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Wednesday, February 9, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Jury summons not all bad news
By NANCY TEETER
Staff Reporter
"Summoned for jury duty," the paper says. For KU students and faculty receiving such a notice, images may be missed. Missed classes and weeks of deliberation.
But it's not that bad, court officials and people who have been summoned say.
The longest trials seldom last more than two days, and the chances of being selected for a jury are fairly slim anyway, according to Sherlyn Sampson, clerk of the district
Jurors are picked randomly from the county's list of registered voters so that students who have transferred their voting status may also be summoned for jury duty here.
**SAMPSON'S SAID** she sends out 200 summaries every two months, about 25 per cent of them, then a third, about 10 per cent, summoned, one could be called to serve on a jury during a two-month period.
She said that students used to be automatically excused from jury duty because of their enrollment, allowing them to establish residency and register to vote in Douglas County, judges have cracked down.
"The judges feel that if students can do their duty and be served on a jury, their civic duty by serving on a jury.
People summoned must report for jury selection before each trial, she said, but only about 50 to 60 of the 200 originally summoned show up.
a physical disability, Sampson said, and judges also can excuse a person for what they consider valid reasons.
People may have to report as many as five times before they are reported. "They said, 'The girl," she said.
Many times a case is settled out of court and prospective jurors don't find out until the night before that they don't have to come in the next day, she said.
Sampson said judges had found that students usually had to miss only a few days of classes and that professors usually were understanding.
BUT SAMPSON said she tried to be cooperative and reasonable. Students usually are excused during Christmas vacation and finals week.
"I was a student once, and I know that classes are skipped," she said. "Unless someone is going to flunk by missing one day of class, we'll make them come in."
"The judges usually make students serve on one jury and then excuse them, but we've had a few students who liked it so much that they wanted to serve again," she said.
The $10 paid for each trip to the courtroom and 13 cents a mile paid to persons who live outside the city limits is welcomed by student jurors, she said.
Melanie Reeder, Prairie Village junior, who was chosen for jury duty, and the worst part of duty, was going to the selection proceeding. She was asked to have an appointment and have to stay all afternoon. She has reported three times for jury selection but hasn't been chosen.
TONIGHT: AURH LEGISLATOR'S DNNER will be at 7 p.m. at Templin Hall. KU KAMES will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Walkins Room. UNDERGRADEATE PHILOSOPHY CLUB will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union's INDEPENDENCE CLUB, where he will learn SACREDENCIAL MEDITION will be at 8 p.m. in the Union's Governor's Room.
TODAY: JON MELN will speak at a faculty forum at noon at the Mount Mercy University SMOHS meeting will begin at 3:36 p.m. in Centennial Room of the Kansas University.
TOMORROW: WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Foundation Board will meet at 10 a.m. in the Union's International Room, followed by a lunch and lecture at noon in the Kansas Room. ALCOHOL ABUSE will be the topic of a lecture by Fred McEllenbie, associate dean of men, at 7 p.m. in the Union's International Room. IN THE UNION'S Jiahawk Room. KJIR radio station will air the debates. Hillel Israel FOLK-DANCING will begin at 7:30 p.m. on the 10th floor of McCollum Hall. DAVID PEARE, of Oxford University, will present a paper on "Russell's Unpublished Theory of Judgment and Wittgenstein's Picture Theory" at 8 p.m. in the Union's Forum Room.
Cayton Kirkpatrick, editor of the Chicago Tribune, will receive the 1972 Award for Journalistic Merit from the William Allen White Foundation at a noon luncheon tomorrow in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
SHE SAID that the trial she served for concerned a minor traffic violation and that the jury had to decide who was the negligent party.
He will be a guest today at a dinner for the executive and citation committees of the foundation.
Events
Peter Macdonald, chairman of the selection committee and president of Harris Enterprises, Inc., has said two facets of Kirkpatrick's career stand out: Kirkpatrick rose from a reporter on the Tribune to editor, and during the past three years he has been on most of the "freedom of the press" committees in the country.
"I didn't try to get out of it (jury duty). I wanted to serve," he said. "It was the first time I had been called and I was curious about it."
Larry Poins, Julesburg, Colo., senior,
served on a jury thought it was enjoya-
tive.
