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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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 at a conference 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 you used to install the lights if the Univ agreed to donate at least $50,000 for installation.
boxes, at a cost of $35 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 would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes 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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
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 Senate also voted to allocate $4 build boxes for distribution of $5 build boxes.
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
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this
mosque, whether you know it or not."
Reza Ooughi, 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 rapes.
Stallings he thought that campus lighting 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 help ensure that law and crime "education and prevention programs."
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
The money would be used to build
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
By United Press International
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
BONN, West Germany — Presid
Reagan declared a national emerge
yesterday and banned U.S. trade
Nicaragua with hints that more sancti-
may be added to the administrativ
army against the leftist Sandin
regime.
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*The Mid-America Journal of Politics* ~ $690
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
THE EMBRACO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not require review.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports, Nicaragua in the same category, as Nicaragua is concerned, is concern, Ivie, Vietn and Labua.
The action, White House aides said, taken in response to the vote in the House week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for Contraas.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebels seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
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 force府 of the United States and (1) her international emergency to deal with that threat."
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 chemicals fats and oils, and some machinery, including tractors.
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
Students, faculty and others protesting t. Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would be in the Strong Hobby 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 dyspentite.
around to developing an oversize ego, but instead became an easygoing, nicely gentile guy who seems to have made no enemies. "In a town that takes pleasure in knocking people," says producer Roer Corman. "no one knocks Ron Howard."
Of course, in a town that loves a winner, Howard's also got a lot of clout. As an actor, he played in two No. 1 television series—"The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days"—and a smattering of successful movies from the "Music Man" to "American Graftif." In recent years Howard has applied his golden touch behind the camera. His very first film, "Grand Theft Auto," cost $500,000 and brought in more than $7 million. His third film, "Splash," was a financial triumph; at $35 million in rentals, it was among the top 15 movies of 1984. Much the same is expected of "Cocoon," a sentimental science-fiction fantasy that could make him one of the top directors of the generation. "If 'Cocoon hits,' says Wall Street analyst Lee Igur, who follows the movie business for Panie Webber, "there will be people speaking he's another wunderkind—another Steven Snielberg or George Lucas."
- KU India Club — $554.
Hollywood needs all the new geniuses it can get, and it's increasingly willing to listen to young filmmakers. In recent years the motion-picture industry has developed a blockbuster complex; studios attempt to make one or two megathals per year to pay the bills for everything else. Out of the anxiety about hitting big has come a desperate attempt to grab younger audiences. The fact that 16- to 20-year-olds constitute the prime moviegoing audience explains the current cacae rash of teenagers movies many of whom flip the switch to "Splash," with its widely appealing story and characters, stood out, and catapulted Ron Howard to the directorial forefront. Says Igur, "It was a sign that he's capable of producing movies that are unique on a creative basis and that have worldwide commercial appeal."
A's basically decent man who makes basically decent tins, Ron Howard may be the perfect filmmaker for his time. He creates conservative movies—touching stories with strong, middle-class values and an old-fashioned sensibility that harks back to such masters as Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis. "To make a movie," says Howard, "I feel that I should really believe in its theme. It should be something that I can identify with and relate to." If that sounds a bit heavy, remember the wry touch Howard brought to the theme of a in "Splash" discussion between Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) and his brother Freddie (John Candy).
ALLEN: How is she? She's ah . . . she's a mermaid. I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she . . . she's a fish.
FREDDIE: Nobody said love's perfect.
"Cocoon," Howard's warmhearted fantasy, is scheduled for release June 21. It tells the story of a group of young, attractive, humanoid aliens who come to retrieve some magical objects from the Gulf of Mexico. In the course of their visit to Florida's west coast, they encounter a down-and-out pleasure-boat skipper—who begins to fall in love with one of the extraterrestrials and a group of senior citizens who begin to feel and act much younger. The movie sparkles with fine ensemble performances from a large cast, including such veterans as Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Maureen Stapling, plus such bright young faces as Steve Gutenberg, Raquel Welch's daughter, Tahnee, and Tyrone Power Jr. In its knack of seeming simultaneously magical and believable, "Cocoon" resembles Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" and the best work of author Ray Bradbury. "With 'Cocoon,' I tried to create an environment which makes total sense, reactions which are very believable," says Howard. "In doing that, you earn the right to be as fanciful as you want without people wincing. It allows the audience to participate in the fantasy."
Twentieth Century-Fox, the studio releasing "Cocoon," hopes there will be a lot of audience to participate. The studio has had a rocky past few years—including a shift in ownership, a new management team and a well-publicized cash flow problem. Originally
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
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.
the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council.
Ron Howard has grown up before our eyes—through a career that kept him working steadily on TV and in movies from a wee tyke to a young adult. His shock of red hair and boundless enthusiasm made him a memorable seven-year-old in 1962's 'The Music Man' (top), and in 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father' (1963), as a young boy who had lost his mother, he showed uncommon vulnerability as well as heylish charm.
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.
and use money from donors
and other sources to make profits to help the
University financially
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
- 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.
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."
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
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 revised design and the design and revision received Tom Berry, 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 requests, but he did not yet 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 award 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.
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.
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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how they feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now," he said.
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 a challenge, so it be financed and designed by KU students."
Marcin 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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
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 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.
'My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.'
But Berger said the new report submitted
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 one of the few individuals sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
- KU International Folk Dance Club — $220
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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, ranging from roaches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
The four-tower complex and its adjacent repertory are among the highest crime areas n campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the owers occur in the parking lots.
Colored push pins, representing reported campus crimes, bury the complex on the crime map in KU police headquarters at Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored acks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark he Towers and the surrounding area.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
burglary, theft, and criminal damage to
vehicles.
Joslove says he calls police whenever hears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang breaking glass.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the owls, says the crime rate is not that high. "I call them ('KU police') several times a day," she said, but for "critical problems," he says.
J. J. W, director of housing, says many the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which insists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he vs
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers
we more crime problems than residence
its or other apartment complexes.
mg David Cobb of the Lawrence police
t many of the Towers' problems stem
m a high concentration of people living in
relatively small area. The Towers have an apancy capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
E SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target crimes to occur
regularly, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla. investment company and executives from Phillips Petroleum Co.
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.
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.
in the 1700s, the complex was rocked with anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and piers.
"WE NEW IT was a problem, and it
didn't have a good record. I also says that
it doesn't work."
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 feces in the elevators, cockroaches 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