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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 week and will be presented during its final meeting of the semester.
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 voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unallocated account to finance a project that includes construction lighting areas on campus and proposed light installation.
The Senate also voted to allocate $4,290 to busi-
nal boxes for distribution of student pub-
lish materials.
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 installation department 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.
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this," she said.
Karen Greschel, Nunemaker senator, told senators that they needed to allocate the money before the price of improved lighting increases. More advances or higher costs for light upgrades
"Folks, rage's alive and well on this campus, whether you know it or not."
"IF IT'S 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, agreed.
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 he thought that campus lighting was a problem and that the Senate should do something about it. But he said he would 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 Lichtward, co-chairman or the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD 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
- Counseling Student Organization — $200 to print the Journal of Contemporary Counseling
By United Press International
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 Bann 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. ports puts Nicaragua in the same category, as far as the trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO. EFFECTIVE May 7, was imposed by executive order and does not impair
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 Contra.
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 policy of the United States and (1) hereby give the national emergency to deal with that threat."
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident,
and its May flowers as she passes
The multi-million dollar apartment complex has been plagued with problems, ranging from reaches to arson, since its completion in the late 1960s.
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 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.
Sit-in delegates talk
By CINDY McCURRY
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
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 would continue their sit-in in the Strong Hall lobby at least until tomorrow.
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, across the University's position on divestiture.
In a statement last week to the Univers Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budsad said didn't think divestiture would change apa heid in South Africa.
the Endowment Association to break all the with companies doing business in South Africa. The country operates under a system of racial segregation called apartheid.
"We discussed divestiture and the ways the world," Cobb said. "I don't know that I came to any resolution, but it was a frre fruitable conversation."
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 construction of Tom Berver, memorial committee chairman.
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report because the purpose was not to report, but to a committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
BERGER SAID ONE of the problems mentioned in the report was that t proposed memorial was too large.
Berger said the memorial commit intended to stand by its original goal insuring that the memorial be created students in honor of students.
rejected the original design submitted John Onkne, St. Louis senior, winner of the student design contest Onkne revised A design and resubmitted the plan to the memorial committee in the fall. T he plan was then sent to the plan on to the public spaces committee which sent the report to Cobb saying me- changes were needed
"We're not dealing with irreconcilable differences," he said. "The University committed to building a Vietnam merial."
Cobb said he would try to arrange meeting with committee members a officials from the office of facilities planni to work out the differences.
Tom Cruise
Creates a Colortful New Role
Like his pal Timothy Hurton, whom he met when they made Ips in 1981, Joan Cruise played Nathan Detroit, the pristine suitied proprietor of a floating game in the musical comedy Grays and Dolls. These were high school performance minds, noton, but both ladies emerged with a deep desire to become professional actors. Today Cruise — like Hurton — is one of the major forces in American film, with The Outliders, All the Right Moves, and the highly successful Ride Business to his credit. H hurton has gone from playing schoolfloors to portraying spires, but Cruise has diversified even farther. In his next film, Legend, Cruise will be a green man who can talk to unicorns.
"I was fascinated with Jack O' the Green," Crius says of his sixth film character he also played a minor role in *Endless Love*. "I was able to watch as the character developed in the director's mind and in the script. It's a wonderfully unusual role.
"JACK O' THE Green" says Cruise, "is a mythical character and requires a different sort of research." In spite of his teen heartthrob books, Cruise reaches for deep detail on each tale. He writes up a background for his character, to create a sense of history.
For Rika Business, Cruise diced and exercised, losing 14 pounds, to make his character look like a naive stripping. Then he purposefully added a little layer of baby fat, to mask his masculine with an
innocent, light chubbiness. For Taps, in which he played a brutal military cadet who goes psycho, Cruise powered down milkshakes daily until 15 extra pounds were on his frame.
Because his father, an electrical engineer, changed jobs frequently. Cruise went to eight different grade schools and three high schools from upstate New York to New Jersey to Canada to Missouri to Kentucky. Always 'the new kid,' Cruise used sports as a way to fit in, even though the family would usually move just as he had made new friends. Especially after his parents divorced, Cruise's energies were poured into athletics.
One day he pulled a groom muscle and, knocked out of action, transferred his involvement to drama class. The heady experience of Grays and Dolls sent him into fast forward. Without wanting to collect the diploma he earned, Cruise flew to Manhattan. He bussed tables in restaurants while looking for the break that eventually came in an audition for *Ludlow Love*. Director Franco Zatterelli critiqued his performance with a single word—"Bellissimo."
"Acting has helped me mature!" Cruise reflects "My real training comes from working with my peers. By taking chances in roles, I've learned to trust myself." by Jennifer Bridges
Richard Libertini
Liberatti hails from Chicago. He was an original member of Second City, the well known improvisational group, which also spanned Gail Dather, John Belishi and several other comedy stars Before making his film debut in Catch 22 (1971), he also worked in a number of Broadway plays such as Don't Drink the Water, Bad Habits and Story Theater. In addition to dozens of television appearances, his other film roles include those in The Night They Ranawin Minsky's Fire Sale, Song for One, Days of Honeypope, Deal of the Country and Shunker's Machine, in which he played "Nosh," a wraparound expert who traded Yiddish quips with Burt Reynolds.
R scherf Libertini one of the most popular among Hollywood's character actors, has recently
Such a Character
"I'm having fun playing a straight person for a change." says Libertyn, speaking from a phone booth in Utah after a days' filming. "Frankly, I like to do stuff that's closer to myself, whether it's comedy or drama. In recent films, I've spoken with one a great act after another and people do tend to pigeon-hole you. That's why I was so glad Michael (Michael Richie, who directed *Film*) thought of me for the part. It may sound like a cliché, but this has been the best time I've ever had on a film."
recorded Liamcarin by the most popular among Hollywood's character actors, has recently been a number of oil-belt characters. General Garcia, the slippery banana republic dictator of *The In-Laws*, Dudley Moore's instigating Italian manservant in *Unhappiness Years*, the lisping Latino justice of the peace who marries Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in *Best Friends*, Prahika Lasa, the loopy Far Eastern music alongside Steve Martin in *All of Me*. Yet, for all these funny, memorable bits, Richard Libertin is hardly a household name.
One reason for the intense, bearded actor's lack of public recognition is that he makes use of a slew of ethnic accents to bring his rather unusual characterizations to life. Libertin's latest role in *Heels* - he plays an exasperated newspaper editor anxious to have his star reporter (Chevy Chase) turn over a
long promised undercover story on drug traffic at a local beach - is a welcome change of pace for the performer.
The improvisational background came in handy on *Fleish*, when Libertini interplaced with leading man Chase, a former Saturday Night Low writer and performer. "There were a few situations that seemed to call for spontaneous humor," says Libertini. And for the first time in years, Libertini was allowed to speak straight English. It could start a trend
by Alan Karp
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