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Vol. 94, No. 138 (USPS 650-640)
Council seeks increased athletic fee
Tuesday morning, April 17, 1984
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
The Student Sports Council yesterday recommended that students pay an extra $3 each semester to help support the athletic department.
Under the council's plan, students would pay
7.50 instead of the 4.50 students now pay.
The proposed $3 increase would go into the department's general fund. The current fee now goes to support women's and non-revenue sports.
Council members said the increase was necessary to avoid an increase in student ticket prices and to make student contributions to the
athletic department equal to student contributions at other. Bie Fight Conference schools.
THE PROPOSAL WILL go to the Student
Senate a week from today.
Jackie Johnson, a council member and the daughter of Athletic Director Monte Johnson, presented the proposal for an increase to the scholarship package to increase their support of the athletic department.
If passed, the plan would mark the first increase in the fee since 1982, when the fee was increased from $1.50 to $4.50 a semester.
Johnson said her father did not prompt her to suggest the increase.
"I have a mind of my own, and it was something I did myself," she said.
However, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that, if passed, the increase might not affect fees for the next school year. He said any increase in the fee would have to be approved by the Board of Regents at its meetings Thursday and Friday.
BUT THE PROPOSAL cannot go before the Regents Thursday and Friday because the Senate, which does not meet until Tuesday, first must approve the increase. Chancellor Gene A. Budg must also approve the increase before it can go to the Regents.
Caria Vogel, student body president, said the
proposal was likely to meet stiff opposition in the Senate.
"I would debate it and question it closely," she said. "I'd like to know exactly where the money came from."
William tranna, a member of the council, said he was worried about how the Senate would react to the proposal. He said the council hoped that head basketball coach Larry Brown would respond.
Gary Solba, a member of the council, said that student ticket prices would probably be increased if the Senate didn't approve the fee increase. He said the council hadn't decided how much student ticket prices would be raised.
Childbirth program calms sibling curiosity, fears
See INCREASE, p. 5, col. 1
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
For many children, the arrival of a new brother or sister can be both frightening and hard to understand.
Children wonder about what will happen to mom and about whether they will be able to see them.
They also worry that mom might not come home.
Their curiosity can be endless, and Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., has developed a family program to help children understand the circumstances surrounding childbirth.
"Tyke Hike," the program, is conducted every Thursday at 4 p.m. for children between the ages of 2 and 8. The program includes a tour of the hospital, a film and a special visit to the nursery.
Vicki Friede, director of maternal child nursing at the hospital, said the program reflected an increase in attention toward the family because birthchild had become more
THE FAVORITE PART for the children is when they visit the newborns at the nursery
As the children climb the small set of wooden stairs in front of the nursery built so the children can see the new babies, and peer in the window, the questions continue.
They wonder why the babies are wearing hats, why they are crying and why the nurses leave them.
They watch as the nurses weigh and dress
Denise Massibi, 1418 W. 19th Terr., and her 2-year-old daughter Mary watch the newborns from the nursery window as part of the "Tvke Hike" program at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325
Maine St. Vicki Friede, far right, director of maternal and child nursing, leads the children on a tour of the hospital every Thursday.
See KIDS, p. 5, col. 1
Editors selected for summer, fall
By the Kansan Staff
Bush to take toxic-weapons plan to U.N.
The Kansan Board yesterday selected James Bole as summer editor and Karen Davis as summer business manager.
Bole is a Tokyo senior and Davis is a Kansas City, Mo. senior.
Applications for the news and business staffs for the summer and fall are now being accepted. The applications are available in 119 Staffer F-101t Hall, in the Student Senate office, 165d of the Kansas Union, and in the University organizations and activities in 403 of the Union.
The board, which is the paper's governing body, also selected Don Knox, Lakewood, Colo. senior, as fall editor and Dave Leavard, Leaward senior, as fall business manager.
Completed applications are due at 5 p.m.
tomorrow in 200 Stauffer-Flint.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Vice President George Bush left for Europe yesterday with instructions from President Reagan to try to "work side by side" with Soviet leaders to eliminate "the horror" of chemical weapons across the globe.
"Our goal is to eliminate from this earth one of the most harrible and terrifying weapons known to mankind," Reagan declared during a ceremonial sendoff for Bush intended to highlight his latest arms control initiative.
The Soviet Union responded by calling the effort a "propaganda campaign."
