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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 campus and propose lighting improvements.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would,
used to install the lights if the Univers
agreed to donate at least $50,000 for li
installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280
boxed boxes for distribution of studie
pubs.
The money would be used to build eij
boxes, at a cost of $533 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charges of building the boxes, and the investment document 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 senate.
"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.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to step even one tape, Doug Swain."
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 boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
LICHTWARDT SMID 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.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
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.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
Publications would be able to use to boxes
BONN, West Germany — Presider 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.
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
"Fols, rape's alive and well on this
mosis, whether you know it or not."
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as if the trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Lobby.
THE EMBRIGO, EFFECTIVE MAY
was imposed by executive order and does
nothing to the administration.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mili- worth of bananas,贝壳, shellfish and coff to the United States and bought $111 mili in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica fats and oils, and some machinery, includi tractors.
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 his bloom 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 extraordinaire threat to the national security and forest policy of the United States and (D) here is an international emergency to deal with that threat."
By United Press International
The action, White House aides said, v taken in response to the vote in the House week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the United Nations called on the Strong lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstration 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 disyvetation.
*The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690*
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
--an especially rattly season, 10 million tans turned out. This year, ESPN expanded its coverage to include 15 Sunday-night teacasts in addition to the College World Series, which will be played in Omaha during the first week of June "There's no substitute for exposure," says Southern Cal's 70-year-old head coach, Rod Dedaux, the closest thing college baseball has to a grand old man and the skipper of the U.S. Olympic team. "Fred Lynn was just as exciting at USC, but nobody knew he was playing." Miami pitcher Dan Davies couldn't agree more. "Television见
One season Fraser equipped his Hurricanes with Kelly green gloves. He finally started charging admission and branched out into promotions that included giveaways after every inning: cars, money, diamonds, income-tax advice, mystery vacations, open-event-heart surgery.
Mississippi State's Clark in the Olympics: New power
- KU India Club - $554
Nothing is too wacky if it gets people into the ballpark. Take the Maniac's wedding. "You could jet around the country, and you'll never see 4,000 people at a college baseball game on a Sunday night," says Fraser of the Miami-Maine contest. "You know, those people were out there to see a ballgame. But they were also out there to see the Maniac got married."
Miami got lights in 1973, scholarship in 1974. That was the year that the Hurricanes made their first trip to the College World Series. But the real coup for Fraser- and college basketball — came in 1979 when he went to ESPN, the sports TV network, with the idea for an "East-West Classic." The series would pit the Hurricanes against the Trojans of Southern Cal., a
college baseball dynasty whose graduates include Fred Lynn, Dave Kingman and Tom Seaver, to name a few. "I told them that college baseball is a good product, and they should cover it," Fraserras, as if intoning the obvious. He also mentioned that the series would be played in February, when folks were sick of football and cold weather and would be longing for palm trees and sunshine and baseball.
In 1979, the year before college baseball's ballout on ESPN, total attendance was 5.8 million. By 1983 it had skocketed to a record 12.8 million; in 1984, despite
posure is a big thing," explains the Michigan native about his decision to play ball for the Hurricanes. "You've got to market yourself."
None of this has gone unnoticed by major-league executives "Many clubs are already concentrating more heavily on college players," says Bob Wirtz of the commissioner's office. "There are more good programs, coaches are doing more teaching and the teams are playing more games." Miami's star right field Calvin James has no regrets over his call to the Hurricanes rather than in the system of the Cincinnati Reds, who drafted him out of high school. "College offers so many more experiences," says James, a senior majoring in international finance and marketing. "You get a chance to mature and grow and learn the game."
C coaches and athletic directors are learning the marketing game. Maine's ticket sales were raised from $4,000 to $57,000 in the TV series.
Black Bears play the first 30 games of every season in summer climes. To fill its 80-litre stadium, Texas, which ranked fifth in attendance last year, works hard to bring in national powers like Arizona State and Oklahoma. Later this year college officials are planning to talk with ESPN about a College All-Star game. So far, the majority of those who have insisted that baseball programs, well operated, can become profitable. The $55,000 that Miami's program pulled in this year says he's right.
Michigan's Larkin; A farm system like pro football \ and basketball \?
OH-KALMBACH
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
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
they suit would like to see some favourable action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
Oklahoma \ Witt: An early-round selection in the draft
CHIRS BUNKER, SHWNEE 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.
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the community.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
- Armnesty International - $290.
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said "I admire them I admire somebody when I willing to stand up for what I believe in. In 1983 and 2004 faculty and students are generally apathetic and afraid."
university Council's resolution at 1 p.m. today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
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 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 chancellor. The report said the design and construction of Tom Berrer, memorial chairman.
By NANCY STOETZER
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or comment, but Berger did not get 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 committee approved the revision and sent the report to the Cobb 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 SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
Martin 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.
Burger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as an important goal to be financed and designed by KU students."
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 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
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"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.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 40 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Berger said the list was made possible by a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- KU International Folk Dance Club — 20.
- Counseling Student Organization - $200 print the Journal of Contemporary counseling.
Crime, bugs plague life n Towers
aff Reporter
y MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yawker Towers apartments as the climate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, naging from roaches to arson, since its impletion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and types of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never ime true.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas in campus, according to KU police records. In Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at theowers occur in the parking lots.
THE MLIORITY OF the reported crimes
were burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported impus crimes, bury the complex on the time map in KU police headquarters at审诬-oLEary Hall. Fifty-four colored cks, representing theft, burglary, noise sturbance, damage to private property and incarcerated crimes against persons mark eTowers and the surrounding area.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the powers, says the crime rate is not that high "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for dental problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he
ars a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
breaking glass.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which insists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towersive more crime problems that residents face are increasing.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers problems stem on a high concentration of people living in the neighborhood. The ancapacity number of 900-1,200 persons
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a artilleva, Okla. investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
THE central location of the
wives makes apartments an easy target
crimes to occur
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
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 1970s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and buildings.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE NBFW IT was a problem, also to
have a good record. Wilson says "we
have it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gracefully passed the key.
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 1881 Kansan story, students complained about floors in the elevators. cook roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
Sev TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3