Tuesday, March 4. 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Commission will review old,new emotional issues
By LYNN ANDERSON and STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporters
Tenight's city commission meeting promises to be a concoction of new and old items spiced with a hefty dash of emotion.
At the top of the agenda are discussions of the Community Development budget request and the proposed individual townhouse units and a new proposal for a transient taxes' tax on the property.
The CD budget, which includes requests for funding from Lawrence neighborhood neighbors and other community miscellaneous community renovation projects, will be accepted or rejected as a result.
The commission will first hear comments
from supporters and opponents of the requests. They can then accept, reject or modify each request individually.
A number of the requests are being
doubted whether they would be appropriated
by CD funds, which are intended for
low- to moderate-income residents and
groups.
ONE OF THE MOST controversial CD requests would have been that of the Women's Transitional Care Services, a program designed to help women. WTCS had requested $30,000 to move the operation into the building at Bert Nash Mental Health Center.
However, WTCS withdrew its request for CD funds last night.
Commissioner Don Binns said he hoped the commission would deal with the use of the Bert Nash house and the funding of WTCS separately.
He said the sentiment he had heard from the commission and Lawrence residents, including police and local cities, including the police and local churches, could meet the needs WTCS was trying to address.
BINNS ALSO he was unaware of the effectiveness of WTCS. He said he had heard that about 75 percent of the women who used a toilet house returned to their husband.
Commissioner Bob Schumm, who said he was very much in favor of WTCS, said he
expected the commission to allocate the $30,000 for renovation of the Bert Nash house, but to postpone a decision on who would use the building.
The commission will also vote on a request to rezone approximately five acres in an area north of Sixth and Iowa streets known as the Bluffs.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission last week recommended acceptance of the rezoning request.
The area's residents have said they want the Buffs to remain a single-family residential area, but developers want it to be able to hold offices of offices and multi-family dwellings.
MEMBERS OF OREAD Neighborhood Association last night passed a resolution opposing rezoning of the Bluffs.
Trom Gleason, ONA president, said the proposed rezoned affecting Oread residents even though the area was part of the Pinkney neighborhood.
If "it is going to be this easy to supercharge the neighborhood plans at the request of the developer, there's no point in having them come up," said much as affected as Pinckney, he said.
The Pinckney neighborhood plan, one of several in Lawrence that are designed as guidelines for neighborhood maintenance and repair, has said only in residences the Bluffs, he said.
ANOTHER ITEM that has sparked commission meetings in the past few weeks would allow the sale of townhouse units without replacing the land they stand on.
Some Lawrence residents have said this situation will be abandoned land and issue control over it. The plan planned commission last week recommended that its ordinance also be ac-
Wilden said the tax, which could be any amount up to 2 percent, had been tried successfully in other Kansas towns.
The transient guest tax proposal, acco- management manager, is intended to raise money to support the promotion of tourism in Lawrence and to attract conventions to the
Schumm said although he seldom favored taxes, he supported the hotel/motel tax because it would "present a benefit to the community as an end result."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
**TODAY:** THE SMALL GROUP CARERÉ
CounselING WORKSHIPS will meet
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Strong Hall. The COLLEGE ASSEMBLY
will meet at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. The BLACK STUDENT UNION will meet at 5:30 p.m. in room 328. Murh宝 Hall.
TONIGHT: THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTMAS at 6:15 p.m., Hall H, Hall H. The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION will meet at 8:36 p.m., in Dundee Chapel, Church of the Holy Trinity.
"Why Jesse Jackson went to South Africa," at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
The CAMPUS CHRISTMAS will meet at 7 p.m. in Paradors A and B of the Union. THE CHRISTMAS WILL be taught. The White Leaf at Robinson. The KU PRENT-DENTAL CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union. A WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILM, "The Hero as Artist," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3 of Lipinghall Court. LINCOLN COLLAGE with Gimmy Gatherer of KU at 7:30 p.m. in Duke Hall.
Thriving humanities journal nurtured at KU
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Few KU students consider the University of Oklahoma as a place of American, to be a purveyor of international culture. But at least one University publication, circulated widely throughout the country, calls it "boring."
Res Pública Litterarum, published annually in the Spanish language in the Western tradition. It contains research in each field connected with the classical traditions, including its development.
the journal, which receives contributions from scholars all over the world and is distributed in the United States, Japan, Libya and 13 European countries.
"Scolars need as much help as students in doing research and getting it published," Prete said yesterday.
PRETE, WHO also is president of the national organization or Humanitarian Studies, is now councillor for European scholarships. He makes on one or two trips to Europe every year to keep in touch with his family.
"Almost every collaborative I have in education is a part of the course or the director at a university, and I have been a university professor." Prete said. "We have many problems and issues we have understood."
Supported by the Faculty Senate Committee on Scholarly Publications, Res Pubica Literum first was published in 1978. It is currently in its second volume.
BEGINNING WITH Volume II, the journal has authored a third one—three in the United States, Prete said. Articles now are written in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
Volume I was 300 pages long and all its articles were printed in English. It sold more than 100 copies.
As a measure of the journal's growing popularity, Prete said he had to solicit contributions for Volume I, but had to reject more than 38 articles for Volume III.
Sesto Prete, professor of classics, edits
Prete said he conceived the idea of compiling an international journal after been encouraged by some of his colleagues overseas.
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