University Daily Kansan, November 19. 1982
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Towers' rent increased $15 a month next year
3y KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Rent will increase $15 a month next year at the Jayhawk Towers Apartments, 1803 W. 15th St. in Denver. Advisory Board decided yesterday.
Furniture costs an additional $40.
Now, rent ranges from $390 to $435 a month, utilities paid. Next year, the cost will range from $450 to
The cost difference depends on the size, facilities and sun exposure in each apartment.
Furniture costs an additional $40.
Twenty percent of the apartments are vacant, although Towers C and D are accompanied by J. J. Wilson, director of housing.
When KU's department of housing took control of the apartments two years ago, they had 100 percent occupancy, although the occupancy had dipped to 50 percent in previous years. Wilson said.
BEFORE THE department began operating the apartments, anyone could live there. Now, to keep the apartment free, students can live there, Wilson said.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life,
said, "They are so strictly watched
that we can not even put a visiting
professor there."
The two towers that have vacancies, Towers A and B, are restricted to graduate students only and women only respectively. Wilson
said that although the idea behind restricting tenancy might have been good, it had not been financially rewarding.
To combit the lagging occupancy rate, computer facilities will be installed in Tower A in an apartment that now holds audio-visual aids, said Stephen Keel, assistant director of housing.
RESIDENTS OF Tower A will be expected to pay an additional $5 a month to pay for the special facilities, but he will be able to use them, Keed said.
Wilson said the department of housing was trying to improve the safety of the parking lots at Jay's Ranch. The owners cracked the corkroaches in the apartments.
"I don't think we ever have roaches under control," Wilson said. "We're working on it. We try to emphasize the importance of responsibility for landlord and tenants."
As soon as 10 residents have signed up to have their apartments sprayed, an exterminator comes to the Towers, Wilson said.
IN OTHER action, the board approved a $20 increase in rent for the Sunflower Apartments. 1021 Missi Hire Rent there next year will be $190 a month.
"We've got some problems over there," he said. "They're 40 years old, and we've got some maintenance to do."
SRS cuts may be chilling for some
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Some Lawrence residents may be in for a cold shock this winter because of drastic cuts in funding by the Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services.
The cuts, which take effect Jan. 1, may force some residents to live on the streets. Susan Beers, coordinator of the Community Services, said yesterday.
"Six weeks from tomorrow we're going to have people with no resources and no place to go," she said. "We can speak to people, people, but where are they going to live?"
Beers said private Lawrence groups would not be able to fill the void left by
"A LOT OF areas do have resources they haven't tapped yet, but we are now at the maximum amount we can give," she said. "We've checked every source. The churches are giving to full capacity; everyone is One hundred dollars per person and being terminated from their only source of aid as of Jan. 1."
the loss of SRS funding to all unemployed, able-bodied people under 51 because its residents already were giving about as much as they could afford.
Something unexpected will have to happen before the situation can improve, she said.
"Maybe 75 people could go out of state or find somewhere else to live," she said. "But if you are talking about 20, or even one individual with no
shelter and no where to go in January
— that's devastating."
STATE REP. Jess Branson, D-D Lawrence, said SRS reached its crisis because of the unusually high number of unemployed people in the state.
"Because of such an increase, it has impacted SRS, and now that SRS is looking at such a large deficit they're doing it by paying for the ones there isn't any money here," she said.
She said that SRS Secretary Robert Harder had to do something and that he had decided a lump sum of about $150 to cover the unemployed person was the best solution.
"He had to deal with with the problem some way," she said, "because there wasn't any money to help these people."
Branson said she had been predicting the situation for a long time, but nothing more could be done to trim SHS and make more money available.
"I KNOW SR8 has already cut down their personnel to the absolute bone, she's gone."
Beers said Lawrence was not accustomed to such situations and this made him nervous.
"The bottom line is what's going to happen to people who have no other place to turn. They could turn to the church, churches, but they are already swamped."
"It is extremely unusual. It's a sign of the times though," she said. "We just don't know what the answer is. We've never known it, and now all of a sudden we don't know."
South winds return for a short spell
Warm weekend could be last one of year
From staff and wire reports
Cold and rainy weather is expected to give way to a clearing sky today with brisk south winds returning for the weekend.
jet stream carrying warmer air in from the West Coast and damming up the flow of cold air from the North.
But the warm spell will not last very long as winter tightens its grip next week, bringing storms Monday and Tuesday. At temperatures plummeting soon after.
Randy Baker, student forecaster with the KU weatherman services, said the report was based on observations.
"There's a huge pool of cold air just north of the U.S.-Canadian border, but there is no way it can get down here we have westerly winds aloft." Baker said.
He said that storms were brewing yesterday over the Texas panhandle, slowly moving northeast to drench the city and make it rain, and this morning before moving thunder.
should reach the high 50s and low 60s.
Storms now in the Pacific Northwest will come over the mountains, and rain will lash them.
THE WEEKEND temperatures
"I's hard to tell what kind of storm it will be, possibly major." Baker said. "I'm afraid we need more information."
After that storm, Baker said, the area will be hit by an arctic wave. Baker said cold north winds from Canada would get past the shifting jet stream and tumble into the Midwest in time for a chilly Thanksgiving.
After that storm, Baker said, the area will be hit by an arid wave.
FOR HOLIDAY travelers moving through possibly inclement weather, Lt. Paul Wade of the Kansas Highway Patrol said it was best to stay tuned to the radio and television to keep tabs on weather conditions before starting out.
"They can't get any new information from the Highway Patrol than they can from the police."
Lows late in the week will be in the teens, he said.
Wade said the traffic the Thanksgiving second only to Christmas in terms of traffic.
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A LOCAL RESPONSE TO A GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE
The University Daily Kansan recently carried a story about a beneficiary of the United Fund, Women's Transitional Care Services (WTCS), and its training program designed "to counteract the effects of (domestic) violence on children who are injured to the WTCS) shelter." According to Bath Geyre, the WTCS member who organizes the time-wise training period required of each train is designed so every child in the shelter will have at least one advocate . . . to make their feel special."
Spouse abuse and child abuse are both national problems which are on the rise, yet when confronted with an instance of such violence our judiciary often ensures the recipient of more suffering by wringing its hands in felled helplessness. While the victim is not always able to recover safely helpless individuals are forced to endure frequent display of random savage.
However, the very exism which my WTCS acquaintances claim accounts for this domestic oppression they the (WTCs members) have always practiced by barring men from every WTCs venture. Although two of the thirteen child advocate trainees are not WTCs, one of them is on the house premises as the shelter is off limits to them because of their gender.
The WTCS members whom I know and are inspired, energetic individuals but these traits, even when molded by a three-week training session, don't qualify them for such a complex undertaking. Dealing with both the perpetrators and victims of this despicable practice is a governmental function because the victim's civil rights are being breached. A meaningful legal response to domestic violence is just part of the vital work in the public sector which must take place if this country is to remain free.
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