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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
Owners will alter note-taking service
Kansan staff writer
by Mario Talkington
Kenyan staff writer
A new student-owned business that buys and sells class notes has decided to alter its operating plans after KU officials announced the closure of a university notation labor law and University codes.
Class Notes, founded this semester by Mark Erwin, a former Great Bend graduate student, and Jim Rudolph, Lawrence graduate student, plans to pay students who are enrolled in large lecture classes the cost of the course in exchange for typewritten copies of their notes.
Erwin and Rudolph have been posting fliers on campus to attract students with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher to take notes in more formal classes with enrollments around 250.
Although some have said the business would provide a helpful service to students, others said Class Notes defeated the purpose of attending classes and preyed on students' fears of failure.
Business plans altered
The two said they would seek the permission of the classes' instructors to buy and sell the
notes after KU officials said last week that the permission would be necessary before the company could sell notes legally.
company counts. "We're going to go ahead with the business and try to get the professors' approval and not service matters that don't." Erwin said. "Even if the legal principle seems to favor our business, it would be best for University relations."
Rudolph met Friday with David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, who informed him that Class Notes would need an instructor's permission before buying or selling notes.
buying of setting notes.
Shulenburger said that although the University of Kansas had made no move to ban the business, faculty members could take legal action against Class Notes if notes were sold without the instructor's permission.
Shulenburger said he did not know what action, if any, the University would take if Class Notes operated without instructors' permissions.
"That's a bridge we haven't crossed yet," he said. "Hoppeily, we won't have to."
Memo outlines University stance
instructors that notified them of their right to determine whether notes from their classes could be sold.
The memo told faculty that Article 22, Section B, Paragraph 2 of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct would require the company to have permission to purchase and resell the students' notes.
The paragraph reads: "An offense against property is committed when a student knowingly and without proper consent or authorization removes, uses, misappropriates or sells the property of another person or the University."
Shulenburger issued a memo Thursday to
Any close reproduction of an instructor's lecture is that instructor's property, and the sale of those notes would be a violation of that code. Sulenburger said.
code: *mint*
someone also informed instructors that KU has strongly encouraged students to attend classes in which they are enrolled and to be active participants in them. The availability of commercial notes might serve to reduce the incentive to do so.
"Should you permit such note-taking and choose to inform your students of the availability of these notes, you should take care to avoid any conflict of interest or appearance of conflict of interest."
The memo said that "no University authorization exists for an enrolled student to take notes for the purpose of selling them for profit."
one lecture he or she gives is his own work," Rose said. "If someone writes it down, that doesn't make the work theirs."
Maria Rose, associate general counsel, said that copyright laws gave instructors the right to decide whether to authorize reproduction and distribution of their lectures for profit. Instructors become the copyright holder of their lecture as soon as it is given, regardless of whether the lecture is registered, she said.
Because the lecture is the property of the instructor, that person has the right to financial benefits from the work, she said.
"The principle is more important to me," Rudolph said. "How do you feel about knowing that you don't own your own notes?"
Erwin said that although there were ambiguities in the copyright laws, the question of ownership of the notes would not affect the business's decision to seek professors' permits.
Rudphad said the notes would continue to be sold from his suite, 701 W. Ninth St., throughout
See NOTE-TAKING, p. 6, col. 1
Pro-life march Protesters mark anniversary
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Members of Kansas for Life marched on Saturday in protest of the Jan. 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion.
which regulated. After gathering across the street from City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, demonstrators of all ages marched behind a police escort down Massachusetts Street to South Park at 12th and Massachusetts streets.
Before the march began at noon, Jim Ryun, president of Lawrence Kansans for Life, requested that the protesters remain silent so the office of Dale Clinton at Seventh and New Hampshire streets.
"We want to bring to the public's attention that 1.5 million children are being aborted every year," said Joe Patton, Topea attorney and of Kansans for Life
"He is the only known abortionist in Lawrence," said Anne Ryun, vice president of Lawrence Kansans for Lite.
Clinton said he wasn't an abortionist but said he had performed abortions in his office.
"I am not an abortionist," Clinton said. "I am a general practitioner."
The marchers proceeded down Massachusetts Street carrying signs and posters, chanting, "Not abortion, adoption," and occasionally singing "Goddess America."
downtown, pedestrians stopped to watch the passing parade, which aroused opinions on the issue.
