University Daily Kansan, January 23, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
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White House sends a reply to mayor's bid for summit
Mayor David Longhurst received a response last week to a second letter he sent President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov suggesting a summit conference in Lawrence. He said the response from the White House went a little beyond a form letter.
Longhurst said the letter acknowledged that the White House received the letter and that the proposed meeting was a good idea.
Last spring Longhurst sent Reagan and Andropov letters suggesting that a conference between the two be held in Lawrence. Longhurst said he received only "form letter" responses to that suggestion. In November, he decided to send a second letter after he viewed "The Day After," a movie that showed the effects of a nuclear attack on Kansas City.
Longhurst said it appeared that his second letter had been given serious thought by the White House, and he was surprised by the response. He said he did not plan to write more letters to the leaders.
"I don't plan to make this thing a cruse," he said.
It was hard writing the second letter because he had risked embarrassment and the accusation of seeking attention for himself, Longhurst said.
He said he suggested Lawrence for the conference because "it is geographically ideal."
The theft occurred between 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday, Warren Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, said yesterday.
Thieves stole $11,524 from the control room used by Kansas Union concessions at Allen Field House following the University of Missouri-University of Kansas basketball game Wednesday, KU police said.
$11,524 stolen at Allen Field House
New precautions, such as adopting a policy of depositing concession money directly after each event, were outlined immediately by the Fed in 1993.
The money taken included all the money received from concession sales that night, and the cash that employees use to make change, Ferguson said.
No signs of forced entry were discovered on the field house doors leading outside, be said.
"Anytime something like this happens, you review your procedures," he said.
"We suspect someone stayed after the game and when everyone left they did their work," Ferguson said. "Although that's just speculation, of course."
Ferguson said that the theft was the first one in more than 20 years of Kansas Union concession sales at athletic events.
ON THE RECORD
A microcomputer valued at $800 was stolen from Radio Shack, 601 Kasold Dr., on Saturday afternoon, police said. There are no suspects in the incident.
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At its January 10th meeting, the City Commission, in the words of the January 11th issue of the Journal-World, "voted 3-2 ... to consider a contract (at the January 17th meeting) that would give permission to Town Center Venture Corporation ... to negotiate with department stores as the city's downtown developer of record". The two dissenters, Commissioners Shontz and Amyx, felt that any such consideration, before the Planning Commission at its January 26th meeting discussed changing the City Comprehensive Downtown Plan to accommodate Town Center's proposal, would be inappropriate.
After Commissioner Amyx had moved that the contract be considered January 31st, Mayor Longhurst's suggestion that the discussion take place January 17th prevailed.
Many of us are worried about the Mayor and wonder what happened to the affable individual who conducted such a mellow election campaign and only last September 13th calmly requested that a developer of record not be named until October 18th so that "anyone in the woodwork or anyone who might have a plan will not feel hesitant about submitting a proposal between September 13, (1983) and October 18". (Town Center emerged with its proposal in early October).
This same individual whose conspicuous call for restraint just four months ago flushed from the immediate surroundings an apparently anemic contestant willing to begin the race in question only at the finish line, is now willing to ignore the public, Downtown Lawrence Association and Planning Commission itself so that an agreement with this beaming latecomer might be effected.
Mr. Solnit thinks "A good (planning) commission has the power to command public attention. Therefore the objective recommendations it sends up to the elected officials have the power to forestall arbitrary, capricious and ad hoc decision making being covered up with rhetoric and double talk. It is extremely important to keep in mind that the commission's one real source of power stems from the requirement that the legislative body must seek its advice".
In his book, The Job of the Planning Commissioner, Albert Solnit says a planning commission should "serve the long-range interests of a community, unbound by election promises, political expediency or mow interests". Mr. Solnit describes how the corrupt political machines of many metropolitan areas eventually resulted in reform movements which created "quasi-independent . . . planning and zoning commissions of appointed citizens" who were insulated from the "dirtiness of politics".
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr
With all due respect to the Mayor, I disagree and ask instead is the city going to do the mall project properly or not? If the City Commission plays by the recognized rules of the democratic game, it will acknowledge and work with the public. Downtown Lawrence Association and Planning Commission while devising a solution. Any plan which ignores these vital entities will be, in Mayor Longhurst's words, "a real nothing agreement, anyhow."
Mayor Longhurst, who thinks the proposed contract with Town Center is "just not a big deal," claims that "We're not willing to come to grips with the question, and the question is, are we going to do it (the mall project) or not?"
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Damage to Marvin Hall to be repaired Regents authorize maintenance requests
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
A plan to renovate the History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center was unanimously approved Friday by the Board
Renovation of the now-vacant Clendening Library building will cost $440,000, of which $380,000 will come from the University of Kansas Endowment Association and $60,000 from private donations.
Keith Nitcher, KU budget director, said the move was important to remaining competitive and providing better services. The project cost of the project was $1 million general use funds. The work will be done by the Facilities Operations staff.
THE REGENTS ALSO approved relocating the Chronic Renal Dialysis Clinic at the Med Center. The plans are to move the hospital floor of floor DLP Pavilion, next to the Acute
The library work was one of four KU building repair and maintenance requests approved by the Regents at their regular monthly meeting in Topeka.
Dialysis Clinic, to consolidate staff and increase efficiency.
For projects on the Lawrence campus, the Regents authorized KU to use $15,000 out of the Facilities Operations budget to repair damage to Marvin and to keep cold weather during the semester break caused pipes to freeze and burn.
THE BRIDGE CONNECTING Marvin and the Visual Arts Building, which was completed in 1982, suffered the damage on campus during the cold weather.
The Regents authorized KU to request $40,000 from the Kansas State University.
the jobby of Bell Memorial Hospital at the Med Center. They also approved a policy change that would require university athletic corporations to share and maintenance costs for varsity athletic facilities constructed after Jan. 1, 1984.
Warren Corman, Regents director of facilities, said the policy change would mean the University of Kansas Athletic Association must share utility and performance costs of the new variety practice area that KU had requested.
THE REGENTS ALSO released energy cost and usage data. In fiscal 1983, energy costs at KU totaled $4.9 million for cost and cost for fiscal 1984 is $6.1 million
Although energy costs have increased, energy use has decreased slightly because of conservation efforts. But the energy cost still millions of British thermal units. In
fiscal 1985, KU is expected to use 774.365 millions of Btu.
In other action, the Regents:
Authorized KU to transfer stock valued at slightly more than $1,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association. The stocks were recently sold for the School of Business Development Fund and the Williams Athletic Fund.
- Adopted the academic calendar for 1985-86. Fall classes begin Aug. 26 and the semester ends Dec. 21. Spring semester registration begins Jan. 13 and the semester ends May 16. The calendar does not observe a national legal holiday recognizing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
- Agreed to respond cooperatively to a request by the Kansas Department of Administration to disclose student information and to provide assistance to help in collecting overdue loans.
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