THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Wednesday October 19,1977
The University of Kansas
VoL 88.No.37
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Spiritual devotion
City votes on city hall site, center
sankara Pandita dandi was one of six members of a Hare Krishna traveling temple who performed in front of the Kansas Union yesterday. The temple tours colleges and universities across the country to present what devotees call a different cultural perspective. See story page five.
BvSTEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission last night singled out the Bowersock Mill site as their choice for a proposed city hall and cleared it of encumbrances in a new East Lawrence Community Center.
In an executive session, commissioners voiced preferences to build on the current Parking District, including parking and parking areas extending eastward and curving toward New Hampster.
The site will formally be on at next Tuesday's commission meeting.
In a jam-packed meeting, commissioners thwarted an effort by the East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA) to provide development funds for the new center to small grants to rehabilitate East Lawrence housing instead. The ELAI had suggested that a current center at 10th and Delaware model, remodeled, rather than build a new center.
BEFORE CHOOSING a site for a city hall, commissioners considered seven proposed layouts in the general area of Sixth and Massachusetts streets for its location. The layouts were suggested by city hall architects at a meeting last Wednesday.
The city offices currently are located on the third and fourth floors of the First Nature Building.
Commissioners also discussed the problem of how to get funds sooner for city projects.
City Manager Buford Watson said last night that all of the $2.1 million to be appropriated for the building would not be funded until the building's proposed 1980 completion date.
To alleviate the problem, Watson suggested studying a plan to issue revenue bonds, backed by federal revenue sharing funds, to provide immediate capital.
THE NEW EAST Lawrence center recently was threatened with being dropped as a use for community development funds after being opposed by the ELIA. However, Far East Lawrence improvement project (FELIA) had fought to keep the plan alive.
The center, a recreational and meeting place for all residents east of Massachusetts Street. The commission to replace the current 10th and Delaware Street center. The current center
Last night the FELIA presented a statement in favor of the center and a
Requests, complaints voiced in budget talks
The Senate budget committee last night asked for representatives of the coalition about its request for $785 in supplemental funds and about a possible association with lesbians, most notably the Lawrence Lesbian Alliance (LLA).
A coalition member, when questioned by Ralph Munyan, student body vice president, estimated that 10 of the 66 members of the coalition also were members of LLA.
THE ELIA represents the area bounded by Massachusetts, 15th and Oregon streets and the Kansas River. The FELIA represents the neighborhood group for the area bounded on the east and west by the city limits and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad tracks, respectively. Its south boundary is bounded by East Gleam Drive east of Haskell Avenue and 19th Street west of Haskell Avenue.
A member of Women's Coalition charged at the Student Senate fall budget hearing last night that the coalition was not getting fair treatment from the Senate because some Senate members thought the group was "a hobbit of lesbianism."
petition of children's signatures asking the commission to continue planning the center.
By LEON UNRUH Staff Writer
THE BUGED committee heard requests totaling $22,147 from 14 University of Kansas student groups during a four-and-a-half-hour hearing in the Kansas University.
Amr Fanny, Prairie Village junior and a member of the coalition, said at the supplemental budget hearings that some senators were too concerned with a subgroup of the coalition and did not think of the overall purpose of the coalition.
Jack Rose, city commissioner, said that after seeing the strong disagreement between the two neighborhood groups, he could not consider changing the course of the city commission's commitment made last week. But when he changed change, he said, then it would be different.
Ed Carter, commissioner, told an ELA representative "I think you are a day late and a dollar short. We don't mind getting in and out of the building." The right time, but this isn't the right time."
The Senate has $27,264 to allocate as supplemental funds, although StudEx may release an additional $1,167 for allocation. The three groups have asked the Senate for $39,629.
Additional hearings will be held tonight and tomorrow. Recommendations, which will be made tomorrow by the committee, will be presented to the Senate for approval
The Women's Coalition, which previously has been funded by the Senate, has the LLA as one of the subgroups under its jurisdiction. The coalition provides office space and training help for these groups by buying materials the LLA and other subgroups can use.
NONE OF THE coalfire's Senate-appropriated funds have been reallocated to
The commission approved the rezoning last night by a 4-1 vote with Don Bimbs, in opposition, echoing the residents' opposition.
The controversial rezoning was from a residential to commercial classification for some land west of Louisiana Street and about 300 feet north of 23rd Street. Similar rezonings of the area were denied by the commission in 1974 and 1976.
mission last night were a 60-uphousing project for the elderly to be built on the southeast corner of 11th and Kentucky streets and a controversial rezoning of nearly an acre of land near the intersection of 23rd and Louisiana streets.
Residents opposed the rezonings because they feared commercial encroachment on residential areas and because the rezoning would interfere with their commercial businesses along 24th Street.
See BUDGET HEARINGS page 12
IHP opponent calls for federal investigation
The city commission also approved a plan for expansion of the U.S. Army Reserve Center, 21st and Iowa streets and the use of the new building at the Haunted House for the Lawrence Jaycees.
ALSO APPROVED by the city com-
Staff writer
He did say that the Justice Department, the Health, Education and Welfare Department and the Endowment were potential investigators.
Barnet called for a federal investigation of the IHP and also said that because of the numerous questions raised about the program, the University should take some
BvSTEVENSTINGLEY
argument against IHP and then fielded
the question. A forum sponsored by Gay Services of Kanada was
opened by Gay Services of Kanada.
