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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 further findings this fall was approved last night to have a graduate durante 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 used to install the lights if the University agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and 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 Kansan 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.
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this
whether you know it or not."
"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.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4, build boxes for distribution of st publications.
Stallings said he thought that campus
lobbying was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Lichtward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to train the Board of Regents for new lights but put the jungle crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-receiving students.
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
The money would be used to build
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
- Women Engineers $"440
• The Mid-America Journal of Politics
$690
BONN, West Germany — Presi-
Reagan declared a national emerge-
 yesterday and banned U.S. trade
Nicaragua with hints that more sancta-
may be added to the administrative
campaign against the leftist Sandin
regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the correbs seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the naeconomic summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U. S. purses Nicaragua in the same category, as the trade is concerned, as Iran, Viet and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
Last year, Nicaragua sold 875 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
The action, White House aides said, was 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 polie and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinar threat to the national security and force policy of the United States and (I) her emergency to deal w that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Students, faculty and others protesting t the Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong Hotel in downtown The Strong Hotel 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 David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
Apprentices in Celluloid
The sign on the door reads "Reality Ends Here"—but in fact, the tough realities of moviemaking are basic to the curriculum at New York University's film department. In the editing lab, students hunker in isolated cubicles, painstakingly cutting pieces of celluloid. Nearby, their classmates may be stitching costumes or building film sets, wheedling grants out of corporate chattains or checking the bulletin boards—desperate for a fog machine or a production job. "You come in thinking that right away you're going to become George Lucas or Martin Scorsese," says sophomore Christine Sacani, "and what you realize right away is that it's not like that at all."
Both of those directors were trained at
Hollywood is an obvious draw. Classwork occasionally proves commercial; the first script Greg Widen, 26, an M.F.A. candidate at UCLA, wrote for his screenwriting class got him an A—and $300,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox. Screenwriting Prof. Richard Walter says that while few ever strike so big so soon, students can often use scripts to open student dictionaries or criticism that film-school students are unreasonably cocky. "Huge egos are real useful," he says. "Moymaking is a wonderfully arrogant
Moviemaking is a wonderfully arrogant notion. "At USC, well-connected alumni have an unparalleled grasp of grumbled graduates also contribute to its extraordinary facilities, including mini-studi
FILMING AT NYU: LEARNING EACH SKILL FROM ACTING TO CARPENTRY
dio complex of five buildings, made possible by such donors as Lucas (56 million) and Steven Spieberg (51 million).
In recent years, as audiences have begun to savor small, independent features, NYU's film program has inspired more and more applause. Such currently acclaimed young directors as Susan Seidelman ("Desperately Seeking Susan"), Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger Than Paradise"), Joel Coen ("Blood Simple") and Martine Gregory ("The Style of Hillary O'Neill") have made up the arts of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, which stresses the mastery of all trades and the importance of working within a budget.
film schools—and the mere possibility that other young moviemakers might rise that high has given these programs new glamour. According to the American Film Institute, nearly 41,000 students are now enrolled in about 1,100 college film programs around the country. For years Hollywood scuffed at this hothouse approach to learning the craft, but the huge successes of such alumni as Lucas (USC), Scorsese (NYU) and Francis Coppola (UCLA) changed the picture, and now studio executives scout fresh talent among recent graduates. "They need us," boasts Eleanor Hamerow, head of NYU's graduate program. Authorities praise many film departments, including those at Boston University, MIT, Columbia (where "Amadeus" director Miles Forman teaches), the University of Texas and the California Institute of the Arts. The three schools that currently rate the limelight, however, are UCLA, USC and NYU.
- KU India Club — $554.
The California universities were pioneers in film education, and their proximity to
**Teamwork:** NYU favors a hands-on approach. Both undergraduate (980) and graduate students (160) start with still photography and progress to short black-and-white silent films. Then they learn to add a sound track and finally synchronized sound and color. Students produce at least five short films a semester—longer ones at the
graduate level—while working as crew on others' projects. Teamwork is crucial. "A few years ago, people emerging from film schools had the reputation of walking onto a set and wanting to take over," says department chairman Charles Milne. "We decided we had to drive home that film at its best is a collaborative medium."
