haskell's student senate has seen its president elected to office, removed from office and then voted back into office all in one school year.
On Thursday, Lisa Luther was reinstated as Haskell's student senate leader by an 11-voice of the senate's executive board. Luther had been suspended for more than two months after allegedly violating Haskell policies for absences and grade point average.
Kim McHenry, student senate secretary, said Luther asked her if she should go up to the podium and take over the meeting after the vote for reinstalment at last week's meeting.
"I said, 'Get up here,' " McHenry said. "Lisa walked up to the podium and said, 'I'm back!'"
Luther said Bob Martin, acting Haskell president, told her he would review the case and give her a comment about her restatement yesterday.
But after a meeting with Martin yesterday, Luther said he still was reviewing the situation and that he didn't reach a decision until tomorrow.
"He said Thursday (that) he would have his final decision on whether he was going to officially recognize me." Luther said. "He will not try to block any funds or actions that I allocate as student president.
"It really doesn't matter what he decides, because as a student organization, we can hold meetings when we are busy and will use our turtles how we like."
Luther's troubles began last fall, when students began to question President Gerald Gipp after allegations that he pressured an instructor to change a grade for his daughter so she could graduate in 1987. He was
Luther's troubles began last fall, when students began to question President Gerald Gipp after allegations that he pressured an instructor to change a grade for his daughter so she could graduate in 1987.
reassigned in November to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., pending an investigation.
Luther and six other students circulated petitions in October calling for Gipn's removal as president.
After these actions, Luther and two other Haskell students left to attend the National Congress of American Indians Convention in Sioux Falls, S.D. They had been told by the administration that their absences during the convention would be excused.
After arriving in Sioux Falls, Luther called a fellow student at Haskell to say they had arrived "I was told the administration had decided not to excuse the absences," she said.
Luther said that her semester grade point average was 1.97 because her grades were docked by her instructors for her absences. And on Jan. 16, she was informed that she could no longer hold the office of student senate president because of her GPA.
But the Bylaws of the Haskell Student Senate state one grade qualification to be eligible for an executive board position: that a student "must have at the time of election and through the duration of his or her term of office, at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA."
Luther's cumulative GPA has remained above 3.0. she said.
Haskell Indian Junior College students and faculty and a KU law professor debated the college's attention to sex in 2014, with a students' rights forum yesterday.
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
Haskell students, faculty debate college policy Panel responds to alleged violations
The forum was in response to questions raised during the past several weeks that students' rights had been violated. Petitions recently circulated among Haskell students accused the school of the violations.
"We are gathered here to begin the process of resolving these issues," said Don Broad, a Haskell instructor. "We're ready to teach." "Our president is ready to listen."
The forum also covered other topics including students' rights to freedom of the press, freedom of speech, privacy, due process and student voter rights. The forum was then opened to the audience for questions.
Ronni Kona, Haskell freshman,
asked the panel members if the
attendance policy on the Haskell
work was arbitrarily administered.
Panel member Dario Robertson, KU associate professor of law, answered, "As the policy is stated, both unexcused and excused absences are counted against you. That means the instructor or administrator can make up whatever rule he wants to. If you accumulate enough of those absences, you are forced out of the school."
Terry Tribbie, Haskell sophomore, told the panel that the administration had pushed students around for too with its "dime-a-dozen" regulations.
Panel member Ruth Hawkins,
Haskell instructor, answered in defense of the school's administration.
"I have seen more positive things happen since Mr. (Bob) Martin came on campus than I saw under the lights of the admin administration." Hawkins said.
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
Gipp was reassigned in November to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., after charges of allegedly pressuring an instructor to change a grade for his daughter so she could graduate in 1987. Martin is
During a forum yesterday, Haskell Indian Junior College instructor Don Bread informs students of their rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
acting Haskell president.
acting Haskell president. Other panel members were Jim Sanderville. Haskell graduate and
former Haskell student senate president and Lisa Luther, Haskell Student Senate president.
U.S. judge upholds seizure of rocket fuel element
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — A federal judge ruled yesterday, that a company must forfeit a shipment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of a critical rocker ship owned by the U.S. Customs Service on route to Iran.
The 1,144-30 gallon drums were enough to fuel 300 military missiles and are valued at $350,000.
U. S. tanker in the Dutch port of Rotterdam and onto an Iranian tanker on Feb. 25, 1988.
U. S. District Judge Sim Lake's rulings against Girindus Corp. of Tampa, Fla., affirms government possession of the 286,000 pounds of ammonia used in rocket fuel as an oxidizer in fuel for rockets and missiles.
The judge said the government took an unreasonable length of time to institute its forfeiture proceedings because of the inability of the State Department and customs agents in the Netherlands, Florida and Houston to coordinate activities on the shipment.
Lake said Girindus, which had been paid for the shipment, failed to prove that the seized chemical was not toxic.
The chemical was seized by customs officials in February 1988, but the final notice of seizure to Girindus by customs officials was not sent until last October.
The judge said the West German company D.A. Dampt, not Gerindus, had legal title to the cheminerals and was forced to shut down.
informed by the State Department that the chemical required a special export license that Girindus
Ammonium perchlorate was not included on a list of commodities needing special export licensing until March 1, 1988. Girindus attorney Sharon Doyle said.
She said that even if the shipment had been intended for shipment to Iran by D.A. Damp, it was not delivered.
A customs agent testified Monday that the chemical was seized because officials were
Lake found that Girindus did not intentionally falsify export documents as suggested by the government.
At issue was a shipping export declaration stating Basel, Switzerland, as the shipment's final destination. The shipment's bill of lading showed the final destination was West Germany.
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