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Tuesday, February 27, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Commission Promises Fewer Signs
Rv CHUCK POTTER
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
Although the Lawrence City Commission has granted 17 variances from the city sign ordinance during the past 13 months, city officials said Monday that the commission was tightening up on the number of variances allowed.
"The basic idea when we passed the sign ordinance six or seven years ago was to tighten up on signs to some degree. But now that we didn't just want signs up thrown up here and there,"
Mavor John Emick said Monday.
"Since then we've gotten rid of a lot of unsightly signs in the five-year phase-out period. I'm sure that everyone has complied with the new ordinance."
The city sign ordinance states that each business is limited to two wall signs and one ground sign. The wall signs may not be larger than 25 per cent of the area of the building. Signs must be at least eight feet off the ground but not extending over the building's roof.
Students Ask Support In Pearson Petition
THE GROUND SIGN may be no taller
Of the 268 freshmen and sophomores currently enrolled in the controversial Pearson Integrated Humanities Program offered by a petition in support of the program.
Ed Rolfs, Junction City freshman who is enrolled in the program and who announced the petition, said Monday that he hoped to present the petition to the College Assembly at their regular meeting at 4 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium.
Speaking of the petition, Rolfs said, "We hope basically to point out student reaction to the program. We feel there has been a lot of misrepresentation of student opinion." He said the petition was not aimed specifically at the College Assembly but was to explain the Pearson students' opinion to everyone.
The petition, which was circulated for two weeks, also was signed by 36 students who have been enrolled, have audited or have been teaching assistants in the program. The signers of the petition affirmed the following six points:
- PIPH has shown as much respect for personal freedom and intellectual independence as any course I have ever taken.
- Plato distinguished induction from teaching. The former assures the will by dictating concrete goals and addresses the intelligence, encouraging it to consider, judge, distinguish, compare and finally, to conclude for itself. This principle is both taught and practiced
The emphasis of PIPH is upon the challenge of understanding and understanding of the assigned tests.
-Efforts to protect freshmen against alleged brainwashing are paternalistic and condescending. It is in effect a form of censorship which shows contempt for unnaturalness.
—We value the opportunity afforded under classmen to be instructed by senior teachers.
The academic standards of PHP are as busy as any we have encountered at the university.
The program, which has been in existence for three years on an experimental basis, has consisted of a four-semester series of six-hour courses that fulfilled all English, mathematics, geography, fertilization and unitaries distribution requirements for freshmen and sophomores.
The Pearson courses received permanent approval by the College Assembly with a 96-62 vote on Jan. 23, but the assembly has yet to give them permanent approval as substitutes for the freshmen-sophomore requirements.
On Feb, 21, the assembly voted to place on a mail ballot a motion that would end the Pearson courses as substitutions for freshman-sophomore requirements. A yes vote
Insane Liberation Theatre, a self-styled fusion of insane humor, drama, satire, music, stage action and vaudeville slapstick, will perform Wednesday and Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The group started performing together last year while they were students at Oklahoma State University. Their act determined that the troup decided to go professional.
The seven-member troop will present two one-hour shows at 7:30 and 9 each night.
Insane Lib To Unleash Mad Humor
“These people will put on a truly bizarre and side-splitting show which should be unlike anything ever seen around here,” an award-winning director, Neb., senior and SUA board member.
"The Forum Room provides an atmosphere which is intimate enough to significantly involve the audience with the topic. In general, words, these people are so perceptive and versatile that they can effectively feel out an audience and cater to it with those elements of humor which the audience effectively responds to the most. Pierce said."
Prof Cited
Charles Sidman, associate professor of history, has been recommended to succeed W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history, as chairman of the department of history.
Robinson, who will complete his five-year term as chairman this summer, plans to continue full-time teaching, research and committee work.
Six of the 17 variances granted in the last 13 months have involved businesses located in the Malls Shopping Center at 23rd and Louisiana streets.
than 30 feet and the total area not exceeding 90 square feet, unless approved by the city
All six variances granted were connected with the part of the sign ordinance stating that signs may not extend over the roof of the building. Emick said that those variances were approved because otherwise the signs would have been unsightly.
on the ballot would allow the courses to be taken for credit but not for substitution; a no vote would not mean that the courses would be approved for substitution but would merely be returned to the assembly for further discussion.
"The old sign ordinance was pretty lenient, and it allowed signs that wouldn't be allowed now." Emrick said. "Those old non-communion signs changed, they're non-communion signs."
"What we have done is that when businesses with non-conforming signs have changed hands, we've made the new owners conform to the current ordinance."
COMMISSIONER Nancy Hambleton admitted that the sign ordinance should be changed to cut down on the number of requests for variances from businesses in Mackenzie.
"All the ones that deal with the Malls can't be bung any other way," she said.
Hambleton denied the notion that the city commission was attempting to remove ordinance barriers in order to attract businesses to Lawrence.
"The kind of sign you need varies with the area you're in."
"We would like to have Lawrence an easy place to do business, but not at the expense of our time."
Both Hambleton and Emick agreed that the preponderance of signs on 23rd Street
"I IT LOOKS TERRIBLE," Hambleton said, "and there is a grave danger we have to consider that the same sort of thing may happen on other streets. There are a lot of problem areas visually we have to consider, like North Lawrence."
Emrick said that 23rd Street had been zoneed before he was elected to the city commission and that the street was improving visually.
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