The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, February 24, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 102 USPS 650-640
Richard W. Couch, Lawrence graduate student, was just one of the professors at the Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission meeting last night. Lawrence residents were at the meeting on Tuesday to vote on a proposed law that would allow unauthorized firefighters to work in the area.
Commission votes against cornfield mall
By DALE WETZEL
Staff Reporter
No
That was the overwhelming message from a parade of Lawrence citizens, the city planning staff and, eventually, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission to last night's request by Jacoba, Vincasena and Jacobus to rezone the farmland at 35th and Iowa for commercial use.
However, Don Jones, vice president for mall development for the Cleveland-based JVJ, said he was far from giving up his fight to build a suburban, "cornfield" mall on the site.
"WE'VE GOT $300,000 invested in this," Jones said. "We don't need to lust dropt it."
"We're disappointed, but not surprised, by the negative turnout. People who are in favor of these things typically don't show up at the store. People who are in favor of them are usually opposed. I don't know why that is."
The Planning Commission, after hearing presentations from six JVJ representatives, including Jones and Lawrence lawyer Richard Bentley, announced recommending JVJs request to the City Commission.
In doing so, the Commission bowed to the wishes of most of the 150 people wedged into the commission room. So great was the crush that the chair was inside the chamber to accommodate the overflow.
ONLY THREE OF 17 people who spoke on the issue in a one-hour period set aside by the commission for public reaction were in favor of the JVJ request.
JVJ has spent almost three years researching Lawrence's market potential, picking a site and defining the plan.
The site eventually selected by JVJ, a tract of farmland owned by Richard Armstrong and Betty Grisham, is currently zoned for residential use and partly as a flood plain.
Dean Palos, city planning staff member, argued that commercial development of the land
See JVJ page 5
Bill to end use of fees for construction may die
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A bill prohibiting the use of student fees to pay for construction of new buildings on the Regents university campuses may not be seen again this session.
The bill, proposed by State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, and co-sponsored by 37 other representatives, many of whom represent House Ways and Means Committees yesterday.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Mike Hayden, R-Aware, opposed the Meacham bill, which would prevent university officials from charging students an extra fee for construction projects without first putting the issue to a student vote.
HAYDEN SAID that he would let the bill lie for rather than scheduling any further hearing.
"We'll just see what happens," Hayden said. "may be more people who want to tediously."
Meacham proposed the hill because he said all seven state universities were using student fees for construction, with student approval sought in only a few cases.
According to the Legislative Research Department, the University of Kansas has five projects where student fees are helping to retire bonds issued to cover construction costs.
The bill, if passed, would become effective
Julv1. 1902.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE project-a maximum of $7 per student, pays off bonds for the construction of Watkins Hospital, started in 1972.
All the projects that are partially supported by student fees will not be paid off until the mid- or late-
The use of student fees for Watkins Hospital and the Satellite Union, started in 1977, were approved by a student referendum before the fees were assessed.
The other projects still being paid for with student fees but not put to a student vote are Wesco Hall, and an annex and addition to the Kansas Union.
A sixth project, the KU Medical Center Library on the Kansas City, Kan., campus, will be partially supported by student fees, but construction is not due to start until this summer. There was no referendum at the Med Center.
HAVDEN INTERRUPTED Meacham's text to mandate a referendum would not be fair.
"There were referendums passed, but students who voted for them never had to foot the bill," Hayden said. "They were not voting a tax upon themselves, but on future students."
Meacham responded. "If you want to amend
your policy, use of student fees
already, I'll support that."
But Hayden, who said use of student fees was vital when the state was short of money, saw no benefit from the offer.
"I've heard no great heat and cry from students about the use of student fees." Hayden said.
HE SAID he heard only one complaint from students about a project, and that was concerning a building at Fort Hays State University that was anovered by a student referendum.
Robert Bingman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, said, however, that Regents and administrators supported the change.
"We talked to several people about the bill and discussed what it was, this was not already policy," Bingam textile tester
He said administrators were concerned that students had no direct input on the use of their computers.
But Hayden said the bill could stop the growth of all seven state universities.
"It's good business to have flexibility with student fees," Hayden said. "Then, we would have the money to build buildings."
HAYDEN TOLD Bingman that if the bill was passed, it could interfere with the construction of the new Medical Center library because of the July, 1982 effective date.
Court's beauty lost in weeds
"If the contracts (for the library) went out before the deadline," Bisman told the committee, "you may want to put in a proviso to allow that just to get the bill passed for the future."
Staff Reporter
By CINDY CAMPBELL
It is a sorry sight. Weaver Court hasn't gotten much attention for years.
Today it's an overgrown weed garden. The cement and marble pedestals that once held statues are headless, and the apple blossom trees are struggling.
During its prime in the early 1960s, the garden south of Spooner Hall was filled with French and German statues. A bronze fountain served as the focal point. Apple blossom trees scented the air.
A FAUCET DRIPS QUIETLY, leaving a rust stain that gets darker by the day, and foreign matter accumulates in the empty fountain.
