Thursday, April 17, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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A Topeka man accused of armed robbery will stand trial next month for the robbery of the School's suprant's Credit Union, 1015 W. Sixth St.
Man to stand trial for credit union theft
At a preliminary hearing yesterday, District Judge Ralp King Jr. determined there was enough evidence that he could be tried for aggravated robbery.
The credit union was robbed March 5 by a man wearing a skim mask who escaped with more than $11,000.
After the robbery, Lawrence police officers sighted Mayfield in the 600 block of Maine and Missouri streets. Lawrence police Detective David Reavis confronted Mr. Reavis, then When Mayfield tried to run, Reavis shot him in the right shoulder.
Kevin Reed, 18, of Topeka, also will stand trial May 19 on the charge of aggravated robbery. He was arrested in his car after the robbery. District Attorney Jim Flory requested that both Reed and Mayfield be tried together. A hearing to determine if the trials will be combined was set for May 2.
Mayfield fled and was found about 15 minutes later at 641 Missouri St. A gun and a plastic bucket were found under Mayfield's body.
Park bench in works
Wade said he didn't know when the project would receive final approval from administrators in advanced services and facilities planning.
The proposed senior class gift, a park bench near the southeast corner of Potter Lake, is now being considered by the site and land management group Greg Wade, campus landscaping architect, said yesterday.
Architectural services still is considering who will do the work and possible objections to the location. The project's financing also needs to be determined, Wade said.
Doug Farley, senior class treasurer, said a senior class committee decided two buildings to be the park bench near Potter Lake.
The senior class fund would pay for the bench and landscaping. Farky said. The estimated cost of the bench and having it inscribed with "The Class of '86" is $1,000 to $1,300.
once the plans and location are final, construction could begin in the fall.
New editors named
The editors and business managers for the summer and fall Kansan staffs were announced yesterday. Cindy McCurry, Lenexa senior, was chosen editor of the summer Kansan and Lauretta McMillen, Lawrence senior, was chosen editor of the fall Kansan, David Nixon, Edmond, Okla, junior, was chosen business manager for both summer and fall.
Deadlines for applications for other positions on the staff have been extended until tomorrow. Applications are due by 5 p.m. in the journalism dean's office, 200 Sguaffer-Flint Hall.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high temperature in the mid 60s. Southeast winds will gust at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. In the north, there is a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms and a high temperature in the mid 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Thomas Banyacya, a Hopi Indian, explains a map that illustrates the life of mankind. Banyacya copied the map from the original
Indians continue battle for land
Bv Brian Kaberline
Staff writer
In 1974, the U.S. Congress passed a bill which was supposed to end years of land disputes between the Hopi and Navajo Indians in Arizona.
But a group of Navajo being forced to move because of the bill says the real intent of the legislation was to give mining companies a chance to buy rights to the rich mineral deposits
Representatives of the Big Mountain Support Group were in Lawrence yesterday to inform people of P. L. 93-831, also known as the Navajo-Hop Land Settlement Act. The five Navajo and one Hop spoke at a forum in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
An audience of 80 people listened as the group of Indian elders explained their views on the relocation. The forum was sponsored by the KU Inter-Tribal Alliance, the Office of Minority Affairs, the KU Navajo Club, the Catholic Schools College and Haskell Indian Junior College.
Tom Bedon, who served as an interpreter for the Navajo elders, said the land in question was a reservation area originally given to the Navajo by a treaty with the government. Later, some land within that reservation was given to the Navajo and surrounding land was designated as a joint use area.
When large coal reserves were discovered under the joint-use area, he said, energy companies wanted the area to be controlled by only one company, make negotiations for mineral rights easier.
Bedonia said that the Hopi Tribal Council, which traditional Hopi said did not represent them, staged a range war between the Navajo and Hopi tribes. Evidence of the war was used to persuade Congress to draw up a plan to separate the tribes legally by July 8, 1906.
Sara Begay, a Navajo elder, said the relocation plan disturbed her deeply. She said the plan, which also called for a reduction in livestock, was forcing the people into a foreign way of life.
The number of Navajo being relocated ranges from 6,000, according to a letter from Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, to an estimate of 8,500. The Navajo-Elop Relocation Commission in July, 1982.
"Yes, it bothers me a lot, a great deal, because it has brought sickness, it has brought loneliness, it has brought no knowledge of future survival," she said through an interpreter.
An elder of the traditional Hopi, Thomas Banyacya, said the the press has billed the protest against relocation as a dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. Actually, he said, the dispute is between the two tribes and the U.S. government.
Mary Rose Bedonie, mother of Tom Bedonie, said the government had enforced a 90-percent reduction in livestock for the Navajo in the relocation area. This reduction had left the people without an adequate food supply and without their means of trade.
Banyacaa said the Hopi and Navajo tribe had been living together peacefully for many years,
"It has taken food off of the table," she said.
"it is forcing us into starvation."
sharing each other's cultures and intermarrying and that the real reason for the relocation was greed.
When he was forced to go to a white man's school as a child, he said, he was punished for stealing.
The Government left off an "II" on the dollar bank, Banyanaaca said. The bill says "In God we believe that we are committed to making good."
He said the U.S. government must not know how to spell either though.
But while the Big Mountain Support Group says that the government is stealing their land, an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in some of the group's allegations are exaggerated.
Larry Rummel, spokesman for the bureau,
said. "The truth of the matter is that the Navajo
have blocked (the relocation bill) from day one."
