University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Key store in mall to be named
By MIKE GREEN
Staff Reporter
The name of the department store that would fill more than a third of the proposed riverfront mall will be announced March 8 at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce breakfast, the officer of the mail said yesterday.
Steve Clark, the developer, said the store would occupy 60,000 square feet of the proposed 170,000-square-foot mall, planned to be built along the Kansas River just north of City Hall. Sixth and Massachusetts streets
He said the store would be built on columns above the city parking lot.
Clark, head of Lawrence Riverfront Mall Inc., said he "got the green light to make the announcement because of some circumstances that will become clear at the meeting."
He said he chose to make the announcement at a Chamber of
Commerce breakfast because he wanted to get the news to as many people as possible. He also said he wanted to make the announcement before spring break at the University of Kansas.
THE BREAKFAST IS scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road.
Clark said he had known the name of the department store since last fall.
"I've been anxious to tell people," Clark said. "After March 8, I won't have people asking me all the time what the department store is."
The other 110,000 square feet of the shop will be used to about 55 retail show windows.
He said the developers originally had planned to begin leasing space for shops next summer. But since December, many stores had expressed interest in locating in themall. Some of these stores are in
Topeka, the Kansas City metropolitan area and Lawrence, Clark said.
"Over the next four to five months we plan to do a significant amount of preleasing," he said.
Clark said the tentative opening date for the mall was March 1, 1987. He said construction should begin late this year.
"We're figuring on 330 days of construction time," he said. "We anticipate moving in to take 60 to 90 days."
Clark said 90,000 square feet of shops would be in the buildings along the river that now are owned by the building owners. These buildings will be remodeled.
In addition, 20.000 square feet of shops are planned to be built south of the railroad tracks that run through the area. These shops would be connected to the Bowersock buildings by two enclosed bridges over the railroad tracks.
Dissident recalls Soviet jail term
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
The atrocities of the Soviet Union secret police came alive last night for about 100 people in the Kansas Union, as a Soviet dissident told of the terror he experienced as a political prisoner.
Valentyn Moroz, the former prisoner, told the crowd in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union how he was arrested in 1965 and charged with "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation."
He said he was sentenced to four years of hard labor. Soon after his release in 1969, he said, he was arrested again on the same charges.
Moroz spoke last night at the invitation of Michael Palaj, librarian
at the Retired Faculty Library in Watson Library, and the department of Soviet and East European studies.
HE SAID HE was released from prison in 1979 after the United States arranged a prisoner exchange with the Soviet government. The Soviet Union traded Moroz and four other Ukrainian dissidents for two captured Soviet spies.
Before Moroz was arrested in 1965 he was a high school history teacher. He also wrote several essays on Ukrainian culture. Both his teachings and his writings, he said, were what the Soviet government considered anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation.
MOROZ, 48, TEACHES history in Toronto, where he now lives. He also
owns a publishing house, where he publishes his own and other writers' works on Ukrainian life.
His writings, he said, were things that could be found every day in many Western periodicals.
Moroz了 the KGB was a much more frightening force today than it was 20 years ago when he first encountered it. He divided the years of the KGB into two eras — under Stalin and after Stalin.
"Under Stalin the KGB was much more predictable," he said, "they were simply murderers."
Moroz said the current KGB weapons were psychological.
"Life is life no matter where you live," he said.
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