University Daily Kansan, March 18, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Apartment thefts reported
Thefts totaling $4,887 were reported during spring break from apartments in Jayhawker Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., KU police said yesterday.
L. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police department said stereo equipment valued at $2,897 was stolen between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. in a third apartment in the Jahwab Tower.
Another theft occurred between 6 p.m.
Tuesday and 4 a.m. Wednesday. A resident reported about $1,000 of stereo equipment taken. His roommate returned Saturday and told KU police that he had another $1,000 of stereo equipment stolen.
Yesterday KU police received a report from Jayhawker Towers of another theft. Stere equipment valued at $600 had been stolen from an apartment.
Longaker said most of the reports involved stereo equipment, but a video cassette recorder, camera and a turntable also had been taken.
Prof to speak on Shakespeare
The next topic in the Humanities Lecture Series, "Understanding Shakespeare as Performance," will be presented by a professor from Northwestern University at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
John L. Styan, the Franklin Bliss Snyder professor of English literature and a professor of theatre at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., will be the
He has published books and articles covering topics from Shakespearean to modern drama. His books include "The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy" and "Chekhov in Performance."
Styan is scheduled to meet with KU classes today and tomorrow morning.
Honors Program offers grants
The College Honors Program will provide approximately 20 undergraduate research awards of $1,000 each for this summer.
All undergraduates at the Lawrence campus are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is April 5. Students may obtain applications and information from the College Honors Program at Nunemaker Center.
A faculty sponsor is required for each research project.
The National Debate Tournament Committee chose two KU students as one of the top 16 debate teams in America. KU has had more teams qualify for the tournament than any other university in the history of the tournament.
Jerry Gaines, Houston, Texas, senior, and John Culver, Overland Park sophomore, were members of the team that was sent to attend the National Debate Teamargue.
The tournament will be from March 28 to April 2 at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
Gaines and Culver were chosen based on the past year's record of debates.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and mild, and the high will be in the mid- to upper 60s. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy, and the low will be from the upper 30s to lower 40s. Tomorrow will be cloudy, and the high will be in the lower to mid-60s.
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Panel cuts '86 KU budget by $2 million
TOPEKA — While KU students basked in the sun during spring break, the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee last Thursday trimmed a cool $2 million from the University's proposed $175 million budget for next year.
The cuts include smaller increases in faculty and student salaries than were requested by Gov. John Carlin in his budget message for fiscal year 1986.
But a closer look reveals that, although cuts were made in Carlin's recommended budget for the University, KU made several important gains.
The KU' budget was part of the 1986 appropriations bill for the seven Board of Regents schools. The committee on Thursday endorsed it and sent it to the full board consideration.
As A PART of the measure, the committee cut Carlin's proposed 6 percent increase in faculty and student salaries and other operating expenses to a 5.5 percent increase.
The smaller increase in faculty and student salaries resulted in the largest reduction — more than $1 million — from the governor's recommended budget.
The committee eliminated almost $230,000 that made up Carlin's proposed 6.5 percent increase in graduate teaching assistants' stipends. However, it approved his recommendation to increase teaching assistants' fee waivers from 60 percent to 75 percent.
would have been shared between KU and Emporia State University.
But with the $678,000 deleted from the plans for the center, KU gained financing for several additional programs, including a bachelor of science program in computer engineering.
One reduction approved by the committee makes a drastic, if misleading, change in the data.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary for the University, said the computer engineer-
IT DELETED MORE than $500,000 for a 1 percent increase in the state's contribution to the unclassified employee's retirement fund. However, committee members said, the increase would be restored after the law that requires retirement fund contributions is amended.
program was essential for the state's ability to compete in the high technology
'In the context of political realities, it lets the University move forward a little bit. We made a step forward last year, and we're not going to lose that momentum.'
THE COMPUTER ENGINEERING program is also the only new academic program approved by the Rogers this year, von Ende and beidbe die only program of its kind in the state.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr.,
The law now stipulates a 5 percent contribution and must be changed before a 6 percent contribution is made.
K-Lawrence
The committee added $266,000 and four full-time faculty positions for the program.
match funds donated by government and private sources for equipment purchases and 77,675 for a research program at Parsons State Hospital.
The committee also added $110,000 and four full-time classified positions for a building maintenance contractor.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence and a member of the committee, said the University would benefit more from the grants programs than from the Center of Excellence.
Winter said the budget represented a step forward for the University, considering the budgetary restraints faced by the Legislature this session.
"WHEN WE HAVE these great needs on campus," Winter said. "it shows misguided priorities to start a program that does not address those needs."
"In the context of political realities," Winter said, "it lets the University move forward a little bit."
