Bicycle riders join nuclear protest rally
About 15 bicycle riders from Lawrence will ride south to Burlington tomorrow where they will join a group of nuclear generator sites Saturday afterpocket.
The bikers, among them City Commissioner Marci Francisco, will leave Lawrence in two groups at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Friday and will camp overnight at Pomona Lake. A van will follow them on the lake. The bikers will provide resting space for weary bicyclists.
"The ride will be a good demonstration of an efficient low energy alternative," said Mike Almon, who will participate in the bike trip.
Radioactive-free Kansas, a local group opposed to the plant at Wolf Creek, will sponsor the riders, who will join the 3,000 people expected at a rally near the plant.
At least 50 Lawrence residents will share car ride to Burlington Saturday morning, Dee Tolar, a representative of the group, said.
THE RALLY IS sponsored from noon to 4 p.m. by the Sunflower Alliance two miles north of Burlington at John Redmond Reservoir on the west side of U.S. Highway 102 and at its confluence as well as boosts selling anti-nuclear paraphernalia, such as T-shirts and buttons.
The rally will begin with Lawrence
resident Feegy Hilpman singin' her own compositions followed by singer Danny Gox
Burton
Jeanne Green, a Salina resident former of Lawrence, and Pat Sick, a KU graduate student, will speak at the rally, as well as representatives from the National Organization for Women and the Mid-America Coalition of Energy Alternatives.
"THIS ISN'T GOING to an ant-type event," she said. "We want to discuss feasible solutions to the energy problem. Of course, we'll talk about Wolf Creek. too."
Tolar said the rally would discuss alternate energy sources as well as nuclear power.
"The power plant's argument right now is that they've spent so much money on the project they can't stop." Al Nelson, another member of Radioactive-free Kansas, said.
The price of uranium fuel had gone up tenfold since the plant was begun, he said.
Saturday's rally will be held in cooperation with law enforcement officials around Burlington. The Sunflower Alliance and the People's Voice of about 70 "peacekeepers" for the rally
Fed guidelines rule landlords
Tolar said no civil disobedience was planned for the rally, unlike the demonstration in Burlington last January, which was attended by the generator's arrival at the Wolf Creek plant.
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Students looking for housing in Lawrence this summer and fall can expect to find rental rates within or close to compliance with President Jimmy Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines, according to Landry landlords.
Most landlords say they are willing to adhere to the president's guidelines although their interpretations of the guidelines differ.
However, several Lawrence rental agencies have misinterpreted the guidelines as a 7 percent limit to their price increases over last year.
Carter's guidelines call for a voluntary 7 percent lick on wage increases. But for price increases, the guidelines specify a percentage of lice reduction per percent below the previous year's increase.
Juanita Hubbard, manager of the Malls Old English Village Apartments, 2411 Louisiana, said the Malls had made a conscious effort to stay within the guidelines and said the complex could have raised for rental prices more than it did for other tenants. Kents start at $213, $273 and $683 for one, two and three bedroom apartments.
"We're within the guidelines," she said.
"We're within about 7 percent."
AT PARK 25 Apartments, 2410 W. 25th, this year's rent increases will increase Carter's guidelines, but Cathy Grove, manager of the apartments, said their budget was within the guidelines if price increases were averaged for the last two years.
"As a matter of fact," she said, "two years ago our rental range was $195-$255."
The current rental range at Park 25,
has decreased by about $1,000 and
increase over last year's price of $165-$240.
A SPOKESMAN for Trailridge Apartments, 2500 W. Sixth St., was unaware of Carter's guidelines but said the owners plan to move there at $10 per unit over last fall's rates.
Other complexes may be within the guidelines without being aware of it.
As a rule, the fewer the utilities paid by
complex the lower they were able to hold
for themselves.