Foreign aid funds meager business consultant savs
He said his main problem was finding someone to teach his classes, although his appearance made him miss only one day of class.
of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
"I was very educational," she said. "I felt I had a say in something. Eleven of us agreed, and we spent three hours convincing agreed, and we spent three hours convincing the twelfth juror that we were right."
Kirkpatrick, 62, will be the 28th recipient of the citation, given each year to a journalist who exemplifies William Allen "service to his profession and to his country."
Richard Givens, professor of chemistry, who was called to serve, was a graduate student who didn't want to be.
"IM REALLY hoping I don't have to serve, because it could tie up two full days."
Chicago editor honored
of the current needs of countries requesting aid.
Aid for less-developed countries must be increased and managed more effectively, an international business consultant told a group of about 75 yesterday at a United Nations Association meeting at United Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Fluker said there wasn't sufficient effort on the part of recipient countries to make the transition.
"There's not enough effective administration," he said. "A great proportion of the aid is insufficient." These students show how and well maintaining projects once they are set up.
Fluker, who has worked for the State Department in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, and Britain. He also provided bureaucratic management and lacked principle in the criteria used to determine allocation.
Fluker said there also was a need to distinguish the 25 or 28 least-developed countries from the 86 partly-developed countries and was going to the least-developed countries.
J. Robert Fluker, visiting lecturer at the University of Kansas School of Business, said $43 billion in assistance in 1975 from the United Nations, men and women and agencies volunteer groups and private agencies was "not bad, but not enough."
"We gave so much last year, so we'll give the same this year" is the criteria often used to decide amounts of assistance, Fluker said, instead of a critical evaluation
Kirkpatrick will receive an honorarium which he is expected to give to the Freedom
"international business is doing well in many countries, but very badly in the least-developed countries," he said. (221) A survey of five countries, he goes to the 25 least-developed countries."
By STEPHEN HESS
New KU roofs lack old style's reliability
modern roofs on University of Kansas buildings may be simpler and less expensive than those of the older-style, but the old, arch-style roofs seem more reliable, according to Joe Christy, buildings and grounds foreman.
"It wasn't installed properly to begin with, so we were trying to keep it up until a wallpaper company came in."
'THE NEWER buildings, because of their flat, gravel decks on the roofs, are designed to have wet tar, felt paper, gravel water. Some of them are designed to hold water; others aren't.
Staff Reporter
“ONE OF THE biggest problems we’ve had, recently, has been at the KU printing service,” he said. “I’ve been working on it for the last six years, and it’s about it.”
"We've had problems with most of the newer buildings because of their flat-top construction, compared to the older, arch-type structure, more moisture would drain off the roofs."
"This kind of roof we must get away from. Although new roofs may be cheaper initially, there will be more costs in bringing them (than in maintaining old roofs)."
Leaks are the biggest problem of the new roofs, and they have kept the KU construction crew working overtime this month, Christy said.
Christy, 55, has been here 14 years and began working in construction in 1947.
Fluker is a KU graduate of the School of Business. He received his master's degree in economics from Princeton University and then attended the Russian Institute of Columbia University.
Gottschalk Roofing Co. of Topeka has
"Another thing (to improve new roofs) would be to have better dispersal of drains, more of them and have the drains dispose of more moisture," Christy said.
Roofs are constructed with tar poured over a paper base. Gravel is spread evenly
contracted to build a new roof at the printing service for $9,844.
"The printing service is the major problem, but we've had problems with roof leakage at Spencer and Watson libraries and Robinson Gym," Christy said. "The new edition on Haworth (Hall) and Watkins Hospital have also leaked.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN flat-top roofs could be made if the materials used were put on more heavily and thoroughly." "Two layers of tar on the root wole help."
WATKINS HAS leaked from the masony, which is the walls and around the tops of windows. Allen Field House was leaky, too, has been renewed and is all right, now."
Chrisy said Hoch Auditorium, Wescoe,
halls held balls up best, primarily because
he was the only one.
"I don't understand why Wesco has held up so well, with that flat top roof," he said. "We had to get it out before the storm."
Roofing can be costly, too.
Christy said there were three causes of building problems: A building inspector wasn't doing his job, construction specifications were unclear or shoddy work was done. An inspector may also be responsible for bad construction, he said.
"The crew works on an average of $5 an hour," he said. "One day we worked 8 hours and used 2,000 pounds of asphalt, and it cost $3 per pound of pounds. So you can see the costs add up."
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