University Daily Kansan, July 27,1983
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Commission authorizes signing of mall plan
The Lawrence City Commission last night voted to authorize Mayor David Longhurst to sign an agreement to allow Sizer Realty Co. of Kenner, La., to proceed with plans for downtown redevelopment.
Commissioner Mike Amys voted against signing the agreement, and commissioner Dennis L. Blake said
THE AGREEMENT COMMITS the city to prepare an estimate of the costs of the necessary capital improvements and to prepare a plan to finance them.
It also commits the city to prepare a plan to acquire the buildings that will be built on the site.
It does not, however, commit the city to actually begin construction, and the city still can abandon the project without legal ramifications.
The commission also created a committee to negotiate with Sizerel.
The committee will consist of Longhurst, City Manager Buford Watson and one other person who will be recommended by the Downtown Improvement Committee and approved by the City Commission.
COMMISSIONER HOWARD HILL, following the precedent set during the past two meetings by Longhurst and Commissioner Ernest Angiola, read a statement to the commission explaining his support for the rebelledement plan.
Hill urged the commission to sign the agreement for the initial phase of redevelopment because it would not obligate the city to any action other than making specific plans for the project.
He said specific plans would answer many questions about the project
Longhurst criticized the agreement.
"At what point are we going to consider the public to be sufficiently educated to make a decision? And then are we going to abide by it?"
Longhurst said last week that he would see to it that there would be a referendum to let the public decide the issue. Amyx has said the same thing.
KU looking for new Regents professors
Wanted: People to fill two Regents Distinguished Professors at the academy.
By ANN REGAN
Staff Reporter
Qualifications: Must be a recognized leader in a technical field such as computer engineering or pharmacy and willing to relocate to KU.
Closing date for applications: No hurry.
GUEVE OF TWO Regents Distinguished Professorships at KU has been open since 1975, and another will be available Jan. 1 when Takeru Higuchi, professor of chemistry and pharmacy, retires from his Regents professorship. June Michal, assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Candidates for a Regents Distin-
The reason KU has had such difficulties filling the professorships is that the salaries being offered are not qualified candidates to Kayasu's sea.
gushed Professorship must meet standards established by KU in teaching, research and service, Michal said, as well as additional criteria deterred from professorships are applicable to all Distinguished Professors at the University.
CANDIDATES FOR Regents professorships, which were established by the Legislature in 1963, must have qualifications that will add to the economic and industrial development of Kansas, she said.
Because of that requirement, a professor of English would not be
Also, no one who is now employed at a Regents institution would be considered. Michal said, because the Regents want to attract outside faculty.
The financial situation may improve if the Legislature approves a Regents request to add $342,000 to the Regents program in fiscal year 1986. ssb.sbs
KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University are the only 40 colleges in the nation.
the program and the only ones eligible for the increase in funds, she said.
IF APPROVED, THE REQUEST would increase the annual stipend for Regents professors' salaries from $12,500 to $15,000 and double the number of Regents professorships at KU from two to four, she said.
The total salary is determined by combining the base salary for the appointment, determined by the depreciation of the salarietaxipend from the Revenues, Michal said.
The additional funding also would be used to purchase new laboratory and research facilities.
Kansas State would gain two positions, she said, and Wichita State, her ally, would lose.
The two positions now open are in computer engineering and molecular biology and are being advertised by those departments, Michal said.
A UNIVERSITY PARTICIPATING in the program asks the Regents whether it may conduct a grant or granttee degree department is chosen to receive the
professorship.
The department chosen is then authorized to advertise the position, accept applications and conduct interviews, Michal said.
Robert Weaver, professor of biochemistry, is involved in the search to find a candidate for a Distinguished Professor in molecular biology. He said that convincing someone to relocate might be the biggest problem.
"Most of the candidates are located on the East or West Coast and tend to be biased against the Midwest," he said. "We have to overcome that."
HIGUCHI, WHO HAS BEEN a Regents Distinguished Professor since 1967, was instrumental in acquiring a $1.25 million grant to establish a national center or research center. KU, the university's director of the office of university relations.
In 1981 Higuchi also established, with the Kansas University Endowment Association, four annual $10,000 research achievement awards for men and women who have contributed to research at KU, she said.
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