KANSAN
The University Daily
Friday, March 6, 1981 Vol. 19, No. 110 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
Shankel to address issues
Major issues facing the University of Kansas will be addressed at a University-wide convocation after spring acting, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday.
Designated as the convocation's feature speaker, Shankke declined to say what issues would be addressed. He said that the convocation was suggested yesterday by KU's chapter of the American Association of University Professors executive board.
"the members of the AAPU executive board felt there were some major issues the University needed to address," he said. "They asked if I should provide an envean all-University meeting and I agreed."
The AAUP was not the first group to express
concern about the issues facing KU. Shankel said
various administrators talked to him as well.
The approach Shankel had planned was a test of the similarity, similar to the letter in the Kanada Welsh.
"There are just a number of major issues that they wanted me to address," he said.
However, the convocation was the AAUP's idea. Shankel said.
That letter discussed academic standards for athletics. Those standards have been in question since the Kansas City Times published an article that identified academic standards were lowered for athletics.
Adverse public reaction to the letter did not affect his decision to assemble the convocation. SHELBY
He said it was too early to tell about reaction to the letter.
Swarf'd would not reevaluate the AAPU and Shankel thought were the major issues.
Evelyn Swartz, AAUP president, lauded Shankel's endorsement of the convocation.
"We felt that this was the time to bring some of these images together."
"I think I have to respect his confidence on that." she said.
these issues out into the open," she said.
swarz would not reveal what the AAUP and
the AAUP had done.
No specific date for the convocation has been set, Shankel said, but it will occur after spring break, which ends March 22. He said the date would be announced next week.
The place is also uncertain.
"It depends on whether I think there might be 50 or 60 people. Shankel said that, AIAA, it's tough to find," he added.
Neither Shankel nor Swartz could remember the last time such a convolution was held.
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Oread Neighborhood offers everything University Daily Kansan, March 5,1981 Pay
The crime prevention program also sponsors workshops and classes on self-
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Renorter
"Make personal contacts in the neigh-
The best way for students to find an apartment is by starting early and looking at places that appeal to them from the landlord, because themselves to the tenants or owners, she said.
"There is a real problem in that the best apartments go from friend to friend and are never advertised." Harper said.
If you live close to campus, rent a charming house with a dozen of your friends and have bats in your attic, or you live in the Oread Neighborhood.
Nancy Harper, director of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said that the neighborhood offered a lot more than just a cheap place to hang your hat.
"Besides the closeness of Oread to campus and the charm of some of the old houses and apartments, you have got a chance to spend time with you care to take the advantage," she said.
"We represent the lowest political level taking control of its own destiny and its own existence."
Student-age tenants make up a majority of the neighborhood's 5,000 residents. Last year those residents contributed more than 2,600 hours of alley clean up, snow removal, community development and other volunteer services.
purpose of the neighborhood association is to help people find a sense of community and belonging. In areas in which no one lives there, they live next door there are more crimes."
Crime, a major problem in the neighborhood, was the main reason the neighborhood association started. Although the area is low in violent crimes, in 1978 26 percent of all residential burglaries in Lawrence occurred north and east of campus between Massachusetts and Ninth and 17th streets, or roughly the Oread area. Most of the burglaries involved stolen bicycles.
"We offer a free security check by people trained in the police department," he said, who loan at no charge light timers, engraving pens, and have tools for changing a lock."
In 1979, the first year of the Oread Crime Prevention Program, there was a 20 percent reduction in neighborhood that percentage has grown each year.
Bats are not the biggest problem for students looking for an Oread apartment, but they are the most popular.
defense and rape prevention. Information on how to lock bicycles and secure homes before going on trips is distributed to students.
One recent problem the newsletter reported was that a large group of undesirable tenants were making their homes in Oread—bats. The bats had migrated to the area from Memorial Stadium.
A monthly newsletter offers other preventive information, and informs residents of any crime trends that may be related to a specific part of the neighborhood.
borhood." Harper said. "Pick a place and go after it. By the first of July people are frantic."
And start early
The best time to look for an Oread apartment is from now until the end of the spring semester. The Journal-World and the Kansan now list more than 25 houses and apartments available in the Oread Neighborhood.
Single rooms in Oread range from around $75 to $200, with the average room about $150. Most tenants in rooms under $120 share a bathroom and kitchen with each other. However almost any combination of bedroom, kitchen and utilities is available.
The number of housemates a tenant might have varies widely. A good rule of thumb for predicting their number is by counting the mailboxes on the house.
Oread is one of the lowest income neighborhoods in Lawrence and many of the houses are in need of a paint job or an even more serious face-life.
See OREAD page 12
Handy tips to revitalize dull rooms
Staff Reporter
By CRAIG PARKHURST Staff Reporter
Clay Bridge, Olathe sophomore, said he didn't like his residence hall room when he first arrived at the University of Kansas; he was the duliness of the room or its furnishings.
But his room has changed since he moved into Joseph R. Pearson hall in August. Like many other hall residents, he used a personal staircase on his cinder block cubicle.
Bridge filled his blank bulletin board with pictures of bikini-clad women. On the wall opposite to the woman, he painted a picture of a muscular man, with a woman by his side, brandishing a sword over his head.
