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KANSAN
The University Daily
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Vol. 95, No. 144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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 stupef campus lighting this summer and report their findings this fall was approved last week, allowing graduate during its final meeting of the semester.
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate and accused account to finance a project that would loot student loans, 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 high installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $2,200 to boxes for distribution of student public buildings.
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the 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 money would be used to build eight
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
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 proposal will be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Reza Zoughi. Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this
nousse where you know it or not."
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one harrassment, you got more than $100 million."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate approved a bill.
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and provide training in crime education and prevention programs.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers - $440
- Early to women Engineers = $440
* The Mid-America Journal of Politics = $990
- KU India Club — $554.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
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 rebels seeking to oust the Sandinista announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as if the issue is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, including tractors.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May be imposed by court order and does not apply.
The action, White House aides said, is taken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for t Contras.
In the order, Reagan said, "The police and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinaire threat to the national security and forestland in the United States and (1) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong Hobby 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 divertsure.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
persuaded the other differently. Essentially they still would like to see some favourable action on the resolution by the Student Senat "resolution by the Universit Council".
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he didn't think diversitie would change apartheid in South Africa.
- KU Inona Club — $554.
* Amnesty International — $290.
* KU International Folk Dance Club
22.
CHIRIS 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.
The Endowment Association is a private corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
Scheduled to discuss the delegation
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.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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 the fight against the faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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.
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 execution of the memorial Tom Berrer, memorial committee chairman.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or testimony. He did not vet received his committee's response.
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 revision and sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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 contest.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the client hadn't understood
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences." he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
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 the memorial committee intended to stand by its original goal of insuring that the memorial be created by students in honor of students.
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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as a burden and be financed and designed by KU students."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision. I see how the feel. I'm just sader and wiser now." he said.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
BERGER SAID THAT in October, he had met with public spaces committee members and Onker 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 Campaign, dedicated to those who died in World War II.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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 memorial will be unveiled by an international 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."
- Counseling Student Organization - $200 print the Journal of Contemporary counseling.
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 arsons, 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
blood, theft, and criminal damage to
property.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
"I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
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.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers problems stem from a high concentration of people living in close proximity to the Towers, an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Tent makes the apartments an easy target for tourists.
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.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
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.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence halls or other apartment complexes.
In the 1970s, the complex was rocked with thefts and vandalism to cars and property.
In 1980, 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 did have a good record. Wilson says "We knew it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the Towers beat to the KU police department.
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 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cookoaches in the buildings, no hot water in the rooms, slow maintenance and a lack of
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3