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Campus crime on the decline
Statistics show campus safer for KU students
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
The likelihood a KU student on the Lawrence campus would be a victim of crime decreased throughout the past three years, according to statistics released by the University.
"In Fall 1993, a KU student had a one-in-111 chance of being a crime victim," said KU police Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek. "That compares with one-in-89 in Fall 1992 and one-in-76 in Fall 1991."
The figures are based on the calendar year and represent all reported crimes on the Lawrence campus.
Even though crime rates on the Lawrence campus might be on the decline, Rozmiarek said it was important to be aware of one's surroundings.
"The University doesn't have a bubble around it," she said. "People need to remember to lock their doors, not leave their book bags around even for a minute and secure their bikes."
While the number of rapes reported on campus went from five in 1991 to zero last year, three have been reported this year, Rozmiaak said. Rape is one of the most underreported crimes on campus, she said.
"Often people will report something to someone else, not the police," Rozmiarek said. "Reporting crime to other agencies is a
national trend."
In 1992, four rapes were reported to other agencies on campus, such as the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. Three were reported to other agencies in 1993.
"Date rape is so underreported," said Barbara Ballard, director of the center. "With all the recent publicity, maybe more people will come forward."
The statistics are compiled annually in accordance with the federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. That act requires that each year, colleges report statistics of all campus crimes from the three previous years. The University also prints crime statistics and related information in the Timetable and in "Awareness," a University safety publication for students, faculty and staff.
Professor makes jazz a way of life
PROFILE
Jarrett Lane / KANSAN
Dick Wright broadcasts his show, "The Jazz Scene." Wright is an associate professor of music history, and his show has aired for the past 34 years.
Special to the Kansan
By Jarrett Lane
Jazz music lovers, tune in your radio dial at 10 a.m. Saturday mornings to FM 91.5. The reason: "The Jazz Scene" with host Dick Wright.
Wright has broadcast his show from the studios of KANU for more than 34 years and has been associated with the station since 1956, when he was hired as music director.
Wright playsvintage and contemporary jazz during his three-hour show and often adds insight about the artist and history of recordings. He has one of the largest and most widely recognized collections of jazz recordings in the country. Twelve years ago, he donated more than 20,000 jazz recordings to the University of Kansas.
Jazz teachers and musicians all throughout the country know of Wright's record collection and his knowledge of jazz history. They write and call him looking for rare recordings and information.
"I supply tapes to a lot of the great jazz musicians who are looking for them," Wright said. "And a lot of schools with jazz programs want to have jazz recordings for their students, and they can't find access to them. So I make them tapes and material."
Wright couldn't be happier to help.
"I spend about three hours a night in my basement making tapes for people and doing research," Wright said.
Recently saxophonist Rick Margitza wrote to Wright
See PROFESSOR, Page 6A.
Variety, vandalism mark station's history
By Jarrett Lane
Special to the Kansan
When Howard Hill came to KANU, KU's public-radio station, in 1977 as station director, he thought he would be running a fairly typical radio station. But he soon found that typical wasn't the proper word.
"If you had told me then that I would be running a radio station that had a troupe of actors, a house band, a pianist ... comedy shows and variety shows, I would have said, 'No, no I don't think that's what we do in radio anymore,' he said. "But we do, and I glad we do."
Variety is the word for KANU. Programming includes such award-winning comedy and variety shows as The
Imagination Workshop and The Goodtime Radio Revue, as well as classical music, jazz and news.
The station came into being in 1952, and in 1971, KANU joined the National Public Radio network.
For more than 40 years, KANU, 91.5 FM, has broadcast from KU.
Daisy Hill, one of the highest points in Kansas, was the site chosen for the first tower, and in the winter of 1950, construction began. On Dec.28,1950, while under construction, 400 feet of the 514-foot tower collapsed. Newspaper reports at the time suggested that vandals were responsible for the collapse.
Trouble has plagued the KANU towers since the station's inception.
In 1960, the tower fell during a storm.
The rebuilt tower, raised in 1983, had to be moved to make way for the Lied Center.
The third collapse occurred in 1982, once again the victim of vandals, newspaper reports indicated.
But some setbacks can turn into advantages. Because the station was not broadcasting in 1960 while the tower was being rebuilt, the money designated for operating expenses was not being used. Instead, it was set aside and used to purchase stereo broadcasting equipment. Thus, in 1961, the station was the first noncommercial radio station in the nation to broadcast in stereo.