BUSH LEFT LATE YESTERDAY for Geneva, where he will present a draft treaty on chemical arms tomorrow to the 40-nation U.N. Committee on Disarmament.
Upon leaving Andrews Air Force Base, Bush said. "I can't say I'm optimistic now. I'll have to wait until I get there."
issue by getting into a shouting match with the Soviet Union."
he refused to address the Soviet charge of propaganda, saying, "I'm not going to cloud the
However, in a speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution earlier last night, Bush said that he was hopeful "because I do not believe the Soviet leadership wants war," and that it "must have reasons to want a breakthrough in the control of chemical weapons."
"The world — the whole world — really wants the abolition of all chemical weapons," Bush said. "I am off to Geneva to try to make this dream become reality."
With U.S.-Soviet negotiations on the control of nuclear arms suspended, Reagan called the trip "an extremely vital mission in the cause of peace." He wished the vice president "God-speed" and touted his draft treaty — the latest in a series of election-year peace feelers — as "a first-rate proposal."
AT THE SAME TIME, Reagan again outlined reasons why Congress should approve his request for money to build a new chemical plant in Arkansas. The United States must not be caught unprepared.
In Moscow, the official Soviet newspaper
rvestia said the treaty draft was accompanied by "pre-conditions" previously labeled unacceptable and was not a serious proposal for agreement.
"Whipping up a propaganda campaign around the draft convention, the U.S.A. wants to conceal its real position on the issue ... to intensify preparations for chemical war and obstruct the negotiations in Geneva on the prohibition of chemical weapons." Izvesta charged.
But Reagan expressed hope that Soviet officials and others "will respond seriously and effectively."
Alluring to the negotiating obstacles that lie ahead — noteably a U.S. demand for inspection of actual or suspected storage and production facilities — he conceded success "wont be easy to achieve." He said, however, that his initiative went far beyond past efforts that sought only to prohibit the actual use of chemical weapons and "lacked effective compliance provisions."
"WE MUST MOVE to ban these weapons now — not only their use, but also the development.
See CHEMICALS, p. 5, col. 1
Rebel leader plans regime in Nicaragua
Provisional officials would govern region held by guerrillas
By United Press International
Nicaraguan rebel leader Eden Pastora said yesterday that his forces would establish a provisional government in a town inside the 2,000 square miles of Nicaragua territory the guerrillas now control.
In Honduras, Gen. Walter Lopez Reyes, the new head of the Honduran armed forces, said yesterday that he favored negotiated settlements to the crises in Central America but added that U.S.-Honduran military maneuvers would continue
Pastora, a former Sandinista military leader known as Commander Zero, said that his Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, which is based in Costa Rica, controlled more than 2,000 square miles of territory in southern Nicaragua, including the southern port city of San Juan del Norte, 200 miles southeast of Managua on the Caribbean Coast.
Pastora said in a radio broadcast late yesterday that the rebels were facing a major offensive by the Sandinistas to recapture helicopters and motorized infantry units.
Nicargara Defense Minister Humberto Ortega had said Sunday that the Sandinistas would be able to regain control of the city.
The rebels said that they seized the town Friday after a week-long siege. It is the first town the guerrillas have been able to take and hold.
THE LEFTIST NICARAGUAN government admitted that the rebels controlled the isolated town of some 6,000 people, which is in a jungle near Lake Titicaca. They were by rivers, which the rebels control, and by sea.
"This means that we have under our control (a large segment) of Nicaragua territory. To accomplish that we have counted on the massive support of the Nicaraguan people who have been freed from the anguish of living under the communist yoke," Pastora said.
Pastora, who broke with the Sandinista government over its increasingly Marxist leanings, said his rebel group, known as ARDE, would place the capital of the provisional government in the town of Sarapiqui, located in "liberated territory," within the next few days.
Pastora also said that ARDE's political leader Alfonso Robelo, a former member of the Sandinista junta, would be named provisional president of the new government.
"THE MEMBERS OF the Sandinista Popular Army know that they are struggling against their own people but many do not desert the dictatorship of the president. Soviet bosses who watch them," Pastora said.
He said the rebels had mined the port of San Juan del Norte to prevent a counterattack by sea and taken control of an airport in the captured city.
In Honduras, Lopez, 43, was formally installed yesterday by President Roberto Suzano Cordova at a military post three miles south of Tegucigalpa.
López led the March 30 ouster of former Honduran armed forces chief Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martínez and several other top military leaders on January 17, 2018, to the ion post several days after the shakeup.
