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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 their findings this fall was approved last month. The mandate 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 and the project management 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.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4
build boxes for distribution of $1
to schools.
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.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
on a first floor, first series books. Fewer.
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 campus, whether you know it or not."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
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 million of your money's worth," he said. But the senators said they didn't think the proposal was right.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape." said DouG Smith.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDF SMD 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.
The money would be used to build
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
- Women Engineers * - $440
• The Mid-America Journal of Politics
$690
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Prestone Reagan declared a national emergere yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administrative arms against the leftist Sandin regime.
See Ald, p. 5, col.1
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to the following:
- KU India Club — $554.
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
Sit-in del
In the order, Reagan said. "The police and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force of the United States and I, here declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Renorter
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebelseeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-national summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports. Nicaragua in the same category, as Venezuela is concerned, is an Arab, Viet, and Libya
Last year, Nicaragua sold $87 million of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
Students, faculty and others protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would be in force for the Strong 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 Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, across the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
MOVIES
RON HOWARD AT WORK ON THE SET OF HIS SOON-TO-BE-RELEASED MOVIE 'COCOOON', AND WITH HIS WISE CHERYL IN THE MEMORABILIA-FILLED FAMILY ROOM OF THEIRCALIFORNIA HOME: TO MAKE A MOVIE, I FEEL THAT I SHOULD REALLY BELIEVE INITS THEME. IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THATI CAN IDENTIFY WITH AND RELATE TO.
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.
outside the door to Ron Howard's $575-a-night New York hotel suite sits a creamy pizza box. It seems incongruous in a place where most folks would rather have aslice of chateau-
and the Resolution by the Student Senate and the Resolution by the University Council."
Where did this man go right? Just about everywhere he could. As the older of two sons in a showbiz family, he had an impossibly normal upbringing in southern California. Somehow he never got
place more toks would rather have a slice of chateau-briand, but the anomalies are just beginning. Inside the suite, on the living-room floor, Hollywood's hot young director is scouting around with his four-year-old daughter, Bryce, while wife, Cheryl, looks on. It's just about 8 p.m. — more than 12 hours since he got up and went to work on his latest film, "Coooroo." Today he's been recording dialogue, and everything won't wail. Now with the Howards go out to celebrate? No way. This $1 million-dollar maker would much rather spend the time watching his kid play with her mermaid toy. For someone who's been in show business for 29 of his 31 years, Ron Howard sure comes on like the middle-class guy next door. And in many ways, he is.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MAY 1985
- Amnesty International — $290.
and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
CHRIS RUNKER, SHAWNEE Mission mission student and one of the protesters who met with the administrators, said, "I would like them to hear the chancellor have heard both sides of the story.
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."
university content's resolution at 1 p.m.
in the lobby of Strong. The talk is
about
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
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 KU Vietnam memorial committee said.
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 site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, memorial committee 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 that it was 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 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."
Plans for the Vietnam memorial began in fall 1883. During that semester, student leaders formed the memorial committee, received money for construction from the Student Senate and conducted a student design contest.
Burger said the memorial continued 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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel. I'm just sadder and wiser now he said."
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 an indication to be financed and designed by KU students."
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial
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 that the memorial, sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
BERGER SAID THAT in October, he met with public space 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 Sladium, 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
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
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
tapes of the architects during the construc-
tion of their dream. But the dream never
same true.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from roaches to arsenal, 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 'owers occur in the parking lots.
Colored push pins, representing reported amputes crimes, bury the complex on the rime map in KU police headquarters at arruth-o'Leary Hall. Fifty-four colored cicks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons marke Towers and the surrounding area.
THE MAJORITY OF the reported crimes
bargaining, theft, and criminal damage to
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the owers, says the crime rate is not that high "I call them (KU police) several times a eek, not for actual problems, but for stential problems," he says.
Joslove says he calls police whenever he hairs a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang 'breaking glass.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which unsists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
"They're only good if people use them," he ys.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers were more crime problems than residence sites.
sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police
sgt many of the Towers' problems stem
in a high concentration of people living in
the Towers, where 70% have an
capacity capacity of 900.1 person
IE SAYS THE central location of the users makes the apartments an easy target crimes to occur.
ned apartments operated and built by a
bouttesville, Okla. investment company and
bank of Oklahoma.
Bartesville, 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 the 1700s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and押金
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
"WE NEWT it was a problem, and it if there was a good record, then says "We knew that."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the钥匙.
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 faces in the elevators, cook roaches in the buildings, no hot water in the kitchen, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3