Thursday, November 20.1975
University Daily Kansan
State OK needed for new signs
By SHERI BALDWIN
Staff Writer
A directional sign system that would point traffic to the University of Kansas campus from major roadways coming into Lawrence has received approval from the city and is awaiting state approval and guidelines.
Al Thomas, University landscape architect and chairman of the External Advisory Committee of the committee hadn't received guarantee from the state that it would approve the project or offer guidelines as to where the signs could be but a ruling is expected any time soon.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor and a committee member, said, "We're still waiting."
Thomas said he had city approval in the form of a letter. A final approval from the city is pending a more complete review of the project, he said.
Ten signs would be installed after approval is received, he said.
"I'll be a test situation for the sign so we can find out what people really think about it."
Steve Cuchovich, Pleasant Hill, Mo., junior and member of the committee, said the signs would be blue with bold-white lettering, about one and one-half by two and one-half feet and in the shape of a "no parking" sign.
"They'll say The University of Kansas is printing in the direction of the campus," he said.
Thomas said, "If the state were to approve the sign system tomorrow, within two or three days we would be putting them up." The signs as "distinguishably different."
Chucevich said guidelines provided by the state and city might limit the committee to focusing on certain issues.
Lucas said the city had tentatively approved, teaching the signs to poles that are taller than the buildings.
Directional signs are top priority on a list of projects that will provide the University with a coordinated computer system, Lucas said. Eventually all KU signs be uniform and uniquely related in direction.
KU hired the graphics consulting firm of Caudil, Rowlett and Scott to provide guidelines and specifications for a complete reorganization of the sign systems.
Lucas said that after designs for a total system are completed, improvements
would be made on a priority basis. Requests for the fiscal 1972 budget, he said.
Chucovich said the sign systems that the committee was considering included informational signs and campus building name plates.
"There are also small problems we'll solve," he said, "like the 'Welcome' sign in the traffic control boots that can't be seen most of the time because of a reflection."
Lucas said all signs would be designed specifically without a logo, because a logo might change over a period of time. But the colors and white colors would be used, he said.
Thomas said the committee was also discussing the possibility of replacing several boxes used for distribution of the Daily Kansan with a system of kiosks.
He said a kiewe should include a larger Kansan box, trash receptacle, bulletin board and a "you are here" version of the KU camus man.
David Dary, associate professor of journalism and publisher of the Kansan, said the klok project looked as if it was at least a year away from completion.
"We simply can't wait, we need new boxes now," he said.
He said Thomas was designing a Kanstan box that would hold twice as many papers and make access to the papers easier. He also installed during semester break, he said.
Thomas said the new box would be an art piece, the green box presently south of Dr. Phillip Hall.
Dary said the present boxes usually are filled by the 10:20 a.m. whistle, or shortly thereafter. Jayhawk Boulevard boxes are filled by the 9:30 a.m. and must be refluffed a second time, be said.
"Even with the refilling, students often don't receive a paper," Dary said.
He said the new box would have an overhang and the inside would slant to the back so that papers would be protected and stav in the box.
The box would be front-loaded and large enough to contain large unfolded editions
“If the kiosk does become a reality, it can be converted for use inside buildings.”
Dary said two additional boxes of Wesleyan new book Boulevard, in front of Westes Hall.
Intersession skiing course will be offered to students
The popularity of skiing during semester break has prompted the formation of an organization called Skiers to the department of health, physical education and recreation (HPER).
From Jan. 11 to 14, the department of
Fromme loses dismissal try
"SACRAMENTO (AP)—Lynette Fromme lost her bid yesterday for dismissal of charges that she attempted to kill President Gerald R. Ford. A federal judge ruled evidence withheld from her defense was "a bit of a mish-mash."
But U.S. District Court Judge Thomas MacBride sharply criticized the federal prosecutor's conduct before ruling that the trial should continue.
He then recessed court until tomorrow to give attorney John Virga time to reorganize Fronne's defense in light of the withheld fines Damir, a 23-year-old college student.
MacBride said assist. A.U. Atty. Donald MacBride said assist. U.S. Atty. Donald "a not model of prosecutorial conduct."
Virga swept dismissal of the charge against Fromme on grounds that Damir was a key witness whose testimony was vital to her defense.
"Demir told police that Miss Fromme, lying on the ground after her arrest, said repeatedly, "It wasn't loaded anyway." But fromme told police she later to the PRI and a federal arrest warrant.
Other witnesses quoted her as saying, "It didn't go off."
HPER will sponsor a adl instruction trip for 120 students. The adl students will receive one
Jerry L. Greene, assistant professor of HPER, and Wayne Osness, chairman of HPER, will organize and administer the program.
Ossess that the program provided a great opportunity for students who wanted to learn how to skim and who wanted credit at the same time.
Osness said there would be instructional classes from Jan. 5 to 7. The students will learn the basics of skiing and safety factors, Osness said.
The class will be taught at Geneva Bain, near Grant, Colo. The cost for the student will be $130. This is for transportation, food, and instruction from certified personnel.
Osness said skiing also would be discussed on the bus ride to Colorado. About 75 per cent of all skiing accidents can be avoided by using common sense, Osness said.
The course is designed for the skier who has little or no experience, Ossess said.
Going skiing without preparing, he said, was like going out on the football field to play quarterback without ever having been to practice.
Students can enroll for the trip by registering Dec. 8-12 at window two of the Office of Admissions and Records in Strong Hall. The students then must sign up at the HPER office in Robinson Gym. A deposit of $50 is required to sign up.
Dary said he was having his distributors conduct informal studies on the number of papers remaining in the boxes a day after their distribution.
"I'm going to make some sort of decision by the time of this semester about increasing the class size."
Greene said, "This is something new we can open and hope that we can keep going."
He said, "So many of our people go into something without preparing."
Present Kansan circulation is between 1500 and 1,500. Circulation for special occu-
"We may get a chance soo to see how weather will affect distribution." he said.
KANSAS CITY (AP) - Civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy said this morning the FBI not only tapped his telephone, and bugged his hotel rooms, but alsobugged the privacy of his home in a campaign to discredit black leaders.
"I really think that I have been subjected even more severely to what Dr. King was subjected to," the 45-year-old president of the National Security Council (SCLC) said at a news conference.
Abernathy decries FBI harassment
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He said one memo was from then Vice-President Sprog Aimoer to the late J. Edgar Hewlett.
Abernathy said a member of the Senate committee investigating FBI activities
Abernathy's comments came when he was questioned on recent disclosures about the FBI's efforts to discredit black leadership.
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