Thursday, September 8. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Ignoring campus lighting a years-old KU tradition
Lighting is a dimming priority for University officials. Several joggers used Jayhawk Boulevard as their path on a recent evening run. One of them said she would not jog through any other part of campus.
After a night class, one student used the bus to get to her car parked in a parking on the other side of campus.
It is evident that an old problem still remains. Campus lighting, a concern of many students for many years, is less
A so-called "first phase" of improvements was completed in spring 1887 with the installation of lights on parts of Jayhawk Boulevard. But 24 new lights and more than $100,000 later, the campus has moved from darkness into a gray area.
And so have the priorities at facilities planning, the department in charge of campus development.
Currently, there are no plans for additional lighting, nor is money available for such improvements.
According to a University official, lights eventually will be added, but only as additions to the new science library, the planned human development center, and the planned parking garage near Allen Field House.
It will be an undetermined number of years before enough light sources are constructed to adequately illuminate all of campus, not just Jayhawk Boulevard, where lights were replaced, not added.
The reason for the delay, officials say, is money. That has been their excuse since 1968, when students were concerned but
do campus lighting, which affects every student on campus after sundown, should be treated as a priority. Putting off something so vital to students' safety for two decades is long enough.
Officials should spend time looking for ways to upgrade lighting now instead of waiting for the opportunity to build new ones.
Let there be light . now, not in the next decade.
Let there be light . . . now, not in the next decade.
Tov Bralandr for the editorial board
Rape can be prevented
A survey last year of 6,000 students on 32 university campuses conducted by a University of Arizona psychiatry professor revealed that one in six female students reported being the victim of rape or attempted rape in 1987.
The majority of those assaults were acquaintance rapes. In other words, the victim and assailant knew each other.
The same study revealed that one of every 15 men said he had committed or attempted rape in the same period.
KU has taken several steps in the right direction to protect students from rape and assault. KU supports Headquarters, a local rape victim support center, has a good campus police department and encourages rape education.
Yet, rapes do happen at KU.
Rape is not confined to women. The director of Headquarters also said one of every 10 men and one of every four women will be raped sometime in their lives. And 70 percent of all rapes are acquaintance rapes.
According to the director of Headquarters, 35 rape victims came to the center from April to Sept. 1.
The Rape Treatment Center of the Santa Monica Hospital in California released a report to 3,200 institutions of higher education called "Sexual Assault on Campus: What Colleges Can Do."
Adoption of a few suggestions from the Rape Treatment
center report may strengthen KU's rape prevention program.
Adoption of these suggestions is encouraged.
Adopt an official policy that condemns rape and other sexual assaults.
■ Revise student conduct codes to specifically prohibit rape and sexual assault.
- Establish procedures to modify living arrangements when the victim and the accused live in the same residence hall.
- Establish effective programs for victims of assault, including written statements to tell how college staff members should re-pond, administer immediate medical treatment and referrals to therapists.
Another security measure that KU can adopt is to improve lighting on campus. Parking lots, the long paths leading to the parking lots and the paths between buildings offer an opportunity for an assailant.
In addition, more blue phones could to be installed in the dimly lit areas on campus.
Rape is an act of both physical and moral violence. All parts of the University have to work together to solve this menace.
Muktha Jost for the editorial board
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SOUND CHANGES? Students should be in charge at KJHK
I am known on the air as "The Old Hip-eye."
I received a radio-television-film degree from the University of Kansas in the fall of 1948. Prior to that, I attended for five semesters before leaving the station.
Two years ago last May, I was approached by people at the station who asked me to return and again do my special program. I logged another year and found that of which I was director of special programming.
During my entire second tenure, aware that as a non-student my involvement could be difficult, I resiliently appreciate the time that I would have, and would be ready to leave when I was no longer
I was grateful to have been involved in what I believe has been a major contribution to the active, diverse social climate of KU and UF. I am proud that nationally recognized music scene we enjoy locally.
Therefore, when the KJIKB board mandated that other non-student special programs disc jockeys and I would be bowing out, I did not oppose the decision — and I will not.
