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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, May 2, 1985
Senate allots $10,000 for lighting study, plan
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
A proposal to pay experts $10,000 to study campus lighting this summer and report their findings this fall was approved last summer. The committeeate during its final meeting of the semester.
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unallocated account to finance a project that would establish a new campus and propose lighting improvements.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the University agreed to donate at least $50,000 for light installation
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,200 to be
bases for distribution of student
Bibliography.
The money would be used to build eight
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the installation department authorized to do such work on campus.
THE BOXES WILL be used to distribute publications from registered student groups, including In the Streets, Graduate Student Newspaper and Praxis, whose members first brought the idea to the attention of the Senate.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
The boxes could not be used by any group or individual to promote a political candidate, party or coalition in campus, local, state or national elections.
Publications would be able to use boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employees of the student organizations and activities center would schedule use of the boxes.
The proposal to improve campus lighting
WILLIAM EASLEY, STUDENT body president, said the completed proposal would be used to lobby the Kansas Legislature for additional money to improve campus lighting. The Associated Students of Kansas would be asked to help lobby.
will be prepared this summer by an illumination engineer and one assistant. It is a followup to a study of night crime on campus, which was done by Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering, and completed in March.
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Karen Greschel, Nunemaker senator, told senators that they needed to allocate the money before the price of improved lighting is lowered. And attacks or higher costs for light installation
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this," she said.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed
"Folks, rapa's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth," he said.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape." said Doug Bowers.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should do something about it. But he said he wanted to allocate money only to install new
The Senate rejected Stallings' substitute motion that would have established $20,000 for light installation if the University gave approval and $3,000 for preparation of the灯照 proposal.
Ruth Lichtward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAY THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and help fund a crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690
- KU India Club — $554
- Amnesty International — $290.
- KU International Folk Dance Clut
$220
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Children
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administration's campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in his efforts to win more U.S. aid for the contra rebels seeking to oust the Sanditans; announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seventi-anniversary summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade in Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as far as trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE, EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May 7,
was imposed by executive order and does not
apply.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $75 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals, fats and oils, and some machinery, including tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The policies and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and (1) hereby provide national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, was taken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for the Contrains.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Roy Stewart/KANSAN
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident, enjoys an April shower Sixth Street. Miller was walking with her freshly picked and its May flowers as she passes another pedestrian on lilacs Monday afternoon.
Sit-in delegates talk with Cobb. Ambler
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would continue their sit-in in the Strong Hall lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrated since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting. Three protesters met yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, across the University's position on disorientation.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
the Endowment Association to break the link with companies doing business in South Africa. The country operates under a system of racial segregation called apartheid.
AMBLER SAID, "I don't think either side persuaded the other differently. Essentially, they still would like to see some favorable action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
"We discussed divestiture and the ways of the world," Cobb said. "I don't know that we came to any resolution, but it was a free, fruittive conversation."
On March 27, the Student Senate passed a resolution recommending that the Endowment Association develop by Sept. 30 a plan to divest its interests in companies doing business in South Africa. On April 12, the University Council, part of the campus finance, passed a similar resolution calling for the Endowment Association to divest.
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he didn't think divestiture would change apartheid in South Africa
The Endowment Association is a private corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
"I'm not trying to destroy the Endowment Association. I just want them to change one policy."
The other protesters who met with the administrators were Dick Powers, Lawrence senior, and Carla Vogel, former student body president who is not enrolled this semester.
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to make sure the chancellor has heard both sides of the story.
Betty Banks, secretary of the University Council and associate professor of classics, is scheduled to discuss the background of the University Council's resolution at 1 p.m. today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a teach-in organized by the protesters.
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire somebody who is willing to stand up for what we want in this city and our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
Construction of a campus Vietnam memorial, which has been in the planning stage for more than 18 months, will be further delayed because a committee has again rejected the proposed design and site, the chairman of the KU Vietnam memorial committee said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
yesterday.
The faculty Committee on Art in Public Spaces studied plans for the proposed memorial and earlier this week submitted a report to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. The report said the design and site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, memorial committee chairman.
By NANCY STOETZER
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report because he didn't want it, but did his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
rejected the original design submitted by John Onken. St.Louis senior, winner of the student design contest Onken revised the design and resubmitted the plan to the memorial committee in the fall The committee approved the proposal to public spaces committee which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
Berger said the memorial committee intended to stand by its original goal of insuring that the memorial be created by students in honor of students.
Cobb said he would try to arrange a meeting with committee members and officials from the office of facilities planning to work out the differences.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
Marvin Grove, the wooded area southwest of the Spencer Art Museum, is the proposed site for the memorial. The original had been Chandler Court in the Burge Union. That site was rejected because the memorial would have faced the Party Room, and some committee members thought this made the court an inappropriate site.
oerger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as not to be financed and designed by KU students."
BERGER SAID THAT in October, he had met with public spaces committee members and Onken to discuss moving the memorial to Marvin Grove. He said everyone had agreed that the grove would be an appropriate place for the Vietnam memorial because it would be near Memorial Stadium, dedicated to students and alumni who died in World War I, and the Campanile, dedicated to those who died in World War II.
But Berger said the new report submitted
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"My design was just too much — not as sable as they wanted. The committee is full."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Berger said the KU memorial would be the first student sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Plans for the Vietnam memorial began in fall 1983. During that semester, student leaders formed the memorial committee, received money for construction from the Student Senate and conducted a student design contest.
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never came true.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from roaches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high
The four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas on campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the Towers occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes are burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored tacks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark the Towers and the surrounding area.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many of the crimes in the Towers can be prevented by properly using the door locks, which consists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the area. An occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence buildings.
HE'S THE central location of the twoers makes the apartments an easy target for them.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
Students who moved into Towers A and B, the first two buildings completed, said they could hear the people next door brushing their teeth. They complained about the delay of phone installations, washers and dryers, lack of lighting and faulty air conditioning.
In 1890, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE KNEW it was a problem, and it didn't have a good record. Wilson says "We didn't have a good record."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the keys.
Cobb says, "We could have kissed them. Every time there was a call, it seemed like we were going over to the Towers. I don't see how anything could be any better now."
The University has not been able to solve all of the problems with the Towers.
In a 1981 Kansas story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cochokes in the buildings, no hot water in the room, poor maintenance and a lack of facilities for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3