THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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Vol.87, No.169
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Monday, August 1, 1977
Law students to prisons to aid Kansas inmates
By KEVIN KIOUS Staff Writer
Some University of Kansas law students are spending time in prison.
The Kansas Defender Project, staffed by second- and third-year law students, provides legal assistance to inmates at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and the Kansas State Prison and the Kansas Correctional Institute for women at Lan-
Tra Robbins, professor of law and director of the Defender Project, said, "For many inmates, we are their only access to the legal system." But he has had good cases. If we didn't help them,
wherever we could, for most of the inmates there would be no source of help."
Tim Connell, third-year law student,
said, "a lot of times we're the last resort."
Robbins said that some of the cases concerned conditions in the prisons but that most of the time the students dealt with prisoners seeking release.
He said there was often a two to three month waiting period between one time an application for assistance was made by the inmate and the time a law student was assigned to the case. The students are now handling about 200 cases, he said.
The students try to get the inmates released, Robbins said, when they think the
Well-insulated homes can cut cooling costs
Since most Lawrence apartment buildings built before the 1973 energy crisis do not have adequate insulation, many college students are paying to cool the outdoors.
Ralph Freed, owner of Home Insulation Corporation, 508 Michigan St., estimated that 27 per cent of cooled air escaped through walls and windows, 27 per cent through doors and 40 per cent through the roof.
He said that most apartments were built with four-inch wall batting, the former federally maligned minimum, and less than eight inches of insulation in the ceiling.
Insulation, however, shrinks after a few years, he said recently.
Older homes and some newer ones built 10 to 12 years ago have little or no insulation, Freed said, and people who insulate them cut electric bills by as much as 50 per cent.
Freed said he installed insulation by drilling holes into the outer walls and blowing in cellulose insulation. Reconstruction cost $5,000 per eighth and eightth inches for ceilings, he said.
He said that insulators install only what building contractors specify, which was the same type of insulator.
"The amount of insulation put in depends on who's paying the bills—the tenant or the owner."
Bill Persons, insulation representative for Kansas Power and Light Company, Ninth and Tennessee streets, said that apartment dwellers couldn't do much to keep costs down. He recommended that apartment dwellers place a heat coverings of polyethylene plastics over windows, and sliding glass doors to keep cool air from escaping.
Persons said electric bills for air-conditioning apartments varied, depending upon whether a personl lived on the top floor, living, between two filters or in the basement.
Freed said that people who lived in apartments with balconies had paid the rent, probably betting on them.
"It's probably more economical for someone to live in an apartment that costs $200 a month, utilities paid, than to live in a house with no utilities, a month with no utilities," he said.
Persons advised tenants to caulk indwinter frames to prevent cool air from escaping, to install weather stripping and to convince homeowners of additional attic insulation WAREHOUSING.
July Kroeger, director of the campus Consumer Affairs Association, said that insulating a house or building would make renting it easier for landlords.
inmates received an unfair or improper trial, or when they think parole was imminent.
To challenge a previous conviction, he must be the student using an area of the law called the "no-fault" law.
One example of a Catch-22, Robbins said, is a case in which an inmate who requested permission to take a photo by the court that he couldn't get a free copy of the transcript unless a specific need was found. The inmate couldn't find a record of Robbins said, until he could read the transcript.
"I call it. Catch-225." Robbins said.
"In the 1970s, frustrations and a lot of mistakes."
explosions that have wracked the River Quay, a once-thriving nightspot at the north edge of the downtown district. Now many of the Quay's shops are deserted, and for sale and for lease signs dot the area.
KANAS CITY—Arson investigators were called to Kansas City's troubled River Quay area again yesterday morning, this time to investigate an explosion and fire that destroyed Uncle Joe's bar and restaurant.
From our wire services
Fire gutted the half-block long building just before 6 a.m. Blackened debris was scattered outside the building, which is on the west edge of the Quay district.
OLATHE—Officials who feared the spread of a contagious animal blood disease have been forced to kill 10 patients, one of whom was been quarantined in Johnson County.
Fire hits River Quay again
Monday
Some of the nightspots are or have been owned by Kansas City crime figures, and the investigators have said the Quay has become a focal point in a battle between opposing crime factions.
It was the latest in a series of fires and
Destruction of the horses originally was scheduled for July 19 to prevent the disease from spreading to other animals. The destructions were delayed by opposition from representatives of the stables who operated on the stables was working on plans to ship the horses to the Dominican Republic for treatment.
Gerald Gurs, Kansas livestock commissioner, said yesterday drug injections were used to kill the horses at a ranch near Kokomo. The 10 horses were valued at $350.00.
AMMAN, Jordan-King, Hussein's royal envoy has completed talks in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia about a joint Arab-Middle East plan to present to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance during his Middle-East diplomatic tour this week, government sources said yesterday.
The Court of Appeals, overturned the decision in the favor of the inmate, Robbins said. But later the Supreme Court reversed the finding of the Court of Appeals so that the inmate was not able to receive a copy of the parole because he couldn't afford to pay for one.
