Student Senate turnout lopsided
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
Members of organized living groups represented a lopsided share of this year's voters in AUU Student Senate elections, and the addresses of nearly 3,000 Senate votes.
In the Feb. 13 and 14 elections, 11.5 percent of the student body voted.
Scholarship halls unexpectedly made a strong showing, representing nearly 40 percent of all respondents comprised only 1.7 percent of total Universal Scholarships and scholarship halls residents vary
The Greek system, traditionally considered a more supportive system, supports an in second in terms of the the vote- 27.8 percent of those living in Greek houses voted, compared with those living in other areas who voted- 22.8 percent.
RESIDENCE HILLS showed a greater turnover in numbers when compared with the Greek system, but not when compared with the American system. Twenty-eight percent of the Senate votes were from residence hills, ahead of the district vote. Residence hills represent approximately 20
percent of the student enrollment, while the Greek system represents about 10 percent.
The "apathetic majority" that did not vote clearly lived on-campus. Although off-campus students were less represented percentage of those who voted in the election, they also represent the largest campus, they also represent the largest
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group of enrolled students. Nearly 70 percent of students live off-campus, but only 5.5 percent of that number voted.
Although the possibility of incorrectly identified addresses or the fact that students may have moved introduced a margin of error into the statistic compilation, the Senate voted to reintroduced the notion that the Senate draws a representative sample of voters.
THE UNBALANCED representation of voters at Senate polls may be no surprise to some versed in the history of Senate participation.
The surprise was that the results of a questionnaire filled out by Senate voters were presented as "student body opinion."
The 11.5 percent of the student body did vote filled out a questionnaire on the draft questions and the prospect of raising the drinking age to 21.
The questionnaires' response, which should students' favorite subject opposing a student's present body opinion in a Washington, D.C., student leaders' conference by Margaret Berlin.
Greg Schnacke, student body president,
said the draft response should be "thrown out the window."
"An election is not a place to run a survey, it should be doomed systematically," Schneack said. "An election represents those that the public would vote. It is not a random sampling of anybody."
HOWEVER, SNICHAKE was a participant in the Associated Students of Kansas lobby last Thursday, where results of the questionnaire were presented to individual legislators. ASK lobbies referred to the fact that there are no laws which showed strong student opposition.
Schneck said the questionnaire operation to rating the aisle was so "clearly understood" that he represented the students. But he said he had no plans to use the questionnaire in Senate
Barring significant campus Senate elections participation, future elections surveys should be left to safely gather dust in a drawer.
"Right now I think we see a student concern over jobs, and frankly campus politics don't seem as important to them."
Organized living groups are ready-made sources of political support, as the voter break-down by living group indicated. But if the political deck is stacked slightly in favor of organized living groups, off-campus students don't appear too eager to shuffle
IF I WERE a student I wouldn't vote.
said Allan Cigler, political science professor. "There are reasons for voting, they are not related to getting things done."
Campus politics appear to be in the periphery nationwide. For example, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, attracted national media coverage as a result of its student government capers—but contended with an apathetic mature at home during elec-
Although the voter turnout that re-elected the "Pall and Snover" party was the highest in years, only 7,000 out of a total enrollment of 35,000 students went to the polls.
Voter turnout by living organization
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 90, No. 99
Kennedy hoopla Kennedy calls for wage and price controls
Kennedy hoopla attracts crowds of zealous fans
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
TOPEKA- It seemed as if the president was here Saturday, not just a candidate—much less one well behind in the polls.
From the moment Sen. Edward Kennedy's motorcade left the guarded gates of the Air National Guard terminal in Topeka to the air again, he was a traffic stoponer.
Constantly surrounded by dozens of rowing-eyed Secret Service agents, he never escaped the crowds of autograph hounds and picture takers—not even while eating
Kennedy has been to Kansas before-four times as a matter of fact—but never as a presidential candidate.
THE RESPONSE he got during his four-hour visit at Saturday as the keynote speaker at the Democratic Washington Day fundraising dinner was at times amazing.
"I was affected," said one observer after the festivities. "He has a presence, a certain charisma. You can feel it when he walks in the room."
