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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 light improvements.
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 campas.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first come, first served book. Formula:
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.
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 would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
Another $10,000 in Senate money were used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation
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
vombs, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one raid one harassment, you got more than $1 million."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
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 Sarasota
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAI 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 taxes.
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
The money would be used to build
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Presidian Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administrative campaign against the leftist Sandinine regime.
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Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebelseeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a year later. Born for the seven-national economic summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. pats Nicaragua in the same category, as Nicaragua is concerned, is concern, Ivan, Vieta and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
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.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $27 million worth of bananas, beef shellfish and fish to the United States and bought $111 mil in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemic fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
See AID, p. 5. col. 1
In the order, Reagan said. "The polis and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinar threat to the national security and force the United States and (I) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
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Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university would be the Strong lobby at least until tomorrow.
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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.
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Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
BANKS, WHO HAS visit the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire somebody who is willing to stand up for what is wrong in our country and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid.
University Council's resolution at 1 p.m. today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is about a new report on gun violence.
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 KU Vietnam memorial committee said yesterday.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 foundation, and site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berrer, memorial committee chairman.
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's 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.
Bberger 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 he did not vet received his committee's response.
"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, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by the students and designed to be financed and designed by KU students."
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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.
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
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 names of those who lost their lives were sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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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 ropes 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 MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
urgulary, theft, and criminal damage to
them.
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 owers occur in the parking lots.
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 dental problems," he says.
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the rime map in KU police headquarters at arrauth-O'Leary Fifty. Fifty-four colored racks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark Towers and the surrounding area.
Lost problem, he says.
Joslov says he calls police whenever hears 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 by the door locks, which nists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he ys.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers we more crime problems than residence areas.
David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem in a high concentration of people living in densely populated areas. The police have an capacity capacity of 900-1,200 people.
1E SAYS THE central location of the wers makes the apartments an easy target crimes to occur.
Originally, the Towers were privately -nited apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., investment company and executives from Philips Petroleum Co.
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 ansem, thefts and vandalism to cars and public places.
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. I also says "I don't have a good record."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully 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."
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. cockroaches 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