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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 111 (USPS 650-640)
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New proposal would thwart re-enrollment
By Leslie Hirschbach Staff writer
KU students dismissed for poor grades may have extra time to get their academic acts together when they find they can't enroll in any courses for a semester under a proposed change in University policy.
Under a new proposal by the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee, students would not be allowed to enroll in any classes until one semester had passed, a faculty member of the committee said yesterday.
The proposal was approved by SenEx on Tuesday and now must receive University Council approval.
Donald Scheid, the member of the committee and professor of music, said that now, students dismissed from the University for poor grades still could take classes and petition for credit.
University Council is scheduled to consider the proposal at its next meeting March 20.
Brower Burehill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the initial recommendation came from a committee studying enrollment and advising.
Burchill, a member of that committee, said members thought the University was going overboard to help students dismissed for poor scholarship.
"They take up slots in classes so good students can't get in," he said. "We want them to know that they should keep themselves in good standing."
Scheid said students dismissed for poor scholarship had been enrolling in the University's 92 category for students who didn't want to receive a degree but wished to take courses for pleasure.
He said the new proposal would prevent students who were dismissed from one school in the University from enrolling in another school.
'They take up slots in classes so good students can't get in. We want them to know that they should keep themselves in good standing.'
Brower Burchill Associate vice chancellor for academic affairs
The Academic Policies and Procedures Committee, he said, also has given the stricter proposal unanimous approval.
Bezaelel Benjamin, professor of architecture and architectural engineering and SenEx member, said he thought the new policy could be detrimental to foreign students who must be enrolled full time to qualify for a visa.
"I agree that foreign students, like anyone, should not be allowed to use 9Z as a cover," he said. "But this forces students to stay out of all courses when they could be admitted to another school."
Pat Willer, assistant director of foreign student services, said the new policy could have an adverse effect on foreign students
"It's a legal requirement that they be enrolled (full time) to have a student visa," she said.
Willer also said that in most cases, foreign students who seek campus employment must be enrolled full time.
At Tuesday morning's SenEx meeting, Robert Zerewek, member of the Academic Policies and Procedures committee, said he didn't think the new policy would be a problem for foreign students.
TOPEKA — John Quinn, Wyandotte County sheriff, testifies before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee in support of a bill that would allow the state to issue permits for people who want to carry concealed guns. Quinn spoke about the issue yesterday.
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Students doubt bill on hazing
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
A Kansas Senate committee endorsed a bill yesterday that would make hazing against state law, but the KU student body president said he thought the proposed law just harassed fraternities and opened them up to liability lawsuits.
David Epstein, student body president and member of Phi Delta Theta, 1621 Edgehill Road, said he planned to meet today with the legislator who introduced the bill, State Sen. Paul Burke, R-Leawood.
"They've really opened the door for lawsuits by some ambulance chaser," Epstein said. "I would like to keep this a university issue."
Epstein said he thought the University and the national fraternity organizations already had rules about hazing. He said he would ask Burke why he introduced the bill.
Erik Hansen, president of KU Interfraternity Council and member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1911 Stewart Ave., said he wouldn't be able to meet with Burke until next week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Monday and endorsed the bill yesterday, sending it to the full Senate for debate.
The proposal would make it illegal to participate in any act of initiation that caused the risk of mental or physical harm to a person; punishable by a fine up to $2,500 and a maximum of one year in jail.
If the bill was passed, anyone involved in the hazing would be liable for damages in a civil suit. A person's failure would not be considered a defense
One source of concern for fraternities — whether or not directors, officers or trustees would be liable in a hazing suit — was cleared up when the committee amended the bill to make persons liable only if they authorized, requested or commanded the hazing
"If they made that provision, they cleared up part of the problem," Epstein said, "but I don't think they define haze in any certain terms."
United Press International supplied some information for this story.
Japan eyes KU investments
By Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
Members of a seven-member Japanese trade and industry delegation that yesterday toured Lawrence said they were impressed by the number of investment possibilities at KU and in the community.
"it's a good place." said Yoshihika Terasawa, a member of
the delegation and public affairs director for the Japan External Trade Organization's office in Chicago. "It's got good people and a good potential for corporate development."
Bob Hitchner, Kansas' trade representative to Japan, said the Japanese government was concerned that investments in the United States were concentrated in too few places.
Takenori Komiyama, Kansas Department of Economic Development representative from Tokyo, listens to Carl Locke, dean of engineering (not pictured), explain the interaction of KU engineering programs and local corporations. A seven-member Japanese delegation toured Lawrence yesterday to look for investment opportunities.
Other Japanese groups will visit Missouri and Oklahoma. The mission is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
The delegation showed an interest in universities with centers of excellence, he said. KU's center of excellence is the Center for Bioanalytical Research, but the delegation also visited the School of Engineering.
