University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Garden center digs plants at unions
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
Plants in the Kansas and Burge unions that suffer abuse at the hands of students who shred their leaves and leave trash and cigarettes in their containers get outside help from a consultant.
The 150 plants inside the Kansas and Burge unions are kept clean and healthy by Linda Norman, plant maintenance consultant for the Pence Garden Center, 15th and New York streets.
The Kansas and Burge unions, as well as Summerfield and Naismith halls, have contracts with the garden center to have the plants cared for, Mary Jo Hadl, greenhouse manager for the garden center, said yesterday.
The unions buy the plants and pay the garden center $8.50 for each hour spent on the plants' upkeep, Hadi said. If a plant is damaged or stolen, the unions buy a new one. But if the death of a plant is the garden center's fault, the plant is replaced by the center at half price.
Norman said she cleaned
Norman said she spent about four hours a week on the 110 plants in the Kansas Union and about two hours a week on the 40 in the Burge Union.
trimmed, watered, fertilized and rotated the plants in the unions and the two halls. She also applies chemicals to protect the plants from insects and changes the soil.
Bill Towns, operations manager of the Kansas Union, said the plants in the union were chosen in 1978, when the lobby was renovated. When a plant dies, it is usually replaced with the same kind of plant or a similar one.
The Union always replaces plants, even when they are stolen, Norman said.
Most plant thefts occur just before spring break or other vacations, Norman said.
"Right before break, all of a sudden, three will disappear," Norman said.
Norman said the Kansas Union had received a new fig tree yesterday that would be a tougher target for thieves.
Most apartment leases require tenants to give 30 or 60 days notice of renewal or termination, Chapman said.
Lease rules could leave students paying rent
Many students lease apartments and houses only for the months of fall and spring semesters, Chapman
said, so their leases will expire at the end of May.
Students may find themselves stuck renting an unwanted apartment or house for another year if they don't check their leases now, by choosing the Cussetman's Affairs Association in Lawrence, said last week.
end or may.
"Failure to give notice will automatically renew some leases for another year," he said. "Many students slip up on this and are forced to sublease or stay for another year. If they move, they can be held liable for the rent until the apartment is re-rented. Or some tenants lose their security deposit."
changed their requirements to 60 days, he said.
Ricky Pierson, manager of Trailridge Apartments, said her apartment complex required a written notice 60 days before the tenants' leases expired. The notice tells management which apartments will be available next year and allows time to rent vacant apartments to other people, she said.
A STEREO, SPEAKERS, a jewelry box, a crucifix with a diamond and four pairs of earrings, with a total value of $519, were stole between midnight Saturday and 8:45 p.m. Sunday from a house in the 1400 block of Prairie Avenue, police said.
Most apartment complexes require 30 days notice, but within the past few years more of them have
"We send a form out and all they have to do is check whether they
want to renew or not," she said. "We send it about 70 days before their lease is up so they have plenty of time. It's the simplest and most equitable way of handling it because many people just forget."
ON THE RECORD
Chip Weiss, manager of Hanover Place, also said the requirement was necessary to protect landlords.
A STEREO. ELECTRIC typewriter, clothing, textbooks, duffel bag, school supplies and a gold bracelet, with a total value of $2,141, were stolen between March 9 and 17 from a room in Templin Hall, KU police said yesterday.
A THIEF OR THEIEVES stole $121 between 5 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday from the Salvation Army Thrift Shop, 628 Vermont St., Lawrence police said yesterday. Police said the concrete back door stop had been used to break out the window of the building's back door.
"If we don't get notice, we may not be able to rent that apartment," he said. "It hurts the landlord if we don't know in advance which apartments we can rent."
A BOAT MOTOR, a set of controls, a stereo, a CB radio and a cabinet with a sink and stove, with a total value of $3,392, were stolen between sometime in November and Friday from a boat at the Clinton Lake Marina, Douglas County sherrif's office said yesterday.
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A FEW PROMINENT JAYHAWKS HELP THE REVEREND FARRAKHAN STAY AFLOAT
During the controversy surrounding the Rev. Louis Farrakhan's March 28th visit to our fair campus, many seem to have forgotten the reason this Black Separatist minister and leader of one faction of the Black Muslim movement was asked to appear. According to the March 8th University Daily Kansas (UDK): "James Young, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said Farrakhan's appearance would coincide with the theme of Alpha Week, which would focus on how blacks could gain economic and political power".
The UDK then attributes to Mr. Young the following statement: "We're not here to promote racism. We're here to fight it".
When considering Mr. Young's expressed goals, it's difficult to understand why he supports paying the Rev. Farrakhan, whose denunciations of Judaism and praise of Adolf Hitler during the last presidential campaign resulted in his becoming a public figure, for advice on how to acquire power and oppose racism.
Perhaps it was the Rev. Farrakhan's flexibility which rendered him acceptable. After, in the words of the February 25th Journal-World, "Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy told a Nation of Islam convention...(that) Oppression of U.S. blacks leaves them with no choice but to an army to destroy the country and create an independent state," Rev. Farrakhan appeared to agree when he told the enthusiastic audience: "It would be an act of mercy to end the white man's world because your world is killing you and us all of humanity...A new nation is growing up in the West. I represent that power and that nation." Yet Rev. Farrakhan still managed to claim that he was "not trying to overthrow America".
(The Rev. Farrakhan's revelatory moments are never easy to discern. After Washington Post Reporter Milton Coleman wrote a story during the presidential campaign revealing that presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson had referred to Jewish people as "hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown". Rev. Farrakhan called on blacks in a radio broadcast to ostracize Mr. Coleman, who is black, and said: "Someday we will punish you with death". While most would consider this statement inherently blasphemous, comparable outbursts by Black Muslim zealots preceded Malcom X's murder twenty years ago.)
Possibly because they fear the Rev. Farrakhan won't be enjoying one of his allegedly modest phases on March 28th, several of M. Oread's powers-that-be are according him a privilege that William F. Buckley, Jr., George F. Will, Julian Bond, Bella Abzug, Phyllis Schlafly, Jonathan Kozol, Al Haig, and James J. Kilpatrick, among others, neither sought nor received while speaking here.
Now whether the Rev. Farrakhan asked to review the panel's dutifully submitted questions in order to bypass the heathen's coarser offerings or Kansas University made this request after concluding that any $3,600 speaker worth his salt should present a refined concoction carefully designed to ruffle only a few feathers; the hastily constructed protective mechanism behind which this devout demagogue will hide is indisputably productive because he eventually can move away from it and continue to profitably rove from one campus to another spewing hatred.
The March 8th UDK tells us; "Farrakhan is scheduled to appear with a four-member panel...(which) would represent a variety of views, and each member would ask Farrakhan four prepared questions. Farrakhan would be able to review the questions before the forum begins"
If forced to field the biting questions of a presumably inspired audience instead of being allowed to select the smallest spoonfuls of some carefully-prepared porridge, this Aqueduct of the Almighty might stand exposed as just another of those racist rabble who are now unable even to give away their discredited product.
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