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Vol. 95, No. 144 (USPS 650-640)
Senate allots $10,000 for lighting study, plan
Thursday, May 2, 1985
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 if the Univers agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the department authorized to do such work on campas.
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 Kansan boxes on campus.
Publications would be able to use boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employ-
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 Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
unallocated account.
"Folks, rage's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
**IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one harrassment, you got more than $100 million.**
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 one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Stallings said he thought that campus tightening was a problem and that the Senate was doing enough.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT SAD THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents to purchase a crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
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Reagan bar trade, hints of sanction
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Pre Reagan declared a national emer- yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more san may be added to the administra campaign against the leftist Sand regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the c rebels seeking to oust the Sandin announced the trade embargo shortly arriving in Bonn for the seven-n economic summit of the main indu democracies.
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.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaraca airline flights and ships arriving in U.S., puts Nicaragua in the same category, a foreign country is concerned, as Iran, Viet and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE. Ma was imposed by executive order and doe require congressional approval.
See AlD, p. 5, col.1
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 m worth of bananas, beef, shellfish or to the United States and bought $111 m in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chefs fats and oils, and some machinery, inclu tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The pol- and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordi threat to the national security and for policy of the United States and (1) he provides an emergency to deal that threat."
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BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them. I admire somebody who is willing to stand up for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
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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 revered said the design and execution were carried out by Tom Berver, memorial 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 response. "I don't want 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 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."
Bberger 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.
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 and it is to 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 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
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.'
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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 would be erected on behalf sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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 contest.
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Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
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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 arson, 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.
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 tacks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark the Towers and the surrounding area.
THE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes and抢劫, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Jesus says he calls police whenever he hearen the noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high. He calls them "AI police" several times a week, not on patrols, 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 cause or other crime problems than residence halls or other facilities.
HE SAYS THE central location of the town hall apartments an easy target for crime to access.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the city, and that has an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
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 arson, 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
would have a good record. I also says "We
knew it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully paused the Troubleshooting Team.
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