Rhonda Daniels, Lawrence junior, said she thought that the children in the march did not really know what was going on.
"They are holding signs about something I do not think they are
really sure about," she said. "But to each his own."
Daniels said that although she was pro-choice, the anti-abortion marchers had the right to voice their opinions.
Kristin Allen, Lawrence resident, said, "I think people have the right to make their own decision about where they want force anything on anyone else."
When the group of about 150 anti-abortion marchers reached South Park, Anne Ryun urged them to pray and to write their names on that beastslion would be passed to overturn the 1973 decision.
Patton told the crowd that Kansans for Life was *lobbying in Topeka to get a parental-consent bill passed.
The bill would require that minors have the consent of a parent before they have an abortion.
The number of abortions performed has decreased by one-third in states that have passed the parental-consent bill, Patton said.
Minors in Kansas don't need parental consent for an abortion, but do need consent to have their ears pierced, he said.
Patton said doctors who performed abortions were the major opponents to the parental-consent bill.
Outlining a plan of prayer, education and identification of anti-abortion supporters, Patton said. The organization needs to be strengthened.
Even if Roe vs. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Kansas needs a law that would declare abortion illegal, Patton
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"They are fighting for their fee," he said.
Pat Honea, Lawrence resident
About 200 abortion opponents marched down Massachusetts Street on Saturday to protest Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. At left, Daniel Fonsea, 7, listens as Joe Patton, president of Kansans for Life, speaks against abortion.
said she was demonstrating because she and her husband had been trying to adopt a baby for several years, but adoption agencies kept telling them no babies were available.
tronea said she did not understand why mothers killed their babies.
"I can't have children, and I want children," she said. "I hope mothers will stop killing babies and put them up for adoption."
Organized in 1983, Kansans for Life has 30 chapters across the state
Super Bowl
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Joe Montana hit John Taylor with a 10-yard touchdown pass with 34 seconds as the San Francisco 49ers 8asted its claim as the Team of the '08 Sunday with a 20-16 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the most dramatic Super Bowl ever.
Game coverage p. 11, col. 1
The winning score came at the end of a 92-yard drive, engineered by Montana, whose touchdown pass gave him a Super Bowl win. Zach Kudzelski missed Twelve of his completions were to Jerry Rice, who finished with 12 catches for 222 yards, both also records.
Alpha Phi charter suspended
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
The charter of the local chapter of Alpha Phi sorority was suspended yesterday, according to a Panhellenic news release.
The Executive Board of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Inc., informed the members of the KU chapter of its decision to initiate charter withdrawal proceedings, effective at the end of this semester.
The release said that Alpha Phi had been given 30 days to appeal the board's decision.
Patricia Rogowski, KU chapter president, Catherine Culp, president of the Panhellenic Council; and Karen Ohnemus, Panhellenic Council adviser, refused to comment about reasons for the suspension.
They would not say whether residents of the sorority would be allowed to stay at their house, 1602 High Drive.
High initiated members of the chapter will receive alumnae status at the end of the spring semester.
Enacting charter withdrawal proceeds gives fall semester pledges the opportunity to choose whether they want to be initiated.
If they decide against initiation, they may be released from their pledgeship and, under the terms of the National Panhellenic Conference, may pledge another sorority immediately.
The Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha Phi received its charter March 25, 1950, making it the 13th sorority on campus.
The sorority was founded at Syracuse University in 1872 and was the first women's chapter house in the nation. The second chapter was established at Northwestern University nine years later.
it. It was also the first chapter house to have a visiting delegate system and to complete a $50,000 endowment fund.
In 1902, Alpha Phi called the first Inter-Sorority conference, out of which developed the National Panhellenic congress. In 1945 the congress became the National Panhellenic conference.
Iran begins drug war with new narcotics law
The Associated Press
Authorities also rounded up a number of other drug traffickers in different parts of the country, the report said.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iranian authorities smashed a major drug ring and killed six of its members Sunday. Tetran radio reported one day after a tough new anti-narcotics law went into effect
The radio said the drug ring smashed Sunday was run by Habib Naroui, who operated in southeastern Kerman and in Sistan-Baluchistan.
chenzo, according to the broadcast, six members of his ring were killed in a raid by agents of the Tehran and Kerman Komiteh, the government's main law enforcement agency. The report did not
In the last few days, Iran has executed 75 people and arrested more than 1,000 people in what the official Islamic Republic News Agency termed "the biggest crackdown on drug smuggling in Iran's history."
describe the confrontation or say how the dealers died, but it said that 280 pounds of opium were confiscated.