Even as his 13-vehicle motorcade left the air terminal adjacent to Forbes Airport, 23 carloads of Kansans had gathered beside the road for a momentary wave.
The motorcade drove unstroked for the 20-minute trip to the downtown Ramada Inn. Police had blocked every intersection along the route well in advance.
Three employees of Barry's Marine Repair stood in astonishment by Kennedy's white limousine turned the corner onto Towee's Boulevard.
Traffic was halted on Interstate 70 so the Kennedy motorcade moved. Once on the turnpike, the motorcade cruised at 70 mph an hour. An ambulance was 300 yards behind.
THE RAMADA INN resembled Kennedy's national headquarters. Campaign
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Kansas campaigner
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, a hopeful for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, spoke in Tepee Saturday
before a crowd of nearly 1,000 people at the Democratic Washington Day fund-raising dinner at the Ramada Inn.
By SCOTT FAUST Staff Reporter
TOPEKA--Calling for the imposition of a state law requiring inflation, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in Kansas Democrats Saturday that "the American dream is really threatened in the state."
A receptive crowd of nearly 1,000 at the Democratic Washington Day fund-raising dinner here heard Kennedy, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, that 18 percent inflation and 18 percent increases in healthcare necessities once taken for granted by Americans.
"I believe that unless we are going to control prices and put a moratorium on raises, the Massachusetts Democrat said, "We would just price its prices escape right on the roof."
He said the issue of inflation should be discussed during the nomination campaign and it is likely that prices in control were utilized soon, prices would rise even more quickly in anticipation of an economic downturn.
AT A PRESS conference before his speech, Kennedy said that the Carter administration had "not come to grips with the continuing problem of inflation."
"I believe the issue of economics will be the decisive one in the course of this campaign," he said.
Kennedy's speech stressed the plummeting economy's effect on the lives of individuals.
"Tonight there are retired people, men, women living in the city, Kenna is wondering whether they can afford to heat their homes, afford their prescription drugs, afford to put food on a table."
"The dream of education, which has been a part of the American dream, is more in question today than it certainly has been at any time before in our generation.
"Young workers, members of this party, are wondering whether they are going to be able to afford the interest rates to buy a home today."
KENNEDY SAID economic problems would be felt most heavily by unskilled
workers, minorities and women and young people, "all people that our party must concern itself with over the decade of the 1980s."
"We have an unfinished agenda," Kennedy said, "and I believe we in our party can face up to that agenda."
Meanting health care brief, he said,
"Lord only knows, we've been able to provide it for the members of the Congress."
"We've also been able to do as well for the American people."
At the press conference, Kennedy said he expected to "make a good showing" in the New Hampshire ornirary tomorrow.
Kennedy said he was visiting Kansas so near to the New Hampshire primary race in a way that Democrats that he would speak at the dinner before he had decided to run for
"Clearly the President is a very heavy favorite," he said, "but we've been well-received in the state of New Hampshire."
Kennedy, who has opposed Carter's call for draft registration, said the U.S. commitment to protect the Persian Gulf should be guided by the leaders and people of America.
"That policy, along with the policy of registration, the potential of the draft and the possibility of sending young Americans into the Persian Gulf must make every parent wonder, he said, "as to what the state should do," as in regard to the Persian Gulf.
"I think what is essentially necessary is the fashioning of a foreign policy that will have the confidence of our allies and the respect of our adversaries."
KENNEDY BEGAN his speech to the room of Democrats, many of whom had attended brief reception with the candidate earlier with iokine banter.
Introducing the political heavyweights sitting with him at the head table, Kennedy called Gov. John Carlin 'an outstanding governor' and the Governor's presidential preference.
Architectural harmonv advocated
"Even if he is for our president, Jimmy Carter," Kennedy said, "he's going to be welcome in the White House next year."
BY ANN SHIELDS AND DAVID WEED Staff Reporters
Representatives of Lawrence neighborhood associations said yesterday they will move Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association to preserve a church of their own.
The Old West group voted Saturday morning to lobby the Lawrence City Commission for an architectural review of the old buildings in building designs were similar to older structures.
Jeff Messick, president of the Old West association, said that members of other neighborhoods might be asked to join the lobby committee, which still is being
MESSICK SAID that only the four blocks of the Old West neighborhood that had been declared a historical district already had the power of review.
