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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 107 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, February 24, 1984
Catholic center one step closer Planning Commission OKs plat but adds restrictions
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
St. Lawrence Catholic Center officials are one step closer to building a church and expanding a student center at Crescent and Engel roads because of action taken last night by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
However, an official of the center said one of the restrictions put on the plat by the commission was "unacceptable."
The plat is a legal boundary of the 2.26 acre lot on the southeast corner of Crescent and Engel roads.
UNLIKE CENTER officials, members of the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association were pleased with the restrictions set down by the commission, said John Nitcher, attorney for the association.
The planning commission approved the plat by a 6-1 vote. The plat will go to the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday night for consideration.
Paul Bahmmaier, planning commissioner, who voted against approval of the plan, said he thought it should have been contingent upon approval of the site plan for the center's proposed church and expansion of its existing student center.
At its meeting Tuesday, the City Commission will consider approving the center's site plan.
Dean Burkhead, an attorney for the center, objected strongly to a green-space requirement being imposed before the City Commission approved the site plan.
A GREEN-SPACE requirement would prevent the center from constructing buildings or parking lots within a designated area.
"The 45-foot requirement is unacceptable." Burkhead said. "It's taking property without due credit."
process of law, and it is more difficult to
Burkhead said that inverse condemnation was
when the city took property from a person and didn't compensate him.
10 said the issue of the green space should be considered at the same time the site plan comes before the City Commission Tuesday.
"Any time you're living in a city, you are not going to have complete use of your property," he
THE GREEN-SPACE restriction was one of five the commission required for the center. It specified that the center must have a 45 feet by 180 feet open area on the east side of its lot.
Nitcher, however, said the center was not a victim of inverse condemnation.
seemed to want their cake all along in this issue."
The green space was a requirement suggested by the city's planning staff to provide a buffer between the neighborhood and the church. The church is located lot directly borders a house in the neighborhood.
Burkhead argued that center officials did not plan to build anything in the green space indefinitely.
Nitcher said that the green space was
Thomas said that therefore the restriction should remain on the plat.
But he said the plaat should include a green-space restriction for only the next five or 10 years, in case the center needed to use the area.
The center can request that the land be repaired at any time, said Price Banks, director of emergency planning agency.
ANOTHER REQUIREMENT the planning commission made with its approval of the plat was not to allow access to the property from Crescent Road.
Burkhead said that center representatives did not intend to open access to Crescent Road if the
Vickie Thomas Planning commission member
'I find it almost inconceivable that this applicant objects to this open space. I say "almost" because the applicants have seemed to want their cake all along in this issue.'
important because it helped preserve the residential quality of the neighborhood.
resolution quality the neighbors want more green space than the strip the planning commission recommended.
Vickie Thomas, planning commissioner, said she was surprised by Burkhead's objection to the green-space requirement.
"I FIND IT almost inconceivable that this applicant objects to this open space," she said "I say 'almost' because the applicants have
by the City Commission If the City Commission does not approve the site plan, Burkhead said, the center would still need access to Crescent Road.
site plan for the proposed church was approved by the City Commission.
The present student center parking lot is accessible to Crescent Road by a driveway.
Other restrictions to the plat were provisions for two utility easements on the property, which had been approved by the Board.
Burkhead said the esasements were not needed, but he did not object to them.
Nicie Hodges, operator of Circus Plaza Bingo in Shawnee Mission, listens to testimony concerning a bill that would put further restrictions on bingo parlor operators. The hearing took place yesterday in the Statehouse in Topeka.
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Official says state scholarships too small
Staff Reporter
Bv GRETCHEN DAY
The state scholarship program, designed to award the "best and the brightest," no longer provides enough incentive to keep talented students in Kansas, a state representative said yesterday.
Graduates of Kansas high schools who qualified for a state scholarship received up to
the present stipend is a meager amount, which does not begin to meet the financial needs of students, said state Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Arkansas City, a member of a House Ways and Means subcommittee on Board of Regents schools.
$300 this year.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE is considering increasing the maximum stipend to $1,000 to keep the scholarships competitive, he said.
"I think we'll have some changes this year." Shriver said.
