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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, May 2, 1985
Senate allots $10,000 for lighting study,plan
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN
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 be used to install the lights if the Univers agreed to donate at least $50,000 for lift installation.
The Senate also vote to allocate $2,390 boxes for distribution of stud publicity.
The money would be used to build eq
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
BONN, West Germany — Preside Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade wi Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administrator campaign against the leftist Sandinis regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in I' efforts to win more U.S. aid for the cont rebelseeking to oust the Sandinista's announced the trade embargo shortly after Bonn for the seven nineteen economic summit of the main industry democracies.
By United Press International
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua,
airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. por-
ports Nicaragua in the same category, as f
port cargo is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam
and Libya
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemica fats and oils, and some machinery, included tractors.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not require congressional approval.
In the order, Reagan said, "The poca and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force the United States and (I) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The action, White House aides said, wa-
taken in response to the vote in the House la-
week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for t
Contras.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association to South Africa said yesterday that would continue their sit in at the Strong H
The protesters, who have demonstrated since a 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 divestiture.
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. Facilities operations is the only department 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.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 4 Kansas boxes on campus.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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 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 campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi. Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, aired.
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate 'he $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.
"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.
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
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 nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440
JUSTICE
Bodily-h women Engineers = $440.
The Mid-America Journal of Politics = $900.
wait too long. An ex-student who declares bankrupt five years after a loan comes due can be discharged from the debt, says Doris Ann Duffy, who heads the debt-collection unit for the U.S. attorney's office in northern Texas. But, Duffy adds, "most of the time we will have sued them before it reaches the five-year point."
Bankruptcy hardly offers a free ride. Besides harming a fledging credit rating, bankruptcy can have professional repercussions. William Gahan's application to the Minnesota bar was rejected in 1979 because he had declared bankruptcy, a move which freed him from $14,000 in student loans. Gahan, now a practicing lawyer in San Francisco, blames his problem on loan officers who "refused to give me a break." Back on his feet, Gahan reaffirmed his debts one year ago and has begun to pay them back.
Start off on the right track.
The government and cooperating banks deserve some of the blame for the loan-collection problems. Despite periods of interest during the Nixon and Carter administrations, collecting bad debts has rarely been a high federal priority. At the same time, eligibility requirements for loans were eased in 1979 and tuition bills jumped—two related phenomena that increased student loans. Some observers suggest that during much of this period banks wrote loans for students as freely as they did in 1946 and 1948 nations. "With student loans, 'find world nations.' With student loans, 'find world nations.' Will give money to practically anybody because law the government will pay them back if they are not paid off by the debtor," says Blanchard in Los Angeles. "So you get people with dubious backgrounds getting loans of as high as $20,000." Some never finished school, and some took only correspondence courses of one form or another that did not yield much income potential.
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And some simply didn't understand what they were doing. A young woman who now works at the University of Houston remembers her loan checks as the functional equivalent of manna. "It was so great to get them in the mail—I never thought about the future," she says. After she graduated in 1980, her father made the payments on her $7,955 loans. When he stopped last year, she was left with a $1,250 monthly salary which she uses to pay her rent and car payments but not the $6.38 price that the government wants for her loans. "I said I'm sorry but I can't afford it," she recalls. That excuse won't stall the creditors for long. But whether she pays or not, perhaps the Feds ought to be concerned with just what she learned with her college money. "I feel kind of ignorant about the whole thing." she says. "It was a treat to get a check to pay for school, but I just didn't think about what would happen when it was time to pay it back."
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they still would like to see some favorable 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 divesiture would change apartheid in South Africa.
corporation that invests money from donors
and other sources and uses profits to help the
museum.
CHIRS BUNKER, SHAWNEE 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.
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 up for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
University Council's resumption at a particular in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a series of speeches.
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.
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or answer to it, but he did not yet received his committee's response.
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 design and the desk, the proposal needed revisions. Tom Berner, memorial committee chairman.
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 plan was reviewed, revived, and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
Burger 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."
- KU India Club — $554.
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.
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.
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 staff as it should 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.
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.
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."
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.
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, which was sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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• Amnesty International – $290
• KU International Folk Dance Club –
$220
• Counseling Student Organization – $200
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Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
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.
"I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
THE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes and burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Jailee says he calls police when heever he lavisps a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or a grinding.
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 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.
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 relatively concentrated of people living in a relatively small area, and an occupancy capacity of 900-1200 persons.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towns 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.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1705, the complex was racked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and furniture.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE KNFW IT was a problem, and it we knew a good record. Wilson says. We knew it."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gracefully 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."
In a 1981 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cook-roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the kitchen, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
The University has not been able to solve all of the problems with the Towers.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3