Thursday, March 1, 1973
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Cities Dying, Prof Says
By ZAHID IQBAL Kansan Staff Writer
Norton Long, curators professor of political science at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, told more than 100 students last night that cities all over America were fast dying out. He spoke in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
"The nation-state has eviscerated the city to the point where it is so weak that it is powerless as a political institution," Long said.
He made these comments in his talk, "Do Cities Have A Future?" in which he traced the evolution of the Greek city-state through the ages to its present form.
He said that the Greek city-state had been a self-sustaining entity that served the needs for its citizens' cultural, economic and political development. Later, he said, came the medieval city, the walls of which were eventually torn down.
Most people just use the city without living in it or having any emotional involvement with it, he said. According to Long, the city had become an organization anyone could join or enjoy, a place that someone could make use of and then discard.
"The loyalty and commitment of its inhabitants make a city what it is," Long said. "It is what gives the people a spiritual existence—not just a existence—but not just an economic existence."
"Now we're tearing down everything else, too," Long complained, referring to diminishing functions of a modern city in relation to its inhabitants.
He laashed at those who had abandoned cities because of high crime rates and said
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Truman Letters Given to College
FULTON, Mo. (AP)—A collection of letters written by Harry S. Truman during his presidential years in the 1940s is being exhibited at Churchill Memorial at Westminster College.
The donor is Dr. Frank McCluer, former Westminster president. His post war invitation to Truman and Churchill resulted in the introduction of Curtain Speech by the British statesman.
that crime was an outcome of unemployment and that instead of tackling this problem, government was pouring out a "car-bound infantry"—the police.
"Cities have stopped doing anything about crime, death, life, slums. All a city does is spend money. There is this insane doctrine that one should spend on police and doctors and civic monuments whether they do the city any wood or not." Long said.
Long said that cities were investing in bureaucracies that grew as the people dwindled, exhausting the cities' resources and putting immense strains on the poor residents, like "buzzards on a dying mule in the desert."
We get schools that do not educate youth for employability, health departments that merely enrich certain practitioners of medicine, and an escalation of police violence in the streets. In New York we know that the police have actually boosted crime."
Likening municipal aid programs for cities to foreign aid programs, be said that the results were "inflation, goodies for the military and enrichment for some."
"We're a horse culture," Long said, "and
He said he would be in favor of the kind of municipal aid that would revive the dying cities, and make them self-ustaining enterprises that would provide a purposeful purpose for themselves. He said, would not be an eternal but, more than the nature of a "Marshall-plain" plan.
we believe in feeding the sparrows through the horses."
Long said he had faith in the ability of the city to survive, mentioning two instances where an Italian ethnic neighborhood and a Black Muslim neighborhood had managed to keep "cities" of their own together without government money.
After Long's talk there was a brief discussion in which members of the audience asked questions concerned mostly with how drug users dying cities and their poor inhabitants.
Long said that cities would have to stand on their own feet, adding that he did not see why people who made money out of the tax should not also be required to live there.
Lake Group Talks Of Motorboat Ban
"As for the people left in the decaying cities of America," he said, "they will have to get together and generate power. People who do not have power get stepped on."
By DAVE LINK
Kansan Staff Writer
Recreational uses of Clinton Reservoir were the topic of discussion at a public meeting in the H-4 building on the Dougles County Fairgrounds Wednesday night by the Citizen's Coalition for Clinton Reservoir.
Discussion centered on the question of whether motorboating on the proposed lake
The consensus of these groups was that there were adequate facilities for motorbots at Perry and Pomona lakes and that Clinton Reservoir should be kept as an area for those who wish to enjoy the natural surroundings of a "quiet lake."
Sally Casad, 1130 Emery Road, representing the League of Women Voters, suggested that "we restrict the use of motorbikes on the lake for five years and then decide whether or not it is a worthwhile idea."
The steering committee of the citizen's coalition will meet Thursday night to draw conclusions from the opinions expressed at Wednesday night's meeting.
The views of the meeting's participants fell into three categories.
Some said that the lake should be preserved as a natural setting and motorboats should be prohibited from using the lake. Others should that there should be no restrictions on the recreational uses of the lake, and the third group said that the lake should not be separated areas for motorboating, swimming, fishing and sailboating.
