Delays leave law building's fall opening in doubt
Still waiting
in the delivery of building materials threaten to keep the new School of Law moving from opening next fall. The building, between 15th Street and Irving Road, will have to be rebuilt.
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
The new School of Law building probably won't be open for classes until January 17, probably in the spring.
The $ 5 million building, east of Jayawater Towers between 13th Street and Irving Hill Road, officially is scheduled to be completed by day 23 and to be opened for classes this fall.
But minutes from a Feb. 4 School of Law faculty-student conflict the contradictory.
According to the minutes, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, "indicated that, because of the continuing need for training in concrete pre-cast concrete blocks, and other difficulties, it is now virtually certain that we will be unable to move into the new building."
THE CONCRETE blocks were replacements for 17 other blocks provided
by the building's general contractor, Casson Construction Co., Topeka. Casson was asked last fall to replace the original blocks, which form the outer skin of the building, after state and KU investigators decided the panels were of inferior quality.
Dickinson局 refused to confirm or deny that the minutes were accurate. He said, "We had an internal discussion. The minutes were written by a person other than
Francis Heller, professor of law who attended the meeting, said last night the murderer was charged.
When Dickinson was read a copy of the minutes, he said he "wouldn't want to say" that he didn't.
HELLER SAID, "The dean informed us the chances were virtually nothing—that they were very remote—for moving in this fall."
John Cassion, a member of the contracting
John Cassion, said he wouldn't comment on
By state law, each day after May 23 that the building isn't finished will cost the Caesars.
whether the building would be finished on time.
Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said the company had been denied a request for extending the May 23 deadline. The request was made at a Feb. 3 meeting. Casson, he said, has "been given ample time to build the building."
"IT WILL TAKE a maximum effort to form a team, as it has said, "but there has been no extension."
"The company must legally be done by May 25. The panels are not justification for us."
"You'll have to talk to Dean Dickinson about that."
But Dickinson said, "There is only one spokesman at the University who can comment on the building, and that is Max Lucas."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Dykes was unavailable for comment. His administrative assistant, Jim Scaly, said that "Lucas is the one who knows about this."
DICKINSON ALSO said he wouldn't comment on portions of the minutes that said "he reported that Chancellor Dykes is lending every possible support to efforts to induce the contractor to take the steps in order to complete the building on time.
Construction of the building, which replaces Green Hall been in March 1975.
Construction of the building, which replaces Green Hall, began in March 1975. A major advantage of the new building is that its 65,000 square feet of floor space will accommodate more than 100 students, 104 more students than were enrolled last semester.
KANSAN
Vol.87,No.91
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Blacksmithing story pages 6.7
18 caught using fake bus passes
By CHUCK WILSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Eighteen students caught in the last 10 days using forged bus passes will be referred to the office of student affairs for possible disciplinary action.
Donald Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, said last night that he heard about the forgeryes yesterday after she and planned to talk to the KU Police today.
"Before we question any of the people involved, we plan to study every aspect of their lives."
THE NAMES OF the students can't be released, because of the Buckley Amendment.
The KU Police have assigned two detectives and one officer to help in the investigation.
"Who knows how many more are still out-
side?" he said. "Some are even selling
takes."
Hill said some people caught had hand-engaged their own passes and others had used them.
Five persons were caught last week with forged passes, nine were caught Monday and four were caught yesterday by 1 p.m., Hill said.
The crackdown came after one bus driver discovered a fake pass last week and other drivers saw it more, according to Steve McMurray, Student Senate Transportation Committee chairman. The Senate Transportation Committee, the wheels, the campus transportation system.
PEOPLE MAKING the bus passes could be prosecuted for forgery, Hill said, and
users of the passes could be prosecuted for theft of services.
Duane Ogle, owner of Lawrence Bus Co., which owns the KU buses, had no comment on whether the company would prosecute people caught using fake passes.
PEOPLE FORGING passes use many methods from drawing an a piece of coloring paper to printing a printed method, he said, but no matter what the method, a fast bus pass was easy
Official bus passes are printed by the KU Printer Service.
One student who was caught said she bought her pass for $2,50. police said. Official bus passes cost $18 for students and $20 for nonstudents each semester.
Another student caught said the person who sold her a pass said it was so well-done that she had to get it.
Dave Neely, a driver for the Lawrence Bus Co., said all the fake passes found had been used.
