University Daily Kansan
City planner sees neighborhood resurgence
Wednesdav. April 9. 1980
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Staff Renorter
BvLYNN ANDERSON
An urban planner who described himself as "causually optimistic about the future of neighborhoods" last night presented some ingredients to help nurture a neighborhood resurce.
The planner, Norman Krumholtz, addressed about 50 persons in the Kansas Union as part of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Western University.
Krumholtz, who is director of the Center for Neighborhood Development at Cleveland State University, said he believed that the neighborhood achieves legal recognition in urban planning, disbursing federal funds and delivering ser
He attributed the resurgence to "a shift in American tastes and values from what's new to what's old."
Among the ingredients Krumblitz were好 local government services, the skillful use of financial
resources and a neighborhood strategy that reflects local conditions.
IN FINANCING neighborhood projects, Krumholt
neighborhood groups should work with private
private companies.
"Cooperation with the private sector is desirable, maybe crucial." Krumhatzal said. "But only if the business community can accept it."
He said that an attempt by a major hotel to build in a public Cleveland park was "beneath contempt," as were many others.
"New development is not an end in itself," he said.
"We seek the long-term revitalization of the city, its resources and its economy."
KRUHILOTZ STRESSED that the problems of cities should be viewed from the level of each resident.
"The urban crisis," he said, "is just an agglomeration of problems suffered by individuals."
Krumholtz said neighborhood们 were trying new strategies to overcome institutional obstacles. One such strategy, he said, was to organize against financial issues of "red-line" or deny loans to poor areas of cities.
If those problems, such as joblessness, are not addressed, he said, cities will continue to decline.
Another effective strategy; Krumholtz said, is land banking, in which the city takes tax to law-deleimant and transfers it to the city.
HE ALSO careful use of Community
Development funds for such services as curre-
r repair, construction, or maintenance.
He suggested that neighborhoods react by "green-lining," or withdrawing their savings from such institutions and banking with those that were more responsive to neighborhood needs.
"This lets the residents know they're not forgotten."
Krumholt said. "I think the work of neighborhoods is psychological as much as physical."
Krumboltz said that in all regions and all cities the issue was the same: "The restoration of urban areas has been a challenge."
"There's a bell of a list of sound and fury," he said, "neighborhoods lack the ability to serve services."
"I can't believe that neighborhood organizations, sufficiently cranked up and genuinely caring about the people they serve," she said.
He said, however, that so far neighborhood organizations were stronger on organization than on
Krumholtz said he hoped the rise of neighborhoods would lead to local structural reform.
"If it takes us in that direction," he said, "it will be a hel of an experience. It beats revolution."
Small World...
Using objects and pictures, teachers usually get fundamental ideas across. It can be difficult to teach these ideas are taught, because teachers usually cannot speak the languages of their
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Translators for Spanish and Arabic sit in each of the first-level classes to help instructors with the abstract terms. Most of them are taught in Spanish or Arabic-speaking countries.
"Sometimes they can correct pronunciation better than we can as far as the diplomacy of the thing is concerned," Wiesman said.
WITH SO MANY cultures represented in one organization, however, some cultural conflict inevitably results.
understand how they are reacting," Haney said.
"For example," she said, "North Americans require a large distance of space when they are talking to another person, whereas a Latin American likes to have a very small distance between her and the other person. You can be portable with that. But if you put them together, the Latin American will move in where she feels comfortable and the North American will back off to where she feels uncomfortable and each other down the hall that way."
At each meeting a different foreign food dish is prepared in Small World's cooking class to be sampled by members. Copies of recipes are prepared and distributed.
"Without a doubt, this is my favorite part," Haney said, "I like to cook and I like to cat."
With so many nationalities represented. Small World is a reflection of world affairs and trends.
WISEMAN SAID she had seen a greater degree of sophistication and national pride
KU classified employees set priorities for benefits
Classified employees are civil service employees and they compose most of the clerical and administrative help at the University.
"The pay increase is very satisfactory compared to our raises in the past 10 years." O'Neill said.
Child care and dental health benefits are provided for the children of plenary players in the program that a proposed pay increase has passed the Kansas State. Jan O'Neill, of the group, said at its meeting in May that 78 percent
O'Nell said she thought this program was necessary because of problems that classified employees have had in the past with hotel services and the administration.
