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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
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN
A proposal to pay experts $10,000 to study campus lighting this summer and report findings this fall was approved last night by the Senate toinate during its final meeting of the semester.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
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.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4 billion boxes for distribution of $5 public funding.
The money would be used to build
BONN, West Germany — Presti Reagan declared a national emergereyesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administrative campaign against the leftist Sandinig regime.
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 industry democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U. S. pts. Nicaragua in the same category, as cargo is made in concern, is called. Viet, Camb and LdvB.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $75 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural cattle fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE. Mag was imposed by executive order and done in accordance with law.
In the order, Reagan said, "The polio and actions of the government of Nicaragua, constitute an unusual and extraordinaire threat to the national security and force United States and (1) here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
By United Press International
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
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.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting i Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university will be the Strong Hobby 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 vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
boxes, at a cost of $355 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The document authorized to do such work on campaics.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
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.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
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 $1,000 will be returned to the Secu-
rity.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one
one harassment, you got more than
$100,000."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights to stop even one rape," said Doug Stelling.
Ruth Lichtward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
Stallings said he thought that campus.
LICHTWARDT SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and create a national crime location 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.
they would like to see some favora-
bale action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budd said he didn't think divestiture would change apartheid in South Africa.
CHIRIS 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.
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire somebody who is willing to stand up for what I have in front of him. My faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
the 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.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690
By NANCY STOETZER
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.
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 chair of the design and the proposed need revisited. Tom Berver, memorial committee chairman.
- KU India Club — $554.
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. He did not yet received his committee's response.
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 were given to him and his sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
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 rejected and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
Burger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as an art project, but it is financed and designed by KU students."
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
- Arnnest International — $290.
Martvin 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 Onkne 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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
- KU International Folk Dance Club $220.
- Counseling Student Organization - $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
aff Reporter
y MICHELLE WORRALL
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yawker Towers apartments as the timate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and pees of the architects during the construcon of their dream. But the dream never me true.
The multi-million dollar apartment comx has been plagued with problems, using from roaches to arson, since its plition in the late 1960s.
the four-tower complex and its adjacent property are among the highest crime areas campus, according to KU police records. In Brothers, sergeant of community voices, says half of the crimes at the occurr in the parking lots
BE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
colored push pins, representing reported pus crimes, bury the complex on the map in KU police headquarters at rh-OutLEary Hall. Fifty-four colored s, representing theft, burglary, noiseurbance, damage to private property andcellaneous crimes against persons marktowers and the surrounding area.
ove says he calls police when he whenever he faces noise, such as a loud bang asking glare.
rts Joseph, assistant manager of the firm, says the crime rate is not that high. Can then (KU police) several times a day, or at least several times, but for real problems," he says.
Wilson, director of housing, says many crimes in the Towers can be prevented operely using the door locks, which is of a regular lock and dead bolt.
AYS THE central location of the apartment an easy target to encircle.
'py're only good if people use them," he
Originally, the Towers were privately- nized apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Oklah, investment company and executives from Petroleum 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 light in faulty air conditioning
on says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence problems.
David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem from people living in very small area. The only anew capacity of 900-1200 persons
In the 1970s, the complex was rocked with
theft; the vanilla saloon to cars and
proper tobacco.
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 didn'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 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