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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 findings this fall was approved last night by the committee 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 University agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
boxes, at a cost of $355 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes and the management authorized to do such work on campus.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
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 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.
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."
Reza Zoughi. Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first come, first served basis. Empho-
"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.
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
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 the money with the Board of Regents for new schools and crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonreceiving patients:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
directions.
The money would be used to build
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE. May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
Specially Of Women Engineers — $440
The Mid-America Journal of Politics
$690
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. p puts Nicaragua in the same category, as the country is concerned, as Irian, Viet and Libya.
BONN, West Germany — Presi-
Reagan declared a national emerg-
 yesterday and banned U.S. trade
Nicaragua with hints that more sanct
may be added to the administrati-
campaign against the leftist Sandur
regime.
In the order, Reagan said, "The political and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force of the United States and (1) her peculiar national emergency to deal with that threat."
Last year, Nicaragua sold $75 million worth of bananas,贝壳, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
The action, White House aides said, taken in response to the vote in the House week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress, in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the co-rebels seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
See AID. D. 5. col. 1
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting Kansas University Endowment Associatio tie to South Africa said yesterday that it lobbied for the Strong F lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrated since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting. Three protesters mei yesterday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
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- KU India Club — $554.
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So call 1-800-528-4800 and ask to have a
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 apartheid in South Africa.
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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."
operation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the
CHRIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to have a characterler he has heard both sides of the story.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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.
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 KU Vietnam memorial commitee said yesterday.
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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 chairman of the department, and then agreed on the proposal needed revision, said Tom 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 response, but given that 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 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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
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.
But Berger said the new report submitted
Bberger said, "in terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayis. The memorial was perceived by KU students as 'not financed and designed by KU students.'"
"I RESPECT THEIR DECISION, I see how the 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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 80 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Berger said the KU students were members of a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- Amnesty International — $290.
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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new 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.
- 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 Jayhawk Tower Apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
and 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 raches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas in campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the Flowers occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes
bargaining, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Larruth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored acks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark the 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 potential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he ears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many of the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which assists 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 we more crime problems than residence buildings.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police
tys many of the Towers' problems stem
om a high concentration of people living in
relatively small area. The Towers have an
capacity capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
HE SAYS THE HEAD
HE SAYS THE central location of the owners makes the apartments an easy target r crimes to occur.
originally, the Towers were privately
fined apartments operated and built by a
bartleville, Okla., investment company and
executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
Complaints began before the entire com plex 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 1700s, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and property.
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 knew it wasn't going to be easy."
When the apartments switched ownership,
in Lawrence police gratefully passed the Tower
on Saturday.
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 feces in the elevators. cookeaches in the buildings, no hot water in the cabinets, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3