CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1984
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SenEx OKs plan on research policy
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday forwarded to the University Council a proposal that would allow KU research to remain classified for longer than the one-year limit now set by current KU policy.
The Council is scheduled to discuss the proposal March 22.
Council members considered the controversial classified research proposal at their Feb. 16 meeting but voted to postpone further discussion of that of arguments for and against the proposal had been created.
A list of those arguments will be mailed to Council members before the March 22 meeting.
The move to change the current classified research policy began in fall 1981, after some faculty members told the Faculty Senate Response Committee that policy prevented them from accepting some research contracts.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL, if a researcher wanted to conduct research that would remain classified for more than one year, he would have to apply to a three-member classified research subcommittee of the Faculty Senate Research Committee.
[ That subcommittee would be appointed each year by the KU vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public research. The proposal sets no limit on how long research could remain classified.
SenEx members also agreed to invite Ed Meyen, acting vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public research, to attend the Council meeting to answer questions.
SOME FACULTY MEMBERS have opposed the proposal, saying that it would violate basic academic tenets by restricting access to the results of research at KU.
The Council on March 22 will also consider the idea of creating a grade appeals board at the University. SenEx members decided that the Council should have the opportunity to discuss the idea of a grade appeals board before having to decide upon a specific proposal.
A grade appeals board would give students recourse for getting a grade changed. Under current policy, only an instructor may change a grade unless he has died, has been incapacitated, or has been found guilty of sexual harassment or academic misconduct.
Charles Kahn, a member of SenEx and professor of architecture and urban design, said, "I don't think we have to issue to give it to Council for a vote."
"It's such a tickish subject that I think to bring it to the faculty before they have a chance to discuss the issue would be a tactical blunder," Kahn said.
Kahn said that the University Council, which comprises both faculty and student members, would discuss KU's need for a grade appeals board, and then the Faculty Council would discuss the effect an appeals board might have on an instructor's responsibilities.
City residents ask developer about costs
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Lawrence residents last night questioned representatives from Town Center Venture Corp. about how the proposed downtown redevelopment project would be financed.
Town Center officials presented their plan for downtown redevelopment and answered questions about it at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Kansas at the Lawrence Public Library.
Several residents expressed concern about traffic problems the proposed project could create.
THE PROPOSED PROJECT is estimated to cost the public $15 million and the developer $26 million, said Duane Schwada, president of Town
The public cost will be divided, with $8.7 million coming from Urban Development Action Grants from the federal government, $3.4 million from general obligation bonds from the city, $1.5 million from city-backed utility bonds and $1.4 million from increased property tax revenue. Property taxes
will not be increased to pay for the project, but revenue is expected to grow.
"THE FEDERAL MONEY goes in
the he said. "They have to make sure
it is paid."
The private cost will be paid through Industrial Revenue Bonds, which are low-interest bonds backed by the city for local industry.
Schwada said that the use of IRBs would depend on the market at the time they were issued and the strength of the competition. She also stores that agree to locate in the mall.
He said that the developer would have to secure signed contracts from department stores before financing could go before the public for a vote.
Oliver Finney, president of the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association, asked the Town Center officials how they could justify more traffic on residential streets surrounding the proposed mail.
He said that the presence of the
cassas already made
traffic a problem.
"I'm just concerned that this problem will just exacerbate a problem that is already there," Finney said.
DALE GLENN, OF Peters, Kubota and Glenn architecture firm, 2500 W. Sixth St., which has worked extensively on the Town Center plan, said the area that Town Center designated for the proposed mall was best.
"Yes, there will be additional traffic," he said. "We know that and we will have to deal with that. All we're saying is our location is far superior to others."
Schwada said that details in the plan would have to wait until department stores showed interest by written contract.
"The department stores dictate the process," he said. "Because without them you will not attract the other stores."
The plan includes 35 to 40 small shops and two large department stores.
The mall would have two levels of parking that would accommodate 1,000 cars, with entrances from the north and south.
THE MAIN SHOPPING area would be 10 feet above ground level, with one parking level at ground level and one 10 feet below ground level.
Additional parking would be built next to the northwest corner of the area along Sixth Street. The mall area includes the area between Sixth and Seventh streets, the alley east of Chicago's Street, and Kentucky Street.
The proposal covers 6.9 acres, which is about four acres smaller than the previous downtown plan by Sizer Realty Co., Inc., Kenner, La., for the 800 and 900 blocks of Massachusetts Street.
THE TOWN CENTER plan disrupts half as many businesses downtown as the Sizerle plan. Schwada said it. "We're $2 million less than the previous plan."
The Lawrence City Hall, the Lawrence Post Office, the Lawrence Senior Center and the Lawrence Opera House may be razed under the Town Center plan.
Town Center officials said that a trolley car running along Massachusetts Street could link the shopping mall to the rest of downtown. But the city would be financed by downtown businesses that might benefit from the trolley.
State labor office criticized for wasting funds
By United Press International
TOPEKA - Human Resources Secretary Jerry Shelor was harshly criticized yesterday by members of a House committee who said that his department might have misused about $140,000.
While reviewing the fiscal 1985 budget for the Kansas Department of Labor, members of the House Ways and Means Committee expressed surprise at the building in Wichita with $140,000 designated for other uses.
R. Topeka, he said he would attack Attorney General Robert Stephan to investigate the case.
"This isn't something that can be overlooked," Bunten said. "This is the first time I have heard of this. Most people over there can read, and the (budget) proviso what the money can be used for."
Committee chairman Bill Bunten.
Democratic Gov. John Carlin appointed Shelar to头部 the department in June 1883, but the Senate has not yet confirmed his appointment. Shelar was Carlin's chief fund-raiser in the governor's 1982 re-election bid.
take up the question of whether Shelor's appointment will be confirmed. Though hearings in the Senate Confirmations Committee were set to start today, committee chairman Francis Gordon, R-Highland, said they might be delayed until an audit of Shelor's department was completed.
With only four weeks left in the regular session, the Senate has yet to
Gordon said his committee had heard about the possible violation in spending the money but had received nothing in writing. If the attorney general agreed to investigate the matter, the commit-ment might wait for that report, Gordon said.
would definitely affect his chance for nomination," Gordon said. "If it is an inherited problem, it probably won't make much difference."
"It if it would come out that it was his duty as secretary to have known this, it
Shelor could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Bunten said that although Shelor took over at the department after the budget process was under way, he still was responsible for the budget.
Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugeton, said a provision in the fiscal 1984 appropriation for the department described how the $140,000 was to be used. Farrar said he asked the agency to explain why it spent the money on an unauthorized tax.
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