THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 77
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Old-timers relive Rome Olympiad
Thursday, January 24, 1980
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purchase. The bar, a landmark to generations of KU students, is undergoing extensive renovation.
Timeless Tavern
Jeff Morrow, new owner of the Catfish Bar N' Grill, $18 W. 12th St., sits in front of his new
Bar to revive Rock Chalk charm
BY LINDA MANGLESDORF Staff Reporter
For countless KU alums returning to the Lawrence campus, it was a place to seek out—a corner they remembered as the “in” places to eat, drink or just hang away.
Many have been surprised to see their old hangout, once the Rock Chalk Cafe and until recently the Catfish Bar 'N Grill, changed—from a simple place with a small number of the weeks the name of the establishment at 618 W. 12th St. will change, and so will its atmosphere and image, Jeff Morrow, the
Workers already are tearing apart the
interior as part of the planned reconstruction of the building, yet to be renamed.
Besides a new exterior design, Marrow said that this week he would be seeking city approval for a new front porch and a beer garden in the back.
"We're creating a clean, well-organized environment to encourage students, graduate students and young professors who serve the Oread neighborhood." Morrow
He said that because of the need for the city commission's approval on any structural changes that would enlarge capacity, it would be March before the reopening.
MORROW SAID he was concentrating on remodeling the inside, which provides a revealing look at the history of what was once the Rock Cafe Chale.
"We found five floors including the bedroom," she said. "We have a piece of the marble bar from the Rock Chalk and another bar made from bird's-eye map, mahogany, cedar and walnut."
These are all reminders of a story that began in 1927.
That's the year J.C. Ramsey first opened his restaurant and began serving the student community.
THE HISTORY of the years following is hazy, but according to the Lawrence City Directory of 1832, his restaurant became known as the Rock Chalk Stand #2.
The official name change to the Rock Chalk Cafe appears to have been a decade later, but "Rock Chalk" is how people from the 1980s remember it.
Owners came and went. During World War II it appears to have closed down completely. Shortly after the war, it was leased and later bought by Ivan Wowe and
Rowe is no longer alive, but his wife, 95,
See Sacred Bodies.
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Carter to invoke draft registration
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy
Conger asked the U.S. East oil supplies, wounded last night that any Soviet effort to seize control of the Persian Gulf region "will be repelled by use any
time."
In a nationally broadcast State of the
Congress, a to a joint session of Congress,
Carter, also said, "we would not be
beginning registration of draft-age youths,
but necessary to register the old."
Declaring that "the state of our union depends on the state of the world," Carter said the seizure of American hostages in Iran and Soviet intervention in Afghanistan confronted the United States with a broad panorama that must be met in cooperation with other nations.
ALTHOUGH CARTER WARN Iran again that "if the American hostages are harmed, a severe price will be paid," he said he would try "to persuade the Iranian leaders that the real danger to their nation lies from the north from troops in Afghanistan, and that the unwarranted Iranian quarrel has their response to this greater danger.
"The Soviet Union is now attempting to consolidate a strategic position that poses a grave threat to the free movement of Middle East oil."
In a key statement, the president said:
"Any attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an act against the United States. It will be repelled by use of any means necessary, including military force."
In that regard, Carter renewed pledges to adulter U.S. military strength by an increase in the budget for legislative and budget proposals that would be aimed at reviving the morbard Selective Defense Act.
ALL BRANCHES of the U.S. military fell short of recruitment goals since the draft ended in 1973. But Pentagon officials said the department no longer needed no recombination for the renewal of personnel.
In the past, the White House has said that Carter has authority to require registration without congressional action. But he does not have authority to institute a draft unilaterally.
Earlier this month, Selective Service System officials estimated it would cost from $16 million to$ 47 million a year to reintroduce draft registration.
Although Carter did not mention registering women for the draft, less than a year ago he said that if registration became compulsory, women would be registered we would register both" men and women.
Promising to further strengthen political and military ties with other nations around the Persian Gulf, Carter said: "We believe that there are no inconsciable differences between us and any Islamic people. We believe that we should study to cooperate with all Moslem countries."
NOTING THAT "the Moslem world is especially and justifiably outraged" by Soviet actions in Afghanistan, Carter said:
"Verbal condemnation is not enough. The Soviet Union must pay a concrete price for their aggression. . . The Soviet Union must realize that its decision to use military force in Afghanistan will be costly to every country and economic relationship it values."
However, Carter did urge U.S.-Soviet cooperation on one front. He said voluntary observance of the two strategic arms limitation treaties—including the SALT II treaty that he withdrew from Senate Conference on December 17, 2004 —will be in the best interest of both countries and will help to preserve world peace."
CARTER PROMISED the effort to control nuclear weapons would not be abandoned, saying that "preventing nuclear war is the foremost responsibility of the two
The two Republican senators from Kansas said last night that they generally supported the defense and foreign policies Carter outlined in his address.
But both Sens. Bob Dole and Nancy Landon Kassebaum the president's address sounded very Republican.
Kassebaum agreed with Carter's call for reinstitution of draft registration, and emphasized her continued opposition to any form of consecution.
Dole said the test of Carter's speech would be in the specific proposals he made to bolster the nation's defense.
'Self-help' amendment opponents foretell costly burden on tenants
Staff Reporter
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
If the "self-help" amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act is passed, says Lawrence attorney Jack Brand, the big losers will be the tenants.
Brand, who represents an association of Lawrence apartment complex owners, said he would have to answer questions John Solbach, D-Lawrence, would force landlords to raise rents because of inexperience.
Solbach said his bill was intended to give tenants with negligent landlords a quick and affordable legal means to get needed repairs done.
BRAND SAID, however, that adequate remedies already existed for tenants with landlord problems and that the bill would have a negative effect on the apartment at the start.
