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Monday, March 7, 1977
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Elections analyzed
A total of 25 candidates will battle it out tomorrow in Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence School Board District No. 497 to determine which positions open in the April 5 general election.
In the City Commission race, the primary will reduce 12 candidates to six finalists for three commission seats. Thirteen school board members will select six finalists for three school board vacancies.
Since 1951, when the city manager- commission form of government replaced the mayor-council system, more than 30 atlarge commissioners have represented Lawrence. Most of them have had professional occupations that gave them time to plow through the administrative paperwork.
TWO WOMEN, Marnie Argersinger and Nancy Hambleton, have been commissioners during the past seven years.
In 1977, there is more diversity in the occupation, sex and experience of the City Commission candidates than in past years, though it remains to be seen whether this diversity still will apply after tomorrow's primary ballot.
Perhaps the major issue this year, and one that could have long-term repercussions, concerns the type of city government Lawrence should have. In the general election, voters will decide whether they want a mayor or councilor to commission system or switch to a system of mayor and councillors elected from a number of city wards.
THOSE IN FAVOR of changing the system believe it would make Lawrence more representative. The city manager, they say, has become the city manager and dictates communication's decisions.
Opponents of the mayor-council form believe the change wouldn't improve the system, because a mayor, elected at large every two years, might not have the resources, time and experience to organize all of the city's functions.
Prospective commissioners David Hann, Betty Mallonee, Phillip Perry and Floyd Cobier support a change. Muriel Paul and Margaret Brun are undecided about the issue. The six other candidates: Jerry Albertson, Ed Carter, Barkley Clark, Carl Michek, Jerald Riling and Jack Rose, say they will vote to retain the present system.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT issue is the fate of the Lawrence airport. All candidates agree the airport needs safety improvements, but the necessity of large expansion, so that jets would be able to land, is disputed.
Other issues are the necessity of adequate Lawrence day-care centers, the need for a new water plant, the promotion of a city-based nursery, and the rehabilitation of old Lawrence houses.
Although students usually are transitory members of Lawrence, their words and thoughts are important to the entire city. Tomorrow, all registered student voters should get out and exercise their democratic prerogative.
Throughout the rest of this semester, the Kansas will be changing.
These changes won't be noticeable to the reader-at least not immediately. But they are noticeable to the Kansas staff.
Kansan to go electronic soon
For the University Daily Kansan is following in the footsteps of such papers as the *Tuesday Post* and the Washington Post and the St. Collegiate; the Kansan is finally going electronic. We are junking copy paper and glue in our computers and video display terminals
THE CHANGE will officially begin this spring break, when the Kansan's Olympia and Decker schools replaced by IBM Selectrics. The Selectrics are necessary not because they're easy to type on, but because they type on computer and read by an electronic scanner.
The scanner, as well as several video display editing terminals (known as VDTs, that are bringing early next mouth.
The scanner, which is rather like a glorified Xerox copier, reads the Selective characters (typed on a special, gridded paper) and feeds the copy into a small computer memory bank. Once in the bank, stories can be called up for editing by copy technicians who are like typewriters, except they have a television screen where the paper should be and they have extra keys.
BY PUNCHING special computer codes, copy editors
Miranda guides on trial
both fans and critics of the U.S. Supreme Court are watching and waiting as a legal landmark, established by a Court of a different color in 1968, grows closer toward the legal drain.
Among other matters decided by the Court in that decade under then-Chief Justice Earl Warren, a criminal suspect be advised before interrogation by police of his legal right to an attorney, based on Fifth Amendment law against self-incrimination.
A SUSPECT HAD to be told that he had the right to remain silent, that anything he said could later be used against him, that he had the right to have an attorney and that if at any time during interrogation, the defendant was found guilty, the interrogation must cease until one was obtained.
police testimony, Gardner, having been advised of his rights and undergoing interrogation at the scene of the crime, said, "I think I should talk to an attorney." He then
operation and the staff has become more proficient at taking yellow tape to the shop for repairs, making it possible for the Kansan to take advantage of the cut step in production and come out as a salesman, 8:30 or 9 a.m. It could become a real morning newspaper.
The case, Miranda versus Arizona, resulted in a clarification of procedures used in interrogation, and laid down four primary procedural responsibilities:
The Burger Court and lower federal courts have since converted these guidelines into what can be described only as legal lin- fuzzy, vague rulings that allow each state the liberty to decide police interrogation procedures.
The point hit home in Lawrence Wednesday, when James Gardner was ordered bound over for trial on first degree murder charges in a 2013 case Margaret Maxey at a preliminary hearing in Douglas County Court. According to
The Miranda question will have to be faced there. But a decision, if any, will apply only to Gardner. And perhaps, only to Gardner.
care when working with expensive equipment than they do with old typewriters.
Other states interpret
Miranda differently. In one, any agent of the court—for example, a social worker called on to investigate a child-abuse charge—must read the Miranda agreement with other states, however, interpretation is less strict. There, decisions by courts have given increased admissibility to evidence gathered even when in at least one lower court wiser. In some cases it wasn't read to the suspect.
