The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 1, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 9 USPS 650-640
Blank tape royalties sought by recording industry
Manager Joe Unger and assistant manager Tony Schraut stand inside C-90 Records, 1422 23rd St. The new store offers a record-rental service.
By KIESA ASCU Staff Reporter
If the recording industry's lobbying efforts succeed, people will pay royalty fees every time Lice purchase a blank cassette or an audio recorder.
The efforts center on a proposed amendment to a bill that exempted consumers from copyright liability if video recording was done for private use. The amendment would charge royalties on tapes to bolster the recording industry, said Joe Unger, manager of C-90, a record-rental store at 1422 W, 32rd St.
Kenny Fulk, an employee of Exile Records and Tapes, 15 W. 8th St., said the royalties would not solve anything because the problems in the recording industry went beyond the ability of music makers to album images. Besides, he said, cassettes are used for more purposes than tapping albums.
Unger said, "Legislation is pending to tax blank tape sales because some people feel that artists don't get adequate compensation when their albums are taped. Record industries would like to outlaw record rentals."
UNGER OPENED his store Aug. 24, and so far most of his customers have been KU students, he said. Customers pay the price of the album, and if they return the album
within 24 hours, their money is refunded.
Rental fees range from $1 to $2.50.
"You can rent four albums for the price of buying one," said Unger. "People in dorms could lend the albums to a friend. Everyone on one floor could tape it in one night."
Unger said he wanted to sell albums, and many of his customers keep the albums they originally intended to rent. However, he said, he planned the store to combat the cost of promotional wastes and ludicrous expenses that have raised record prices.
C-90 is the only record-rental store in Lawrence. Unger chose Lawrence as the place for his new business because it was a college town that supported new music.
"IT'S DIFFERENT from your run-of-the-mill town," fingered. "It said. It has a tacque of fish."
The idea for a record-rental store entered Unger's thoughts because many people came to him to borrow albums and tape them, he said. Now, he can get any album that a customer wants. He keeps 2500 albums stocked for rental.
Steve Hodes, a disc jockey for KLZR, said that if enough people rented records instead of purchasing them, the record industry could be hurt badly.
"It's a detriment to the industry, that's for sure, especially with new artists. People can see it."
Concerned Lawrence residents preserve, improve communities through neighborhood associations
By CASSIE MCQUEENY
Staff Reporter
Lawrence may be a city of $5,000, but many of its residents are determined not to get lost in the crowd. They are carving out their niches, independent and unique neighborhoods, to let them grow.
"We're concerned neighbors who care about the preservation of Lawrence," said Dennis Constance, president of the Old West Lawrence Association, who "involved in our community, and that's rare."
A variety of neighborhood organizations exist in Lawrence. The Lawrence City Commission is one of the largest local government agencies.
The groups' objectives range from preserving houses and buildings, confronting and combatting neighborhood problems, to enhancing neighborhood character and encouraging community spirit, according to neighborhood association directors.
THE OLD WEST Lawrence Association is the oldest neighborhood group in Lawrence. The organization was founded more than 25 years after assistance said. Today, the same principles prevail.
"We believe preserving and maintaining Lawrence is important." Constance said. "We want to be involved in Lawrence and its development."
The organization encourages historical preservation in the area between Sixth and Ninth streets and Kentucky and Michigan streets. Architecturally, Lawrence is unique, and, like many of its neighbors, A. Louis has a group of people recognized as a need to maintain that "uniqueness," he said.
"Nice homes were being allowed to deteriorate, homes which were worthy of preservation," Constance said. "They organized to preserve those homes."
OVER THE YEARS, the OWLA has developed into a conscious effort to improve the community
"The group fulfills other roles" he said, "The organization has sort of blossomed into other responsibilities. Now we are basically the voice of the neighborhood."
The group maintains that sometimes existing buildings should not be torn down for redevelopment but that renovation should be considered first
"We believe too many existing structures with historical significance should and could be used the way they are," he said. "There are so many buildings that developers could remodel."
SOME OF THE group's projects have included a community development plan of Central Park, New York.
"Our biggest, most recent project was the development plan for the park." Constance said. "The park is in our district so we felt it was very important."
"By having a representative on the board, we have an opportunity to be involved in the process."
"This is very time consuming, so we're not as involved as we would like to be, but we are not as time consuming."
THE OWLA ALSO is involved in the Community Development Block Advisory Board. Board members decide how federal funds should be allocated throughout the city.
Constance complained of a lack of funds to pay the group's officers.
"We have to rely on volunteer labor, which sometimes merits inconsistency," he said; "There are so many administrative details to keep in order to keep going and to be productive."
CONSTANCE emphasized the growing awareness of Lawrence citizens. He said the city's new law was meant to protect
"We have meetings at least once a quarter; we are open to the public and we welcome new ideas."
Another neighborhood group, the Oread Neighborhood Association, tries to promote community and land conditions in the areas surrounding KU, said NAO President George
"We have succeeded in many community projects," Coggins said. "And we have a large organization of about 300 members who are actively involved in the Oread neighborhood."
THE ONA HAS a permanent office at 1311 Louisiana. The group receives some funding from the University Endowment Association, Coggins said.
The Oread area is bounded by Ninth and 17th streets and Michigan and Massachusetts streets.
"We have succeeded in creating the John Davis Park, which is right next to our headquarters," Coggins said. "We have been working for five or six years on a land use plan for our neighborhood. And we also hold neighborhood cleanups once or twice a year."
