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Juror selection slows trial
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Keker, who heads the prosecution team for independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, said he wanted to present arguments on the process of automatically disqualifying prospective jurors because they thought they might have been exposed to North's testimony.
Gessell said he wanted to consider "how we're going to deal with this problem" and would rule today. According to the judge, most of the first batch of prospective jurors responded "yes" to questions asking
them if they had seen, read or listened to any part of North's congressional testimony.
Each of the prospective jurors was told to fill out a questionnaire that carried a written warning not to read or listen to anything about North. It also asked whether they knew or had any connection with any of 195 people whose names had come up in the Iran-contra case, including former President Reagan and President Bush.
Gesell wants to find 50 people out of
a pool of 300 who have not been exposed to the testimony of North or other witnesses at the congressional hearings.
Indicted in Mareh, the retired Marine lieutenant colonel and decorated Vietnam veteran is the first figure in the Iran-contra affair to come to trial.
North could face up to 60 years in prison and $3 million in fines if convicted of all 12 crimes he is charged with.
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Journals face financing cuts
However, she said Senate and its committees still would have the discretion to decide whether any particular journal was academic, which allowed journals the possibility of being financed.
"Everyone's crunched for money, including Student Senate," Hutchinson said. "It's just that Student Senate doesn't want to have to be responsible for funding things that no one else will."
Department of philosophy
The department of philosophy has two academic journals. The graduate journal, Ausleuging, will not be affected by the new policy because it is financed by the Graduate Student Council. However, the undergraduate journal, Premise, may lose its Senate financing.
"I think that this will probably be a mistake," said A.C. Geno, chairman of the department of philosophy. "We are going to terminate as terminating the production of the
journals. When these kind of things terminate, it is virtually impossible to get them started again. The momentum is gone."
Genova said he understood that Senate had its priorities, but said that the journals gave the University visibility.
Chris Roederer, Mission senior in philosophy, has submitted articles to Premise in the past. Premise prints are available at www.premise.org involved are for typing and printing.
Roederer said that it was important to keep the journal because the undergraduate students needed it so much that they were submitting papers to journals.
"They're producing good work and publishing it as undergraduates," Roederer said. "This is good practice
The School of Engineering also publishes a journal, Kansas Engineer. Last semester, an appeal to finance the journal was rejected in the Student Senate Finance Committee.
Kansas Engineer
for writing in the field."
"This is put out exclusively by students," Ferrara said. "They take the photos, write the articles, do the layout and get the advertising. For them, it's not just an academic journal — it's an activity."
Tom Ferrara, engineering senator,
said that it was a blow because
Kansas Engineer was a professional
journal.
Ferrara said that he understood Senate's reasoning because the ruling would make financing decisions go more smoothly and quickly for the state, given that an academic journal when it could be an activity is wrong, he said.
Bouncing a check could bounce you from classes
by Carrie Harper
Korean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Debbie Scanlon received a phone call from her mother on the Friday after fee payment. Her fee payed and the funds returned for insufficient funds.
Scanlon, Winnetka, III., junior,
said she knew her dad had deposited
a check in her account at home on the same day she had paid fees. Therefore, there was no reason for that check to bounce.
Students who write their fee payment checks and then tell their parents how much they need to cover the check, or those waiting to receive financial aid checks, run the risk of losing their enrollment.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said 50 to 100 bounced or stop-payment checks to the University every semester.
"My dad and I figured it would take a few days for my check to get a home," Scanlon said.
The bank had a new policy of holding personal checks for a few days before clearing them. Scanlon said. Her dad's check was not credited to her account before her payment check was withdrawn.
The punishment for a bounced fee payment check is far greater than just the bank charge and the dreaded phone call home to one's
Although Scanlon did not lose her enrollment because her check cleared before it was returned to the University, some students have not been so lucky.
