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November 2,1979
Escort service stalled
Most KU students will quickly admit that they find our campus beautiful, a real aesthetic treasure on top of Mount Oread.
But at night, the campus becomes ugly for many students, with each shadow of our hallowed halls conjuring images of a threat to personal safety.
However, the new Campus Safety Service soon may make a trip down Jayhawk Boulevard as carefree after 1 p.m. class as it after one at 8 a.m.
The safety service is trying to provide screened escorts to accompany students at night, giving them protection that they will reach home safely.
But, as is the case with many services that seem novel, the response has been less than expected. The committee has had to delay beginning the service because it thinks the service is not yet organized enough.
The problem? According to Sally Turner, a member of the committee, KU students aren't receiving enough information about the service.
"A lot of people just don't know exactly what is going on," Turner said. "The information they're getting is
from the newspapers; they're not getting it from a personal source."
Lack of information typically creates problems of unfounded suspicions about new programs. But committee efforts to send informational teams to University living groups may help.
The service has 50 potential escorts who probably will be screened next week. And Turner says the committee members think the program may be ready by late November if everything goes right; they just want to make sure it is organized and people are informed.
Hopefully, the efforts of the Campus Safety Service will provide KU students a reliable service like the program that have been started here in the past.
That will happen, however, only if students find out about the service and rid themselves of the pervading novel, and thus unacceptable, to them.
It's been a long time since a lot of KU students have been able to see the beauty of our campus at night. With a campus-wide effort, they will soon
East Lawrence residents would like to make one thing perfectly clear: Be it ever so humble there's no place like home.
And—in case Jacobs, Viscusi and Jacobs, Cleveland, Ohio mall developers, are listening—those humble homes are not for sale.
Homeowners won't sell out to mall
THEY'RE RIGHT. The area is one of 15 being considered for the mall site.
Residents there are worried that mail developers and proponents of a downtown mall are eying their property.
Signs that read "I like living here—this house is not for sale" sprout up on the lawn of about 40 houses in the neighborhood east of Woodland Street and north of Ninth Street last week.
of Action 80, a private group promoting a downtown mall, have said that the residential East Lawrence area is no longer under consideration.
But the East Lawrence Improvement Association thinks a map used by Action 80 that lists the prices of the homes as far east as Boston, St. Louis and ELAI wants to be ready just in case.
Ray Alumbaugh, 62, is one resident most likely to be a neighbor of a downtown mail. He said he already had been offered $2,500 for his home at 634 Rhode Island St.
WHEN HE immediately answered that his house was not for sale, the offer was raised to $30,000 with a request that he be moved to the $29,000-$36,000 *east* Year Lawrence residence said.
"I said no, no way. They're asking $45,000 for one not as good as mine," Alumbaugh said. "I've paid mine out and worked to build it up.
"It's not so nice looking on the outside, but it's warm inside and I like the neighborhood. I've got bad legs—that's why I'm not walking around here." The moving would be a hardship for us, and moving would be a hardship for us.
"I don't intend to lose my house without a sellish fight."
ALUMBAUGH'S FIGHT could be a
Barbeque shows system works
It took a lot of meat and a lot or over-termination, but the man who founded G's Barbeque here in Lawrence made a success of both his business and himself.
The man who started the business is Jack Karp, a former Mississippiian who, as they say, is self-made man. He has made his business work and become quite successful because he was a successful lawyer.
His is a story that needs to be told. It says all Americans that any man, black or white, who has been in the U.S. is determined to do so. The free enterprise system works. Therefore the welfare system should be structured to fit it. It's not like the police are it. It is men like Galloway who prove to the rest of us that, for many, upward mobility is a reality. Sometimes you just have to work hard.
GALLOWAY IS the son of a plantation worker from Delta City, Miss., a small town near Greenville.
"My father," Galloway said, "worked in this man's smokehouse and prepared all the beef and pork for the big people on the plantation."