Source: Kansan staff research
Students design a new look for downtown area
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Brad Satterwhite has had a hand in the hypothetical future of downtown Lawrence.
Satterwhite, Overland Park senior, was one of three architecture students who worked with the City of Lawrence last spring to redesign the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, where businesses such as the Granada and the Drake Snack Shop now stand. Although the project is strictly conjecture, city leaders hope the redevelopment plan will spur private businesses on the block to engage in redevelopment of their own.
"This was a good project for us," Satterwhite said. "We got to work with a real developer and work on a large-scale project."
Members of a design class in the School of Architecture and Urban Design divided into teams and spent 10 weeks designing the block to accommodate retail, residential and office space. Satterthy and his two teammates designed the winning blueprint, which was chosen by the Lawrence City Commission in late May.
"It was a little much to fit into one block, but we tried to do it anyway," said Susan Romano, St. Louis fifth-year student and team member.
The result was a glass and stone construction with three-story buildings, a pedestrian alley and a courtyard. Retail stores would run along Massachusetts Street, Romano said. Parking would be supplied in a two-story garage under the block.
Jo Andersen, Lawrence mayor, said the plan had little or no chance to be implemented. Rather, she said, offering a plan for development would inspire the current lot owners on the block to think about redevelopment schemes of their own.
"Right now, the development is going on in our minds," Anderson said. "It's conceptual."
The redevelopment plan, which was written by the Downtown Redevelopment Task Force of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, also suggests funding options. According to the report, area property taxes and bonds would help defray the projected $35 million cost.
The 700 block of New Hampshire Street is also a possible redevelopment area. Andersen said.
But one business owner said such plans were detrimental to redevelopment. Scott Schmalberg, president of Scotch Industries, 1026 Massachusetts St., said business owners wouldn't develop their property or make new investments on the block if they thought it was going to be torn down in the future. Even the suggestion of redevelopment could scare them off, he said.
"Nobody would buy a building on this block then go through forced condemnation of their property," he said.
With three strong running backs, Kansas football coach Glen Mason has moved senior George White to the wingback position,a new addition to the offensive attack.
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Student leaders give input in search for chancellor
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Sherman Reeves and Jennifer Ford are only two members of the 17-member chancellor search committee.
But in the next few months, Reeves, student body president, and Ford, Lawrence senior and Truman scholar, will provide the only student perspectives on what kind of chancellor the University of Kansas should choose. Both said they would be looking for specific qualities in the candidates they recommended.
Reeves said it would be difficult to find a candidate who would live up to all the credentials written out in the formal criteria for the position
"We have the impossible task of finding the uber chancellor," he said.
Ford agreed that an uber, or all-encompassing, candidate would be difficult to find.
Ford said the committee never should stress one item in the criteria above another.
"By making really rigid guidelines — saying the chancellor absolutely has to be this, and the chancellor absolutely has to be that— we're just setting ourselves up," she said.
"There are so many things we want the chancellor to be," she said.
But, Reeves said, one specific quality he would be looking for in the candidates was an ability to interact with students.
"I think it is very important because a chancellor does set the atmosphere for the campus," he said. "The way he interacts with the staff, the administrators, the faculty or the students really does set the environment of the campus. It can be a sort of distant environment, or it can be very up-close and personal, and that's what we're after."
Ford said that although it would be an asset for the chancellor to be more interactive with all members of the campus community, it also was important that the chancellor continued his or her regular duties.
"We certainly don't want somebody who is
friendly at the expense of being an efficient chancellor." she said
Ford also said she wanted to find a candidate who was interested in promoting internships and experience-oriented learning.
Ford said her main goal was to try to help the committee find the best candidate for the job. She said she would judge candidates on what they thought the vision and mission of the University should be.
Reeves said it would be difficult to find an educational superman who would meet all of his expectations. The new chancellor will have to fill numerous roles, he said.
Both Ford and Reeves said they were optimistic that the committee would find an ideal candidate.
"I think we need to be more receptive to new educational techniques," she said. "I think we need to be careful that we don't have a vision of the University that doesn't allow flexibility and change."
Sherman Reeves, student body president, and Jennifer Ford, Lawrence senior, are the two student representatives aiding in the search for a new chancellor.
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