THE FAR SIDE University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 8, 1987 5 By GARY LARSON Animal joke gifts Campus/Area Model of city's downtown to aid development plans By KIRK ADAMS Staff writer The Lawrence Downtown Improvement Committee met yesterday with development experts to discuss ideas that would help keep the city's central shopping district downtown. The meeting was on campus, in Marvin Hall at the site of a model of downtown created by KU architecture students. The downtown committee plans to show the model on cable television so that Lawrence can witness their opinions on various improvement ideas when smaller models of various developments are inserted into the larger downtown model. Representatives from Zucchelli, Hunter & Associates, Annapolis, Md., which the city hired to oversee the design and strategy of downtown improvements, met with committee members to get their initial feedback. Ralph Basile, vice-president of Z.H.A., said that his company would be working to develop preliminary plans for a retail project that would thwart construction of a suburban mall. The firm will consider what size store or stores will fill the retail needs of Lawrence, where the project should be built, how much it would cost and whether it would be profitable, he said. He said that the firm wanted to plan a proposal that was sensitive to both the needs of the developer and the capacity and that could be feasibly built. Basil said that, based on market studies by other developers who have wanted to build here, a project that would encompass about 150,000 to 200,000 square feet might provide enough space for a shopping district that would fill Lawrence's retail needs. Most committee members said that they favored the idea of a few small shopping centers rather than one large shopping center. Members said thatthey wanted to avoid building a downtown mall. "The thrust of the thing is to something not too centralized, not too much centralized, and a committee member and member of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance. The improvement committee has only about two months to form a proposal for downtown because of a fire by the Lawrence City Commission. Burdett Loomis, chairman of the Downtown Improvement Committee, said that he thought members had a chance to participate and end of construction the area needed. Loomis said, "With the Z H.A. I help, I think we can meet our timetable and develop a good, sophisticated plan." Several KU architecture students will be designing their own ideas for downtown improvement in the form of small models that can be placed within the larger one. Students have been asked to improve downtown, but they have not been limiting their thoughts to just a shopping district. Steve Malin, Plainville senior, said that students were looking at downtown from an experimental point of view, helped them model, said that they were trying to look at the longterm health of downtown. New microfiche collection holds library phone listings By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer Staff writer Students and faculty looking for phone books at Watson Library might feel disconnected this week when they call on the section that usually holds the phone books and find empty shelves instead. The books have been slowly replaced with microfiche listings, said James Neeley, reference librarian. The microfiche cover most of the same cities that the books covered, Neeley said. The library will continue to purchase phone books from large towns in Kansas and the Kansas City area and also continue to purchase foreign phone books. Neeley said the federally ordered breakup of AT&T had caused the switch from books to fiche. Before the breakup, phone books from across the country were provided free to the library. But after the breakup, the printing of phone books was allowed by other companies. The library that it would start charging about $2,000 a year for the books. Neeley said that the fiche system, which had been introduced gradually by the public, is similar to the public but that it cost about half of what the books cost. And the transfer of the books to fiche won't inconvenience too many people because the books weren't used that much in the first place. Most phone books were in poor condition and several years out of date. Also, most of the information people seek from them can be found from other sources at the reference desk, he said. Faced with the same problem of having to pay for phone books after the phone company broke up, the Lawrence Public Library continues to receive phone listings in book form from other libraries. In the past three other cities every two to three years, said Cecilia May, reference librarian. Hallmark disputes violating copyright The Associated Press KANSAS CITY. Mo. โ€” Although a lawyer for Hallmark cards Inc. told an appeals court that the cardmaker copied the style of a competitor, the company insists that it did not and will deny it when the case goes to trial. At issue is a lawsuit filed against Hallmark, leader in the greeting card industry, by Blue Mountain Arts, a small company in Boulder, Colo., which obtained a preliminary injunction last year. cards from its Personal Touch line, pending trial of the $50 million lawsuit. Blue Mountain Arts, owned by Stephen and Susan Polis Schutz, alleged that the Hallmark cards violated trade-dress laws, which are used to protect the packaging or look of a product. The hallmark cards prevented trading cards not protected by trade-dress laws but by copyright law. In November, U.S. District Judge Jim Carrigan of Denver ordered Hallmark to remove 83 The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on the preliminary injunction against Hallmark during sessions last week. Library to cause parking problems By BEN JOHNSTON Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said no parking would be allowed along the service road south of Hoch Auditorium and Wesee Hall on Friday. The former - Flint Hall while the new science library was being constructed. Staff writer Some KU students, faculty and staff soon will be looking for a new place to park their cars when they go to Wesco Hall or nearby buildings. Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said yesterday that before Tuesday an asphalt ramp would be built over the sidewalk between Wescoe Hall and Stauffer - Flint Hall. The ramp, which will connect the service road south of Wescoe to the parking lot south of Stauffer-Flint, will allow delivery trucks to get to Wescoe from the east, off Sunset Park and into the valley to enter from the east because traffic will be restricted to Wescoe Hall from the west, he said. Porter said cars would be prohibited from parking along the service road because trucks delivering food, mail and other services to Wescoe needed to have safe access to the building. However, Hultine said the elimination of the spaces would aggravate a campus parking crunch. "The people who park in that area are going to end up jockeying for spots." Hultine said. Jim Modig, associate director of facilities planning, said gates could be in place this morning that would prevent cars and trucks from going east of Hoch Auditorium on the ground floor. The gate would be blocked off for about two years while the library is being built, Modig said. 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Union) Deadline: Wed., Sept. 17 1986 JOIN us! for Intramural Fun! Someone must be present at this meeting in order to have priority during Instant Scheduling. The meeting will be held for all indoor soccer leagues on MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 at 7 p.m. in 202 ROBINSON. Rosters, rules and general information will be available at this time. Questions? Call 864-3546 Mandatory Manager's Meeting: Someone must be present at this meeting in order to have priority during Instant Scheduling. The meeting will be held for all volleyball leagues on MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the NORTH GYM. Rosters, rules, and general information will be available at this time. Recreation Services presents Entry fees for Soccer/Volleyball: Trophy Leagues: $20 Rec. Leagues: $10 A dormant plant seems to be dead โ€” hopeless. A little water, a few kind words and the sun brings it to life. 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