The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, September 24,1981 Vol.92,No.24 USPS 650-640
Ralph Nicol, Lawrence, plays a table-top version of the game "Space Invaders" at a popular Lawrence arcade.
Children's access to arcades now Supreme Court matter
Staff Reporter
By MARK ZIEMAN
The student slapped the machine as space invaders swoped down to destroy his ship. Next to him, asteroids careened off the stranded ship and he landed on the right side of video entertainment was under way.
But what type of entertainment was it? An opportunity for enhancing physical skills and stimulating mental exercises, or a seedy get-together of drug pushers, gamblers and other
Only the Supreme Court will know for sure
Only the Supreme Court will know for sure. Recently, the court announced that it would decide whether children had a constitutional right to enter arcades and play video games.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT was sparked by a recent appeal by the city of Mesquite, Texas, that attempted to bar children under the age of 17 from entering a local arcade without their parents. Troublemakers tended to congregate around the machines, the city said.
Not so, said Aladdin's Castle, the company owning the acreage. The case will be decided later.
"What we've got here is a battle of wits between two unarmed opponents," William Westerbeke, KU professor of law, said this week. "They may have some serious effects down the road."
For example, Westerbeke said, the case may affect whether children have a right to congregate in taverns or to frequent "whorehouses in Nevada where they are legal."
Still, he said, the city's argument was weak
"It's a tough argument to make," he said. "When you stop to think about it, the arguments of both sides tend to border on the silly.
"But that is which is silly and that which is unconstitutional are not necessarily the same
BUFORD SCOTT, assistant manager of the LeMans Family Fun Center, 1601 W. 23rd St., said that he, too, thought that Mesquite was fighting a losing battle.
"I'd love for those people in Texas to come and take a look at our store." he said.
Not only are there no gambblers or drug
punishment in the center, but smoking, food and
alcohol are permitted.
"We're getting away from room atmosphere with the smoke and everything," Scott said.
"What I like to see is a mom and pop bring their three-year-old in here and help him up on a stool in front of the machines," he said. "Once you tell them, they can play the PacMan machines."
Scott said his customers were never any trouble.
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KU seeks minority faculty members
Bv CATHERINE BEHAN
In an effort to increase the number of KU minority faculty members, University administrators have formed a committee to identify minority candidates, Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
"The committee will serve as a support system in terms of faculty recruitment," Tacha said, "and to enhance the whole system for recruitment."
TACHA SAID the committee represented the "mutual concern" that Chancellor Gene Budig, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and she bad for the problem of minority faculty hiring.
the director of the committee, George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the committee would meet on the next week to discuss how it do its job.
"The data over the past few years have shown that we have ample room to do better in the area of minority faculty recruitment and retention at the University." Cobb said.
HAROLD WASHINGTON, associate professor of social welfare, said the University was typical of most major social institutions because, in the past, faculty members had decreased significantly.
Cobbie denied yesterday that the committee was set up to investigate a lack of minority teachers. He said the committee was formed to demonstrate that the University had to minority faculty hiring.
"We want to get a more positive position about minority faculty recruitment," he said.
Sixty-five minority faculty members were employed by the University in 1975. That number dropped to 56 in 1979. The figures for 1980 will not be released until October.
"The committee should be a good creative way to move affirmative action from the back burner," Washington said. "However, it would not
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Weather
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicts a 70 percent chance of rain today and tonight, with the high in the upper 70s and the low in the low to mid-80s, also a chance of rain tomorrow and Saturday, with the high in the low 80s.
Student sentenced for blast
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
A Douglas County District Court judge yesterday sentenced a KU student to one year in jail and fined his $206 for his part in a pipe bomb explosion at Naisimh Hall Sept. 2.
Judge J. Mike Elwell sentenced Benjamin Clayman, Overland Park sophomore, after Clayman had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor conduct and possession of an incendian device.
The case against the other defendant charged in the bombing, Robert Levitch, Overland Park sophomore, is still pending, Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said yesterday. Malone said Levitch's preliminary hearing was scheduled for early next month.
Clayman was originally charged with criminal use of explosives, a Class E felony. Malone said,
however, that the amended charges more accurately reflected the incident.
However, Malone stuck with his original opinion that it had been a highly dangerous weapon.
"The first charge is used in felonies where there is criminal intent, such as arson or burglary." Malone said. "We know that this was the case." Where were there no political statements involved."
The explosion caused no injuries, but blew out a window, knocked several holes in the cinder block walls and threw glass debris on stairwell landings.
The bomb was constructed of metal pipe packed with firecrackers explosives and capped at each end. Police said it was probably the most dangerous piece of explosive because of the shrapnel it produced.
"I recommended incarceration because this was an ill-conceived, dangerous prank that could have resulted in loss of life," Malone said. "It is important to proper to give Clayman just a slap on the wrist."
POLICE ALLEGE that Levitt made the bomb at his home in Overland Park over the Fourth of July weekend and that Clayman transported it to the University of Kansas and set it off in a stairwell between the third and fourth floors of Naismith.
A PROVISION in Clayman's jail sentence allows him to continue attending his classes. Malone said he can go class, but must return to Glasgow County法院 jail immediately afterward.
"I feel that he has been treated fairly and it will be up to the judge whether or not Clayman is going to have his case."
Malone said that Clayman and his attorney wanted to cooperate with officials.
"Clayman told me, I've made a terrible mistake." Malone said.
Downtown options accepted
By JOE REBEIN
Staff Reporter
Lawrence came one step closer to developing its downtown last night when the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission approved a plan for the renovation and development of the area.
