University Daily Kansan, November 10. 1983
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Senate to discuss lift-bus operation costs
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The associate executive vice chancellor will address the Student Senate Transportation Board tonight to explain why the University stopped paying its share of operation costs for the KU lift-bus in July.
Kevin Neal, campus transportation coordinator, said yesterday that he had invited William Hogan, the associate executive vice chancellor, to give board members information that would help them decide whether to assume the University's annual share of the bus' costs.
The University money had been used to finance dispatching costs. he said.
THE SENATE ALREADY finances three-fourths of the operation cost for a 2015 shipment.
handicapped and severely injured students between their homes and classes.
Neal said that the University stopped paying its share of the bus costs when the new fiscal year began in July and that he said that was told that the University ended their payments as part of a series of cuts in the University budget.
Hogan said yesterday that he did not want to comment on the issue until after tonight's meeting, which takes place at Activities Center of the Kansas Union.
NEAL SAID THE' board's finances could absorb the costs, but said that board members were uncertain about the responsibility for the bus' operation.
"I don't want to say anything that might bias the group." Hogan said.
He said that board members were particularly interested in whether the
University would honor its commitment to purchase a new bus in three or four years.
"We already have a commitment from them that says that facility operations will continue maintenance on the bus," Neal said.
Facility operations has been responsible for the bus since it was donated to the University in 1980 with proceeds from the 1979 and 1980 Hawkstock concerts and a grant from the Kansas University Endowment Association.
But Mark Bossi, the board's chairman, said he wanted to know why the administration was requesting $5,000 from the board to pay the dispatcher, instead of $4,000 which was the present amount. The administrator also dispatcher for the time she spent dispatching and scheduling the bus service.
HE SAID HE was checking to see whether the University had a legal responsibility to provide the service, or whether the board was obligated to since the service because they provided a bus system for the able-bodied.
Bob Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said that Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act stipulated that any service provided to students had to be accessible to all students.
TURVEY SAID DESPITE the fact that the University had stopped the dispatcher payments, the University would still help finance the service. He said facilities operations provided students with the service and also provided a back-up bus when the lift-bus broke down or when there were scheduling conflicts.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
AN AWARD-winning documentary on national security issues, "How Much Is Enough," will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Big Broom of the Kansas Union.
STUDENT LITERARY Magazine will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Governor's Room of the Union.
AMATEUR RADIO Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Frank R. Burge Union.
GLSOK WILL meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
AMERICAN ISRAELI Friendship Organization will sponsor Bet Cafe at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Dr.
GERMAN CLUB will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the lobby of Spencer Art Museum to tour the Nuremberg exhibit.
STUDENT SENATE will show the film "Marines 65" ,a Viet-Amera Marine Corp recruiting film, at 7 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
sodes from "Frontline" at 10 a.m. in Room 3. Lippincott Hall.
CHESS, BACKGAMMON and GO will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the building.
STUDENT SENATE will show epi
BASEBALL SIMULATIONS will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union. EPICSOPAL EUCHARIST will be at noon in Dafernfo Chapel.
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANIS on Campus will discuss "Orthodoxy Under Moslem and Israel Domination" at 7 in the Regional Room of the Union.
THE CHRISTIAN Science College Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
THE WAY Campus Fellowship will discuss "Where the Accuracy of God's Word Lives" at 12:30 p.m. in Alcove E of the Union.
FOLK DANCE Club will meet at 7:30 pm on the second floor of the Military School.
UNDERGRADUATE Biology Club will meet at 4 p.m in the Sunflower room.
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St. Martin
November 11 is St. Martin of Tours Day.
Hans and Margaret Luther baptized their one-day old son on this day—giving him the saint's name.
Martin Luther was born 500 years ago today. He left his mark on history for great thoughts and earthy German.
We don't call him St. Martin Luther but he was— because he was—warts and all—a forgiven sinner.
Rent it.
As we are—St. Joan, St. Mike,
and St. ___ (fill in your name)
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Development conflicts not new in Lawrence
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
Call the Kansan.
Call 864-4358.
The Lawrence City Commission approved acquiring land in the 800 block of New Hamphire Street. A week later, the citizens of Lawrence descended on the commissioners for their debate about off street parking.
JENSEN, WHO presented a slide show portraying downtown Lawrence from the 1920s to the present, said Tuesday night's selection of a developer had a lengthy historical perspective behind it.
Steve Jensen, the director of the Helen M. Watkins Community Museum, used the incident last night to explain how things in downtown Lawrence today are in many ways similar to 30 years ago.
Tuesday night's debate about downtown redevelopment at the City Commission meeting echoed this sentiment 15 years ago, from the winter of 1952
"It was the impact of the automobile that raised the spector of businesses moving out from the downtown." Jensen said. "The idea was to open it up and broaden it out."
According to Jensen, the period of 1880 to 1940 was one of slow, stable growth for Lawrence. The city grew from 8,000 people to 14,000 people.
In the early 40s Lawrence became a boom town, he said, as the onset of World War II and the opening of the Sunflower Army
Ammunitions Plant in nearby DeSoto brought 3,000 new workers into the city.
THE SUDDEN BOOM, which persisted into the 1950s and 1960s encouraged the city to grow and broaden its base, and to accommodate the mobile philosophy of the automobile.
In the '50s and '60s, satellite shopping centers began to pop up to satisfy the retail need, he said.
Jensen said that the crucial years were 1945-1953. In that time, the city connected Iowa Street to Highway 40, creating a grid pattern of large traffic arteries around the city. Before the 1952 link, people coming in from the southwest had to go to Massachusetts Street and then back out Seventh Street to get across town.
The downtown, meanwhile was concentrating on the development of parking lots to keep retail downtown, and this continued into the 1970s with the creation of sawtoot parking on Massachusetts Street.
Now, however, as the boom has eased and the piecemeal development of suburban satellite shopping centers is being seen as a problem of businesses leaving downtown is becoming evident.
JENSES SAID THAT even with expansion, all the retail businesses could not be expected to stay in the downtown during those years, as Lawrence has grown to be four times the size it was 40 years ago.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITY COMMISSION
Dear City Commissioners.
As Chancellor Budig has failed to respond to my October 27th advertail asking him to detail his plans for dealing with the periodic displays of hooliganism around the portion of 14th Street bounded by Ohio and Louisiana Streets that so frequently follow, but are not limited to, Kansas University home football games, I will ask you the same question.
Because each of you cares about the city's neighborhoods, could the commission somehow guarantee to this area's long-suffering residents the police's unqualified protection against those who trespass, abuse and vandalize?
Perhaps, as a first step, the commission could call for ending the policy of appeasement which has brought such havoc to this neighborhood because it (the policy) was designed to satisfy only the infantile.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th Street Terrace
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