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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 7, 1990
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Haskell students call for discussion
Recent unexplained death prompts call for forum
By Kathryn Lancaster Kansan staff writer
About 30 students at Haskell Indian Junior College last night called for a public forum to discuss concerns of race and discrimination in Lawrence.
In the past year, three American Indian men have been found dead, and at least three Haskell students have been assaulted in Lawrence.
in an emotional and occasionally tense meeting, Haskell student students voted unanimously to schedule a public forum to allow local officials and community members a chance to voice their concerns.
Senators scheduled the forum for 1 p.m. Monday at Haskell.
"We are a part of this community, and we have to act in unison," said Jennifer. "There are still a number of questions that have never been answered."
'We are a part of this community, and we have to act in unison.'
Jerry Bitsni Haskell student
Bob Martin, Haskell president; told the senators that he supported a forum to address any schoched requests. He canceled Monday afternoon. George Amos, Student Senate Board member, told students that Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson, Police Chief Ron Olin, District Attorney Jim Flory and University of Kansas Student Senate members had said they would attend.
Michael Diggs, chairman of the KU Minority Affairs Committee, said KU representatives would attend the meeting.
Eli Talmasey, Senate Board member, said the forum would help ease tensions at Haskell by showing that the community cared.
The recent deaths have caused apprehension among Haskell students, he said, and the pressure needs to be released
"How many friends do you know who are concerned?" Amos asked senators. "Students don't feel they can walk downtown at night."
A memorial service is planned for 8 a.m. Friday on the Haskell campus for Christopher George Bread. Bread, 19, was found dead about 1 week ago. The student on 15th Street. Student senators donated $100 to Bread's family.
John Sandoval, a 19-year-old Haskell student, was dead in April in the Kansas River. Cecil Dawes, a 21-year-old former KU student, was found in the Kansas River and was unattended; were ruled as unattended deaths, meaning no one witnessed the deaths.
An investigative squad including the Douglas County Sheriffs Office, Lawrence police and KU police have investigated more than 75 leads in a broad case, Marion Malson, sheriff of Douglas county, Sheriff Police have made no arrests.
Anyone with information regarding any of these incidents can call the Douglas County Sheriffs Office at 843-0250, or the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center at 841-7210.
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Pizza yumno (right) shows a slide viewer to Tysen Frickey and Bao Zheng during sharing time.
Children begin education early
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Shen Chang, with help from his teacher, Betty Bunce, demonstrates how binoculars are used.
By Debbie Myers
Special to the Kansan
Snack time, story time, recess and show-and-tell aren't typically included on syllabi at the college level. But at the University of Kansas, these activities take place every day.
LAP provides services for three groups of children: those developing English normally; those with speech and hearing impairments; and those learning English as a second language.
They are students in the Language Acquisition Preschool, a 3-year-old model program for language therapy techniques. The preschool gathers children with different language capabilities into a regular classroom setting.
"We try during the day to foster language development," said Betty Bunce, educational coordinator and lead teacher at the preschool. "We love new words. We try to foster child-to-child talking, negotiation and help."
Tucked away in 4140 Haworth Hall, several 3 to 5-year-olds come to KU each day to get a head start on their educations.
The staff tries to prepare the children for kindergarten by emphasizing unstructured, hands-on activities. The children can play in four activity centers: dramatic play, where children use props to act out roles and where toys are available; art, where they complete tasks; and music, where the children can play with blocks of different sizes; and the quiet area, where adults read stories, or the children look at books by themselves. Throughout the day, the children also sing and work on group projects.
Twenty-six preschoolers attend LAP on Monday through Thursday in either the morning or afternoon session, each of which lasts three hours.
and teaching work on group projects.
"They're not ready for more formal teaching," Bunce said. "Our goal is to prepare them."
The children are disciplined only if they are destructive or hurt other children.
"We really try to foster their self-esteem and confidence," Bunca said. "We don't try to make them conform."
