Parking Lot West of Iowa
Overpass to Relieve Daisy Hill Congestion
By Jerry Kern
The second half of KU's master plan to relieve congested parking conditions at the large dormitory complex on Daisy Hill is now under construction, according to Vice Chancellor Keith Lawton.
Lawton said yesterday a two-lane overpass from the dormitories to a new parking area across Iowa Street will round out the project.
THE NEW IRVING Hill Road, completed this summer, was the first step, explained J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
The land between Ellsworth and Hashinger Halls has been reserved for several years for the overpass project. It will begin at the junction of Irving Hill and Engle Roads, and will proceed west to the new parking area.
Need for parking space in this area will vary
Lawton gave two reasons for the new construction.
from year to year, but the University felt the time to begin construction was now, Lawton explained.
"FIRST, THERE is the need for additional parking space. Second, without an overpass, cars would have to be driven through the congested 15th and Iowa intersection, or pedestrians would have to cross busy Highway 59." he said.
The $96,335 project will be shared jointly by the Kansas Highway Commission and the University. The Highway Commission, which paid for all the Irving Hill Road project, will contribute $20,000.
The Board of Regents, therefore, will be responsible for the rest which will be taken from residence hall funds. It is normal for the University to finance its own construction of this type, but the Highway Commission has been very cooperative, Lawton said.
THE NEW PARKING area will be built adjacent to the Pioneer Cemetery. The University owns the cemetery with the stipulation that it will always remain a cemetery. The University owns half a section of land west of Iowa St. and may purchase another quarter section, Lawton said.
Parking spaces in the lot will serve only immediate needs but plans include expansion of up to 300 more spaces.
The site chosen for the project provides room for the 14 foot clearance required by law, and is at the same time the best possible choice for economical construction, Lawton said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, October 5, 1965
-Photo by Bill Stephens
East meets West in a round table discussion.
Japanese Visitors Show Interest In U.S. Civil Rights Situation
By Judy McGhee
By Judy McGhee
Like Pope Paul VI praising the United nations for furthering understanding through free discussion, KU's visiting Japanese students tried to better their understanding of Americans at a joint Japanese-American student meeting last night.
Few Americans were present and much of the discussion was held in Japanese, but the participants explored civil rights, United States foreign policy in Viet Nam, and the differences between Japanese and American universities.
THE SEVEN STUDENTS, accompanied by an interpreter and a teaching assistant from Tokyo University, were invited by the State Department as part of an experiment in international living. With their American escort, Ronald Strickland, they traveled
THE JAPANESE seemed extremely interested in civil rights and asked each American to express his opinion of the present situation. Most seemed optimistic, saying current movements had the support of many liberal stu-
through the East, stopping in Vermont and North Carolina. Each was recommended by his university to the American embassy in Tokyo in order to be chosen for the program.
Weather
dents and the concern of the government. Strickland commented, "Although outward appearances indicate improvement, secret prejudices are changing more slowly."
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts generally fair weather continuing mild tonight through Wednes day. Southwesterly winds 10 to 15 miles an hour are expected for the remainder of the day. The high today should be about 75 degrees with a low tonight near 50 degrees.
Several of the Japanese believed the U.S. was only meddling in Viet Nam and that it should withdraw. Susumu Arakawa, a law student, said, "Viet Nam should be allowed to assert its independence."
Hideo Ito, a student in economics and political science, commented, "The real problem is how to strengthen the U.N." He questioned whether the invasion by Communists into Viet Nam could really be called an invasion, and mentioned that much of the world resented the "American and British economic domination of the world."
The students will resume studies in Japan, Oct. 16.
ASC to Propose Law-Making Shift
By Stephen Russell
Reshuffling of the legislative committee will be the major topic of business to be conducted at the All Student Council meeting tonight at 7 p.m., in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union, Mike Mnally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior (Vox-ASC Chairman), said yesterday.
JEFF IRVING, Leonia, NJ., graduate student (Vox—Graduate School), said he will introduce a resolution to the Council concerning human rights. Irving, chairman of the ASC Human Rights Committee and new member of the University Human Rights Committee (UHRC), said the resolution repeats word-for-word the statement of principles on human rights made by the UHRC and approved by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe last spring.
When the University Senate later adopted these principles they sent a letter to the ASC advising them to adopt them also, he said.
an amendment to ASC bill five providing for only the chairman of the ASC Publications Board to sit as the ASC representative on the University Daily Kansan Board, instead of the entire committee of five.
An amendment to ASC bill one changing the frequency of ASC meetings from once a week to twice a month, as it was in the past, and changing the number of absences allowed a member from seven to four, before being automatically removed from the Council.
Two amendments introduced and tabled at the last meeting, which may be taken from the table tonight are:
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI)—Pope Paul VI left as a legacy of his humanitarian mission to the United Nations a message to world leaders that is unmistakably clear: Make peace or perish.
Pontiff Implores 'Peace or Perish'
The Pope's call for peace before the world's greatest diplomatic forum inspired those who heard him and vastly enhanced the U.N.'s global posture.
Even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, a tough, atheistic diplomatic veteran, apparently was moved by the pontiff's 32-minute speech to the General Assembly Monday. A leading Western diplomat quoted Gromyko as saying it was "one of the most important statements ever made before the United Nations in its entire 20 years."
U. S. AMBASSADOR Arthur J. Goldberg said the papal plea for peace "has strengthened the efforts of the United Nations in this vital work."
In addition to the blunt demand for "no more war," Pope Paul left the United Nations $150,000 in diamond jewels from the papal collection to be used in its global fight against hunger.
Speaking in French to an audience of 2,000 which included some of the world's most influential diplomats, the Pone imploded.
"Listen to the lucid words of a great man, the late John F. Kennedy, who declared four years ago: 'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind'."
THERE WERE ONLY six empty seats in the assembly hall—those of the delegation from Communist Albania.
For the most part the Pope, a slender figure in white standing before a towering green marble dais, spoke quietly with little emotion. But with both arms raised and his voice taking on strength, he demanded of the assembly:
"No more war; never again war! Peace. It is peace which must guide the destinies of peoples and of all mankind. . . .
"If you wish to be brothers, lay down your weapons. One cannot love with weapons in hand. . . ."
The Pope flew back to the Vatican today with assurances from world statesmen that his peace plea would contribute to a brotherhood of man.
The pontiff will report directly to the Vatican Ecumenical Council on his peace pilgrimage to the United Nations soon.