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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 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 light 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.
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.
boxes, at a cost of $35 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 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.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan boxes on campus.
Publications would be able to use to boxes
on a first name. First second. Finally
The proposal will be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth." he said.
"Fols, rape's alive and well on this
suspect, whether you know it or not."
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape," said Doug Stallings, graduate senator.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
Stallings he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
LICHTWARDT SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents for a public-private crime education and prevention programs.
The Senate also voted to allocate build boxes for distribution of publications.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
*Society of Women Engineers* — 440
*The Mid-America Journal of Politics*
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The money would be used to bui
Reagan bar trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
- KU India Club — $554.
BONN, West Germany — Pres Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned U.S. trade. Nicaragua with hints that more sanity may be added to the administrat campaign against the leftist Sandi regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the rebelns seeking to oust the Sandinis announced the trade embargo shortly after Bann for the seven-nation economic summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports, put Nicaragua in the same category, as its trade is concerned, as Irian, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May be imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
See AlD. p. 5, col. 1
Last year, Neciarapa sold 571 milt worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 milt 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 Contra.
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 the United States and (1) her declare an emergency to deal with that threat."
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting in Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the university would be the Strong 1 lobby at least 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 David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
peers. Most of the people I talked to voted for Reagan, but few could identify his position on any of the relevant issues. Most of them did not know who either Jesse Helms or Jerry Falwell was, and some could not even name the vice president of the United States. However, all of them jumped on the "Ronnie Bandwagon." I find that as a generation, we tend to be self-serving, money-oriented, naive and lacking in conviction and spirit. I am ashamed.
JILL COURTS Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
The Suicide Pill
Jason Salzman posits that the suicide pill would "demonstrate to the Soviet Union that people in the United States are absolutely serious about preventing nuclear war" (MY-TURN). What the suicide pill would actually alert the Soviet Union to is the fact that they can strike with no fear of retaliation. Personally, I'd rather face the horror of a protracted death from radiation poisoning than face the horror of watching my friends systematically put themselves to death.
SAM E. KINNEY JR.
Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.
Congratulations to Jason Salzman for having the intelligence and insight to see the nuclear-war issue for what it is and for having the guts to talk publicly about it by suggesting the suicide-pill option. As a middle-aged woman who has returned to college, I am appalled at the ignorance and apathy of the conservative majority on college campuses today and say brave for anyone who dares to voice knowledgeable but different views; it is much more at our world than a "good job after graduation," and it is time we pull our heads out of the sand, face the issues and start working for peace.
ANN CLARK Camillus, N.Y
Once universities begin to "stockpile suicide pills," as suggested by Mr. Salzman and Brown students, what is to prevent other institutions and organizations from doing likewise? This would not only create a high degree of availability for hugely bulky medications, and one that ultimately would rarely be realized as such after the fact.
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DAWN ROBERSON University of Kansas Lawrence, Kans.
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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.
- Amnesty International - $290
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 other sources and uses profits to help the university financially.
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
university council's resolution at 1 p.m.
today in the lobby of strong. The talk is part
of the program at the university.
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 yesterday.
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Represent
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 president of the memorial office site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berger, memorial committee chairman.
Bberger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or whether he received his committee's response.
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 memorial committee received and sent the plan on to the public spaces committee, which sent the report to Cobb saying more changes were needed.
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.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
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.
Martvin 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 the students and to be financed and designed by KU."
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 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.
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 subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional."
"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.
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 event, which was sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country,
- 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 property are among the highest crime areas on campus, according to KU police records. John Brothers, sergeant of community services, says half of the crimes at the Towers 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 tacks, representing theft, burglary, noise disturbance, damage to private property and miscellaneous crimes against persons mark the Towers and the surrounding area.
THE MAJORITY OF THE reported crimes in burglary theft, and criminal damage to property.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager or use Towers, says the crime rate is not that high
"I call them (KU police) every week, not for actual problems, bu. for potential problems," he says.
Jolove says he calls police whenever heears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many of the crimes in the Towers can be prevented properly using the door locks, which they use when dead beds begin. "They are only used if people cannot enter."
"They're only good if people use them," he says.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers are more crime problems than residencealls or other apartment complexes.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police many of the Towers' problems stem on a high concentration of people living in relatively small area. The Towers have ancapacity capacity of 900-1,200 persons.
central location of the
wakes makes the apartments an easy target
'crimes to occur
Originally, the Towers were privately-owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla. investment company and executives from Philips 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 anson, thefts and vandalism to cars and police.
In 1980, the Kansas University Endowment Association bought the apartments for an undisclosed sum to provide more housing for students.
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"We knew it was a problem."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the report.
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 kitchen, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars
That same year, a grocery cart full of
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3