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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 findings this fall was approved last night for a late conference toinate during its final meeting of the semester.
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unanimous account to finance a project that would include rebuilding campuses and propose lighting improvement.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the Universal agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4.2 billion boxes for distribution of stu public facilities.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The department authorizes 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.
The money would be used to build
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 Sept.
1 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
until received.
Purchases would be able to use boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employ.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you get more than $10,000 of your money's worth," he said.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights to stop on even one rape," said Doug Staingh.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should pass a law to allow it.
LICHTWARD SAID The Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents for the school district 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 nonrevenue code student groups:
*Society of Women Engineers* — $440.
*The Mid-America Journal of Politics*
$690.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Presi
Reagan declared a national emerge
yesterday and banned U.S. trade v
Nicaragua with hints that more sancti
may be added to the administrative
campaign against the leftist Sandin
regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports, nicks Nicaragua in the same category, as the country is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
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 Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not extend to employees.
See AlD, p. 5, col. 1
The action, White House aides said, was taken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for 4 Contras.
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 force." In the United States and (I) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and cott to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50 want
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong II lobby at least until tomorrow.
- KU India Club — $554.
The protesters, who have demonstration 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 divestiture.
they still would like to see some favorative action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budd said he didn't think divestiture would change apartheid in South Africa.
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like you to chancellor have heard both sides of the story.
University Council's resolution at 1 p.m. today in the lobby of strong. The talk is part of the event.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire them but be telling to stand up for what he believes in. I find that our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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 research said the design and construction would be from Tom Bever, memorial commission 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 not receive it, and he did not yet received his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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.
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."
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 that the proposed memorial was too large.
Bberger said, "in terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by the students as a failure, so it 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.
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 beautiful as I wanted it to be, but it's 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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
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.
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 being sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
- KU International Folk Dance Club - 20.
*Counseling Student Organization — $200 print the Journal of Contemporary counseling.
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
y MICHELLE WORRALL
aff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yawker Towers apartments as the timate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and ages 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, nipping from roaches to arson, since its impletion in the late 1960s.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent operty are among the highest crime areas campus, according to KU police records. On Brothers, sergeant of community rivices, says half of the crimes at the wers occur in the parking lots.
FIE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
e burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported puscs crimes, bury the complex on the time map in KU police headquarters at artruth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored cks, representing theft, burglary, noise sturbance, damage to private property and discellaneous crimes against persons mark a 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 week, not for actual problems, but for tential problems,' he says.
tentative problems, he says.
I olove says he calls police whenever he arrs a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang breaking glass.
I. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which isists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he is.
Milson says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence problems.
ight David Cobb of the Lawrence police is many of the Towers' problems stem in a high concentration of people living in relatively small area. The Towers have an aupace capacity of 900,120 persons. IE SAYS THE central location of the users makes the apartments an easy target
IE SAVS THE central location of the users makes the apartments an easy target crimes to occur.
highway, the towers were privately
nued apartments operated and built by a
bartlesville,koa.. investment company and
executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
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.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1670s, the complex was rocked with assean, thefts and vandalism to cars and public buildings.
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 Tuscarawas County sheriff.
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 feet in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3