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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 month and willinate during its final meeting of the semester.
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unauthorized account to finance a project that would build a new library at the 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 its installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 boxes for distribution of study public materials.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The department authorized to do such work on campers.
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
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.
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 money would be used to build ei
the proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this
mous, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"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.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT SADM 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 the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
Buchly Ww Women Engineers $440
The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $990
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
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 Sandinis regime.
- KU India Club — $554.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the contri-bets seeking to oust the Sandinista announced the trade embargo shortly after Bonn for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industry democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports Nicaragua in the same category, as I I padrum is concerned, is against, Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mili-
worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coil
to the United States and bought $111 mili-
n in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica
fats and oils, and some machinery, includi
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 fore policy of the United States and (I) here present a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, we
waken in response to the vote in the House a
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for
Contras.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting a Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the group is fighting the Strong Hobby at least until tomorrow
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
they still would like to see some tawarrie action 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. Budig said he didn't think divestiture would change apart-held in South Africa.
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, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
CHRIST BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said. "I would like to thank the chancellor he has heard both sides of the story.
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the community.
BANKS, WHO HAS visit the protesters daily, said "I admire them I admire them I admire them I admire them for what he believes in 1st that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
university counsellors' resumption at a p
today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part
of a series on mental health.
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
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.
- Amnesty International — $290.
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 site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berner, 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 because he believed it was not important, nor did his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
rejected the original design submitted by John Onken, St. Louis student, 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 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.
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.'
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
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 the students as not being financed and designed by KU students."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
Plans for the Vietnam memorial began in fall 1883. 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 names of the fallen were sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- KU International Folk Dance Club - 220.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200
to print the Journal of Contemporary
counseling.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes 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 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.
THE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes
alleged, theft, and criminal damage to
property.
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 Towers and the surrounding area.
Jeslew says he calls police whenever he behalves someone, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high. "I call them (KU police) several times a week because I work with them, but for potential problems," he says.
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
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence buildings.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers problems stem from a high concentration of people living in high-rise buildings, an occupancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
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, Okla. investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
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 1760s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and manhole covers.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
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 on says I do
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the keys to the landlord.
Obb 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 Kansas story, students complained about floors in the elevators, cook-roaches 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