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--through what is now housing to 10th and Pennsylvania Streets; following Pennsylvania street to Eighth Street; curving through a housing area to Seventh Street between Pennsylvania and New York streets; following seventh Street to New Hampshire Street; and following New Hampshire Street to Sixth Street where it would run into the street. In the end, we connect with the proposed U.S. 59 bypass east of Lawrence to create an efficient loop from K-10 to U.S. 24-40 at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Haskell Loop impact report draws praise, criticism
By KENNA GIFFIN
An environmental impact report on the Haskell Loop project released last week emphasizes the project's advantages that Lawrence city officials are upholding since the project began five years ago.
The report was prepared for the city by Oblinger Smith Corporation of Wichita, planning, design and development contractors. The report is required under federal law because the city is applying for funding from the Federal Highway Administration for urban Urban Development (HUD) to build Haskell II.
The federal agencies will review the report and then decide whether to allow federal funds to be used for the loop. The report released to the public in August 2014 by a final report after public hearings are held.
THE HASKELL LOOP was designed to carry traffic efficiently through East Lawrence from 11th and Haskell streets to Sixth and Massachusetts between industrial and residential areas.
The plan shows the loop following 111th street from Haskell Avenue to Delaware Street; curving
The report's summary cites the advantages of moving traffic efficiently through the east side of the city, alleviating traffic congestion and reducing existing pedestrian-autoautomobile and automobile-infrastructure industrial and residential areas and improving access to the Kaw Industrial District, along the river.
IMPROVED ACCESS TO THE Kaw Industrial District will encourage further industrial development there, adding to the city's tax base and economic resources, the report said. "Separation of the residential area from the industrial uses will help stabilize the neighborhood, prevent the intrusion of conflicting land uses that would jeopardize its residential character, and encourage
ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL effects listed were acquiring 18 more residences and five businesses and moving the occupants; taking over two acres of land now used for recreation, in this case Municipal Stadium and a lighted baseball diamond; and removing 45 trees.
redevelopment and reinvestment in East Lawrence."
However, the necessity of connecting two particular intersections, Seventh and Connecticut streets and 11th and Haskell street, limits the possibilities for other locations, the report said.
The possibility of not building the loop at all was rejected in the report because of the current and future problems.
ROUTING THE LOOP farther west would place more residents on the industrial side of the loop and set them apart from the main part of the East Lawrence neighborhood.
A more eastern route would require substantial displacement and relocation of business firms and industries and interfere with existing railroad tracks and right of way, according to the report. It could also increase costs and moving because more of the road would be built from residential or industrial land. The
proposed loop would incorporate some existing streets, but would primarily be a new roadway. The rebuilt's list of adverse effects was accompanied by the addition of a new plan to the plans to minimize or compensate for them.
THE CITY HAS made efforts to replace the baseball篮ard and find a new location for the East Lawrence Center, a community center on the southeast corner of 10th and Delaware streets. The center, on the eastern edge of East Lawrence, on the east side of the loop, and thus harder to reach the report said.
The report said the stadium is in poor condition, suffers much vandalism and has declined in importance.
The city is considering moving the center to the New York Grade School building, which is a more affordable option.
THE CITY HAS added four lighted baseball stadiums since 1973, for a total of 12 in the city. none are in East Lawrence, however, and none are in West Lawrence to city recreation superintendent John Rose.
The report said that Brook Park, situated % mile east of the center between Brook and Prairie streets
on the west and east, and 12th Street and the Santa Fe tracks on the south and north, would have a baseball diamond without lights, a basketball area, and a parking area. It was to have been finished this year.
Ross said the city planted grass in the area between 12th and 13th streets this summer, and hoped to have picnic tables for next summer. The East Lawrence Improvement Association is looking at catalogues for playground equipment that they want in the park. The land between 12th Street and 13th Street was finally purchased this summer, Ross said, and the city hopes to seed it by fall.
The report said the loop will "provide an impetus to re-evaluate the park and recreational need of East Lawrence residents. Whether or not the Haskell Loop project is constructed, the East Lawrence park and recreational facilities are relatively inaccessible to most residents and are on the periphery rather than near the center of their neighborhood. The community has therefore of only minor importance as a neighborhood recreational area. The community center is in relatively poor condition and is underutilized."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.36
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, October 12, 1976
KU's increase largest in Big 8
See story page five
Piano concert evokes feeling
By JERRY SEIB
The University of Kansas had the largest main campus enrollment increase of Big Eight Conference schools this fall, according to a report prepared by the conference.