KU's Kansas Defender Project was the first such program in the country when it began in 1966. Since then programs have been at about 30 other schools.
The horses were destroyed last week, but it was not disclosed until Saturday.
The students in the project handle 300 to 400 cases a year, Robbins said. Many are requests from inmates for assistance in obtaining parole.
Authorities destroy horses
The Jordanian government sources said Shafar's mission was to help put together an Arab plan for a Middle East settlement to present Vance as a counterterrorism agent and imprison Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin 10 days ago.
Vance's Middle East East班 begins today with talks in Alexandria, an Egyptian coastal city. The tour will also take him to Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
The law student programs provide free legal aid to indicten inmates.
"We have the best record of reversals before the U.S. Parole Commission of any law student prison program in the country," Robbins said.
Peace plan ready for Vance
Egyptian, Syrian and Saudi officials over the past several days.
Kansas City 4-8, Chicago 5-4, 1st game 10 innings; Cleveland 9-4, Minnesota 2-9; Toronto 4, Milwaukee 1; Boston 1, California 0; New York 9, Oakland 2; Seattle 6, Baltimore 1; Philadelphia 5, San Francisco 4, New York 3, San Diego 2, Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 8, Montreal 2 10 innings; Chicago 4, Houston 1.
"We think we are a better alternative because we are absolutely free," Robbins said.
The skies will be partly cloudy today. The National Weather Service in Topeka reports that today's high temperature will be about 85. The lows tonight will be in the mid-60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with temperatures again in the mid-80s and a slight chance of thundershowers.
Weather
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Hussein's envoy, Abdul Hamid Sharif,
returned to the Jordanian capital late
Saturday night after delivering royal
wishes for the couple of three
three countries and meeting with top
Even when the court offers the free services of a lawyer, Robbins said, the law requires that the defendant
Robbins said that lawyers tended to write off many inmates' cases as hopeless but that law students, because of their limited experience, must handle each case creatively.
Connell said, 'We probably give better service than lawyers because we spend more time on them.'
"law students aren't totally hampered by precedents," he said.
Dave Tittsworth, third year law student, said news about successful cases prompted some inmates to contact the courts on their own.
However, the students are sometimes hampered when the inmates try to help
Scott Hess, third year law student, said,
See DEFENDERS take three
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Inmate adviser
One of 10 KU law students working on the Kansas Defender Project, Dave Titwitshow, Lawrence, walks up the steps to the front entrance of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary to provide legal advice for inmates. Later, Titwitshow stopped at Lansing State Prison (Lansing, IL) to deliver a defense brief (left), a Lansing inmate, during a deportation hearing in the basement of the prison.
Carter rebuttals spawn criticism by black leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter's sharp rebuffs to civil rights leaders' criticism of his domestic policies has spawned even more criticism and a reassessment by black leaders of their administration supported of the administration.
The President's warning to National Urban League director Vernon Jordan that criticism could hurt the aspirations of the poor has led many blacks, who had kept their reservations about administration policies to themselves, to speak out.
THE WARNING ALSO served as a rallying point for black political and religious leaders. They plan to meet in a month to discuss how to act if verbal prodding fails to influence administration policie.
While influencing the President is not looked upon as the only method of getting things done, these leaders believe he can set a precedent for business policy better than the courts or Congress.
SEN. EDWARD BROOKE, R-Mass., joined the ranks of Carter's domestic policy officers in 1946. He was said: "I have to call them as I see them, and I just don't see any evidence so far in his administration that they are addressing the needs of the poor in this country."
Brooke, an Appropriations Committee member who helps set spending policy for domestic social programs, was particularly critical of the administration position held by the secretary for poor women and a suggestion to tax welfare recipients who live in public housing.
THE BLACKS WHO came to Washington for the Urban League's annual convention last week said they had a political debt to collect from the administration because of the overwhimming support black voters in the 1976 primaries and election.
They brought a list of programs they wanted; a national urban policy; speedy welfare reform, including a minimum family income level, a full employment policy, and national health insurance, among other things.
AS THE CHIEF spokesman, Jordan also suggested retaining the electoral college system in presidential elections, which was ultimately minimized the impact of the black vote in 1978.
Carter told the Urban League he had no apologies to make for his policies. He defended his administration's record on creating jobs and made few promises or concessions. In private, he rebuked Jordan for his critical statements.
Bennett's campus appearances cause comments
The University of Kansas will be one of the stops Gov. Robert Bennett will make on his visit to at least four state universities this fall. However, his appearances on the campuses have caused some controversy.
The governor's motives for visiting the campuses have been called political by some StuDEx members ever since a worker for Bennett, who is up for re-election in November to replace them, tries to let them know that the governor was available.
Tish Cocannon, the governor's administrative assistant for constituent services, said Friday that although she called university student body presidents to extend the invitations, the governor's motives were not political. She said the governor was interested in getting students' opinions.
