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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 summer and will continue 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 be used for 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 lit installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 box boxes for distribution of stud pods.
The money would be used to build eij
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.
"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.
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 or the $1,000 will be returned to the Senate
Reza Zoughi Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
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.
"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.
LIGHTWARD 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.
"Fols, rape's alive and well on this campus, where you know it or not."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
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Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate supplemental funds for non-revenue code bonds.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
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.
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 force policy of the United States and (I) here are a national emergency to deal with that threat."
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The department authorized to do such work on campus.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as faf trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mili worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffe to the United States and bought $111 mili in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica fats and oils, and some machinery, includi 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
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first come, first served basis. Formats
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the contre rebels seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after he was born for the seven nazi economic summit of the main industr democracies.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the British students were the Strong B lobby at least until tomorrow.
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 David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestitures.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
CAREERS
Episcopal deacon Eisenstadt serves communion; From the 'old boys' to the 'new girls'
The New Face of the Clergy
The new face of the clergy belongs to Rafael Aledo, 23, an errant high-school student and drug user from New York's Spanish Harlem. Aledo found God, he says, after his girlfriend returned from a religious retreat and coaxed him to attend mass. Now he is preparing to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood—at an open-door seminary that permits its students to date women. The new face of the clergy belongs also to Amy Eilberg, 31, who graduates this month from the Jewish Theological Seminary as the first female Conservative rabbi, and to Tim Tume, 31, who entered the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after eight years as a newspaperman. "It took about half my lifetime for God to lead me here," Tume says, "but now I know that this is what I should be."
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Church, which faces a severe shortage of priests. Only 57,891 priests now serve a growing population of 52 million American Catholics; those ranks are expected to shrink by half before the war 2000, and semiary enrollment has plummeted 74 percent since 1969. Aware that demands of celibacy, obedience and poverty discourage many would-be priests, some seminaries are trimming their restrictions. One of the boldest is New York's Neumann Residence, where 35 students from local colleges live while mixing religious and secular studies. They can dress as they like and date casually—not steadily—in an atmosphere that resembles an internship.
Meet today's congregation of clerist, better educated and moreworldly-wise. Faced with a shortage of people who are willing to commit their lives to religion, some denominations are easing old strictures. Others, hoping to extend their reach, are welcoming women, minorities and midcareer converts. Religion-related opportunities have expanded beyond the pulpit to fine broadcasting and technological fields, and while few would choose a cleric's call for material reasons, salaries and benefits finally moving beyond church-mouse pursuits. A minister's average starting salary is major Protestant denominations, for example, is now $18,000, while the chef minister or rabbi of a large church or temple might command as much as $75,000 in pay and perquisites.
Catholicism is also offering ways to serve short of the priesthood—as lay teachers, counselors and administrators. And despite the Vatican's continuing resistance to
confirming women as priests, nuns have assumed significant new responsibilities. Most orders now look for recruits with two years of college or work experience, and their nuns may serve as assistant pastors, campus chaplains, directors of religious education, foreign missionaries or senior workers. Says Sister Lora Ann Quinonesz executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious: "A woman entering a community is able to do anything that her community's goals, her own talents and the needs of any local church group would direct her to do."
Some of the biggest adjustments are being made by the Roman Catholic
HUC president Alfred Gottschalk ordains a robbie
Women serve even more centrally in Reform and Conservative temples, the two wings of Judaism that ordain female rabbis. Females now make up one-third of the students at Hebrew Union College (HUC), the Reform seminary. Enrollments in general are rising—and authorities see a resurgence of religious feeling "There was a time when you could caricature Jewish students as heathward a few professions, and being a rabbi was the bottom of the list," says Rabbi Stanley Schachter of the Jewish Theological Seminary New York. "Now we're finding a lot of interest." Rabbi Robert Hirt of the Orthodox Isaac Bohanan Seminary at New York's Yeshiva University sees a new kind of student. Today's binical candidates, Hirt says, "come from places like Yale and Dartmouth. They were touched by someone in college or took a year of a semester in Israel, and they feel they have a great responsibility to renew."
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Protestant seminaries have boosted enrollment 20 percent since 1979, partly by developing increasingly sophisticated programs. Emory's Candler School of Theology, which offers a dual Master of Divinity MBA, who aspire to church management, is the western Baptist in Ft. Worth—the world’s largest seminary, with 5,086 students.
they still would like to see some more information on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budg said he didn't think divestiture would change apart-heid in South Africa.
can major in Christian Communications. Ministerial openings vary. They abound in the thriving evangelical churches but are rare in the more affluent, suburban precincts of established Protestant denominations. For all their progress, women may still find opportunities limited by congregations that resist hiring them as pastors. Yet this, too, shall pass, says Elizabeth Eisenstadt, another new woman of God. Ordained an Episcopal deacon last June and now an assistant in a Philadelphia church, she hopes to become a college chaplain.
"Often the best way to get a job is word of mouth—the old-boy network," Eisenstadt concedes, and then adds with a laugh, "or more, and more, the young-girl network."
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to hear that chancellor have heard both sides of the story.
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today in the lobby of Strong. The tour is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admirase them for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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
By NANCY STOETZER
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 and site proposal needed revision. Sand T伯瑟, memorial 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 complaint, nor did he 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 memorial committee revisited the revision and sent the plan on the appraisal space committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
Burger 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 being intended 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 spaces committee members and Onken to discuss moving the memorial to Martin 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.
But Berger said the new report submitted
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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 was the work of a team sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
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MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yhawker Towers apartments as the timate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and
opics of the architects during the construc-
tion of their dream. But the dream never
tme true.
The multi-million dollar apartment com ex has been plagued with problems ing from roaches to arsen, since its impletion in the late 1960s.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent roperties are among the highest crime areas on campus, according to KU police records. ohn Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the owers occur in the parking lots.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Fowers, says the crime rate is not that high.
THE MAJORITY of the reported crimes in theft, and criminal damage to property.
Tolers 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.
Colored push pins, representing reported ampus crimes, bury the complex on the rime map in KU police headquarters at Arruthr-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored acks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons marked "Favors and the surrounding area."
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
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for them.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Ohio, investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
"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 them. The Towers have an occupancy capacity of 98%.
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 drivers, lack of lighting and faulty air conditioning.
In the 1970s, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and
banks.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments (or 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钥匙.
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, coach rooms in the buildings, no 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