Periods of study (directing, camera technology, writing, editing, sound, etc.) alternate with periods when students shoot their own films; in their final year, grad students produce a full-length thesis film. "We don't say, 'OK, if you're going to be a director, then you don't need to learn to shoot or edit,' says Prof. George Stoney. "We even make them act so that they experience the experience of knowing what like they are required to take a core curriculum of liberal arts courses and encouraged to venture beyond the requirements. "The liberal arts are very important in making great filmmakers," says Milne. "You can't be a great filmmaker unless you have something substantive to say."
**Parlays:** Atypically, NYU students own the rights to the films they create and say these are their most valuable credentials. Director Seidelman, a 1976 graduate, won a "student Oscar" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for a short, satirical film. On the strength of that achievement, Seidelman obtained a grant for a longer movie. She parlayed this into an $80,000 kit to make "Smitheensher," a feature about punk rockers that aroused the interest of big-time producers who took her to Orion Pictures, which just released the $5 million "Desperately Susen Susan."
The production process can be costly, however. NYU's annual tuition is $8,450, and the expense of filming can add heavily to the burden. Although the school provides facilities and equipment, it offers limited film budgets—a minimum of $600 for a graduate thesis film, for example. Most students try to raise additional funds themselves; they discover that the salesmanship effort can be one of the most valuable lessons of all. "It gets you to go out and sit down with a bigwig from Pepsi or Xerox," says sophomore Sacani. "You learn to be able to go out fighting."
The fight promises to get somewhat easier in the near future. "The studios are searching," says Seidelman. "Everybody's trying to figure out what's new." Her success, and that of other graduate filmmakers, is starting to reverberate through the movie business, according to NYU's Stoney. "They've made money for the industry," he says, "and more and more of the people in control are those who came out of the film schools." As long as their alumni continue to star at the box office, college programs will probably be playing ever-bigger roles.
CATHLEEN MCGUIGAN with CYNTHIA I PIGOTT
in New York and barrares reports
In a statement last week to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budg said he didn't think divestiture would change apartheid in South Africa.
CHRIST 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.
action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University
and other financial service money from donors
and others who use its profits to help the
University financially.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
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 they believe in. Our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Staff Reporter
- Amnesty International — $290.
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 memorial committee said yesterday.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report because he thought it was inappropriate his committee's response.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 memorial by Tam Berger, memorial committee chairman.
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 team planned to present and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which 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 committee intended to stand by its original goal of insuring that the memorial be created by students in honor of 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.
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
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.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by many as a failure and is not to be financed 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, and 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.
"My design was just too much, not as asley as they wanted. The committee is looking for it."
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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now." "be said.
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 will be sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
- KU International Folk Dance Club —
$220.
- Counseling Student Organization — $200
o print the Journal of Contemporary
Counseling.
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
y MICHELLE WORRALL
taff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new ayhawker Towers apartments as the timate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment comex has been plagued with problems, naging from roaches to arson, since its impletion in the late 1960s.
Old photographs capture the smiles and poses of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never tume true.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes, burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
The four-tower complex and its adjacent operty are among the highest crime areas campus, according to KU police records. in Brothers, sergeant of community juices, says half of the crimes at thewers occur in the parking lots.
Colored push pins, representing reported pmus crimes, bury the complex on the map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored sks, representing theft, burglary, noise turbance, damage to private property and scellaneous crimes against persons mark 'Towers and the surrounding area.'
but Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the vests, says the crime rate is not that high. I call them (KU police) several times a day, not for actual problems, but for ental problems," he says.
oslive says he calls police whenever he rsa suspicious noise, such as a loud bang breaking glass
J. Wilson, director of housing, says many he crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which sists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
They're only good if people use them," he
lson says he is not aware that the Towers more crime problems than residence or other apartment complexes.
t. David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem a high concentration of people living in actively small area. The Towers have an nancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons. SAYS THE central location of the rimes makes the apartments an easy target rimes to occur
d apartments operated and built by a carriewire, Okla. investment company and management firm.
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 arson, 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 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 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. cookeats 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