Shravoni Datta, an interpreter from India, said, "If a child happens to use a wrong sentence construction, we'll say the correct In some cases, the kids will pick it up fast."
Parents also play an important role in their children's language development. They may use a connected observation room to monitor the children's activities without being seen or join classroom activities themselves.
Rita Berry, whose child attends the pre
school because of language problems stemming from a hearing problem, said that watching L&D staff through the observation videos at home will increase your success at home what her child learned each day.
"I can see how they're modeling behavior to
the way they handle it." Berry said.
John Bode, a lead-teacher intern this semester, considers the sharing sessions, where the children bring items that other students have learned about an opportunity to build social confidence.
"They get up, and they all get to say their thing," Bode said.
Bode finds his relationships with the children rewarding.
FCC receives KJHK renewal application
"Little children tend to accept you for how you are." Bode said, "I like that. Of course it's rewarding to see them make progress. Building 'a mutual relationship is just as rewarding."
Commission needs equal employment form
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
Claudia Patterson, an FCC license renewal employee, said the renewal application for the student radio station had been processed.
The license renewal application for KJHK has been received by the Federal Communications Com-
munity and an FCC employee said yesterday.
She said, however, that the standard Equal Employment Opportunities Program Report was missing from the application package.
Patterson said a letter requesting the employment information had been sent to Mensendiek.
Tim Mensendiek, KJHK general manager, said the form requested information about the number of full-time employees at the station, the station's call letters and the names of the license holders.
Menskind said the form was not necessary for KJHK because it was a small, non-commercial station.
required to fill out this form,' Mensendiek said.
"Because we have less than five full-time employees, we are not
"It was a clerical oversight on my part," Mensendiek said.
However, he said he would complete the form and send it to the FCC as an amendment to the application.
Ricardo Durham, FCC attorney,
said the missing form should have
no effect on the renewal process.
The station has been placed on standard 30-day public notice now that the application has been processed.
Public notice is a period during the renewal process that alerts the public that the station is applying for a license renewal. During this period, the public is invited to call or write the FCC to express opinions and ask questions about the station.
Patterson said that although the application was due Feb. 1, it was not processed until recently because of the large number of
applications received by the FCC.
KJHK is scheduled to receive a new license June 1. The new license will be valid for seven years.
The station has been placed on standard 30-day public notice now that the application has been processed.
Public notice is a period during the renewal process that alerts the public that the station is applying for a license renewal. During this period, the public is invited to call or write the FCC to express opinions.
Attorneys debating local case involving random bar checks
By Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence case concerning the right of police officers to check people in bars for proper identification. In Kansas Court of Appeals in Topeka,
The case was appealed by the Douglas County district attorney's office after a Lawrence judge ruled that Lawrence police used improper methods to arrest Abbey Bernstein, Winnetka, III., junior.
In March 1989, Bernstein was at the Free State Brewing Co., 634 Massachusetts St., with a beer in her hand when she was approached by two undercover Lawrence police officers. She was 19.
When asked to show a form of identification, Bernstein said she did not have one. After officers said they would be able to obtain her age, she admitted it.
Jean Shepherd, Douglas County district court judge, ruled in September that Lawrence police officers did not have reasonable suspicion that Bernstein was underage when they approached her. She said that an officer's opinion of who looked young was subjective.
ney, said yesterday that the Court of Appeals would decide whether evidence that Shepherd suppressed in the case could be admissible during a trial.
Police shouldn't be able to approach people in bars just because they look young, Defense Attorney Donald Strole argued.
Donald Strole, Bernstein's attor-
Strole argued that police shouldn't be able to approach people in bars just because they looked young.
Rick Trapp, Douglas County assistant district attorney, argued for the appeal, which was filed Sept. 25.
Trapp said that if the evidence were admissible in court, the case would be remanded to the district court. If the evidence remains suppressed, there probably wouldn't be a trial. And if the suppressed evidence was the drink seized from Bernstein by the police officers.
He said he expected a decision on the appeal in 30 to 60 days.
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