University Daily Kansan
Monday, September 19, 1977
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Oread area group asks for student
BvSTEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
Wanted: Students who desire noticeable garbage collection, livable homes, walkable schools.
The Oread Neighborhood Association, Lawrence's newest neighborhood group, is looking for such students, according to James F.rom.president of the association.
Flynn said recently that the association, formed in May, is putting together a neighborhood plan for the Oread area, the neighborhood bounded by Ninth and 17th streets and Massachusetts and Missouri streets, excluding the University of Kansas.
FLYNZ SAID the neighborhood plan was needed before the city would change any zoning ordinance, alter traffic flow or solve service problems in the neighborhood.
Flynn said he wanted students involved in the area to make up about 80 per cent of the area's total population.
The rest of the neighborhood is composed of single family owner-occupants, who have a more personal stake in the area, investors and landlords, many who once lived in the area but now rent out their property.
Neighborhood participation is important if people want to get things done, he said.
FLYNN SAID the facilities and services in the area needed improving because the city had neglected the Oread area in favor of other areas.
He said the city responded to a request a year ago to install street lights on Ohio Street because of rapes in the area. Other streets, however, still are dark and dangerous to walk down, he said, and many sidewalks are overgrown with foliage.
"If property owners don't take care of it, then what do you do? Walk around with pruning shears? Then we'll look like Cub Scouts or something," he said.
He also said the city had turned Kentucky and Tennessee streets into 'frore street' way.
He said neighborhood residents wanted the traffic slowed down on these streets.
LAST WINTER showed examples of the area's problems, Flynn had. He said the streets in the area were mostly closed down when it snowed.
When the city did do something to make the streets usable, such as spread sand, he said the city never cleaned up the sand and dirt.
Other problems he mentioned were a lack of parking spaces, especially during the school session, the lack of bike paths or other considerations for the large numbers of bikers, and the "ongaging scandal" of inadequate garbage collection.
"You can't count on when they're going to pick up the stuff or if they're going to pick it
BECAUSE SUCH problems affect students, landlords and single family residents, Flynn said, participation is needed from all three groups.
"In some points they'll have contradictory points of view, no doubt about that," he said. "But I don't want to leave out of any of these groups."
Flynn said students have had poor voting and neighborhood participation records because they traditionally have seen themselves as only temporary residents. However, he said, they may live there longer than the average homeowner.
NATIONAL STATISTICS indicate that a person owns a house an average of three-and-one-half to four years, he said, but he is living in the Oread area from four to eight years.
"The city is going to respond to votes and the number of people supporting the mission."
Flynn said participation was most im- plent when everyone done, regardless of whether people were
He said an example of the difference that participation could make was the reaction to a group's decision.
"THE CITY commission actually asked those with the association to raise their hands," he said "and the fact that 18 people raised their hands was impressive. The city commission counts people and listens better when more people are present.
first recognized the Oread group at a commission meeting in Mav.
The association meets at 7:30 on the first Monday of each month in the South Park recreation center. Flynn said anyone who lived in the Oread area was invited to attend.
Flynn said there were now about 75 members in the association.
He said students needed to get involved in the organization because so much of the area is too remote.
"The social and political problems of the '60s created a condition where long-term owners sold their property at bargain prices," he said.
*MANY OF THE* the houses in the Ordeal neighborhood have been split up into
five communities.
Land dealers obtained it with good in-
tention, and, but some of the residences have fallen into disrepair.
He said that the major threat to the style of individual homes, most of which were built between 1880 and 1920, is the building of four-plexes.
"the led the city to get three to five years behind in services." Flvnn said.
Oread neighborhood
He refers to these as "anomalies in the manner of an older neighborhood" and in the city of Atlanta.
He said the neighborhood boundary was not extended from 17th street to 19th street because of buildings such as Birchwood Garden Apartments on Tennessee Street.
Bonita Franklin, Delta Sigma Theta president, said that joining Panhellenic would be an important step for her sorority leadership. She is all of the aspects of associate membership.
He said the association would do what it
needed to keep those buildings out of the
neighborhood.
Presidents of all the black fraternities and sororites said they had considered joining IFC or Panhellenic because joining them help gain more recognition on campus.
"THEY DO MEET building codes, although there some doubt how that's done." Flyn said. "They have little claim on the data and certainly no claim to aesthetic integrity.
17th St.
He said it might be a while before these funds are available because a backlog of 95 applications from Lawrence neighborhoods would not be reviewed until October. The office in Lawrence, he said, will hire two staff members to be trained to handle the applications.
The federal funds, he said, are available in grant or loan form to rehabilitate housing
JMMY BANKS, Alpha Phi Alpha president, said the black fraternities and sororites were members of Black Panhellenic Council an organization designed to unite all black fraternities and sororites and coordinate activities among them. KU's black Greek KUs black Greeks, Panhellenic and IFC regulate their members' activities.
Michelle Frasure, Sigma Gamma Rho president, said "There is really no such thing as a white or black sorority, because we can't discriminate."
NORTH, EAST and Pinchney neighborhoods in Lawrence are eligible for a
Flynn said that because none of the city commissioners lived in these neigh-
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black sororites and fraternities could be represented in Panhellenic and IFC but not in the University.
The three black sororites, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Kappa Alpha and Sigma Gamma Rho, were asked last spring to join the Delta Sigma Phi Chapter of Ossess, Panhellenic president, said last week. Presidents of the three sororites have attended Panhellenic Presidents Council meetings to learn more about the organization's programs for associate membership, she added.
BOB TURKEY assistant dean of men, said that two of KU's three black fraternities, Alpha Phi Alpa and Kappa Alpha, learned more about IFC membership and that they attended IFC Executive Council meetings. But neither friquened asked to join IFC, he said, and Alpha Phi Alpa was charged each member of an IFC fraternity.
Tim Tetzler, IFC president, said that Alpha Phi Alpha participated in Greek Week activities last spring with Panhellenic and IFC.
Omega Psi Phi, the third black fraternity,
established its chapter at KU in 1976, after
the meetings between IFC and the other
black fraternities were concluded
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"They (the commissioners) just live in the suburban areas of town," he said, "so they are more sympathetic to those areas they live in."
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Flynn said it was likely that the neighborhood associations would form a coalition. The coalition, however, would depend upon the responsiveness of the city management, especially, he said, in the providing of city services.'
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