University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 5, 1987
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Faculty union will be topic of presentation
The Faculty Senate will meet at a p.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union for a panel presentation and opponents of a faculty union.
Representatives from the KU chapter of the National Education Association, the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and KU Independent Faculty will give 15-minute presentations and will be available for questions.
KU Republicans elect club officers
Faculty will vote Nov. 17 and 18 on whether to form a union.
The College Republicans elected officers at their regular meeting Tuesday night.
Brenda Eisele, Fredonia sophomore, was elected chairman. Karl Myers, St. Genevieve, Mo., junior, was elected vice-chairman, and Kyle Wetzel, Topea freshman, was elected secretary/(treasurer)
Study abroad office to have travel fair
The office of study abroad will sponsor a travel fair from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Students will be able to meet with travel agents, talk with officials about study abroad financial programs that offer programs that the office offers.
Students also will be able to enter drawings for free round-trip plane tickets, Eurail passes and other prizes.
Historical society names top director
Ramon S. Powers, a KU graduate and analyst in the Kansas Legislative Research Department, has been named executive director of the Kansas State Historical Society. He will replace Joseph W. Snell, who is retiring.
Powers received a doctorate in history from the University of Kansas in 1971. While at KU, Powers served as an acting assistant director of the Western Civilization Program. He has been an instructor in American history and political science at Haskell Indian Junior College and an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
KANU fund-raiser will begin Nov. 7
KANU radio station is continuing its Fall Fanfare '87 with an on-the-air fund-raising drive from Nov. 7 to 14. The station will feature special shows and some of its most requested songs.
The station has a goal of $265,000 this year and hopes to raise $100,000 during Fall Fanfare '87, a member and friend through November.
KANU is sponsoring the drive because of a slight drop in state and federal support. The station plans to use the money to pay for increases in program acquisition costs and network membership costs, replace equipment and hire a third full-time reporter/producer.
From staff and wire reports
Bishop speaks against policy on nuclear arms
By KIRK ADAMS
People of the world must join together against nuclear arms by evaluating government policies and presenting the beliefs of God, a Methodist bishop said last night.
Staff writer
Bishop Kenneth Hicks, administrator and spiritual leader for Kansas United Methodists, spoke about a study by the First United Methodist Council of Bishops called "In Defense of Creation: The Nuclear Crisis and a Just Peace." He spoke to about 130 people at the United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St.
The study, which was released in 1986, was the result of interviews with government and military officials, universities, activist groups, United Methodist churches and other denominations.
U. S. nuclear policy is based on the belief that a strong U.S. nuclear arsenal will prevent the Soviet Union from attacking.
He said that deterrence was an inadequate way to thwart the threat of war because it did not matter if the enemy had surrendered or not.
"If only 1 percent of them got through it it would destroy the major cities on either side," he said.
The bishops' council rejects the theory of deterrence as a solution to global conflicts and instead supports a nuclear test ban and a nuclear freeze. In addition, the council supports reaffirming existing nuclear treaties and the negotiation of arms reduction.
"I believe that nothing is going to change unless the people of the world affirm together to demand peace," Hicks said.
He used the analogy of a spider web that he had seen one night to state that what really mattered was that nuclear arms could kill.
"It looked like spun silver," he said. "It was so perfectly done."
But the next morning, he woke to find that the spider web had been broken.
"It occurred to me that whether it was a limb or breeze or a push of the wrong button . . . that didn't matter." he said.
Albert Gerken, professor of music theory and University carliveaule, sweeps out the base of the Campanile. Gerken was doing some house cleaning Tuesday afternoon.
Sweeping melodies
Housing dispute settled out of court
Disabled local man to continue to work out of apartment
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
A Lawrence man will be able to continue to do consultation work out of his Clinton Place apartment now that a settlement has been reached in a six-month controversy that drew national attention to the case.
Because of a neurological disorder, Michael Fargo was using his computer in his apartment to do work such as conducting surveys and doing projects for the University of Kansas.
Fargo was threatened with eviction in April because Clinton Place management said he was violating his lease. The management said that
the apartment, which is subsidized by the federal Housing and Urban Development agency, was for residential purposes only and that Fargo had to leave. Douglas County District Judge James Paddock decided in the management's favor July 7.
The debate on the correct interpretation of the lease ended last week when an appeal of the case was settled out of court. All pending court action will be dropped as a result of the settlement.
Fargo can continue to live at Clinton Place and do his consultation work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., said Mona McCoy, executive director of Independence Inc., which
worked to allow Fargo to stay at Clinton Place.
"The function of our agency is to advocate on behalf of people with disabilities who feel they've been discriminated against because they have a disability," she said.
McCoy said her group interceded with HUD and captured the attention of nationwide advocacy groups. Fargo also was the subject of a Washington Post column, she added.
In addition, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, a Washington, D.C. public interest group for lower income and disabled people, had a rally this summer at the apartment complex on Fargo's
behalf.
While an appeal of Paddock's decision was pending in the case, HUD released a letter stating that Fargo's use of the apartment was appropriate, according to its interpretation of the lease agreement.
