University Daily Kansan, June 22, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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News briefs from staff and wire reports
Police settle on pay raise with help from mediator
Members of the Lawrence Police Officers Association voted Wednesday night to approve a work agreement calling for a 3.5 percent wage increase in 1985 and a 5 percent increase in 1986.
Police and city negotiators worked three months to draw up the agreement, which still must be approved by the Lawrence City Commission.
Last Monday, a mediator from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Kansas City, Mo., arrived to help with the negotiations.
"We started out by requesting a 10 percent cost-of-living adjustment hoping for a 6 percent adjustment, and we came up with zero because they fell we were already adequately compensated," said Vince O'Neill, chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers Office.
According to police officer Dave Cobb, Lawrence officers' wages range from $10.26 to $11.51 per hour.
"Ten percent would have put us at the national average for a patrol officer. We're about $2,000 below that now."
Hearing set in local beating case
The preliminary hearing will be June 25 for a man charged with the June 20 aggravated battery of a Lawrence woman near the boat ramp at Eighth and Oak Streets.
Police arrested Randy Lee Williams at the Jayhawk Motel, 1004 N. 3rd St., Wednesday morning.
Williams, who failed to post the $15,000 bond, is being held in the Douglas County Jail until his preliminary hearing.
River race to take place Saturday
In the spirit of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, more than 1,000 people will participate Saturday in the fifth annual Great Kaw River Raft Race.
The race, which is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. in Eudora and end at about noon in Edwardsville, will follow a 26-mile course between the two towns. This year's race was supposed to take place June 9, but was canceled because debris from heavy thunderstorms
Debbie Johnson, spokesman for the Edwardsville Jaycees, one of the race's sponsors, said that the 170 raft entrees were the most ever.
"We've never had this many rafts," she said. "Last year we had 40, and the first year we had 150." Between 5,000 and 10,000 spectators are expected to attend the race.
Johnson said that the money raised from the race would be used to build a community center in Edwardsville.
Series explores women's issues
The KU Commission on the Status of Women will sponsor a film festival from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
"Women and Sexuality" explores the changes in the sexual attitudes of women, and past views of women and sex, and compares them with current sexual issues.
"Women's Rights in the U.S." documents the growth of women's opposition to the inferiority myth and links the past to the current feminist movement.
"Women's Rights in the U.S." is an American Film Festival Red Ribbon Award winner.
The series is free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the films.
The Commission on the Status of Women examines the status of women's issues. The KU chapter was the first local chapter founded and was started 13 years ago by Emily Taylor, then the KU dean of women.
Association appoints treasurer
Jeffrey W. Davis, 2602 Alabama St., has been appointed as the treasurer of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Davis' duties as treasurer will include supervising the investment of the Endowment Association's funds.
Davis was the vice president and trust officer at the Lawrence National Bank before becoming the treasurer for the Endowment Association. He said that his experience administering trust funds would help him in his new job.
The responsibilities of the treasurer are similar to the duties he had handling trust funds, Davis said. He said that in both jobs it was necessary to follow instructions from the donor, and that money should be pooled whenever possible to make transactions more
Davis received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 1971, received a law degree from Washburn University in 1975 and graduated from the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University in 1981.
Davis was an attorney for the law firm in Newton before he joined the Lawrence National Bank.
Patriotic quilts to go on display
"Hurray for the Red, White and Blue," a collection of antique red, white and blue quilts, will be on display June 29 to July 27 at the Lawrence Arts Center. Ninth and Vermont streets.
The quilts were collected by Barb Heck, a Lawrence resident and former owner of the Stitch-On Needlework Shop, 926 Massachusetts St.
The show was organized as part of the Lawrence Convention and Tourist Bureau's Independence Days Celebration, June 30 and July 1.
For those who want to learn to swim or play fast-pitch softball, the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is the place to go. Second-session enrollment for the Learn-to-Swim lessons at the Municipality is 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., today at South Park Center, Manhattan St.
Softball, swimming being offered
Mani Mani, director of the Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, expects a big increase in burns during the summer and early fall because of summer-related activities.
