CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1984
Page 7
New contracts offered at Jayhawker Towers
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The Jayhawker Towers Apartments are offering new contracts for next year that will allow KU students to work with liability to a portion of the monthly rent.
Steve Keel, assistant director of housing, said that, although the Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., would offer individual contracts, residents would also be able to choose the more traditional lease, which would make roomsmates separately and jointly liable for the month's rent.
Under apartment agreements that made tenants liable separately and jointly, Keel said, the landlord could sue remaining tenants for the entire rent when one roommate had not paid his share of the rent. He said he have to find a replacement roommate.
The advantage of the individual contract, Keel said, was that the tenant would be responsible only for the space leased, not for the entire apartment.
The individual contract would give a student the option to lease space in an apartment with a group of roommates.
each responsible for his part of the rent, or to reserve room for himself and have the housing office find rooms to fill the apartment. Keel said.
Keel said, "We will try, based on sheets they fill out, to make the roommate assignments as close as we can to compatibility."
Although Keel said that most of the students interested in the individual contract had been friends who wanted to live in the Towers as roommates next to each other, they were detention in case one roommate left school or could not pay his share of the rent.
Under the individual contract option,
Keel said, protection would be available for a $7, $8 or $9 fee in addition to the rent, depending on the number of roommates and the type of apartment.
A student could live at the Towers for $116 per month, with three roommates, and pay $8 per month for the individual. A second student would also have to pay the contract fee.
Keel said that the Towers had 300 two-bedroom apartments in four towers. Leases were for ten months, he said, although a two-month summer lease was also available.
Indian expert is visiting prof for spring '85
A research professor of law and history at the University of Tulsa has been named the Langston Hughes visiting professor for the KU spring semester of 1985, the vice chancellor for academic affairs said.
The Langston Hughes professorship was established in 1777 to honor Hughes, a poet, playwright and author, who lived in Lawrence in 1803 to 1916.
For each semester in an academic year, the position is appointed to a prominent person outside the University of Kansas.
By the Kansan Staff
Strickland is the director of the Indian law and history collection at the University of Tulsa.
Rennard Strickland, the professor, is one of the foremost authorities in American Indian law and history and will be teaching at the School of Law, said Dennis Vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Strickland's visit coincides with Haskell Indian Junior College's centennial.
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Auyulopalatopharingoplasty
Nighttime noisemakers can be cured
It is the surgical procedure doctors to perform cure people of sporing
perform to cure or shore of. And, according to two doctors at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., those who snore may be treated by the experimental operation.
will become a more common operation."
"It's still in the experimental stage," said Richard Price, a first-year resident physician in the ear, nose and throat department. "It's just not done very often, but I think that's because a lot of people still don't know about it. It
BUT WHAT SOME MAY CONSIDER a minor inconvenience is a serious matter in some cases, according to the doctors. Loud snooring may be a sign of sleep apnea, a lack of oxygen during sleeping hours.
"People with sleep apnea are loud snorers. They have a restless, disturbed sleep," said John Hignight, fourth-year resident physician in the department of ear, nose and throat at the Med Center. "Sleep apnea is caused by anything which alters the upper airway."
Sleep apnea symptoms include, in addition to the loud snoring, a loss of
oxygen, a faster heart rate and restless sleep.
THE SURGICAL PROCEDURE involves cutting the area around the uvula and sewing it to the roof of the mouth, making the airway larger.
Hignighat said that people who suffered from sleep apnea woke up exhausted because of their restless nights. They easily fall asleep when relaxed, he said, and those who suffer from the disease appear to be less alert
They said that the operation could be performed on both sleep apneas and people who just snored loudly and that the operation had been 100 percent successful.
Halls win money for reducing vandalism
By the Kansan Staff
residence halls each won $500 for their efforts to conserve energy, said Curt Worden. contest organizer.
Lewis Hall recently won the first prize of $500 in the housing office's vandalism reduction contest, the contest's organizer said yesterday.
Lewis was among five other halls that reduced vandalism. The halls competed against each other to see which team was the mostoses from vandalism damage the most.
The halls will be allowed to use the money to improve the halls or provide a special meal for the residents, Worden said.
In a different contest, all eight KU
amounted to a savings of $5,710 from the same time last year. The housing office gave the halls a total of $1,675 in prize money.
Worden said that in the vandalism reduction contest, which ran from Jan. 16 to March 9, students living in school halls hadled vandalism 40 percent
To win prize money in the energy conservation contest, Warden said that the halls had to reduce February precipitation by 10 percent overall from February 1982.
The reductions in vandalism
Halls saved 20 percent in gas consumption but increased electricity consumption 1 percent, Warden said.
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