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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
The Senate voted 31-5 with three abstentions to grant the money from the Senate unilateral account to finance a project that would allow students to attend campus and propose lighting improvements.
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.
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 $290 to buy boxes for distribution of student public
The money would be used to build eight
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.
boxes, at a cost of $535 each. The cost was determined by facilities operations, the department in charge of building the boxes, and the investment authorization to do such work on campus.
The boxes would be built next to eight of the 14 Kansan 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 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 was reached. In many cases attacks or higher costs for light installation
"I don't think we can put a price tag on this," she said.
"Foks, 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 barricade, you get more than $10 million a year.
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 he said 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 light.
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.
LIGHTWARD SAID THE Senate could donate the $10,000 to new lights, offer to match the money with the Board of Regents and accept grants for police 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-American Journal of Politics*
$690
- KU India Club — $554.
- Amnesty International — $290
Reagan bans trade, hints of sanctions
- KU International Folk Dance Club — $229.
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 Sandinists, announced the trade embargo shortly after Ram for the Seventenation economic summit 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 marine traffic is concerned, as Iran, Vietnam and Latvia.
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
require congressional approval.
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 ALD, p. 5, col. 1
Crime, bugs plague life in Towers
Pamela Miller, Lawrence resident,
and May flowers 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 arsenon, since its completion in the late 1960s.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A 1966 advertisement touted the new Jayhawker Towers apartments as the "hive 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.
Staff Reporter
Sit-in delegates talk
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from about a dozen to almost 50, want
In a statement last week to the Universi-
Senate, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said I
didn't think divestiture would change apa-
hood in South Africa.
Plans for Vietnam me
By CINDY McCURRY
AMBLER SAID, "I don't think either size persuaded the other differently. Essentially they still would like to see some favorabia action on the resolution by the StudentSena and the resolution by the Universi Council."
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 divestiture.
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.
the Endowment Association to break all it with companies doing business in South Africa. The country operates under a system of racial segregation called anwarthrop.
"We discussed divestiture and the ways the world," Cobb said. "I don't know that I came to any resolution, but it was a fre fruittual conversation."
Construction of a campus Vietnam memorial, which has been in the planning stage for more than 16 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.
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 museum. The site proposal needed revision, said Tom Berner, memorial committee chairman.
"We're not dealing with irreconciliated differences," he said. "The University committed to building a Vietnam merial."
Staff Reporter
rejected the original design submitted to 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 committee approved the revision and selections committee which sent the report to Cohn saying more changes were needed
Berger said the memorial committee intended to stand by its original goal insuring that the memorial be created students in honor of students.
By NANCY STOETZER
BERGER SAID ONE of the problem mentioned in the report was that it proposed memorial was too large.
Cobb said he would try to arrange meeting with committee members a officials from the office of facilities planni to work out the differences.
Burger said his committee would respond to the report. He said he didn't think it would be appropriate to discuss either report with the committee, and not yet received his committee's response.
Last spring, the public spaces committee
It was the summer of 1960, Steven Spurling. It and moviestorm took a Hollywood studio town and broke the rules. Peeling off from the park the Phoenix, Arizona high schooler staved three extra hours's peering into every fascinating corner of the lot. The next day, and for the remainder of that summer, Spurling dressed in a suit carried a lace-up and walked in past the guards with glibic confidence, a pretender abounding a wobble leisure education.
In the summer of 1985, Steven Spielberg's greatest movie creation, *I. I. The Exterminator*, will return to screens after a decade of absence. Compensated after it.
STEVEN
SPIELBERG
Movie Magic
happens to be the biggest grossing feature in film history. With six of his films (Pete Ruddler of The Last Act, Grindlein, Todd Jones and the Temple of Dawn, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and L.A. among the top 20 of all times) Spellberg — as writer director and producer — doesn't have to pretend any more. The studio he used to snake into has custom built an office for Spellberg's company, Amblin Entertainment, complete with a EveX screening room and candy cabinet.
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"Walt Disney," Spielberg once told Tim, was my personal conscience. Indeed; a when you wish upon a star thread runs through Spielberg's life as much as it spoils through his film takes.
by Byron Laursen
Born in Cincinnati and raised in Phoenix with three young sisters, whom he loved to tervetle with glamour- imaginative stories. Spiellberg hitched the notion one day to commandeer his father's home movie camera. He staged snugups of his own, beholded model trains. The camera was
A collegiate effort called *Ambin* earned the first big break, but a
tendency stumbler became the major milk stone.
angled low and, to Spiellergys youthful delight, the models looked like real behemoths in a huge disaster
More Spellberg productions soon followed. He plotted each on a storefront before filling One Battle Square, ended the 8-milimetre muggle problems with the high school hallway, Spellberg cast his former antagonist in the lead role. Instant respect. It then occurred to the teenage Spellberg that movies were indeed a wonderful path to people's imaginations. He realized that he had
another choice, beyond being either "a jack or a swimp."
After the heady summer of smoking into the studio lot, Spinelberg conceived an honest way to come through the gates. Amblin, one of a series of film魅 made while studying English Literature at Cal State Long Beach, was a 24-minute story of two low-key knockbacks. In addition to festival prizes, it won Spielbang an audience with a high-quality studio exe who remarked. I think you should be a director.
Spielberg, just turned 21, briliantly replied. "I think so too, and was launched into the world of TV with a Night Gallery episode starting the formidable Joan Crawford. Remembering his student hilimaking roots, Spielberg has named his own production company Amblin Entertainment. Its logo is from *L.T.*, a on-bay a bike riding over the moon. Amblin Entertainment now helps sponsor the annual Nissan FOCUS (Films of College Students) Awards. He's also quick to help promising people who might otherwise have a tough time breaking into the film business. Lawrence Kasdan *Body Heat*, the Big Chill*
became a writer and, ultimately, a director in demand after Spiegelberg bought his early script entitled *Continental Divide*, then introduced him to director George Lucas, who subsequently tapped Kassidian to co-write the screenplay for *The Empire Stacks*. Chris Columbus, a film student at NYU, submitted a script with a great idea in it. It became *Grombowski*, and Columbus, who honed his skills through several rewrites, has become a prosperous screenwriter.
The IV work lead to *Dear a moose* of the week prospect, in which a maleident ammunition sent troop classes an innocent driver through a western canyon. *Dear son* the Grand Prix at the festival du Cinema Fantastique in France, among other awards. Most importantly, it secured Spelberg's first feature film deal. The *Sugarland Express*, about which the New York enthroned one of the most phenomenal debut films in the history of the movies. *The Sugarland Press* is a Texas chase story featuring Goldie Hawn in
THE MOVIE MAGAZINE
At the age of 26, Spelberg was in position for a big budget production. He entered the major leagues with a totty splash. Plays played on primetime teams and established new box office records. The津市 that followed helped set higher standards for film popularity, but I4.1 has stood as Spelberg's favorite. The warmth of the films' central tanniness - a lawmaker friends with a super smart spaceman who was abandoned on Earth (continued on page 14)
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