The comprehensive plan, developed by Teka and Associates, an Evanston, Ill., consulting firm, has three options for downstream development. The firm has hired staff said during the commission meeting.
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 an enclosed cluster of shops near Pt. Prestons, 815 New Hampshire St., Palos said.
All three plans would increase the city's retail and office space, capacity for tourism and multifamily housing. Palos said the retail core of the development would be from Seventh to 10th streets and from Vermont to Rhode Island streets
Eight development districts downtown would be revitalized to conform to the Teska plan.
The commission said it was not willing to achieve these goals if it could not keep the area compact for pedestrians or if it had to raze historical buildings.
The Teska plan has also placed a premium on accessibility by keeping as many streets open as possible, Palos said.
But it was not a plan everyone applauded. Don Brownstein, 101 Rhode Island St., said the increased density of traffic in the area caused the development could destroy his neighborhood.
"I grew up in New York City in an area with very little buffer zones between developments," she said.
renovated homes. It was one of the reasons I chose to buy a home in the area."
Despite objections from some citizens, the comprehensive plan will go before the Lawrence City Commission Oct. 13.
The City Commission will review the plan and send it back to the planning commission for approval.
"I've got a good feeling about the job done by Teska Associates," Hank Booth, commission chairman, said. "I'm not real big on folks coming in from a long way away and telling you how to build your city, but I think these are millions of the way we would like to see things happen.
"I think the absence of a plan of this kind would leave the door open for a cornfield mall or a market," she said.
The city has already reviewed and rejected a proposal by a developer to build a mail on south Iowa Street. City commissioners have said they want the department to fund department store concept for downtown.
Booth said that development of downtown could take up to 20 years and that it was important to keep the process moving toward the final adoption of the plan.
If the commission approves the plan, the assessor should be the developer or developers for the project, he said.
Public comments on the plan, which came from all corners of the packed City Commission room, were as wide-ranging as they were philosophical.
Many citizens read prepared speeches. They questioned specifics of the plan and delved into such topics as keeping life simple in Lawrence; the plumes and minuses of a capitalistic system; the role of a liberal in government. There were also outcries about pornography, increased crime and legalized abortion.
Lance Burr, 735 New Jersey St., drepain awele when he advised the commission not to try to force him.
"People need to slow down and not try to get another medal for their coats," he said. "The people I've talked to want to see the city remain small. This town is still unique, the crime rate is not high and you can still find places to ride bikes."
Most of the objections to the downtown development were about the city's third alternative-an enclosed structure to house retail shops.
The complex would be located in the Sgt. Preston's and Quantrills area next door. New Hampshire St. would have to be closed off along the waterway and traffic rerouted along Rhode Island Ridge.
Janet Hoffman of the East Lawrence Association said the enclosed building approach along New Hampshire Street would increase homeowner privacy and would displace some of the homeowners in the area.
"the closing off of the New Hampshire along Senthert and Ninth streets is unacceptable," she said.
The proposals to move the retail core away from the area were much less destructive, she added.
Hoffman said an expanded public transportation system would be an alternative to private transport for patients.
Commissioner Max Lucas said that the plans were not unchangeable and that any decision the commission made could be reviewed and changed.
Commissioners left all three proposals intact on the comprehensive plan so that the commission would have flexibility in reviewing the plan.
It is important to realize that all proposed plans are just an indication of what we would like to do.
"I think we have put together a document that will provide a good guide for the future of Jamaica."
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
Directory features KU montage New phone books due in October
The saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" doesn't wash when it comes to the KU Directory of Students, Staff and Faculty.
"We look at visual content as well as verbal," Robin Eversoe, director of the office of university relations, said. "We expect our students to be able to may be, Eversole said,
But no matter how artistic a directory cover may be, Eversure said,
"somebody always objects to almost anything was put on."
Last year's cover, showing the Campanile, brought one such complaint.
"Usually, the Campaign is fine," she said. "Every four years or so we use it. But someone at the Med Center objected this year because it showed only Lawrence. Sometimes it's difficult to represent both campaigns."
EVERSOLE PREDICTED that this year's directory, which will be distributed about Oct. 15, would bring on plenty of comments.
"It's a little more whimsical," she said. "It has hard line graphics as opposed to water color or a photograph." Its daring to alter the tone so we're not always institutional. Something different will evoke more positive and negative reactions."
Carissa Japen, the university relations graphic designer who drew this year's cover, said she wanted to come up with something
"It's kind of unlike what the University image is," she said. "It's kind of a funny approach. I call it a push-pin New York studio art. It is fun."
The drawing was painted in pastel "grayed-down" pinks, greens and blues.
JEPSES SAID HER original idea was a quilt design using such historic buildings as Dyche and Spoon hallers.
"It got boring. This new idea was last-minute," she said.
She said she kept the basic ideas of the drawing in her head, such as the rainbow, the telephone and the hand, ready to dial.
"It was a piecemeal thing, like putting together a puzzle. I came up with the basic design. Then I found a typeface to fit around the rainbow. I didn't want the sky to be empty so I drew in the phones," she said.
"I knew I couldn't sell it to the people downstairs unless KU was on
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She drew in the KU hills with Dyche, the Campanile, Lippincott and Fensham hall.
Eversole agreed that showing the University was important to a lot of people.
one cover of the 1881 KU Directory of Students, Staff and Faculty, which is expected to be available on Oct. 15, is in dink, green and blue.
"One year we had a plain blue cover with a drawing of a phone," she said. "Someone objected that it wasn't more University-oriented."
But the watercolor painting of the campus, used two years ago, was not free of criticism.
"Anytime we use an artist's rendering, someone says the campus doesn't look like that," Eversole said.
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