UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 26, 1997
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TOLAND
Dave Toland works as in intern in the Washington, D.C., public defender's office, located in the Superior Court building. Toland's experiences investigating crimes has given him a new understanding about the plights of the accused.
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Cases call for faith
Students receive nine hours of college credit for their work: six hours for fulltime internships and three hours for attending seminars organized by Bob Whittaker, a former U.S. representative from Kansas.
Toland, 19, is far from lola, a city of 7,000, which saw its last murder in 1994. And although Washingtonians rallied against his client, Tolland tried not to give up hope for Dean or for the future of a city saturated with crime.
"I really don't think we have a choice but to have some hope that things will get better," Toland said. "Once we give up on society, we can just kiss it all goodbye."
But maintaining faith in Toland's line of work is a struggle. He works 56-hour weeks delivering subpoenas; interviewing victims, the accused and witnesses; gathering autopsy and ballistics reports; and tracking down reluctant clients.
He spends most of his time in Southeast, a section of the city that has a reputation for danger. In one month, 13 people were killed there, and 139 assaults with a deadly weapon were reported to police.
But Crichlow said despite Toland's background, he was not timid about doing his job.
"I haven't had an experience where he has hesitated," she said. "A lot of our interns come from Dave's exact situation."
And Crichlow said she was not concerned about assigning an intern to the Gibson case.
"Actually, sometimes it is best to have interns work on those types of cases," she said. "Because their enthusiasm is very high, they are sometimes better than even staff investigators."
Although he is enthusiastic, Toland said he still was upset by some of the crimes he investigates.
Just a few weeks ago, a 78-year-old woman was killed on Fourth and K streets by a stray bullet as she walked home from church. Toland said someone had shot at a person at one end of the block that day. The shots missed, and bullets sailed down the block along the brick sidewalk, hitting the walking woman in the chest. Her legs buckled, and she fell to the ground. Bullet holes remain in a window across the street. On his way to work, Toland steps over the chalk line police drew where her dead body had lain.
But this case upsets Toland less than other cases he is working on. He also is investigating a molestation case. His client is accused of molesting his 4-year-old granddaughter.
"The child's mother was found three weeks ago murdered. Her body was burned up. The only way they identified her was by her jewelry," Toland said.
What depresses him most, he said, is that the girl knows the criminal justice system.
"She knows where Superior Court is. She knows that is the police department headquarters," Toland said. "And it is so sad when someone that age has some idea just what the legal system is. It is just a tragedy that these kids are brought up to visit their brother in jail and go to court every week." Murder is commonplace in the city
Murder is commonplace in the city, he said.
"Human life has no value to a great many people in these neighborhoods, and that is because there is not any reason they should value it," Toland said. "People don't think anything about these murders, these crimes. They just accept it as a way of life, and when they accept it, I think that is
when things begin to decay like they have in the District of Columbia."
Toland said it may be too late for the city
"The more calloused you get to it, the harder it is to put an end to it," he said. "Once things have gotten this bad, there is just no way to stop it. It would be really nice to have a tabula rasa, a clean slate. That would really be the only way to do it."
Though Toland admitted that he was becoming calloused by the crimes he investigated, he said he had reached a new understanding of the plight of the accused.
"Not everyone who is accused of a crime is guilty, not even close to everyone." Toland said. "That wasn't something I fully appreciated before I started this job."
He said that he was surprised by how personable some of his clients had been.
"Actually putting a face with a charge gives it a human outlook that you don't get when you just read about a crime," Toland said.
KU is given grants for study abroad
By Ann Marchand
Kansan staff writer
The Department of Education is providing the faculty at the University of Kansas and teachers from the region with an opportunity to spend their summer in exotic lands.
The University has received three Fulbright-Hays group project abroad grants to conduct in-country seminars in Ghana, Costa Rica, and Russia. Twenty-two grants were given nationwide.
One of the grants went to the Russian and East European studies department.
"The fact that three area programs simultaneously received the Fulbright-Hays grants is an indicator of the strengths and successes of KU's area studies programs and the respect which KU's international initiatives command nationwide," said Maria Carlson, director of Russian and East European studies.
The departments of African-American studies and Latin American studies also received grants.
Arthur Drayton, professor of African-American studies, said the seminar in Ghana would help elementary and secondary school teachers better understand the cultures about which they taught. The department received $55,000 to take 14 teachers to Ghana for five weeks.
"Most, hopefully all, of them would become resource persons in the sense that they can now take part in our outreach program, helping other teachers understand this type of material," he said.
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Elizabeth Kuznesof, director of Latin American studies, said the department will use its $48,000 grant to take 14 people to San Jose and Gulfito in Costa Rica for five weeks this summer.
"This is a project to take middle and secondary school teachers and hopefully some faculty from the School of Education to do a seminar on the relationship between the economy, the culture, and the environment."she said.
Carlson said the Russian and East European studies seminar would be held in Siberia in the summer of 1998. She said the seminar would be delayed to allow participants to study the Russian language and take a course on Siberia. Ten teachers will be accompanied by faculty members from the University and Wichita State University.
The $53,000 grant will fund efforts to acquaint participants with Siberian ecology, literature, indigenous people, geography and geology, Carlson said.
Safer halogen lamps to hit local market soon
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
Rick Frost, deputy director of public affairs for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, said tests showed halogen bulbs started fires in nearby combustible materials.
Recent studies show halogen bulbs can fires more quickly than regular light bulbs if not used properly.
Halogen bulbs of 300 watts can reach approximately 970 degrees, and 500-watt bulbs operate at 1,200 degrees.
Regular 150-watt bulbs operate at only 340 degrees, and a 75-watt bulb reaches just 260 degrees, Frost said.
Frost said the CPSC received about 100 reports of fire and 10 reports of death from across the country that were associated with halogen bulbs.
Thomas McEvoy, Director of Housing at Williams College in Massachusetts, said the school banned halogen floor lamps because the buildings' designs did not allow for at least 14 inches from the top of the lamp to the ceiling.
Following the report, Brown and Yale Universities and Williams College have banned open-top halogen floor lamps from their residence halls.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing,
said the housing department did not have a plan to ban halogen lamps from residence halls.
"Like any electronic appliance, if you leave it unattended, it could be dangerous," Stoner said. "We encourage students to use all electronic appliances as instructed."
Stoner said the department of student housing circulated information about the danger of halogen lamps to all residence hall staff members.
Tim Montgomery, spokesman for Underwriters Laboratories Inc. in Northbrook, III., a product safety testing and standards developing organization, said new safer halogen floor lamps will be on the market within the next few weeks.
The new lamps will not catch cheesecloth on fire for seven hours, while old halogen lamps can catch the cloth on fire within 30 seconds to one minute.
Montgomery said, however, that current halogen lamps are safe if users followed proper instructions.
"Some schools banned halogen floor lamps," Montgomery said. "It may or may not be the right thing. We think education and awareness is the key. We want students to learn how to use them safely. If you bought lamps two years ago, they are fine. You just need to use them properly."
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