The most recent project of the group was a law court at 18th and Louisiana streets. Coggins said.
SOME MEMBERS FROM THE ONA are involved in the Downtown Development Plan, and two city commissioners are from the ONA, Coggins said.
"We are certainly involved in the Lawrence community, and we send representatives to
commission meetings when we are needed," he said.
The ONA meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at sand Pi Park. The ONA meets at 8:15 a.m.
"We will have a membership drive soon, and it only costs $1 to belong," he said.
THE EAST LAWRENCE Improvement Association includes the area bounded by the Santa Fe tracks and Oregon, 15th and Rhode Island streets. The East Lawrence Improvement Association president said the area was considered one of the oldest parts of Lawrence.
Mark Kaplan, president of the ELIA, said, "Our group has succeeded in saving half of the houses from virtual elimination. The houses in East Lawrence were built before the Civil War so our number one goal is to preserve and maintain those houses."
Five years ago East Lawrence citizens were faced with the construction of a four-lane highway, which would have divided the area in half, according to Kaplan. But because the neighborhood fought the highway, 175 homes were saved.
"We organized an opposition and fought to ban the way it was," Kaplan said. "And we succeeded."
Goals of the group include involvement in problems or issues which affect working class members.
"WE TRY TO watch out for our community, and our concern is broader than just the eastern half of the country."
Kaplan emphasized the responsibility of the Lawrence neighborhood organizations.
The neighborhood groups play an exaggerated role in city governments which have a commission structure", Kaplan said. "We are the voices of the local government's voice through our government's structure."
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When he took office a year ago, Budd pleaded to make the University of Kansas one of the 10 largest universities in the country.
Budget cuts don't deter chancellor
The trick is to make a better institution with less money.
But, he said recently, state budget cuts may delay that goal.
Budig, though, said he would stick by his pledge. He said KU did not have far to go before graduation.
BIG EIGHT SCHOOLS such as the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma, were hit harder than KU, he said.
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
And one of the chief magicians is Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
He cited the New York Times guides to colleges released last spring, KU received a four-star rating by the Newsweek editorial board.
But Budig said he was referring to a general consensus among educators when he said KU would become one of the 10 best state universities in the country.
"One must remember that other leading institutions of higher education are also facing
"the reductions will slow our progress," he said. It is vital that we have early reeminence of the truth."
Jim Scaly, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said there was no formal board or committee to oversee.
ROBERT COBB, executive vice chancellor,
said the University could improve despite the
He compared the situation with that of Albert Michelson, an American physicist who won a Nobel prize in 1907 for work on the speed of light using only $15 worth of equipment.
The state budget cuts came this summer when Gov. John Carlin asked several state agencies to approve the budget.
Additional decreases in the budgets of the chancellor and executive vice chancellor made up for the money not taken from academic affairs.
Most of KU's departments cut their budgets by 4 percent, but as part of his pledge to protect academics, Burdigal asked the office of academic affairs to decrease its budget by only 2.3 percent.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS now are using a report by the Commission for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education to make academic improvements.
KU cuts back air conditioning in another cost-cutting move
Cobb named a special committee this summer to study the possibility of such a curriculum, said Al Johnson, assistant to Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The report recommended, among other things, that the University establish a core curriculum for it.
Tacha heads the committee, which met for the first time last week.
Keen cool.
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
That task may be harder this September. University officials, in an attempt to cut utility costs, have started shutting off the air conditioner in many caroussels buildings.
She appointed four subcommittees to develop procedures for the committee, Johnson said.
The cooling units normally are shut off in October, but that move must come earlier this year because of cuts in KU's utility budget.
procedures for the committee, Johnson said.
· THE COMMITTEE will complete a report in
  October to submit the recommendation of the undergraduate
report to establish some type core curriculum.
The report, released in December, pinpointed academic weaknesses at KU and offered assistance.
Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms this morning. Highs today will be in the mid-80s Northwest winds will be at 10 mph.
Besides recommending a core curriculum, the undergraduate report cited weaknesses in KU's
Highs tomorrow should again be in the mid-80s with partly cloudy skies.
Tonight will be partly cloudy and cooler.
Lows are expected to be near 88.
The University also curtailled air conditioning for six weeks this summer to make up for a lack of cooling in the hotel.
IF TEMPERATURES stay around 85 to 90 degrees, the University can save about $120,000 by shutting down some of the cooling units early, KU officials say.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
This is not the first time officials have prematurely pulled the plug on air conditioning
The University now is spending about $400,000 a month on utilities. Cobb said.
The curtailment of air conditioning is partly due to a 4 percent reduction in the University's utility budget. The reduction was in response to the summer for state agencies to tighten their belts.
A total of 30 buildings, including Strong, Fraser, Blake, Bailey and Lindley halls and Hoch Auditorium, will be without air conditioning.
Cobb sent a memo to department staff yesterday announcing that air conditioning was installed.
Officials probably would have begun shutting off the units Monday night, Cobb said.
THE CUT TOOK $187,000 from KU's utility budget, Cobb said.
Besides turning off the cool air in many
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In addition, the Kansas Legislature last spring cut the University's proposed utility budget.
So KU officials must work with about $1.2 million less than they expected in money for the new school year.
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MIRROR IMAGE — Two ducks enjoy a serene swim and their own reflections in Potter Lake yesterday after morning showers ended
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