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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.93
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1994
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A one-month celebration of history
Observance of achievements starts tonight
By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer
Lisa Blair, coordinator of the Lawrence Alliance, said she hoped someday there would be no need for Black History Month.
Blair, who will be a guest speaker at tonight's opening ceremonies of Black History Month, said she hoped that the panel discussions, guest speakers and activities put on during the month would help inform the population that the contributions of
African Americans should be recognized every day of the year.
"It's one of the few ways we're able to publicize and educate society about the successes, struggles and participation of the members of the African-American community in creating and developing the U.S. lifestyle," she said.
The Office of Minority Affairs has put together a month of activities in observance of the event, which will begin today with an opening ceremony.
my featuring a panel of guest speakers who will address the theme, "Empowering Afro-American Organizations: Present and Future."
Sherwood Thompson, director of the office of minority affairs, said tomorrow's lecture by Deborah Green, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist for democracy and human rights, would be one of the high points in the month's activities.
"Especially now with the advent of democratic elections in South Africa, it should be a timely, thought-provoking program," he said.
Karen Blackwell, Wheaton, ill, sophomore and programs director for the Black Student Union, said that Kwanzaa, a celebration of the African-American family, will take place Feb. 13-14 and 16-17. The celebration traditionally takes place during Christmas, but Blackwell said the organizers decided it would be appropriate to observe it during Black History Month.
"Black history is a part of a wellrounded education," she said. "Maybe if people know why certain things happened, we can get rid of ignorance and prejudice."
Thompson said the month's activities were designed to inform people of all races about African-American history.
"It's an opportunity to interest the non-Black community in issues of the history, life and times of Black people," he said. "One of the most difficult things we have in America as far as race relations is the inability to know about other races."
Events for this week
Tuesday, Feb.1
- Opening ceremonies and program: "Empowering Afro-American Organizations" 7 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union Admission is free
* Film: Menace II Society 7 p.m., Kansas Union 2.50 with KUID
* Book exhibit: "Soweto Blues: Life in a South African Township"
Watson Library, Feb. 1-23 Admission is free
Wednesday, Feb. 2
*Lecture: "Women of Color: Self Image" 7 p.m., Pine Room, Kansas Union.
Admission is free.
- Lecture: "Building a U.S. Constituency for Africa" by Deborah Green, Washington, D.C., lobbyist for democracy and human rights. 4 p.m. Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union, Admission is free
- Film: Menace II Society. 7 p.m., Kansas Union. $2.50 with KUID
- Forum: "The Black Church Today: What Does it Offer the African American Students of the '90s? 7 p.m., Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union. Admission is free
- Dialogue Session: "Multiculturalism and Diversity: Bridging the Differences" 7 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. Admission is free
- Film: *Menace II Society*, 7 p.m., Kansas Union. $2.50 with KUID
Friday, Feb. 4
Thursday.Feb.3
- Film: Poetic Justice. 7 p.m., Kansas Union. $2.50 with KUID
Crepe paper and a card for a cashier
KANSAS
Denise Svaglic, staff manager at Wescoe Terrace, loves to serve her student customers- when she's not in Las Vegas
Showing off her home away from home, Denise Svaglic, Wescoe Terrace supervisor, explains that her heart is with the cafeteria.
Amv Solt / KANSAN
FACES
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
Style and smile served for lunch
Crepe paper, balloons and a giant card hung from the ceiling of Wescoe Terrace yesterday in celebration of the woman who runs it.
Denise Svaglic, supervisor of Wescoe Terrace, celebrated her 38th birthday with her staff and the approximately 3,000 customers who go through the cafeteria every day.
"My heart's at Wescow. That's what I try to instill in the kids who work here," said Svaglic, who started at Wescow Terrace five years ago as a part-time cashier.
"No one has to eat here, and our food is not gourmet food," she said. "But we hope you come back because you like to eat here."
Svaglia was a model for six years before she became interested in food service. At 19, she was promoted to night manager at Howard Johnson's.
"There was this policy that women could not deliver food to the room," Svagliac said. "This handicapped man couldn't leave his room, and when I asked the night manager if I could deliver his food, he said no.
"So the next day I told the district manger, and the other guy got fired, and he made me night manager."
Before coming to work at Wescoe Terrace, Svaglic owned Dee's Deli in Ottawa.
Now she said she would never leave her iob at Wesco Terrace.
For her vacations, Svaglic said she liked playing blackjack in Las Vegas.
Svaglic has three children: Justin, 20, Gwynne, 15, and Zane, 3. After leaving work, Svaglic said her first priority was spending time with her children.
Svaglic said she welcomed complaints and suggestions because she wanted everyone to feel at home in Wescoe Terrace.
