University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1983
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The Lawrence City Commission last night gave final approval to the downzoning of about 500 lots in East Lawrence.
The downzoning changes the rating of the lots to single family, which means that structures such as apartment houses cannot be built on the lots.
The lots had been zoned for commercial, multiple-family and industrial ratings.
Commissioners Don Binns and Barkley Clark dissented on the vote.
BINNS SAID he expected some residents of the downzoned area, which is roughly between Ninth and 15th streets and Rhode Island Street and the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, to challenge the downzoning in court.
The proposed downzoning has been discussed since the middle of last year. Some residents of the area asked that it be downzoned after a local real estate
agent built two houses on one lot.
The commission also gave approval to Jeffrey Morrow, 2131 Rhode Island St., to open a sandwich and baked goods store at 824 W. 12th St.
However, the commission did not grant a request to approve outside seating for the store. Although Morrow received approval to open the store, he said he might not do so unless he could use outside seating.
The proposed shop is next to The Crossing, 618 W. 12th, a bar owned by Morrow. He also owns the Yello Sub, 530 W. 23rd St.
ALTHOUGH THEY voted to approve the request to open the store. Commissioners Binns and Nancy Shontz said they had doubts about opening another business in the area.
They both said they had received telephone calls from residents of the area who were concerned about the
Clark said he thought the proposed business was a good idea because it would be convenient for KU students.
noise and parking problems that could result from a new business in the area.
The request was approved 4-1, with Mayor Marci Francisco voting against it.
The commission also approved a trip by three city officials to New Orleans later this week to discuss plans for the proposed downtown redevelopment project with representatives of the Sizer Realty Co. Inc. of Louisiana, which is working on the downtown project.
The commission also decided to provide the authority to do engineering work for North Second Street and to have the plans ready in case federal money for improving the street becomes available.
Assistance helps students pay cost of increasing utility bills
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR
College students are eligible this year for the first time for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, which is administered by the agency, a program official said yesterday.
Debbie Dzurella, the official, said that in the past, LIEAP supplied money for heating mostly to elderly and handicapped people.
Certain income guidelines are required for LIEAP applicants to receive money through the program after they prove they are unable to pay their present utility bill, she said. Applicants must also provide verification of income earned in the last six months, she said.
Money that students receive from government loans, grants and scholarships does not count toward income, she said.
ALSO, THE amount of assistance LIEAP offers depends on whether the applicant lives in an apartment, mobile home or a house.
Rex Gerstner, a LIEAP official in Topeka, said applicants who lived alone could make no more than $2,925 a year to qualify for assistance. Two roommates cannot have a combined income of more than $3,888 a year and three roommates cannot have a combined income of more than $4,358 a year, he said.
Another LIEAP requirement is that applicants must have paid their heating bill for two months prior to the month
that they were unable to pay, Dzurella said.
HOWEVER, STUDENTS who have just moved to Lawrence and have not had utility service before moving here can apply. Durrella said.
LTEAP applications take one or two weeks to process. Dzurella said, and it is another 30 to 45 days before the applicant receives payment through LTEAP.
Another energy assistance program available in Lawrence residents is the Lawrence Warm Hearts Program, which operates the Emergency Council.
The Lawrence Warm Hearts Program already has given away nearly $26,000 to needy people since it began operation in November 1982, said Bob Avery, program official.
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A RESPONSE TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.
In an effort entitled "What's Missing in CBS picture of hapless college grad?" syndicated columnist William F. Buckley, Jr. gives us yet another example of "supply-side" shortsightenedness. Mr. Buckley finds distressing a CBCS news program featuring homeless Americans describing their plight to a special congressional committee. He devotes most of this column to questioning the willingness to work of one of the witnesses, an unemployed college graduate who worked in the city and then sleeping in his dwelling upon the several million other Americans who had found employment and lodging during the very period in which the aforementioned college graduate had not; Mr. Buckley convincingly reaffirms his commitment to "supply-side" economics but leaves unexplored some very important material.
Last year there was a shortage of math and physics teachers in more than forty states. A California University study found that from 1971 to 1980 the number of graduates preparing to teach mathematics dropped 77 percent, and the ranks of prospective science teachers declined 65 percent. This has resulted in half that state's high school math students being taught by teachers with only a minor or no recorded expertise in math. Why does this shortage of qualified teachers—which is a major problem—exist? Because of both the lack of access to adequately funded education and the stranglehold professional educators have on our public education system. In each state any individual seeking certification as a teacher must first have suffered through at least several of those vaporous education courses.
Newsweek magazine once said:
For better or worse schools of education are literally the last word in teaching. In most states teachers are certified solely on the basis of having graduated from a college program approved by the state board or department of education. 'Almost anyone can get certified somewhere', grips Gubser (Lyn Gubser of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in Washington, D.C.).' Some states have more requirements for getting a driver's license than for teaching school'.
This same issue of Newsweek described the nation's schools of education as "not hard to get in" and "almost as easy to stay in". About the National Education Association's (NEA) response to the call for teacher-proficiency exams Newsweek said "The National Education Association opposes teacher tests, maintaining that they are unfair to students who might fail after investing heavily in college training". This country's public education system is being managed by NEA ideologies slavishly devoted to comparably nonsensical viewpoints. As many knowledgeable college graduates with majors in English, history, a foreign language and physics scour the want ads and walk the streets seeking employment, public funds are used to maintain a public education system which has left one of every five adult Americans functionally illiterate.
While powerful organizations like the United Auto Workers, American Medical Association, National Rifle Association and NEA continue to corral political support, the rest of the citizenry are forced to adapt to less public transportation, higher medical costs, more guns and violent crime and malfunctioning public schools. The unemployed physics major who aroused Mr. Buckley's ire is just another potentially productive citizen whose talents are badly needed but nonetheless ignored in a political system in which the powers-that-be all too frequently kowtow to potent lobbying groups.
The money that should be used to improve our public schools, nursing homes, law enforcement apparatus and infrastructure is instead financing national and international excursions by public officials who then negotiate for some segment of the private sector. Even while the various representatives of competing governmental units squander public funds prostrating themselves before some distant economic entity, latchkey children in need of adult supervision and contact language before a television set because no publicly-funded day-care center exists in which they can stay even when President Reagan's budget cuts are, in John Bryant Quinn's words "undermining the private, nonprofit charitable organization", they (the these budget cuts) creating more dependent people in need of such assistance. Even while supply-siders talk about the spirit of care in a reduced governmental role and individuals who, as our government continues paying our productive families to withdraw land from production as, in the words John Mayer, a nutritionist and president of Tufts University, "With the steadily hacking away at food programs, we are seeing hunger reappear in the United States", and, according to UNICEF director James P. Grant, forty thousand children in developing countries die of starvation and disease every day. Even while public funds send Governor Carlin to China and Governor Bond to Japan and Europe to recruit industries and/or create situations which will benefit groups in the private sector, negligence and abuse of the elderly continue in many nursing homes.
The real problem in this country is our government's willingness to use public funds on behalf of the private sector when decisive governmental action is increasingly needed in the public sector. By not using these funds and those willing to work to transform our prisons, mental institutions, nursing homes, hospitals, ghetto schools, etc. into productive parts of the societal mechanism, our government ensures us more disorder, waste, strife and decay. What Abraham Lincoln had to say about another such rank injustice is just as relevant today as it was almost one hundred and twenty-five years ago: "A house divided against itself cannot stand".
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