The yellow background isn't the right shade and the letters are not as clear. Some of them were copied by hand, one had been photographed and another pass contained letters that had been sten-
Nearly said the forging of bus passes
hadn't been nearly as widespread as in past
When someone using a fake pass is caught, Neely said, the driver takes down the person's name and address. And, if the person who the driver turns him over to the KI Police,
"If we have to examine everyone's bus pass to stop this we will," he said.
The 55-foot-high balloon was inflated from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. yesterday until 15 to 18 mile-an-hour winds hampered the balloon. Across the pink-and-red sphere a banner read, "Be involved. Vote Feb. 16 and 17."
Committee postpones disciplinary decision
As the committee met last night, all three presidential and vice-presidential teams
Senate regulations give the committee the power to ban "political gimmicks" in campaigns that might add a "carnival atmosphere" to an election.
The Student Senate Elections Committee posted action last night against Senate candidates who inflated a hot air balloon yesterday morning so the Committee could deal with the more immediate concerns of the election today and tomorrow.
Action was delayed despite five protesting telephone calls and one formal protest by the Reflection coalition's sophomore candidates against the balloon, which the Avanti sophomore class candidates inflated in front of Strong Hall.
Testimonies conflict in marijuana hearing
The Reflection team said it didn't object to the use of the balloon but disapproved of the Avanti candidates disregard of an official ruling last Wednesday banning the balloon.
All the candidates said they intended to
"1KNOW of one patient who smoked two marjuana joints and got a psychotic companion."
Ungerleides said after the hearing that the testimony he heard in opposition to Glenn Ferguson is unreliable.
decriminalization as a sign of their elders
abandoning concern for their welfare.
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A-Psychiatrist and law enforcement officials spared yesterday in a House committee hearing on a bill that seeks the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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continue their campaign efforts through today and tomorrow.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee heard two hours of conflicting testimonies, emotional appeals and moral arguments about a modified marijuana decriminalization bill by State Rep. Mike Glover, D.Dr Lawrence.
J. Thomas Ungerleider, a University of California at Los Angeles psychiatrist who served on the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, listed research results that led the commission to conclude that marijuana should be decriminalized. Ungerleider said there was no acceptable evidence that marijuana was a health hazard or was addictive.
William Albott, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), said he would favor an amended law of Glover's punishment, a law the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
FRED HOWARD, former KBI director who is now TokePA police chief, represented the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police in a lawsuit filed by the known member of the association of marijuana decriminalization. Glover's bill would increase marijuana use, he said, and increase the danger of car wrecks caused by driving under the influence of marijuana.
All the candidates began planning their campaigns in mid-November, but didn't actively campaign until school started this semester. In the last month, Grey said, she has distributed about 6,000 fliers, 2,500 posters and 48 T-shirts.
Two presidential candidates, Dana Mckernan, Salina junior, and Steve Leben, El Dorado junior, said they planned to station themselves and coalition workers near polling places to speak to students who hadn't decided whom they would vote for.
The third candidate, Sherri Grey,
Manhattan senior, said that in addition to
stationing people around campus, she would
continue to speak at living groups and hand
out campaign literature until the polls
closed.
HAROLD VOTH, a psychiatrist on the staff of the Meninger Foundation in Topeka, blasted the reduction of penalties for marijuana possession, saying marijuana contributed to "the general decline in the moral fiber in America."
"I am concerned with what has happened
because," Voth said. "This concern should
be addressed." The doctor will
answer.
Bill Hamilton, Salma freshman, steadied a hot air balloon in the wind yesterday morning in front of Strong Hall. The balloon and coilon sophomore class candidates.
McKernan said he had distributed about 100 posters and 1,000 handbills in the same pool.
Lebens said he had distributed 500 posters,
3,200 brochures, 6,500 filers, 3,000 doorknob
sheets.
After last night's meeting, Kevin Flynn, Elections Committee chairman, reiterated his pledge to get more than 5,000 students to vote for president and vice president. The election in a Senate election in the late 15 years was last year, when 3,167 students voted.
Greg Schrake, Avanti sophomore class presidential candidate, said he defied the Election Committee's ruling banning the help the committee meets its $5,000 voter goal.
Schnacke said that because the committee had made its ruling after the campaign, he felt unfair. He questioned whether the Elections Committee had the power to prorify a decision it made against class office candidates, centring to the Senate Rules Committee.
Flynn said last week that if candidates disregarded an Election Committee ruling, they could be fined from $5 to $50 or removed from office if elected.
