Cockroaches, paper walls: $110 a month
By DON WALKER
"Slumlord" is an emotion-charged word.
That is apparent when many of KU's international students who live in off-campus apartments and rooms north and east of the Hill apply it to their landlords.
They reply quickly and unequivocally to a query about the livability of their abodes.
"THE PLACE IS FALLING apart," Emmanuel Akuchu, Bamenda, West Cameroon, senior, said of the house on Mississippi he occupies with a fellow international student. "It should be condemned."
Students like Akuchu realize they
pay lower rents than they would for a residence hall room or an address in one of Lawrence's upshoot apartment complexes.
But they still maintain their rates are exorbitant.
"It sounded fine when we were told our house would cost only $80 a month," Akuchu said, "but the utilities, primarily gas, up it to about $110."
The monthly gas bill averages $20, he said, since the house is far from sealed and the dampness of the cellar seeps up to chill the occupants even in warm weather. Heat distribution is by isolated gas heaters.
Another international student, who requested anonymity to avoid his landlord's wrath, told of unsafe, unsanitary, and otherwise uncomfortable conditions in the men's rooming house on Ohio he calls home.
"ONE OF THE BALCONIES caved through last summer," he said. "Fortunately, nobody was hurt, but it could have been serious.
"The cockroaches really bothered me at first, but you got used to them.
"The most annoying things are the floor and walls," he said. "When the people above walk around, the ceiling creaks, and I don't dare lean against the wall. I'd fall through. It's paper thin."
That student said he had written to his landlord to complain "since he lives out of town and never comes around."
LANDLORD NEGLECT is a common bane among tenant international students.
"She never sends anyone to mow the yard or mend damages," Swaebo Conateh, Gambia, West Africa, senior, said. "This place looks like the slums of Washington, D.C., and it's more expensive!"
Such complaints rarely reach university officials because of student disillusionment.
"GOING TO THE university does no good," Akuchu said. "What can they do? They only take the address off the university listing and say the landlord Continued on page 3
Getting the pill a check-up first?
By MERRILY ROBINSON
The KU coed or wife who wants to use birth control pills or a contraceptive device has three avenues open to her.
She can go to the Douglas County Health office and obtain the pills and a year's prescription. She probably won't receive a physical examination or tests to determine whether the pills could hurt her, but she will receive the pills with a few directions on how to use them. She could go to a private physician and receive tests and a prescription for pills or pay up to $15 for a 10-cent intra-uterine device (IUD).
OR SHE CAN GO to a Douglas County Planned Parenthood Association clinic at Westminster Center to undergo an examination and cancer tests. If there is no sign of cancer or any other disease that could be aggravated by using the pill or an IUD, she will leave with her first month's supply of pills.
All manufacturers of contraceptive pills recommend thorough tests, particularly for cancer, before prescribing the pill. Almost no doctor will prescribe birth control pills once it becomes evident that the woman requesting them has cancer of the cervix or breast. The decision to administer tests prior to prescribing pills, is left to the individual physician.
Lawrence's Planned Parenthood Association was founded a year ago and holds twice-monthly clinics to provide birth control information and dispense contraceptives. During that year, two KU women have been to the clinic to obtain pills. There is no way of knowing how many have received them from the public health office, because no records are kept there.
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77th Year, No.139
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Paul Wilson, professor of law and chairman of the AAUP internal affairs committee, said the investigation revealed that when
Friday, May 19, 1967
The committee met with E. P. Moomail, campus police chief, yesterday as part of an investigation requested by the AAUP executive board.
AAUP meets police checks photo policy
Campus police photograph campus events only when "the activity of the persons photographed is directly related to an immediate threat of injury to persons or property."
This was part of a statement issued yesterday by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) committee investigating KU police photography activity.
pictures are taken, "they are retained only so long as they are needed for use in investigating and processing the cases to which they relate.
He said photographs are not supplied to other governmental or private agencies.
Wilson also reported:
Participants in a Vietnam peace vigil held in front of Watson Library were photographed in late March by a campus police officer.
The photographs were not taken under orders from Chief Moomaun, the KU administration or any law enforcement agency.
The film was developed, but no prints were made. The negatives have been destroyed. Therefore, no photographic record of the demonstration exists.
- Recent publicity has amplified and clarified guidelines relative to the use of cameras in campus police investigations.
Wilson said he believes the committee has completed the investigation.
—UDK Photo by Glenn Phillips
"I see no reason to continue unless we get further instructions from the executive board," he said.
Fun in the sun - KU style
FACULTY MEMBERS attending the fact-finding meeting yesterday were David Paretsky, professor of microbiology; Joseph Pichler, assistant professor of business administration; George Eocher, professor of history and secretary of the AAUP chapter; David Jones, assistant professor of philosophy; and Robert Nunley, associate professor of geography.
Paretsky and Pichler were named members of the internal affairs committee last week. Boehrer and Jones were appointed ad hoc members for the photography investigation only.
Nunley first told the Kansan about city and campus police photographing the peace vigil participants.
Wilson stressed that the AAUP investigated only police photographing on the KU campus.
INSIDE
- Law school plans new building: page 9.
- Study of Kennedy assassination film released; page 2.
- ● Provost reminds faculty of Phi Gam handicap; page 3.
- Western civilization changes announced; page 10.
- Nottingham, England, librarian speaks at KU; page 11.
- "Victims of racial amnesia," says Velikovsky; page 4.
- Weather; page 11.