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Vol. 95, No. 144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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 lighting improvements.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would 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 installation authorization 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 to boxes in a-first come, first served basis. Emloi-
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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.
1 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate in
July.
"Folks, rape'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 rape, one harrassment, you got more than $100 million."
The Senate also voted to allocate $ build boxes for distribution of publications.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"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 lighting was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Lightwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAY THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and educate children about crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
The money would be used to buil
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Shelby of Women Engineers — $440
The Mid-America Journal of Politics
$890
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanction
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — pre-Reagan declared a national emerald yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more san may be added to the adminstric campaign against the leftist Sand regime.
The total loan on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports, nicaragua in the same category, nicaragua is concerned as, Iran, Wei, and Labya.
Reagan, trrusted by Congress it efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebels seeking to oust the Sandi announced the trade embargo shortly arriving in Bonn for the seven major attack of the main india democrates.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE Ma was imposed by executive order and do require congressional approval.
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 chem-
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 extraordi- threat to the national security and fo- policy in the United States and [I] have a national emergency to deal that threat."
See AID, d. 5, col.1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Associates to South Africa said yesterday that it lobbied for the Strong Lobby, at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrat since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more $ sitting. Three protestors met yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Chris Hancock, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
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The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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Making the principle work: A large measure of freedom—and with it the obligation to report, judge and sentence one's peers
Honor and the Codes
Students like the system, but it may not always be fair.
H "honor" is not usually one of the first words associated with college life, yet as the recent cases at Virginia suggest, honor remains very much an issue on campuses throughout the country. College honoree codes may be central to the very
The public attention attracted by these cases helped prompt the Honor Committee to examine some of the inconsistencies.
For the most part, honor codes cover lying, cheating and stealing; the bulk of cases involve plagiarism or cheating on exams. At some schools the code is strictly academic; at others it extends to every area of student life. At all-women Hollins College in Virginia, for example, the code was changed last year so that violations of social ethics were punished by after-hours male visitation, are hindered by rate committee; students took those infractions less seriously and were not included to report them to the honor court.
Honor pledges are variously signed by freshmen, by all students at the beginning of each semester or every time a student takes an exam. They often confer a large measure of freedom—unproctored tests and take-home exams—plus the painful obligations that go with them: the duty to report, try and sentence one's peers. "An education ought to enable people to be responsible for their own actions," says Len Clark, provost and academe dean at Earthham College in Indiana. "It's not a very educational system if
life of the institution, as at Washington and Lee, or more perfunctory affirmations of good intentions, as at Stanford; they can be part of a ritual for grooming Southern gentlemen or extensions of basic religious beliefs. Whatever their form or purpose, honor codes seem to be here to stay. The question is not whether to keep the codes but how to make them practical and fair.
it prepares people for responsibility but doesn't give them responsibility."
Two months later basketball player Olden Polynice was tried for turning in an English paper that he did not write. Polynice admitted the act but claimed extending circumstances: pressure from the hectic team schedule. He was acquitted.
Last spring Rudy Beverly, former student-council vice president for appropriations at the University of Virginia, pleaded guilty in state criminal court to a charge of embezzling $3,000 in student funds, which he agreed to pay back. The university's honor system acquired him, on the ground that, in light of his record of campus service, his misdeed was not "reprehensible" enough to warrant the code's single sanction—expulsion.
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
The experience, for the accused, can be frightful. "When you enter U.Va, they tell you all this vague stuff about the honor system, but they never orient you about what to do if you're ever accused," says Monique Fawcett, now enrolled at Longwood College in Farmville, Va. She first learned that she was under investigation when an advisor called her at 1 a.m. she was told not to worry because"o' out of 10 cases she had been in 40 days later, as presented with the formal charges and told to leave the university or face trial. The trial itself, she says, "get kind of ugly. People aren't just telling you that you did something wrong. They were trying to expose a flaw in my character."
CHRISE 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.
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and so provided an unusual glimpse into the workings of the honor court. The secrecy issue grew even larger with the subsequent Polynice case, a closed trial the details of which were leaked to the press. As a result, some U.A. students have begun to urge that all honor-code trials be open, arguing that the process should undergo public scrutiny and that juries should have the benefit of precedents to correct what is generally conceded to be a very erratic dispensation of administer system, then students should be able see how it's run," says Philip Steele, executive editor of The Cavalier Daily.
The Virginia cases also called into question the wisdom of the school's tradition.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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.
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."
By NANCY STOETZER
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 KU Vietnam memorial committee said yesterday.
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 of the University needed revision, said Tom Berner, memory committee chairman.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report matters. Berger also did not get 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 plans to the public spaces committee, which sent the plans 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.
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.
BERGER SAD 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 as an effort to be financed and designed by KU students."
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial
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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
The memorial list the names of the more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Berger said that he did not know if the sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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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.
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never came true.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from roaches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
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 are burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high. "I call them 'KU police' several times a week, but I'm always警惕那些锨客, but for potential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
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 bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the area, who have little occupancy capacity of 900-1200 persons.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence halls or other apartment complexes.
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.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Town is departments 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 assen, thefts and vandalism to cars and property.
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 Towers beat to the KU 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 feces in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no 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