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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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 will be built on campus or propose lighting improvement.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would used to install the lights if the Univers agreed to donate at least $50,000 for lift installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 boxes for distribution of stud publication.
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.
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The department authorizes to do such work on campus.
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.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
"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.
The money would be used to build ei
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
"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
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Emphasis
Ruth Lightwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
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 supplemental funds for non-revenue code bills.
- Society of Women Engineers - $440
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Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergence yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports pumps Nicaragua in the same category, as flipped into trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to the State.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $0 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coff to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals 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 extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and (I) here please a national emergency to deal with that threat."
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the confrels seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after he joined in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industry democracies.
The action, White House aides said, was taken in response to the vote in the House last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contra.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association to South Africa said yesterday that that the University should be the Strong II lobby at least until tomorrow
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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The protesters, who have demonstrated since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting. Three protesters met yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Amberl. vice chancellor for student affairs, across the University's position on divestiture.
A Vassar Study Trip to Nicaragua
To try to sort through the din of conflict over U.S. policy toward Nicaragua, 25 Vassar students and faculty went there on their spring break. After a semester of seminars sponsored by the college's American-culture department, they spent 10 days in Managua. Most paid for the $900 trip themself, with a travel aid. We wanted to see for ourselves what was taking place," says Obika Gray, an assistant professor of political science.
Vassar visitors with Nicaraguan kids
The Vassar contingent met with officials of the Sandinista government and opposition leaders; they attended mass, visited a newspaper office and watched a National Assembly debate on a new constitution. They also had an opportunity to see Sandinista doctrine in practice; on a visit to a government-sponsored day-care center, the
group listened as preschoolers sang songs praising the revolution. Even at their tender age, the children seemed well aware of the pressure applied by the contra guerrillas, who are trying to topple the government. "The kids understood that there was a war going on around them," says sophonore Lisa Abner.
The trip shattered many preconceptions about Nicaragua and its people. The pluralism in political opinion, both left and right of the Sandinista party line, surprised some students and faculty members. Professor Gray noted "a certain degree of press censorship"; others were struck by the fact that no one who supported the contras, who opposed the administration. "Nicaragua is not a totalitarian state, not a police state, but neither is it the uterate that many of its friends would have you believe," says Gray.
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Hunter's New York guests aboard the Staten Island ferry; Abroad at home
Take Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten...
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
Most "graduates" of the Hunter program
If you're longing to study in some exotic spot—but you can't quite afford a year abroad—try a world capital that's closer to home: Manhattan's Hunter College offers a "Junior Year in New York" program that provides work experience, education and cultural opportunities for eight months at a cost of less than $2,000. Hunter, a liberal arts college within the City University of New York, provides dormitory housing, a activities center, of classes, an array of cultural activities including trips to the ballet opera and theater, sightseeing with student help and for-credit internships (among them: administrative aide in the mayor's office and production assistant at an off-Broadway theater).
rave about their bite of the Big Apple. "I grew up a lot just living in the city," says Beth A. Marecki of Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., who worked in a women's experimental-theater group. Visiting students may, of course, learn something about the downside of urban existence—grimy subways, the crime threat and occasional bursts of loneliness on the decentralized campus. Despite the drawbacks, says Mareci, "I would not have given up this year for anything." Several of the junior-year students have accepted full-time jobs after graduation at their intern businesses, and a few have transferred to Hunter to finish their degrees. Program director Lucy Holland says that Hunter can accept 30 visitors next fall; applications are due by June 15.
Less Sun, More Fun
Bagging rays used to be no sweat—just grab a towel, stretch out and "power tan." But the health-conscious sun worshper now faces a dilemma: the beams that bronze can also cause skin cancer and premature aging. To help, cosmetics companies are introducing new moisturizers, lip balms and stay-on hair conditioners with sunscreens for the beach season. One firm is the beauty-braid bag-clutch, those who don't want to touch man-made hotties with different sun-protection factors might try Dial-A-Tan by Jovan, which provides a range of SPF's in a single tube. Dermatologists warn, however, that even the best sunscreen can't protect against the ravages of overexposure.
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.
action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
Dial-a-sunscreen: A tan for all seasons
and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like the governor and charlever he has heard both sides of the story.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
BANKS, WHO HAS visit the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire saws to be used to steal for what he believes in. I find that our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Staff Reporter
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 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 department, the proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, 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 testimony. Bergers 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 team received the committee's and sent the plan on to the public 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.
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, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memory is to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as a reminder to be financed and designed by KU students."
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
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now, he said."
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'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.'
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.
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 also be sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
itaff Reporter
by MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new layhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and topes 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 in 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 powers 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.
TOUCHS" says the crime rate is not that night. "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Joelson says he calls police whenever he hears a 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.
THE ISAYS THE central location of the Town and the apartments an easy target for crimes to occur.
"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 low-income housing. The occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons
Originally, the Towers were privately-owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville,ko. Investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
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.
In the 1700s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and machinery.
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 don't know."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gracefully passed the camera.
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 reaches 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