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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 their findings this fall was approved last month to prepare forinate 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.
Another $10,000 in Senate money was used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
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 raps.
taxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The tax was authorized to do such work on comm.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
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THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE. May be imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
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.
In the order, Reagan said, "The pole and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foredeclare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
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.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
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 administrative campaign against the leftist Sandinine regime.
By United Press International
Last year, Nicaragua sold $87 mil worth of bananas, shellfish and to the United States and bought $111 in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the c rebs seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. puts Nicaragua in the same category, a state of concern is concerned, as Iran, Viet and Libya.
Stallings said he thought that campus
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.
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 proposal must be completed by Sept.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting it Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university is the Strong B 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 student chancellor to student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, who have demonstrated
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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CHRISE 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 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."
should be the background of 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.
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 American Institute site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berer, memorial committee chairman.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam 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 committee approved the revision and 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.
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, but he did not yet received his committee's response.
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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LIGHTWARD 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.
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 being financed and designed by KU students."
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.
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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
"My design was just too much — not as asable as they wanted. The committee is looking at it."
"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 will be erected at the sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country*
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.
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690.
- KU India Club — $554.
- Amnesty International — $290.
- KU International Folk Dance Club – $220.
*Counseling Student Organization—$200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
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 hopes 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, angering 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
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported impus crimes, bury the complex on the line map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored skins, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and sellaneous crimes against persons mark Towers and the surrounding area.
slove says he calls police whenever he's a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang reaking glass.
ut Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the vets, says the crime rate is not that high. I call them (KU police) several times a day in training sessions, but for幼儿 problems," he says.
I. Wilson, director of housing, says many e crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which sit of a regular lock and dead bolt.
hey're only good if people use them." he
son says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence or other apartment complexes.
central location of the s makes the apartments an easy target m to occur
David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem a high concentration of people living in tively small area. The Towers have an arcy capacity of 900-1,200 persons. SAYS THE central location of the makes the apartments easy to
originally, the Towers were privately apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla., 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 lighting and faulty air conditioning.
In the 1700s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and pews.
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 gracefully passed the Tavern to their families.
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 1881 Kansan story, students complained about feces in the elevators, cookroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3