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Solidarity member to lecture
A Polish university professor who is a member of the Solidarity labor movement will speak on Solidarity and Polish education at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Marta Sienicka, professor of American literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, "spearheaded the Solidarity labor movement at her university a year ago," Jarslowlaw Piekiewkicz, KU professor of Soviet and East European studies, said yesterday.
Piekalkiewicz said that Sienicka, whose lecture is sponsored by Soviet and East European studies and the Women's Studies Program, was doing research at the University of California-Berkley this year.
She had previously worked at New York University and Yale University and had visited the University of Kansas a few years ago, he said.
AT THE time of her visit, KU had an exchange program with Poznan University. Now, Pleklaikiewicz said, KU has an exchange program with the University of Warsaw, where Barbara Malak, a Polish psychology professor who taught at KU in 1979-80, recently headed another Solidarity movement.
"It is not only a worker's movement, but maybe a women's movement as well," he said.
According to an article last week in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Solidarity has called for an end to Communist Party and government control over many of the affairs of Polish universities.
Union members at a meeting in Gdansk stressed that education must not be allowed to serve merely the "interim goals" of government authorities, but must respect the "right of young people to live in truth."
guarantee all young people equal opportunity and promote their mental and physical development, according to the journal.
THE GROUP called for the right of universities to control their own financial affairs; restore "pluralism" to the universities and put an end to "ideological and political requirements"; and put an end to discrimination against the work of Polish scholars who have emigrated.
Besides her work with the Solidarity movement, Sienicka is a specialist on Black Mountain poetry and the work of writer Robert Duncan. Plekiewikiae currently trying to publish a previously censored book on American literature.
The book is in Polish, Piekalkiewicz said, and was "really one of the outstanding books on American literature in any language."
By JOE REBEIN Staff reporter
Shontz pushes for downtown plan
Lawrence has a downtown plan that will ward off developers of malls and at the same time provide shoppers with an attractive environment to shop in. City Compo- ners Nancy Shontz said yesterday.
"I think we are finally on the right track," Shontz said. "The plan will emphasize pedestrian shopers, and they will be doing so." "Who shop in the suburban malls."
Shontz, the featured speaker at yesterday's Ecumenical Christian Ministries University Forum, said the Lawrence City Commission was committed to a free-standing department store approach that would protect the existing character of downtown.
Tuesday the commission will review the comprehensive plan drawn up by John B. Teska and Associates, the city's Evanston, III., consulting firm, and add its specific comments and observations before it goes on the Lawyers Douglas County Planning Commission for final approval.
SHONTZ SAID that the threat of a "cornfield mail" development was the main impetus behind the comprehensive plan.
developments other than the mall approach."
"I think that when Jacobs, Vissonsi and Jacobs submitted their plans for a mail three years ago, a lot of people around here felt that an ant was being stepped on by an animal development other than the
Shontz said the main aim of developing the downtown was to provide area shoppers with a better
retail market that would be sup plemented by the specialty stores in Kansas City.
"We are never going to completely reduce the 15 percent or so leak of area a consumers to the Kansas City and Topeka stores," she said.
SHORTZ SAID to attain the city's retail goals, Teskah had drawn up three possible alternatives for the downtown's retail core, an area of 10 acres of blocks bounded by Seventh, 10th, Vermont and Rhode Island streets.
"The third alternative, the one that closes off two blocks of New Hampshire, has given us the most fits," she said.
"I think people are very willing to come to downtown Lawrence, if we do what we have set out to do in running for the downtown," she said.
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