Page 4 University Daily Kansan, July 21, 1980
Opinion
Town mall costly
The sides have been chosen, the lines have been drawn, and the City of Lawrence is equipped to engage in a battle over a city. The other side could split the city right down the middle.
Right down the middle of Massachusetts proposed site for the multimillion dollar
After more than a year of planning, the developers of the mall, Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, have submitted a $38 million plan for a mall that would cover the area between 7th and 9th streets from Massachusetts Street to Rhode Island Street.
The Lawrence City Commission obviously wishes to stir up as little controversy as possible in selecting a mall site. By encouraging the developer to concentrate on the downtown site, the commission is only complicating an administrative issue, one that has held the attention of local citizens for more than two years.
The real question surrounding mall controversy does not concern where the mall should be located. If the commission feels it can find a non-controversial location for the mall, it is mistaken. One could ask 50 Lawrence citizens where such a mall should be located and get 50 differing answers. The unanswered question is whether the controversy is simple: "Would Lawrence actually benefit from such a mall?"
Judging from its planning with mall commission feels that Lawrence would benefit
The commission hopes to appease downtown merchants by pushing for a downtown mall development plan. In November of 1978 Jacobs Visconsi and Jacobs were prepared to look into a location near 37th and Iowa streets for the
mall, but the move was abandoned after heavy criticism from city officials and residents. Fears that a suburban location would damage Lawrence's downtown were chief among critics' complaints at that time.
The plan that is now being studied by the commissioners and mall developers is a weak and short-sighted one. Although the plan is intended to preserve the value of downtown businesses, the currently shiny and concrete white elephant, a modern abomination, pleately out of keeping with the quiet charm of Lawrence's existing downtown
It would also be a costly white elephant. The mall's projected price tag of $38 million is incomplete because that figure does not include costs for land acquisition and relocation of existing downtown businesses that would be affected by the construction. Of the projected $38 million price tag, the city of Lawrence would be locked in at least $10 million in city funds for the cost of price to pay for the opening of several large department stores and smaller shops the mail would house.
Downtown traffic, now congested and at times even dangerous, would be further burdened by the extra amount of traffic a mall would draw to Lawrence.
Stores that would open in the new mall would most likely not include grocery stores or bargain stores so badly needed by commerce citizens who live near downtown.
Although the proposal for a mall in the downtown area is a result of more than a year of study, the proposal's vast cost, long range effects, and incompatibility with downtown architecture, leave it open to serious criticism.
And besides do we really need it?
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LMH employees should be heard
Lawrence Memorial Hospital administrators cannot expect quality health care when it disregards its employees' problems. Instead, the system seems to be: put up with the system or get out.
Twelve LMH employees found that out two weeks ago when they were replaced after resigning in protest over another employee's treatment by hospital administrators. Hospital staffs had been forced to employee to resign in protest, but replaced the staffers when none retracted their resignations.
THE GRIEVANCE policy also is designed to
The hospital's refusal to understand the nature of the protest demonstrates LMH's practice of ignoring employees' problems. This practice is upheld in the hospital's grievance policy, which is really a figurehead procedure designed to犁ate unhappy employees.
The policy 'purports a solution for problems, but does not guarantee that complaints will be processed quickly, by the Personnel Office. A complaint about problems takes weeks ago, showed that LMH has a tendency to ignore employees' complaints, apparently hoping that the problems will disappear. An employee's complaint about pay scales takes four months ago, but has yet to be processed.
The University Daily Kansas, making a late bid to break into the lineup, has reported on KU students' paper reports and their paper's report to startle you, including the revelation that students, individualists that they are, don't prefer the same things as other more traditional approaches. You see, are the free agents of survey respondents.
But none is so free as respondent number 41, you've got your major leaguers and you've got your assistant. You have to ask for the respondent "Hall of Fame." Talk about your individualists. Of the 315 respondents to the Kansan survey, only number 41 was identified as a player; as Other 41 is true. You could ask the computer.
The polls during the primaries were the bush leagues. From now until election day, it's hardball for every pollster worth the name who wants to test voter opinion on subjects from movies to sports and even from the body counter who can't deliver the weekly box score on the presidential preference.
THE FACT IS, it can't, but let's hope it doesn't come down to life and death situations before LMIH realizes this. Let's hope that the providers of essential hospital services such as cooking, cleaning and maintenance don't reduce the quality of care for all of its administrators. After all, the best operation room is worthless if the operating room isn't sterile because the janitor is unhappy about his job.
The Republican National Convention is the ballpark in which the Democrats will loss out of the race for president.
Other analysts might spend time and words reporting attitudes of students and ordinary people.
It said it thought draft registration would have no effect on the national defense. Just the same, It said women should be registered because they should not be cheated out of an equal opportunity to have no effect on a thing as important as national defense.