Clinton Place was built with a low-interest loan from HUD, McCoy said. Tenants must meet certain income guidelines and be elderly or disabled.
They pay only 30 percent of their income for rent, and HUD picks up the rest. she said.
Fargo's attorney, Don Strole of Lawrence, said he could not comment on the case, and Fargo was unavailable for comment.
Commission hears lawyer's mall proposal
Bv VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
Armed only with a stack of maps and notebooks, Lawrence lawyer Ed Collister took on the city planning staff at last night's third public hearing on suburban mall proposals.
"It it may look like I've come here unarmed," Colliser said, referring to hours of expert witnesses at previous hearings. But he said he'd submitted all the proof the Lawrence缝 need to decide whether to recommend to rezone his site for a suburban mall.
"I don't need expert witnesses to support those things," he said.
The city planning staff has recommended denying the request. The Collier proposal is the second of three rezoning requests being considered by the commission.
Collister said it was obvious that Lawrence citizens wanted a mall. The issue is where to put it, he said. The city is working on plans for major downtown development, but there is no room. Collister said.
Collister, who represents three landowners, was appealing to the planning commission to rezone a 55-acre site northwest of Wakarua Drive and U.S. Highway 40. The area is known as the Rock Chalk Ranch.
About 65 Lawrence residents were scattered throughout the Central Junior High School auditorium to observe, mostly about the Collier site.
Collister was amused at the idea that the current zoning of the site, agricultural, was economically realistic. He said that if owners rented the land for farming, it would bring only $25 an acre annually.
Collleried ended his comments by saving that a suburban mall would
not mean the decay of downtown Lawrence.
He said downtown would continue to be the governmental, financial, legal and cultural center of Lawrence.
Banks said that rezoning the area would make it incompatible with the surrounding area. Topsails indicate it is prime farmland, he said.
"You can't duplicate it," he said.
Price Banks, city planning director,
had a different story to tell.
He said that the development would bring with it much spin-off development, which would interrupt the planned, steady growth of Lawrence.
And, Banks stated that any suburban mall would drain downtown.
"Mall developers strive to replace the downtown at the center of activity [in]
moved to the mall, downtown would be besieged by businesses such as pawn shops, second-hand shops and pornography stores.
Before the Collister proposal was discussed, the planning commission heard final discussion of a proposal by Jacobs, Viscioni and Jacobs, a Cleveland firm, for a 61-acre site at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road. The firm is a well-known small site, giving the first favorable comments heard from residents.
Peter Wempe, rural Lawrence,
said the downtown would survive.
He said that once retailers had
"The citizens of Lawrence show far too much pride to let the downtown slide because of a mall," Wempe said.
The commission still must discuss the third proposal, made by Warmack and Co., for a 101-acre site at Clinton Parkway and Wakarusa Drive.
Computer courses expanded
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
The computer science department will offer a class for non-majors who want a basic understanding of computers but who have no computer experience for the first time this spring.
"There are a lot of students at the University who want to take a computer science class, but do not want to go on to become a CS major," said William Bulgren, chairman of the computer science department. "We wanted to give them a choice."
Tim Thurman, manager of computing resources and supervisor of CS 250, said the new course, CS 256, was an introductory survey course that would require minimal program writing and would concentrate on word processing, data bases and spread sheets. CS 200 requires students to create programs and solve computer problems. Thurman said
Also, CS 256 will require students to spend about 20 hours a semester in the computer laboratory, but CS 200 will require about 30 hours a semester, be said.
"It is easier than CS 200, but it's not a mud course." Thurman said.
Perequiesis for CS 256 are Math
101, 102 or eligibility to take Math 115.
Pointing to the computer on his desk in Snow Hall, Thurman said, "They want to know how to use this thing when they get to work."
A pilot section of the new course was offered both last spring and this fall. Thurman said that the department wanted to iron out bugs in those sections before offering multiple sections.
Bulgren said that the department had planned for about 1,000 students to enroll in both CS 200 and CS 256 this fall. In addition, he enrolled of CS 200 alone this fall.
"If it turns out to be more than that, then initially I have a problem," Bulgren said.
Thurman said that the department was offering four sections of CS 256 next spring. If demand is great enough, five more sections might be opened for the spring semester.
He said he anticipated that the four sections would fill up quickly.
Michael Baker, Junction City sophomore and a business administration major, is enrolled in CS 200 this fall.
He said that if he had been aware of the CS 256 option, he might have taken it instead of CS 200, because his major would most likely require working only with pre-written programs.
Dennis Rosen, associate professor of business, said that the computer science department had proposed the course to the business school last year. The business school faculty assembly approved the course as a substitute.
Rosen said the business school welcomed CS 256 because the business industry was adopting more advanced equipment and because the computer background would help help majors when they looked for jobs.
Bulgren said that a $500,000 equipment grant from AT&T allowed the department to offer the new course, which could not have been financed otherwise.
Mary Wallace, assistant dean of journalism, said she recommended the new computer class as an elective for journalism majors who wanted to learn computer fundamentals. Some journalism students who take CS 200 have trouble with the course, she said.
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