KU's Lawrence campuses enrollment increased 815 students over last fall for a total campus enrollment of 22,553. That makes the Lawrence campus the second largest in the Big 8 behind the University of Missouri's Columbia campus. There are 23,325 students enrolled at Columbia, according to the conference study.
Last fall, the Lawrence campus was third in the conference behind the Columbia campus and the University of Nebraska's main campus, in Lincoln. The Lincoln campus lost 201 students this fall, however, reducing its enrollment to 22,179.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE Dykes said yesterday that he wasn't surprised that KU's enrolment increase was the largest in the conference, but that he hadn't expected half the conference's school to experience enrolment decreases.
THE ENROLLMENT figures are for the conference's largest campuses. They don't include auxiliary campuses, such as KU's Kansas City campus or the University of Oklahoma's health center campus in Oklahoma City. Enrollments in extension courses taught by main campus faculty members are included.
The study indicates that four of the conference's schools had main campus enrollment declines this year. The universities of Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma experienced main camp drops ranging from 18 to 1,366 students.
Dykes said that the University of Oklahoma's decrease of 1,300 students included the loss of 500 students who transferred to the health center campus when the OU School of Pharmacy was moved to the Oklahoma City campus. But Dykes said that he couldn't explainOU's loss of more than 800 other students.
That loss alone would still have been the largest enrollment decline in the conference.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Colorado's Boulder campus probably lost students because of its efforts to meet an enrollment lid imposed by the state legislature, Dykes said. The CU main campus dropped 557 students for an enrollment of 21,061.
Here is a breakdown of fall enrollments at Big 8 schools and the school's change in enrolment from the fall of 1975. The main activities and are for the main campuses only.
According to final KU enrollment figures released last month, the freshman class had the greatest enrollment increase. There are 4,446 freshmen, 464 more than last year. They are sophomores, junior and graduate students, but the number of seniors dropped by 55.
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Fingertip stretch
during a practice of the Beta Theta Pi intramural football team. Tom is a freshman at KU.
Big 8 main campus enrollments
University of Colorado (Boulder) 21,061 - .35
University of Oklahoma (Norman) 20,018 - .57
University of Texas at Austin 20,018 - .57
In 1961 Bond married Alice Louse
Clopton. They have five children.
He is a Democrat and served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1965 to 1975. He once was banned from the House because of statements he made about Vietnam. He was later reinstated after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ban violated his constitutional rights.
Tom Dykes, son of Chancellor Archie Dykes, stretches for a pass
OU's enrollment decrease includes 500 students who moved this fall to the school's new location.
Julian Bond, politician, civil rights leader and writer, will speak tonight at SUA's Election 76 Forum Lecture.
Bond, 36, was a reporter and feature writer for the Atlanta Inquirer from 1960 to 1961 and also served as managing editor in 1963.
The speech begins at 8 in the Union
Ballroom. Admission is 50 cents.
Julian Bond here tonight for speech
Bond has been serving as a Georgia state senator since 1975. He is also a member of the State Democratic Party.
SCHOOL 1978
University of Missouri (Denver) 23,322
University of Kansas (Lawrence) 22,535
 Iowa State University (Ames) 21,261
IOWA State University (Ames) 21,261
ENROLLMENT 1978
University of Missouri (Denver) 23,322
University of Kansas (Lawrence) 22,535
Iowa State University (Ames) 21,261
IOWA State University (Ames) 21,261
Archie's son busy but inconspicuous at KU
By PAUL JEFFERSON
There are about 2,448 other freshmen attending the University of Kanaa who marry their husbands.
But he is the only one who can command the attention of Archie Dykes more quickly than any Kansas Reagent or University student. He is an expert student who can call the chancellor "Dad."
“There’s really no difference between me and any other student going to school here,” Tom Dykes said Wednesday. “I can’t see any different attitudes toward me.”
Dyke, the younger son of Archie and Dykes, is in his first year at KU and will be a junior.
connection. Only one of my teachers knows, because he came to the faculty reception at
"MOST STUDENTS don't even know that I'm the chancellor's son, he said." The Chancellor told me.
A straight-A student in high school, Dykes said that he had little trouble adjusting to college life, but that his study habits had been shaped by choosing a course, choosing premised as a course of study.
"I was prepared for the study part of college," Dykes said. "In fact, the main reason I joined the fraternity was that it was a good school." I attend our study hall regularly."
HE SAID his parents didn't pressure him to attend KU or any other particular college.
"My parents showed confidence in me and my brother that we could do well in college," he said. "They let us choose. The main thing they stressed was to get involved, that education was more than formal classroom learning."
