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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 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 account to finance a project that involves fighting areas on campus and propose lighting areas.
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 $4,280 to build boxes for distribution of studen publications.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. 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.
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 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth," he said.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights to stop when one rape, said Doug Stainley.
Stallings said he thought that campusighting was a problem and that the Senate approved the bill.
The money would be used to build eight
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
LICHTWARD SAD THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents for new lights or put it into rape and 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 items:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics $690.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergence yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinist regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports Nicaragua in the same category, as far back as trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in his efforts to win more u.S. aid for the contrebels seeking to oust the Sandinista announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seven-male summit of the main industry democracies.
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 was imposed by executive order and does n require congressional approval.
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 forest resources United States and (1) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, waken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for it. Contras.
See AlD, p. 5, col.1
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
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, across the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Associatio ties to South Africa said yesterday that it would be the Strong Lobby at least until tomorrow
MY TURN
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Curing 'Sophomore Slump'
By SETH RACHLIN
Nothing ever changes. At least it seemed that way to me last year at about this time as I sat in my dorm room, planning a course schedule for what was to be the fall term of my junior year. My third year of college offered me really old courses; so I look forward to. Same old courses; same to and papers; how many compare-and-compare would I crank out next year?—same old parties, rotten food. It all seemed so bleak
The schedule I created was the perfect testament to my malaise. I allotted myself a whopping 10 hours of classes, all of them in the afternoon, with Thursdays and Fridays off. To make matters even less taxing, I chose courses that had nary a midterm or final. It was perhaps the easiest term a student at my school could schedule for himself—a way of staying in college without really being a student.
I was burned out. Fourteen years of reading, 'written' and 'rythmic had taken their toll. I had had enough, at least for a while. I needed to do something else, to get away from endless piles of reserve reading and noisy dorms. I was clearly wasting my time at college. And at $15,000 a year, time is, as the saying goes, a terrible thing to waste.
in the end, I made what I think was the logical choice. The risk that I might not
mine went off to Paris to model; a couple of others, to Boston to sell computers, a few more, to Europe to study or travel. Meanwhile, I was busy setting up shop in my own studio apartment where I had proclaimed myself, at least for the duration of the year, a free-lance writer. Whatever we were doing, it sure beat microeconomics.
The alternative, a year's leave of absence, didn't seem very inviting. I would be disrupting my education. I would no longer be a member of the class of '86. Would I like my time off so much that I wouldn't want to return to school? I weighed this question seriously. One day I had decided to take the year off. The next day I had decided to stay and hope that things would get better.
In the past year I have both succeeded and failed. I've written several articles that have been published in national and local magazines, and I've written several that have found a home only in the deep recesses of my files. I have started work on three different novels. The first two didn't make it through the outline stages; the third I hope to finish by the time I go back to school in September.
return to school was well worth taking, set against the probability that I would continue being miserable. The dean of the college helped me make up my mind. He explained that burnout was common among students, especially toward the end of their sophomore year. He said that most students who take time off because of burnout do return after a year. He wished me the best of luck in my year off.
And so, after my last final in May, I was for the first time in my memory no longer a student. It felt strange but, as the dean had predicted, I was not alone. One friend of
The dean said that student burnout was common and wished me the best of luck in my year off.
I've also had many experiences that can be classified as successes or failures, but for which I'm glad. I've done promotion tours in association with one of my projects, lunched with various editors, agents and lawyers. For articles, I've interviewed interesting and not-so-interesting people.
Apart from the opportunity to pursue my career as a writer, this year has also afforded me another luxury I was unable to enjoy as a student: free time. For a student, free time is scarce. Between the demands of attending classes, the demands of various assignments, the demands of organizations whose meetings and events require loyal attend
Educationally speaking, I consider this year off as valuable as any I've spent hitting the books. My writing as well as my business acumen has developed. I've had the opportunity to get a hands-on view of what may be my future profession—with the advantage of two more years in college to better prepare for it. And I've learned better how to deal with the many failures as well as the successes that come with any endeavor.
ance, the demands of a campus job, free time is treasured and reserved for such luxuries as sleep.
As a nonstudent this year, I have had more free time than ever before. I have been able to read the books I've always wanted to read but never had time for. I've been able to see the movies that never seemed to come to my door, and the years of resolving to get in shape and doing nothing about it. I have finally managed to work out this year on a regular basis.
That is not to say that my experience this year has been all fun and frolic. Though free from academic pressure, I have faced the continuing crisis of staying afloat financially. Faced with a barrier of bills, I knew that throwing them in the oven was in this case, those of the academic forces clear the roads for others to come your way.
Another unavoidable consequence of being college age in an adult world is a certain degree of loneliness, a feeling of isolation from friends and acquaintances. Big-city life did not offer me streams of college-age people dying to make my acquaintance. Coming from an environment where I was always around people, where I wanted to parties to go to, people knocking at my door, who would listen whenever I felt like talking, I found the "I'll leave you alone" attitude of the city a bit dishearring.
I'm well aware that taking a year off is not the right answer for everyone. But there is little doubt that this leave of absence has been a positive experience for me. I've had the chance to meet people and do things that would be nice in the reserve room daydreaming about. I've had new interests and rediscover old ones that I had been forced to put aside at school.
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Seth Rachlin, who will be a junior next fall at Princeton, is the coauthor of "Where the Girls Are Today."
The most important result of this year off is much more simple: I want to go back and finish college. There is no more anxiety, no more desire to escape, no more sense of impending boredom. I'm cured of burnout. Who knows, maybe I'll even take a Friday class.
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.
persuaded the other differently. Essentany, they still would like to see some favorable action on the resolution by the Student Senate resolution by the University Council."
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.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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 them because they willing to stand up for what belongs in I. Hindu society," faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
- Amnesty International - $290
By NANCY STOETZER
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 construction of Tom Berger, memorial chairman.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or the response. He did not yet 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 it to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
"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.
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 one of the things to be financed and designed by KU 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.
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.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now, he said."
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.
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 memorial would be displayed at a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- KU International Folk Dance Club - 20.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 print the Journal of Contemporary counseling.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
staff Reporter
3y MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new layhawker 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 same 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.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes are burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Carnruth-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. "I call them (KU police) several times a week because of these problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
"They're only good if people use them," 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.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence halls or other apartment complexes.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the area. The Towers have an occupancy capacity of 99%.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Township apartments an easy target for crimes to occur.
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 1700s, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and plains.
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 didn't have a good record," Wilson says. "We knew it wasn't going to be easy."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the Town Hall.
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, cook-roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
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See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3