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Wednesday, January 30, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Residents help defeat skating plan
By LYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
A prospective roller-skate entrepreneur tutored with wary residents, and friends and family who had not until last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting with emotional arguments.
The commissioners denied an appeal by the entrepreneur, Ronald Blake Morgan, Topeka junior, for a transient merchant's license. Jane Edridge, Morgan's attorney, said he hoped to rent ruler skates from a van in the parking lot of the Jayhawk
Eldridge said Morgan had leased the lot, purchased liability insurance and surveyed the neighborhood residents about their feelings about a roller-state operation. She said Morgan had reached all but one of the city's cities and had found no serious opposition.
"I respected their view and I didn't want to downgrade their property," Morgan said before the meeting.
But nearly a dozen residents of the area near the bookstore voiced their concern at the meeting.
OLIN PETEFISH, 1508 Crescent Road, called himself the "watchdog of the area" and said he feared the skate rental would be a foot in the door to allow a zoning change. He said "a transient operation would not reduce property taxes," reduce the quality of our community."
"We shall be eternally vigilant in trying to keep the area a place that adds to the dignity of the neighborhood." Petefish said.
dignity of the neighborhood. Petfish saltworm is a common food safety risk, increased traffic and the possibility that beer taverns and other dining establishments could be the area of Morgan's license were granted.
Eldridge said another skate rental operated on Ouread near the Catfish Bar and Grill last fall and no complaints had come from neighbors or police.
But Mayer Barkley Clark said the traffic near the bookstore, compounded by Naisht Drive and the Chi Omega foundation, made it undesirable to grant the
MORGAN SAID he should be given a chance because if his operation caused any
problems, "I could start up my car and drive it off."
"I was in tears every time I see the sun," Morgan said. "I've lost a fortune."
The commissioners also rejected a $4,500 proposal to use community development grants for the project. North Lawrence and along 19th Street between Learnard and Massachusetts
Community development funds are federal funds designated for certain target areas whose residents especially need conservation projects.
Although the commissioners agreed on the role of good sidewalks in communities, they disagreed on the method of funding them.
They heatly debated options, including creating a benefit district in which residents would be assessed for the walks, paying for them through community development
funds, funding them with general city revenues or a combination of those methods.
THE ARGUMENT focused on what would be fairest to Lawrence residents, both in the target areas and in more affluent neighborhoods.
Commissioner Ed Carter said he opposed the sidewalk proposal because no attempt would be made to residents who would willingly pay a share of the building costs. Use of private funds, he said, is necessary.
The plan also was opposed by commissioner Don Binnis, who said the use of community development funds would build a stronger foundation of the residents in planning or financing.
"I'm not in favor of cramming sidewalks down people's throats," Binns said.
CLARK, HOWEVER, said he saw no problem in using community development funds.
After rejecting the proposal 3-2, the commissioners voted down several other plans for combining funding sources and finally tabled the discussion.
"we really need to sleep on this one," commissioner Bob Schumann said.
In other business, the commission asked its staff to contact community groups for support in the 1980 census.
Language lab adds Arabic tape
The KU language lab this week added Arabic to the list of foreign language news tapes available to students.
Carol Henderson, assistant director of the lab, said yesterday that the tape was recorded earlier this week from a Voice of America broadcast.
"They want to get it from an Arabic country," she said, "but they will use an station where the announcers speak standard Arabic."
Henderson said the Voice of America broadcast was used because it was the only one that could be clearly received during the day.
Most Arab countries broadcast at times that would be night here, she said.
She said interested students could listen to
the tape in the lab or could check out a cassette from 4070 Wescoe Hall, to take home.
The language lab also has news tapes in Chinese, Russian, German, Portuguese, French and Spanish.
They can be listened to by phone by calling: 864-3003, Chinese; 864-3214, Russian; 864-3034, German; 864-3219, Portuguese; 864-3055, French; and 864-3218.
Ermal Garinger, director of the lab, said there were no plans to add a phone line for Arabic news because of the expense.
EPA says waste bill threatens state control
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
A bill intended to keep Kansas from becoming a dumping ground for other states' radioactive waste actually could hurt Kansas waste programs rather than help them, a spokesman for the Enforcement Protection Agency said here yesterday.
William Brink, a radiation consultant for the EPA in Kansas City, Mo., said passage of the bill would require legislature probably would mean a loss of state control over its own hazardous waste cleanup.
programs, he said.
Under the new legislation, the EPA probably would have to manage the
"While the state could still run its own programs, it would not receive any federal funds." The Obama administration regulations are very strict when it comes to stances banning the import of hazardous materials.
the bill passes, it would prohibit the burial of radioactive waste at Kansas disposal sites if the waste had originated from nearby sources and was located local chapter of Radioactive Free Kansas.
"The whole thing could snowball, causing implications that wouldn't be good for Kansas," he said.
UNDER EPA regulations, flat bans on the importation of radioactive waste would
end federal funding for the state programs, with the states probably having to resort to EPA control of the programs.
Should the EPA run the state's programs, those high standards probably would be diminished, he said.
"I think that would be a real shame," Brink said, because Kansas has one of the really fine waste disposal programs in the country, its definitely one of the four or five best."
New job application process to be tested
In an effort to reduce red tape the University of Kansas is testing this spring a new student hourly employment procedure, a K1Administrator said recently.
The procedure, which applies to work-study, student hourly and monthly employees, will begin July 1.
Joan Sherwond, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said the new procedure would eliminate the need for University offices and allow action cards when a student applies for a job.
The affirmative action cards include questions about race, religion, sex, age and gender. If you answer yes to any of these requests an affirmative action compliance check, the information would be obtained.
are optional on admission applications, are stored in a student data base at the Academic Computer Center.
Under the new procedure, job applications will be assigned job serial numbers after students apply for jobs. The new application will be submitted to affirmative action data.
Sherwool said it would be more practical to obtain a computer print-out of the affirmative action information to to gather all the department cards.
The affirmative action questions, which
"If the University needs to provide the government with affirmative action information, we will just match the job serial number with the student data base," she said.
Trial areas for the program include University Relations, the office of affirmative action, Watson Library, the Helen Forsman Spencer Museum of Art, School of Design, and the office of residential programs, the compressor office and Facilities and Operations.
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