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Wednesday, September 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
City approves bonds for hospital
Lawrence City Commissioners accepted a resolution last night to authorize $400,000 in Public Building Commission bonds for renovation of the 1956 wing of Lawrence
Commissioners decided to use PBC bonds rather than other methods for raising the funds needed for the renovation. Other possible means of debt obligation include municipal revenue bonds.
Reasons cited by the commissioners for using the PBC bonds rather than the other bonds were that the project could be started and completed soon and that savings in
construction costs could accrue by avoiding inflation increases.
The city commissioners, who make up the PBC, hearguments for and against using the building commission budget in swing at last Tuesday's meeting. The renovated building will house the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department and the Bert Nash facility.
The controversy in last week's meeting developed because the PBC was created by city commissioners to fund the new city hall. Commissioners wanted to use the PBC
to fund the renovation because the city and county lack the appropriate funds. The county has agreed to pay half the cost of the renovation.
The public can overrule the commissioners' decision to use the PBC bonds by submitting a legal protest to the county clerk.
The decision by commissioners must be published one day a week for three weeks. After that time, there is a 30-day period in which the public can submit a petition to the
clerk. If the petition contains at least 5 percent of the registered voters in Lawrence, the issue will then be placed on a ballot for the public to vote on.
Another item of controversy before the commissioners last night was an ordinance authorizing swayers in the Four Seasons No. 5 residential development project.
The commissioners approved the ordinance with Mayor Donald Bimbs and Commissioner Marine Argersinger voting against it.
Access...
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handicapped students had no way of entering the library through the front entrance.
He said the buzzer helped handicapped students enter the library, but they still would have trouble maneuvering through the library until it was renovated.
"We will do everything we can throughout the building to make it accessible to everyone."
Ramx said he suspected some students in wheelchairs knew the layout of the library and could get around it.
nowever, that he had not heard of complaints from students this semester.
in the renovation plans, restrooms and other areas of the library would become more accessible. There are also areas between the book stacks might be widened in some parts.
IMPROVEMENTS ON THE Lawrence campus to make buildings and programs more accessible to handicapped students began about five years ago, Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning on the Lawrence campus, said.
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Foreign...
professors ignore us. When class projects require that we get together in groups of four or five, the professor will often put all Americans together."
Forer said that people in the Midwest should be thankful just to be here.
"They don't need that foreign students have the same rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution."
Two Iranian students who asked not to be identified said that the Kansen often did not take their letters to the editor seriously or refused to print them.
"Americans sit together and talk and we would like to be included but we are not allowed." Sohail Aslam, vice president of the Pakistani Club, said.
Many foreign students complained that there was no program to help them learn.
"At McCollum, the Iranians, for example, walk around, together, eat, talk about politics together. There is never an American in their group.
Steve Fratzey, Kansan editor, said letters to the editor could be published only with the author's consent.
group, event or program that was pawerworthy," he said.
"THE MASS media refuse to reflect our ideas," one said.
The cultural committee of the Student Senate, chaired by Julie Riggs, Prairie Village senior, is working on a program that may solve the problem of foreign students who have a hard time adjusting to American society.
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Dykes tells forum he favors merger
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes took a handful of students at a Student Senate open forum last night that he supported increased funding for women's athletics and that he was in favor of the proposed merger of men's and women's athletics.
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"We are determined to provide equal opportunity at the University of Kansas for intercollegiate athletics for men and women," Dykes said.
Apart from several questions about Marcum's plans for operating the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, most of the discussion centered on the proposed merger of the men's and women's athletics departments.
Both Dykes and Marcum said they would support the proposed merger.
About 25 students attended the forum held in conjunction with Student Senate Week.
Answering questions from the audience were Dykes, Bob Marcum, athletic director, Mike Harper, student body president, John Robinson, student body vice president.
"I THINK the proposed merger will improve the operation of the athletic department. We hope to be centralize authority, make our resources go farther and maximize our fund-raising." Dykes said.
Although he is in favor of the merger,
Dave said he was not sure when it would occur.
"I can’t specify when the merger will take place," he said. "I do not feel compelled to press or push the matter. I won’t delay it, but there is no urgency to complete it."
"WE WANT a comparable men's and women's program, but we won't be able to carry the full complement of sports unless we raise the money."
Marcum said he had not met with Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, or Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, to discuss the case. He said he could not comment until he was.
One of the most important facets of intercollegiate athletics, Dykes said, is equal opportunity for men and women. In order to provide equal opportunities, he said, he will work to maintain the number of sports available at KU.
"We want our athletics department to be complete," he said. "We want to strengthen and hold the level of nine sports. If we lose any level of sports, we decrease opportunities."
Dykes said he also would work to increase the grants and financial aid in the women's programs.
Although he is uncertain where the money to fund the improvements will come from, Dykes said he did not think students would suffer a fee increase.
Alumnus pleads not guilty
scored a touchdown on a controversial pass play.
Dwyer, a former KU student, was arraigned before Associate District Judge Mike Elwell, and was issued a summons to the District Court on Oct. 5. Dwyer's bond was set at $1,500.
The incident occurred after the Aggies scored two touchdowns within 41 seconds to win the game.
David C. Dwyer, 30, Wichita, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Douglas County District Court to two charges of battery in connection with an attack on a football official at Saturday's Kansas-Texas A&M football game.
According to city and campus police, Dwyer allegedly ran onto the field late in the third quarter and struck field judge Thomas Wynn. He was eventually head after the official ruled Texas A&M
Dwyer was charged Monday with battery against the official and a second count of battery against a campus police officer, Emilie Smith.
A charge of battery against a police officer is a class A misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Maximum penalty for battery against the official, a class B misdemeanor, is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.