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New roof will stop Wescoe's dribbles
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Installation of a $834,200 Wesco Hall roof will begin by mid-March, a facilities planning official said yesterday.
Laura Kennett, Lake Bluff, Ill., senior, studies next to buckets placed to collect water from the leaking roof of Wescoe Hall
The roof will be completed 90 days after work begins, said Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning.
University officials will meet with the project's contractor, Vincent Roofing Inc. of Topeka, sometimes in the next two weeks to discuss final construction plans, Modig said.
The roof's condition has caused water to periodically drip in Wescote's fourth floor north hallway, said Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping. The roof has leaked for at least three years.
The new roof will have a rubber surface, which lasts longer than the current felt and asphalt surface, said Donald Whipple, assistant director of facilities planning.
The rubber surface will be less susceptible to damaging ultra-violet sun rays. Whiple said.
The roof also will be angled, he said. Wescoe's roof now is level, making drainage difficult.
Whippe said the roof's condition was the reason for the leaking water. The building is structurally sound.
"Contrary to rumor, Wescoe is
not sliding off the hill," he said.
Endacott said the dripping had worsened since December, when temperatures dropped below buckle and caused the roof to buckle.
Damaged ceiling tiles were removed and buckets were placed in the hallway to catch the water,
Endacott said. One-third of the ceiling tiles were removed at one point.
Endacott said the tiles were eventually replaced.
Wescoe's fourth floor carpet also was damaged by the water, he said.
Ottawa officer's condition improves
By Christine Reinolds
By Christine Reinolds Kansan staff writer
An Ottawa police officer who was shot four times Monday by a bank robber suspect was listed in serious but stable condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Bruce Hanson, Ottawa public safety officer, was upgraded from critical to serious condition yesterday morning.
Van Buckley, Med Center spokesman, said Hanson received treatment for gunshot wounds to the arm, chest and abdomen.
Hanson was shot by a bank robbery
Wounded man upgraded from critical to serious
suspect when he stopped the man for running over a fire hose. After being shot four times in his upper body, Hanson returned gunfire, killing the suspect.
The suspect was thought to have robbed the First National Bank, Third and Hickory streets, about 2 p.m. He then drove north to the area where the Ottawa Department of Public Safety was conducting fire training exercises.
The Ottawa Department of Public Safety is a combination of the fire and police departments.
Capt. Richard Towel of the Ottawa DPS said yesterday that Hanson was shot by a .44-caliber handgun and was not wearing a bullet-proof vest.
Towe said Hanson had not been involved in a shooting since he began working for the Ottawa DPS in June 1988.
physical defect to prevent him from returning to work, although mentally he might not be ready to return.
"He's got a job here if he wants to come back," he said. "He's a pretty good officer."
Towe said Hanson would have no
Reee Hanson, KU teaching assistant in theater and film, was at the Med Center with her husband and could not be reached for comment.
Towe said the car driven by the
robbery suspect was beige, contrary to witness reports.
Although procedure calls for an Ottawa officer to find out if a car is stolen before pulling the offender over, Hanson did not check.
"Because there was a bank robbery in progress and radio traffic, he must have assumed he was just stopping someone who had run over a fire hose." Towe said.
Graduate shows support despite past experiences
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is handling the case and has identified the dead suspect but has not released his name.
Bv Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
When Elmer Jackson was a student at KU in the 1930s, he was refused admittance to the Hawk's Count Basie because he was Black.
Now, almost 60 years later, he is a member of the Board of Directors at the University of Kansas Alumni Association and has served as the first Black member of the Board of Regents.
Jackson, a 1933 KU alumnus and Wyndotte county lawyer, has served in numerous leadership positions at KU, although he has said the University discriminated against him in his first years here.
Jackson earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University in 1933 and graduated from the KU School of Law in 1926.
1436. He is a member of the Kansas City, Kan., Bar Association and is a lifetime member and past president of the National Bar Association.
Jackson was appointed to a four-year term on the Board of Regents in 1970 and was reappointed in January 1974.
In 1975 he became the first Black chairman of the Board of Regents, serving until 1978.
Jackson's son, Elmer Jackson II attended KU during the early 1960s and said he had to deal with discrimination as well.
He said one night he got arrested with 10 friends for attempting to drink at a segregated bar and called his father at 1 a.m. to bail them out. He said his father bailed him out because he did not want his son to have a criminal record, which would prevent him from having certain educational opportunities.
"He has always been one that taught that education is a key to success." he said.
