The finals stretch
KANSAN
Students use wit and whatever to get them through the night. See story on page 6.
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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 was on campus and propose lighting improvements on campus.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the Univers agreed to donate at least $50,000 for it 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 investment authorized 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 Sena e.
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. 1 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate.
"Folks, rapa'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
one harrassment, you get more than
10,000.**
*
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
The Senate also voted to allocate $2,280
bath boxes for distribution of stud
publishing.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Ruth Lightwardt, 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 approved.
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 nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440
- Society of Women Engineers — 4440
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The money would be used to build ei
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Presidie Reagan declared a national emerger yesterday and banned U.S. trade w Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administratio campaign against the leftist Sandini regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports put Nicaragua in the same category, as export traffic is concerned, as Iran, Vietn and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the con rebels seeking to oust the Sandinist announced the trade embargo shortly af. Bonn for the seven natl economic summit of the main industi democracies.
The action, White House aides said, taken in response to the vote in the House I week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $77 m worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 m in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemic fats and oils, and some machinery, includ 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 foresee the United States and (1) he declare an emergency to deal with that threat."
See A1D, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
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Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Associati ties to South Africa said yesterday that it has hired a staff member the Strong Hobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstra-
sion since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more **t**
sitting. Three protesters met yesterday with
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor,
and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student
exercises, discuss the University's position on
dishytest.
HEALTH
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
The Dangers of Cramming
Giving up sleep could do more harm than good.
Welcome to the all-night cramming session, which most students resort to at some desperate point in their college careers.
midnight, and the spiral notebook is barely half full. The rest of its pages, scribbled with organic-chemistry equations, litter the dorm-room floor. Every few minutes the figure hunched over the desk tears away another page, and erupts in a cry. He can, and passes it on to his friend Anne thus the two roommates continue all night, dropping the pages to the carpet after each has absorbed his fill.
varies so widely. "Some people are markedly impaired by even a small decrease in sleep time," says David Buchholtz, a neurologist and sleep therapist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, "while others can go without sleep for a few nights without any demonstrable loss of performance." People also have vastly different minimum requirements a full night's rest can range from 4 to 10 hours. It is critical, experts stress, for each person to know how much sleep he needs.
Heavy use of stimulants can compound the problem. Many students assume that
can hit them after only 2 to 3 cups. Speed is far more hazardous. Overdoses can lead to auditory hallucinations and paranoidia. In addition, according to Larry Alessi, assistant professor of psychiatry at The John Hopkins Medical School, "if someone uses speed for many weeks and then stops, he may 'crash' into severe depression."
Unless a person abuses his body with stimulants, he should be able to snap back fairly quickly from an all-nighter. One full night of rest will usually produce complete recovery from up to 48 hours of sleep deprivation; normal, healthy people have been known to stay awake for as long as a week without lasting ill effects. There is usually an increase in REM (rhyme movement) sleep, the phase in which dreaming occurs. Normally, REM sleep is beneficial, but some people report particularly graphic
Stages of a prefinal all-nighter: When rest goes out the window, does last-minute learning slin in?
large quantities of coffee or a few amphipamines will increase alertness; they don't. In fact, stimulants merely disguise—briefly—a reduced capacity to grasp, retain and retrieve information. "Caffeine does not correct the cognitive impairment caused by lost sleep," Buchholtz says. "A person may be awake, but he'll have to deal with an intellectual deficit, and his concentration won't be there. He can actually have 'microsleeps' and stare at the same word for five minutes."
Armed with the energy of youth, they simply ignore their bodies' cries for sleep, trying to fend off fatigue with doses of coffee or, occasionally, drugs. Teachers and parents have long argued that cramming does more harm than good—and the latest research into sleep needs and patterns suggests that they are right.
The outcome of all-nighters is unpredictable because the impact of sleep loss
Or are unpredictable naps the only penalty of substance abuse. Coffee drinkers should watch out for Caffeine Intoxication Syndrome, an onset of anxiety, panic, headaches and a frustrating inability to sleep. Most people would have to drink about 10 cups to fall into this condition, but some are so sensitive that it
For some people, disruptions in the regular sleep cycle can cause temporary intellectual lapses—and stimulants can set off severe side effects. Thus, for every student who manages to memorize the chemical synthesis of buna-Sruber at 5 a.m. and then passes that practice question on his test at 9, the teacher few who lament the "obvious" answers they blew on a multiple-choice exam because they "just couldn't focus."
report particularly graphic and disturbing nightmares associated with a sudden increase in REM.
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then there are the problems of students who want to get a good night's sleep before an exam but just can't. Stress often promotes insomnia. It may cause the reason activating system, the structure in the brain that is responsible for alertness, to stay on too long; this prevents sleep-inducing mechanisms from doing their job. What do experts advise a student who finds himself tossing and turning for a half hour or on the eve of a test? He should get up and try an ordinarily relaxing activity, like snacking or watching television, until he is tired. Some people find that making notes about what's worrying them can exercise those concerns until the morning.
Sleeping too much, authorities agree, should not worry most people. Even after an extended night of "rebound" sleep, the brain arouses itself when its needs have been fulfilled. Clinically depressed people do often retreat into slumber to avoid the waking hours, but true clinical depression is accompanied by other noticeable symptoms such as loss of appetite, decreased self-esteem and even thoughts of suicide.
In the end, the best formula to follow when finals arrive is one that students have been taught for years—moderation. There will surely be times when excelling, or perhaps just passing, requires pushing bedtime back, but any major changes in sleep patterns should be made cautiously. As Buchholtz suggests, "The key is keeping perspective and not ever overdoing it."
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he didn't think diversitie would change apart-held in South Africa.
CHRIS 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.
action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University
and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 2006
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today in the lobby of Strong The talk is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
BANKS, HOW I HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire him and I want to stand up for what he believes in. I find that our 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 sale, the chairman of the campus 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 president of the museum, for site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, memorial committee chairman.
Bberger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report matters, but 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 memorial committee took the revision and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Colb 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 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 the students as not being fit to be financed and designed by KU students."
Martvin 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 space 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 Campaign, 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
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."
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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 just sadden and wiser now, he is."
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 he was deeply moved by the event, which 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 arsenal, 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 repertoire 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, not for actual problems, 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 dead 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 the degradation of people living in a relatively small urban area, an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence halls or other apartment complexes.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for buyers.
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 1708s, the complex was rocked with ason, thefts and vandalism to cars and
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 drivers, 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
town to Mr. Hirschman.
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, cook raches 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