Representatives from the League of Women Voters, the Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and the Girl Scout Council all spoke in favor of closing the lake to motorboats.
A possible compromise was suggested by Hetherington, 3028 Emery Road, the Ghettar of Delhi.
The opposite view, as expressed by George Faler, speaking for the Kaw Bain Water Management Association, was that no should be prohibited from using the lake.
"If closing Clinton to motorboats is not
acceptable, a limit of perhaps 10 or 15 horsepower could be set on the boats that would be allowed on the lake," Hetherington said.
David Nelson, 1524 Vermont, presented a petition containing 735 signatures to the coalition. The petition supported "boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming on Clinton Reservoir as on any other Corps of Engineers lake."
"After all," said Faler, "we're all tax-
apers and we are all paying for Clinton
Republicanism."
Several KU students attended the meeting, and all of those who gave an opinion were in favor of outlawing motorcycle laws and preserving it as a natural setting.
Jay Barrier, Wichita senior, said, "If the question is that of giving equal opportunity for everyone who pays for the lake to use it and about the people who want a quiet lake?
"Perry is available to anyone who wants to motorboat or water ski, but there is no place for someone who wants a lake with a little peace and quiet."
There was a suggestion that sending all motorbots to Lake Pecheneg wouldn't be [a]ble to do this.
Tom Krebs, Wichita senior, who lives in McLouth, not far from Lake Perry, replied, "I wouldn't mind taking all your boats in Jefferson County if you make Clinton a place where I can get away from the noise when I want to."
Not everyone at the meeting was concerned with the motorboating issue. Phyllis Anderson, RFD 1, lives on a farm that will be under water when Clinton is completed. She works at the barn and all told the participants at the meeting. "I hope you all have a happy fight."
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Reservoir Goals Are Presented
By DIANE YEAMANS Kansan Staff Writer
Clinton Reservoir should remain as natural as possible, for the enjoyment of all citizens, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission said Wednesday when it adopted development goals for the area.
The goals were presented in a report by the Comprehensive Plan Committee of the commission, which was headed by Johanna Kolmorgen, commissioner.
The Clinton report recognized that the reservoir was crucial to the development of the urban region between Kansas City and St. Louis, where it was of special significance to Lawrence.
All activities developed should stimulate creative abilities, the report said, especially
A transportation network that is efficient, rapid and safe should be coordinated with the transportation network already in existence, the report said..
A wide variety of recreational additions selected to meet the needs and desires of all age groups should be provided for, the report said. Passive and active recreation should be in locations that promote safety and convenience, it said.
those of children the elderly, the handicapped and disadvantaged.
The Comprehensive Plan Committee recommended amendment of the section of the report dealing with the economic impact of the reservoir.
Also approved was a change in the wording of the same section of the report to read that development would "contribute to the economic economy of the area instead of "improve it."
Kolmorgan said the section implied that the local government would be a major stakeholder in the project.
She recommended that the report be changed to read, "For the individual citizen, economic aspects of development must be prioritized to ultimately owner or use of bots or tracts."
Kollmorgan recommended the amendment and said the original wording implied the area was lacking in some way in which it was not.
In other items considered by the commission, the zoning of the area located on the southwest corner of the intersection of West 31st and Iowa streets was changed
The commission unanimously approved the amendment.
The area had recently been annexed by the city and all annexed area is automatically zoned single-family dwellings upon annexation.
from single family dwellings to limited commercial.
The area is commercial, as previously zoned by the county, and the reason was that it was a small town.
The Atchison Drive-In Theater Corp. owners of the Sunset Drive-In Theater, withdrew a rezoning request. They had requested that the zoning of the theater be changed from multiple-family dwellings to a limited commercial zone allowing for a shopping center they had previously planned.
Nominations for four University of Kansas distinguished teaching awards are now being received at the Office of the Vice President, to be briefed. The nomination deadline is March 9.
Any KU teacher may be nominated by any faculty member, student, school, department, campus organization or group of individuals.
Teachers Vie For Awards
The four awards, each carrying a $1,000 stipend, will be presented at commencement. Funds for one of the awards were donated by H. Bernerd Fink of Topika, a 1931 alumnus, for whom the award is named. The three other awards are funded by the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation.
The committee requests that letters of nomination include a brief statement of reasons.
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