Jackson's son said his father did not carry a begrudging attitude after being discriminated against at KU. He said that was why his father took the positions KU offered him.
"He took it all in stride," he said.
"In his own way he tried to change what he could change."
Jackson received the Distinguished Alumnus Citation in 1973
Elmer
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*1933 KU alumnus*
*1933 Graduate of KU School of Law*
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Black member of the Ka Regents.
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Contribution: Jackson was the first Black member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
from the School of Law. Other awards he has received include the 1979 Distinguished Service Citation from the University and the 1986 Governor's Medal of Merit.
Jackson is on the Board of Directors at the Alumni Association and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Robert Jerry,陈 of the law school, said Jackson was one of the most distinguished alumni to graduate from the school.
The School of Law has a scholarship fund in honor of Jackson. The fund provides tuition assistance and an annual stipend for Black applicants.
"His career, both in the legal profession and in public service, provides an extraordinary model for all of our students," he said.
FCC may not have KJHK application
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
The license renewal application for KJHK, the student run radio station, may not have been received by the Federal Communications Commission, an FCC employee said yesterday. The application was due Feb. 1.
Claudia Patterson, FCC license renewal employee in Washington, D.C., said she had not received the KJHK renewal form.
"That doesn't mean that it isn't here," she said. "It just means I haven't received it."
She said it could still be in the FCC mailroom.
Tim Mensendiek, KJHK general manager, said the FCC should have received the application.
"I have the receipt from Airborne Express," he said. "It was sent on the 30th of January."
Mensendek said the receipt stated that the package had been delivered. "They've got it," he said. "They just can't find it."
Ricardo Durham, FCC attorney,
said stations were put on public
notice when they applied for renewal.
This allows the public to express
opinions or complaints about the
station.
renewal forms that were filed after the Feb. 1 deadline would be put on public notice for 90 days instead of the usual 30 days.
KJHK will be put on public notice after its application is processed.
Roger Holberg, FCC supervising attorney, said if the renewal forms were late or lost, the station could continue broadcasting.
"There is a provision in the Communication, which says as the license has expired and they've filed a renewal form," he said.
An FCC representative said any
Mensendiek said he spoke with the FCC and was told that it was too early to tell which applications had been received.
He said the renewal process required the completion of several FCC forms and an ownership report. He also gave us information such as call letters.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and other University of Kansas administrators, in addition to the Board of Regents, were listed as license owners. Mensendiek said they gave control of the station to the KU School of Journalism.
He said KJHK should receive a new, seven-year operations license June 1.
Professor Dorothy Willner's spring break may be interrupted by a career-determining decision.
The Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems may submit its decision in Willner's hearing during the week of March 12-18.
By Pam Solliner Kansan staff writer
Committee to deliver report soon
"We expect to have our report by the middle of March," said Frances Ingemann, chairman of the committee.
The charges brought against Willner by Chancellor Gene A. Budig are for unethical behavior and failure to perform academic duties.
The 120 hours of dismissal hearings began Oct.'16 and ended Dec.18,1989.
The committee began detailed deliberations Jan. 10, after receiving legal briefs from both sides. Rose Marino, associate general counsel for the University, turned in a 19-page brief, and Donald Koster, Willner's adviser, turned in a 30-page brief.
In addition, the committee has pored over pages of evidence; including a 3,467-page transcript of the hearing.
"It was a lengthy hearing, and there was a lot of evidence," ingemann said. "It has been a joint effort by all members of the committee."
The committee is composed of five faculty members from various departments in the University.
Ingemann said she planned to give two days notice of the decision to all those involved so they would have time to meet in one place on campus.
According to the University Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff, a copy of the committee's decision and report will be issued to faculty members. The American Association of University Professors and University Archives.
The decision is final unless the Chancellor or the faculty member seeks to appeal to the Board of Trustees according to the faculty handbook.
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Willner, who became a full professor of anthropology in 1970, is the first University of Kansas faculty member to undergo dismissal hearings. The charges brought against her by Chancellor Gene A. Budig are for unethical behavior and failure to perform academic duties.
Ingemann said the decision would be submitted in a 100-page report.
William Scott, chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, said copies of the report would be made available through University Relations, which would provide copies at a charge.
"That would be quicker than to have people fighting over copying rights at the reserve desk," he said.
Scott said he would prepare a statement for distribution by University Relations and would be available to answer questions.
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said she would probably take orders for copies of the report charging for the price of duplication.
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