THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
VOL.99, NO.115
KU's economic impact on Lawrence appears steady as city develops
"The community has the capacity to grow without being dependent on the university," Redwood said. "The University, however, is still the backbone of the economic community here."
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989
Redwood said Lawrence had a diversified economic base.
One of the major vertebra in that backbone is student spending.
Although the University of Kansas has a major impact on the economy of Lawrence, the city is no longer completely dependent on it for economic growth, a business professor said this week.
This is the third of four articles about the economic condition of Lawrence. Today's article examines Kauai's impact on Kauai's economy, the Lawrence economy.
"However, Lawrence now has its own inner-moment of growth, and that's going to continue fairly even if the University stabilizes.
"The growth of the University has been the primary cause of the expansion of Lawrence in the last decade or so," said Anthony Redwood, professor executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
According to a 1986 study study by Belden Research Associates, a Dallas firm, KU students spend more than $4 million a month in Lawrence
The Economic Climate of Lawrence
The study showed that in 1986, KU students spent more than $86,000 a month on hair cuts and styling.
on food, clothing, entertainment and miscellaneous expenses.
The study also showed that 34.7 percent of KU students spent more than $300 a month in addition to tuition and housing expenses.
Mike Vieau, president of Downtown Lawrence, A Kansas Corporation, said student spending was important to the economy.
Smart Move, a promotional booklet prepared by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said, "When free-spending University students resettle each fall, they bring Christmas in August to retail traders."
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"I couldn't state a percentage, but it's very obvious when you go out on Massachusetts (Street) on any big shopping afternoon," Vieux said. "There's a very high percentage of students out there."
See KU, p. 6, col. 3
Legal Services gets boost from Senate
Kansan staff writer
by Stan Diel
In an effort to find money to raise the salaries of Legal Services for Students' attorneys, Student Senate last night cut $10,000 from the Recreation Facilities Management budget and added it to the Legal Services budget. It was the only change made in the budget presented by Finance Committee.
J. Hardesty, director of Legal Services for Students, said its attorneys were not paid well and the lawsuits had to retain high-quality attorneys.
Aaron Rittmatter, Overland Park junior and the senator who proposed the cut, said Recreation Facilities could absorb the cut because of an increase in funding it would receive as a restricted fee group in 1991.
"It's far short of what the State of Kansas pays attorneys right out of law school," she said.
Legal services empploys two staff attorneys, who each are paid $20,400. Hardesty said: The additional funds would allow for a 16 percent increase.
If passed by the Board of Regents, the proposal would provide $235,000 to Senate in 1991 because the $28 student activity fee will not be lowered after Recreation Facilities receives its new status.
Not allowing for possible increases as a result of Monday's allocation of the $235,000 windfall, the budget stands as follows: Headquarters-$16.940 Hilltop Child Development Center-B.8331 Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services-$5,400 Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services-$3,700 KU Bands-$67,000 Concert, Chamber Music and New Directions Series $80,820 KU Dance Company-$6,000 University Theatricals-$5,100 Kansas-$32,906 Black Student Union-$5,203 Graduate Student Council-$71,000 University Daily Kansan-$54,945 Forensics-$11,541 JKHIF-MF-$36,000 Recreation Services-$7,651 Student Bar Association-$7,651 KU On Wheels-$137,000 Student Senate-Ty79,232 Recreation Facilities Management-$80,000 Legal Services for Students-$155,717
Terrorists threaten air travel
The Associated Press
LONDON — The Federal Aviation Administration has warned U.S. carriers of a possible hijack attempt by Palestinian terrorists in Europe over the Easter weekend, the U.S. Embassy confirmed.
However, embassy officials denied a report in the London tabloid Daily Express that U.S. diplomats and military personnel had been notified of the warning.
Calder said the FAA office in London passed on the warning to Britain's Department of Transport and announced that it would
"We can confirm that a warning was issued and received and that the host government and thairlines were informed," said Richard Calder, a spokesman at the embassy press office.
"I know of no warning to military personnel," Calder said.
Embassy spokesman Charla Saylor-Hatton denied that any warning was given to military Bali.
In Washington, FAA officials declined comment
about the memo. But other officials, who demanded anonymity, confirmed that it had been
Delayes of up to half an hour in flight departures
from London's Heathrow Airport
because of sirenized airport
"They say they are cracking down on security and they are confident no one else can do what happened at Lockerbie," said one of the youths, identified only as Shaibah Khan. "It is just not
In another development, Independent Television News yesterday showed videotape taken by three youths who said they were able to board an empty British Airways jumbo jet at Heathrow early Monday morning without being challenged. The youths sat in the captain's seat in the cockpit
British Airways said in a statement that it regarded the incident as "extremely serious" and was investigating. "It must be clear, however, that the airline does not operate an area, and not the operational area," the statement said.
"The aircraft involved was scheduled for maintenance."
The front-page report in the Daily Express came during a political debate in Britain over whether airlines were properly informed about a radio-cassette bomb before Pan Am Flight 103 was blown apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Dec. 21 tragedy resulted in 270 deaths.
The Daily Express said the possible hijack threat was detailed in a secret memorandum dated March 17 from the FAA. The paper said it had been given a copy of the memorandum.
Britain's Department of Transport said in a statement: "We don't discuss security matters. We would automatically have anything like this assessed and take any necessary action."
John Prescott, the opposition Labor Party's spokesman on transport, said he was concerned by the Daily Express' report that only U.S. military and diplomatic personnel were warned.
