Mondav. Januarv 21, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Stouffer group to keep fighting
Despite approval Friday of a 9.5 percent rent increase by the board of Regents for Stouffler Place, members of the Stouffler Neighborhood Association still plan to look into Stouffler's financial records to see if the rate increases were necessary.
Association member Tim Sterling said yesterday that residents remained upset about the increase, and that the University apparently was paying off the bonds on offer up to 15 years early, instead of using the extra money to keep the rest down.
However, Keith Nitcher, University
director of business affairs, said that because of inflation the bonds were issued, the University was saving money in bond payments before they were due.
Nicher said if the bonds were paid off early, the money saved would have to be used for increased building upkeep and maintenance. He suggested for other purposes, such as lowering rent.
Nitcher said the practice of early bond payment was a common one.
Sterling said the SNA would form a budget committee to continue looking into the increases and to work with the administration on similar matters involving Stouffer Place in the future.
Kent Prohibit, SNA chairman, said the committee would try to look into the way he was managing his business where the money went and how financing was set up through the KU office of
Frobish said the current rent increase would be examined closely in hopes of finding a way to prevent further rate increases.
Sterling said that much of the current problem was the result of poor communication between residents and the administration.
Prof allays computer fear
By SUSANA NAMNUM Staff Reporter
For many, the corrugated concrete shell of the KU Academic Computer Center conjures images of nuclear reactors, bombs shells and time tunnels.
Inside, the air is charged with the high of technology. The sterile, glassed-in cabinet has a large array of anemometers and amphitheater. And the first-time "user" feels as if the computer will process him into action.
These nightmarish thoughts are symptoms of acute pankard-choice phobia, a 20th century disease, according to John Bucher. The chronic anxiety that many use, time-saving computer services.
But Bucher, user services representatives at the ACC, said he thought he could cure this disease and increase the number of people who use the ACC for academic
purpose.
"People are afraid of the unknown, of black boxes they think control their lives," he said.
As an antidote to punch-card phobia,
THE CURE, however, is couched in language as formidable as the malady itself. The seminars offer the key to secret technological realms such as QED, BMPD, SPSS, PLOT21 and MDQSLV. Butcher said the sessions, which tonight, were designed as introductory doses which new learners can use to find out what the center had to offer.
Bucher and the ACC staff have prescribed a series of 90-minute seminars scheduled this month and in February.
In the past several months, Bucker said, calls and inquiries from students, faculty and staff have flooded the center's consulting service.
"We have to run to keep up with the inquiries," Buber said. "The seminars will also help ease things up at the consulting service."
The surge in the use of computers is a nationwide trend, and soon user services will become "big business". Bucher said.
THE CONCEPT of holding seminars for people who are at once repelled and attracted by computers is not a new one. But until last fall, Bucker said, the ACC offered
four seminars of 30 persons each, compared with this year’s “full-fledged line,” ranging from statistics to text processing, “which he built.” Computer Services Facility auditorium. Compat Services
Rutley-Larsen Bucher partially attributed the greater use of computers to a "demystification" trend at universities across the country.
Peer pressure and a desire to keep up with advanced research methods have steered many liberal arts oriented individuals into the foreboding, futuristic Computer Center.
The one-shot seminars offered at the Computer Center are free and open to the public. Participants would determine whether repeat sessions would be offered in March and in the
But the only measure of success for these seminars is an increase in the number of people who come back to the center ask questions on something they heard at a seminar.
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City to discuss neighborhood plan
A neighborhood plan supported heavily by the East Lawrence Improvement Association will be one of the Lawrence City Hall topics for discussion tomorrow night.
The plan, more than a year in formulation and maturation, spells out the goals and policies of East Lawrence residents for future development of their area.
It describes East Lawrence today and paints a vision of it for the years to come. Its supporters say it is more than a static document.
Dick Dumphant, president of ELIA, said Friday he viewed the plan as a functional tool that residents and city-county planners must accept to make decisions that affect East Lawrence.
Dunhaupt says the plan 'preserves what East Lawrence currently is and what the residents would like to see it be'—a low to medium density residential area.
But Dunhaquit said the plan contains one paragraph that could alter the whole thing. "There is no way to residential buildings if they have 'minimum adverse impact on residential communities.'"
The reference is to the expansion of downtown Lawrence in into East Lawrence. The county commission survey showed County planning commission survey showed that the area's residents opposed such development.
However, the possibility of downtown expansion does not alarm Dunhaupt, who
said that extensive public hearings would precede any decision. And East Lawrence residents have a history of making their wishes known, he said.
They have become an outspoken force, at least in part through the efforts of ELIA, which Dunhault said was much more than a group that puts together development plans.
ELIA has the vision, he added, of being a source of community cohesiveness and a vehicle for solving problems.
The past president of ELIA, Barbara Wilts, said the group formed in the early 1970s as a Project Area Committee to be eligible for federal aid. ELIA now receives administrative funds through the Community Development Act of 1974, Wilts
But, Dunhaunt said, "We've been surprised before.
ELIA's structure is not unusual.
we ve worked a long time on it. This plan seems to encourage the people in the neighbourhood consensus of the objective fashion to cope with the changes that might occur, it could be very
"At the top you have the membership." Dumbaita told, which numbers from 150 to 160 East Lawrence residents and 130 East Lawrence officers of the 13 plus the past president and officers.
But here the similarity ends because EILA, according to Dumhaup, wants to do more than just represent its residents. It wants to advocate, and its people are notably diverse.
In its decade of existence, Duhaquit said, LAIA has had successes great and humble, including the "Haskell Loop," which would have cut across the neighborhood, to get alley cats.
Neighborhood surveys by the planning commission show a rich mixture of age groups, ethnic backgrounds and incomes. And although the residents are concerned with the physical appearance of their area, they are equally concerned with its character.
"ELIA has 30 things going on at any one time, I imagine."
the neighborhood plan, however, is now the key. According to Dauhpast, the city commission could approve the plan, reject it, and then pass it on to local leaders. Welles see an reason for the plan to lose.
The ELIA office is at 905 Rhode Island where four fill-time VISTA organizers work.
It is doubtful that the plan's future will be decided tomorrow, according to Mayor Barkley Clark. He said yesterday that it would be couple of weeks before final approval.
"We try to give plenty of opportunity for nubic input," Clark said.
He said the city commission would hear comments from the city planning staff at the meeting and then deal with "questions" raised by the commission, including of downtown shopping to East Lawrence.
Tomorrow's meeting, Clark said, simply would be a first look.
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