The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.158 Monday, July 28, 1980
Commencement protesters scheduled for separate trials
Staff Reporter
By DAVID STIPP
The 12 protesters who stood together at Commencement last May, holding up banners before their arrests, and who stood together this month in rejecting the city prosecutor's offer to defer prosecution, will not stand together in Municipal Court.
Despite objections by the protesters' attorney, Bonita Yoder, Municipal Court Judge George Catt last week scheduled separate trials for nine of the 12 protesters at the request of city officials.
Knutson said "scheduling problems in municipal court" necessitated a change of procedures and said separate
trials would be less expedient than a consolidated trial
YODER SAID she was surprised at the decision to hold separate trials because the court ruled that she had been convicted.
"It will definitely take more time for the prosecutor, myself and the judge to attend separate trials for the protesters," she said. "It would make more sense to hold the trials at all."
"I think one reason they want the trials
crowds at the trials" they are worried about large
scares at the trials.
Several of the protesters said Knutson's request for separate trials was an attempt to block a plea by two plaintiffs in the case.
Miller Muller, lecturer in religious studies and one of the 12 arrested, said, "If you had all 12 tried at once it would enhance the media coverage and attendance at the trial. But I hope we can get a good crowd out for each trial anyway."
The 12, originally scheduled to be tried on Aug. 28, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at commencement ceremonies May 19 when they unfurled banners, of which read, "Protect First Amendment Rights at KU."
THE GROUP DISPLAYED the banners to protest a University regulation which prohibits
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Militants, mourners note Shah's death
From the Kansan Staff and Wire Renorts
Wasted by cancer and bleeding uncontrollably, the deposed Shah Mohammun Reza Pachaii died from a lung infection.
He left behind a legacy of tattered dreams of glory and an unsolved hostage crisis to which he wished.
The 60-year-old exiled Iranian monarch died at 9:50 a.m. (2:50 a.m. CDT) at Maadi military hospital outside Cairo after an abscess in his pancreas began hemorrhaging, putting him into shock, according to Egypt's official Middle East News Agency.
The Egyptian newspaper Al Abram in yesterday's editions said the shah's condition began to deteriorate afternoon after he was fired from his position in charge in which he held a court and a half of blood.
DOCTORS GAVE HIM blood transfusions, administered antibiotics and attempted to stop the bleeding but at 5 a.m. Sunday, they pronounced his condition "hopeless."
The newspaper said "microbial poisoning", from the abdominal abscess which had been drained in two minor operations June 30 and July 11. The result of his body and finally caused his heart to stop.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Newspaper reports said the shah had told his
followers that he would be kept alive artificially,
as had Hurucan.
But the shah's spokesman, Mark Morse, an American, said Pahlavi had not been hooked up to any life support systems. "There was none of that," he said.
IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARIES rejoiced at word of their ex-king's passing.
"The bloodsucker of the century has died, declared Tahran Radio. Jubilant Iranians took to the streets of their cities, flashed their lights and ran their windside wipers, it said.
The Moslem militants holding the 52 American forces at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran said the Shahs had been 'unable to resist' them.
They said the captives would not be freed until the "solen" Pahavi wealth is returned to Iran.
Iranian students at the University of Kansas and the University of Shah's death would have released a climate of war.
AMID ANSARI, Tehran, Iran senator, said
"it's really hard to prepare what will
happen." It's not a bad idea.
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Progress is encroaching on Anderson's Fat City Toy Shop directly across from the new city hall building on Sixth Street. The City of Lawrence has condemned the older building to make room for parking spaces. However, the building's owner, Bryan Anderson, is fighting the order and said it
would be a test case against an existing law that could be used for seizing old downtown buildings to make way for a proposed downtown mall. City employees have begun moving into the $3 million city hall and should open offices there Aug. 5.
New city hall to open soon
Bv LAURA LUCKERT
Staff Reporter
At the end of last week's City Commission meeting, as the commissioners and members of the press filed out of the fourth floor room in the building, they learned that Clark's Clarkane a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne."
CLARK, A LAWRENCE City Commissioner and KU professor of law, was commemorating the last City Commission meeting held at the First National Bank Building.
Beginning Aug. 5, the commissioners will hold their meetings at the new city hall at Sixth and Massachusetts streets. The dedication of the new city hall will be Aur. 23.
"The building is larger than our immediate needs call for," Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said. "But at least we won't be bailing on people as we did here. I think we will grow up to it."
The new building, a four-story brick structure,
has approximately 21,000 square feet of usable
THE NEW $3 million city hall will house all of the city's offices. It currently costs the city $60,000 a year to rent two floors in the First National Bank Building.
office space. The old city offices had only 13,000 square feet of available space.
THE CITY HALL was originally scheduled to open in December 1979 but was delayed because the city had been occupied by a building.
Debate over where the city hall should be built begin in December 1976. Two sites were used. The first was on the north side of the square.
Watson, city manager, after he consulted with KU area faculty students. The student made an effort to explain the course to Watson.
LATER THAT YEAR the buildings east of the Massachusetts Street Bridge, the former Closeout Carpet building and the old water hall, were demolished to make way for the city hall.
