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KANSAN
The University Daily
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
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Senate allots $10,000 for lighting study,plan
Thursday, May 2, 1985
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Represente
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.
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the management 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.
Publications would be able to use boxes on a first name card. First name cards are
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.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
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.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you get 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 said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
Ruth Liehtward, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LIGHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and hire a police and crime education and prevention program.
- Society of Women Engineers — $440
- In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics $500.
The Senate also voted to allocate build boxes for distribution o publications.
The money would be used to b
- KU India Club - $554.
Reagan ba trade, hint of sanction
By United Press International
BONN. West Germany — Pr Reagan declared a national eme yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sa may be added to the administr campaign against the leftist San regime.
Reagan, trustered by Congress efforts to win more U.S. and for the rebels seeking to oust the Sandi announced the trade embargo shortly arriving in Bonn for the seven-nation summit of the main indie democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and flights arriving in U.S. puts Nicaragua in the same category, a place it is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval.
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 mln worth of bananas, beet, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 mln in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemi-fats and oils, and some machinery, inclu- tractors.
In the order, Reagan said. "The politi- actions and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordi- threat to the national security and force the United States and (1) he declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
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
See Ald, p. 5, col. 1
Sit-in del
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting to Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the students were calling on the Strong lobby at least until 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, discuss the University's position on divestiture.
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E 5 M N L
Your cover story on conservative students (NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a chilling portrayal of the current university scene. The prevailing attitude of smug complacency equates success with morality, wealth with happiness and the lack of an American shooting war with world peace. This Yupie paradise cannot last forever, and I want to be around for the reaction when the BMW-and-condo bubble bursts.
Spain. It's all Europe in a single country.
JAMES A. DUNLAP III University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C.
"The Conservative Student" is unfair to the philosophy of conservatism in the broader sense. To equate the New Materialism with conservatism is an insult to true conservatives who oppose abortion and support a strong defense against the Soviet Union. Many of your so-called conservative students who voted for President Reagan would never take up arms for the nation. I voted for Reagan out of principle, not sellishness.
JOHN CHIU
University of Chicago
Chicago, III
It is a sadly ironic sign of the times that the conservative cause finds its strongest support on college campuses when President Reagan seems determined to weaken higher education by restricting student aid and reducing tax deductions for gifts to educational institutions. It's another example of this administration's uncanny ability to elicit support through blind patriotism rather than reasoning.
- Amnesty International — $290.
JOHN J. GARDINER
University of Vermont
Burlington, VU
Your story was on target in depicting students as materialistic, but way off in trying to attribute some philosophy, political or otherwise, to this phenomenon. Students today are trend followers, not trend setters.
RUSTY CARTIMILL
University of Georgia
Athens, Ga.
Let us see how patriotic the "conservative students" are when Reagan sends them to fight a senseless war in Central America. They'll be squealing like stuck pigs.
MARION SHANNON Northridge, Calif.
erty, runaway militarism and technology that is transforming our lives, it appears that our generation has chosen instead the materialistic complacency of Yuppie consumerism and religiosity inspired myopia. C. Poulard
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Your deeply troubling survey of the American campus mood confirmed my worst fears: selfishness, me/us-versum them mentalities and a zealous flocking to easy, absolutist religious platitudes. Rather than accepting the challenge of dealing with the real world of overpopulation, pov-
ANDREW C. POLLARD
State University of New York
Buffalo N Y
Why do you identify fitness, good clothes and an up-to-date image with reactionary political views? I study engineering, dress as stylishly as money permits and uphold feminist, pacifist and liberal ideals. students realized that both fitness and humanitarian dances gave them to fade their jeans and kept long hair, maybe the '60s could be left to rest in peace.
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.
DAVID L. BONNER
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.
It is ironic that so many conservative student groups wave flags in celebration of the American way. Indeed, these students should not be labeled "conservative" at all. True conservatives want to conserve the traditional ideals of America: opportunity, equality and justice for all, together with compassion for the less fortunate. On the other hand, the only thing "Reagan Youth" seem to want to conserve is their own financial well-being.
was a nomination by the Student Senate and 'the resolution by the University Council'
Your article accurately depicts the current values of most students in the United States today. However, there are still those among us who, because of our moral commitment to a pervasive good in the world, are determined to look beyond pragmatism and shape our lives according to broad-minded liberal values so essential for rational decision making. I find it disturbing that the present conservative tide is moving toward a value system measured in terms of one's degree of affluence.
PETER M. MOORE Boston University Boston, Mass.
ROD DANIEL
University of Montana
Missoula, Mont.
I demand the immediate release of the penguin known as Opus from your capacity. Holding Opus hostage and forcing him to pose for your March '85 cover as a lead-in for your article on "The Conservative Student" was disgusting and misleading. Steve Dallas should have been the obvious choice for your cover, but of course you'd have had to pay him!
MARITY TAKIMOTO University of California Berkeley, Calif.
As one of the few liberals left on campus, I've found increasing ignorance and apathy concerning any sort of politics among my
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money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially
CHRISE 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.
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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.
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."
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
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.
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 museum. The site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berrer, 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 testimony, and he did not yet 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 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."
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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 the memorial committee intended to stand by its original goal of insuring that the memorial be created by students in honor of students.
Bberger said, "In terms of planning, the goal of the memorial seems to have fallen by the wayside. The memorial was perceived by the faculty as not being appropriate to be financed and designed by KU students."
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.
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.
- KU International Folk Dance Club — $220.
But Berger said the new report submitted.
Onken said he didn't think he would be designing the new memorial.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the 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.
"I RESPECT THEIR decision, I see how the feel, I'm just sadder and wiser now he said."
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
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 was sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
"My design was just too much — not as subtle as they wanted. The committee is looking for something more traditional.
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never came true.
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
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 are burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Joslove says he calls police whenever heears a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or breaking glass.
But Scott Joslove, assistant manager of the Towers, says the crime rate is not that high "I call them (KU police) several times a week, not for actual problems, but for potential problems," he says.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many if the crimes in the Towers can be prevented y properly using the door locks, which onsists 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 we more crime problems than residence centers.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police mgs many of the Towers' problems stem in a high concentration of people living in relatively small area. The Towers have ancapacity capacity of 900-1,200 persons. I SAVES THE CENTAL location of thewers makes the apartments an easy target crimes to occur.
Originally, the Towers were privately -ned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla. investment company and executives from Phillips 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 1670s, the complex was rocked with arson, thefts and vandalism to cars and 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 warrant.
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 effects in the elevators, cock 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
See TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3