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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 would locate problem lighting areas on campus and propose light improvements
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights of the building.
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the department authorized to do such work only.
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Emproule.
Another $10,000 in Senate money were used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation
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.
"Foks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
10, $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Hospital.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, acred
"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 rapes.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers - $440
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics
The Senate also voted to allocate box boxes for distribution of public supplies.
The money would be used to bui
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanction
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — ProReagan declared a national eme yesterday and baued U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sa may be added to the administr campaign against the leftist San regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebels seeking to oust the Sandi announced the trade embargo shortly. Bonn for the seven-economic summit of the main ind democracies.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE M
was imposed by executive order and do-
not violate the law.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua, airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports in Nicaragua in the same category, puts the trade is concerned, as Iran, Virt and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 m worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and to the United States and bought $111 m in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural cream fats and oils, and some machinery, incl tractors.
The action, White House aides said,
taken in response to the vote in the House
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for
Contras.
In the order, Reagan said, "The po-
and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and to force the United States and (1) he declare a national emergency to deal that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Associative ties to South Africa said yesterday that IU would have been the Strong I lobby at least tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstration since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more it sitting. Three protesters met yesterday win Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and 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
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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.
BANKS, WHO HAS visit the protesters daily, said, "I admire them. I admire them so much that I stand to stand up for what believes in it. I find that our 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.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 University of Texas proposal needed revision, said Tom Berrer, memorial committee chairman.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or request. Berger 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 multiple spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
"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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students, and he said it will 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 Onkun 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.
My design was just too much — not as
satisfying as the other two committee
is looking for something more traditional.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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.
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, planned for this summer sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- RU India Club - $554.
* Amnesty International - $290.
* RU International Folk Dance Club -
$220.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from roaches to arsons, since its completion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes 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 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 Catruth-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.
Joselle says he calls police whenever he heard a suspicious noise, such as a lone bang or a gunshot.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high. He calls them "the police" several times a week for acts of criminals, but for potential problems, 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.
"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 relatively small area of people living in a relatively small area, and an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
HE SAYS THE central location of the PARK and that the 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.
In the 1970s, the complex was rocked with anthems and vandalism to cars and property. Others objected.
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 gratefully passed the Tulsa Police Department.
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 fecces in the elevators, corkroaches 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
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3