An organizational meeting for fast-pitch softball will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
Burn cases increase in summer
WHOM TO CONTACT
Mani cites barbecue accidents with charcoal lighter fluid, careless lawnmower use, brush fires and work-related accidents as the leading causes of burns in the summer.
The Kansan welcomes tips, questions, comments and complaints from the public. Readers are invited to call the Kansan newsroom at 864-4810 and talk to one of the following editors:
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The Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. is, located in the middle of the proposed downtown mall and is also at the center of a controversy involving the downtown redevelopment.
Opera House's fate up to Commission
Lawrence city commissioners, the mall developers and a Wichita company. Bowersock Ltd., have their own office and the fate of the home should be.
However, all parties agree that the Opera House cannot be left in its present condition.
By SHAWNA SEED Staff Reporter
TOWN CENTER VENTURE Corp., the downtown redeveloper, has plans to build the mall in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
Bob Gould, an architect who is working on the mall, said that the key issue for the developers was that the city retain control of the Opera
Bowersock wants to buy the Opera House and renovate it as a performing-arts center and would like the city to help finance the renovation with industrial revenue bonds.
The commissioners said that they were interested in having a performing arts center, but were not involved in financial risk involved with the IRBs.
GOULD SAID THAT the proposal to grant industrial revenue bonds to Bowersock was not "unacceptable" to the developers.
concerned that national acts would not play at the Opera House, and that local groups would not bring in large audiences to cover the expenses.
"I would not say it that strongly," he said. "We are not sure that
The Bowersock plan calls for local performing arts groups to make up about 25 percent of the building's use.
Lee Barnett, an attorney representing Bowersock, told the commission that the performing arts center was the best choice.
When commissioners set a July 17 hearing date to consider IRBs for the Opera House, the main concern of the Opera House could turn a profit.
Commissioner Howard Hill said that the plans for the Opera House were not "on solid enough ground to issue IRBs.
arrangement would provide the control that we want for the city."
"IF J A N C E S STORE goes in here, it will be a loss the city will never recover from. I wager that if the man who broke in comes in, it won't have a defender."
"IF WE ISSUE IRBs," he said, "we would want assurances that there be major commitments."
Gould said that Barnett must have been using the term "Jones Store" to refer to department stores in general.
Commissioner David Longhurst said that if the city subsidized the Opera House in order to have it in theaters, he would not use IRBs.
Commissioners said that they were
Ambler and Senate settle payroll procedure
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
The turnover over Student Senate payroll procedure was settled Wednesday afternoon, ending more than a month of conflict between the Senate and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Ambler met Wednesday with Carla Vogel and Dennis "Boo" Highberger, student body president and vice president of the institution to迎接 the satisfaction of both parties.
Ambler said that the meeting had cleared any misunderstandings between the administration and the Senate over the payroll issue.
VOGEL WILL SIGN the Senate payroll form unless the monetary amount exceeds thedetermined attorney's Executive Committee on June 16.
At the meeting, Vogel said, they discussed a letter that Highbayer sent to Amber, and decided that the letter was the best way to prevent further misunderstandings.
Highberger said in the letter that he had resented Ambler's request to have administration liaison An Eversole, director of student organizations and activities, sign the Senate's payroll forms before they were turnover over to the payroll office.
In the past, the payroll had been
signed by the Student Senate treasurer, and had not required the signature of an administrator.
The payroll controversy showed that the students did not have as much power as they could have, Vogel said.
she said. "It made Dr. Ambler think and it made us think."
AMBLER SAID THAT the request had not been an effort to take power away from the Student Senate, but to help ensure the money from possible misuse
"THAT'S WHY students are apathetic," she said.
"What we both intended the meeting for was accomplished, and we're going forward from there." Ambler said.
Ambler, however, said that the controversy was just part of the process of developing good account with the Senate and involvement of the Senate as possible.
Vogel said the meeting turned out as she had expected.
"I feel really good that it has been resolved, I knew it would," she said. Overall, Vogel said that she was very happy and happy about me.
Although Ambler said that he did not anticipate any further problems. Vogel disagreed.
"This issue made people think."
"I won't be surprised if something like this comes up again," she said.
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