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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 account to finance a project that would locate problem lighting areas on campus and propose light improvement
Another $10,000 in Senate money was used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4.5
build boxes for distribution of str
publications.
The money would be used to build
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.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one
one harrassment, you got more than
$10,000."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
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 proposal must be completed by Sent
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. Facilities operations is the only department authorized to do such work on campus.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
LICHTWARD SAID 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.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May be imposed by execl. and does not require approval.
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 forest resources United States and (1) he declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and cof to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the supplemental funding for non-revenue taxes.
The action, White House aides said, w
taken in response to the vote in the House
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for th
Contras.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
BONN, West Germany — Presidian Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administration against the leftist Sandinine regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. putts Nicaragua in the same category, as Chile is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
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Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the corbels seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Hondr for the seven-matrimount of the main industry democracies.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Students, faculty and others protesting I
Kansas University Endowment Association
ties to South Africa said yesterday that they
were urging the Strong Hill
lobby at least tomorrow.
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, discuss the University's position on divestiture.
Arts & Entertainment
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50 want
Author Robert Parker: Runner, weight lifter, best-selling former literature professor
The Story Behind Spenser
Parker likes this, mostly. He's proud of the work, and grateful for its success, but he chaffes a little at the comparisons between author and character. "I know better than anyone that Spenser's not a real person," he says. "But I identify very strongly with the people to whom he matters a great deal. Philip Marlowe meant a great deal to me when I was growing up. The first time I went to Los Angeles — in my 30s — I looked up Philip Marlowe in the phone book just to see if there was one. I knew there wasn't, but I did it anew."
romantic and aloner. He has few friends, the closest is Hawk, a black strong-arm artist. Like Marlowe, Spenser is tough. "The guy likes to bang," says Parker. "If he were a running back, he'd be John Riggins." He is also smart and drop-dead cool.
Unfortunately, identification with one's character is the price of fame—and fame is what Spenser has brought to his 52-year-old creator. Parker has, in his own words, "broken through the ceiling" that separates mystery writers from the mass market. Spenser has been called "the very exemplar of the species" by The New York Times. Kirksum Reviews says that Spenser is "as tough as they come and spiked with a touch of real class." There is a Spenser TV movie and prime-time series in the works, and the 12th Spenser novel, "A Catskill Eagle," is coming out in June. Spenser has arrived, and dragged Parker along.
It was the kind of gesture Spenser would appreciate—a small homage to the great American private eye created by Raymond Chandler. There's a lot of Marlowe in Spenser. Like Marlowe, he is
Life imitates art, but only up to a point. Example: Robert B. Parker, the author behind the Boston private eye known as Spenser, is sitting in a restaurant across the street from Boston police headquarters. The irony seems too good to be true, and of course it is. The Grill 23 is not the kind of place cops come to offer shift change. It is the kind of place that has white linen on the tables and well-polished stemware. Further irony: Parker is drinking a light beer. Spencer wouldn't be caught dead drinking light beer. He is, to use a phrase Parker cribs from D. H. Lawrence, "hard, isolate, stoic and alone." He is also something of a food snob, and Parker isn't. But this is precisely the point, the one Parker tired of making eight years ago: he is not Spenser, and Spenser is not he.
English looked at me with his eyes
and then he bent, and then he
kissed, "You'd better laugh."
He stood and opened the study door. "A man in my position has resources. Spenser." He was still squinting at me. I realized that his tough look.
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"Okay by me," I said, "but remember what I told you. If you are holding on me, I'll find out, and I'll come back. If you know something and don't tell me, I will know out, and I will hurt you."
"Not enough," I said, and walked down the hall and out the front door.
— "Looking for Rachel Wallace"
Finally, this like Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is
done. Period. The dialogue zings and there is plenty of fist-crunching action in the Spenser novels, but it is this moral element that sets them above most detective fiction. Says Parker, "Spenser sees a random universe, so he tries to make his segment of it as orderly as he can. There are no codes of behavior available to guide him—to guide any of us, by implication—so he chooses a system of behavior arbitrarily, and he sticks to it when it's tough. If you do it in the face of danger, we know you're serious. We may not know that you're right, but we know you mean it." In this, Parker says, Spenser is pretty close to "the classic American hero—from 'Leatherstocking' on—who, finding society somewhat corrupt, has to remain outside of it."
It is a measure of Parker's erudition that this kind of talk doesn't sound silly. His conversation is peppered with references to Faulk-
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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.
New novel; Drop-dead cool
comes from "Moby Dick"), and it's easy to picture him as the college-lit teacher he once was. It is harder to see him as a writer of ad copy for an insurance company, which he also once was. He took that job after graduating from Colby College and soldiering two years in Korea. It didn't last long. ("I resign," he wrote one day. "Looking back over my years with the company, I note there have been three of them.") At 40, Parker enrolled in a doctoral course at Columbia, the time he was 39, he had taught English at three schools, finally coming to rest at Northeastern.
persuaded the other differently. Essential, they still would like to see some favorable action on the resolution by the Student Senate resolution by the University Council."
The students there liked him—a
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like the character he charvelor has heard both sides of the story.
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BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them. I admire somebody who is willing to stand for what he believes in. I find that students 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 series on the Senate Finance Committee.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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 president of the memorial site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berver, memorial committee 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 request that it not get 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 team worked with the department and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
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.
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"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.
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
Berger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students who saw it as 'it' should 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.
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.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
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.
1 “RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the 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 memorial was planned by a foundation sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
Caff Reporter
y MICHELLE WORRALL
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, ranging from roaches to arsen, since its completion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and opens of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never same true.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent ropety 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 owers occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
in the assault, theft, and criminal damage
foreground.
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 backs, 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. It catches the (KU) police several times a week, but for potential problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he beats a suspicious person, such as a loud bang for the horn.
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.
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 low-income neighborhoods with an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Powers 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 Philips Petroleum Co.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1705, the complex was rocked with asson, thetis, and vandalism to cars and streets.
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 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 grately passed the trooper's badge.
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."
In a 1981 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the refrigerator, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
The University has not been able to solve all of the problems with the Towers.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3