Two other drug smugglers who operated in the capital and in central Isfahan province were arrested, the report said. It said a large sum of money and six vehicles were confiscated from them.
In other raids Sunday, a man was arrested in Tehran, with 22 pounds of heroin and 44 pounds of cocaine. The men were arrested in Kerman.
The report said an unspecified number of people in another gang were arrested in the northern province and 145 pounds of opum were seized.
Officials reject KU-UMKC reciprocity
The new ant-narcotics law that went into effect Saturday requires the death penalty for anyone convicted of possessing one ounce of opium or morphine or smuggling more than 10 pounds of opium or hashash.
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Missouri's higher education board has rejected the latest offer to continue the reciprocity agreement between the University of Missouri-Kansas City's dental school and two Kansas architecture schools, including KU's.
Now, 25 Kansas students are allowed to go to UMKC and pay Missouri's in-state tuition rate each year in exchange for an unlimited number of Missouri architecture students coming to Kansas.
Missouri architecture about 225 Missouri residents attend the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design and pay Kansas' in-state tuition rate.
■ Kansas' in state tuition and fees are $689.50 a full-time semester. Out-of-state students pay $1904.50
- In-state tuition at UMKC is $9.79 a credit hour for freshman and sophomores, $6.50 a credit hour for juniors and seniors, and $7.60 a credit hour for graduate students.
- Out-of-state tuition at UMKC is $164.30 a credit hour for freshman and sophomores, $181.10 a credit hour for juniors and seniors, and $197.80 for graduate students.
The Board of Regents has offered to continue the agreement if Missouri will limit the exchange to 75 architecture students a year, with 50 to 60 freshmen being grandfathered from the class of Fall 1988.
But according to a report distributed Thursday at a Regents meeting, the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education rejected that offer
Kansas was losing almost $1 million a year under the old agreement, Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said.
tive director of the Regents, she is a alternative program. Kansas is working on an alternative program under which Missouri architecture students will pay out-of-state tuition and the money from the added revenue will pay $7,000 a student for 25 dental students a year to attend other colleges. C'ESTC of the University
According to the report, UMKC, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Iowa, the University of Oklahoma and Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., have expressed an interest in the new program.
program.
But it involved in the reciprocity program are opposed to seeing it ended.
Lucas said the architecture school received around 900 applications a year and 144 freshman were accepted each year. About 45 percent of those accepted are from Missouri.
Even if Missouri enrollment in the program drops by 55 percent, Regents estimate that they still would be able to finance the new program
Dave Schukal, St. Louis, Mo., junior and an architecture student, agreed
still would be 668ft to. Because Missouri does not have any public university, the Regents said that many students would continue to come to Kansas even with the increased tuition.
"Even with out-of-state tuition, the architecture school here is still highly regarded, and it is still very near," Schukai said.
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dominis Domer, associate dean of architecture,
said that the issue was not enrollment, but the
makes.
"I oppose changing the program for reasons pertaining to students." Domer said. "If the issue is fairness, then it could be a problem A lot of people have reaped the benefits of this program, and KU has made a strong commitment to it.
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think that Kansas is really making money.
The best investment you can make is in youth.
Those people in the program will always be tied to Kansas."
effect that dropping the program would have on the students.
Ray Hauke, director of planning and budget for the Regents, said, "We believe that we can take care of Kansans with or without the agreement. We hope it can continue, but if not, we can still take care of Kansas' dental students."
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Hauke said that some type of agreement between the two states had been going on as long as 15 to 20 years.
Barb Recht, St. Louis, Mo., senior and an architecture student, said that if the agreement were discontinued, then an architecture school should be started at the University of Missouri
surrounded at the club would still come here," she said.
"But I think people will still come here."
"Obviously, it would not make them as happy, but they would still come. A lot more people would be applying for scholarships and grants."
be applied that the quality of applicants to the school might decrease.
"moil might decrease"
"but we know until it happens," he said.
"more moisture will tell."