Hitchner said that another group from the mission for Kansas visited Kansas State University yesterday.
Takeru Higuchi, University Regents distinguished professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry, said the group probably would look for the special aspects of Kansas that set it apart from other states. Higuchi also works at the Center for Bioanalytical Research.
The tour of Lawrence began with a luncheon at Alvaram Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive. John Tollefson, dean of the School of Business, attended the luncheon and said the University's representatives gave a convincing presentation.
It will take a number of visits to convey that the community and University are serious in their interest to provide Japan with investment opportunities, he said.
"I though it was fairly well received," he said. "But we all need to remember that this is a beginning."
The University provided each delegate with an information packet. Tollefson said they contained letters from various deans that had been translated into Japanese.
In addition, he said, University representatives such as Higuchi; Grant Goodman, professor of history; and Andrew Tsubaki, chairman of East Asian language and culture, gave their presentations in Japanese.
See JAPANESE, p. 5, col. 1
Candidate speaks here
Docking backs budget cuts
By Mark Siebert
An increase in student financial aid and a need to maintain excellent faculties at Kansas colleges and universities were two campaign pledges emphasized yesterday by gubernatorial hoeful Tom Docking.
Staff writer
But Lt. Gov. Docking, who announced his candidacy last week in Lawrence, also said he sympathized with Gov. John Carlin's recommended cuts in the Board of Regents proposed budget.
About 60 people attended Docking's afternoon speech, part of the weekly University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Docking, a native of Lawrence and a KU alumnus, said all of the Regents schools were facing financially difficult times.
"It's been a tough year for colleges and universities," he said after his speech. "It reflects the financial difficulties that the state is facing in a
whole slew of other policy and program areas."
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Docking said vigorous opposition of the federal budget cuts outlined in the Gramm-Rudman Act was a specific step that should be taken in regard to student financial aid.
Carlin proposed that increased fee adjustments not be returned to universities for increased enrollment rates. University increases be made for student jobs.
'Kansas needs for all its young
The Regents requested $2.4 million in fee adjustments and a $470,000 increase in student salaries systemwide.
The governor's recommendations are being reviewed by the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which will make its own recommendations before sending the budget to the Senate floor.
The Regents are asking for a 7 percent salary increase and a 1 percent increase in the state's contribution to their retirement fund. Carlin proposed the state take over the 5 percent that employees now pay for their retirement.
As for faculty benefit increases, Docking praised Carlin for his recommendation that the state pick up the employee's contribution to the retirement fund rather than instituting a pay raise.
"I think it's a good idea," Docking said. "It shows some imagination and an ability to confer in-pocket savings to our faculty in a way that does
See DOCKING, p. 5, col. 2
people to reach their fullest potential.” Docking said, “not just those from families with enough money to send them to college.”
If the federal cuts succeed, the state will have the responsibility of financing higher education, he said.
Judge puts slum study on hold
By Juli Warren
Staff writer
District Court Judge James Paddock yesterday refused to lift a restraining order against the city, but he gave the city until Monday to supply further information in a case regarding a downtown slum and blight study.
The restraining order, which was requested by a Lawrence resident last week, prevents city commissioners from hiring a consultant to do the study of two and a half downtown blocks. The study would determine whether the area is slum and blight.
The Urban Renewal Agency recommended last month that the City Commission hire Herrick, Feinands, to act as consultants to do the study.
E. R. Zook, 629 W. 21st St., who requested the restraint order, alleged that the city illegally structured the Urban Renewal Agency.
Zook is a retired Lawrence businessman. He said he does not
own any property downtown, but he would not comment on the case.
The Urban Renewal Agency is composed of five members appointed by the City Commission.
The ten conditions considered in determining slum and blight areas are building conditions, streets and lots, unsafe conditions, site improvements, ownership, taxes, land title, land uses, endangered life or property and economic obsolescence.
Patrick Peery, attorney for the city, said whether or not the Urban Renewal Agency was structured illegally was irrelevant. The city, not
consultant, is responsible for hiring
The downtown area that would be studied is between Sixth and Seventh streets from Kentucky Street to the alley just west of New Hampshire Street. The city could condemn and buy the land needed for a proposed downtown mall if the property was designated slum and blight.
Paddock gave attorneys for the city until Monday to prepare a brief that stated what powers the City Commission assigned to the agency.
"They don't need the agency at all to问, whether or not it's an iliaca."
He said he thought the city had retained the power to do the study and had not given that power to the agency.
The city filed a motion last week to dismiss the restraining order and an answer to the restraining order.
Eugene Riling, Zook's attorney, said the reason the agency was illegal was that two of the members of the agency lived outside the city limits. This disqualified them from membership on the board, he said.
Peery said a definition in the state statute was unclear and that he interpreted it as meaning members had to live within five miles of the city limits.
Of the members in question, one
See RESTRAIN, p. 5, col. 5