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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
A proposal to pay experts $10,000 to study campus lighting this summer and report findings this fall was approved last night and will be presented during its final meeting of the semester.
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unallocated account to finance a project that provides lighting areas on campus and propose lightning areas on campus.
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 $4,280 to student boxes for distribution of student publications.
The money would be used to build eight
boxes, at a cost of $533 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes. A third 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 Kansas boxes on campus.
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 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 booy 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 unanimously.
Karen Greschel, Nunemaker senator, told senators that they needed to allocate the money before the price of improved lighting was approved. The price increases more attacks or higher costs for light installation.
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this," she said.
"Folks, rapa's alive and on this campus, whether you know it or not."
Reza Zoughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, agreed.
But some senators said they didn't think the proposal would prevent rapes.
"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.
proposal to decide where to put lights is going to stop even one rape, said Doug Stallings.
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 of the Senate Minority Affairs Committee, also suggested alternate proposals.
LICHTWARD SAY THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new schools, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and provide a curriculum for 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
- Women Engineers — 4416
* The Mid-America Journal of Politics
  * 900
- 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 Sandimista 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 Benoist 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 trade is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Libya.
THE EMBARGO. EFFECTIVE May 7,
was imposed by executive order and does not
increase the number of employees.
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 Contrabs.
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 make national emergency to deal with that threat."
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
See AID, p. 5, col. 1
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
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 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. The building houses many of the services, says half of the crimes at the
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident,
and May flowers as she passes
Sit-in delegates talk
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
Plans for Vietnam me
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 dissentive.
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.
AMBLER SAID, "I don't think either s 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."
the Endowment Association to break all with companies doing business in So Africa. The country operates under a system of racial segregation called apartheid.
In a statement last week to the Univer Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said didn't think divestiture would change ap heid in South Africa.
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.
Burger said the memorial comm- intended to stand by its original gutt insuring that the memorial be create students in honor of students.
By NANCY STOETZER
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 review of the design and revisions was revised by Tam Berver, memorial committee chairman.
BERGER SAID ONE of the probl mentioned in the report was that proposed memorial was too large.
Berger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss other report requests. Bergers said he did not yet received his committee's response.
"We're not dealing with irreconcil differences," he said. "The Universi committed to building a Vietnam marial."
Last spring, the public spaces committee
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 the plan on to the public spaces committeereason he told Cobb saying n changes were needed
Cobb said he would try to arrange meeting with committee members officials from the office of facilities plan to work out the differences
Michael J.Fox
Work-Life in the Fast Lane
While he filmed the new comedy adventure Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox, the films star, would reach a Hollywood TV studio at six in the morning, play Alex Keaton in the hit TV series, Families Twose, then head to a San Fernando Valley film studio and work until midnight as Marty McLly, his first big screen role. "It's like being three different characters," says Fox during a welcome break in the filming. "I'm Alex, then Marty, and lastly, myself — I try to slip into that last character every now and then."
McFly is a teenager who travels back in time to the Fifties and meets his parents as high school students. After a series of adventures and misadventures, he risks life and limbs to get "back to the future" — the time from which he started. "That's all I can tell you about the film right now," says Fox, with a laugh. "I'm not supposed to divulge any key story points."
On this particular week *Families Trust* on a temporary basis Strangely, Fox feels more tired doing only one project "When I'm doing both shows, I find myself with more energy. It's like that energy that you have at the beginning of the day when you go to a job that you like. Well, I get that energy twice a day
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instead of once."
Getting used to film was only one of the challenges Fox faced. There was also the schizophrenic frenzy of creating an entirely new character for Future, as well as being Alex on *Family Tie*. But Fox claims it wasn't difficult. "I've played Alex for three years now. He's kind of like a shirt that I can put on and take off," he says. "That made it easier to put energy into Marty McFly. Plus, this is a character who's closer to me than any character I've ever played before."
A native Canadian, the 23-year-old Fox started acting at 15 in junior high. At 18, he packed his bags for Los Angeles. Fox has appeared in features like Disney's Midnight Madness, had a recurring role in TV's short-lived Palm潭市, U.S.A., and guest-starred in such series as Trappe John, M.D., Lee Grant and Famil
Despite his success as a television actor, Fox realizes that a movie such as this one can have an even bigger effect on his career. "It's really bizarre," Fox says. "I can sit at home and say to myself, What a giant movie I'm in." But I have to remember it's a job just like any other job, whether it's a film for Lookedhe or a Stew Spielberg production. Once you get on the set, you go all out You do the best you can!" ■ by Bill Braunstein
Billy Barty
Elfin Roles and a Giant Career
It's not every day someone decides to make a movie with an 800-year-old, tree-climbing pixie in an enchanted forest. But whenever they do, Billy Barry is probably the first guy they'll call. Now 60, with a show business career launched in vaudeville before he was 10, Barry at 3'9", is Hollywood's leading presence among "little people". His role as the diminutive octo-centenarian forest dweller named Screwball occurs in Legend, a myths-and-magic Fantasia headlined by Joan Cruise and Mia Sara.
"It's the same old story." Barty jets. "Boy meets girl, boy meets witch, boy saves girl from witch, boy gets girl!" Yet, he says in practically the same breath, "Legend is a bit unlike anything else in his more-than 150-film experience. "The costumes and makeup were out of this world." Barty says. "I had it easy. My makeup only took three and a half hours to put on. Poor Tim Curry (who plays
the villainous Lord of Darkness] took more than six hours. And you could only wear the makeup once. After the day was done, it had to be thrown away. It cost $2,500 each time I was made up. And I had one of the less difficult costumes."
Barty, one of 25 "little people" cast in the film, found his role quite striking. "In one scene," he reports, "a stunt double was supposed to swing back and forth from the limb of a tree. He couldn't figure out how to do it, so I just ended up doing it myself. When I was finished, I went up to him and joked, 'I'm tired of making you look good.'"
Away from acting, Barry is the driving force behind an organization he founded some 28 years ago, "The Little People of America," along with "The Billy Barry Foundation," which he started in 1975. Both help the medical world study dwarfism, and give their members support in overcoming medical and social problems.
"We've had to fight stereotyping for years," says Barry. "It used to be that you didn't work in Hollywood until a circus movie came around. Or come Christmas time you'd get a job in a commercial playing an elf."
Though elf work is still the norm, Barry has compiled credits including Alice in Wonderland in 1953, A Midsummer Night Dream in 1955, Day of the Lost in 1975 and, as the traveling salesman Goldie Hawn thinks is out to murder her, in 1978's Foul Play. Of his latest role, Barty remarks, "It's a crazy story. There are a lot of spooks things I am," he notes with the pride of a seasoned pro, "the comedy relief."
by Bill Brainstein