If the Elections Committee decides to take action against the Avanti sophomore class candidates, the case would be heard by the University Judiciary, which would decide them to fine the candidates or remove them from office.
Flynn said election results should be available about a.i. Friday from the KU Information Center, 864-3566. Election returns will also be carried over JKH-FM.
Lobby pushes student issues without KU aid
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Contributing Writer
Money is one of the main reasons KU hasn't joined the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK). If KU joined ASK, each student's activity fee would be raised 25 cents a semester. With a record full-time equivalency enrollment of 21,011 this fall, KU would contribute almost $10,000 a year to ASK.
For 25 cents a semester, students at participating Kansas colleges and universities support a group that lobbies for student interests in the state legislature. The group represents about half of the college population and all of the largest schools in Kansas, with one exception—the University of Kansas.
ASK was formed as a Topka-based lobbying group more than three years ago. Since then it has endorsed select legislative issues such as landlord-tenant bills, faculty salary increases and a student loan program. ASK representatives also have tested before the university on issues such as the decriminalization of marijuana.
"I DON'T think they're $10,000 worth of effective" Tadesh Tassie. student body president. said this week
KU was offered a chance to join when the group first formed. But KU's Student Senate opposed membership by a vote of 42-8. Senators questioned the use of the financial fund to滋 fund finance-full-time professional lebbits.
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Kansas State College (all Board of Regents schools) and Washburn University had joined. They remain
Doug Oblander, ASK executive director, said ASK had approached KU each year until this year.
But there are no plans this year to bring the ASK issue before the Student Senate, which would have to vote to raise the student activity fee paid at enrollment. A Student Senate subcommittee on legislative laiison decided this year to suggest the formation of KU-based volunteer groups that would deal with the legislature, rather than suggest ASK membership.
MARK ALLEN, Ames, Iowa, junior and subcommittee chairman, said he took a random survey of 11 legislators and found that most legislators thought ASK was not as effective as they thought it could have
KU groups would cost a fraction of what it would cost to join ASK, Allen said, and still would let legislators know what students desired and would let students know about the legislature.
However, ASK supports KU membership because of the strength-in-numbers theory.
"We're talking about 50,000 votes," Oblander said, referring to the approximate ASK membership. The students are a pretty viable voting force. That's probably the strength of ASK is—the potential student votes.
"We don't claim that people will vote the ASK
position. But we represent a group of people with common interests." Oblander said.
"It's a free ride for KU," he said. But he said KU still was welcome to join.
"SOME PEOPLE think that perhaps you think
*you're too good for ASK, but they'd feel that way about
that."
Some student members may resent KU for not joining, he said, because KU receives the same benefits as member schools when an endorsed bill passes.
Dwight Endering, ASK campus director at Wichita State, said, "We would like you (KU) to be involved. We feel as if you could have a great deal of influence on KU's development and be great number of KU grads in the state legislature.
- 75 per cent said they had been contacted by ASK;
22 per cent didn't; 3 per cent had no opinion.
Ed Rolfs, former KU student body president, was a Student Senator when ASK was established. He said KU decided not to join because the Senate thought that activity funds shouldn't be used for political lobbying and favored a more voluntary program, especially because KU is so close to Toopka.
-Only 17 per cent thought that ASK had positively affected their vote on legislation; 22 per cent
In the summer of 1974, the Student Senate surveyed the state legislature about ASK. They received responses from 106 of 165 legislators, 64 per cent of the legislature. They found that:
- Only 6 per cent thought student activity fees should be paid
- 90 per cent disagreed; four per cent had no opinion
State Sen. Ron Hein, R-Topeka and former ASK executive director, said it was hard to judge a lobbying group's effectiveness, especially through a questionnaire.
"They (lobbyists) provide a service." Hein said, "All you can really do is say whether or not they are putting good input into the system. Lobbyists just make you aware of a bill."
Hein said the most important function of lobbyists is to provide information for the legislators to help them make.
Each year a legislative assembly, composed of student representatives from the members' schools (1 representative for each thousand students enrolled in the school), has a director to research and lobby for certain issues.
In 1974, these issues were endorsed by ASK and acted on in the legislature:
— A 10 per cent faculty salary increase for KU and UCLA, and a 20 per cent faculty salary increase for the other Regents schools. Approximate salaries.
—A campaign finance act to establish a candidate's contribution and expenditure ceilings. Approved.
—The Minimum Housing Act to devise minimum rental housing standards. Defeated in the Senate.
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