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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 4, 1981 Vol.91, No.108 USPS 650-640
Developer continues mall battle
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
If at first you don't succeed, invest more money.
Jacobs, Viscosa and Jacobs is doing just that after the Lawrence-Douglas Planning Commission dealt a setback to JVJ's bid to rezone a south Lawrence lot for a shopping mall.
"We've got $300,000 invested in this," Don Jones, JV vice president for mall development, said. "We'll do the bulk of it."
Some of JVL's dollars are already paying indirect dividends, as two plump are making a profit without payment.
THE ENVELOPES contain coupons, clipped from a full-page JVJ advertisement published in the Feb. 22 Lawrence Journal-World. As of March 2, the planning office had received 405 coupons, many with letters and other comments attached: 376 supported JVJ's nosedo project.
However, the fruits of the Cleveland developer's efforts won't be known for at least two weeks. A March 18 City Commission hearing date set for JVJ's request is "still tentative" according to assistant city manager Mike Wilden.
Meanwhile, Richard Zinn, JVJ's Lawrence attorney, is preparing to argue his client's case befu
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The chairman, Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said yesterday that KU's requests for a faculty pay raise, an increase in the operating budget and money to cover increased enrollment were tied to the Board of Regents system-wide proposed Board of Committee cut those requests deeply last month.
The University of Kansas won't be helped by the Senate Ways and Means Committee's relaxed attitude toward individual universities' requests, according to the committee chair.
HESS SCHEDULED committee hearings for tomorrow and Friday to consider the individual campuses' requests for next year.
KU 1982 budget request tied to Regents budget
RvGENE GEORGE
After committee action this week, the campa-
men's delegates budgets will be sent to the
Fall Senate in January.
Staff Reporter
Since the individual request, as proposed by Gov. John Carlin, did not entail the large sum of money that the Regents proposal did, Hess said the committee probably would go easy on the
"I suspect that the subcommittee reports certainly will not be higher than the governors recommendation," Hess said. "But don't expect us to be a rubber."
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desert regions you will automatically avoid the most pervasive threat to cosmic sanity—the crowd, including: thieving bands of hippies, social climbers (photogenic groupies dressed in those revolting Lederhosen); rabid squads of drug-crazed Girl Scouts, overly affectionate, possum-breathed hillbiles, and the inevitable busloads of retirees with cameras sprouting from their sternums. And don't worry about the possibility of boredom. Ask any Bedouin; it is virtually impossible to be bullied and dulled by the desert. Killed, yes, but never bored.
in his tyrical book, *Desert Notes*, Barry Holstun Lopez comments, "Prepare for the impact of nothing." But don't misconduct his admonition. Between you and that delicious sense of nothiness (a mental more than physical phenomenon) there exists a deceptive abundance of natural stimuli.
In mountainous regions the intensity of the seasons forces all life into periods of ebb and flow. In the desert, wildlife abounds in constant, symbiotic reticence. The animals are there, but they are shy, retiring, wary—as subtle in their movements as the shimmer of heat waves which hover above the formica landscape. If you approach softly you will notice cobwebs, bobcat coyotes, and their stylish style and brand name, mule antelope, bats, birds (including the elegant and mystical raven), lizards, snakes, and a host of exotic insects.
At night, with the scent of helleboe and sage pressing against the desert tarmac, you will be serenaded by a chilling cacophony of cries and whispers. It quickly become evident that the Hollywood conception of howling coyotes is a ridiculous auditory myth; this discovery alone justifies the trip. Although each melody is different,
Okay, you're talked into it; you're ready to part company with the seemingly sane, the rational, the hopelessly predictable. You are ready to saddle up your Detroit steel and follow the bouncing ball into Gila-land. Go ahead, on a chassis, hitchkike if you must, or even straddle a crock-nocket (motorcycle), but do not forget to extricate your civilized arse from the naugahyde once you get inside the environment, particularly the desert, upon which you must wander and suffer to even begin to "see."