Mike Waeks of Weas Rental said rising costs of utilities and maintenance would prevent him from staying within the guidelines this fall for the 41 houses he
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Apartment Complex 1-bedroom 2-bedroom Pct. increase
Alvamar Quail Creek fall 78. $197-217 $267-307
summer 79. $197-217 $267-307 0
fall 79. $197-217 $267-307 0
Breewood Gardens fall 78. X $209-219
summer 79. X $235-245 12
fall 79. X $235-245 12
Cedarwood Apts. fall 78. $187-227 $197-257
summer 79. $187-227 $197-257 0
fall 79. $187-227 $197-257 0
Coachlight Apts. fall 78. X $220
summer 79. X $250 14
fall 79. X $250 14
Gaslight Apts. fall 78. $200-255 $255-305
summer 79. $185-240 $235-290 -7
fall 79. $215-270 $285-330 7
Frontier Ridge fall 78. $175-215 $195-235
summer 79. $290-245 $210-250 9
fall 79. X X
Gatehouse Apts. fall 78. $195-225 $220-260
summer 79. $215-245 $240-290 10
fall 79. $215-245 $240-290 10
Jayhawker Towers fall 78. X From $295
summer 79. X $150-200
fall 79. X From $295
Malls Olde English Village fall 78. From $199 From $240
summer 79. From $213 From $273 10
fall 79. From $213 From $273 10
Mestowbrook Apts. fall 78. $210-225 $265-280
summer 79. $230-245 $280-310 7
fall 79. $230-245 $280-310 7
Oaks Apts. fall 78. $190-245 $240-305
summer 79. $190-245 $240-305 0
fall 79. $205-260 $255-320 7
Olde Mills Apts. fall 78. $190-180 $200-220
summer 79. $195-155 $195-185 -22
fall 79. $185-205 $220-245 13
Park Plaza South fall 78. $160-180 $180-200
summer 79. $125-145 $140-160 -28
fall 79. $175-195 $195-215 9
Village Square Apts. fall 78. X $219-255
summer 79. X $235-285 7
fall 79. X $235-285 7
West Hills Apts. fall 78. $175-195 $220-240
summer 79. $160-180 $190-220 -13
fall 79. $190-210 $240-270 9
KANSAN
THE SUMMER SESSION
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 89, No.149
Thursday, June 7, 1979
Furniture, dirt disputes at Jayhawker Towers go on
By MARY JO HOWARD
Staff Reporter
Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., this summer,
 furnished or unfurnished, rent for $200.
Differing interpretations of designation on the Jayhawk Towers' rental agreement and unclean apartments continue to bring complaints from KU students.
When tenants signed their leases, they were told they would have to take the apartments as they were, she said. All double occupancy apartments at the
Barbara Fendley, Towers manager, said this week that the 'F-2' and 'F-4' are preferences indicating that the tenants prefer to stay in their apartment persons. This helps her assign apartments.
The ambiguity in the agreement concerns the presence of an 'F'-2" or 'F'-4" written in a blank on the document after "furniture." Tenants say they expected to receive furniture before the lease and thought the designations legally bound the Towers in providing furniture for two or four persons. But the Towers management said the designations were only reference aids for the apartment company manager and are not legally binding.
HOWEVER, CONNIE Hale, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, said yesterday that she was not told about the possibilities of not receiving a furnished apartment when she signed her lease. Ann Covalt, Russell junior, said she experienced a similar problem.
Fendley said she did not specifically remember Covalt signaling a lease, but said she gave each prospective tenant the same information about the apartments. Another spokesperson for the Towers also said that the designations were legally meanless.
According to a legal representative for the Towers, John Brand, the designations are only references. The students should have seen the admonition lauded if they did not understand it, he said.
"Obviously when you write a letter and a number, it's just a reference." Brand said.
HOWEVER, DARYL Stone, public relations director for the Consumer Affairs Association, does not agree that the designation is merely a reference.
"I think it's reasonable to conclude that it means they were going to get furniture."
on the lease, most people would conclude that they're going to get furniture."
The Consumer Affairs Association has had several complaints about the Towers, Stone said, but he did not think it was the Towers' intention to defraud.
"Somehow, somewhere, people got the impression that they get furniture," he said. "It's not really a big thing but it's a real deal." The speaker's fair to say the people have been milked.
A LEGAL representative at the Consumer Affairs Association said that the tenants involved could possibly get out of their contracts by citing unconscionability.
"If there's some kind of pressure applied, or if someone has never rented an apartment before and they're given any misrepresentation, it's possible that they have been under the uncontrollable influence on the Kansas Landlord-Tenant Act." he said.
