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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Thursday. Mav 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 $353 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.
Another $10,000 in Senate money you 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.
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.
"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 $100,000."
the proposal would prevent rapes.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate center.
Stallings said he thought that campus
hunting was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and give it to schools and crime education and prevention programs.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690
- KU India Club — $554
- Amnesty International - $290
The Senate also voted to allocate $4 build boxes for distribution of s publications.
The money would be used to build
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Presi-
Reagan declared a national emerge-
yesterday and banned U.S. trade
Nicaragua with hints that more sancti-
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 corebels seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriv ing in Bonn for the seven-n economic summit of the main industry democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. pits Nicaragua in the same category, as trade is concerned, as Iraq, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBRACO EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
Last year. Nicaragua sold $57 worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought 811 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical 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 policy and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force the United States and (1) he 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 the Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would attend a meeting of the Strong Hill lobby at least 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.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
MOVIES
THE DIRECTOR: A HOME SCREENING OF 'NIGHT SHIFT', PERSUADING DARYL HANNAH TO EAT A LOBSTER SHELL IN 'SPLASH' AND INSTRUCTING IT LITTLE MERMAID
planned for release next Christmas, "Cocoon" was shifted to summer in what many industry analysts see as an attempt to pump some fresh money into the company. "The studio not only needed product, they convinced us that it was really a summer picture," says Richard Zanuck, one of three "Cocoon" producers and part of the production team that brought us "Jaws" and "The Sting."
Such faith didn't come automatically. To get his first shot at directing, Howard had to resort to a mild form of extortion: in exchange for acting in the phenomenally popular drive-in movie "Eat My Dust!" he got the go-ahead from producer Roger Corman to make his own car-crash spectacle, "Grand Theft Auto." After this breakthrough, Howard was determined to keep on directing, even in the anonymous world of TV-movie production. There, much in the same way that film-school graduates learn their craft (page 8). Howard made three films, including the highly praised "Skyward" (1980) with Bette Davis for NBC. Yet in that same year, ABC refused Howard's request for directing assignments when his contract for "Happy Days" was up for renewal, so he left the series. "They offered me a lot of money instead," says Howard, "but that's not what I wanted. I had committed myself to being a director."
Howard has become a remarkably democratic filmmaker, willing to listen to cast and crew. "What I enjoy is that moment of creation, whether it's from an idea of mine or someone else," he says "Movies are made up of thousands and thousands of little steps that need to be taken correctly. Each of those little steps feels pretty good, and over the course of the day there are lots of little payoffs." As an actor, he brings a special
sensitivity to character portrayal and casting. "Character are the most important thing to me," he says—and it shows. In "Night Shift" Howard coaxed wonderful—and very different—performances out of Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton. In perhaps his finest work as an actor, Winkler made an engaging transition from nebish factotum to self-confident, normal guy, and Keaton shot off sparks as a jive hustler. Steve Gutenberg of "Cocoon" says Howard is "an actor's director," who gives people a lot of room and guides them in a way that is more mature than his chronological age."
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.
and the resolution by the University Council.
In one way or another, Howard's been preparing to direct all his life. "At the age of seven or eight," he recalls, "when people would ask me. What do you want to be when you grow up", it was my stock answer to say, 'I want to be an actor-writer-producer-director-cameraman-and-baseball player'. He clearly remembers his satisfaction, at seven, when the director of the Andy Griffith Show" used one of his suggestions. He started making home movies at nine and won a national contest at 17 with a one-reeler he submitted as "R.W. Howard."
The would-be director was learning.
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.
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today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a teach in organized by the protesters.
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said, "I admire them I admire somebody here to stand up for what we are doing in India. I find our faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
By NANCY STOETZER
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.
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 construction of the building by Tom Berver, memorial committee chairman.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report matters in this meeting and 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 team received the report 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.
Marcvin 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 students who felt it should be financed and designed by KU students."
BERGER SAYED 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 grave 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.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The 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 he was part of a group sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision. I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
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.
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Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
y MICHELLE WORRALL
aff Reporter
Old photographs capture the smiles and pies of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never me true.
A 1966 advertisement touted the new yihawker Towers apartments as the climate in campus living.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, nicking from roaches to arsons, since its mpletion in the late 1960s.
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 rivices, says half of the crimes at the wers occur in the parking lots.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes-
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
property.
Colored push pins, representing reported mpus crimes, bury the complex on the me map in KU police headquarters at truth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored ks, representing theft, burglary, noise turbance, damage to private property and secellaneous crimes against persons mark Towers and the surrounding area.
oslive says he calls police whenever he
rs a suspicious nose, such as a loud bang
breaking glass
but Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the vers, says the crime rate is not that high I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for actual problems," he says.
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"
lison 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 anancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons. SAYS THE central location of the mrs makes the apartments an easy target ultimately, the Towers were privately
ginally, the Towers were privately apartments operated and built by a leslieville, Okla., investment company and outsiders from Phillips Petroleum.
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.
Complaints began before the entire complex was built.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE NNEW IT was a problem, and it did have a good record," Wilson says. "We were very happy."
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 Kansas story, students complained about fences in the elevators, cook roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the maintenance and a lack of parking for cars
That same year, a grocery cart full of
Sev TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3