Students are accepted into the program on the basis of American College Test scores and
Starting this fall, students must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average to renew their scholarships.
Although the Regents award the state scholarships, students may use the award at any Kansas school, including private colleges and vocational schools.
projects, said that in the past students had received $200. The award was reduced this year because federal matching funds, which help support the program, were cut by about $200,000.
Gene Casper, Regents director of special
Casper agreed that the stipend should be increased to $1,000.
CHIRS GRAVES, legislative director for the Associated Students of Kansas, said that when the program began in 1964, $500 was a significant award, but that now the scholarship was not enough to cover tuition costs and incidental fees
said Graves, who testified before the subcommittee this week.
in cases to $100.
In 1965, students received $500, and tuition was
$100. Casper said. Now students get $350,
and tuition at the University of Kansas is $34.
ASK supports increasing the stipend to $1,000
"If you're really going to honor and reward students and keep them in the state, $500 is pretty slim," he said.
STANLEY KOPLIK, Regents executive director, said that the proposal to change the amount of the stipend deserved serious consideration.
Israeli bombs east of Beirut violate accord
By United Press International
the Israeli fighter jets struck near the mountain town of Bhandham, situated in the Drusse Muslim rebel-controlled mountains 12 miles east of their town — in their third such air days.
U. S. officials said they were near agreement on the army, apparently members of the 6th Brigade, taking over the Marine compound at Beirut airport once the U.S. Marine evacuation from Lebanon was completed. The pullout began Tuesday.
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli warplanes bombed suspected Palestinian guerrilla bases east of Beirut yesterday as leaders of President Amin Gemayel's Christian community urged him to honor the May 17 accord with Israel.
WITH THE FIGHTING between the rebels of west Beirut and the army in east Beirut only a mile away, Lebanese army units of the pro-rebel 6th Brigade moved along the main shopping street of the western half of the capital.
REFERRING TO suspected Palestinian positions in the area, Israel said the attacks were aimed at 'terrorist bases and headquarters' and that the attackers 'ported several casualties among the civilians'.
"All Israeli planes returned safely to base," the military command said in an announcement Wednesday.
WHILE THE FIGHTING continued, Gemayel faced more pressure from members of the Christian community not to make peace
Ben out at the Bennett in Washington. President Reagan met with Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and several of his national security advisers for a discussion Middle East issues. No details of those talks were available.
Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations,
Rachid Fakhour, asked the Security Council to send U.N. peacekeeping troops to patrol not just Reirut but all of Lebanon.
street of the school. Their movements, mainly to provide guards around government buildings and to be a presence on the streets, also included replacing Shite Muslim mittamen at checkpoints near the U.S.-controlled Beirut airport.
See MIDEAST. p. 5. col. 1
Capacity a Energy options show promise of some relief
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a four-part series dealing with the Wolf Creek nuclear plant near Burlington.
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The electricity used each month, which amounts to about $1.1 million, keeps Vulcan's lights burning and the production processes going.
In the last 12 months, Vulcan Chemicals of Wichita has spent more than $13 million to cover monthly electricity bills from Kansas Gas and Electric Co.
Those expenses could nearly double by 1990 if the Kansas Corporation Commission approves KG&E's plan for paying off the Wolf nuclear plant near Burlington.
Creek nuclear plant has
it is a proposition that has generated
concern about the effects huge rate increases
could have on the Vulcan plant, Leo
Waldschmidt, maintenance manager for the
plant, said yesterday.
Vulcan is KG&E's largest customer. The chemical company is considering the possibility of producing more of the electricity it uses, and said, to help cut excess electricity costs.
Since September 1982, Vulcan has been producing electricity and heating some of its buildings using co-generation, a process in which a large boiler produces steam that is used to produce heat and generate electricity. Vulcan built the system for about $10 million.
"WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS from strictly a dollars and cents standpoint," he said.
Vulcan now produces about one-third of its electricity through a process called co-engineering.
See WOLFCREEK, p. 8, col. 1
Company says plant is efficient
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant under construction near Burlington will not have excess generating capacity, the president of one of the two principal owners of the plant said yesterday in a House committee hearing.
