University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1982 Page 3
As the seasons change, so does this billboard. Two workers change the sign north of town on Second Street.
Watson offers job plan to commission
By RICK DULLEA Staff Reporter
A City Manager Employment Agreement prepared by Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson will be considered for approval by the Lawrence City Commission at its regular weekly meeting tonight at city hall.
Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission chambers on the first floor of city hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Watson prepared the employment agreement for the commission's review and approval following a month-long adversary that centered on his performance.
"City managers don't normally have contracts with cities," Commissioner Nancy Shontz said recently. "City managers across the country are developing agreements to protect the cities and the city managers."
Shontz said the agreement contained various provisions including the stipulation that there be two months notice in the case of resignation.
THE COMMISSION also will consider a request from the Kansas Department of Transportation for a temporary construction easement covering the parking sidewalk and sidewalk
areas along Oread Avenue, 13th Street and Louisiana Street during the construction of the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center at 13th and Oread.
The easement along the construction site of Adams Alumni Center, which is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 1983, is intended to keep the public at a safe distance from construction activities.
Commissioners also will consider the storm water management petition, recently certified by the Douglas County clerk's office.
A group called the Citizens for Better Government Committee circulated the petition among Lawrence residents to protest a current 50-cent monthly city water fee enacted by an ordinance passed by the commission in December 1980, to finance a storm-water drainage study.
THE CERTIFIED petition forces the city to call a special election so Lawrence residents can vote on whether to continue the fee.
The commission has 30 days from the date the petition was filed, Feb. 25, to adopt an ordinance calling for the election, Shontz said. The election must be held within 90 days from the date the petition was filled.
The commission must set a date for the water election tonight. Shontz said.
It will take a week for the ordinance to be prepared and it takes two readings for the ordinance to be officially adopted.
The first reading will be at the commission's March 16 meeting and the second at the March 23 meeting. The third meeting will be two days before the March 25 deadline.
Shontz said the water fee vote might be combined with the recall vote of Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason.
A citizens group called the Lawrence Committee recently filed a petition with the Douglas County clerk's office to seek recall for asking Watson to resign.
THE COUNTY election officer will decide the date of the recall vote after the petition seeking the seat is directed by the Douglas County clerk's office.
Validation of the recall petition is expected to be complete by the end of this week, according to a spokesman at the Douglas County Courthouse.
Other topics that the commission will consider include radioactive waste handling in the city and a request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a fundamental statement about the safety of the Wolf Creek nuclear Power Plant.
New SUA president, board elected
The newly elected Student Union Activities president, Bluir Tinkle, Chicago sophomore, said he thought the potential for the new SUA board was
"KU can look forward to some excellent programs," Tinkle said. "We get our satisfaction out of seeing expressions after viewing our events.
"We're in a great situation in the fact that we can create anything that we want. The University a few years ago used to consider the SUA board a liability because it was expected that the projects would lead them into the red.
"The last couple of years though, the SUA board has brought profitable results and I'm hoping that we'll continue the trend."
TINKLE SAID that the officers and board members were elected after extensive interviews with the Kansas
Union Memorial Corporation Board of Commissioners committee and the current officers
He said SUA encompassed a variety of student interests.
"Our programs cover a wide range of activities with each of the officers having their own specialized duty."
The elected board officers are: Fine Arts, Gina Stevens, Washington, D.C. sophomore; Forums, Brian Raleigh, St. Louis sophomore; Indoor Recreation, Chris Orlando, Overland Park senior; Music, Mia Olsen, Wichita senior; Public Relations, Shelley Stucky, Hutchinson freshman; Special Events, Steve Ghormley.
The SUA board consists of eight board positions and four officer posts, all of which Tinkle said had been filled.
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A computer-use plan that would let department members decide how to use computer funds would be more fair than the policy recently recommended by the Academic Computing Committee, John P. Davidson, chairman of the physics and astronomy department, said yesterday.
The Academic Computing Committee's policy would allow all students to use the Academic Computer Center for word processing for theses, and term papers, but students would have to pay for the computer use.
On Feb. 5, the University Senate executive committee sent the policy to department chairmen, deans and vice chancellors for their reactions.
Davidson's suggestion was a response to this action.
