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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 aimed to build lightning areas on campus and propose lighting.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the Universal agreed to donate at least $50,000 for light installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 build boxes for distribution of stude publications.
The money would be used to build eig
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.
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilites operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. A department authorized to do such work on campus.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes 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 proposal must be completed by Sept. 11 for the $10,000 will be returned the Senateman will accept.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employ-
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.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rape.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even on rape, said Doug Loomis."
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should make it happen.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT 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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
Dobbie h Womens Engineers — $440.
The Mid-America Journal of Politics —
$900.
BONN, West Germany — Presider Reagan declared a national emergence yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the cont rebels seeking to oust the Sandinists announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation 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 I FIA trade is concerned, as I Vietnam and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mill worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 mill in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
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) he declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, w taken in response to the vote in the House l week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contra.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
The protesters, who have demonstrate since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting. Three protesters met yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and John Sawyer, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss 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 t Kansas University Endowment Associations to South Africa said yesterday that the Heights should be the Strong H lobby at least until tomorrow.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
EDUCATION
A Cliff Behind the Notes
Yes, there really is a Cliff at Cliffs Notes, but they really aren't his notes. That's why they dropped the apostrophe from Cliff's Notes back in 1975. Mind you, publisher C. K. (C.) Hillegaz loves books and always has—he's a voracious reader and a collector of rare first editions. But the most impressive thing that Cliff does with a book is sell it. He was a Nebraska book salesman back in 1958, when a Canadian textbook jobber asked Hillegaz to distribute a line of Shakespeare study guides. Bookstore managers were perused to stock them at a time when crisps were almost unheard of. Recalls Hillegaz: we were unhappy that Cliff's putting out it, I'll list 10 "copies." It recently rewarded those trusting book sellers and proven C. K. Hillegaz profitfully astute; this year insure students will buy nearly 5 million copies of the "notes," and it's nearly impossible to find a bookstore that doesn't stock the yellow-and-black booklets.
Cliffs Note interpretation, he believes that most aren't sufficiently "independent of mind to know what to accept or reject." Hillegas argues that there's nothing wrong with using the notes as an aid to understanding the text or for review purposes. His guides, he insists, are not meant for cheating: "There's nothing in a Cliffs Note that you couldn't find in five or six books in the library. The interpretation is just there in a concentrated fashion." And each booklet contains this disclaimer: "These notes are not a substitute for the text itself or for classroom discussion of the text."
Success didn't come easily. The notes had to overcome what Hillegasse calls "a fair amount of resistance" from educators. "It wasn't unusual," he recalls, "to hear of a teacher getting up in front of class and saying, 'I don't want to hear of you getting a Cliff's Note.' It was great advertising for us." Still, for five years after starting the business, Hillegasse continued to work as a textbook jobber while his wife ran The Notes operation from the basement of their house. Then, in the early '60s, sales began to double each year. In 1985 the Cliffs Notes line, offering more than 200 titles, will gross an estimated $7 million. Hillegasse, 67 and semiretired, calculates that about half of those purchases will be made by high-school students, 40 percent by college students and 10 percent by other readers. And he still contends that use of the notes has often misunderstood. "The more serious a student is," Hillegasse says, "the more likely a student is to use Cliffs Notes, and the less likely a student is to misuse them."
Editors at Cliffs Notes claim that they
Hillegass and his study guides: Teachers are wary, but students will buy 5 million this year
Misuse. Almost everyone has a tale, apocryphal or not, about innovative adaptations of Cliffs Notes. A retired English professor at Iowa State remember the time a student chose the word "intercalary" to describe the structure of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Only after someone handed the professor the Cliffs Notes for the novel did she learn what the word meant ("interpolated or inserted"). Faculty attitudes may have softened a little, but professors are still wary. "I'm afraid what really happens is that students use them as a substitute for reading the texts," says Prof. Donald Morse, chairman of the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Journalism at Michigan's Oakland University. While Morse concedes that some students can benefit from reading a
president of the James Joyce Society, Edward Kopper Jr., wrote the Cliffs Notes for "Ulysses," and the guide to Emily Dickinson's poems was reviewed by editors of the two major scholarly journals devoted to her work. Hillegas says that the guides allow professor-authors to disseminate their lecture notes to a wider audience. And the academics may have other reasons. James Roberts, a consulting editor to the series and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, observes: "Sometimes the famous scholar needs a new roof on his house."
