Wednesday, March 17, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS &
SCIENCES
Graduate Mentor Award
Spring1993
Nominations are now being taken for the newly created advising and mentoring award within CLAS. This will be awarded to an outstanding graduate educator. Nominations for the award will be solicited from graduate students within theCollege. Criteria may include the following: outstanding mentoring,outstanding educator,and outstanding research and scholarship guidance.
A monetary award will be given, in addition to the name of the recipient affixed on a plaque outside the College Office.
Faculty members eligible must be current members of the graduate faculty of the College. If you have questions as to eligibility, call the CLAS Graduate Division Office, 864-4898. Please keep your nomination letter to one single-spaced page.
Send your nominations to Committee on Graduate Studies, 209 Strong Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence 60045. Deadline is April 2, 1993
Plan will illuminate parking lots
Scholarship halls will benefit soon
By Christoph Fuhrmans Special to the Kansan
Aimee Wittman, Leawood sophomore, to be used of afraid of walking from the parking lot back to Douthart Scholarship Hall.
"It was very nerve-wracking walking in the dark," she said.
With the installation of 13 new street lamps beginning along the 1300 block of Louisiana Street, Alumni Place and the parking lot behind Spooner Hall, Wittman and other scholarship hall
Twenty-four more lights will be added around Watkins, Miller, Battenfeld and Sellards Scholarship Halls. All of the street lamps are expected to be installed by early spring, weather permitting, said Kami Thomas, assistant director of student housing.
residents will feel more comfortable walking home at night.
"It was safe before, but it's always nice when you can provide a little extra." Thomas said.
The new street lamps are part of Student Senate's campus lighting plan that was financed by a $2 student fee increase. The overall bill to Quality Electric, the company installing the street lamps, is worth about $40,000.
Wittman and other scholarship hall residents said they were looking forward to the new lighting
Teresa Hedges, Kippa graduate student, said, "It's great because I walk at night all the time. There are places on campus I won't walk at night."
Other residents were pleased with the improved lighting but had different reactions.
"It's about time," said Rebecca Harrington, Frankfort junior. "Why didn't they do this earlier?"
Quality Electric was supposed to begin late last year but was delayed because of the large amounts of rain and snow and the constant freezing and thawing that would have damaged new concrete.
"It was too wet to get up here and do some digging," said Mike Urban, Quality Electric employee.
The street lamps are not only new, but they are also better than the four lamps they will be replacing.
Quality Electric dug the holes, poured the concrete and set the bases for the street lamps yesterday. J.M. Willis Contractors soon will begin digging trenches, after which Quality Electric will lay pipes, wiring and conduits and then refill the trenches.
The street lamps will have three different amounts of wattage, 400, 250 and 175, he said.
Commission approves rezoning for mall
"Both the fixtures and the lamps are a lot more efficient," said Darrell Norris, owner of Quality Electric.
Rv Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved a rezoning request and development plan that will allow the construction of a factory outlet mall in North Lawrence.
The land, west of North Third Street and south of the Kansas Turnpike's east Lawrence exit, will be developed by Stanley K. Tanger and Co., a New York real estate developer.
The mall will sit on about 12 acres of land and is expected to hold 35 stores on 94,000 square feet of floor space
Shirley Martin-Smith, a city commissioner, said one concern with allowing the project to proceed was that a new mall would hurt business in the existing Riverfront Plaza and detract shoppers from the downtown area.
Wint Winter, a representative for Tanger and former state senator from
Lawrence, said the new mall's developers shared Martin-Smith's concerns.
Dan Watkins, a representative for the Riverfront Plaza, said his group welcomed the competition.
"We do not believe that we are entitled to a monopoly," Watkins said. "We're not excited about about the distance between the two, though."
"We think this project will not hurt the existing mall," Winter said. "We all want to pull people off of the turn- nike."
Winter said he thought people coming off I-70 would not just shop at the new mall but would continue downtown and to the Riverfront Plaza.
The two outlet malls will be located about 1/2 miles from one another.
Rob Phillips, a representative from North Lawrence Business Improvement Inc., said the project would help develop North Lawrence.
"North Lawrence has lacked development for way too long." Phillips said.
