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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 lighting improvements.
Another $10,000 in Senate money we used to install the lights if the Unigreed to donate at least $50,000 ft installation
boxes, at a cost of $335 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. The department 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.
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.
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
womens, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
The Senate also voted to allocate $1 billion boxes for distribution of public funding.
"IF IT'S GOING to prevent one attack, one ransom, one harrassment, you got more than $10 million."
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 State
Ruth Lightward, co-chairman or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT 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.
In other action, the Senate voted to allocate the following supplemental funds for nonrevenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440.
The money would be used to build
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690
Reagan ban trade, hints of sanctions
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Pres Reagan declared a national emerg yesterday and banned U.S. trade Nicaragua with hints that more sanct may be added to the administra- campaign against the leftist Sandi regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in efforts to win more U.S. aid for the reebels seeking to oust the Sandinists announced the trade embargo shortly after he was born 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. pats, Nicaragua in the same category as, Argentina is concerned, as Iran, Vietn
THE EMBARZO, EFFECTIVE May was imposed by executive order and does not apply to employees.
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.
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Last year, Nicaragua sold $72 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and co to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chec fats and oils, and some machinery, include tractors.
In the order, Reagan said, "The policies and actions of the government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinar threat to the national security and (foreign) security of the United States and (1) her declarations of emergency to deal with that threat."
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
- KU India Club - $554.
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.
Students, faculty and others protesting t Kansas University Endowment Association ties to South Africa said yesterday that the Strong lobby at least until tomorrow
they still would like to see some favorable action on the resolution by the Student Senate and the resolution by the University Council."
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.
corporation that invests money from donors and other sources and uses profits to help the University financially.
CHIRS 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.
Scheduled to discuss the background of the 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 I see. I am not a supporter and faculty are generally apathetic and afraid."
Plans for Vietnam memorial rejected again
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 president of the foundation. The site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berer, memorial committee chairman.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or response. Berger did not yet get his committee's response.
"My design was just too much  not as asale as they wanted. The committee issute for it."
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 was impressed 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.
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 being too small to be financed and designed by KU students."
But Berger said the new report submitted
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that the proposed memorial was too large.
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.
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.
"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.
- Amnesty International - $290.
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 Vietnam memorial is 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
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawk Tower 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 Catruth-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 and theft, the 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.
Joslie says he calls police whenever he hears 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 by properly using the door locks, which consists of a regular lock and dead bolt.
Wilson says he is not aware that the Towers have more crime problems than residence buildings.
Sgt David Cobb of the Lawrence police says many of the Towers' problems stem from a high concentration of people living in the Towers. The occupancy capacity of 900-1200 persons.
HE SAYS THE central location of the Towers makes the apartments an easy target for tourists.
Originally, the Towers were privately-owned apartments operated and built by a Bartlesville, Okla. investment company and expulsion from Phillips Petroleum Co.
In the 1970s, the complex was racked with assets, thefts and vandalism to cars and property.
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 drivers, 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
When the apartments switched ownership, the Lawrence police gratefully passed the Towers beat to the KU police department.
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. cookroaches in the buildings, no hot water in the cabinets, maintenance and a lack of parking for cars.
That same year, a grocery cart full of
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