4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2005
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On campus, brighter whiter lights are used and lighting engineers follow the guidelines of the Illuminating Engineering Society, which mandate a minimum level of lighting for all parts of campus, from parking lots to doorsteps.
Off campus, the city ordinance calls for street lights at every street intersection and cul-de-sac, which sometimes don't illuminate areas in the middle of long blocks.
Chuck Soules, Lawrence Public Works director, said the city works to install lighting in problem areas when possible, but cost is often a factor.
The city spends $500,000 a year on electricity for street lights, which leaves little extra money to install more lights.
Issues other than making streets bright for students also come into play. While generally no one complains about extra light ing on campus, off-campus residents often don't want more lights shining in their living rooms.
SAFETY TIPS
Students walking at night can call SafeRide for a ride or, if they are near campus, Jaywalk for an escort.
SafeRide
864-SAFE (7233)
• Hours: 10:30 p.m. to
2:45 a.m. every day
Jaywalk
864-4928
♦ Hours: 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. Sunday through
Thursday
Sources: SafeRide and Jaywalk
the white metal halide lights the University uses.
"The University wanted to
The city also uses high pressure sodium lights, which emit a more orange glow than the white metal halide lights the University uses. The lights actually emit more light than the kind the University uses, but are murkier, said Russell Benke, KU building systems engineer.
this. "It's one of those things, people either like it or they don't." Soules said.
choose a light source that had high color rendering properties so that people or vehicles could be identified in the case of a crime being committed." Benke said.
Captain Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office urged students to think about safety when
The city also uses high pressure sodium lights, which emit a more orange glow than
enjoosing where to walk off campus.
"The biggest thing is, if at all possible, you try to avoid the dark areas," he said.
Edited by Erin Wisdom
INTERNATIONAL
French riot police check the identity papers of two young men in white hooded tops as they patrol a housing complex of Cenon, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, late Wednesday. The government toughened its stance against those involved in France's worst civil unrest since its 1968 student riots. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said local officials have been told to deport the 120 foreigners convicted so far for their roles in the violence.
Curfews set to curb violence
France reacts to curb stretch of civil unrest
BY JOCELYN GECKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — The French Riviera cities of Nice and Cannes, best known for the glitz and film festivals that attract Hollywood stars, were among areas that imposed curfews for minors Wednesday even as rioting abated.
The government toughened its stance against those involved in France's worst civil unrest since its 1968 student riots. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said local officials have been told to deport the 120 foreigners convicted so far for their roles in the violence.
Although rioting persisted in some places for a 13th night, car burnings fell by nearly half and reports of violence dropped. Nonetheless, looters and vandals defied a state of emergency imposed by the government Tuesday, with attacks on superstores in northern France and a newspaper warehouse and a subway station in the south.
The 12-day state of emergency went into effect midnight Tuesday. For much of France
New arson attacks broke out Wednesday evening in the southern city of Toulouse, which was hit earlier this week. Vandals set four cars ablaze and rammed a burning car into a primary school, damaging its entrance, the local government said.
— including Paris — it had no perceptible effect. That such extraordinary measures were needed, however, has fueled national introspection about the country's failure to integrate its African and Muslim minorities — seen as a key reason behind the rioting.
The decree paved the way for possible curfews in Paris, the surrounding communities and more than 30 other cities and towns nationwide if officials feel they are needed. By Wednesday evening, only a few municipalities and regions imposed them; Paris had not.
In Nice, Cannes and 19 other towns in the Riviera region known as Alpes-Maritimes, including the resort of Antibes, minors are forbidden from being outdoors between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. without adult supervision. Certain bars in Nice were ordered closed during those hours for 10 days.
There have been no direct clashes between youths and police in the Riviera but unrest that began in the area Friday had persisted in some towns for four nights.
Arsonists struck a warehouse used by Nice-Matin newspaper
in the town of Grasse, national police spokesman Patrick Reydey said. A total of 161 cars have been burned — about half in the Nice area — and nine buildings damaged across the Riviera region.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who previously inflamed passions by referring to trouble-makers as "scum," said 120 foreigners have been convicted for roles in the violence.
"I have asked regional prefects to expel foreigners who were convicted — whether they have proper residency papers or not — without delay," he said.