HIS WAS hardly an ideal situation for a black man to be in facing 1962. What he lacked in schooling, however, he made up for with hard work.
"I worked as a pipefitter and then as a plumber, and soon I became licensed. But I
Galloway moved off the plantation and out to Mississippi when he was 18. He had gone to the university of North Carolina's worst public school systems in the country and spent most of his life working for white
david COLUMNIST preston
It was there that Galloway learned about beef and how to cook it.
"O, beh. you," he said with a laugh, "My dadmy taught all of us how to cook. Ain't none of my brothers and sisters that can't cook."
always wanted to cook. I always wanted to own my own restaurant.
1 was working sometimes 16 hours a day,
pipefitting, and I would have to work long
and hard. But I never could get quite ahead.
I wanted to be in the new pair of
clothes, but that we'd be put off at
"I said, I know there's something better than this." Then about six years ago I decided to try to open a restaurant."
THE DECISION was a wise one. There were no barbecue restaurants in Lawrence at that time, and Galloway took advantage of the situation.
"I worked extra hard to save a little money here ad a little there," he said. "I couldn't get a loan to start the business because everyone said that it was a failure."
"We bought the shop on 23rd Street and started cooking. I originally started so that I would have some income in the winter when we had a lot of snow, flipping or plumbing. It just took off."
Galloway began with his wife and some of his children working in the small restaurant. But parking and space soon became a problem, so when a fish and chips dish arrived, he sent out of business, Galloway packed up and moved to where there was more space.
"BUSINESS IS three times better since we moved to 11th," he said. "We've gone from having five employees to having 18, and just like I always wanted. We've gone from having five employees to having 18, and just like I always wanted. We've gone from having five employees to having 18, and just like I always wanted."
It is a considerable amount more than he could ever make pipefitting. But its interesting to note that it was his hard work
and determination as a pipefitter that gave him the opportunity and the resources to start his own business and earn more money. It wasn't easy.
"I still can't get a loan," he said, "but I just say, 'Well, its that man's money, and he can do with it what he wants.' But they want that money and working hard to make even more.
"EVERY YEAR the Chamber of Commerce has this big picnic (the KU Affairs Mixer), and I was a member of the Chamber. But you know, one year I didn't even get a bid application to cater the picnic, and the next year they didn't even get it. They just gave it to a guy who owns the smokehouse and is a city commissioner.
"But like I said, I don't carry a grudge. Never. I cannot for a lot of fraternities and groups up at it because the Chamber of Commerce does not desire them to do that, but how do they know?"
So without much help Galloway has seen his own business prosper. His family works in the restaurant along with seven other employees. He recently expanded to a new location—a small shop on Massachusetts Street near the Lawrence Opera House.
"THIS NEW place has always been a great room place, but I told everyone that I would clean it up and I did. Now we do a business that is the first business that did much in her life."
Galloway hopes eventually to open a nightclub and serve his food there.
"It's going to be a boll of a lot of hard work, but its as simple as this. You just look and see what has to be done and then give it your best effort."
Galloway has been giving it his best effort now for 18 years in Lawrence. His success and his story are very valuable lessons for all of us.
lynn
byczynski
COLUMNIST
heilish one, because, if he refused to sell, the city could condemn his land if it interfered with the mall.
Mayor张aryl Clark said there were plenty of precedents for obtaining land—even for a private project—by condemning a property was deemed community development.
But Clark added that the chances were slim the city would take such drastic measures.
"I wouldn't want to see a single house taken by condemnation," Clark said. "As far as going into East Lawrence neighborhoods, I would flatly oppose it."
"What we're talking about is probably something east of Massachusetts and north of Ninth, with Rhode Island as the eastern boundary."
EAST LAWRENCE residents have other concerns about a downtown mall, even one within those boundaries.
Patty Breshears, 736 Connecticut St., is one of the ELIA members who organized the sign campaign.
