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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 would be used to install the lights if the Uni- agreed to donate at least $50,000 in installation
boxes, at a cost of $353 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. An authorized document authorized to do such work 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 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 come, first served basis. Formats
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 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 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.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
"No proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape." said Doug Barker.
LICHTWARD SAD 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.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
The money would be used to buil
- Women Engineers = $440
* The Mid-America Journal of Politics = $690
Reagan bar trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Press Reagan declared a national emergency and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administrat campaign against the leftist Sandi regime.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. pumps Nicaragua in the same category, as export of trade is concerned, an Iceland, Viet and Lubrí.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the correbels seeking to oust the Sandinini announced the trade embargo shortly a arriving in Bonn for the seven-neconomic summit of the main indus democracies.
See ALD, p. 5, col. 1
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does require congressional approval
Last year, Niveagara sold $71 million of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods; mainly agricultural chemical fats and oils, and some machinery, included tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The policies and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and force policy of the United States and (1) her immediate emergency to deal with that threat."
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
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
- KU India Club — $554.
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting at Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong Hill 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, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
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.
action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the organization.
CHRIS 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
University Council's resolution at 1 p.m. today in the lobby of Strong. The talk is part of a series of talks on the topic.
BANKS, WHO HAS visited the protesters daily, said. "I admire them I admire somebody who is willing to stand up for what they are in IWU and that faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
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 execution of the art work from Berger, memorial committee chairman.
- Armnesty International — $290.
Bergean said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other reports because he had not 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 revision 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.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University is committed to building a Vietnam memorial."
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.
by the public spaces committee recommended that another committee be formed to determine the most appropriate site on campus for the memorial.
But Berger said the new report submitted
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 a place to be financed and designed by KU students."
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.
"I RESPECT THERE decision, I see how they feel I'm just sadder and wiser now, he be happy."
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the processor memory was too low.
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 group was "a great success" sponsored Vietnam memorial in the country.
BERGER SAID THAT in October, he had 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 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.
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 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 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.
Jesus says he calls police when he whence he has a suspicious noise, such as a loud bang or crash.
"they are only good if people use them," he says.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, says many of the crimes in the Towers can be prevented by properly using the door locks, which consists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers are more crime problems than residence buildings.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police rays many of the Towers problems stem from a high concentration of people living in relatively poor housing and an occurrency capacity of 100,000 persons.
Originally, the Towers were privately owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla. investment company and expats from Phillips Petroleum Co.
the central location of the
powers makes the apartments an easy target
crimes to occur
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.
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 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." "We knew it wasn't going to be easy."
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the Turner family.
Obb 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 kitchen, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
Sev TOWERS, p. 5, col. 3