"These problems are not because they haven't been responsive to our needs, but because the staff have been unable to communicate gap between classified employees and personnel services." O'Neill
The plan is a result of a three-year study conducted by the state Department of Administration, the first study since 1970.
As a result of five months of research in the personnel department, the program will look into dental care, carpooling, discounts for travel, and mentoring programs, program and retirement planning seminars.
Dave Lewin, director of personnel services, spoke to the Classified Senate yesterday and promised to implement an Relation Program within the coming year.
Lewin said he hoped the program would start monthly question and answer meetings between classified employees and managers to address problems until we know their exist.
The proposed pay plan, which gives an average raise of 11 percent for a 1,527 KU classified employees, almost doubles last year's increase of a 4 percent plus $25.
Publicity about existing services such as discount tickets, recreational opportunities and counseling would be another part of the program. Lewin said.
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"They're not as pathetically lost as they used to be," she said.
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Women's average educational level also has improved, she said.
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With the proliferation of birth control pills, she said, the average size of a foreign household has declined over the past decade.
TONIGHT: The MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Honors Banquet will be in the Kansas Room of the Union at 6:30 p.m. and the Recital at 7. The KU SAILING CLUB will meet in Parkers B & C of the Union at 7. The Department of SPECIAL COLLECTION RECitals
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Occasionally, however, tensions still surface.
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Politics is the only subject never discussed in Small World. "The husbands worry about things like that," Wiseman said, "not the women."
Last week, news of the original bill's approval by the Senate was met with mixed emotions by T.P. Srivinusan, president of the University Association of Universities Professors.
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At KU, the administration's figures total $46,000 for outstanding parking fees, $12,000 of which is owed by current employees. The amount is owed for outstanding library fines.
TODAY: HILLEL presents "Holocaust," a photograph exhibition all day in the Conference Room of the Satellite Union. Dennis Rusison, AUFs, will meet with the WEDNESDAY FORUM at 11:45 a.m. in the ECM Center, 1204 Broad. There will be a GALLERY TOUR of the "Homage to Kokoschka" at 13:30 p.m. in the kress Gallery of the Spencer Museum of Art. THE PHYSICS COLLOQUI presents Theodore School University of Colorado, which is hosting "at 4:30 p.m. in room 323 Mallott Hall."
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On Campus
"We felt the Six Day War," she said. "We have both Arab and Jewish members and we could feel the pressure. But in many respects we overcame it."
He said such a provision could be included when the Regents adopted rules on wage withholdings.
State Sen. Wint Winter, O-Rita, succeeded in adding the Regents measure to the House bill dealing with other debts owed the state.
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A bill that领的 the Board of Regents to force payment of overdue parking and library lines by withholding employee wages as well as迫使 Gov. John Carlin as early as today.
The bill originally awaited House Committee consideration, but was added to a House bill that was approved by the Senate in 2013 and coincured with the Senate amendments 118-3.
The Senate's amendment to the House bill empowers the Regents to adopt policy for withholding all or part of faculty and staff salaries to obtain fine money.
Faculty fine payment bill passes; awaits governor's endorsement
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Firemen pass examination
The grades came back yesterday on the Lawrence Fire Department's first certification test administered by the Fire Safety Education at the University of Kansas.
The entire 61 member class passed the examination.
The examination, which consisted of a 50-question written examination and a practical procedure demonstration, was given by the Fire Station No. 2, 1941 Hassell Ave.
"A lawyer can graduate from the best law school in the country," McWain said, "but it doesn't mean anything until he passes the ar test."
Chief Jim McWain of the Lawrence Fire Department said yesterday that his department was well-schooled in fire and information by an outside agency was needed.
A maximum of 15 incorrect answers is allowed on the written test.
McSwain said he missed two questions on the written test and the rest of the men missed no more than 13 questions.
According to Max Thomas, KU Fire Service Training Division director, firefighters are quizzed on the use of for-air breathing apparatus, breathing apparatus, boxes and haiers.
The tests concluded a six to nine-month correspondence course. The Lawrence fireman were the first in Kansas to complete the course, Firefighter II, will start in May.
"You can't just take a man off the street to do the job, Thomas." said "There are chemical fires that happen now we couldn't have dreamed of five years ago."
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