The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 4, 1981 Vol.91, No.108 USPS 650-640
Developer continues mall battle
If at first you don't succeed, invest more money.
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Jacobs, Visciani and Jacobs is doing just that after the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission deataed a setback to JV'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 mail development,
of the company.
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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 proposed 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 VJJ's request is "still tentative" according to assistant city manager Mike Widgen.
Some of JV's dollars are already paying in the city. A laquette office can attest.
Meanwhile, Richard Zinn, JVJ's Lawrence attorney, is preparing to argue his client's case befor
Since the individual requests, 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
KU 1982 budget request tied to Regents budget
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas won't be helped by the Senate Ways and Means Committee's relaxed attitude toward individual universities' committee members, according to the committee chairman.
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 budget of Regents system-wide proposed budget. The committee cut those requests deeply last month.
After committee action this week, the cam-
pany's budget will be sent to the full Senate in one of three formats.
HESS SCHEDULED committee hearings for tomorrow and Friday to consider the individual campuses' requests for next year.
"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."
March.1981
Ampersand
THE DREAM OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAINS
Malcolm Cowley, Viking $14.95
STARTING OUT IN THE THIRTEES
Alfred Kazin, Random House $12.95
THE THIRTEES
Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel Farwar, Straus & Giroux $17.50
ORWELL: THE TRANSFORMATION
Peter Stanley & William Abraamis, K罗斯 $12.95
Reliving the Thirties with Cowley, Kazin Wilson & Orwell
BY FRED SETTERBERG
If history occasionally opens a wider door and demands extraordinary participation from ordinary men and women, then the Thirteses, the Depression, the "Red Decade" was such a time. Presently, we are experiencing a renewal of interest in the Thirteses. Given the dreary state of our economy, with high unemployment, promised, uncompelling expression of our political leadership, it should come as no surprise that the Thirteses are once again emerging as a touchstone for our popular culture. As a nation flaunted with the idea of interpreting history through a tapelope of revolving decades, we stand as more-than-willing subjects for this particular brand of history, though strongly enamored of nostalgia, and we can prove as much by the implausible rise and blather of our major public figures. But amid the prevailing notions about the good old days—notions that for the most part are fraudulent, self serving, and bipartisan—there is a more complicated, corrective, and oftentimes ambiguous visi
Now clearly, these memoirs of Thirtesi-
lary life do not provide a man-in-the-scree
spective perspective of the Depression years.
And this is one of the reasons why his
his New Republic, office as including "good
French cooking 'and' "deck tennis on Wednesday afternoons".) Nor do we learn much first-hand about the rise of trade unions, radical political movements, nor government reformism. (For these inside accounts, we might turn more profitably to publishing books like *Order Al Richmond's A Long View from the left*, or library copies of *New Muses*). Rather, it is the peculiar experience of the middle-class, Left-leaving intellectual that is explored here. Or more to the point—particularly given the special status and influence of the four men who were to be president of the contemporary England's finest essayist—it is the keenly documented journey from personal containment to public commitment, from radical sympathies to political action (and back again) that makes these books in interesting and serviceable beyond the nurrow pale of literary criticism. *Mankier wins the fight* (more than some other admits him; that was their way in his tory.*
Of course, we all live in history. But what these four volumes seem to be implying is that we also *rely* on history, and the choices that we now find ourselves facing are not so different from those that were grappled with, agonized over, and finally left unresolved by the activists of the 1930s. I was a literary radical "Alfred Kzinn writes for himself in the early Thirties, 'indifferent to economies, suspicious of organization, planning. Marxist sociology and intellectual thought,""Kzinn would have been speaking for many of his contemporaries were it not for the botherome role of history, the intrusion of world events into the writer's place of purely personal existence.
In the end, it is not so much the story of events that makes these memories so valuable, but rather the portrait of civilization's continuing history of conscience. We are in interested here primarily in the quality of choices; we learn how commitments are made and why we are forgiven. For many of the writers and intellectual profiles by Cowley, Kaizn, and Wilson, or identified with Orwell, it all finally seems to boil down to a matter of simple usefulness: how can an individual, particularly a man of letters, be of some influence in the world? Cowley speaks most perceptively of the moral qualities that writers have to deal with, since the co-responsibility in struggle, the self-imposed discipline, the ultimate purpose ... the opportunity for heroism, and human dignity." At last, it is the universal drive towards community, productivity, and compassion that allows us to identify so strongly with the struggles of Cowley and friends. To para philosopher who had become so fashionable among the 1960's liberal literary establishment, novelists, playwrights, and poets have interpreted the world, the point now is to change it.
"We'll just wait and see," he said. "I have not been submitted committee reports, I don't know if ours (KU) is."
Von Ende said he "had a good talk" with KU subcommittee chairman Rohlm, Ron Heim, R-Topke, 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.
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 COMMITTEE decreased Carlin's proposed 6 percent faculty pay increase to 7 percent and his proposed 6 percent operating budget increase to 5.5 percent.
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.
The committee also voted for a 15 percent average increase in tuition for all state universities.
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 don't get because the governor didn't recommend them, are $3.6 million for the Haworth Hall expansion at $300,000 for a feasibility study for KU.
The Haworth Hall expansion would allow the iology department to move from the outdated nd cramped conditions at Snow Hall into more modern facilities.
1 contract
Residents have the option of a salad bar if they on't like the meat, Wilson said.
ne rest of the semester. This total of $89.30 a
purchase does not include cafeteria purchase
"There's enough at the salad bar at any hall or anyone to have a good, balanced diet," he
The women said that salads did not provide for ll of their nutritional needs.
Hartman suggested the halls offer their residents optional food contracts.
"We complained about paying $70 a month just or saled." Miller said. "That is not a balanced cost."
"If you aren't eating the food, then you wouldn't have to pay for it," she said.
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