It's World Series time for pollsters
It said, "However, I don't think its should be registered. In your heart you know that the
asexual respondent was opining last week.
For convenience, think of 41 as It.
ment protest by only allowing individuals to file complaints. An organized group may not file complaints for the whole group, but employees must file individually than weakening a group's impact.
armed forces wouldn't want to draft me anyway.
But I'd if he had it. I do it."
Right now all we can do is hope that it won't come down to this because the hospital won't improve employee-administrator relationships. The hospital blindly insists that the present grievance system works well. It will continue for bidions. Unfortunately for LMH employees it will not. We ignore employee problems will only increase those problems and decrease health care quality.
Columnist J.V. Smith Jr.
Columnist Kathy Kase
THE UNION RULE is a clever ploy by LMH because the hospital knows how difficult it is to organize employees once they are off-duty. LMH is open seven days a week, operating three shifts per day. At any given time, only two-thirds of the hospital staff is off-duty and available for union organizing. Even then, home and family obligations less some staffers availability.
I said, "It sounds fair to me"
It had no opinion about the Supreme Court's recent decisions to allow funds to be set aside for minority contracts, to prohibit most federally funded abortions, and to keep court trials open to the press, it didn't know there was a Supreme Court.
problems by prohibiting any union activity on hospital time. If employees want a union, they must meet and organize after work, the hospital administrators says.
"Is it like Bowie Kuhn?" It asked.
It said it was.
The hospital further represses employee's
It made a comeback when asked whether it supported the Equal Rights Amendment. It said the ERA should be amended, though, to include women and sexual assault and personal proclivity." No dummit. V.
knew Its interest was waning. I skipped to the next question. It liked it.
I tried to explain it to It, but within seconds I
It said it would encourage the government to develop Other technology to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources. It didn't like nuclear power, solar power or coal.
because job quality will suffer, if employee problems are ignored, and cause the very shutdowns, walkouts and strikes the hospital seeks to prevent. How can the hospital expect staffers to care about their jobs, which are all directly or indirectly related to sustaining life, when the hospital doesn't care about employee job problems?
It's no secret that LMH opposes unions. Hospital spokesmen characterize union activity as "undercutting hospital care" by causing walks, strikes and shutdowns.
"What Other technology do you like?" I asked it.
It would not elaborate.
It was anxious to end the interview. It said it had better things to do than answer surveys.
"I need to know whether you'll be voting in the presidential election," I said. "I thought it was a lie."
"For whom would you vote if the election were held today?"
"Jimmy Carter and John Anderson." It said.
"You can't do that," I said.
"You can't vote for both." I said. "You've got to choose one or the other."
You guessed it. It chose the Other.
This attitude may be the hospital's undoing
I don't blame it. Faced with a choice like that, who wouldn't choose another?
Sunned folk moonstruck
By RANDY MARTIN Guest Columnist
The heat brings things out in people that would probably be healt left in.
A hot afternoon saw a friend of mine sporting an original "Bourbon Cowboy" Stetson perched on his head looking as awkward as Redd Foxx in KKK sheets
When I inquired to the purpose of his new open-book theoretical and enviable, "it's not small shady树,"
Yesterday afternoon I heard on the radio that one of the New York fashion designers was working on a T-shirt that gave the appearance of sweat while still freshly out of the dryer. A look at her wore a burnt-brown shirt on my chest caused me to laugh hysterically at the foolish rich folks emulating sweat.
Looking out the window, a feeling that must be akin to leprosy crawled across my arms. A person with skin lesions and scars sacrifice body and soul to lose a few ounces of protoplasm. Surely it must be a severe sickness to be jogging in this weather. Stroke-prone people also require satisfaction that only other desert demons enjoy.
Looking across South Park, a passer of toddlers wade knee deep in eight inches of water in the municipal wading pool. Mothers wait for children waiting, waiting for the urchins to have their fill.
It seems only fair that the little tikes should have to walk across the pavement to get back to their mothers. The shrieks, howls and hops of the tiny kids makes one wonder whether Indians really did rain dances, or merely took off their moccasins and walked on the desert.
In the last two weeks, I have had this incredible urge to drive into fast-food restaurants. A small Coke encities one to, oh, three hours and forty-five minutes of sitting in the air-conditioned eating room. The manager of McDonalds may soon catch on, but it sure beats sitting in the library reading this month's issue of Dunn's Review for the seventh time.
With no air conditioning in my apartment or work, and barely functional air in my classes, the only truly cool spot I can call my own is the inside of my car.
As a result of a fully functional fan, new freen, and movable vents, I have been able to immerse myself in cold air, giving myself the sniffles and sneezes in the process.
Of course, first getting into that Chevy is like melting the demon of heat himself.
It may look a little funny, but if I put ice cubes in the water reservoir, point the nozzles upward, turn on the windshield washer and stand behind my car . . .
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