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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 would locate problem lighting areas on campuses and prepare light 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 life installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4.280
boxes for distribution of studs
public.
The money would be used to build ej
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 Sandimis regime.
THE EMBRIGE, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to other countries.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports nets Nicaragua in the same category, as it港口 is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $67 million, worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals fats and oils, and some machinery, including tractors.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in its efforts to win more U.S. aid for the comebrebs seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after Bush for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industry democracies.
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 United States and (I) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, w
taken in response to the vote in the Housa
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for
Contras.
By United Press International
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
Sec AID, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
LICHTWARDF SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and give it to schools and crime education and prevention programs.
Students, faculty and others protesting t
Kansas University Endowment Association
to South Africa said yesterday that they
were outraged by the strong lobby
at least until tomorrow.
boxes, at a cost of $55 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 protesters, who have demonstrated since a nine 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, across the University's position on divestiture.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
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 campus.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a firstcome firstserved basis. Employm
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.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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.
Stallings said he thought that campus tightening was a problem and that the Senate
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
The proposal must be completed by sep.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
unallocated account
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth." he said.
other you know if or not
Iraze Doug *Student Senate Executive*
Reza Cherry * chairman council*
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SPORTS
HULK HOGAN
Hulk's Rock-and-Roll Wrestling Revival
"Hulkamania," the worship of a balishad 305-pound beach boy named Hulk Hogan, took religious root in Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24, 1984. That afternoon, the 6-foot 8-inch Hogan took the Wrestling Association championship from "the Madman of Iran," the infamous Iron Sheik. Last month an estimated 40 million pay- TV viewers worldwide watched Hogan and Mr. M. Drill the notorious bad-guy team of Rowdy Hulk Piper and Paul (Mr. Wonderful) Orndorf. The numbers aren't surprising—wrestling shows now outlaw even dirty movies on cable IV. But Hulk Hogan's portrayed Thunderbirds in "Rocks III." He sang in Japan and, with the help of Cydra Lauer, melded the constituencies of pro wrestling and rock music.
I was into drinking beer and fighting. And now I've found that just working out and staying straight is the ultimate natural high. I don't need nothin' else, and I tell people that. And after they watch me, they realize that's who I am.
Hulk—unlike most pro-wrestling idols—is no goody two shoes in the ring. When provoked by cheaters, his response is to take no prisoners, even if it means breaking the rules. Sometimes he forgets his strength outside the ring. Three days before Hulk teamed with Mr. T., comedian Richard Belzer asked the champion to demonstrate a front chin lock on his cable talk show. Belzer went limp, passed out and was taken to the hospital. The next day Hulk talked with NEWSWEEK'S Neal Karlen:
KARLEN: Pro wrestling used to appeal almost exclusively to an audience of blue-haired grandmothers and fans of polka music. Suddenly, the sport is hip. Why?
HOGAN: The main reason wrestling has become so popular is that there is now a new breed of wrestler. A lot of these guys could play any sport they wanted. The reason most of them wrestle is that it 's a one-on-one type of situation—there's no padding, no helmets. A lot of guys would rather have a physical confrontation than be somebody's teammate or sit on the bench for half the part of the reason wrestling is getting so close to him. We want a new breed. I also like to think that I have something to do with it. Being the world champion means I've got a heck of a following. So all I do now is come out and tell the truth. And you know what? A lot of people can't handle it when I talk the truth.
A. No. When I started in Minneapolis, I always went into the ring and tried to wrestle fair. But when other wrestlers started taking shortcuts, I'd go head and give them a nice receipt. The people in Minneapolis loved that. And when I came to New York, I
Q. You started off as a bad guy not afraid to wrestle dirty. Now you’re a hero. Have you changed your fighting style at all?
With Lauper: Training, vitamins, prayer
**A.** The truth—the stuff that really come out of my life. Most people can't handle the fact that at 5 o'clock this morning I was up training. Or they can't handle all the things I tell kids about the importance of training, saying your prayers, eating vitamins and not smoking or drinking. When they listen to me, some people say, "Oh, come on, that big goof." But that the way it is, I play it straight. When I first got out of high school.
Q. What kind of truth?
just kept doing the same thing. If somebody kicked me in the guts, I'd do the same thing to them. And the fans still liked me.