Banks return a check to the comproller's office after trying to collect on it twice. The office then sends a letter to the student, said Pat LaShier, assistant comproiler. The office gives the student a few days to clear the check before instructing the student records office to cancel the enrollment.
John Patterson, comptroller,
said the University would not
accept another personal check
from the student for a minimum of
four months, even if the student
made good on the original bounced
check. The student also is charged
a $10 late-payment fee.
parents. The student could lose his enrollment if he does not cover the check in time.
If the check is not cleared and classes have begun, the student will owe the late charge plus 10 percent of tuition and fees if he does not reinstate his enrollment, Patterson said.
If a student wants to reinstate his enrollment after the last day of enrollment, he must have signatures from every instructor and chairman of every department in which he wants to take a class, as well as one from the dean of his school.
Thompson said a student was dropped the day the check was returned or the first day of classes, whichever came later.
"you can't be selective about what you want to go back into," Thompson said. "You must go back into the same classes as
before, but that won't guarantee you can get in."
Thompson said the number of bounced or stop-payment checks was not excessive.
"That's pretty good from a university of 25,000 students," he said. Many banks offer services to protect customers from bounced-check problems.
First National Bank of Lawrence, Ninth and Massachusetts streets, has two overdraft protection programs, said Janice Haase, vice president of retail accounts. The bank offered from the student's savings account to his checking account if prior arrangements are made.
"First Reserve" is a line of credit automatically issued to cover overdrifts. Again, this must be arranged ahead of time and also must have a parent co-signer, Haase said.
Douglas County Bank, Ninth and Kentucky streets, has a program called "Charge a Check," said Gayla Petitt, bank employee.
Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1046 Vermont St., has a prearranged program with Visa and Mastercard, said Kip Moore, assistant branch manager of the downtown bank.
Capitol Federal customers can protect themselves against overdrafts by allowing the bank to take your account and provide cards. Students also may have their parents sign over their credit; card for protection.
BSU president works for changes in the organization
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go greek to belong."
The caucus and BSU are support groups.
Paris has lived in McCollom since her freshman year and served as vice president of the University of Chicago during her sophomore year.
"Minority students want to be accepted and popular, so they try to join groups," Paris said. "A lot of them join fraternities and sororities and that's good, but I think they should have an alternative. They shouldn't necessarily have to
She said black students often felt intimidated in large classes.
"Maybe, possibly, there are three or four other blacks in a class of 500." she said. "And we seem to lose a lot of freshmen. If you can make it through the freshman year, you're OK."
Paris said black students at KU needed special attention because they were scarce in number. Two of the student body is black.
Paris said she hoped BSU could
combat the problem by sponsoring an orientation for freshmen minorities next fall.
Paris said KU also had a bad reputation among black people because of last year's free speech forum featuring the Ku Klux Klan on March 7 at Hoch Auditorium. She said the incident discouraged black high school students from attending KU.
She said the incident prompted BSU to participate in an anti-racism rally March 19. The rally was sponsored by the Academic Free
dom Action Coalition.
Paris said she was asked to speak at the rally but did not because it was organized in haste and women were not clear about its purpose.
"I was told it would be about how the Kansan treated minority issues, but it turned into something even more insulting," he exclaimed exactly what they were doing. "how
Paris said she would have spoken against the University Daily Kansan's reporting on minority issues. She said the Kansan freе-
quently covered events sponsored by minority groups but did not focus on their concerns.
"Call me up and ask me something pertinent like 'Why is the number of black students on this campus decreasing?' Paris said. Mother Teresa's charity member also should respond to the needs of black students.
She said they should follow the example of encouraging black students set by Jacob Gordon, associate professor of African-American studies. Gordon
She said her experiences at KU had prepared her for the future.
supplied BSU with a list of courses taught by black faculty members this fall.
Paris said serving as an effective leader helped her become more independent.
"When I first came here, I had no idea what was going to happen to me," she said. "Now I know exactly what I want and how to go about getting it. And I plan to get it."
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