University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 3, 1987
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Culture Farm convictions passed down
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Six of the original 12 defendants in the multi-million dollar Culture Farms mail fraud and conspiracy case were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Earl O'Connor. Two other defendants were sentenced Friday.
The case involved the sale of home-grown milk cultures to make cosmetics.
The government said the scheme, which came under fire in at least 20 states, netted the defendants $80 million in investors' funds in 1984. Prosecutors estimated that more than 27,000 people nationwide lost money in the scheme.
Investors were required to purchase a minimum of $350 worth of culture kits and were told that they could expect to receive about 800 after growing the cultures at home and reselling the substance for use in a new cosmetic product. William F. Wagner, 34. Los Angeles; Ronald L. Rakow, Los Angeles; and Willard B. Bass Jr., 44. Irvine, Calif., were each sentenced to one year in prison and fined $10,000. They agreed earlier to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Three other defendants, Terrance J. Taylor, 41, Lawrence; Charles A. West, 53, Larkspur; Calif.; and Kristine Ann Gunn, Pam Springs, Calif., pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of dissemination of false advertising or conning a cosmetic.
Taylor, president of Culture
Mills Inc. of Lawrence, which
was in the center of the scheme,
was sentenced to one year in
person and finned $10,000. The
government had recommended probation
for West and Gunn, but the
sentenced him to six months in prison,
and sentenced Gunn to six
months. She was not fired.
Primary polls open until 7 p.m. today
Polls opened at 7 a.m. today for the Lawrence City Commission primary. Lawngees residents, who have registered, can vote on 11/4.
To find out where to vote, call Douglas County Clerk Patty James' office at 841-7700.
Six of the 10 active commission candidates will advance to the April 7 general election in which voters will elect three new commissioners on a medium on the downtown mall also will be on the general election ballot.
Two other candidates, Carol Hamilton and Sandra Quinlan, withdrew from the race earlier but their names will appear on the ballot.
On the ballot are Bob Schumm,
Mike Rundel, David Longhurst,
Henry Johns, Howard Hill, Ellis
Hayden, Thomas Graves, Dennis
Constance, Carol Brown and
Ernest Angino.
Correction
The winner of the Rock Chalk Revue's most charitable award was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan Alpha Delta Pi pioralty and Sigma Nu fraternity won the award. In the same story, Anne Marie Forbes' name was misspelled.
From staff and wire reports
Students needing transcript copies should order early
By Roger Corey
Staff writer
Students who need copies of their transcripts are advised to order the copies early, Gary Thompson, director of student records, said yesterday.
Thompson said the records office, which makes the transcript copies, was having staffing problems, which had caused delays.
"If they ordered a transcript last year, it took two days for them to get a copy." Thompson said. "Now seriaries between five and 10 days."
In the past, students could order transcript copies at the records office and pick them up at the records office window in Strong Hall.
But now the records office does not offer the pickup option. All students who need copies must request that the documents be mailed.
Thompson said the records office made this change because the pickup requests were always top priority and the mailing orders got behind.
"It it got worse every day," Thompson said. "Now we take the oldest request first, and the service is better and more fair."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "We're all understaffed. We don't have as many people as we want to provide service."
Ambler said the administration was looking at ways to improve
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said his office was looking into a computerized transcript system for the records office. The system would allow a transcript to be entered in the system because all the data would be on file.
Thompson said March was always the busiest time of the year for transcript requests. Many students need copies of their transcripts at that time to send to potential employers or to graduate schools.
service at the enrollment center and records office.
Under the present system, staff members must look up the student's records.
He said that students often order more than one copy of their transcript.
"We average 9,000 to 11,000 transcript copies a month in January, February and March," Thompson said.
"Sometimes they want as many as copies if they're applying for jobs."
Because of the shortage in staff members, everyone in the the records office has been asked to work one night a week. Thompson said
"But we're not cutting back on service." Thompson said.
Chairmen disagree on team's financing
He said his office had just received authority to hire another assistant, who should be on the job by the end of the month.
By LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
Jason Krakow, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said yesterday that the KU Forensics team still had revenue code status.
But Steve Gilchrist, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said the team did not have revenue code and they had a new interpretation of a Senate rule.
And Steve Ellis, president of the team, is more than a little confused and
The ruling, article 7.1.3.3d states: "Any Revenue Code group receiving a block allocation as specified in these rules and regulations, who, in the eyes of the Finance Committee is required to scribe for such groups, may lose their status through legislation submitted by the Finance Committee."
Krakow said that StudEx would meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow to discuss whether proper procedures should be revised status to revenue code groups.
Krakow said he interpreted the rule to mean that only the finance committee could deny revenue code to an existing revenue code group.
In the meantime, Gilchrist said the finance committee would not consider the team's budget at today's finance committee meeting.
Saturday, the finance committee voted 8-1 to grant the team revenue code status. But StudEx voted two in favor, one against and six abstaining to overturn the finance committee's ruling and deny the team status.
Krakow said he called six of the other eight members of StudEx on Sunday to discuss a Senate Rules and Procedures meeting. He thought cancelled StudEx's veto.
But Gilchrist said that Krakow's interpretation was taken out of can.
text. The article applies only to those existing revenue code groups who go against Senate rules, Gilchrist said.