The committee also turned down the governor's recommendation for a center of government.
Neighbors, Center reach settlement
The committee also endorsed the recommendations of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction to cut spending for a proposed science library by $200,000, and to add $240,000 to the spending for a planned Snow Hall renovation.
THE REV. VINCE Krische, director of the
athletic team and last week that he was
sent to the vestibule.
Bill Barr, president of the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association, filed a suit against the city of Lawrence last year, contesting the city's approval of the site plan for the proposed 392-seat church and a 98-space parking lot.
The Lawrence City Commission is expected to consider removing the parking on the streets around the Catholic Center at its meeting tomorrow night.
The changes had been requested by the University. The science library money would be raised by the university and funds for Snow Hall would allow planning for the renovation to be completed in one year.
John Nitcher, Barr's attorney, yesterday declined to comment on the specifics of the case until it was officially settled. He did say he would not be committed to trying to reach a settlement.
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
A tentative settlement has been reached out of court in the dispute over the proposed expansion plans of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
Nitcher said the case wouldn't be "officially settled" until the necessary papers agreeing to dismiss the case were filed in Douglas County District Court.
On March 8, attorneys from the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association, the Catholic Center and the city of Lawrence met and reached the tentative settlement in which the Catholic Center would be allowed to proceed with the proposed expansion.
"This is much better than going to court," he said
They agreed to the city's forbidding parking on Crescent road, west of Spencer Drive, and on Engel and Westwood roads by July 15. The Catholic Center agreed to a lease from the developer of the site after completing the proposed church and parking lot.
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz said last week that the proposed settlement was the first time the city had ever agreed.
THE CASE HAD been scheduled to go to trial on March 11 but was canceled when the parties reached a tentative settlement.
Van Cleave said that he was pleased with the terms of the proposed settlement and that he didn't forsee any problems with a final settlement being reached.
Krische said construction would begin on the church after a final settlement was resigned.
Robert Van Cleave, an attorney who represents the Most Rev. Ignatius Strecker, archbishop of the Kansas City, Kan., docese, said yesterday that the settlement was contingent on everyone doing their parts." Streicker's diocese includes the Catholic Center.
Walls of barbed wood, old house siding, farm equipment and cement blocks define the sculpture of walls constructed by
Brad Aldrich, Leawood junior. Aldrich yesterday built the sculpture, four feet tall and 70 feet wide, on West Campus, near 15th and Iowa streets.
Site quest ends on West Campus
Art work finds place in the sun
Staff Reporter
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
A maze of walls stretches low across a field just west of 15th and Iowa streets—a student's sculpture formed of barbed wire walls, farm equipment, house old house and even cement blocks from an old gas station.
After weeks of trying to obtain permission, Brad Aldrich, Leawood junior, finally was allowed to construct on West Campus behind the glassblowing barn the wall sculpture that until yesterday had only been a rough sketch on paper.
For more than two weeks, Aldrich said yesterday, he searched for a place to build his sculpture, which is now about 4 feet tall and 70 feet wide. It took 4½ hours to build.
Aldrich said he became frustrated when no one would let him build the sculpture
ALDRICH, A CERAMICS major, originally planned to build his sculpture somewhere on West Campus for class credit. He talked with officials of facilities
operations, but they told him they could not help him.
Then he decided to build the wall sculpture outside the Art & Design Building. But no one at the School of Fine Arts would allow him to build it there, he
"No one person said they had the single authority to give me permission to build
After a frustrating two-week search, Aldrich had he contacted Vernon Brechau, associate professor of design, about the glassblowing barn on 18th Street.
Brecha said Aldrich could construct the wall sculpture in the field surrounding the barn — a large area where Aldrich would construct and reconstruct the sculpture.
"INSTEAD OF MAKING a building, I define the outside of the space," Aldrich says.
Every two days he will change or add different walls to his work. Each addition will differ in size and style from the existing structure, Aldrich said. He said he
planned to keep the sculpture up for about a month.
The sculpture is difficult to see from 15th Street because it is so low to the ground, Aldrich said. But for a better view, people can walk through the triangular maze, examining the old rusty tillers that make up the center of the maze.
A chain-link fence twisted around wooden poles outlines the left side of the sculpture. On the right side, 50 feet of vertical scaffolding caird around barbed wire, Aldrich said.
To someone standing in the sculpture, Aldrich said, the walls could represent barriers that people build up around themselves for different reasons.
"I'll make it square, or I might make it a
taller, where no one will be able to get
it."
Aldrich said he began working on his wall series at the end of last semester, mostly obtaining materials for free from local junkyards. He then stores them in the Art & Design Building. The razor ribbon, however, cost him $10.
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