What I will oppose, now and in the future, is not attentive to subvert student control of JIKHK.
will willizelaise promote alternative music at KJHK, whether any of those particulaires have members as
Matthew Moore
Guest columnist
being the kind of music the student body wants access to or not.
There has been a move afloat to subvert student control of JKHJ and to remove alternation between students and teachers, better serving the students. It appears that someone, perhaps more than one individual on the board, didn't care for JKHJ's format and decided to remake it along the lines they
It was then that a third proposal was drafted — it was a "compromise" incorporating elements the company had already designed.
Things heated up a year ago during the summer when faculty board members told student board members Fowler Jones and Martin Bassin that KJHK could not continue creating meetings, Jones and Bassin, in turn, each submitted proper proposals and both were rejected.
Faculty board members repeatedly and proudly have denied ever affecting program:
demanding a new format and rejecting the first two proposals. This resulted in the removal of hundreds of albums from the studio libraries and transferred them to a new system that was used last spring and summer.
In May, between semesters, the board hired an applicant for station manager that had served only one semester at KJHK as a graduate teaching assistant in the sales department.
This station manager immediately axed a popular special program that had heavy students' listenslip, "Monday Night Thrash." In doing so, he ignored KJIKH layslaud that said the program was responsible for what is on the air at KJIKH. No programs director axed "Monday Night Thrash."
This station manager lives in Topeka, which means that he can't listen to JKHJ after he goes home. He is unconcerned about how JKHJ works. When he gets caught out in another, one not supported by the students.
I owe a lot to KJHK, and so do KU and the students. I love that they are going to stand silently and tidy by while it is shanghaed from its ideals, control student over programming principal among them. I hope the teachers get to experience this.
Matthew Moore is a 1984 KU graduate in radio television-film and former KJH DJ.
Even a college station needs listeners
I have been hearing a lot of negative comments in the past few weeks about JKHJ Frank. I'm tired of hearing the same old meanness time and time again because to face facts.
norm is a student-run radio station that is designed to be a learning lab for students. It is a teaching tool to give students the opportunity to gain valuable experience they can't get in the normal setting.
It is true that KJHK is here to serve the University of Kansas and Lawrence. But because it is a college radio station, we must not forget that it also is here to serve students who
That is one of the reasons it is called a college radio station, not just because it plays alternative music. Let's face it: When the station is on, students or listeners do anyone, students or listeners, any good.
Let's look at some practical examples. The broadcast journalism classes sales try to sell time for KJHK. This is a great hands-on way for students to get involved with the same time making money for the station.
but if KJHK is reaching only 5 percent of its audience, what client in his or her right mind would want to do? We think the answer is
Toni Shockley
Guest columnist
would be a huge waste of money. Therefore, neither the student, client, nor audience gain a thing. To me, that's enough reason for a format change.
Broadcast news students also work at the station. They cover and write stories just in the afternoon, when everyone is busy, each hour each week preparing the news for the listeners. But because KJHK reaches only 5 percent of the audience, they are reaching only 10 percent of them, when nobody is there to 'tie' in a newscast when nobody is
In the big picture, it's kind of worthless for them to give a newswhen when nobody is listening. You wouldn't expect a commercial station to do this.
So, it's very simple. The format change was inevitable. It had to happen. There are many people at the station affected by the music, not to mention the listeners. Let's use some comma medium, and you going to do something that is better for a lot of people or only a token few?
The station manager did the only thing he could from a professional standpoint. The station and station manager are not there to please a few, select disc jockeys who want to play their own shows in front of the commercial atmosphere. You don't hurt DJs on commercial stations playing whatever they please.
As for the argument that the station manager made the change by himself, that is false. I am willing to bet that almost everyone who works at KJIK is in agreement with the change.
I've heard a lot of rumors about what the change entails. The change in itself was small. KJHK still plays alternative music. It only changed the rhythm, not the musical education music to the alternative music. I challenge anyone who doesn't believe this to sit down in front of the radio for an entire day and write down every alternative music they hear. I'm willing to bet you'll have more writing to do.
All I'm saying is, give the change a chance.
After all, we gave the other format a chance for
Toni Shockley, KJHK news director, is a Madison, Wis. senior majoring in broadcast
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