"Suddenly we're changing all the rules and regulations for one group," he said. "It's a special privilege for KU Forensics."
Gilchrist said that if the forensics team was granted status under the article, then StudEx's status vetoed by the student Union also should be cancelled.
The finance committee voted unanimously Saturday to grant initial revenue code status to BSU, but the decision was vetoed by StudEx.
"If it was improper for one, it was improper for the other." Glichscht.
Kelly Milligan, student body vice president, said, "As I've read it, and as it's been explained to me, the school will be overturning revenue code status."
Debates on death penalty continue at state capitol
Ellis said. "I think it's very clear.
Article 7.1.3.3 is the only rule that talks about a revenue code group losing status.
"The whole point of being a revenue code group is to provide continuity in financing. Leaving the air cuts against our effectiveness."
Revenue code groups must reapply for revenue code status every two years. On approval, the Senate appropriates the groups two years of financing. Groups classified as student organizations receive Senate financing annually and are accountable to the Senate treasurer.
Tom Woods, Senate treasurer and non-voting member of StudEx, said that Krakow, as chairman of StudEx, had the final word on interpretations of Senate Rules and Regulations within the committee.
By JOHN BUZBEE
TOPEKA - Death penalty supporters climbed the steps of the state capitol yesterday to tell legislators why they think Kansas needs capital punishment.
Staff writer
Supporters responded to arguments Friday that the death penalty would be immoral and too expensive. Opponents are scheduled to address the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee again today.
And the debate goes on.
"The opponents of the death penalty have distorted the facts and clouded the debate in Kansas," said Emil Tonkovich, a professor of law at the University of Kansas who addressed the committee.
McMahon said his fast was a positive way to demonstrate his opposition to the death penalty. But his unorthodox tactics caught some politicians off guard.
Daniel McMahon, a Topeka carpenter who went without food last week to symbolically oppose the death penalty, said, "I think he was very derogatory in his presentation. I think he showed a lack of values."
'I think the public makes politicians uncomfortable because we
demand responses that they don't feel free to give," he said.
Tonkovic said the death penalty might not cost Kansas a dime if it deters murder. The costs of one murder case or another would case to the state would be saved.
Those savings might pay for the extra court costs and other expenses of capital punishment, which are lower than opponents argue, he said.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said capital punishment would cost much less than opponents could win power death penalty cases would arise.
Flory told the legislators that they should vote against the death penalty if they morally oppose it, but they should base their decision on bogus facts.
Flory said he would not officially take a stand on the issue.
The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that capital punishment deters murder. Tonkovich the court also said it was a valid reason for capital punishment.
Cowley County District Attorney Douglas Wright told the committee that retribution for past murders deterred future ones.
"Justice requires criminals to get what they deserve, and what criminals deserve depends on what they accept us," he said in a written statement.
The committee's chairman, State Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, said he did not know when his panel would act on a bill to reinstate the death penalty, but he expected the bill would be approved.
Former Kansas Gov. Willim.
Avery told the committee that sometimes capital punishment was appropriate.
Avery, who was governor from 1965 to 1967, was in office when Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were hanged for killing four members of the band. The murders were depicted in the novel and movie, "In Cold Blood."
Avery could have granted a repreceive to stop the executions. He said that it was difficult to refuse pleas for Hickock's and Smith's lives, but that he had to consider the pleas the Clutters might have given.
But McMahon said that the justice system should try to rehabilitate criminals. It would be better to keep people from being convicted for life than to execute them, he said.
Ellie LeCompte, left, director of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, and Lonny Rose, KU law professor and service support board member, speak to about 100 people at a forum on how to avoid date rage.
Sexual roles and date rape topic of heated discussion at seminar
Staff writer
By KJERSTI MOEN
Ellie LeCompte, the director,
talked to about 100 people at the
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority to
discuss date rape. LeCompte and
Lonny Rose, professor of law and a
support service board member,
led a heated discussion that was
after a movie on date rape. Members
of the sorority and Phi Delta
Theta fraternity attended the
seminar.
Sexual stereotypes contribute to rape, said the director of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service last night at a seminar on acquaintance rape.
"One in five college women is forced to have sex on a date," LeCompte said. One in three women and one in 20 men are raped during their lifetimes, she
Sex roles affect the way people dress, how they behave on dates and sign their expectations and pretensions about sex, LeCompte said.
Rose said, "In dating situations, gays and girls need to be very clear as to what to expect and not go into that situation to happen and not going to happen.
"Guys have to decide what 'no' means because there are a lot of different kinds of 'no.'"
A man in the room asked, "How is a guy supposed to be responsible for the little variances in the tone
A woman said, "If a girl walks in a party wearing a black minkskirt and a low-eat top, everyone's going to think that she's after sex."
A man replied, "In California, you can put 10 girls in black miniskirts, and chances are that they want to have sex with you."
Date rape victims are not likely to report the crime, LeCompte said. The victim may not even think of the forced sexual intercourse as rape because she blames herself for causing it.
The variances in a woman's dress may also signal her intentions, LeCompte said.
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"Sex roles are the subtle societal messages we get about how we are supposed to behave," LeCompte said. "Women do just as much to keep these roles alive as men do."
said.
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