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reoorter
The Academic Computing committee's policy infringes on academic freedom, the right for a professor to teach, and how he will teach. Davidson said.
Computer-use plan suggested
"If the administration) can tell us not to use word processing, they can tell us what not to use for teaching," he said.
"It's simple enough," he said.
"Divide the money. Let the resource be used until the allocation is gone."
"Nobody says, for example, that you can only use Time magazine for political science courses."
LIKEWISE, he said, nobody should
tell departments that their computer allocations can be used for only non-thesis work.
The administration should assume that people who run departments are responsible enough to choose the way they use computer funds, he said.
Computer funds could be allocated on the basis of the number of students in each department, Davidson said.
"I don't think the physics and astronomy department should have all the resource. We should share it," he said.
The president of the KU student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery said the computer cannot be allocated on a headcount basis.
Some departments, such as the computer department, use "thousands of times" more computer money than other departments, such as the French department, Greg Wetzel, association Overland Park graduate student, said.
Wetzel disagreed with this reasoning. "I know four or five students in the humanities who do have such accounts," he said.
Departments should compete with each other for computer funding, as they do for equipment funding, Wetzel said.
ALTHOUGH IT IS designed to give all students a fair chance to use computers, it really discriminates against students in the humanities, he said.
Students who regularly use the computers will be able to beat the system; others will not, and they will have to pay to use computers, he said.
Lawrence and KU police suggest the following ways to help deter burgars:
Wetzel agreed, however, that the proposed policy would not work.
The committee thought there was a "have/have not" computer-use situation, which is one reason that it developed the policy, Dean Lebesky. The committee chairman and associate director of geological survey, said.
STUDENTS IN some departments, such as English and the romance languages, might not know that word processing is available, he said.
And they might not be able to use the computers for word processing, even if they knew about it, because their computers would have no computer funds, he said.
Although burglaries have increased during spring break in the past, crime analysts said it was difficult to say that spring break was the only cause for the
The Academic Computing Committee assumed that students in the humanities did not have a fair chance to use computers because they could not get department computer accounts, Wetzel said.
Another problem with the proposed policy is that it's unenforceable, Davidson said.
"It's going to be a game to see how to get around it," he said.
"Computer jocks" will figure out ways to get around the policy, he said.
A student could write his one program and run it as if it were a departmental program, Webel said.
"You just can't tell what's going on in the computer," he said.
- Engrave all valuable. Property should be engraved with driver's license numbers or social security numbers. Engravers are available at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E.I. 11th St., the KU Police Department, Carruth-O'Leary Hall and at the Aread Anti-Crime headquarters.
- Robert Avery, Lawrence Crime Prevention officer, said, "Officials will watch closer for activity in the apartments." They're all aware that it's a holiday."
- Tell friends and neighbors when you
"We'll step up the walk crews and we'll be checking doors and windows." Denney said. "We don't drop controls but controls the students are gone."
"Spring break is a high burglary time." Jim Denney, director of KU police department, said yesterday.
Spring break brings burglars
KU and Lawrence police will be watching apartment complexes and residence halls closely for open doors because they should not that should not be on police officials said.
While students are away enjoying their long-awaited spring break, burgars in Lawrence could find it easy advantage of deserved student living at them.
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
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are leaving so they can watch your residence. Also have friends collect your mail and newspapers.
- Make sure window and door locks are secure. The most reliable door locks are deadlock locks. Chains and key and knob locks are easily opened. KU police stressed that students should leave the residence when they leave the residence halls.
- *Secure sliding glass doors by making sure they can not be lifted more than one-eighth of an inch off the track. To do this, place three flat screws in the upper track of the door, one on each end and another in the center. Make sure the screws do not interfere with normal opening of the door.
- Use light and radio timers to make it appear as if someone is at home.
Timers should coincide with times that
residents are normally at home. A light left on all night is an indication that no one is at home, police said. Timers are sold at hardware and discount stores or can be rented from the Oread Anti-Theft headquarters on a temporary basis.
- Move all valuables, such as televisions and stereos, out of sight. Put them in storage or leave them with a friend who is staying in town. Police may search for valuable pieces of furniture in the spot so it does not as if something has been moved.
- Lower the volume or unplug the telephone call ringing will not indicate that someone is calling.
- Make a list of serial numbers of your valuables so that things can be traced.
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