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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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 night by the Student Senate during its final meeting of the semester.
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unallocated to finance a project that will create a problem lighting areas [camas and two other]
little improvement.
Another $10,000 in Senior money would
used to install the lights if the Univer-
sional agreed to donate at least $50,000 for fig installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 build boxes for distribution of stude publications.
The money would be used to build eig
BONN, West Germany — Preside Reagan declared a national emergent yesterday and banned U.S. trade wi Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinis regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports, Nicaragua in the same category, as factional trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in he efforts to win more u.S. aid for the contrebels seeking to oust the Sandinista announced the trade embargo shortly after it in Bonn for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industry democracies.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beet, shellfish and cocoa to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
MAY THE EMBAIROG, EFFECTIVE MAY
be imposed by executive order and does in
reform the way the Army operates.
In the order, Reagan said, "The police and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign interests United States and (1) herel declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
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The action, White House aides said, waken in response to the vote in the House la week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for tl Contras.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
LICHTWARD SAI'D THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents for funding the state's crime education and prevention programs.
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting in Kansas University Endowment Association to South Africa said yesterday that they would continue their sit-in in the Strong Hal
boxes, at a cost of $535 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.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
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.
will be prepared this summer by an illumination engineer and one assistant. It is a follow-up to a study of night crime on campus, which was done by Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering, and completed in March.
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.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-representative positions:
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi. Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"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.
would continue their sit-in in the Strong Hall lobby at least 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 Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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fruitful conversation."
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.
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."
The Endowment Association is a private corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
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.
calling for the Endowment Association to divest
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 they believe in, and their faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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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 Vietnam memorial committee said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
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 president of the museum, and site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, museum 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 with his committee, and that he had not yet received his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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.
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 plan was reviewed and sent the plan on to the 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."
Martvin 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.
Burger said, "in terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by the student as not being fit to be financed and designed by KU 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.
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, the Campanile, dedicated to those who died in World War II.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Benger said the group was also involved in a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
1 "RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now, he said."
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE WORRALL
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.
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.
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.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes are burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Towers, says the crime rate is not that high. "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Jolive says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang on the ceiling.
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.
"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 them, where many do not have 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 SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for families.
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 the 1708s, the complex was rocked with anse, thefts and vandalism to cars and plants.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
**WE KNOW IT** was a problem, and it didn't have a good record. Wilson says it didn't have a good record.
When the apartments switched ownership,
the Lawrence police gratefully passed the
thief.
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."
The University has not been able to solve all of the problems with the Towers.
In a 1981 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the rooms, slow maintenance and a lack of cleanliness.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3