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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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Thursday, May 2, 1985
Senate allots $10,000 for lighting study, plan
By JULIE MANGAN Staff
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
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the University agreed to donate at least $50,000 for an installation.
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. Facilities operations is the only department authorized to do such work on campus.
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.
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 would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on 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.
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Publications would be able to use to boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Emlynw
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"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.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
The money would be used to build
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT SAI THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new schools, offer巾 to the money they with the Board of Regents for new lights but not for crimin education 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.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics $690.
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Prescise Reagan declared a national emergence yesterday and banned U.S. trade in Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administration against the leftist Sandinine regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the reebels 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 EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. puts Nicaragua in the same category, as France is concerned, as Ireland, Viet and Libya.
The action, White House aides said, taken in response to the vote in the House for week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contras.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $72 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and fish to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The policies and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force the United States and (I) her declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col.1
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By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strickland brothers had the strong lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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 James Perry, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
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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.
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University Council's resolution at 1 p.m.
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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."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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 chancellor. The results of the design and planning revealed revisions to Tom Berger, memorial commission chairman.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or testimony. He 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 committee approved the revision and sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
Berger said the memorial commissi-
nted to stand by its original goal of
insuring that the memorial be created by
students in honor of students.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by students as too low and it should be financed and designed by KU students."
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.
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, the Campanile, dedicated to those who died in World War II.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel," I just sadden and laud him, "be said to me."
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.
"My design was just too much – not as
as it seems. The company 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 be erected at a sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country*
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Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
by MICHELLE WORRALL
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A 1966 advertisement touted the new ayhawker Towers apartments as the climate in campus living.
Old photographs capture the smiles and opes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never tume true.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ingesting from roaches to arson, since its emplosion in the late 1960s
The four-tower complex and its adjacent operty are among the highest crime areas in campus, according to KU police records. In Brothers, sergeant of community viices, says half of the crimes at the weres occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
Colored push pins, representing reported pmus crimes, bury the complex on the line map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored skis, representing theft, burglary, noise turbance, damage to private property and scellaneous crimes against persons mark Towers and the surrounding area.
olove says he calls police whenever he
rss a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang
breaking glass.
J. Wilson, director of housing, says many se crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which lists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
jut Scott Joslouse, assistant manager of the wives, says the crime rate is not that high. I call them (KU police) several times a day for those problems, but for actual problems "the man has not problem."
They're only good if people use them," he
lion says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence for other apartment complexes.
t. David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers problems stem high concentration of people living in the densely populated areas we have an蛮窄 capacity of 900-1900 people.
SAYS THE central location of the mrs makes the apartments an easy target times to occur.
Finally, the towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville,瓦克. investment company and executives from Phillips 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 1970s, the complex was rocked with anarchy and vandalism to cars and property. Cobb
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 knew it wasn't going to be easy."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the tape.
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 hot water in the room, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
.
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3