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Wednesday, September 5, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Assistant athletic director quits for similar job at Mississippi
By BRETT CONLEY
Staff Reporter
Doug Messer
Doug Messer, assistant athletics coordinator for all sports, announced yesterday he had resigned his post to take a similar position at Mississippi State University.
Messer said he was resigning effective Oct. 1, for personal and family reasons.
"This is an opportunity for me to move to the Southeastern Conference and the southeast part of the country where my family is from." Messer said. "My duties will be basically the same as they were at the University, maybe a little broader."
Messer was responsible for budget control and management at KU, along with the other operations. He also supervised equipment managers and was responsible for the maintenance of facilities and the making of travel arrangements for all
Messer said the job at MSU was a
recent development. He said taking the job was a good chance to move back to where most of his family was and still be associated with a prestigious athletic team.
"I've been at the University of Kansas almost six years now and I've always been excited about working here," he said. "I also want to work with Bob Marcum and everyone here."
Although Messer declined to speculate about his replacement, he did say there were plenty of qualified people within the KU athletic department to fill the job.
Bob Marcum, KU athlete director,
said he knew about the resignation and had talked to Messier about it some time ago.
Marcum would not say how long it might take to find a replacement and said he did not have anyone in mind for the job.
After holding the assistant athletic director position at Florida State University, Messer came to KU in February of 1974.
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Group to fight proposed mall
By BOB PITTMAN
Members of the East Lawrence Improvement Association are prepared to engage in civil disobedience if Lawrence's proposed multimillion dollar shopping mall is built in their neighborhood, according to a statement the group released yesterday afternoon.
Staff Reporter
The statement was released at a press conference at the St. Lake African Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 New York St. About thirty persons attended.
We are determined that this shopping mall will not take on violence and protest matters if we to, although we have no specific acts of civil disobedience in mind," Barbara Kagan said.
Wilms said the residents of East Lawrence had a right to be informed about sites being considered for the proposed mall by the Action 80 Committee.
ACTION 80 is a private, incorporated, special interest group and is headed by Warren Rhyne, president of the First Benevolent Society, members of the 15-member committee include Nancy Dykes, wife of Chancellor Arch R. Dykes, Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, director of facilities planning at KU.
The Action @ committee was incorporated to work with the neighborhood school and developer to the city commission and to raise funds to finance surveys and studies of the neighborhood.
Lawrence Mayer Barkley Clark and City Manager Buford Watson are ex-officio members on the committee.
SINCE THE COMMITTEE is private and nonprofit, it is not subject to the Sunshine Law and does not have to open its meetings to the public.
"This is not a private issue. It can't be private. Too many Lawrence residents may be involved." Willis said.
At the meeting, a map was displayed that Willits said had been obtained from the city planning commission.
The map had been submitted to Jacobs, Viscison and Jacobs, Cleveland, Ohio, developers, on July 30 as a possible site for the proposed mall, she said.
Costs for the removal and relocation of houses in an area bounded by New Hampshire, New Jersey, Sixth and Ninth streets were listed individually on the man.
SHE SAID THE appraised value of the buildings and houses on one square block on the man was $889.00.
She said between 150 and 200 houses would be razed if the shopping mall was built in the area shown on the map.
Of the cost for the proposed relocation and removal of the houses on the map, Willits said, "We're talking about millions of dollars."
Clark said he had not heard of any downtown renewal plan and if such a plan did exist, he would oppose it.
"I would be against construction of the mall at any point east of New Hampshire Street," Clark said.
Willis, however, said, "I think the chances are good that you'll use the plan."
THE DEVELOPERS HAD proposed earlier this year that the mall be located at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road.
The commission zoning request for the land there was deferred in favor of the proposed move to downtown Lawrence.
"We just want to know what's going on," Willis said. "We feel that the committee is providing information to developers that should be public.
"I think that most people are going to be militant if they feel that their homes are going to be taken from them."
She said the 150 members of her group were most concerned about residents living in low-income neighborhoods and having the flow of traffic in their domain and having the law enforcement neighborhoods if the mail were built.
CLARK SAID, "The downtown of Lawrence must be kept vital. I feel that the mail can be built without infringing upon the mailbox and the sections of Lawrence in an serious way."
Rhodes agreed. "I don't think that their neighborhood will be affected in any substantial way. They haven't even given us the courtesy of trying to talk to us."
Willits said, "I have found that it was futtle to contact him."
She said at least two city commission members she had talked to had expressed a desire to attend the closed meetings that have been held by the Action 80 Committee.
Rhodes downplayed the role of the committee and the policy of closed meetings.
"WE AREN'T IN a decision-making position," Rhodes said.
"No major decisions will be made by our committee. We must take our recommendations before the city."
Willits said her group would like the city commission to hold an open hearing on where the mall should be built.
"We'd be there if it was on the agenda," the said.
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