Wednesday, December 6, 1978
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Ad firm challenges city ordinance
Hoping to avoid a lawsuit by a California-based billboard firm, Lawrence city commissioners decided last night to discuss the future of Lawrence billboards.
The firm, Martin Outdoor Advertising Inc., told the commission that it would take
Berlin to run for presidency of student body
Emphasizing the need for openness and friendliness, Margaret Berlin, Bonner Springs junior, last night became the fourth student running for 197.58 student body president.
The coaliition already has formed an advisory board of students representing a large number of interests, she said. She said the board would remain if she were elected to advise her on issues and to serve as a check on her.
Announcing her candidacy to about 60 supporters at Watkins Scholarship Hall, Berlin, Germany, George Gorme, Topeka junior, will be her running mate on the Porch-Coalition.
Berlin currently is chairman of the Senate Communications Committee.
the city to court if a recently passed sign ordinance banning billboards was enforced.
Tom Murray, a Lawrence attorney representing the Martin Company and its Topeka office, told the commission that he would challenge the ordinance on the grounds that it violated the First and Fourteenth amendments.
Murray also claimed that the ordinance
murray press, because his brother was not entitled to about.
BUT MURRAY told the commission that his firm was anxious to avoid a court battle.
All five billboards currently in the downtown area would be eliminated under Murray's proposal, along with one sign on a building, as a two-panel structure on East 21st Street.
He presented the commission with a compromise proposal that would have eight
Under Murray's proposal, two new billboards would be placed on West Sixth Street, between Michigan and California streets, three would be erected on West 23rd Street, two would be placed on West Street, and one would be on Iowa between Sixth and Ninth streets.
old billboards taken down and eight new
builds in built different locations in the city
THE COMMISSION set Dec. 12 as a tentative date for the billboard study.
KU receives fewer grants
Money awarded to KU researchers has decreased by more than $850,000 compared with the previous year.
A recent report showed KU received 157 research grants—22 fewer than in the first year.
About 100 of these research grants were awarded by the federal government; other grants came from state and private agencies.
Research receipts so far this year total about $7.7 million compared with $8.5 million awarded in the first quarter of fiscal 1978.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Police Beat
Richard Backus, Lawrence freshman,
1345 Vermont St., reported that between
9 a.m. Sunday and 4 p.m. Monday,
thieves stole the gas tank, two tires
and one wheel with a tire mounted on it from
his car, which was parked at his home.
Lawrence police yesterday reported that a KU student's car was stripped of $125 in parts Monday.
Compiled by Henry Lockard
Backus valued the two spare tires at $10, the tire and wheel at $55 and the gas tank at $50.
Police said an unidentified man struck Robinson on the head and stole the station's money purse from him at about
David Robinson, an employee of Jayhawk Oil Co. 1306 W. Sixth St., reported that the service station was robbed for $300 Monday night.
Robert Bearse, associate dean of research administration, said yesterday that this was not representative of the entire fiscal year and that research funds still could be more than last year's $3.
10:50 p.m. Robinson was not injured, police said.
Police said the maintenance supervisor at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. Ile 18th St., includes two of flags on the building's flare walls.
Police said the flags, a Kansas flag and a U.S. flag, were valued at $60 each. The theft occurred between 5 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday, police said.
ON CAMPUS, KU police received few reports yesterday.
Included in those filed was a report of more than $100 damage done to an evergreen tree on West Campus. Police chopped down the tree Monday night.
"Federal funding tends to be cyclic," Bearse said. "It goes up and down."
THEER IS NOT a continuing increase in research dollars," he said.
He said, however, that about one-third to one-half of the total research funds were allocated in the first quarter of any fiscal year.
Because research funds awarded to KU in this fiscal year's first quarter have decreased, Bearsre said, he thinks the database will allocate more money each year throughout the year.
The first quarter of KU's fiscal year is the last quarter of the federal government's
Federal agencies in the past, quickly have gotten rid of remaining funds in their last period so they would be able to justify research needs, he said.
Two years ago the federal government decided to end its fiscal year on Sept. 30 instead of June 30, when KU ends its fiscal year.
Bearse said, "I hope they're learning to stop dumping the money really quickly."
He said he was not happy with the decrease in research funds and would be watching the amount of research funds closely throughout the year.
"You can't argue that the patient is sick, but he might just have an allergy," Bearse said. "It's nothing to be taken too seriously."
In fiscal 1978, research receipts totaled $14.8 million -27 percent more than the year
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