Three bills under consideration in the committee attempt to define the powers the Senate has over the Senate.
Arthur Doyle, president and chairman of the board of Kansas City Power and Light Co., Kansas City. Mo., appeared before the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee in a hearing on an legislation concerning Wolf Creek and the Kansas Corporation Commission
DOYLE TOLD THE committee that the $2.67 billion plan, scheduled to go on line next February, had reasonable reserve capacity and that it did not have unnecessary excess capacity.
See RATES, p. 8, col. 5
FBI can't find villain in 'Debategate' case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department yesterday said that an eight-month FBI investigation failed to show who passed Presidential Election 2016. Three women involved in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign.
By United Press International
It also said FBI agents found no firm evidence that the Reagan campaign obtained Carter's final debate briefing book, which Carter aides used to attack him and staged an advantage in the crucial days before the election.
The move clears the top Reagan aides of the Department report said that no law was violated.
IN INTERVIEWS with President Reagan and at least 220 others, and by reviewing about 1,000
boxes of documents, FBI agents found evidence that only drafts of Carter's briefing papers reached Reagan strategists, the department said.
"They were not produced on government time or at government expense, and they were based on public source material," the three-page campaign had not portured the papers closely.
"No classified information was contained in the briefing materials." the report said.
As a result, the department said, "there is no credible evidence that the transfer violated any criminal law" which means there were no charges against him or an independent counsel to lead the investigation.
THE ACTION, defusing a potential election-year scandal for the Reagan campaign, was
criticized by former Carter aides who said an independent counsel should have investigated. White House officials had no immediate comment on the finding.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN, domestic policy adviser in the Carter White House, said that the reports failed to determine "how the documents got up in the air" and that House House. The report in the Reagan campaign."
Rubenstein also criticized the report for failing to resolve a conflict between White House chief of staff James Baker, a top Reagan campaign aide, and CIA Director William Casey. Reagan's campaign manager, over their views on the incident.
See BOOK, p. 5, col. 5
included. Baker has said he recalled receiving a copy of
Committee's report upsets theatre group
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER
The publication of investigation results concerning possible discrimination in University Theatre's casting procedures has upset theatre faculty and students, the chairman of the theatre said yesterday.
Ron Williams, the chairman, told the University Human Relations Committee, which appointed the subcommittee that conducted the investigation, that publicity from the report had made the theatre look bad and had caused a morale problem in the department.
According to Willis, some theatre faculty members have been questioned by their colleagues about the theatre's activities after a story about the investigation appeared in the Kansan on Feb. 8.
THE INVESTIGATION stemmed from charges made by two students last semester concerning alleged discrimination during the casting of the musical, "Hair."
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"The article put University Theatre in a negative light," he said. "People are wondering what the hell is going on."
"We've been put in a position of defending ourselves from something I don't think we are."
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In its report, the subcommittee said the theatre department should "balance their desire to offer an artistic concept" with the responsibility of the University to offer an equal education to all students of KU."
WILLIS SAID HE was concerned that the subcommittee didn't understand the purpose of "artistic concept" in the casting of a production.
He said that the director's concept determined the casting of a production, but that it neither promoted nor discouraged minority participation
But Willis said race was sometimes a factor in the casting of a production.
Jake Gordon, chairman of the Human Relations Committee, said, "thatothersme. Why should race be important? Why shouldn't it be qualified students who get cast?"
"American teaching institutions should be about the business of recognizing the concept of racial pluralism, rather than an artistic concept that perpetuates discrimination."
WILLIS SAID that he was receptive to the idea of creating a casting policy as long as it didn't interfere with the artistic goal of the theatre.
"It seems to me that it would be an infringement of academic freedom and artistic freedom to put forth some kind of directive that would make it impossible to do what we need to do." Willis said.
"I'm sure it's possible to write a policy that will allow for artistic freedom," Willis said. "But I do not feel that the absence of a written policy has put us in serious jeopardy."
Gordon said the subcommittee and members of the theatre department would meet in the future to create a written casting policy that would assure representation of minorities in theatre productions.