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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 to be presented at late in its final meeting of the semester.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be
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 Uni agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4 build boxes for distribution of 5 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 money would be used to build
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.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the personnel document authorized to do such work on campus.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
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 boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
The proposal must be completed by Sept. 15 at the ROW $000.00
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first name, second name.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights on is good to stop even on rape," said Doug Stallings.
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 EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
BONN, West Germany — Presidie Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administration campaign against the leftist Sandinine regime.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
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 foresee the United States and (1) he declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. pads Nicaragua in the same category, as its concerns is concerned, in Viejo, Vista and Libya.
By United Press International
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 year earlier. Bern for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industrial democracies.
The action, White House aides said, taken in response to the vote in the house I week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and corn to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
Students, faculty and others protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the strong lift on the Strong if lobby at least tomorrow.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
The protesters, who have demonstration 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.
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Ron," says Chery1, "because he got me home from a date by 9:30." By and large, Ron Howard has remained true to his conservative upbringing. He neither smokes nor drinks hard liquor, although he's been known to put away a few beers. Although he's always earned good money—$1 million for directing "Cocoon"—he and his wife live modestly by Hollywood standards. They both wanted a family but waited until they'd been married five years to have their first child. Howard considers his "straight arrow" reputation rate and concedes that, in an industry known for conspicuous substance abuse, and probably never will be socially in mind. I knew not when I was on Happy Days and not now. But don't invite me to those kinds of parties." Howard admits that he used to feel uncomfortable denying drug use in the past but now, he says, "not drinking and not taking drugs is starting to become kind of hip."
So what does Ron Howard do for a good time? Well, he goes to a lot of movies. He likes to play a little basketball, and he loves to watch sports on TV. A big Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Howard collects baseball memorabilia—including a 1927 contract Babe Ruth signed to appear in a movie called "Lily of the Laundry"—and he owns $2.2 percent of the Portland Beavers, a minor-league farm team of the Philadelphia Phillies. More often than not, he simply spends time with friends like Winkler and, especially, with his family: "I now enjoy going to the zoo, and the trips to Knotts Berry Farm can be heaven."
Most people will tell you that Ron Howard is a very nice man—and he is. Dressed in coat-cloth shirt, crew-neck sweater, blue jeans and running shoes, he looks just about the same as he did on "Happy Days," except for some additional hair on his upper lip and a little less on the top of his head. But don't be fooled into thinking he's Richie Cunningham; he's much smarter, if not as funny. ("Personally, he's not a funny guy," says Tom Hanks. "When you
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sit in a room with him, you don't get bowled over." And he's so earnest that you believe him completely when he says, with customary rhetoric, "He's so stupid," but I also consider myself to be a person who is pretty good at taking advantage of good fortune by working hard."
Maybe a little too hard. "It's a constant footrace between family and work." It says Howard. "I love to work and get a great deal of gratification and security out of it." While on "Happy Days," Howard would write screenplays at night and make 16-mm movies on the weekly Friday screenings, his first theatrical feature was edited and edited while he worked in the series. While he wrote a "reformed workaholic," during a recent tull in "Cocoon," Howard few to Ohio for a few days to scout locations for "Gung Ho," a movie that hasn't even been signed yet by a studio. Says Caryl Howard. "He said to me
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.
"Babe, after "Happy Days" we're going to have much more time. Well, "Hanow Days" is over and it's still crazy."
Council."
Which is why the Howards will be moving to the East Coast this summer. By leasing a house in Greenwich, Conn., they hope "to separate business from family. If you're in show business and in L.A., you can't get away from it all," says Cheryl in the family room of their overcrowded West Coast house. (Even with three bedrooms in the main house and an additional two in the attached guest quarters, there is barely room for Ron and Cheryl in a marry.) Bryce's three-month-old twins, Paige and Joe are four dogs, two goats and three rabbits. "So saying it's feel a real mistake," says Howard, "the only decisions going is going so well and Los Angeles is not." The last decisions get made." Considering his box-office record, however, odds are that the Hollywood decision makers will be only too happy to come to Ron Howard.
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NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
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.
University financially
BANKS, WHO HAS visit 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."
body in the body or strong. The talk is part of a teach-in organized by the protesters.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
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 Vietnam memorial committee said yesterday.
By NANCY STOETZER
LICHTWARDT SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and accept them as gifts and crime education and prevention programs.
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 execution of the building by Tom Berver, memorial committee chairman.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or action, but that it did 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."
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.
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 it to the Cobb spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
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.
Berger 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 important part of the student be financed and designed by KU students."
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
But Berger said the new report submitted
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
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 at it very closely."
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now." he said.
The memorial would list the names of the more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action. Bergeg said the memorial should be a student-sponsored Vietnam memorial in the city.
trans 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.
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE WORRALI
A 1966 advertisement touted the new ayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
Old 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 com-
plex has been plagued with problems,
ingress from rachets to arson, since its
implention 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 vices, says half of the crimes at the events occur in the parking lots.
t, says John Jeslove, assistant manager of the firms, says the crime rate is not that high. call them (KU police) several times a week to complain about problems, but for real problems, "he says."
colored push pins, representing reported poisons crimes, bury the complex on the map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored as, representing theft, burglary, noiseurbance, damage to private property andcellaneous crimes against persons markFowers and the surrounding area.
IF MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
alleged, theft, and criminal damage to
love says he calls police when heuer he a suspicious noise, such as a lot of bang lion
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.
my're only good if people use them." he
on says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence or other apartment complexes.
David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem high concentration of people living in the area and an 'envy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
signally, the Towers were privately apartments operated and built by a lesville, Okla, investment company and owners from Phillips College.
AYS THE central location of the
departments an axy target
times to occur.
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 170s, the complex was rocked with asses, 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 I didn't have a good record."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the Tupelo City Police Department.
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 feces in the elevators, cockroaches in the buildings, no 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