Wednesdav. October 17. 1979
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Escort service finds base office
By JUDY WOODBURN
Staff Reporter
Organizers of a proposed Campus Safety Service have overcome one obstacle to starting the service by finding a base of operations for volunteer escorts.
The KU Police Department, Gay Services of Kansas and representatives from University residence halls and the School of Architecture are helping to organize the service, which will provide deserts for male female students who must walk home at night.
The service at first will serve only the KU campus and campus living groups, but will expand later if it proves successful. Donna said that she was assistant at Temple Hall, said yesterday.
Schenken said officials at Hashingin Hall had offered the use of a telephone and an empty temporary room housing as an operation base.
But the service still must face other obstacles.
"We need two bases of operation," Schenkein said. For a campus this big, one just isn't tough."
HE SAID HE was planning to ask officials at GSP-Corbin Hall for space to set up another base.
The service also would require money for at least two sets of waist-talkie radio, Schenken said. The radios will be needed, he said, for escorts to respond to new
requests while they are walking other students home.
Todd Tzwah, co-director of Gay Services, said the escort service would apply for recognition as a student group from the Student Senate and the Office of Student Organizations and Activities. Recognition organizations group the eligible for Student Senate funding.
He said Gay Services was willing to pay the advertising expenses of the service until other funding arrangements could be made.
SCHENKEN SAID the group also would investigate the possibility of operating as part of Student Senate or as part of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Another problem is a lack of volunteers.
Sohankair said
"But," Zwahl said, "we are hoping for at least 100 volunteers."
Twenty students have volunteered to act as escorts on a part-time basis.
University Daily Kansan
Schenkin said the service would operate 98 hours a week, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m., every day. Volunteers would work in shifts of three hours each, he said.
"We don't want to have volunteers work more than one shift a week. Because the workload is too much for one woman each, we'll need at least 100 people so we will be back-up people on call."
He said students should call the KU In information Center to volunteer as escorts. Volunteers are scheduled to meet Oct. 22 for a brief screening interview and training
Landlord . . .
A TENANT WOULD have to be well-informed to use the remedy, he said, and would use it only as a last resort.
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Before the next session, the bill might be amended to apply only to heating, lighting and water. Solbach said.
It now applies to all landlord responsibilities in the rental agreement or as defined in the Landlord-Tenant Act. That includes maintenance of water, electricity, plumbing, heating, ventilation, compliance codes and provision of trash receptacles.
Chapman said, "Sohbach's bill looks like it gives tenants more leverage. It puts the burden on the tenant to do the work.
"But a tenant can't just say. There was a hole in the wall, and I called the landlord a couple of times and went ahead and fixed it." However tenants aren't always
fair, either. I don't think landlords are going to jump up for joy over this bill."
DURING THE last legislative session, several Lawrence landlords protested the bill during hearings in the judiciary committee.
sobach also said he thought the bill might lead to higher rents.
Jack Brand, representing the Lawrence Apartment Owners Association, had said that Sollach's bill would cause landlords to be liable for damages of tenants abusing the proposed remedy.
"The biggest problem is that people don't understand the oil," he said, "and there is an emotional reaction to it."
Lucy Smith, legislative director of ASK,
said that she thought the bill was too complex,
and that it might cause tenants to avoid using it.
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