Price Banks, who heads the city-county planning commission, warned the city commission of some potential problems with the mall project, especially of traffic between the mall and downtown.
The commission decided to approve the rezoning with seven conditions. Included in the conditions was a requirement that the city be allowed to retain control of the placement of a sign directing traffic to the downtown and the Riverfront Plaza so that shoppers would know that other shopping opportunities were located within a reasonable distance.
"I think there is the potential for a positive redevelopment," Banks said. "The potential danger is that we could create a potential 23rd Street on North Third Street."
Winter said construction could begin on the new mall in May.
Proposed mall site
The Lawrence City Commission just passed rezoning and development bills for a new mail in North Lawrence. Construction should begin in May and the address should open by Thanksgiving.
Source: Kansan staff research
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Alcohol may have played role in murder case
By Mark Klefer Kansan staff writer
The man charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 22 shootings that left a Douglas County man dead drank heavily in a Lawrence bar hours before the incident, according to testimony yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
Yesterday was the first day of the trial for James Ludlow, charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and felony theft.
Both defense and prosecuting attorneys said yesterday before the 12
memberjury that Ludlow had drunk a "bunch of alcohol" on the night of Nov. 21.
Tracy Robbins was found dead by Douglas County sheriff's officers in his Oakwood Estates home south of Lawrence early Nov. 22.
Robbins' live-in girlfriend, Valerie Hartley, testified yesterday that she, Robbins and Ludlow went to the Pool Room, 925 Iowa St., on Nov. 21. Hartley said that Ludlow drank about 15 shots of Southern Comfort within about 90 minutes before vomiting and passing out in the bar.
Hartley said that Robbins drove
Ludlow was in his room in the base-ment when Robbins and Hartley returned home, she said
Ludlow, who was living at Robbins' home, back to his house while she cleaned up the vomit at the bar. She said Robbins returned to pick her up.
Hartley said that at about 12:30 a.m. she and Robbins were in the kitchen and that she noticed Ludlow sitting on the kitchen floor near the steps. As she turned on the garbage disposal, Hartley said she heard a gunshot and turned to see Robbins falling.
Hartley said that as she was running away, Ludlow shot and hit her in the
buttocks, causing her to fall. She said that Ludlow then stepped over her and went into her bedroom where she kept a box of money. The money later was found missing. Hartley said she went across the street to a neighbor's house and saw Ludlow leave the house with her car.
Ludlow's attorney, Harry Warren, said that Ludlow had no recollection of events from the time shortly before going to the bar to his going to see his girlfriend in Aberdeen, S.D. He said that Ludlow would testify in the trial.
The trial continues today.
ALL ROADS LEAD HOME TO THE HILL
ATTENTION, 1993 GRADUATES
Get ready for a SIX-MONTH FREE RIDE as an ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBER
■ Your membership trip begins with the SENIOR COOKOUT,
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in the Adams Center parking lot.
Sponsored by your Student Alumni Association
Tour the Center and activate your FREE SIX-MONTH LEARNED CLUB MEMBERSHIP. The Club is the perfect place to dine before or after Commencement exercises, before KU football games and whenever you're on campus. Sponsored by the Alumni Association
Then go west for the JAYHAWK JOG. a 5- and 10-kilometer road race for students and alumni, or the HAWK WALK, an untimed campus walk, 8 a.m., Saturday, April 24, starting at Nichols Hall on Campus West. Call 864-4760 to sign up. Sponsored by SAA
- Last stop is the COMMENCEMENT BREAKFAST, 8 a.m., Sunday, May 16, for graduates and their families (program begins at 8:30). Sponsored by SAA, the Alumni Association and the Board of Class Officers
■ As you graduate, don't forget to take along your JAYHAWK BANK CARD, the only VISA or MasterCard that lets you show your 'Hawk heritage wherever you go.
We will follow you with Alumni Association benefits, but be sure to LEAVE US YOUR NEW ADDRESS.
Remember, wherever your new life takes you all roads lead home to the Hill. As an Alumni Association member you'll never be far away!
Watch for our brochure in the mail. For more information about the Jayhawk Bank Card call the First Bank Card Center at 1-800-222-7458.