A. First I made friends with her manager, Dave Wolf. He lives up in Connecticut where I have an apartment. We had a lot of things in common. He's a wrestling fan, and I played bass guitar several years ago in some rock bands. Anyway, me and Dave Wolf started talking about music, and all of a sudden Cyndi Lauper started hanging around. Dave talked her into watching wrestling, and she loved it. Then she got interested in the girl wrestlers and approached [in then contender, now women's champ] Wendy Richter and asked if she needed help. Wendy discovered Cydi is into diet and nutrition. One thing led to another, and Cydi ended up managing Wendy. And they've become real successful. I don't know how much Cydi herself strains, but she manages to take care of herself even with the crazy schedule she's got.
Q. What is the connection between rock music and wrestling?
Q. How did you meet Cyndi Lauper?
A. People who follow rock and those who follow wrestling are the same type of fans. They are real energetic. Rock and wrestling are a combination. They're almost the same thing.
Q. How does it feel to be treated like a rock star?
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In a statement last week to the University Senate, Cancellor Gene A. Budig said he didn't think diversification would change apart-heid in South Africa
they suit would like to see some favorwa-
ction on the resolution by the Student Senate
and the resolution by the University
Council."
A. Well, you know, before wrestling me came so popular, a lot of people were embarrassed to come to the matches. Now that wrestling has gotten so big, a lot of movie stars and celebrities are jumping on the bandwagon. Now I don't mind people jumping on the bandwagon. It's nice to see Liberty in action, starting in the crowd. But I know that for those kind of people it's just a fad. I just want to see if they're going to hung around.
Q. You became a symbol of American
Shock. Do you feel your symbols in place?
Do you feel your symbols in place?
Q. Was it hard for you to make the trans- tation from local wrestling hero to intrac- tion?
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to have a charcoalier he has heard both sides of the story.
A. Not really, because I made sure to keep living the same way I always had. When people ask what it's like to be a celebrity, I say, "What the hell's that?" I mean, I'm still wearing my tennis shoes and cowboy boots and training and doing the same things that I did when nobody knew me. You know, it's just my personality to pick my opponents apart, and if that's what being a star is all about, then I've been a star for a long time. I haven't changed a bit. Right now, people are watching me and catching on. They say, "Hey man, this guy's a heck of a role model because he tells the truth about things."
corporation that invests money from ononors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
A I don't know. I know that 200 times day parents come up and ask, "Hey, Huk, would you sign this autograph? My kid really loves you and the things you say." I may sound a little repetitive, but I'm always telling the kids to train, say your prayers and eat your vitamins. I'm not laying a heave rap on them about God, because sometimes that'll turn people off. But they get the message. And like I said, after they watch me long enough they realize that I'm there hyping and then going on drinking and snorting coke in the back room. I'm playing it straight all the way. I'm just telling them what I do for a living and what my life is like. People get off on it.
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."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
university council's resumption at 4pm
today in the lobby of Strong. The talk part
will be held on Thursday.
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
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 memorial 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. The site proposal needed revision, said Todd Berger, 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 committee's response, 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 Cobb for multiple 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.
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Berger 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 as necessary to be financed and designed by KU students."
Marcvin 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 SMD ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
But Berger said the new report submitted
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
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.
'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.
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'm just sadder and wiser now." "be said."
The memorial would list the names of the more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Herger said the memorial would also commemorate a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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Crime, bugs plague life n Towers
y MICHELLE WORRALL
aff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new
iyhawker Towers apartments as the
timeate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment com- ex has been plagued with problems, minging from roaches to arsenal, since its impletion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and
oldes of the architects during the construc-
tion of their dream. But the dream never
time true.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas in a campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the owners occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY of the reported crimes
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported ampuis crimes, bury the complex on the rime map in KU police headquarters at arrub-0'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored icks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons marke Towers and the surrounding area.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the owers, says the crime rate is not that high "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for otental problems," he says.
Joslow says he calls police whenever heears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bangr breaking glass.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many f the crimes in the Towers can be prevented y properly using the door locks, which onsists of a regular lock and dead bolt
"They're only good if people use them." he ays.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence areas.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Jartlessville, Okla., investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
HE SAYS THE central location of the 'owers makes the apartments an easy target or crimes to occur.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1670s, the complex was rocked with anson, thetis, 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.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in nearby neighborhoods, and have an incapacity number of 100,120.
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 did."
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 1981 Kansan story, students complained about fees in the elevators. cook coaches in the buildings, no hot water in the refrigerator maintenance and a lack of parking for cars
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3