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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 lighting improvements.
boxes, at a cost of $355 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.
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 Kansas 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
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 will be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be received by Sept.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
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.
Ruth Lichtward, co-chairman or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT 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.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
The money would be used to build
BONN, West Germany — Presidian Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanction may be added to the administrative campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the corebels seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-national economic summit of the main industry democracies.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE Map was imposed by executive order and does not require an update.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. puts Nicaragua in the same category as, for example, it is concerned, as in Vietnam and Libya.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $75 worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemic 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.
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 security in the United States and (1) he described a primary emergency to deal with that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col.1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would be joined by the Strong Black lobby at least tomorrow.
The protesters, who have demonstration, since 9 a.m. Monday, are doing more than sitting. Three protesters met with yesterday Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from a about dozen to almost 50, want
used to call him the Bob Cousy of comedy," says the show's creator, Garry Marshall, "because Bob Cousy was such a versatile basketball player, he could feed the ball to others or when you really needed him to, he could score himself."
Impossible as it may seem, Howard had a fairly normal childhood. "When kids would come up to me and say, 'What's it like to be a movie star?' I'd never really have an answer because I didn't know anything about it except working." he says. "I had two very separate lives. I didn't know any Hollywood kids and I didn't hang out with all of them." Rance and Jean Howard told Ron he didn't have to act if he didn't want to, and only once did he feel pressured to take a job. Asked if he wanted to be in "The Music Man," Ronny said he didn't want to miss a public-school first grade. "I remember the vibes in the car," he says. "They said, 'Oh, OK,' but clearly they thought it was a neat opportunity. Later, they asked me again and I said, 'Yeah, yeah.'"
Fame hasn't always been that easy to handle Ronny Howard learned how to write so he could sign autographs in 1960 when "The Andy Griffith Show" became a smash. Separating his screen life from his home life wasn't hard ("Acting wasn't being natural. It wasn't a game. It wasn't play"). but being a child celebrity did cause conflicts. "It was confusing when I back to school and wounded me to get into fights and stuff to it. I was an OK kid. Bother, Clint" used it." Howard and his brother, Clint—also a successful child actor, who starred on the TV series "Gentle Ben" —did most of their growing up in middle-class Burbank and always attended public schools when not working.
Since establishing himself as a director, Howard has put acting on hold. "I do like to act," he says, "and once I get my directing career under control I might want to ease back into it." Actually, now that he's begun to work more behind the lens than in front of it, Howard has begun to enjoy his career for the first time. He said he has happened last four or five years," he said. "People have stopped making a real big deal out of meeting me. They don't come up and say, 'Iope, how's Aunt Bee?' They say, 'I hope 'Cocoon' does real well.'"
Little people need big people
While the protectiveness of Rance and Jean Howard kept little Ronny untarnished by glitz, it sometimes grated on the adolescent Ron. In particular, he remembers being "a little bit impatient" to marry a girl he met in his 11th-grade English class. Now his wife of 10 years, Cheryl Howard, a budding screenwriter, remembers that Ron was"real shy and nice when he talked in the classroom." The product of a Southern Baptist upbringing, she hadn't seen his acting when they began to date:"My dad wouldn't let me watch much TV." The couple had to overcome his parents' tight reins and her father's initial distrust of show-business people. "But my dad ended up liking
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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.
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BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said. "I admire them. I admire somebody who is willing to stand for what he believes in. I find that students and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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 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 chancellor. The report said the design and layout of the sculpture by Tom Bemer, memorial 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 matters. But Benger said he did not get 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 plan received pre-revision and sent the plan on to public space 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.
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"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam 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.
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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by the students as a success, but it be fianced and designed by KU students."
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, the Campanile, dedicated to those who died in World War II.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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, which will be sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
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.
"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.
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Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
BY MICHELLE WORRALL
staff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new hyawker Towers apartments as the climate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and types of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never come true.
The multi-million dollar apartment com-
plex has been plagued with problems,
using from roaches to arson, since its
impletion 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 sites occur in the parking lots.
colored push pins, representing reported pups crimes, bury the complex on the map in KU police headquarters at stO'Rylean Hall. Fifty-four colored s, representing theft, burglary, noiseurbance, damage to private property andillaneous crimes against persons markfowers and the surrounding area.
E MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes rlief, theft, and criminal damage to
ove says he calls police whenever he a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
Scott Joslieve, assistant manager of the irs, says the crime rate is not that high. on them (KU police) several times it aches in their hands, but for financial problems," he says.
Wilson, director of housing, says many crimes in the Towers can be prevented openly by the door locks, which is of a regular lock and dead bolt.
'y're only good if people use them," he
on says he is not aware that the Towers have crime problems than residence buildings.
complexes.
David Cobb of the Lawrence police any of the Towers' problems stem high concentration of people living in lowly small area. The Towers have an capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
DAYS THE central location of the makes the apartments an easy target to occupy.
originally, the Towers were privately
and apartments operated and built by a Barvilleau, Okla. investment company and ACE Capital.
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 asson, thefts and vandalism to cars and public buildings.
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
havesa good record. It also says." We
know it had a broken seal.
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the law.
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 can 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, cookroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the laundry maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3