John, the older of the Dykes' sons,
attends Rice University in Houston.
Tom said, "I didn't even think about living at home when I decided to go to KU, and my parents didn't expect me to. They attend a lot of fraternity events and were impressed with the Beta house. They were wanna be a good influence on my college education.
"At first, I kind of a negative feeling about frats, you know, always partying. But the Beta home reflects a lot of my own views in its organization."
DYKES SAID that while he was in high school he was involved in a Christian student group called Campus Life, and that they were using weekly bible sessions in the fraternity.
"I don't have much free time any more to see my parents," he said. "My pledge duties, fraternity social functions and playing on the intramural football team
keep me pretty busy during the week. Then there are football games on weekends."
Frequently, his parents travel without their sons, now that he and his brother are in college. Dykes aid. When he is at home, he says to him, he said, he sometimes travels with them.
"IN A CONVERSATION around the dinner table, my father may talk about some administrative things going on, and we all usually put in some comments. But he doesn't poll family members about a possible program or action."
He said that there were advantages and disadvantages to being the chanceIor's son.
"I get to travel and meet different people, but I can also do that in the fraternity here," he said. "I really like the diversity of people here." He's still reminiscent or singled out with the phrase "You better be nice to him, he's the chancellor's son."
Green scene
Staff photo
Whether it's catching up on the latest gossip or girls on the playlist that's been popular with KU law students throughout the scale from one to 10, step-taking in front of Green Hall is a building's history.
Tradition could be stepping out
BvCHRIS RIGGS
Staff Writer
Step-sitting in front of Green Hall-a University of Kansas law school tradition—may be fading as fast as the new law school is being built.
Step-sitting is still popular with the law students, but not for the same reasons as in the case of jury duty.
Kathy Prusserman, Wichita third year law student, said that she sat on the steps because she thought that Green Hall was better. She felt like that, but that she wanted to watch the students go by.
"It's also nice to have something behind my back and you don't get chiggers sitting on my bed."
JANICE FAHRENHOELT, Wichita second year law student, said that she sat on the steps because she wanted to get into the sun.
"I like to come out, especially on Monday,
because I can get caught up on what everyone did over the weekend," Fahrenholz said.
Cheryl Bailey, Stanley second year law student, said that last year some of the male law students were rating female passbyser on a scale from one to 10.
In 1926, the law students had become so
"It was discontinued," Bailey said, when one of the girls brought out a ruler to measure the height.
HOWEVER, TRESE activities haven't encouraged the faculty to pass any rules.
obnoxious that the law school faculty passed a rule that said, "Loafing and loitering on the law school steps in front of the law school during class hours is forbidden."
BOTH RULES WERE forgotten in a few years and the students received their bet
The rule was passed to stop the "horseslip" between classes that had drawn numerous complaints from female students passing in front of Green Hall.
To enforce the first rule, the faculty passed a second that limited the time between classes from 10 to five minutes, and then asked a, 10-minute break wasn't necessary.
The winner of that contest was to meet the champion Kansas State University hogaller at the KU-KState football game, because the state championship would be decided.
Step-sitting wasn't the only activity of the 1928th, Oct. 8, 1928, law students were among 15 contestants in "the first annual and probably the last annual log-calling contest of the University of Kansas," as it was reported in the Kansan.
STEP-SITTING WAS only one of many school traditions that endured. Also popular was cane-carrying, begun by senior students in 1910. They acquired the new tradition from law students in eastern Virginia, and the cane-carrying had been long-established.
In 1913, white canes with intricate silver tops were popular among senior law students, but by 1948 these were replaced by plain wooden canes.
Earl Shurtz, professor of law and a KU law student in the 1940s, said that the male students in the late 1940s were very rrowly in front of Green Hall, but that the women passing by sometimes got back at the law students.
"One TIME SOME girls came along and the boys were given them a hard time," Shurtz said. "The girls whipped out some perfume and poured it all over the fellows."
Canes were still popular in the late 1960s, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said, but by 1969 the seniors carried canes only one day a year.
"They carried them for one of the football games in the fall," he said, "but now the team is losing."
Carrying canes became so popular in the 1950s that March 23, 1950, Paul Nye, president of the 1950 law school senior class, said most of the seniors had become devoted to their "sticks" and would feel lost without them.
NEY SAID THAT the canes had practical uses, such as tapping to the cadence of the footsteps of women passing in front of Green Hall.
"We don't use the handle to hook the girls." Nye said. "A lawyer can do that with a key."