A federal investigation of the Integrated Humanities Program (HPP) is needed to reaffirm the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, the Rev. Vern Barnet, chairman of a group that opposes HPP, told about 75 people living in the Big Eight Room of Kennesaw State University.
vestigation under way, but he declined to tell me what of how he was pushing for an investigation.
After Barnet presented his arguments against the IHP and opened the forum to questions from the audience, several persons challenged his charges and asked for more concrete evidence to support those charges.
Barnet, minister of the Shawne Mission Unitarian Society and chairman of the IHP-opposed Committee for Academic and Religious Liberties, outlined his group's
Frequently heated debate erupted between Barnet and persons in the audience and at times among persons in the audience. One person in the audience said that it was
IHP STUDENTS were being religiously indoctrinated and encouraged to convert to a special kind of Roman Catholicism, Barnet said.
Barnett said after the forum that he had already taken action to get a federal in-
"IF YOU HAVE me back in a semester and that has not been done, I will eat my tape recorder," Barnet said during the question-and answer period.
Barnet said that the program was violating the principle of separation of church and state because its professors used online resources, an arena for activities outside the classroom.
See IHP page 10
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
80 hiiack victims returned home
BONN — Eighty released hostages returned home yesterday to a warm welcome, and reactions to the five-day hijacking of a West German Lafthansa jet were developing quickly. European pilots say they will join a general strike next week to pressure the United Nations into taking action against hijackings. Meanwhile, three terrorists, for whose release the hijackers had bargained, committed suicide in a German jail. See stories page two.
House approves foreign aid funding
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a bill totaling $ 7.1 million that would fund all economic and military foreign assistance programs. The House first had voted to ban all aid to several countries, including Cuba, and Vietnam, but the Senate refused to approve the bill. See story page two.
Schlesinger told to relinquish stock
WASHINGTON - Secretary James Schlesinger has been given nine months by a Senate committee to get rid of stock that he owns in the energy sector.
Korean bribery hearings start today
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee hearings on Korean congressional influence-buying begin today. Jearen Lawjorski, special counsel, said the hearings would not name any specific members of Congress who might be involved. No further hearings are expected until January. See story page 20.
Concorde to land at Kennedy today
NEW YORK — The Concorde SST sweeps into New York's Kennedy Airport for the first time today as frustrated opponents bite the time but promise a court suit within a week. The test landing climbs 15 years of development and a two-year legal battle with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and with homeowners near the airport who claim the Concorde is excessively noisy.
Locally...
Freedom is just another word for hang gliding, at least in the minds of members of the KU Hang Gliding Club. Each weekend, if the wind is right, club members slip away from the bonds of earth to so gracefully away from hills in the Lawrence area.
See story, photos page six.
Structure said to cause Student Senate problems
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three stories examining problems faced by the University of Kansas Student Senate, its
By LINDASTEWART
Staff Writer
The Student Senate's internal structure has come under criticism the last spring in including complaints about committees, leaders and staff.
Two major Senate issues last spring—a $60,000 allocation to recreational services and a resolution to discontinue funding of women's intercollegiate athletics—were passed by the Senate without study by a committee.
The $60,000 allocation was first brought up at a Senate meeting the same night it was passed.
Most complaints come from senators who think that the Senate legislature is being passed without sufficient study and should be held accountable if it is passed without sufficient study.
THE FINANCE and Auditing Committee passed a budget philosophy that stated that the Senate would no longer fund women's intercollegiate athletics the same night that the Sports Committee passed the women's athletics budget. The Senate last year funded $54,405 for women's athletics. This year, KU is requesting $84,000 in state funding for women's athletics.
Not having legislation go through a committee is not due to a lack of committees. There are seven standing committees: Sports, Academic Affairs, Finance and Auditing, Rights, Culture, Communications, and Student Services. Besides these, there are various subcommittees, including Public Relations, Publications, Polling, Elections, Concerned Students for Higher Education and
A forum to consider the resolution to discontinue funding of women's intercollegiate athletics was held the following week and was called on by President Obama.
Transportation. More than 150 students are involved in the committees.
Some committee chairman have said the charges they have given are too broad or not interesting enough. Committee charges have included developing an attendance policy and studying the salaries of student senate officers at schools of comparable size to
WHEN THE student body president takes office each February, the student is to give the standing committee charges to work on during that month.
The committee chairmen are not required, however, to work on the charges and can bring up their own issues to work on.
STEVE McMURRY, who was Rights Committee chairman for two years and presently is chairman of the Transportation Commission, will be in Chicago on Thursday.
"Committees are the trunk of the tree from which everything else radiates," he said. "But all of the major issues lately haven't
McMurry complained that the charges committees were given were too mundane.
Charges themselves are not the only problem. Most committees have a large number of members who are not senators, which makes it more difficult for them to get their votes.
Another problem is that committees are formed each year immediately after spring elections. A few weeks later, budget hearings are held for Senate-funded student organizations. Allocating the student activity fee money is one of the most important duties of the Senate, and an entirely new group of senators are needed to decide which groups should be funded and for how much.
HOWEVER, Steve Leben, student body president, said he did not
See STUDENT SENATE page three
Room to spare
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Although as many as 150 student visitors and 50 senators attended yesterday's Student Senate open house, Chris Dipple, New York graduate student, and Chi Santos, Boston graduate student, had
no problem finding a chair. Becky Herman, Senate public relations director, said that she was pleased with the turnout and that she hoped the Senate could have another open house before February's Senate elections.