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The University Daily
Wednesday, October 14, 1981 Vol. 92, No.38 USPS 650-640
Neighborhoods oppose plan to revitalize downtown
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
The city's three-prong proposal to revitalize the downtown run into strong opposition at last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
The opposition came from people concerned with the safety of trapped sprawl into neighborhoods bordering the project.
"The East Lawrence Neighborhood Association has the least to gain and the most to lose from this proposal." Janet Hoffman, vice president of the ELNA said last night. "The additional traffic created by the development would be re-routeed into our residential streets."
Other people opposed the plan for philosophic reasons.
Lance Burr, 735 New Jersey St., asked why the city would want "a tear-down philosony."
"I don't think east Lawrence is blighted," Burr said. "The people who live there have become too affluent."
"When a development gets big, then everybody moves out to Baldwin or out of town."
The commission deferred acceptance of the comprehensive plan for three weeks so individual commissioners could draw up specific recommendations before it is sent to the Planning Commission for final approval as an amendment to Plan 96.
The delay also will give the commission time to receive public comment about specific aspects
of the plan and consider possible changes, Mayor Marci Francisco said.
The comprehensive plan, developed by the Robert B. Teska Associates Inc., an Evanston, Ill., consulting firm, outlines three options for the downtown development.
Two proposals call for an expansion of the city's department stores, with a new store ticketed for Eighth and Massachusetts streets. The other plan calls for the closing of New Hampshire Street to make way for an enclosed crosswalk on two-block area between Eighth and Ninth streets.
IT IS THIS third plan, the retail cluster approach, that the ELNA and the Old West
"Alternative three is a step backward." Dennis Constance, president of the OWLAna said. "I think to accept would represent a concession for all teachers' employers to build a packed, nucleus development."
Constance also said the retail cluster approach would be the first and the most attractive for a business.
Commissioners were hesitant to pare the third proposal from the comprehensive plan because it might narrow the attractiveness of the proposal for developers.
'My own favorite is alternative number one,' Commissioner Barkley Clark said. 'Yet we have to keep the options open to the interests of the developers.
"If we can't do that, than we are going right back to the cornfield (mall) approach."
BUT GARNER STOLL, director of planning, said the important issue was not whether the comprehensive plan should be narrowed, but that it would commitment to locate department stores downtown.
"This whole comprehensive plan looks at different way department stores can be located downtown." Stole told the commission. "If we want to stay on our plan, we might become vulnerable."
The key issue is making the downtown more desirable for department stores, he said.
"All we are trying to do is create a planning framework," Clark said. "Questions about financial tools and eminent domain are far down the road."
"We need to adopt the plan first."
THE COMMISSION also deferred until next week a request from Penn House, a non-profit neighborhood assistance center, for a use permit issued at 1035 Pennsylvania St, and build a new one.
Commissioners instructed the city staff to look for possible lots where Penn House might build a new center and to check whether Community Park would be used to rehabilitate the present structure.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commission opted for binding arbitration to settle a rate hike by the Kansas Public Service Gas Co., 733 Massachusetts St.
American nun recounts troubled lives of oppressed, imprisoned Taiwanese
The company requested a 2.9 percent increase in the natural gas rate.
See COMMISSION page 5
Staff Reporter
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
Sister Tierney left Taiwan because she was afraid she would be deported.
Sister Nadine Tierney said she cried throughout her flight to Pekin when she left Taiwan after spending 16 years teaching the native Taiwanese...
"I found out about three months after I came back that I was about to be thrown out of Taiwan," she said last night at an Amnesty International meeting in Blake Hall.
"I went to a wedding of the daughter of a friend who was put in prison for sedition."
SISTER TIENLEY said she had done nothing against the Taiwanese government except listen to the people and empathize with their problems.
Sister Tierney spoke to about 30 people at the meeting. Most of them were Taiwanese.
Amnesty International is a human rights group that works for the release of prisoners detained because of their beliefs, ethnic origin, or gender, as long as the prisons are non-violent.
Before she left Taiwan in 1979, Sister Tierney said, "I shook, I cried and I was worried. I love those people who cannot talk for themselves out of fear."
She said she spoke to groups around the country on behalf of Taiwanese who were oppressed but could not speak out for fear of imprisonment.
Fifteen percent of the 18 million people of
Taiwan governs the country. And that 15 percent, Taiwanese, but descendant of Chinga Kai-Ki-Shek.
Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung defeated Chang Kai-shek and his followers in 1949. The ousted group established itself in Taiwan, and now leads the Nationalist Party, the Kuomin-
The Taiwanese people are virtually
wollen, and they must remain so," Sister
Teresa Sugiaro said.
"The Kuromintang have to maintain their control and power over the Taiwanese people because in the end they are rootless men without a country."
She said the Taiwanese people were democratic and non-violent, and she said they loved her.
"Some people have consistently chosen to be the voice of those afraid to talk and these people have been sent to prison for having seditious thoughts." she said.
BUT THE LOVE they have for their country and their people makes some Taiwanese speak out against their powerlessness in Taiwan, Sister Tierney said.
A friendship that Sister Tierney had with one of these Taiwanese put her in the Kuromuntang of these Taiwanese.
Tierney Tierney would not be welcomed back to Taiwan and she said that she has been harassed by Chinese agents.
"Even in my own country, I'm under sur-
venience," she said. "Can you imagine how the
world is."
Sister Tierney said there were 21 Taiwanese
spies on U.S. college campuses who send information to Taiwan about people who speak out against the occupation.