THEERE ARE OTHER legal problems. Some have argued that a suspect advised that what he says can be used against him, and who then testifies anyway, is doing damage to himself. Self-damage, they contend, cannot be considered the act of an intelligent individual. Hence, his testimony in the case of the three orphan Miranda's criteria -testimony intelligently and knowingly given. The other, that testimony is given voluntarily, falls suspect to other, equally strong arguments.
THE MIRANDA RULING was an attempt to resolve a legal crisis; an attempt to guarantee that those least
Although the long-range advantages of electronic editing are considerable, there are immediate disadvantages. The horror stories from newspapers about the transition period are grim. Stories may forever disappear into the computer environment such as "HHH4E c' (-½)fkku&k and al3331!" may appear in print. And reporters may type so cautiously they won't get their stories done until long past midnight.
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
can switch paragraphs or letters or words. They can correct misspellings and clear out dead syntax. Then, when they are done, they can push a button to produce a roll of punched yellow tape, ready to be taken down to the University Printing Service
The scanner and VDT system is generally considered inferior to an all-VDT system in which reporters type their stories in the case of a news story in the case of the Kanan, with teachers wanting copies of stories as they were before editing and a variety of sub-stories. They copy, some sort of hard, nonelectronic copy is needed.
fixed himself a second cup of coffee, asked about his brother, who also faces charges in connection with the crime, and continued his discussion with police.
be a good workshop for student journalists unless it uses techniques and devices similar to those used by professional newspapers. Almost all major newspapers have much smaller dailies have gone to electronic editing. So have many student newspapers. It
ELECTRONIC editing might also mean an eventual end to the one-day lag in the Kansas editorial page (production force) the editorial page to be set one day in advance).
Wrong, Associate District Judge Mike Elwell ruled, indicating the depths to which Miranda has been eroded. The judge said that his defendant has to do something to assert his rights to counsel." Elwell maintained that Gardner had not, basing his ruling on Gardener's actions immediately following his statement. Motions for the suppression of all charges against Gardner after his statement were three times dismissed by the judge. Included in this evidence obtained after Gardner's statement was the most serious of all the Gardner's signed confession that he had murdered Mr. Maxey.
OBVIOUSLY, UNDER point four of the original Miranda ruling, all interrogation should be followed after Gardner's statement.
IF GARDNER IS convicted to first degree harm, he is automatically entitled to appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Don't expect such an early Kansan right away, however. Between our adjustment period and the necessary changes in distribution methods and press runs, it could take quite a while.
But, in the end, it will work.
And, finally, electronic editing supposedly results in cleaner and better-written copy; partly because of the hardness of the text, and partly because of the reporters seem to take more
and turned into typeset copy and eventually a newspaper
Editor's Note
It is a bit more complex than the present Kansan system, in which pass is passed from the cash register down to the shop to be set. It should take us several early mornings before we know exactly what we're doing. But it is something we have to get
There are several reasons for going electronic.
isn't the coming thing, it is already here.
One is that the Kansan can't
familiar with the judicial system learn of it when necessary. The Burger Court judges are a group of the cullets as each sees fit.
ANOTHER reason is that it is economical. Although the initial cost is large, about $50,000—the new system will pay for itself in about three years. It will do this because it will save the Kansan more than $15,000 a year in typesetting and other shop fees, but it costs less to store the electron is one of the few that will be visible to the average reader. That is an earlier Kansan. Once the system is in
And that, under the weight of guidelines based originally on the Fifth Amendment, is unconstitutional under the 14th. Under the weight of common sense, it is intolerable.
Back to you, Justice Burger.
Where do we stand? Is Miranda dead? Or merely dying?
Coyotes have too many enemies
For a coyote living in Kansas, life is a chancy thing.
But if proponents of a proposal to place coyote hunting under regulation of the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Department, the coyote's chances of surviving in Kansas may get greater.
The proposal is now before the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which is making things on the proposal last week.
AND THEY're equipped for the expedition. Usually there are four or five different hunters in four or five different four-wheel drive pickups, each equipped with the most important device in modern-day covote hunting—the CB radio.
Among the opponents, of course, are the ones who hunt coyotes as a "sportful" way of relaxation. These are the hunters who choose a hunting site randomly on any given weekend and show up on any given farmer's land.
It is the CB that allows the hunter spotting a oyote to radio the other hunters so they can turn all of their greyhounds on
So in the game of coyote versus hunter—in which we
The bounty hunters caters to a foreign fur market. He collects up to $35 a hide. Ten coyote hides make a full-length coat, which sells for more than $1,000 in most European shops.
Fashion watchers say the fad will hit the United States within the next year. Indeed, it is a
BUT THE SPORTING hunter isn't the only one to be blamed for the rapidly declining coyote population.
There is the bounty hunter as well.
panel that the coyote faces extinction in Kansas unless hunting is regulated. For a state that has no abundant wildlife to begin with, extinction is something to be concerned about.
have the coyote on one side
haves, four-wheel drives, CBS
and greyhounds on the other—
always the champ.
Jay Bemis
Editorial Writer
profitable business—and one in which the bounty hunter problem is the least profit. For a few serious coyote populations in Kansas?