One site, at 11th and Massachusetts streets,
next to the Douglas County Courthouse,
was voted down at a March 1979 commission
meeting.
To finance the city hall, the Lawrence Public Building Commission voted in October 1879 to accept a bond for bonds, and in November the committee approved $1.97 million in public building revenue bonds.
Because of the rainfall Lawrence received over the weekend, Mary Alumbaugh, 634 Rhode Island, a Parks and Recreation worker, skipped the usual watering given to grass and flowers at South Park yesterday. Instead she and a co-worker, Tony Vall, 530 Louisiana, pruned some of the plants in the park.
DREW TORRES/Kansan staff
Apartments going fast
By CHICK HOWLAND Staff Reporter
Students who have put off finding an apart-
ment and are going to be going a bit rough
when they begin their search.
A survey of Lawrence apartment complexes last week showed that many are already full and understaffed.
Ricky Pierson, manager of Trailrue Apartments, 2500 W. 6th, she said she has rented all of her apartments. But, she said, they filled up later this year than usual.
"Parly because of the economy," Pierson said, "people didn't want to be committed to a legal system."
Pierson said most students waited until June and July to rent an apartment for the fall.
Jayhawk Towers Apartments, 1603 W. 15th
faster this year than usual, said Don
Coleman. The property is $149,990.
Debeau said he had a long waiting list of students who want an apartment.
Kathy Groves, leasing agent for Park 25k, 25th, said business increased in recent weeks.
"We've been renting so many in the last few weeks," she said. "Some people will wait until english is spoken."
Students who rent late should take the time to look for the same things they would if they had more time, Clyde Chapman, director of the Consumer Affairs Association, said last week.
"A student should not sign a lease without understanding it," he said.
Chapman said students could bring leases into the Copsher Affairs office, 819 Vermont.
"We'll look it over and see if it looks fair or not." he said.
The Consumer Affairs Association warns that leases with just the landlord's signature can be legally bound if the tenant has a copy, has occupied the premises and is paying rent.
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Lot is condemned owner fights city
Staff Reporter
By MARK PITTMAN
When Bryan Anderson fights city hall, he only has to walk across the street.
Anderson's Fat City Toy Shop, 600 Massachusetts St., is directly across Sixth Street from the new city hall. The city has condemned and shut down a parking lot that stands into a parking lot for the new city hall.
And Anderson is fighting back.
"I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning," Anderson said yesterday. "But we were able to win."
ANDERSON SAYS he has been unable to find justice locally because judges are partial toward the city's side. He has an injunction pending this week in federal court in Topeka that could stop him from running.
"The city knows that they are legally within their rights to level this building before my appeal is even heard," he said. "The case will become a moot issue if that happens."
Anderson is challenging the city's case of needing the space for parking.
" Their own site plan said 90 parking spaces were all that would be needed for the new city hall," he said. "The city already owns 187 parking spots in this block."
Anderson's appeal also questions the entire process of city condemnations.
The city does not have to personally notify a person whose property is condemned, Anderson said. It only needs to publish a notice in the city's newspaper.
THE OWNER of condemned property has 30 ways to organize his defense and after that he must get the judge's approval.
"The city admits that this is a test case for the whole mail question." Anderson said.
"Once the city has made the condemnation, they are allowed 10 years to take over the property," he said. "This lets the city engage in land speculation. It's already hurt me, nobody wants to rent from it. I've already lost a tenant."
Weather
The weather forecast calls for warm days and mild nights for the first half of the week. The high temperature today will be 33, with clear skies and winds from the south at 5-15 mph. The low temperature tonight will be in the upper 60s with a slight chance of isolated thundershowers. Tomorrow the temperature will be in the upper 90s with clear skies and sootherly winds. The low temperature tomorrow night will be in the upper 60s with a chance of scattered thundershowers. The high temperature on Wednesday will again be in the upper 90s and the skies should be clear.
Local GOP fighting for unity
Bu DAN TORCHIA
Staff Renorter
Now that the glitter and noise of this month's Republican National Convention are memories, the convention's slogan, "Together—A New Era," might be the difficulty being accepted in Douglas County.
Reagan delegates to the June state convention in Topeka, who chose the delegates who went to Detroit, are angry about the leadership of John Lungsturm, county party chairman.
At the heart of this family feud is Lungstrum's support of John Anderson in the primary. He was a close friend of
dependent candidate, Lungsturm's opponents say he favors Anderson supporters and neglects
"Those who ran and lost were for Anderson
"It doesn't seem to me that a leader of the party should show his preferences." B.J. Allen, 1617 Hillcrest Rd., said last week. "I don't see him as a leader of all the party."
ALLEN SAID that at the county level caucus in April, Lungstrum suggested that all the losers for the delegate positions be nominated as alternates. This was against the wishes of the Reagan delegates, who preferred Reagan-oriented people.
and Bush," she said. "They were voted in as alternates."
Lungstrum said, "The alternate selection was done at the precise request of the Reagan officers. Pairing was done with the advice and experience of the Reagan chairman and co-chairman."
Mary Frances Krul, 1819 Maine St., a delegate to both the state convention and national convention, said, "John is supposed to be a nonpartisan leader of Douglas County. Ever since the 25 Reagan people got elected, he has not done one thing for them."
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