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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 fall. The teammate 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 I used to install the lights if the Univers agreed to donate at least $5,000 for liq installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $1,280 for
boxes for distribution of stude
public materials.
boxes, at a cost of $535 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 all boxes.
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.
will be prepared this summer by an illumination engineer and one assistant. It is a follow-up to a study of right crime on campus, which was done by Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering, and completed in March.
The money would be used to build ei
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes 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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Emphasis:
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Riza Zooghi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"Fols, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harassment, 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.
"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
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new gifts, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and teach students about crime education and prevention programs.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- Society of Women Engineers — 440
* The Mid-America Journal of Politics
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
THE EMBRAMO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not interfere with activities.
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergent yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinist regime.
In the order, Reagan said, "The police and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinaire threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and (L here is an international emergency to deal w that threat."
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, because its concerns are concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the cont rebels seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industry 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.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $77 milli worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and cof to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from a about dozen to almost 50, want
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university would be Strong Hobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrated since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting Three protestors met yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, discuss the University's position on divestiture.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
- KU India Club — $554.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Tibier (left) and his Texas A&M frat brothers toast their oil well: From rush to gush
A Backyard Bonanza for the Sigma Chis
thought it was a joke," says chapter president Christopher Tibler, who is now laughing all the way to the bank. The Sigma Chia stand to earn about $100,000 a year, which they hope to use for a bigger and better house.
The bonanza has caused some ill feeling. "Some other fraternities said we were just setting it all up for rush." says Tristram Harper, the house treasurer. "I think there could have been a little jealousy." That envy may soon turn to gratitude. The new oil barons are talking to real-estate agents about using their newfound income to buy enough land to create a real fraternity row. That could bring A&M's now scattered Greeks closer together—and make campus sweethearts of the Sigma Chi.
College fraternities often go to great lengths to attract new members, but the Sigma Chis at Texas A&M inadvertently came up with a gimmick that might make even J. R. Ewing tip his Stetson. Last September, a chapter rush party turned into a gush party, when drillers struck oil in the fraternity's backyard—as impressed rushes looked on. Since then, the backyard rig has been producing more than 400 barrels of black gold a day—and has helped the Sigma Chis capture a record pledge class.
A Capital Alliance Of Young Investors
The fraternity bought the five-acre plot of land behind its house last July as an investment and a possible site for expansion. Two weeks later, the Inexco Oil Co. asked permission to drill for oil. "I
A college chapel may not seem like the most appropriate place to preach the gospel of capitalism. But when business majors Lawrence Kaplan and Richard Abranson called a meeting last fall in the New Chapel at Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster, Pa. they filled the pews with potential converts to a new extracurricular activity. Kaplan and Abranson were offering shares in the Franklin and Marshall Investment Alliance (FMIA). Unlike most college-operated mutual funds, which students and professors run as classwork, the FMIA was entirely student-backed and managed—and it quickly signed on the legal limit of 99 shareholders, who raised a kiddie of $3,000.
The FMIA is an offshoot of a similar fund begin two years ago at the University of Pennsylvania. Business students at Penn wanted to invest on their own but didn't have either the $100,000 or the professional management required to start a mutual fund. Instead, with only $4,000, they were able to register as a limited partnership in the Securities and Exchange Commission, which spread to other Eastern campuses, and georgetown and Union in Schenectady, N.Y. Penn's organizers hope to form a national clearinghouse that would advise schools on how to start up.
The FMIA members, meanwhile, have already learned a lot—maybe more than they've earned. The fund bought G. Heilman Brewing Co. stock at $42 when beer seemed to be a growth industry; it promptly nosedive to $20. Now members pore over research on key industries more carefully before they buy—and last semester, the fund managed to outperform the Dow Jones industrial average 2 to 1.
Here's Spring's New Fling
What lies farther than a Friesbee, faster than a Skyro and made its way into the Guinness Book of World Records after just a few weeks on the market? Answer: The Aerobie, the latest in a line of aerodynamic toys created by Silicon Valley engineer Alan Alder. Introduced last December by Superflight, In., in Palo Alto, Calif., the bright orange ring is fast becoming the new campus craze. Alder says that he has to keep a mold running 24 hours a day just to keep up with the demand. The Stanford bookstore has sold about 2,000 of the $6.95 Aerobies in less than five months, and rings have also been spotted wafting over the greens at Dartmouth, Duke, Berkeley, the University of Colorado and the University of Hawaii.
"The Aerobie is fun because it goes so far," says Scott Zimmerman, the Pasadena City College student—and four-time world Frisbee champion—who threw the ring 1,046 feet, 11 inches to establish the Guinness record. "Even beginners can throw it 50 to 60 yards." Frisbee may remain everybody's favorite flying object for now—but spring's new fling is coming on fast.
Duke student pursues Aerobic Identified flying object
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Buigd said he didn't think divestiture would change apartheid in South Africa.
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action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
CHRIST BUNKER, SHIAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to thank the charceller has heard both sides of the story.
and other sources and uses prompts to support the University financially.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said. "I admire them I admire somebody who is willing to stand for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
of a teach in organized by the protesters.
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.
Staff Reporter
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 report said the design and execution were by Tom Berver, premier committee 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 the other, but if he did not get received his committee's response.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 it to several 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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students and faculty that it 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.
- KU India Club — $554
• Amnesty International — $290
• KU International Folk Dance Club — 220.
But Berger said the new report submitted
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 40 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Herger said the memorial should be 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 design contest.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200
o print the Journal of Contemporary
'Journeling.
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
Staff Reporter
3y MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touched 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 same 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.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high.
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Carruthro'OLEary. 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.
The manager is at the Towers, says the crime officer that high "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville,kvla. investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
HE SAYS THE central location of the two apartments an easy target for crimes to occur.
In the 1708s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and buildings.
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
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.
Joséway says he calls police whenever he hears loud noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In 1880, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"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 and an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
"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."
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers are prone to crime problems than residence bells or other nearby structures.
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the keys.
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 1961 Kansan story, students complained about floors in the elevators. cook coaches 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