The finals stretch
KANSAN
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Vol. 95, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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 week. The college will graduate 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 will provide lighting areas on campus and propose library funding.
Another $10,000 in Senate money would be used to install the lights if the University agreed to donate at least $50,000 for light installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,290 to build boxes for distribution of student public
The money would be used to build eight
boxes, at a cost of $355 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the management investment authorized to do such work on campuses.
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. Employees of the student organizations and activities center would schedule use of the boxes.
The boxes could not be used by any group or individual to promote a political candidate, party or coalition in campus, local, state or national elections.
The proposal to improve campus lighting
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
unallocated account.
Karen Greschel, Nunemaker senator, told senators that they needed to allocate the money before the price of improved lighting would be higher. The costs of attacks or higher costs for light installation
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this," she said.
"Folks, rape's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF ITS GOING to prevent one attack, one rape, one harrassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth." he said.
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, acredit.
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.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should do something about it. But he said he should to allocate money only to install new lights.
The Senate rejected Stallings' substitute motion that would have established $20,000 for light installation if the university gave $50,000, but would allocate no money for preparation of the lighting proposal.
Ruth Lichtwardt, co-chairman of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARDT SAID 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 non-revenue code student groups:
- Society of Women Engineers — $440
- The Mid-America Journal of Politics — $690.
- KU India Club — $554.
- Amnesty International — $290.
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
- KU International Folk Dance Club
£220.
By United Press International
- Counseling Student Organization - $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling.
BONN. West Germany — President Reagan declared a national emergency yesterday and banned US trade with Nicaragua with hints that more sanctions may be added to the administration's campaign against the leftist Sandinista regime.
Reagan, frustrated by Congress in his efforts to win more U.S. aid for the contra rebels seeking to oust the Sandinistas, announced the trade embargo shortly after arriving in Bonn for the seven nation summit of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaragua airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports pads Nicaragua in the same category, as far as Nicaragua is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya
Last year, Nicaragua sold $57 million worth of bananas, beef, shellfish and coffee to the United States and bought $111 million in U.S. goods, mainly agricultural chemicals, fats and oils, and some machinery, including tractors.
THE EMBARGO. EFFECTIVE May 7,
was imposed by executive order and does not
apply to employees.
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 foreign interests of the United States and (1) hereby 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 last week to deny Reagan $14 million in aid for the Contras.
See AID, p. 5, col.1
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident,
and its May flowers as she passes
Sit-in delegates talk
Staff Reporter
The protesters, who have demonstrated since a 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, across the University's position on doylestory.
Students, faculty and others protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's ties to South Africa said yesterday that they would continue their sit-in in the Strong Hall lobby at least until tomorrow.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
AMBLER SAID, "I don't think either sers persuaded the other differently. Essential they still would like to see some favora action on the resolution by the Student Sen and the resolution by the Univers Council."
In a statement last week to the Universi-
 Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said didn't think divestiture would change ape
heid in South Africa.
the Endowment Association to break all with companies doing business in So Africa. The country operates under a system of racial separation called apartheid.
Plans for Vietnam me
"We discussed divingite and the world," Cobb said. "I don't know that came to any resolution, but it was a fr fruittal conversation."
Construction of a campa 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.
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
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 chancellor. The report said the design and execution of the memorial by Tom Berver, 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 response to the complaint, not yet received his committee's response.
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from roaches to arsenal, since its completion in the late 1960s.
Cobb said he would try to arrange meeting with committee members, the officials from the office of facilities plans to work out the differences.
rejected the original design submitted John Onken, St. Louis senior, winner of student design contest Onken revised design and resubmitted the plan to memorial committee in the fall. 1 committee approved the revision and s. 2 committee approved the spatial spaces which sent the report to Colb saying no changes were needed
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.
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University committed to building a Vietnam merial."
Berger said the memorial commit intended to stand by its original goal insuring that the memorial be created students in honor of students.
BERGER SAID ONE of the proble mentioned in the report was that proposed memorial was too large.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
Old photographs capture the smiles and hopes of the architects during the construction of their dream. But the dream never came true.
Colored push pins representing reported
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.