KANSAN
The finals stretch
The University Daily
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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Thursday. Mav 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 week for a demonstration 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 will connect the campus and propose lighting 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 its installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280
boxed boxes for distribution of studs
public.
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. A permanent authorization 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.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on carous.
The money would be used to build ei
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 boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employ
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.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this
campus, whether you know it or not."
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
or in the $1,000 will be returned to the Sen-
ate.
Reza Zoughi. Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"IF ITS 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 rages.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
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 had requested a review.
LICHTWARD SAY THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents 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-Women Engineers* = $410.
*The Mid-America Journal of Politics*
$900.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Preside Reagan declared a national emergent yesterday and banned U.S. trade wi Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinis regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the cont rebelseeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after him in Bonn for the sevennai economic summit of the main industr democracies.
THE EMBRARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not override any laws.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports potted Nicaragua in the same category, as if trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
The action, White House aides said, w
taken in response to the vote in the House la
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for
Contras.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mill worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coff to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica fats and oils, and some machinery, included tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The police and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinar threat to the national security and force of the United States and (I) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
- KU India Club — $554.
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association to South Africa said yesterday that th lobby at least tomorrow
Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
The protesters, who have demonstrated since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more (h)itting. 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.
- Amnesty International — $290
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
association by the university center and the resolution by the University direct.
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like them to have a charceler he had heard both sides of the story.
and other souces and uses points to keep the University financially.
o Many in the army or strong the arm is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire them I admire them I admire them for what he believes in. I find that his faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
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 of the university, the chair of the proposal needed revision, said Tom Bermer, professor chairman.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or outcome. But Benger did not yet received his committee's response.
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 it to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
"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
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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayis. The memorial was perceived by students, but it was not intended to be financed and designed by KU students."
BERGER SAID THAT in October, he had met with public spaces committee members and Orken 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.
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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
- KU International Folk Dance Club -
$220
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
"1 RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I just am sad 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 will be displayed at a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- 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 arsenic, 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.
"I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
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
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.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for crimes to occur.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the densely populated Towers who have an occupancy capacity of 941-1700 rooms.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville,klv. investment company and executives from Phyllos Petroleum Co.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence halls.
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 conditioner.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1700s, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and furniture.
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 did have a good record. Wilson says "We knew it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the key to the apartment.
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 yet."
In a 1981 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cook roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
The University has not been able to solve all of the problems with the Towers.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3