University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 17, 1987
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Local Briefs
Lawrence police arrested a KU student on April 9 an warrant for four counts of felony forgery, the county jail log indicates.
The student, Sandra Kay Dicker,
19. Topeka freshman, spent a half hour in the county jail before she was released on her own recognizance. She must appear in Douglas County District Court at 1:30 p.m. on April 24, or forfeit $3,000, district judge Michael J. Malone said.
Felony charge levied against KU freshman
Campus and Area
Forgery is a class E felony, punishable by five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said the charges were connected to the November theft of a KU student's purse from a car parked on Poplar Lane.
The charges, filed April 17, allege that on Nov. 20 Dicker forged four checks. The checks belonged to Jana Gregory, Arkansas City freshman, and were drawn on the Arkansas City, the charrere state.
Longaker said the checks were forged at four different IGA stores in Lawrence.
Man charged with threats to Flory
A Lawrence man was charged Tuesday in Douglas County District Court with making terroristic attacks, Jim Flory, the district attorney.
The man, Joseph Mervin Farmer, was charged in connection with a phone call made to a Lawrence police dispatcher at about 11 p.m. Saturday, said Jerry Wells, assistant district attorney
The person who made the call threatened to kill Flory, Wells said.
Farmer was in the county jail yesterday. James W. Paddock, district judge, set Farmer's bond at $25,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m. on Monday.
Wells said he didn't think Flory and Farmer had any contact before Saturday.
No Easter holiday for KU this year
Don't take off today for a long, three-day Easter weekend because there's school on Monday.
Unlike previous years, the Board of Regents, which sets the academic calendar for the University of Kansas and other Regents schools, did not schedule an Easter vacation for students this year.
University employees also will report to work Monday.
Easter, a Christian holiday, is Sunday.
Smoot released after four months
A Lawrence man convicted of possessing cocaine has been released from a federal prison after pleading guilty to one-year sentence, officials said.
Bradley J. Smoot, 37, a former assistant Kansas attorney general and former chairman of the Douglas County Central Republican Committee, was released yesterdays by Calif., a prison official said.
Smoot was indicted last fall for possessing one gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to one year in prison, with eight months of the sentence suspended. He also was placed on probation for two years and ordered to participate in a drug program.
From staff and wire report$.
SenEx approves guidelines for graduates
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Students who plan to graduate this summer may be allowed to take a required course at another institution if the course or a substitute is not offered here.
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday approved a set of guidelines submitted by the University Senate academic policies and procedures committee, which considers petitions from students on academic matters.
Under the new guidelines, the committee could waive certain requirements, such as the 2.5 grade point average requirement needed to gra
A letter with the guidelines said that the University was offering fewer courses this summer because of financial cutbacks.
duate in some schools, for seniors who plan to graduate this summer
But the guidelines are designed to be temporary, the letter said.
In other action, SenEx tabled a proposal that would have shortened the period during which students could act, and not receiving a "W" on their transcripts.
Under the proposal, students who withdrew from courses after the second week of classes would receive a "W" on their transcripts.
The proposal also would shorten
the add period from four weeks to two weeks.
Under University Senate rules, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or any of the professional schools can adopt a shorter add period as long as that policy is announced in the Timetable.
SenEx chairman Mel Dubnick said he had moved to a week-end period.
Sandra Zindars-Swartz, assistant professor of religious studies, said the University's resources had been strained by students who added and dropped classes excessively.
"They can sign up for lots of courses that they never intend to
take, and they don't have to drop for five weeks," she said. "The feeling of the committee was that the 'W' was necessary to get that student out of the course in two weeks."
But SenEx student member Gordon Woods, who moved to table the motion, said, "I think we're penalizing students unfairly. A lot of students don't realize until four or five weeks into the semester that they're in over their heads."
SenEx member Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction, said, "Some students, because of poor advising, get in a terrible spot. I think this is symptomatic of the larger problem of how we do
enrollment at KU."
A new SenEx, elected yesterday by new University Council members, will consider the proposal again sometime later.
New SenEx members are Ron Francisco, associate professor of political science; Bob Jerry, professor of law; James Seaver, professor of history; and Gary Shapiro, professor of philosophy.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, and Swartz were re-elected to SenEx, and Swartz was elected chairman.
Student SenEx member Amy Ran dles was elected vice-chair.
Lenoir Ekdahl has been director of food services for student housing at the University of Kansas since 1955. She was inducted last night into the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Commission honors 4 women
Staff writer
By LAURA BOSTROM
Rampant rumors on the KU campus in the early 1970s caused then-graduate student Rae Sedgwick to ask for a rumor control office. Emily Taylor, dean of women, said "use my office" and the KU information center began.
Sedgwick was one of four women inducted last night into the KU Women's Hall of Fame, a part of the Women's Recognition Program sponsored by the KU Commission on the Status of Women. About 100 attendees the program Alderson auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food
services for student housing; Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate professor of psychology and chairman of the department of psychology; and Joanne M. Collins, assistant vice president of United Missouri Bank, also were honored.
