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Tuesday, November 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
Getting ready
Wayne Andrews of the Lawrence public works department hangs Christmas decorations on a corner of Massachusetts Street. Downtown autumn banners were taken down to make room for the decorations.
ASK targets financial aid, HERO for lobbying effort
By BRAD ADDINGTON
The Board of Regents Margin of Excellence plan and student financial aid will be the two most important student issues in the Kansas Legislature next session, members of the Associated Students of Kansas decided last weekend.
Staff writer
About 35 students from all seven Regents universities met Friday and Saturday in Manhattan to form ASK's Policy Council, which sets the lobbying organization's legislative agenda.
Five delegates from each university serve on the policy council. Each university is represented by one vote for every 1,000 students the school has. The University of Kansas has the biggest representation with 24 votes, which were divided among KU's five delegates.
Jane Hutchinson, Wichita junior, said the policy council considered Margin of Excellence and student financial aid as separate but equally important issues.
Mark Tallman, ASK legislative director, said yesterday, "I don't think there's any question that, in addition to those issues, there will be open
discussion of the admissions policy.''
"It's important to realize that, inevitably, trade-offs are going to have to occur," Tallman said.
But he said it was important for ASK to set priorities because of compromises which often must be avoided.
This semester, ASK leaders have been conducting the Higher Education Rescue Operation, or HERO, a lobbying effort in support of Margin of Excellence.
Margin of Excellence is the Regents proposal to increase, over three years, state financing of Regents schools to 95 percent of the level of their peer schools.
Hutehinson said yesterday that almost 1,000 KU students had written letters to Gov. Mike Hayden in support of the plan.
"Next semester we're going to be hitting the Legislature with a similar letter-writing drive," Hutchinson said.
HERO leaders also are enlisting students to lobby in Topeka on Jan.19, the first day of the legislative session.
Development in downtown is questioned
The Downtown Improvement Committee heralded the advantages of its latest development plan last night but fielded questions from a mostly cynical audience.
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
A live call-in video show, broadcast from Liberty Hall by channel 6, gave an interested live and television audience a chance to comment on and interview the committee's vision for downtown Lawrence.
The committee has endorsed a plan that would add almost 400,000 square feet of retail stores, including three department stores and 60 to 65 specialty shops, in the 600, 700 and 800 blocks of Massachusetts Street.
The plan includes 1,497 parking spaces in four garages, and it also includes several skilinks.
The cost is estimated at $48.3 million for the rough plan, which committee members said would be refined by Dec. 14 for the City Commission's appraisal.
Burdett Loomis, committee chairman, said that the plan would maintain the fabric of downtown while moving it to the forefront of urban development.
The committee is considering several options ranging from public financing to a mix of public
Questions from the audience raised concerns such as financing for the project.
Loomis said, "We don't do this lightly, but we think we have a good enough product to sell."
Ted Strader, of ZHA Inc., the Annapolis, Md., consulting firm hired by the improvement committee, said. "There's no such thing as a free lunch. Any development costs money."
Even for a privately financed suburban mall, the city has estimated that it would have to pay $6.5 to $11 million for utilities, roads and other services, Strader said.
Area hunters find a variety of game
November is one of the favorite times for hunting in the Douglas County area, said Jim Dunn, wildlife conservation officer for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.
By KIRK ADAMS
Staff writer
Bow hunting for deer will end Dec. 4, and firearm deer season will begin Dec. 5.
Small game such as quail, pheasant and prairie chickens are in season until Jan. 31 in Kansas. Dunn said rabbits were in season year-round
"The most popular species in this area are the small game birds and rabbits," said Dunn.
Douglas County permits for this season must have been applied for in the summer, Dunn said. They are given out in consideration with the population of the animals.
He said people that wanted to hunt deer at two sites outside of Douglas County could still receive permits.
Hunting permits may be purchased at Wildlife and Parks offices, at the county clerk's office or at some sporting goods stores.
Public lands that allow hunting in Douglas County are the Clinton Lake wildlife area and the Perry Lake wildlife area. Shawnee State Lake wildlife area will open in December, he said.
Sherri Richardson, Clinton Park manager, said that hunters from the Kansas City area came to the park because many did not have access to private lands.
"The public lands get a lot of pressure," she said.
Hunters may obtain regulations and maps of areas open to hunting at the U.S Army Corps of Engineers information building at Clinton.
Richardson said people should be aware of boundaries separating federal lands from private property. The boundaries are marked by yellow markers 50 to 200 yards apart.
Waterfowl may be hunted with steel shot only, Richardson said, because park authorities are trying to reduce lead poisoning throughout the food chain. Waterfowl refuge areas are marked.
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