Thursday, September 20.1973
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38 Houses Violate Building Code
Bv KAREN HILKER
Kaman Staff Reporter
A total of 38 houses in an eight-block student residential area east of campus are currently in violation of Lawrence's minimum housing code, according to records in the city minimum housing inspector's office.
Twenty-three of the 38 houses are owned by four landowners and 13 are owned by a lady.
Most of the houses, according to minimum housing inspector Ed Covington, are income property. A very small percentage are occupied by the owner, he said.
The area is inhabited mostly by
University of Kansas students and is part of a reinspection program recently begun by city officials. The area is bordered by 10th Street from the street and from Tennessee to alamanda street.
The first housing inspection in the area began in December when nearly 50 houses were found to have some type of discretency.
COVINGTON SAID yesterday he began reinspecting the area area. 1. So far, all 12 of the reinspected houses have corrected the recorded discrepancies.
"Very, very few students complain,
"very much, considering the places
the live in." [3]
The entire student housing area near campus must be thoroughly inspected,
Exposed electrical wiring was the most frequent violation noted. Bad plumbing, structural unseal stairways and plaster placer were other common violations.
Less common were loose ceilings, broken
tairce vents and flues, and bugs and
wall cracks.
"I wish these kids would call me," he said. "Some of these people are really getting tired."
Lovington said anyone with complaints
Class Enacts Games of World Politics
Playing games in class may seem to be a nonacademic pastime, but it can be a valuable learning experience when the games simulate actual international political situations, according to Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science.
Ketzel used a series of games or
manualizations in introductory class of
the game. It includes
By DON KINNEY
Kanaan Staff Reporter
Ketzel reported on the experimental class yesterday in the first of a series of teaching seminars conducted by the Office of Instructional Research.
The simulations were used to break the routine of traditional tests, discussions and lectures and to allow the students to experiment with international decision-making, Kutzel said.
The games were taken seriously by most students, he said, and their comments at the end of the course indicated they had enjoyed and learned from the program.
"THE SIMULATIONS were used to try to improve student attention and attitude," said Ketzel. "And I think that they were motivated a motivation to learn for some students."
Most of the games involved an international cricket which had to be solved by international teams.
Ketzel said that in one game the crisis was not resolved between the negotiating parties and that the students decided that a contract be the only way to settle the conflict.
"We didn't discuss the simulations enough after we had completed them," said Ketzel, "but most students they learned from the experience, and a few said they had changed their attitudes about some topics that we covered.
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"I don't think that I ever changed any attitudes by lecturing."
Ketzel isn't teaching the course this semester. He said he expected to use simulations again, although to a lesser extent than last spring.
KETZEL SAID HE hoped to integrate the text and the simulations more effectively so students would have a better background before they began the games.
"Although no exam was given, the grades were no different than those given in a standardized exam."
attendance was better than that in a usual lecture class."
Ketzel noted that only one other class in the political science department was using it.
Students in the class conducted hearings and trials to reargue important content in the course.
"The students probably didn't learn more than they would have in a traditional course," said Ketzel. "But they did learn a great deal about international decision-making and the effect that those decisions have on others."
about possible housing violations should contact him first by phone and then by letter. All complaints are verified by an inspection from his office.
IF THE COMPLANT will be to "be an obvious danger to the occupant," Covington said, he would make arrangements with the property owner to correct the situation.
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If the situation isn't corrected within an agreed length of time, the property owner is requested to appear for a hearing with the building inspector.
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City housing ordinance 4428 provides that if the violation isn't corrected, the building inspector can vacate the building and order construction at the expense of the property owner.
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Covington said a landlord was legally liable for his tenants if an accident or fire occurred because of a violation and the city director's office had record of that violation.
Pod Rogera, a newspaperman from Hope,
Ark, described his 105-count Cobm Gem
and Turtle Book.
pounds when entered last Friday.
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"Most landlords are very cooperative, but there's a bad apple in every box," he said. Any landlord who disagrees with an owner of the building will be on the board of three housing engineers, who will inspect the premises and make a decision. Covington said completion of the reinspection would take two or three months. A former president of the Lawrence City Commission, he said.
Charles Marr, Kansas State University extension horticulturist, told Rogers to enjoy the title because Kansas would take it back next year.
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The Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show had challenged the Kansas State Fair to see which state could produce the larger size of grapes be crowned "world's largest wetland merlin."
The largest Kansas entry, grown by Herbert Lambert of Silver Lake, weighed 91
Kansas' 91-lb. Melon Too Puny
HUTCHINSON (AP) - Kansas' hopes in the great watermelon weigh-in was dashed yesterday with the arrival of a 105-pound watermelon from Arkansas.
Kansas primarily try to grow family-like rizations, Mara said and bargaded about it. "We have a lot of things that we do," she said.
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