"The public does have a right to have a certain amount of information." he said.
As the setting sun casts a shadow in front of him, a KU student jogs along Jayhawk Boulevard.
by a Kansan reporter
Ready for a warm, sunny weekend?
It's time to trade in sweaters and overshoes for shorts and sunglasses.
normal. After seeing snow on the first day of spring, some students are looking forward to the sunny weather this weekend.
Forecasters say that high temperatures this weekend will be in the 70s, about 15 degrees above
Brent Kassing, Peoria, Ill., sophomore, said he would take advantage of the nice weather.
"I love being out in the sun," he said. "I live for being out there, pretty much."
According to the National Weather Service, average high temperatures for the weekend are in the mid-50s.
Robert Wavrin, a forecaster for the weather service, said "good southern air" brought the warmer temperatures. He expects the weather to last until Tuesday, when thunderstorms may move into the area.
Museum beats bureaucracy to win scroll
A detail of the 17th century Mitsuhiro scroll recently acquired by the Spencer Museum of Art
by Angela Clark Kansan staff writer
After fighting through miles of Japanese red tape, the Spencer Museum of Art has acquired a 30-foot scroll.
Patricia Fister, curator of Oriental art at the museum, first saw the 17th-century scroll of Japanese calligraphy while on a research trip in Japan during summer 1987.
Convinced of the quality of the Karasumu Mitsuhiro scroll, she recommended its purchase and started a process that lasted more than a decade. It became the Japanese bureaucracy of the Agency of Cultural Affairs.
"It is brilliant," Fister said. "Of all Mitsuhiro's works, it is a tour of force."
Fister made a second trip to Japan in October 1988 to return works loaned for another Spencer show. While there, she made a long-awaited appointment with the agency, where she told the cultural representative about the facilities and policies of the museum.
"I had taken photos of the installation of the previous show, like how we display things at the museum and what we had in the
Mitsuhiro was a high-ranking courtier and a leading poet-calligrapher of the 17th-century Edo period.
"The Edo was a time of real power in the military leaders, but with an emperor in Kyoto as a figurehead," she said. "The courtiers involved themselves in cultural activities like ceremonies. It was a great revival of classical literature and art."
collection," Fister said. "I asked him 'Wouldn't you rather have students learn about Asian art through best works possible?'
What resulted was the 30-foot scroll, painted in the Edo period by Mitsuhiro.
Mitsuhiro combined his own style with the classical forms of the Heian period, from 794 A.D. to 1185 A.D.
The scroll is a description of a trip made on the famous Tokaido
"The poems are not just descriptive," she said. "They show that nature is a vehicle of embodying his own personal thoughts."
Road between Edo Tokyo) and Kyoto, a walk or horseride of about two weeks. Fister said.
"He was not a Zen monk, but he did study Zen. He was a type of Zen layman."
Besides calligraphy, the scroll is decorated with silver and gold chrysanthemums and impromptu paintings.
"To us, writing is just a form of communication," Fister said. "To them, it is an art form."
Andrea Norris, director of the museum. agreed about its beauty.
"It's wonderful." Norris said. "It is one of the major things the museum's ever acquired."
Another version of the scroll can be found in the Tokyo National Museum collection, but its quality is not as dynamic as the newly acquired scroll, nor is the preservation as good. Fister said.
The cultural representative in Tokyo showed Fister photographs of the two versions, and asked her which one was best.
"I wasn't about to say it was ours," she said. "So I said I couldn't tell a difference."
Fister said the museum acquired the work for less than what comparable Western art would have cost.
"Bargain is too strong a word, but it was a good price because not many museums collect calligraphy," her said. "That will be changing."
Leaders gather to discuss fight against homelessness
Kansan staff writer
by Scott Achelpohl
Spurred by the specter of 500 people living on the streets of Lawrence, city leaders pooled ideas last night in an attempt to fight homelessness.
Francis Kelly, Lawrence resident and one of four local partners in RESULTS, said the meeting was intended to open a dialogue among service organizations, residents and members of local government.
RESULTS is an international group organized to fight world hunger.
"Lawrence city government is not doing enough to help." Kelly said. "We want to make them aware that they can do more."
Kelly said local government had traditionally relied on state and federal assistance to help the homeless.
Kelly said the Lawrence Intermolecular Nutrition Kitchen, which provides meals to the homeless, had not had a building to operate. City Commission efforts to find the kitchen a home last year failed.
"I'm sure Lawrence's homeless problem is minor compared to big cities", but try telling that to the homeless people here." Kelly said.
John Churchill, captain at the Salvation Army Shelter, 449 New Hampshire St., said homeless people had to worry about meals, shelter and
transportation before they could con sider how to find homes.
Churchill said there were an estimated 500 to 600 homeless people in Lawrence, including families and transients passing through the com-
Meredith Buenning, partner in RESULTS, said a lack of financial resources was keeping some community members from meeting many needs of the poor.
"A lot of people who work with the "poor and the homeless say that their needs aren't being addressed." The city could be doing much more."
Mike Rundle, city commissioner,
said he agreed that the issue was
important but did not foresee much
difficulty in grouping to groups
helping the homeless.
“It’s important that meetings like this into action release,” Rundle said. “In the two years since my election, I had the feeling I had lost sight of these types of issues. I’m not real optimistic about funding.”
Dennis Constance, city commissioner, said people did not know enough about homeless issues.
"There should be ways for the city to directly contribute to these types of issues." Constance said.
All six candidates for City Commission attended the meeting.