Page 8 University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1982
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Lawrence city commissioners may never again have to face homeowners from older neighborhoods who object to a fourplex being built next door.
And KU students may never again get to move into a new one on the hill east of campus.
Fourplex apartment buildings probably will not be built on single lots in Lawrence because of economic reasons, said Joe Stroug, an owner of the Garden House, 850 Avonley Rd., Birchwood Garden Park 1846 Tennessee St.
Although a plan for a 14-fourplex development was approved at Tuesday's meeting of the city commission, high interest rates will prevent the construction of fourplexes on single lots in older neighborhoods. Stroup
Stroup said he was involved in building single-stair fourplexes from 1969 to the summer of 1980. But as interest in the complex growth had grown, they became increasingly uneconomical.
Even if the economy pulls out of the recession and there is a boom in the construction trade, Strup said, interest rates are expected to remain too high to finance fourplexes on single lots.
UNTIL 1880, he said, lenders preferred to finance fourplexes over duplexes and tri-plexes, because renters like them more.
Jeff Messick, an associate of Hicks and Associates, Architects and Planers, 825 Vermont St., said that "fourplex" was a generic term, but that it had come to have emotional connotations in Lawrence.
"It's a loaded term in Lawrence right
now," Messick said. "A bunch of essentially identical buildings have neighbors. Lawrence. The older neighborhood, usually Grady, have borne the bristle of it."
City Commissioner Barkley Clark said that people in older neighborhoods did not like fourplexes to be built next door to them because of parking restrictions. But four rental units on one lot. They also were concerned with aesthetics.
the general army-barracks style of the fourplex was not very appealing to the neighbors." Clark said.
Stroup said renters had two reasons for preferring to live in a fourplex.
"First of all, it's a small unit; you're not living in a complex," he said.
Also, the apartments usually were built near both the University and downtown, Strup said.
Because people liked to rent them, lenders thought fourplexes were a good investment, he said.
HOWEYER, that has changed, Stroup said. During the 1970s, rental fees on apartments were substantially determined by the number of people demanding housing, relative to the supply of apartments, he said.
But today, these considerations are nearly irrelevant, Stroup said.
"The consideration now is the rate of interest." he said.
In order for a developer to repay the interest on his building loan, he said, the rent you'd have to have would be higher that people wouldn't be able to navy.
He said that this economic trend was irreversible.
"I don't know how it could ever come back," Stroup said.
Council eyes rule change for grading
KU students will have to wait before a policy is passed that will make grade changes more flexible.
The University Council yesterday returned proposed grading policy changes to the Academic Policies procedures Committee for revision.
One proposed change would permit a department chairman to change a course grade if the instructor of that course was incapacitated or no longer associated with the University.
Without the policy change, it is technically a rule violation for anyone to change a grade except the instructor who gave it. Students can not have grades changed after their teacher has left the University or died.
"The only person who is inconvenienced (by the current policy) is the student, and I'm getting tired of inconvenience the student. Council member Ernest Hill was a graduate civil engineer, said yesterday.
Other Council members thought the policy change would invite manipulation, make it too easy to change grades and that a professor who taught a class should be awarded the degree. But that class, regardless of whether he was still associated with the University.
THE SECOND proposed change would allow a professor to give a student a grade of incomplete in a course even if the student had not satisfactorily completed any work in the course.
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
February Sisters altered KU
The building is gone. Few of the participants are still on the KU campus. But some of the changes they demanded on a February night 10 years ago have become part of daily campus life at the University of Kansas.
On Feb. 4, 1972, the East Asian Studies building, a former private residence near Smith Hall, was taken over by women known as the February sisters.
About 50 women took part in the peaceful demonstration to demand day care on campus, a women's health center and an affirmative action program.
Christine Leonard, a clerk typist at Watson Library in 1972, was among the women who seized the building. She also took part in the negotiations between the women and the University Senate Executive Committee. She now is working on a history of the February Sisters.
sisters. "It changed my life," Leonard said recently, reflecting on her involvement with the February Sisters.
MARY CORAL was the wife of a faculty member. She said she had been involved in the civil rights movement and in anti-war efforts before her involvement with the February Sisters School. Mrs. Coral, who was her interest in getting a woman's birth clinic started at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
She said the Planned Parenthood office in Lawrence was going to close down at that time because it couldn't be done without students coming in for birth control.
Many of the February Sisters were students, but some were women from the community. Courteous she thought she had been positively positioned at time because she was a faculty wife.
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At a potduck dinner that night, Coral said, many women met for the first time and realized that they were working for many of the same goals.
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"My class was a protection," she said.
one chain of events that led to the buildakeover started when Robin Morgan, a feminist writer, came to speak on campus Feb. 2, 1972. Her talk was accompanied by the Women's Center, a loosely-knit group concerned with women's issues.
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Leonard said she did not know what the results of that meeting would be until Feb. 4, when she got a phone call telling her to meet at a house.
A 6 T P.M. about 50 women, some with children, entered the East Asian Studies building. The old house was to be vacated by the East Asian department a month later. It was chosen for the takeover because some of the women thought it would be a good site for a day care center. Leonard said.
Once inside the building, some of the women barricaded and chained the doors.
"It wasn't really very secure," Leonard said. "It was more symbolic."
The house, which was near where Hilltop Day Care Center is now, has since been torn down.
Bard said, "It was more symbolic." Outside other women were divided in telling of the building takeover and listing the group's demands.
- An Affirmative Action program planned and directed by women.
* An increase in women on the faculty and increase in female faculty salaries.
* A women's health clinic to provide care and training.
* More women in administration.
- Establishment of a Women's Studies program.
- A free day care center financed by the University.
between men and women.
* Better recruitment of female students from Kansas.
"I remember Betty Banks walking in with a great big smile." Coral said. "She thought what we were doing was just great."
the first negotiating team went out at midnight. When they returned, Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, was with them. She had been asked to serve as a liaison between the women and the administration.
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LEONARD said that about five times as many women were involved in the February Sisters as had actually taken over the building.
"I feel we represented most of the women on campus," she said. "The support was incredible."
Leonard was in the second negotiating team to go out. She said the members of Senx E were anxious to get involved, but they wanted advice before dawnlight to avoid media attention.
Other women were called that night and asked to come to the East Asian building at dawn, Leonard said. When the demonstrators emerged from the building, they were surrounded by this new group of women. Leonard was ready to support and partly to protect the identities of those who had been in the building.
Coral said she felt a sense of accomplishment through her involvement in the takeover.
Although the women's demands were not met before they left the building that night, some changes have come about since 1972.
"I never felt before that I had had any effect—that I did something," she said.
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