"The armed forces are disposed to back up all the actions taken by the constitutional government of Honduras in the aim of finding a way out" (the conflicts in Central America," Lopez has
Development discord still vibrates downtown
Store owners contemplate other options
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Nearly five years of planning and talking about downtown development have worn thin the patience of some Downtown Lawrence Association members who say they are tired of waiting for a downtown mall.
DLA members say they don't want to help pay for the mail because they don't think it would benefit them, former DLA President Bob Schumm said recently.
So they have begin working up plans for two projects downtown that would be several blocks from the proposed mall's site in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
AND SEVERAL MERCHANTS interviewed downtown said that they were opposed to the developer's proposal for them to pay a special benefit tax, which the developers estimate would generate $1.5 million to help pay for a parking garage under the mail.
City officials are now working to complete an application for $10 million in federal money, some of which would be used to finance part of the parking garage under the mall, and Town Center Venture Corp. officials are working to secure department store contracts.
Schumm said that a number of business people downtown did not want to wait for the mail to be delivered.
He said that some members of the association wanted to establish a focal point at Ninth and Massachusetts streets that would draw shopers. It would be a place where people could gather, such as the central atrium of a shopping center.
The future of Town Center's downtown development plan hinges on whether the developer secures contracts with two large department stores that would be part of the mall.
"There is no project for them yet, because they have no department stores." Schultz
THE DLA MEMBERS hope to establish this focal point by creating a landscaped area for pedestrians on the south end of Massachusetts Street in the same block.
They also want to build a parking garage on the existing parking lot behind Massachusetts Street in the 800 block to benefit downtown merchants south of the proposed mall area.
Ron Johnson, president of the DLA, said that if the mall were built in the 600 block downtown, it would be one of the top 10 shopping centers.
velopment in the 900 block of Massachusetts Street to benefit merchants at that end of downtown.
Part of the financing for the mall project is expected to come from a special benefit district tax, according to a proposal submitted to the city by Town Center officials.
A special benefit tax is levied when a group of people affected by an improvement sign a
But Schumm, who owns several restaurants downtown, said that some downtown merchants would not sign such a petition. He said they did not think the downtown mall would benefit them.
"IF ONLY THE PARKING garage under the Town Center Venture monolith were to be financed via the special benefit district tax, I would have supported it at this time that it would be supported," he said.
Johnson said, "I think it'd be tough to sell a project in the 600 block. I think we stand a much better chance of getting one passed in the 900 block area."
The key in selling the 600 block project, Mayor Ernest Angino said, is convincing the department stores.
The city's goal for the developer to secure contracts with two large department stores for the project, and the architect who has worked extensively on the Town Center project; said that getting those
See DOWNTOWN, p. 8, col. 1
Few remain undecided on mall plan
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Davis doesn't think that will happen, however, because he doesn't think the downtown mall will ever be built. Public opposition to the plan is too great for the mall project to succeed, he said.
A year ago, Randy Davis didn't suspect that he might be forced to pack up his woodstoves and leave Lawrence to the developers.
But if a mail that is planned for the 600 block of Massachusetts Street is built, Davis might have to close his Woodstoves Inc. store in Lawrence and move the merchandise to his store in
OTHER PEOPLE WHO have businesses in the area where the mall would be built are optimistic about the plan. They say they think the plan is a good one, and they support it because the developer, Town Center Venture Corp., is a local firm.
But some business people downtown think Town Center's plan for a mall would create traffic problems. Others say the plan would concentrate retail activity at one end of the city.
And one homeowner in the 600 block of Kentucky Street, confused about the effects of development on her neighborhood, said she just wanted to know what was going on with the plan.
Mark Courtingon, manager of Woodstoves, 615 Massachusetts St., said, "I think a lot of people in town think it's a half-baked idea. I think a lot of people downtown feel that to bring in department stores, that's fine, but to take up with a shopping mall is duplicating space."
He said that if the mall were ever built downtown, the turnover of shops would be high because the rents would have to be high to pay for the project.
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION in the project, said Sam Peppel, owner of Everything But Ice, 616 Vermont St., was that the project was taking so much time.
"It is extremely tentative," he said. "It is progressing so slowly at this point that there will be a new City Commission by the time there will be a vote."
The present members of the Lawrence City Commission voted in November to replace Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., a Louisiana real estate
See DISPLACE, p. 8, col. 3