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The University Daily
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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 allocated account to finance a project that would cover problem lighting areas on campus and parking lots.
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 $420 toBU the for distribution of student publications.
The money would be used to build eight
boxes, at a cost of $35 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the installation installation authorization to do such work on caroussels.
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 Kansas boxes on campus.
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.
Publications would be able to use boxes on a first-come, first-served basis. Employees of the student organizations and activities center would schedule use of the boxes.
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.
The proposal must be completed by Sept.
15 or the $10,000 will be returned to the Senate
unallocated account.
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.
Karen Greschel, Nunemaker senator, told senators that they needed to allocate the money before the price of improved lighting is made available, and attacks or higher costs for light installation
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this." she said.
"Fokks, 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 harassment, you got more than $10,000 of your money's worth," he said.
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 Going.
Stallings said he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should do something about it. But he said he would allocate money 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 or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new schools, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and provide other state 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 U.S. 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 he was born in Bonn for the seventeenth economic arm of the main industrial democracies.
The total ban on trade, on Nicaraguan airline flights and ships arriving in U.S. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as far as cargo is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO, EFFECTIVE May 7,
was imposed by executive order and does not
require congressional approval.
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 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.
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."
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Crime,bugs plague life in Towers
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident,
and its May flowers as she passes
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 arsenal, 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.
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the ultimate in campus living.
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Sit-in delegates talk
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 Rachel Farrer, vice chancellor for student affairs, to discuss the University's position on divestiture.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
In a statement last week to the Univer-
 Senate, Cancellor Gene A. Budig said didn't think divestiture would change ap held in South Africa.
AMBILER SAID, "I don't think either persuaded the other differently. Essential they still would like to see some favor action on the resolution by the Student Ser and the resolution by the Univer Council."
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
Plans for Vietnam me
Staff Reporter
Students, faculty and others protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's ties to South Africa said yesterday that they want universities in the Strong Hall lobby at least until tomorrow.
- 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
the Endowment Association to break all with companies doing business in South Africa. The country operates under a sys of racial separation called anpardheid.
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, for the design and presentation needed revisions. Tom Berberer, faculty committee chairman.
"We're not dealing with irreconcil differences" he said. "The Universit committed to building a Vietnam marial."
Cobb said he would try to arrang meeting with committee members officials from the office of facilities plan 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, committee approved the revision and presented public spaces committee which sent the report to Cobb saying changes were needed.
BERGER SAID ONE of the probl mentioned in the report was that proposed memorial was too large.
Staff Reporter
Berger said the memorial comm intended to stand by its original gor insuring that the memorial be create students in honor of students.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report or that it was not yet received his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
in the 1970s for the first time.
British television commercials surpassed their American equivalents in style and invention. That was the work of a small group of young directors, still remembered in the British advertising industry as a sort of "charmed circle". Advertising's loss became Hollywood's garn and the entire group is known today for feature films — Man Parker (Midnight Express, Fame), Hugh Hudson (Churchill of Fire, Greatstone), Adrian Lynne (Phonakine), Jons Scott (The Hunger) and his brother, the supreme visual stylist of all, Ridley Scott.
A stocky, red-boarded, soft-spoken man, Ridley Scott looks determined enough to walk through a brick wall (given the giant scale of his productions, he sometimes has to!) His extraordinary visual prowess makes him a favorite among his fellow professionals who realize just what it takes to create the 21st century Los Angeles of Blade Runners, the pannier palette of light and shade in The Duelists, on the harsh and terrifying scifi vision of Allen. Not that
Ridley Scott
Visual Leaps and Staircase Naps
audiences are indifferent to Scott's work
More was one of the most successful science fiction films ever made.
Scott could probably have retired years ago on the proceeds of his commercial company, but he's a ferocious and obsessive worker. While he filmed *Villen*, Scott's family once discovered him asleep on the staircase, too tired to make it up to the bedroom.
His new film *Legend*, is another massive project, opening this summer. It was conceived, Scott says, 'between finishing Alton and starting Blade Runner.' I had the idea of an adventure story involving magic, goldins, pixies, leprechauns and unicorns. Like all such stories, I wanted it
Legend was filmed in Scott's native England and captures some of the essence of that country's ancient myths, Scott, as always, doubled as director and his own camera operator ("because I work so visually, I find it essential"). Tom Cruise from Italy and Roby Business plays Jack O' The Green, who lives a free life in the forest, until he becomes a reluctant hero and battles the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry of Roby Horror Shame fame) in order to save the last unicorn in the world. Filling out the Legend cast are some of the best, and definitely some of the shortest, character actors in the world, "little people" who play the goblins, pixies and leopards.
to hinge on a dimatic struggle between good and evil."
To bring his idea to life, Scott contacted novelist and screenwriter William Hortsgin in 1980. Neither man could have known it would take 4 years and 15 script revisions to get a workable film.
When he's not filming one of his spectaculars, Scott keeps his hand in with commercials. The celebrated 1984 Apple computer commercial shown during the 1984 Super Bowl, for example was his. A man who shrugs personal publicity, Scott has plenty of famous fans ready to land his work, including Peter Hyams, himself the director of three big special effects films (including the recent 2010). Says Hyams, "I think Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott are the two most inventive filmmakers in the world today."
by Mike Bygrave
THE MOVIE MAGAZINE
Scott hallmark; a richly imagined visual world.