Fifteen years ago, more than 20 women, calling themselves the February Sisters, locked themselves in a KU building and demanded rights and services for women. Sedgwick was one of those women.
Sedgwick has received advanced degrees in nursing, psychology and a juris doctorate from the KU law school. She now is serving her second four-year term
on the Bonner Springs City Council
But Sedgwick said a children's book, "The White Frame House," was her greatest accomplishment. Her goals now include more writing, particularly a book on women and their daughters.
Several of McCluskey-Fawcett's students attended the program in support of their teacher
"The letters my students wrote meant more than the award." McCluskey-Fawett said. When she was a student 13 years ago, she said, she nominated Frances Horowitz for research graduate studies and public service, to the Hall of Fame.
Food service job not just catering
Work brings KU director fame
By JOSEPH REBELLO Staff writer
When Lenoir Ekdahl arrived at the University of Kansas in 1955, she was given a small desk in the kitchen of Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall and told to direct food services for the hall and several others that were going to be built.
The prospect didn't thrill her. She promised herself she would always look at him and then look for a job in Topeka, where her husband was working.
It didn't quite work out that way.
Instead, Ekdahl built up the housing office's food services department from an operation that looked after the needs of fewer than 500 students to one that now caters to 4,700 students.
Last night, she finally stepped up to take credit for that accomplishment. At a program organized by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, Ekhdahl became one of four KU staff and faculty members to be inducted into the 1987 KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Ekdahl was cited for professional competence and service to the University.
Earlier this week, Ekdahl reminisced about her early years at the University.
She found her job too exciting to leave when residence halls began to be built in quick succession soon after her arrival.
"Those were exciting times," Ekdahl said. "We'd have one residence hall opened, and before anything else could happen, there'd be another on the drawing board.
"Finally, I never moved. I just liked the job here."
But it was never easy, she said.
When she started in September 1955, she had a difficult time hiring workers at the rate of 75 cents an hour, then the hourly full-time wage, she said. Student workers
were paid 35 cents an hour.
were part $3 cents all hour.
Ekdahl herself made only $3,600
a year.
"We didn't have health insurance or anything. But I was young and eager, and I thought we could make it." she said. "And we did
"When I first got here they had a set menu. There was no selection. You'd have one meat dish, one vegetable dish and one salad. And you had to eat it or go somewhere else."
Ekdahl changed that. Today, hall residents have a choice of at least two main dishes, in addition salads, desserts and pop, she said.
That has not stopped students from grumbling about the food, she said, but complaints about food are something she has become used to.
"You've got 4,000 students together, and they have food habits that they developed long before they began to live in a 14.00ce hall. We try to hit them with something that's middle-of-the-road, something that would satisfy the most number of students. But we're never going to be able to cook like mother does."
Some of Ekdahl's colleagues said she directed the food services department with a combination of toughness and compassion.
"She's done just about everything," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing and one of three people who nominated Ekdahl for the honor. "She's kept the price of meals very low and the quality high. She made my job a lot easier when I came here."
Catherine Cox, an administrative assistant at the housing office who has worked with Ekdahl for 23 years, said. "She's always very cordial and low-key with people who come to the office.
Phone access code abusers might face charges
Special to the Kansan
Bv IAVAN OWENS
Yesterday proved to be a busy day for U.S. Sprint and MCI investigators, as students filed into a room at a Lawrence motel to meet a p.m. deadline for exemption from criminal charges of telephone access code abuse.
The investigators have been at the All Seasons Motel, 2309 Iowa St., for two weeks to allow students who have illegally used phone codes to make restitution.
Brian Bales, U.S. Sprint investigator, said more than 150 KU students had turned themselves in. But the number of abused access codes indicated that there was more abuse
occurring than people had confessed.
"There has been a significant drop in long-distance service in the Lawrence-Topeka area (in
Bales made it clear that people who had not turned themselves in by yesterday could face criminal charges. Cases with the greatest abuse will be investigators' first priority.
"A part of our job is education," Bales said. "Education ends at 5 p.m. today, and enforcement begins."
Jerry Slaughter, MCI representative, said investigators would compile evidence during the weekend and turn the most flagrant abuse cases over to proper authorities. Cases with
abuse of less than $1,000 will be given to the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
Dave Frenicks, Secret Service agent an media liaison in Texas, said that because of a 1984 federal ruling, the Secret Service had been given the authority and responsibility to investigate cases that exceeded $1,000. The Secret Service has been made aware of the Lawrence investigation, he said.
Frericks also said the Secret Service had just completed a recent MCI-related investigation at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. A student was charged with "hacking" and illegal distribution of access codes. If convicted, the student could face up to 10 years in
prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
"We hope the word is spread. You can go to jail for this." Frericks said.
Bales said that Secret Service agent Tom McKernan of Kansas City, Mo., had been notified of the Lawrence investigation and undated on evidence.
"The Secret Service has been notified," Bales said. "We just may have a federal violation."
Bales and Slaughter said they were concerned that so few students had turned themselves in, because they didn't think students understood the seriousness of the crime.
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