The notes themselves serve as a dipstick for the national curriculum. Last year, as usual, The Scarlet Letter, "Macbeth," and The Warrior, "Marcus Ibrert," best, about 100,000 copies apiece. Com-
have made it increasingly harder to use the guides as shortcuts. "We place far less emphasis on summary," says chief editor Gary Carey. "Now we assume that students have read the novel." The booklets, which ordinarily run from 70 to 80 pages, include a brief description of the life and times of the author, substantial chunks of information about characters and styles, and examples of the author's bibliography. But most of each guide is devoted to interpretation: 95 of the 125 pages in the notes for "Ulysses" analyze the meaning of the book, with only enough plot thrown in to glue the package together.
The notes have changed, in part, because their authors have changed. Instead of graduate students, scholars and critics now produce most of the work. Novelist John Gardner wrote three guides before his death—for "The Canterbury Tales," "Le Morte D'Arthur" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." The
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
pleting the top 10 were "The Great
Gatsby," "1984," "A Tale of Two Cities."
Gatsby," 1984, "A Jan.
The "Grapes of Wrath," Homer's "Odyssey" and "Julius Caesar." Times and tastes change. Notes on Joseph Conrad novels have fallen sharply in sales since the '60s, while science-fiction guides have soared. And the notes are updated to reflect new mores. In "To Kill a Mockingbird," for instance, the references to "Negroes" have been changed to "blacks," and the issue of race is faced directly in essay entitled "Prejudice in the Novel."
The company has even updated itself into the electronic age, with a new line of Cliffs Cassettes. The 12 offerings, including "Romeo and Juliet" and "Great Expectations," are not meant to be study guides, but a new entertainment option for the Walkman generation. Each tape runs about an hour and offers details about plot, characters and the author, plus something you never got from the notes: dramatized exccerpts.
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.
RON GIVENS in Lincoln, Neb.
action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
CHRIST 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.
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 this country and our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
continuing some form of instruction at a place
part of a teach-in organized by the protesters.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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.
BY NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
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 chancellor. The report said the design and layout were indeed agreed upon Tom Berger, memorial chairman.
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
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or committee's response, nor did he not receive his committee's response.
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.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
- KU India Club — $554.
* Amnesty International — $290.
* KU International Folk Dance Club
20.
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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the data for some of the data was very outdated.
Burger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayide. The memorial was perceived by students and faculty that it should be financed and designed by KU students."
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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
"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 no KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Berger said the memorial will be a national symbol sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 print the Journal of Contemporary unseling.
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
MICHELLE WORRALL
uff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yahower Towers apartments as the imate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and pies of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never me true.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, aging from roaches to arsenic, since itspletion in the late 1960s.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent aperty are among the highest crime areas campus, according to KU police records. In Brothers, sergeant of community vices, says half of the crimes at the weres occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes *burglary, theft, and criminal damage to*
Colored push pins, representing reported mpus crimes, bury the complex on the map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored sks, representing theft, burglary, noise turbance, damage to private property and scellaneous crimes against persons mark Towers and the surrounding area.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the wers, says the crime rate is not that high. I call them (KU police) several times a ek, not for actual problems, but forential problems," he says.
foslove says he calls police when hehee aira suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
Vilson says he is not aware that the Towers are more prone to problems than residence buildings.
J. I. Wilson, director of housing, says many the crimes in the 'Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which they don't have to be re-bolted. They're only good if people..."
gt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police is many of the Towers' problems stem in a high concentration of people living in the Towers, but we have an abundance capacity of 900,128 people.
IE SAYS THE central location of the
vers makes the apartments an easy target
crimes to occur.
Originally, the Towers were privately
lived apartments operated and built by a
rtsville, Okla., investment company and
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 1970s, the complex was rocked with ansez, thefts and vandalism to cars and pensions.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed book to provide more housing for students.
"WE KNEW IT was a problem, and it didn't make a good record. Wilson says "We knew it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the warrant.
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, cookroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the kitchen, 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