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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 for an installation 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 or campus and propose lighting improvements
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.
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the department authorized to do such work on campus.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 at 9:00 a.m.
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 have
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one raid, one harrassment, you got more than $1 million in earnings."
Another $10,000 in Senate money would used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
Stallings said he thought that campus
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents for funding crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the supplemental funds for nonreceipting agencies.
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
The money would be used to build
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
Scheiby of Women Engineers $440.
The Mid-America Journal of Politics —
$690.
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Presi-
Reagan declared a national emerge-
 yesterday and banned U.S. trade v
Nicaragua with hints that more sanction
may be added to the administrative
campaign against the leftist Sandin
regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebells seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a year Born for the seven-national economic summit of the main industrial democracies
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports. Nicaragua in the same category, at least where it is concerned, as Iran, Viet and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $72 mln worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and to the United States and bought $111 mln in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The poli- 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 immediate emergency to deal v that threat."
The action, White House aides said, v taken in response to the vote in the house week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong II lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstrated 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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September 1985 Getting Started
In our September 1985 edition we'll take you through your first job and help you with some of those important beginning career decisions. We'll help you decide which area
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where can you find them? We'll let you know. You'll also find tips on finding your first apartment or home, on settling in, and advice on when and how to make that all-important second move.
Not true, in fact, most college graduates don't remain in their first jobs for more than two years, and many find themselves working in an entirely new field within five years after graduation.
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Commonly held myth #1! I must be certain of my career path before I leave school.
In October, we'll cover the basic guidelines of networking, the essential process of getting yourself known and learning about others, of seeing and being seen. We'll offer valuable
Commonly held
myth # 2 I'm better off finding a job on my own merits, without taking advantage of an "in" might have in my field.
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contacts if you're to maintain a competitive edge. While you may land your first job solely on your achievements and job potential, chances are you'll move on to your second position through contacts you've either made on your first job, or on your own.
November 1985 Office Politics
Office politics command our attention for November, as they will command yours throughout your working life. We'll give you pointers on how to cover your tail, how to make your boss look good, and when to take some of the credit for yourself. And, we'll show you how to look for clues around the office to help you determine what to wear, what to talk about (and what not to talk about), and which way the wind blows on a number of issues. You'll also need knowledgeable advice on when and how to ask for your first promotion or raise, and how to promote yourself without waiting for your boss to do it for you.
Commonly held myth # 3: If I pay attention to politicking and positioning, my work will suffer. If I do my job well, I will be noticed.
Not true: fortunate or not, many on-the-job promotions are as much promotions of personality as they are promotions of performance. Each and every office has its own system, its own way of doing things—and
they still would like to see some favoarable action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
if it's up to you to figure out what accepted, and what's expected, if you're going to get along.
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.
CHRIIS BUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission law student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like to be a chancellor he had heard both sides of the story.
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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.
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."
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
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 museum. The site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, 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 saying more changes were needed.
Berger 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. He had not yet received his committee's response.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
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.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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.
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 KU students as a need to be financed and designed by KU students."
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
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 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.
"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
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.
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 should also be dedicated to the sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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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
topes of the architects during the construc-
tion of their dream. But the dream never
name 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 in campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the owens occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes re burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported ampuis crimes, bury the complex on the rime map in KU police headquarters at arruath-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored acks, representing theft, burglary, noise isturbance, damage to private property and illcassaneous crimes against persons markie 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 eek, not for actual problems, but for tential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang from a car.
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 vs.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers
more crime problems than residence
investigators have
igt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem in a high concentration of people living in relatively small area. The Towers have anupy capacity of 900-1,200 persons. IE SAYS THE central location of the
central location of the
ers makes the apartments an easy target
covers to occur
Originally, the Towers were privately ned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., investment company and executives from Philips Petroleum Co.
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.
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 arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and stores.
"WE KNOW IT was a problem, and it
was a good decision," he also says. "We
knew it was so."
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."
In a 1981 Kansan story, students complained about fats in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the 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