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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 31-3 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unallocated account to finance a project that allows for lighting areas or campus and propelship vehicles.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would used to install the lights if the Uniwe agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
boxes, at a cost of $353 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.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansas boxes on campus.
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 must be completed by Sent.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth," he said.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
LICHTWARDT SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to money with the Board of Regents for new lightware and the crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the supplemental funds for non-revenue taxes.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4.20 bn boxes for distribution of stu-
public buildings.
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"The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $900"
The money would be used to build e
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN. West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emerger yesterday and banned U.S. trade w Nicaragua with hints that more sanctic may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandini regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the con rebels seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after Bonn for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industr democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as french trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does n require congressional approval.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and milk to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
The action, White House aides said, we taken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for th Contras.
In the order, Reagan said, "The politic and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign interests of the United States and (1) herelike declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
See AlD, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting it Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university should be the Strong HI 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 William Baxter, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to 50, want
poll in the campus paper in 1973 named him one of the school's best teachers—but Parker was not crazy about academia. "I found my colleagues to be distasteful, and there weren't that many students who wanted to learn anything," he says. "I used to work out at the weight room when I went to school for kids there thought I was one of them. In my class on 'The Mythic Nature of the American Hero,' there were 18 guys who looked like pilot whales."
A 141, bored and cranky, life-long Chandler fan Robert Parker decided to try his hand at a detective novel. He hought up a mystery called "The Godwulf Manuscript," set it on a campus not unlike Northeastern's, and named his hero David Spenser (he dropped the first name after his wife pointed out that their adolescent sons, David and Daniel, were likely to disagree about whether or not it was a good choice). "The Godwulf Manuscript" was sold to a publisher in 1974 in just three weeks. As Parker recited, he got a $2,000 advance and no royalties. The book sold about 6,000 copies. He wouldn't quit his teaching job for another four years, but it was a start. Mystery fans began passing his books from hand to hand. A yearlong series of paperback reissues in 1983 added to his reputation. By 1984, with "Valediction," Parker had broken through the ceiling. He was profiled in People magazine. He was a star.
For the most part, though, fame has not changed Robert Parker. He still lifts weights, runs several miles and writes five pages every day, takes pleasure in his family. His two sons are grown—one is an actor and the other a dancer—so Parker and his wife, Joan, recently moved from suburban Lynnfield into a Cambridge condominium. He still writes on a battered old Royal typewriter and has no plans to buy a word processor. He also has no plans to send Spenser to the old detectives' home. "I'm proud of the books," he says firmly. "I think they're terrific. I think they're art. I plan to do this until I die. Or until they stop paying me for it, whichever comes first."
Kassir: A tragicomic talent
Comedy Champ Makes Good
BILL BAROL
It's a strange odyssey for an aspiring comedian. John Kassir had been working as a stand-up comic for only six months when a talent scout spotted him and asked him to appear on Ed McMahon's new amateur-hour TV show, "Star Search." A few months later he was the show's comedy champion, holding a $100,000 check in his hand. Today Kassir, a 1980 graduate of Maryland's Towson State, is costarring in an broad-Broadway musical called "3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down," a show about the tribulations of professional funny men. In his first three trips across stage, Kassir doesn't say a word. Yet he manages to bring down the house every time.
Kassir looks like a cross between Gene Wilder and Saint Francis of Assisi. His hair falls in brown ringlets, his ivory skin accents a fine-boned nose and large dark eyes, his manner is gentle, sensitive. When yet he's onstage, he's a natural comic. Kassir's body is physical humor. His body is as loose as a rag doll, and his limbs often betray him, as in a sketch where a gloved hand suddenly appears up through his parka, in front of his face. His character in "3 'Gus," Kenny Brewster, is reminiscent of Harpo Marx. He seldom speaks but communicates a sad desire to be part of the world; during the show, he hysterically
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and desperately portrays characters ranging from Godzilla to a frigid cat in heat, the crew from "Star Trek" and Marlin Perkins from "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." For the part of children who grow up in their childhood," says Kassir, who grew up in Baltimore. "Asa kid, I was better understood when I waked around."
Since "3 Guys," Kassir has been offered a variety of stage, screen and TV roles, but there are drawbacks to his sudden popularity. "It's easy to become very lonely in this business," he says. "People start putting demands on you that you can't fulfil, they crawl out of the woodwork and say you owe them this or that." At the moment Kassir has decided to move "Onehundred thousand dollars in no way makes you rich." he points out. "Star Search" gave me a lot of exposure, and this show has given me credibility. I'm just looking forward to steady work."
EMILY BENEDEK
and cruise aboard a yacht—"a boat that doesn't do anything." In one segment, the camera pans across a $10,000 bill. "Why don't you just reach out and touch the screen," Shepherd gently urges. "Get down on your knees, Friend, and just kiss the screen if you have to."
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
Each half-hour episode explores a place (Indianapolis, Death Valley, Odkenakee Swamp) where Shepherd plays a car (roar, desert wanderer, swam man), often in costum.
"The locale sets up a whole train of about what you're going to do," he says. The show may offer too many neon signs, but it defy celebrates Shepherd's quirkly humor, which he aptly distinguishes from comedy. "Comedy is manufactured," he says. "You can have joke writers write comedy. But humor is something that comes out of your own particular viewpoint." That viewpoint has been honed in novels, one-man shows and most popular in his impressionistic, free-form
Shepherd on TV; Recalling the past, laughing at the present
A Fun Tour Of America
"Jean Shepherd's America," a 13-part series now airing on PBS, is the TV equivalent of a provocative survey course given by a folksy professor. Part Charles Kuralt, part Montony Python, Shepherd forges a vision of America that chronicles the country's grease, glory and glitz. We see tourist shops overflowing with plastic toys, contemplate the vastness of Alaska
monologues that were heard on late-night radio for 20 years.
persuaded the other differently. Essentially, they still would like to see some favorable results by the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
As always, Shepherd writes all his material, which probably explains its occasional unevenness. But it also testifies to his commitment to TV. "Public television could use a few laughs," says Shepherd, and the viewers seem to be laughing more often than in "of Jean Shepherd's America"; was repeated an uncommon three times on PBS — a schedule equaled only by Julia Child.
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.
MARK D. UEHLING
The Embunment Association is a private corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
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.
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 I believe in. They are faculty and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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
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.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 department, and site proposal needed revision, said Tom Herrer, memorial committee chairman.
Bberger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or both. He said 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.
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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by KU students as an opportunity to be financed and designed by KU students."
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.
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.
"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 war marked a turning point in the sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
caff Reporter
MICHELLE WORRALLY
A 1966 advertisement touted the new hayhawk Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, anging from roaches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and opes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never came true.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas in campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the owers occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes pre burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Colored push pins, representing reported campus pupils, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four coloredacks, 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
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, but I cannot guess, but for potential problems," he says.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many of the crimes in the Towers can be prevented or 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 low-income housing. The occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence in the area.
THE NAYS THE central location of the apartment an easy target or 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 1705, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and pensions.
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 "I don't have
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the law.
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, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the rooms, slow maintenance and a lack of
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That same year, a grocery cart full of
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