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Vol. 95, No. 144 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday. Mav 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 for a conference 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 light improvements.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would used to install the lights if the Univers agreed to donate at least $50,000 for it installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,280 in boxes for distribution of stud publication fees.
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.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. A new department authorization to do such work on campuses.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
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.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
The money would be used to build e
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
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.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD 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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
Deduct by Women Engineers $440
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BONN. West Germany — Preside Reagan declared a national emergent yesterday and banned U.S. trade w Nicaragua with hints that more sanctine may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinis regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as if its trade is concerned, as in Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebel rebels seeking to oust the Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after he was born in Horn for the seven-nation economic summit of the main national democracies.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May be imposed by executive order and does not affect the terms of the contract.
The action, White House aides said, waka taken in response to the vote in the House week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coff to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
In the order, Reagan said. "The pike 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 (1) her national emergency to deal with that threat."
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting a Kansas University Endowment Association to South Africa said yesterday that the university had joined the Strong Hobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrat 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 divestiture.
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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CHRIS 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.
- KU India Club — $554.
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
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them. I admire those who are for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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University Council's resolution at 1 p.m. in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of the event.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Renorter
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 president of the site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berrer, member committee chairman.
Bberger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or the response, but he did not yet 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 public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
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.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
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.
Bberger said, "in terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by a number of people so it had to be financed and designed by KU students."
- Amnesty International — $290
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
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.
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 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 grave 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.
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 a fitting tribute to the sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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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 arsenal, 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.
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.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
property.
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, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
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.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the precinct. About 10 percent have an occupancy capacity of 900-1200 persons.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence buildings.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for crimes to occur.
Originally, the Towers were privately-owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., investment company and executives from Phillos Petroleum Co.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In the 1970s, the complex was rocked with asson, thefts and vandalism to cars and public 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.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE NNEW IT was a problem, and it
would have a good record. Wilson says "We
know it is a good record."
When the apartments switched ownership,
the Lawrence police gratefully passed the
tender.
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 floors in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3