UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 12, 1994
5A
Speaker tells of Mayans' suffering
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan correspondent
Karen Shanteau Davis witnessed the degradation of the Mayan Indians in Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer. Last night, she spoke to about 15 Amnesty International members as part of Indigenous Peoples Day in the English Room of the Kansas Union.
In the Northern Highlands of Guatemala from 1992 to 1994, Davis said she saw many injustices in how the Guatemalan government treated Mavana.
Davis, a graduate student in curriculum and instruction, said Mayans represented 66 percent of the country's population, and the other 34 percent
She said each town had a board of people that would select young men for military service. Then, two men would drag the chosen young men to the town's military office.
simple. I saw it out of my window," Davis said.
Davis, who educated mothers and children about health and nutrition during her stay, said young men in her village were forced to join the military.
The village Davis lived in was near a border crossing where Mayan refugees were returning from Chiapas, Mexico. She said they had fled to escape mass genocide by the Guatemalan military during the 1980s.
"They were not allowed to pack or to say goodbye to their families," Davis said.
was composed of people of Spanish descent.
"I got a sense of apprehension and excitement surrounding their return," she said. "It was their homeland. It was sacred to them."
Chris Fleitz, Park Ridge, III, graduate student and co-coordinator for the KU chapter of Amnesty International, said Davis' speech raised awareness for Amnesty members about "abuses going on in our own hemisphere."
"She provided a first-hand account," Fielitz said. "Until you hear it from someone, you're distanced from it."
Zoning law may affect parking
"They say it is voluntary, but I don't believe it. It is kidding, plain and
Traffic could increase on downtown streets
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Profound changes to the Lawrence cityscape often are buried in the details.
Take, for instance, the Lawrence City Commission's 5-0 approval last night of a new set of zoning requirements for an area east of Massachusetts Street. It looked like the usual set of zoning requirements — long, complicated and more than a little boring.
But the consequences of the new zoning requirements will affect parking in downtown Lawrence, a favorite area for the KU student body. Long term, the changes mean the city eventually might have to deal with increased downtown parking by using public funds to build parking facilities.
The commission approved new
zoning requirements for the area between New Hampshire and Rhode Island streets just east of downtown area Massachusetts Street. The area, called the C-4A overlay district, currently is completely commercial.
But Dave Corliss, assistant to the city manager and author of the new zoning requirements, said the new zoning would encourage diversity in the area. Under the old zoning, businesses had to provide adequate parking, at their own expense, for the customers they brought in.
The new zoning would reduce the amount of parking the owners or developers of the area had to provide if, in return, they allowed office and residential developments to be built in the area, Corliss said.
The crowding will leave the city no choice but to spend public money on parking, Jo Andersen, Lawrence mayor, told the commission during the meeting. She said the city could even have to build parking garages to deal with the downtown overflow.
"It's going to allow for a lot more intense uses," he said.
"This body is going to have to take charge and make some hard decisions on this," she told the commission.
Bob Moody, city commissioner,
cautioned the commission against
jumping to correct parking problems
that hadn't materialized yet.
"I have trouble building a parking lot based on incremental increases in parking," he said.
sides in that area to park on days when downtown parking capacity is full. The result could be a serious lack of parking space downtown.
The flip side of the new zoning is its effect on Downtown Lawrence, Corliss said. If the area diversifies into residential and office space, it will have more car traffic. But patrons of downtown shops and restaurants already use the street
After the meeting, Andersen said the city's decision might have been its most important this year. She said she was pleased with the level of communication between all parties involved in the zoning.
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