Weaver Court was donated in 1957 in the name of Arthur Weaver, a graduate of the class of 1924 and original owner of Weaver's Department Store.
The court's treasures are gone now, falling victim to pranksters and musty storage. The pieces of art were in their proper places until the authorities there they were stored away for security reasons.
Marilyn Stokstad, who was director of the Museum of Art before it moved from Spooner to the new Spencer building, spoke wistfully of the changes at Weaver Court.
"It's too bad," she said. "It used to be lovely. There were flowering apple trees and students used to gather and eat lunch there.
"Finally, we just couldn't keep things outdoors anymore. People just aren't trustworthy."
THE THIEVERY began in the early 1960s when "Resurrection," a 30-inch bronze statue of a woman, was stolen from its perch after a KU-Nebraska football game.
The statue, valued at several thousand dollars at the time of the theft, was eventually found on the front steps of the Marysville Police Department. It is only 10 miles from the Nebraska border.
"That's why we thought some Nebraska trac-
night have taken it, but we were never sure," a-
drew.
The museum suffered a similar loss when a bronze toad was taken from the garden. It was also returned after the prankster realized the bronze a work of art and part of a gallery collection.
THE TOAD was placed in a luggage locker at the old Union Station in Kansas City and the key was mailed to Stokstad.
"People thought it was funny, but it just happens that you hurt yourself and then happens your heart just goes into your heel."
The anthropology department hasn't made any renovation plans since it moved into Spooner Hall last year, and the facilities and operations department hasn't tended the garden for over a decade.
Meanwhile, the faucet drips and the cement crumbles.
Weaver Court is likely to remain in its unkempt state.
Weaver Court, in the garden south of Spooner Hall, once was filled with French and German statues in the early '60s, but it has since become an overgrown weed garden.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
KU Title IX compliance decision, funding of women's sports in limbo
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
The key to future funding for KU women's sports is sitting on a desk in Washington, D.C., and it may be some time before it reaches the University.
According to spokesmen for the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education, results of an investigation into KU's compliance with Title IX within the athletic department are being drafted, but will probably not be completed quickly.
Title IX is a 1972 federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in education. If KU is found not in compliance with Title IX, there would be a million in federal funds could be jeopardized.
"THEERE ARE PEOPLE working on it and it will be out as soon as possible," a spokesman for the office said yesterday. "But it's difficult to say how long it will take."
The investigation was initiated after complaints of discrimination against KU women's teams were filed in 1978 by Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and former member of the KU Athletic Corporation Board, and Anne Levinson, 1980 KU graduate. The complaints also涉及 discrimination in equipment, facilities, quality, suitability of times, financial aid, coaches' salaries and travel funds.
A ruling by the Department of Education last
today in KU last November was expected Jan. 17.
SPECULATION concerning the delay had been that the delay was being caused by administrative turnover since President Reagan's inauguration.
However, Department of Education officials denied this.
"The changeover in the administration hasn't had any direct effect over the University of Kansas compliance review,
Sea TITLE II Xpage5.
See TITLE IX page 5
Vote on tenure bills nearing
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—Although the two tenure bills did not advance far in the legislative process yesterday, both proponents and opponents claimed that the end they sought was near.
In their first hearing in the House Ways and
Measures Committee, the two bills were assigned to a
committee with 50 members.
However, both State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which introduced the bills, and State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, who has opposed the bills from the start, saw the subcommittee assignment as significant to the outcome.
"I think that the bills are really on a fast track now," Hoagland, R-Overland Park, said. "Now that they are in the subcommittee, it should take them as ways to put them up for a vote on the House floor."
SOLBACH, HOWEVER, said he thought that the sub-inscription assignment meant that the bills would be paid.
"the members of the subcommittee seem to be more interested and inclined to give the bills to Congress," he said.
when they get to know what the bills do, they will see that they are not really needed.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, assigned Repa. Bob Arbuthnot, R-Haddam, Loren Holman-D, Robert Holderman, D-Wichita, to the subcommittee.
John Conard, executive officer of the Kansas State Police, said that the bills had been sent to subcommittees.
"Dealing with a subject as big as tenure takes longer than having a couple of short meetings. It just takes longer to explain how the system works, so the subcommittee should be able to take that time."
"In the past the hearings on tenure have only lasted for an hour or so," Conard said. "With a subcommittee study the legislators will have the time to look deen into the matter of tenure.
THE FIRST HEARINGS on the bills by the ways and Meal Committees started off with a bake sale.
After Hoagland presented the bills to the committee, William Kauffman, general counsel to the Regents, called the bills "ill-conceived and extremely unnecessary."
See TENURE page 5
"In my four and a half years in this position."
SEPTEMBER 1965
Weather
PLEASANT
Highs will be in the mid-60's today under clear to partly-cloudy skies, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be out of the north at 10-15 mph.
Tonight's low will be in the mid-30s.
Wednesday's high will be around 70.