"We don't want all this traffic going to the mall," she said. "And we haven't able
ACTION 80 has kept talks about the use private to prevent land speculation in the areas under consideration, according to the law, which will be presented at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
to find out yet what this mall might do to our taxes.
"But, most of all, we feel as if we're being out when people make decisions that will affect us."
More information about the size, shape and location of the proposed mall probably will not be made public for 60 days.
But, until then, East Lawrence residents want to be sure the mail developers know what lies ahead. Building in that neighborhood will not be easy.
This, of course, in no way interferes with my duties as chairman of the non-aligned nations
Fetus's choice is also a question
To the Editor:
If we take away the chance for those who cannot speak up now their chance to speak
Recently there had been a march by a group of people asking for the chance to make a choice, preferably the opportunity to have the choice of terminating a job. There are some questions I would like directly to the NARAL representatives.
For whom is the choice of abortion being made? What choice does the unborn have in this decision? Whether or not the unborn is a person is an important fact as the that fact a definite, viable human life is the end result and who it is to say that terminating the possibility of a life will benefit the society as a whale? Who can be legally aborted in your local life should or should not be terminated?
Is this a choice to be made solely by the natural mother? Can the mother infiltrably foresee the future possibilities that the child may have? What should another person who would be all too willing to take the child in? Even though a rape involves a deep and terrible emotional trauma for the woman, in what way does it affect the child's ability to face the situation? Shouldn't the criminal be punished and be made to face his responsibility by paying for the support of the child? Can any group of people ethically respond as to whether one should be born or not?
It is right to make the decision for an unborn who may have some congenital defect who still could have the possibility of making a significant contribution to the life of the child, and so larger society to make the decision who shall be born or not? If then, should society reserve this decision for itself, or any segment thereof, how much more justification would it take for that society to be already born as to who shall live or die?
Paul Wykowski
up later, then we raise the possibility of denying everybody the chance to speak.
Chicago Graduate Student
To the Editor:
'60s shone bright with peace. ideals
I agree with the editorial of David Preston's Oct. 29 sentimental concerns '80s activism -high ideals don't require violence for their expression. This has been common throughout history by men such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr.
These men all led movements of non-
violence that had far-reaching effects on
their societies. These men all died by
violence, also.
Nonviolent social movements always lead to violence, not because "overalized" attacks turn to force, but because the normal way to resist is to passive resistance is of course, violent.
Preston is wrong to blame all of the murrows and violence of the 60s on activists. In fact, he has been founded on principles of nonviolence and passive resistance, and, in general, respect for people.
In 1963, white students at Ole Miss University, as well as local bigots, used violence and guns to try to prevent a black student from attending the university.
1966. Watts broke into a riot after a white policeman used his billy club on a black resident.
In 1968, police used billy clubs, tear gas
and fists to break up a noisy but otherwise peaceful anti-war protest in Chicago.
In 1970, National Guardsmen shot down four Kent State students in cold blood. They claimed someone had thrown a rock.
No one can say that 908 activists were entirely nonviolent and utterly without offense. But the fact is one can easily say that authorities have weighty duty and obligation to use restraint in dealing with protest and dissent. Police officers must remain or kill citizens for expressing opinions.
Many '80s radicals did advocate violent evolution, but, to the past decade, they have embraced the ground. Far from being "dark" times, the '80s encompassed some of this country's brightest
Peace, brother
Ronald Bain Lawrence senior
To the Editor:
Big Brothers, Sisters treat kids to party
On Sunday, Oct. 28, the Big Brothers-Big Sisters program held a Halloween Party for the little sisters. The party was fun for the little ones, the came, and was also enjoyed by the Big Brothers and Big Sisters who brought them along. They spent the time they spent with their young friends.
We would also like to take this chance to teach the Sigma Nur fraternity and Kappa KappaPi party together. The kids trick-or-treated to went to the Sigma Na heather for the Hallowen party. A lot of time was needed to prepare a titties and we appreciate the help we received.
KU Big Brothers-Big Sisters
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