University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Polls for Senate elections are open today, tomorrow
Polling places for the Student Senate elections today and tomorrow will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Jim Clark, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said that all polling places, except for one in front of the Wescoe Hall lecture hall, were closed on Wednesday.
Clark said that students would be required to present their student identification cards before voting.
The poll locations are: Wescoe, Fraser Hall, Summerfield Hall, the Frank R. Burge Union, the Kansas Union and the Visual Art and Design building.
KU debate team wins second place
The KU debate team placed second in the Central Oklahoma State University debate tournament last weekend in Edmond, Okla.
Both debaters also won individual honors. Hayden placed third and Padlock placed fifth in individual speaking performance.
In the junior division, the KU teams of Kevin Feeley, Lakewood, Colo., freshman, and Rona Steele, Topeka freshman, took second place honors, and the team of John Carter and David Lemke, both Kansas City, Mo., sophomores, placed third out of 30 teams.
Lemke also was the first place speaker in that division.
next week KU debaters will attend tournaments in Wichita State University and Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
Democrat seeks Kassebaum's office
TOPEKA — James Maher, acknowledging that he will lack the advantage of a large campaign bank account, formally announced yesterday that he is seeking Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum's U.S. Senate seat.
Maher, who has lost two previous efforts to win a Senate seat, is running in 1984 as a Democrat and is the first candidate to officially announce he will seek the seat.
Kassebaum has not formally announced whether she will seek re-election, but she is expected to run.
Although he said that he would not "cast aspersions" on Kassebaum, Maher said that he would point out what he viewed as her shortcomings in office. He said that Kassebaum was too interested in topics such as El Salvador that were not of interest to Kanans, and that as a result, she poorly represented Kanans' affairs.
Maher said that issues such as the national debt, the Social Security system, middle-class Americans who could not afford medical care, utility bills, farm problems and the high interest on credit cards would be issues in the campaign.
Senate to vote on eliminating seats
The fate of five Student Senate seats, which represent the various University living groups, will be decided by the Senate tonight when a vote is taken.
An amendment to the Senate rules proposed Nov. 2 calls for abolishing four appointed seats representing the Association of University Residence Halls, the All-Scholarship Hall Council, the Interfraternity Council, and the Panhellenic Society. The proposal also asks that the elected off-campus seat be eliminated.
However, three living group senators and the senator representing the School of Social Welfare are expected to propose another amendment.
The Senate is also expected to approve tonight $11,167.77 in financing for student organizations.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT $102 in cash was stolen sometime between 4 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday from the geological survey publication and sales desk in Moore Hall, KU police said. Someone probably reached over a counter and took the money, police said. Police don't have a suspect.
A STEREO AMPLIFIER was stolen sometime between 3 p.m. and 8 a.m. Monday in a dance classroom in Robinson Gym, police said. The amplifier, worth about $300, was taken from the back side of a cabinet, police said. Police don't have a suspect.
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Mayor replies to questions on developer
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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Tower Center Venture Corp., a loca
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Sizer Realty Co. Inc.
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Mayor David Longhurst last night read a three-page statement during the Lawrence City Commission meeting in which he attempted to clarify and respond to concerns and questions about the new downtown developer.
THE MAYOR SAID that he had not known of the plan and that comments he had made during the summer had influenced the difference for another downtown project.
He denied accusations that he must have had knowledge of the Town Center plan before it was unveiled to the City Commission.
Longhurst said this summer that redevelopment in the 600 block would be good because it could make use of the Reuter Organ Co. building at New
Longhurst said he had not been deluged with complaints about the decision, but wanted to "set the recourse for his statements made about redevelopment.
COMMISSIONER ERNEST Angino said he talked with Tom Anderson, director of KU facilities operations, and that Anderson said that any gas increases would cause the University to switch to fuel oil. The University is the largest consumer of natural gas, using 10 percent of all consumed.
The commission also approved placing a "World Peace Tree" in City Hall for Christmas. The tree will be erected cared for by the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, and will be trimmed with ornaments from around the world.
Hampshire and Sixth streets and could help develop the area along the Kansas River.
Local developer Ron Holt is working on a private development project that uses both the organ company building and the river property.
Longhurst also tried to dispel concerns that Town Center was not capable of putting together a deal as large as the proposed downtown project development in the 600 block was too far away from existing retail development.
Concerning the planning aspect of the project, Longhurst said Town Center was for the most part in compliance with city's downtown comprehensive plan, which indicated that the commission was not "throwing past planning out the window."
Angino suggested that a rate break for the University might be in order.
LONGHURST DISAGREED WITH the idea that the Town Center project isolated the river and City Hall from the downtown. He said both the river and City Hall were already isolated because of the lack of aesthetic appeal of the 600 block, the awkward flow of traffic and the inability of people to see the river from anywhere south of Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
Longhurst also rejected the comment that Robert B. Teskia Associates, a city
consultant on the downtown, had said Town Center wouldn't work. He said Teska had said that Town Center would work.
Some people have also said that the 600 block would be a good spot for either a hotel or corporate office building. The surveys said attempts to place both a hotel and an office building, there recently had failed, and that prospects for the future were slim.
HE ALSO ASKED city staff to prepare a rough draft of a letter for property owners in the 600 block saying that the area may be part of a special benefit tax district connected with redevelopment.
In other action last night, the city Commission heard a request from Kansas Public Service Co. to raise local natural gas rates about 4.5 percent.
The commission decided to meet with the gas company and with a representative of Dress, Dunn, Lubow and Co., a firm that has arbitrated between KPS and the city in recent years. KPS requested arbitration.
ANGINO APPROVED OF the proposal only after a reference in the request was changed from "opposing to" to "opposing the horror of all wars."
Several of the commissioners had questions about the rate increase, which led to the proposed study session set for 4 p.m. Monday at City Hall.
"Let's not be benned here." Angina said. "Pence is peace. Let's leave the door open."
City Manager Buford Watson said that citizens who had questions about
the proposed increase could bring them to his office in City Hall.
The commission also approves ... $800,000 bond for a project to improve the sewers. The project is the first part of a five-phase plan, the sewers to meet federal guidelines.
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