"It's my personality," Bridge said of his room. "There's no other room like it."
Bridge is like many students who decorate their residence hall rooms to suit a particular taste or to change the conformity of the small living spaces.
There are many ways a student can make over a residence hall room, many of them inexpensive and only a few demanding much time.
According to Lynn Zook, K & M Decorating Center employee, accessories like pillows, bedspreads, graphic pictures painted on the walls and posters go a long way toward changing a room's appearance.
Dan Scott, Springfield, Mo., sophomore, Dave Williams, Blue Springs, Mo., sophomore, and Clay Bridge, Fallinrias, Texas, junior, left to right, in a room in Joseph R. Pearson, Phrontown. bridge has decorated he room to match his personality.
Plants can revitalize a room too, Zook said, especially the cactus, because it can grow in the limited environment of a residence hall room. Zook said caring for other plants was more of a risk because the student must be careful to give them the proper amount of sunlight. Because a residence hall room faces only one direction, a plant might be exposed to too much sunlight or not enough.
"A lot of it (the way a room is decorated)
depends on accessories," she said.
When hanging light pictures or other light decorations on a bulletin board or on wood, Zook recommended using a needle. The length of the weight, she said, despite its small size.
Also, a needle will do little damage to a room, while a nail might cause damage the resident would have to pay for. Nails and strong adhesives aren't allowed on cinder block walls, but strong tape is an alternative.
Students who want to soften their rooms with carpeting must bear in mind that it has to meet a minimum fire code standard. The manufacturer should be able to provide the student with the carpet's fire code rating.
Dean Howlett, KU housing interior designer, said that any carpet with a fire spread factor of less than 75, a fuel contribution factor of less than 100 and a smoke density factor of less than 200 was acceptable.
The residence hall itself provides several means for changing a room. Bunk beds, some types of furniture, bookshelves from the hall. Refrigerators cost $24 per person from the hall.
A new painting policy approved in November by the housing department requires the house manager's approval of plans for graphic designs. The policy is
Painting the wall is a time-honored
practice. It allows them to give
them from an interior life step by
step.
According to the new policy, the house manager can deny permission to paint if the design has too many dark colors in it or if he considers its obscene.
aimed at insuring that the designs meet a list of standards.
If a student just wants to change the basic color of his room, paint and painting equipment are available to him without charge. The student must sign a painting contract also, and is limited to a choice of seven KU-approved colors.
Once a design is approved, the student must sign a contract taking responsibility for the work. When the student finishes making, the house manager will inspect it.
According to J.J. Wilson, director of housing at KU, decorating a room with paneling, wallpaper, mirrors, cork board or shingles is frowned upon.
have to be put up in such a way so as not to damage the room when taken down.
"The place has to look good for the next person," he said.
He said not only would the materials he to meet a fire code, but they would
Wilson said that there were exceptions to his policy. If the student can prove that an illness is for his health, he said, then the housing department will take a look at his request.
Wilson said that a person "has to have really strong reasons for exceptions."
Wilson said that most wood furniture would meet the necessary fire code standards. He also said that for structural and fire safety reasons, nothing should be suspended from the ceilings of residence hall rooms.
According to the AURH Housing Services Committee chairman, Kevin Nelson, the rules governing decorations aren't that strict.
"We're really very lenient," he said. "There's still tremendous room for creativity on the student's part."
The full committee will finish hearing subcommittee reports today and will take final action on the individual and system-wide budgets.
governor to offer an amendment to his recommendations to put back the $188,055 to cover the University's expected deficit in its contributions to the employee retirement fund
Both houses are facing a March 13 deadline to take action on their own bills, so that they can help keep the city running.
The KU subcommittee's stand on the Haworth addition drew the only debate yesterday.
Subcommittee chairman Ron Hein, R-Toppea, said that Snow Hall was inadequate, unsuitable and overcrowded and that steps to alleviate it would be the best interest of the University and the state.
"Maybe those are euphemisms for what we saw there." Hein said, referring to the language in the book.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Jack Steinker, D-Kansas City, interrupted Heel and asked, "But were you going to go home?"
"That's correct." Hein answered
Steineger told the committee that this was an
example of why the public criticized lawmakers.
Hayden shared Steiner's feelings about the Legislature, but for a different reason.
"We in government can't figure out how to work things around," he said. "It would be more important to fix up conditions (at KU) than to move the education) playing fields (at Wichita State)."
He said the deep cuts were being made in Carlin's proposed budget to avoid a tax increase near him.
"Taking from one area and putting it in another does not mitigate the need for a tuxedo."
Hayden said it was not fair to ask some to sacrifice while others were told it was all right to fight.
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But Stansifer said the reform did not result in reduced violence.
"The right needn't like an form of reform and the left said that it hadn't been enough." he said.
There were an estimated 13,000 people killed in El Salvador in 1980. Stansler said that it was impossible to determine which side, left or right, was doing most of the killing.
But both sides have accused each other of being involved with the militants who are not really involved with the militants.
Stansifer said that he had been surprised to find that most of the people he talked with in El Salvador were more upset with the leftist terrorists than with those of the right.
Stanifer arrived in El Salvador in August 2016. He was called for a tenure against the government.
He said the strike was a failure. The govern-
see EL SALVADOR page 5.