"We want to have some sort of safeguard, he said. "Sometimes people don't know what's going on, so something like that, like if or not, it is there and it too late."
Almost half of the Old West neighborhood, which is bounded by Kentucky, Michigan.
Sixth and Ninth streets, is zoned for duplexes.
Margery Coggins, assistant director of the Oncology Neighborhood Association, said she thought that he was especially the Old West, Pinchkey and East Washington Associates, to support the HOA associations.
Both the Oread and the Old West neighborhood considered established neighborhood boards that would meet with local officials and make suggestions on new structures.
DICK DUNHAUPT, president of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said his group also supported the noosal.
"We fight fourplexes much more than they fight duplexes." she said.
However, Linda Singer, planner with the city-county planning office, said that such a proposal would not have the power of enforcement of a city commission ordinance.
Tong Gleason, president of the Oread association, said he was not sure whether the city commission would approve a review board.
"There is some sentiment on the commission that you just can't legislate taste without being too arbitrary," he said.
"It is a very touchy issue," he said. "A lot of people insist that no one can tell them what to do with the piece of ground they own."
Osome Oread landlords and residents disagree on the merits of fourplexes. Some call them outstanding, economical housing, others call them tightly and cheaply constructed.
MESSICK AGREED.
"I think our buildings are attractive, clean and smart-looking," Joe Stroup, Lawrence fourplex owner, said yesterday. "The buildings are better than many buildings in Lawrences."
But one Lawrence resident who asked not to be identified, said that he lived near a row of fourplexes and that the buildings were deteriorating quickly.
"They were built so the owner could make quick money," he said, "because he knows students have to have a place to live."
ANOTHER PERSON, who asked not to be identified, said that he helped construct a fourplex in the Oread neighborhood and that it was "just a box."
"There's no design to it whatsoever, no thought of blending in with the neighborhood," he said. "It's just four walls. To
make money off the property was the owner's intention."
The building was constructed so that it just passed inspection, the worker said.
"I don't think it would stand up to high winds. You could punch your fist through a wall and not even hurt your hand. It all sounds like it would. It would go up in flames in a snare."
But Marie Lynch, Lawrence landlord, said she thought it was ridiculous to try to build houses like the older ones.
"You can't expect to build a big two- or three-story house. New houses have to be more productive." Lynch said, "and a fourplex brings more power to the owner."
"I'm not in favor of making the taxpayers pay for improving the neighborhood," she said.
LYNCH SAID she was tired of agitators who came in with "grasping hands," trying to get grants to fix up old houses.
"They're all the same color and design, so people see rows and rows of the same building, and it does become a problem."
William Lemesny, Lawrence landlord, said, "I think the builder of the fourplexes made a damn fool mistake by building them all alike, but it was probably good proof."
Staff Reporter
By JENNIFER ROBLEZ
The transient nature of college and apartment architecture, but a simple procedure now used by the crime prevention unit of the Lawrence Police Department may be used.
Hoefer and other members of the
Engraving of valuables helps discourage thefts
"Most people are either under- concerned or over-concerned with security," Rick Hoefel of the crime prevention unit said Friday.
A driver's license number can be quickly traced, Hofer said, while another identification, like a Social Security number, can take weeks or
One way KU students can avoid property loss is to engrave valables with their driver's license number. The program, called Operation Identification, is being actively promoted in law enforcement apartment complexes in Lawrence.
crime prevention unit are contacting several apartment complex managers for permission to visit apartments and make the engravers available.
LAST WEEK residents of Trailridge Apartments, 2500 W. 6th St., had an opportunity to engrave their valuables. This week, residents of Meadowbrook Apartments are encouraged to mark sterees, television sets or other expensive and often used items.
Most of the engraving is done on Friday afternoons. Hoefer also expects to visit Park 25 Apartments, 2410 W. 21st St., Guild Apartments, 1815 W. 24th St.
Another important part of the program is to have people who would-be burglaries that volunteers have been engraved. The stickers are avail-able for a charge from the crime investigation department.
THE STICKERS are effective, Hoefer said. At Edgewood Homes, in southeast Lawrence, the unit engraved valuables
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