Controversy about the governor's visit to KU, scheduled for Sept. 26. arose during last week's meeting of StudEx.
Some StudEx members objected to the suggested arrangements of the governor's visit and said that the visit was being done for political reasons, not to listen to the students.
STEVE LEBEN, STUDENT BODY presumpt, *n*-scl.
STUEX that Concannon had suggested the govern-
ment to approve.
Leben said yesterday that no definite plans had been made yet about where the governor would meet with KU students. He did say that the meeting would be conducted in a private setting and a private meeting with student government leaders.
The open forum probably would be held in the Kansas Union, Leben said, and the private meeting would be a luncheon with the governor attended by representatives of the student senate and the Graduate Student Council.
LEBEN SAID THAT he would make the arrangements sometime this week.
Bennett will also visit Pittsburgh State, Wichita State and Kansas State universities.
Concannon said that the governor's office was working to coordinate a visit by the governor to the other state
Terv Matlack, student body president at K-State, said
Mattack said that when he talked with Concannon about a governor visiting K-State, Concannon did not specify what the governor had said.
Friday that Bennett was scheduled to visit K-State on Sept. 29.
Mattack said that although no final arrangements would be made until the Student Senate returned, the meeting was scheduled.
MATLACK SAID THAT SOME members of the K-State student body had told him that the governor's visit might be political. However, Matlack said that any visit by the governor would be beneficial for the students.
"I can't help but think that the governor's coming to the campus would help focus the attention on student opinion," he said. "Even if his motives were political, it can't help but be good for the students."
Concannon also said one of the purposes of the governor's visits to the campuses would be to lister to the students.
"He's not going in to listen to the administrators," she said. "The administrators have a lot of access to the information."
EPA disappointed, not surprised by oil spill decision
Bv JANET WARD
Staff Writer
The U.S. attorney's decision last week not to file criminal charges against the University of Kansas for not reporting a May 5 oil spill may have been disappointing to the Environmental Agency (EPA), but it wasn't unexpected.
Henry Hampage, the EPA lawyer who handled the U.S. attorney's office, your lawyer in a sense of hope.
Prospects are dim that any action other than a $1,000 civil penalty KU has already agreed to pay will be brought
Despite EPA recommendations, James Buchele, U.S. attorney in Topeka, announced that his office wouldn't file criminal charges against KU for not reporting the spill, which leaked 5,000 gallons of fuel oil from an underground storage tank into the Lawrence drainage system and then into the Wakarusa River.
BUCHELL SAID THAT KU had already paid the civil penalty for not having a biological protection plan on this and other grounds.
"Everyone with any responsibility for reporting the spill was involved in the cleanup," Buchelle said. "There was no evidence of contamination."
University officials said the people involved had called all the people they thought they needed to.
However, Earl Stephenson, enforcement chief for the kansas City district EPA office, said that ignorance of the law could result in fines.
the number of oil spills not being reported, especially in Kansas.
*WE NEED TO MAKE the owners of oil facilities subject to the law report the spills in order to make sure the proper cleanup takes place.*
The EPA soon will be inspecting the area damaged by the killer squirrel. Stephenson said, to see that the cleanup was done properly.
He said that the EPA could ask Buklece to reconsider his decision but that the decision to do this hadn't been made yet. Because it's a criminal action, he said, the EPA can't do anything.
HOWEVER, STEPHENSON SAID the number of cases that go unreported might be substantial although the EPA has not done so.
The estimate of the number of oil spillns not being reported wasn't immediately available, but Pat Sulr of the EPA enforcement division said she had handled four oil spill cases in Nebraska—two in Iowa and one in Nebraska and Kansas.
"Sometimes a pill can be traced to its origin," he said,
but this is costly and the government doesn't like to do that.
"We like to have the owners voluntarily report the spills so that damage can be minimized and so that government action can be taken."
Most oil companies know about the law, Stephenson said, and the large companies will report oil spills. It's the small operator, such as a gasoline service station, who may be reluctant to report the spill, he said.
Stephenson said another reason for a downward trend in the number of oil spills that were reported was that facilities had taken the necessary precautions to prevent snails.
THE SMALL OPERATORS hope to clean up it before it found Stephenson said. "If they report it, they know that it's a big problem."
The EFA's recommendation that civil action be taken by the U.S. Coast Guard against KU for the spill itself also brought no results. On June 8, the Coast Guard said that because KU was a state institution, it didn't fall under the "owner-operator" classification of the law and therefore couldn't be fines by the Coast Guard.
BUT THE EPA's lawyers interpret the law differently, because their office is Washington office to settle the differences at that level.
He said that if the Coast Guard decided to take jurisdiction, they would have to assess a penalty, because they did not.
"This should be resolved at the national level." Stephenson said, "so that the law can be uniformly enforced."
"This means there are no ifs, and or buts about it." Stephenson said. "If there is a spill, the owner shall be responsible."
The penalty has a maximum fine of $5,000.
Kurnage, however, said the settlement of the in-
spired dispute is for the future and probably will not affect 15 case.
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