There are, fellow mesa mauraders, some practical considerations. First and foremost, unless you prefer to work in the company, never go alone. A kind of companion is also a great accessile when you happen to shatter a kneepiece, on a cactus, or stick
your big toe into a rattlesnake's kisser, it is much more rewarding to panic with a friend. The second important preparatory consideration is the care and maintenance of the most important organ (with the exception of the brain) that the backpacker possesses—the foot, preferably a matching set.
For desert trailing a pair of high-top tennies is usually preferable to those awesome, heavy-truckin' alpine boots armed with three-inch lugs. But foot fashion tends to the individual's own pedestrian prejudices.
coyotes never string together a series of extended OWOW-OOWWWOOO's, as if being tortured by the German S.S. In reality, coyote songs are more in the Miles Davis school — a beat spirited by broken and desperately comical dissonance, more like the shrill laughter and marpi-mer squewing squels of startled school girls.
It is not for nothing that Madison-Avenue advertising agencies airflirt everything from refrigerators to Farrah Fawrott into such desert wonderslands as Arches National museum for surreal film sessions at the apex of monolith.
Pre-seasoning the old peds will also spare you loads of both sheer anguish and Dr. Scholz's foot pads. One week prior to departure spend each evening listening to Roy Rogers' hit recording, "Happy Trails," while soaking your feet in a brine solution composed of one part coarse salt to five parts plain o'l tap water.
Not to be ignored is COLOR, living, breathing, changeable character in the desert realm. Everywhere one looks the stark brilliance of rock and sky, the raw exposition of minerals, assaults the eye. Nowhere else on earth does the wounded stratosphere hemorrhage so freely at sunset.
The following list of provisions will greatly reduce the odds of gambling with your bones.
Essentials for Desert Hiking and Camping
1. Matches in waterproof container. (A Bic lighter, if you don't mind cheating . . . Remember that a "Mojave master" never, never builds a raging infarto. Keep fires small and do not piller lit vegetation. That scraggly juniper close to camp was a resident when the first Paleudug for grubs at its base.)
2. High energy food, (Oatmeal, gorp, Twinkles, anything that constitutes a "mOVEable feast," as Girl from out in the park says), or those birds in flight? Asholeslha Ya see 'em on the highways jumping on the road hills . . . all they eat are the ass-
"We'll just wait and see," he said. "I have not seen the subcommittee reports, I don't know if ours (KU's) is done."
Von Ende said he "had a good talk" with KU subcommittee chairman Ronald Hein, R-Topea, last week, but Hein gave no indication which programs the subcommittee supported.
KU asked the governor for $8 million more for a 10 percent faculty salary increase and higher classified pay and $12.5 million more for its education and operating budget.
THE COMMITTEE decreased Carlin's proposed 8 percent faculty pay increase to 7 percent and his proposed 6 percent operating budget increase to 5.5 percent.
The committee also voted for a 15 percent increase in tuition for all state universities.
Money to cover increased enrollment this year was eliminated and the committee told universities to manage with what money they had if future increases were minor.
But Carlin cut both requests before sending them onto the Legislature. The committee in effect reduced the amounts more last month by trimming $3 million from the Regents proposal.
The increase would mean KU students, who now pay about 20 percent of the total cost of their education, would pay around 23 percent next year.
Two other projects KU wants, but probably can't get because the governor didn't recommend them, are $3.6 million for the Haworth Hall project and $300,000 for a feasibility study for second library.
The Haworth Hall expansion would allow the iology department to move from the outdated nd cramped conditions at Snow Hall into more modern facilities.
The feasibility study would see whether a second library, needed to take the load off Vatson Library, could be built near the Military science Building.
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he rest of the semester. This total of $93.0 a
workday is $89.0 for each day in the
does not include cafeferia labor costs.
Residents have the option of a salad bar if they on't like the meat, Wilson said.
"There's enough at the salad bar at any hall or anyone to have a good, balanced diet," he
"We complained about paying $70 a month just or salad," Miller said. "That is not a balance."
The women said that salads did not provide for ll of their nutritional needs.
Hartman suggested the halls offer their residents optional food contracts.
"If you aren't eating the food, then you shouldn't have to pay for it," she said.
BOB GREENSPAN/Kenan staff
swept into the area. Two girls walk behin-
ontine time with a high in the mid 40%.