Many farm organizations oppose the hunting regulation. Their argument seems to have some substance. It's no secret that coyotes are nuisances when they're near a farmer's livestock, and in Kansas they annually cause extensive damage to farmers' property. Coyotes can attack cowes under control, other than hunting them, have poven unsuccessful.
ANN GONNERMAN, who
represented the Kansas
Federation of Human Societies
for humane work,
meeting last week, told the
coyote hunting by anyone other than farmers.
Regulation would set a season on coyote hunting. Those who hunt for the sake of sportsmanship probably don't care at what time of year the season would be. Pelt pelders would prefer having the season in the winter months, however, since it's the winter pelt that Europeans want.
BILL PEABODY, wildlife biologist for the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission, realizes this. He wants to interfere with farmers. But it does hope to regulate
Setting a season on the hunting of wild fowl probably has saved that population, even though many Kansas hunters annually flock to Nebraska to do small quail and pleasant hunt
Lack of regulation nearly wiped the buffalo population from the Kansas prairie. Perhaps it is time that we consider the fur merchants and, for once, think of the coyote.
Student complains articles in press stereotyped her
To the editor:
The Wichita Eagle-Becanon an article last Sunday following up the Kansan story on Greek prejudice in sororites. The article was not a fair representation of my views, and I would appreciate this chance to comment.
The language and tone of the story made it appear that I was bitter about the rush, which I am not. The racist accusations even cross my mind until the first letter to the editor appeared.
The recent news coverage has introduced me to a worse form of bias than racism could ever individual but rather the only black girl to go through rush this year. Chuck Alexander of the Witchcraft Eagle-Bearcone story, who has told his story more than a person.
I participated in rush to meet people and decide for myself the merits of sororites. I had no intentions of stirring racial questions. I do not feel that there was any more pressure on
me than on any of the other girls.
One of my concerns is the stereotyping that has resulted from the recent publicity. I feel unequivocal about these incidents, their members have been labeled racist. There is prejudice in almost any situation. It is just as unfair to label someone as racist because it was to have the article labels me. I found many of the girls nice and enjoyable, and I believe the press more than the news incident out of perspective.
I hope that this incident can be recognized for what it is and that further pain and pressure can be avoided for all involved.
I would like to publicly air my disappointment in your paper for reprinting the article
Junction City freshman
Debra Edgerton
Junction City freshman
I must say that the Lawrence paper did use a bit more tact in their headline than did the Kansan. Could it be that your headline was more catching to the eye, to the point that the
The facts of the case will be decided by a court, but we feel it is vitally important that such information be reported. As long
We wish to respond to Sue Parcell's letter in which she accused the Kanans of sensational journalism and bad taste. She was charged with impersonating on a law suit filed by a woman who says she contracted
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venereal disease from a KU basketball player.
Johnson defended To the editor:
To the editor:
Readers Respond
as stories about rape, attempted rape, discrimination and other problems faced by women are not reported. However, these difficulties will remain isolated and helpless.
People must not be kept in ignorance of the available means of communication; further, it is important that the public be made aware that these problems do exist. Karen Borell, Lawrence law student Kathy Dugan, Lawrence graduate student Mary Catherine Ellott, Lawrence graduate student Lawson, KU staff member Ellen Ellison, Lawrence graduate student
student and respectable athlete was concerned.
I feel that the article was a terrible misjudice to Clint and one that is sure to interfere with his personal life. It was he, in his early 30s, undergoing incarcination and malicious accusations by the article itself.
previously published in the Lawrence Journal-World concerning Clint Johnson.
Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion and that of many others. I'm sure.
According to some, the type of information in your article is what draws the attention of the gossip-seeking public. Johnson was a basketball player and naturally well-known locally. I feel very strongly that this is a violation of Johnson's privacy, as a less well-known person would not be forced to endure.
Susan Thomas
Topeka
It was bad enough that the story was printed in the Lawrence paper, but I see no obvious reason for running a reprint in the Kansas. It goes to the news interest can be, especially when it involves a public figure.
reader need not finish the article? The information was all there.
I realize that the Lawrence Journal-World and the Kansan are just practicing freedom of speech, but someone's personal life to the point of unnecessary embarrassment and inconvenience thus Kansan would have used better judgment—where a fellow
I am replying to your article in last week's Kansan about "high-pressure" life insurance and to college students who are plausible by rude, and unprofessional insurance salesmen whose first interests aren't those of the client, but those of themselves. We know that extremely one-sided and falls to show or acknowledge the strong and positive points of the insurance industry and the help it knowledgeable and professional insurance agent can be.
I am a 1978 Kansas University graduate and I defy you to show me, anyone, be my clients or any of the numerous people I have contacted, who would consider me push, rude or in
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any way unprofessional. I speak not for myself but for the thousands of reputable, dedicated, professional and quality insurance men throughout this country who strive to consider their clients' best interests over their own. We are familiar with the tactics used by the hard-suited life insurance
agents who work the college market exclusively. But they are not representative or indicative of the industry as a whole, and I only wish Kelly Kelly the best of both care and service that a good insurance man can be to the people. James Mullinix
James Mullinix
5750 W. 95th St.
Overland Park
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