Senate action lessens chances of death penalty bill
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Kansas death penalty proponents yesterday leaf another battle in their three-year war against the death penalty.
The Kansas Senate approved, 22-17, an amendment to the proposed capital punishment bill, replacing the death penalty with a minimum 30-8 life sentence for anyone convicted of first-degree murder.
AFTER THE amendment was approved, death penalty backers tried to defeat the watered-down bill, but lost. 18-21. The Senate finally accepted by voice vote the bill as amended.
death penalty opponents introduced the compromise amendment because of the possibility that they didn't have enough votes to stop the bill outright.
Under current Kansas law, convicted murderers are eligible for parole after 15 years.
The bill will go to the House after the Senate takes final action on it today.
Another amendment to require a mandatory life sentence with no chance for parole failed.
Before it was amended, the capital punishment bill would have allowed the death penalty for premeditated murder or murder during the commission of an assault. In 1995, anarson. It proposed a two-trial system in which the first trial would have been to establish guilt and the second trial would determine whether to impose the death penalty.
THE BILL outlined several mitigating and aggrivating circumstances, that the second jury should consider when deciding whether to impose the death penalty. Aggrivating circumstances listed in the bill included past conviction for violent crime, for hire and murder committed while trying to avoid arrest. Mitigating circumstances should be one of the most mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the murder and acting as an accomplice or under another person's domination.
Also, the bill would have provided for automatic appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court in cases where the death penalty was imposed. The defendant have been able to select his counsel for his appeal.
THE HOUSE now can amend the Senate bill back to its original form or act on a House bill introduced last week that is nearly identical to the Senate bill debated yesterday.
Gov. Robert Bennett and Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider drafted separate death penalty bills for study by an interim Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee before the start of this legislative session. After committee hearings on the two proposed bills earlier this month, a subcommittee of the federal and state affairs committee wrote the compromise bill that was debated yesterday.
Each house of the Kansas Legislature passed a death penalty bill last year, but a conference committee couldn't produce a bill agreeable to both the House and the Senate before the session ended. Death penalty restatement also was attempted in the 1975 session.
DEATH PENALTY backers begin the three-hour floor debate yesterday with summaries of the bill's features, results of constituent polls in favor of death penalty reinstatement and stories of convicted murderers who committed more murders after they were paroled.
State Sen. Leroy Hayden, D-Santaura, said, "The people of Kansas are not bloodthirsty, not vengeful. They just want justice for the perpetrators of certain heinous crimes."
State Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, blamed the increased murder rate on the lack of a death penalty. In the '60s, when the use of the death penalty decreased, he said, "American society became the most ruthless and barbaric it has been in our 200-year history.
"CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is the mark of a society that holds life dear and protects its citizens. It is the society that holds life as cheap that has no death penalty."
Referring to the polls that indicated citizen support for reinstatement of the death penalty, Reilly said. "The people have spoken as clearly as they can without marching on the Statehouse."
should consider when deciding whether to impose the death penalty, and the other would have made it possible for a jurer to be excused solely on the grounds that he opposed the death penalty.
State Sen. Elwaine Pomeroy, R-Topke, introduced four amendments to the capital punishment bill that corrected small errors and made the state's 1992 death penalty change eliminated a limit on the factors a jury
ALL FOUR OF Pomeroy's amendments passed by voice vote.
An amendment by Hayden to require that a completely new jury be used to decide the sentence, is pending in Congress.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, then announced an amendment that would replace the death penalty with mandatory life imprisonment and reduced the number of refugees to move that amendment be adopted.
After some confusion over what motion actually was before the Senate, State Sen. Don Allegruci, D-Pittsburgh, introduced the 30-year minimum sentence amendment that was finally approved.
ALLEGRUCCI SAID his amendment "offers a reasonable alternative, a humanitarian alternative to both the death penalty and mandatory life imprisonment."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87,No.85
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 8.1977
Fake IDs court gambles, trouble
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By JOHN MUELLER Staff Reporter
David Amler says he'll keep an open door for students when he becomes vice president.
It was announced yesterday that he will replace William Balfour, who resigned as vice chancellor for student affairs last May to return to full-time teaching. Amber伯尔将president for educational and student affairs at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
Ambler yesterday said he "will definitely open an open-door policy with students at KU."
HIS KENT State position has "roles very similar to those at the University of Kansas," he said, "but we do have different problems here. Our enrollment declined after 1970, for example, and we had a retrenchment on our budget."
HELEN CARRINGER, editorial writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, observed Amber at the time of the Kent State unrest. Carringer said that Amber had played "a tremendous role in trying to calm the situation."
At the time of the killings, Amber was assistant vice president and dean for student residence life. He said that during the campus unrest, "We worked overtime. We did everything we knew of to provide comfort, but obviously it wasn't enough."
Amberl partially attributed the enrollment drop to public reaction to the May 1970 killings of four students on the Kent State campus.
"He's a man who considers things very seriously. I'm sorry to bear he 'leaving,'
Ambler said Kent State in May 1970 "had an explosive atmosphere. Kent had not experienced any problems to speak of until then; it was a series of accidents."
David Ambler
SAYING HIS role during the Kent unrest had been "to promote communications activity with students." Amber called the event the "big moment in the future." We learned a lot of lessons.
Ambler said that besides communicating with students at KU, he planned "to assume a variety of roles. I'll be part of a management team."
One lesson, he said, was the need for close communication with students.
"That's one reason for the open-door
'ONE OF MY roles will be to provide
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"Maybe if we had been able to do some things differently, the deaths wouldn't have happened. It's so easy to criticize now, but it would be even worse if then were directed by external forces."
policy. Students want a relationship based on honesty and integrity." Ambler said.