One example of the Kuomintang's treachery, Tierney said, was the fate of Wen-chen Chen, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor from Manhattan who would like to see his family and show off his young son.
Wen-chen was picked up for interrogation in July and asked about his political activities in the United States. His body was found 13 hours and the library at National Taiwan University.
In a report, the Kuomintang said Wen-chen飞 or jumped from the building's fire escape, but Bister Tierney and many Taiwanese think the Kuomintang killed him to set an example.
"There was surveillance on the professor's"
Sister Tierney said. "This man is dead today because"
"I don't know if he got it."
"The Taiwanese in this country cannot even get up here and tell how the cause of the war was related to Taiwan."
Sister Tierney and the Taiwanese wanted to have a voice in their government to be able to prosecute them.
"This is a modern, developed country. No one is starving. They enjoy one of the highest standards of living in Asia, but they are being denied identity by being denied experience."
"The issues are construed as seditious even though they are related to the rights of the Priest."
The issues are not abstract, Sister Tierney said. They involve people and their right to self-determination.
Rain this week has brought out lots of baggles and rain hats all over campus.
Rain washes out fall colors but storm should end today
Satff Reporter
Bv MARK ZIEMAN
A low pressure trough over Utah, and the effects of Hurricane Norma have combined to soak Lawrence and northeast Kansas with above 50°F. A second service spokesman in Topeka said last night.
During a 48-hour period ending at 9:00 p.m. yesterday, the storm produced about 1.5 inches of rain in Lawrence and Topeka and 8.28 inches in Oklahoma City. The National Weather Service meteorologist, said.
"It's quite a bit above normal for this time of
year," he said. "Usually October is a pretty dry
month."
Yesterday, Myers said, Lawrence received 77 inches of rain, Topeka received 1.18 inches, and Kansas City received 2.7 inches.
The average rainfall for the month of October is about 2.5 inches for Lawrence, 2.34 inches for Dover and 1.96 inches for New York.
Although the storm produced mostly gentle rain in Kansas, it caused snowfalls in the Rocky
Mountains and flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, Myers said.
Hurricane Norma, which hit the Mexican coast last night and traveled over Texas, killed three motorists, spawned six tornadoes, unleashed swollen waterways and drowned an elephant trapped at a zoo, according to United Press International.
As of last night, there had been no reports of flooding in Kansas. Myers said, adding that the Rivera dam was under construction.
Myers said that the storm should end today, and that the National Weather Service in Topeka was projecting below average precipitation for this month with for all of Kansas except the southwest corner.
Earl Van Meter, Douglas County Extension Agent, said last night that the storm was not seen before.
Although the rain would slow down the harvest, Van Meter said it would also add moisture to the wheat and help other crops to mature, such as corn, milo and beans.
He said area farmers were not worried about the rain.
See RAIN page 5
Bombs explode, tensions rise as Mubarak succeeds Sadat
By United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt-Hosni Mubarak won more than 99 percent of the vote yesterday and will succeed Anwar Sadat today as president of Egypt.
Meanwhile, tensions with Libya mounted yesterday when two bombs exploded aboard an Air Mali aircraft that arrived from Tripoli, airport workers and injury eight police officers.
Egypt's Interior Ministry protested the action and said it was clear the bombs were placed on the plane in Tripoli. Most of the plane's passengers were Sudanese workers.
Egypt has often accused Libyan leader Col. Mountman Khadifa of threatening Sudan, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last night, incomplete returns gave Mubarak
After the final results are tallied today, Mubarak will be sworn in and will issue a policy statement to Egypt's parliament, continuing its smooth and swift transition to a new government.
Last Tuesday's assassination of Sadat had raised fears for both Egypt's internal stability
After the airplane explosion, Egypt's Interior Ministry said bodies had been turned to explode in the crashed plane.
more than 99 percent of the vote in an election ratifying his nomination by Egypt's parliament.
"Those who planned this, mean action," the ministry said.
The plan misfired because the plane arrived 25 minutes before takeoff and the bombs exploded just before the bombs exploded 15 minutes apart.
The bombs are definitely intended to kill as
See EXFCRP page 5
See EGYPTpage 5
Today will be cloudy with rain
Today will be cloudy with rain showers continuing until late afternoon and a high of 73, according to the KU Weather Service.
Winds will be from the southeast at 6-12 mph.
Tonight will be mostly clear with a 40 percent chance of rain. The low will be
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. The high will be 65°.
Donations create chapel on the hill
By KATE DUFFY
Staff Reporter
Shaded by a small forest of maples, sycamores, poplars and appropriately enough, a tree of heaven, Danforth Chapel and the corner of Lilac Lane and Jayhawk Boulevard.
But as quiet as it may seem now, in 1945 the yet-to-be-constructed chapel was the focus of a building drive involving more than 200 KU faculty, staff, students, alumni and Lawrence
The drive began after the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, created by William H. Danforth, chairman of the board of the Ralston Purina Company, donated $5,000 to the University of Kansas for a small chapel. A deeply religious man, Danforth felt the University needed "a place of quiet worship with a spiritual and religious atmosphere."
To make the difference in cost, faculty members solicited donations while student groups sponsored fund-raising events. One enterprising organization, the All Student Foundation, collected donations from the fraternity and security homes where they performed.
Other memorial donations included the organ, hymn books, carpet, altar set and stained glass windows. The Kansas University Endowment Association gave from the Elizabeth M. Wattins estate. Even the architect, Edward Tanner, donated his services. Tanner, who helped to design Kansas City's Country Club Plaza district, was
See DANFORTH page 5
The Danforth Chapel, built after the end of World War II, has since been the site of many weddings.