Page 8 University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1980
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Bailey still fails fire code test
A state fire inspection officer said yesterday that fire code violations on the fourth floor of Bailey Hall found by two fire inspectors last week were the same violations the state fire marshal's office found there last February.
The officer, Paul Markley, said the two inspectors acted on a letter from a person complaining of fire hazards on Balley's fourth floor. He said that the inspector had instructed the curate and that the fire inspection office had written a letter last February
WEDNESDAY EVENING SERIES
Markley said the violations included blocked fire exits, locked fire doors and hanhazardly scattered papers.
to the KU facilities and operations department ordering that the violations be corrected.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities and operations, said yesterday that he had been director for only 30 days and was unable to send it to the hotel last February.
Markley said he would send another letter to the department this week.
Road to be closed for construction
Part of Sunnyside Avenue, the street that runs east and west in front of Robinson Gymnasium, will be closed Thursday through Saturday because of construction, a spokesman from KU parking services said yesterday.
The street will be closed from Sunflower Road to Illinois Street beginning Thursday morning and ending Monday at noon, the parking official said.
Drivers wanting to go west on Sunnyside Avenue can gain access to it by going west on 17th Street and turning right on Illinois Street.
The parking official said access to J zone parking lot would not be affected by the construction.
Mention the word "Midwest" on the East or West coasts and people conjure images of a distant land in the Atlantic, Ronald Reagan is not far behind.
Survey defines Midwest stereotype
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
In the eyes of the East or West coast beholder, middle America is the seat of ultraconservatism and the home of rural homeowners who would make the somber couple in Grant Wood's painting, "American Dream," unbearable to stake the committee at a positive-thinking convention.
A portrayal of the Midwest as a skyline of steeps, hoeatsacks and slos is a stereotype that James Shortridge, associate professor of geography, found common in all areas outside the Midwest.
SHORTRIDGE HAS DONE a study to find out what and where college students thought the Midwest was. In surveys with 3,000 students in 31 states, Shortridge found that most saw the Midwest as almost exclusively rural and confined solely to the Great Plains.
"In the academic sense, the Midwest is not all corn- or wheatproducing, but is also industrial
because it is theoretically centered on Illinois and Indiana," Shortridge said. "However, most of the people surveyed saw the Midwest as beginning in Missouri and Iowa and ending in Kansas and Nebraska, thereby giving the area its rural image."
Shortridge said he found that students viewed the Midwest as the most American section of America. He also found in his survey that people used terms such as rural, agricultural, small-town, friendly and conservative to describe the region.
what I expected to find was a degree of ignorance about the diversity of the area, and I did," Shortrice said.
"I've run into people who thought of the Midwest as being totally dry, flat and dusty," McNellis said. "But I think Karasas is as pretty as just about any other state, with things such as the Flint Hills to offer."
A KANSAS resident all his life,
John McNellis, Lawrence junior,
said he could see several minicons-
tries in the area and had
about Kansas and the Midwest.
Because people view it as an old-fashioned rural area, Shortridge said, the Midwest has gained an overly conservative image.
But in the future, Shortridge said, he sees the Midwest's image undergoing a "positive revival" in which urban residents will prefer the openness of the area over the crime and congestion of the cities.
GETTING USED TO a more relaxed lifestyle was difficult for city dwellers such as Jim Verdrio, Queens, Queens, an artist, who is raised at the real differences between people in Kansas and New York.
"I expected some differences, but what I saw was a totally strange environment from the one I had been in back east," Verdrame said. "I felt like I had and having people actually walk up and say hold to me on the streets."
Eddie Bishop, Millinocket, Maine,
senior, said he expected Kansas to be a good deal more conservative than New England.
"People's viewpoints out here as compared to back home are much less liberal. Back east, subjects like nuclear energy draw much more interest in them than those like liquor by the drink still being debated, whereas in the east, such issues were settled in the 1800s," Bishop said.
Neighborhood plant tries to preserve historical district
Seventh Street through Central Park from Kentucky to Tennessee streets could be closed permanently if a comprehensive plan for Old West Lawrence is accepted by the city commission next week.
The Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association voted Thursday night to approve the plan, developed by the city's Youth Staff and association representatives.
"Our focus was to control the flow of traffic around the neighborhood." Dennis Constance, association president, said.
Residents of the neighborhood, which extends from Kentucky to Michigan streets and from Sixth to Ninth streets, will have until Sunday to register complaints or suggestions with the planning staff.
Approximately seven blocks of the neighborhood are registered with the state historical society as a "historical district." The plan asks for more trees to shield the houses from traffic pollution and noise.
The plan also asks for tennis courts, more play equipment and more trees for Central Park.
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The plan will be considered by the city commissioners next Tuesday if no significant changes are made.
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If the commissioners approve the plan, it will be used by the Commission and the planning staff as a guideline in land uses and future development.
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