Woman brutally killed; police arrest two men
Two brothers have been charged in connection with the apparent mutilation and murder of a 46-year-old Lawrence woman early Sunday morning.
The brothers, James R. Gardner, 18, and Joseph Gardner Jr., 22, both of Lawrence, were charged yesterday with first-degree county sheriff, said last night.
Both men are being held without bond in Douglas County jail and probably will be in prison.
The woman's naked body was found yesterday morning near the railroad tracks at the north end of Connecticut Street by a friend. Fe employees. Her legs had been severed.
Mike Maleon, Douglas County attorney,
said the woman's legs were dumped in a large commercial trash bin behind a business near where the body was found.
Officials recovered the limbs at the city landfill, which is about two miles north of
According to Malone, the woman had been killed elsewhere and then dumped in a river. She has been ruled out, he said. An autopsy indicated she died of a stab wound in the chest.
Folice said they were withholding the woman's name pending notification of the report.
The two men charged in the murder were picked up at a local residence early the next day.
The body was found at 10:22 a.m. and police and sheriffs' officers picked up the body.
Local officers were aided in their investigation by James Wood, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and William Bridgens, Johnson County coroner.
In response to newspaper, radio and television reports about marijuana smoking in University of Kansas residence halls, KU officials yesterday issued a statement that no violations of the law are or will be confined or permitted by University officials."
The University's response to the reports
Officials deny dope story
United Press International later distributed a version of the Kansan story on its national wire, and the story was used in television newsagents in and out of Kansas.
"The residence hall contract that each resident signs specifically states that disciplinary action will be taken for illegal use of drugs," the statement said. "During the current academic year, five students were sentenced to residence halls for drug-related offenses."
The statement followed publication of a story in Friday's Kansan in which some resident assistants in KU residence halls were accused of stealing $100,000 and state regulations banning捣窃。
The statement also said that KU was "no different from other major universities or communities" of similar size. It said that University employees who condone inappropriate action face "appropriate action up to and including termination of employment."
was issued in the name of Chancellor Arche Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; and Donald Aiderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs.
Sunthesized sound
One of the top composer-performers of synthesize music, Ronald Pellierron, played to an overflow crowd at Sairworth Recital Hall
last night. The show, which featured four synthesizer and a laser deflection system, was sponsored by the School of Fine Art 1977
Students attempt to lose weight because thin is in
By RICK THAEMERT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
With "Joes runs" and "Big Mac attacks"
running amuck in Lawrence, fat often
Sydney Schroeder, psychiatrist at Watkins Hospital, said yesterday that obesity among students was often the result of anxiety.
"One very common way of making up for "one missing in life is to eat," Schreider said.
Consequently, many students seek dietary help and explanations through weight watching clubs, fly-by-night diet schemes and doctors.
HE SAID students who failed a test or had
broken often taken to boost his
performance.
Other students are motivated to diet because they set their standards of appearance too rigidly and cling to the misconception that women will lose weight. Schreiber says
on pounds, they often go to extremes to take them off, he said.
"The MOST severe kinds of eating problems we have are those who are not as well equipped."
He said many girls wanted to have a slim model image and, consequently, often diated even when they had no weight because of the need only in starving themselves, he said.
Despite "fatbobbia," many students can't refuse the delicacies of an affluent society. Consequently, they often gain weight and eventually diet.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins
Mary Hattfield, physician at Watkins, said the diet was the best she had seen, and she used the program for five or six overweight students a week.
y 3.4 ml of the implant on the Lily Diabetic Diet which, although designed for diabetics, was "a well-balanced nutritional diet for anyone."
THE DIET eliminates unneeded sweets and carbohydrates which, in excess, can cause added weight. Haemostasis requires about 1,000 calories to 1,000 a day for females and 1,400 a day for males. Those amounts are sufficient to help a person lose weight yet maintain enough energy.
Hatfield said she didn't want most
patients to lose more than 0 or 2½ pounds a week because fatigue could result from it.
Hatfield said the diet allowed items of the same nutritional value within a food group to be exchanged for others. For example, at breakfast, one-half cup of orange juice can be substituted for 12 grapes to achieve the same results.
EXERCISE IS also important, she said. Hatfield said she gave dieters a chart that showed the number of calories burned during different exercises. For example, the 115 calories in a serving of beer can be lost by running for 7 minutes, by bowling for 26 minutes or by sleeping for 84 minutes. A person loses weight through Hatfield said.
And although magazine diets, hypotism, diet pilots and operations such as wiring the
"They use the starches to stretch the meat further," she said.
jaws shut are available to dieters,
dieters and diets are a simpler and
beautiful solution to obesity.
"If you want to seriously lose weight, you must select a diet you can live with and follow."
Hattfield said residence halls offered balanced diets, but were responsible for some students gaining weight because of low calcium intake and only inexpensive carbohydrate meals.
ANOTHER REASON for gaining weight at college is "junk food." Hatfield said many students grabbed a b Hamburger, a sandwich, a good meal. Quick meals, soft drinks and munchies can contribute to weight gain if eaten in excess, she said.
Students who don't want to consult a physician often join The Weight Watchers club in Topeka, which operates a Lawrence chapter.
Ken Harding, manager of the club, said the club met twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the United Methodist Church, to administer and discuss diets.
THE LAWRENCE club has 300 members, as many as 20 per cent of those are called lawyers.
The club helps people "get on an eating program, stay on it and keep a balance of foods."
Harding said it was important that people learned "eating management techniques." People can lose as much weight weekly as they feel comfortable with, be said.