Rummel said he was unsure of the actual figure of stock reduction but he thought the figure of 90 percent was an exaggeration. He said the reduction was not designed to starve the Navajo off the land, but to protect land that was severely overgrazed.
Out of 238 Navajo families still living in the relocation area, 200 have applied to be moved, he said.
The Big Mountain group also participated in a potluck supper and informal discussion of the Joliet College Alumni Club at Joliet College. There is also another forum on the subject today from 9 a.m. to noon at Haskell.
Renovation of building scheduled
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Much of the ceiling has been torn out of the building at 1120 W. 11th, and the inside walls are full of holes. The windows are boarded up or filled with cement. The rooms are mostly bare.
Only pieces of jagged, broken glass are left in the panes of the doors. Bits of plaster, pieces of insulation and remnants of carpet cover the floor.
"The inside is just destroyed," says Molly Mulloy, assistant director of the University of Kansas audio-reader network.
And that's exactly what the University plans to do.
But, she adds, "It really looks like a neat building from the outside. It's definitely worth renovating."
The Endowment Association owns the building, formerly the house for the Ph Kappa Theta and Ph Kappa Phi, and the immaculately emloided entirely with private funds.
Jerry May, project manager for Kansas Construction Co. Inc., said the company had signed a contract with the Kansas University Endowment Association for selective formation of the inside of the building
The selective demolition contract calls for the company to gut the building's interior, removing its old ceilings, plaster in the walls, and
When the company is finished, May said, only the structure will remain.
First, however, workers must remove asbestos from the building.
Eric King, assistant director of facilities planning, said B and T in. Of Wichita had been hired to remove debris from the 76-year-old building.
Remodeling plans and estimates were incomplete, King said.
The network currently operates at Sudler House, 1150 W. 11th, and uses the garage building of the former building on the property. The garage was renovated last year.
After renovation, audio-reader net work employees plan to make the old brick building the network's new home.
Martin Henry, Endowment Association vice president for property management, said the association might the property in the early 1970s.
"We considered establishing a University club there," he said, "but we decided not to."
The building has been used as a storage area for furniture and desks until about a month ago.
BOCO declares elections void
By Peggy Kramer Staff writer
The Board of Class Officers elections were declared void last night after accusations were made by a campaaigner and all a campaaign rule had been violated.
Because of many complaints about the rule prohibiting campaigning within 50 feet of the polling place, a void election was declared, Mike Stanley, senior class vice president, said.
A special election will be conducted Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Strong Hall rotunda.
The elections review board met last night to revise the BOOC election rules. The changes clarified what classifies a violation, how penalties will be handled and orders of review, Slaney said.
The board and the candidates will meet at 7 p.m. today in the organizations and activities center. Room 463 will be used to discuss the revised election rules.
The poll site was moved from in front of Wescoe Hall to Strong
because of the confusion about who was campaigning within the 50-foot boundaries. Stanley said. The election was under control instead of the usual two-dav election.
Officers and advisers for each class will monitor the elections.
"Within the last four years, I have not been aware of a void BOCO election." Slaney said.
Mike Opelka, representative for the Surprise write-in coalition for the senior class, said, "It is ridiculous the way they are handling this. It is an outrage to people who put time and effort into the elections."
Sheephy complained that the Express coalition violated the boundary rule and the rule stating that it is required to intimidate or frighten a voter.
Bill Sheehy, junior class president candidate for the Smart coalition, filed written complaints about a proposed change in rules with the BOCO office yesterday.
"Express was in violation of those rules and everyone should be able to vote openly," he said. "I feel
students' rights have been violated." The third radio, doesn't state that
The election rules don't state that BOCO should enforce the rules before a written complaint is filed, he said.
Sheehy said the senior class representatives should have enforced the rules at the polling site.
"The senior class representatives are as much at fault as Express," he said.
Sheyedhi two the two penalty options or violating the rules were to call for a re-election or remove the newly elected officers.
Janie Riggle, senior class secretary candidate for Express, said asking students to vote again probably would hurt voter turnout.
"We weren't complaining because we thought we would lose," he said. "There needs to be a fair election."
Voter turnout for the elections was estimated at 600, an increase of almost 200 from last year.
"I am disappointed and frustrated," Riggle said.
Unless improvements are made, she said, another election will not make a difference.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Slater of Kansas said yesterday that the House might have injected new life into Central American peace talks by scutting President Bush in aid for anti-Nicaraguan rebels.
Slattery, D-Topeka, described the House vote as constructive because it should postpone consideration of a resolution for the contrast until next month.
"I think the delay will give those who are trying to find a peaceful solution badly needed time," said Slattery, who last week called for the governors to provide a chance for regional peace talks to succeed.
In a 361-66 vote yesterday, the House endorsed a proposal for $27 million in aid for Central American refugees and another $2 million to help the Contadora nations trying to negotiate a peace treaty with
Rep. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, said she hoped the GOP strategy would succeed and the House would get a straight shot at raising taxes. Mr. Fauci's proposal for $100 million in military and humanitarian assistance
"Whether you are for it or against it, I think it's time to vote the vote and get it behind us," said Meyers, a former Reagan aide and resign in March.
Slattery said, "I think it puts more pressure on Central American countries to come to some kind of an agreement."
House Republicans voted for the alternative as part of a parliamentary move to stop Democrats from tying the contra aid issue to the spen
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