"I will not come back unless I break even. I sit there all day just trying to make back what I lost," said Svaglic, who had won as much as $1,500 playing blackjack.
"One of my problems is that I want to please everyone, but you can't please everyone," she said. "I'm still going to try."
Library floors won't be part of auditorium
Reconstruction overhead limits plans for space in Hoch's blueprint for the future
By Jamie Munn
Kansan staff writer
KU's Hoch Auditorium may not get the facelift many were expecting.
Two floors of library space will be dropped from reconstruction plans to reduce costs, said Allen Wiechert. University architect.
Reconstruction bids were opened on Dec. 7 for Hoch, which was destroyed by a fire when it was struck by lightning in 1991. But the lowest bid for the project, $18.3 million, exceeded the $15 million originally budgeted for the program, making it necessary for the University to scale down its plans, said Dave Schaecher, program manager for capital projects.
He said the revised plans would be open for rebidding later this spring.
"We were discouraged," Schaechar said. "Obviously we knew we'd have to redesign and rebid."
Hopefully the new plans will allow the reconstruction to be completed under budget. he said.
Originally, two library levels were to be built beneath the service drive between Anschutz Science Library and Hoch. The space would have housed a new government documents and map library. The current library is on the sixth floor of Malott Hall.
The internal plans for Hoch still include a 1,000-seat lecture hall, two 500-seat lecture halls, four 50-seat classrooms and a large, multipurpose testing room.
However, budget problems could leave the multipurpose room without floor covering, wall finishes or ceiling tiles. Lighting will be the only fixture provided, Schaecher said.
Wiechert said reconstruction of the auditoriums and classrooms would remain as planned.
The lowestbid
for Hoch Auditorium was $3.8 million over the money budgeted for the project
project
The exterior of the building will not be altered significantly in the new plans, he said. The front facade will remain untouched, and the roof line will resemble that of the old Hoch.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said he hoped enough money would be available in the future to complete the library
"It is our hope that the bidding will be more favorable, and we will at least be able to construct a significant portion of the library space for completion later," Meyen said. "If that is not possible, the University will begin seriously to explore alternative means of meeting the space needs of the library."
Schaecher said a lower reconstruction price might allow the completion of part of the library.
"If we get good bids, we could complete a sublevels. " he said.
KU officials have reviewed construction options with Lawrence architecture firm Glenn, Livinggood and Penzler, which was part of the design team that drew up the original reconstruction plans.
Hoch's reconstruction is scheduled for completion in Fall 1996. Schaecher said.
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Local store owners concerned about bars
City considers plan for new establishments
Pat Kelde, owner of the Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St., and president of Downtown Lawrence Inc., said that the approximately 20 restaurants and taverns that already served liquor in the downtown area contributed much to the littering and loitering on downtown streets.
The number of bars already in downtown Lawrence and the prospect of more to come has the city and some local business owners concerned.
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
"When you get too huge a number of people in one place, people become afraid to go to that place whether that is someone wanting to go into a store or someone just
walking down the street;" Kehde said.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission decided at its Jan. 26 meeting to table an amendment that would require new bars to make 50 percent of their total receipts from food sales. The Lawrence City Commission, which initiated the amendment in November 1993, had referred it to the planning commission for further consideration.
Bobbie Flory, planning commissioner, said she wanted more information before she passed the amendment to the city commission.
"Are bars really taking over?" Flory said.
"It seems that they are, but I wanted to see numbers to back that up."
Some bar owners, however, are more concerned with the proposed food sales amendment than with crime in the area.
Jerry Neverve, owner of the Red Lyon
Neverve, whose business was robbed on Jan. 25, said the incident was an odd occurrence for a downtown business.
"There's always a problem in nightlife areas," Never said. "But at the same time, some of these problems can be taken care of by local bar owners."
Neverve said he would like to see police department figures that link increased crime and bars.
Peach Conroy, owner of The Sandbar,
117E. Eighth St., agreed that crime was not
Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., said that he would not be able to expand his business if the amendment passed because he was worried that he would not be able to make the required 50 percent in food sales.
"It was just one of those things that occasionally happen in business," he said. "But I can't remember the last time it happened to a downtown business."
a big problem in the downtown area
"I walk down here between two and three in the morning all the time, and I do not feel uncomfortable at all," Conroy said. "The only loiterers are high school kids who park or drive up and down the street and they're of non-drinking age."
Conroy said she understood that the city commission did not want an area dominated by bars such as Aggieville in Manhattan to develop in Lawrence. But she said that new bars would be affected more by the amendment because she had no plans to expand.
Price Banks, city planning director, said that while no applications for new bars were pending, the number of inquiries had increased from people wanting to put in new bars, including one that would turn the vacant F. W. Woolworth Co. store, 911 Massachusetts St., into a multi-level bar.