Under Solhaceh's bill, which is expected to face a vote in the House Judiciary Committee next week, a tenant could have been fined $25,000 if he refused to expense, if his landlord refused to do it.
Landlord Tenant Act
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To be reimbursed, the tenant would have to give a receipt for the work, his next rent check and a filing fee to a district court clerk.
The clerk would deduct the cost of the repairs—limited to $100 or one-half the rent, whichever were greater—from the rent check and send the remainder to the liaison.
If the landlord objected, the tenant would have to file suit in Small Claims Court to be reimbursed.
That act requires landlords to follow building and housing codes affecting health and safety; to maintain plumbing, wiring, heating, ventilation, sanitation and all building landlords; and to supply running water and reasonable amounts of hot water.
Repairs for which the tenant could be reimbursed are limited to the landlord
Brand said that the Sol´bak amendment would increase maintenance costs and that these increases would be passed on to tenants through higher rents.
"Consciences people tend to overrespond to complaints, and I don't think the apartment industry is any different from anything else." Brand said.
Maintenance costs would go up because landlords would feel obliged to make unnecessary repairs to avoid legal problems, he said.
HE ALSO SAID he thought tenants would make frequent use of the "self-help" provision, and a local manager of a large
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responsibilities in the 1975 Kansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act.
Senate delays forum vote
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Funding for a South Africa forum was stalled in the Student Senate last night after debate bounced from parliamentary plenary to opposition to the bill for more than an hour.
Staff Reporter
The Senate eventually voted not to consider funding because the Finance and Auditing committee decided not to endorse the bill. The forum's organizers, which include senators and Student Union Alumni members, were requesting up to $4.000.
"I think the Student Senate should have at least had the guts to vote on the funding." Rex Gardner, Student Senate Executive and Rights committee chairman, said.
The funding request prompted a last-ditch attempt to re-introduce the South African
"This issue does not stop at each Senate or start with it. This is not a senators-only forum we're talking about," he said.
Debate did flare briefly on Senate approval of a bill designed to bill fund stunting of Wescoe Hall. All full-time students at the school receive toward funding of the $1 billion's bonds.
However, the majority of the senators said that they were not prepared to debate the issue because they did not have enough background.
divesture issue. Two resolutions concerning the issue have been tabled for 10 months.
"Legislators were reluctant to build buildings the students were burning down," Margaret Berlin, student body president, said. "Times have changed."
Students took over the payments under the 1921 Kansas Legislature.
However, Bruce Leban, Liberal Arts senator, said students should demonstrate support of academics out of their pockets.
But if the Senate's action on proposals was frequently snagged by parliamentary personality conflicts, according to Melanie Anderson, Student Services committee co-ordinator.
"The Kansas Legislature pays 80 percent of our education," he said. "They shouldn't have to pay everything."
John Macchietto, graduate student senator, agreed that parietary procedure was in the crossfire of individual power plains.
"It is a big mistake to say we're not willing to pay for academics."
However, a bill to reserve seating for handicapped players at basketball games and an allocation of $800 for Campus Safety programs was advanced through the Senate with little debate.
"This meeting obviously involved power struggles that had nothing to do with what was being said." Macchiotto said.
Matt Davis, Finance and Auditing committee chairman, said he was working to release unallocated money to hold down a possible student activity fee increase.
Lack of funds slows bikeways
By ANN SHIELDS Staff Reporter
Most bikers will say that in city budgets, as well as on the road, bicycles never have had the right of way.
"The amount the city spends on cars is minuscule compared to the amount we need for bikes." Stan Pittman, touring club, said Tuesday. "Durable Bicycle Club, said yesterday."
City planners are outlining a network of bikeways for Lawrence, but still lack the money to make it work, according to Bob Hosack, intern in the city planning office.
He estimated that plans for the Pinckney neighborhood alone would cost more than $600,000.
HOSACK SAID planners were commonly used for the development of Pedalist for Lawrence, a bikeway plan drafted in 1978 by former player Michael Almon, with suggestions from neighbor George Krasny.
The plan includes bike routes, which do not separate bikes from other traffic, lanes, which mark off part of the street, paths, which are separate from street.
Lawrence's only bike lane, on Louisiana Street between 11th and 14th streets, usually is filled with pedestrians from Gerturd薛尔斯 Pearson-Corball Hall.
"I feel so often that cars think I don't have a right to be there, that I'm just a nuisance," said Dee Boeck, secretary of the Mount Ouandre bike club.
Hosack said any plan his office devised to extend the limited bikeways probably would be built piece by piece.
THE ORAEAD neighborhood, the downtown area, the University of Kansas and the commercial area on Ninth Street probably would be considered first, he
However, Boeck said she thought the city's plans did not have to be so complicated and costly.
She said she preferred bike routes because they allowed bikers to ride in the mainstream of traffic.
"And painting a line down the side of a
road presents a lot of problems with parking and cars making right-hand turns," she added.
"I think separate paved bikeways are not feasible in areas of the cities that are already developed," she said.
Plans to pave a bike path in the alley between Kentucky and Tennessee were made. Speedways—were dangerous because riders would extol the alley into the middle street.
PITTMAN SAID he thought such path plans, which avoid the most-traveled streets, were not practical.
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costing $22,446 a mile, including a bench and bike racks, bike lanes at$ 2,748 a mile, and bike routes at $2,340.
The 1976 Pedalplan listed bike paths as
"Trails are the most expensive, so we just put them in when it was absolutely necessary. Hosack said."
The plan includes proposed trails for the KU campus, including one that runs from Memorial Stadium to Oread Avenue.
Hosack said he hoped to get several federal grants that would split the cost of the bike network with the city by the end of the year.