But Brand said that the unconsciousibility clause could not be applied to these cases because unconsciousibility means that the term of a contract are so unfair toward one of the parties that a court would refuse to enforce them.
IN ADDITION to the F-2 and F-4 designations resulting in furniture problems, Hale said her apartment was filly when she moved in. Other tenants reported similar problems to Consumer Affairs.
"This wasn't the kind of dirt that you come in and dump. It was 'use' dust," Hale said.
Fendley said that each apartment was cleaned.
Hale said her apartment hadn't been vacuumed and that food was cake on the table.
Although Kansas law requires that the tenant and landlord jointly inspect an apartment, take inventory and make sure that this report, the Hale said that this was not done.
"Each apartment is gone through by myself or an assistant," she said. "We were so happy."
"They wouldn't even give us a copy of the inventory sheet." Hale said.
Karen McKinney, agent for Lawrence Property Management, which manages the Towers, said that Hale had been given an inventory sheet, but had not turned it in.
Hot rod
Morris Cleveland, 1701 Indiana, adjusts the pressure on his homemade steam engine.
Cleveland built his machine in 1965 and has taken it to steam engine shows all over the Midwest. See story and other photos on back page.
Pre-enrollment not likely at KU
By VALERIE HOWARD
Staff Reporter
Enrolment at the University of Kansas is identified with a maze of confused students wandering through Allen Field House before fall and spring semesters.
Although the University is closer to accepting a change to compartmental presentation than some administrators, faculty members and students seem to make the change unlikely.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said Monday that he had submitted
enrolment recommendations to Chancellor
Archie R. Dykes.
A proposal for a computerized pre-enrolment system has passed through various University committees and for the first time been recommended to the administration.
Last fall a pre-employment committee
assisted schools how they handed
their enrollment.
lowa officials reported that most students leave pre-enrollment with a schedule and the others are scheduled in a matter of weeks.
IN FEBRUARY, the University Council discussed enrollment and voted to recommend to the administration a pre-enrollment similar to the University of
lowa's, as outlined by the committee proposal.
Students would be advised by their faculty advisors and then would work with a computer terminal assistant to set up a schedule.
The KU University Council also voted to recommend that student fees be raised by about $1.50 to cover the costs of computer hardware, completion of a room in Strong Hall to house and centralize the process, and for the basic computer-related costs, according to Gly Diyk, clean of admissions and a member of the pre-enrollment committees.
"THE COMMITTEE chaired by Dick Mann, director of institutional resources and information, sent a recommendation with a price tag to Shankel.
"I've had zero response," Dyck said.
Mann said that this type of pre-enrollment would reduce the amount of area, cards and paper needed for enrolment and that the teacher could be implemented at KU within a year.
A letter from Shankel on April 27 to the University Executive Committee said, "I have discussed this now on several occasions and it is clear that we are considering recommending to the
Chancellor that pre-enrollment not be developed at the present time."
Shankel stated in the letter that further discussion of pre-enrollment should be terminated until "some other matters can be resolved."
THE REASONS given in the letter included, "the costs involved, the high priority being placed on other activities for our information systems group and a lack of widespread agreement regarding the desirability of it."
He said he thought Shankel was right in thinking there was not widespread support for him.
Don Marquis, a member of Senate Executive Committee, said he had not given thought to the pre-enrollment issue for a class with 10 students in favor of computerized pre-enrollment.
"I don't detect a strong feeling in the faculty or, for that fact, in the administration, and student support is conspicuous by its absence," Marquiz said.
THE PRESENT system of enrollment allows for greater flexibility. Decisions on class schedules could be made late by both the faculty and students, Marquis said. If KU would have had a pre-enrollment for the fall, schedules would have been ready by
January and students would have pre-rolled in Anrell.
"When I did work enrollment it was always 'hi, how was your summer'—kind of a nice social thing," Marquis said. "With a computer, you do away with all of that."
But Student Senator Ed Bigus disagrees.
Bigus, also a member of the pre-enrollment committee, said pre-enrolment might be an incentive for students to choose KU.
"Or there could be a loss if we keep this same antique way of doing things. I think the administration needs to take this seriously."
AS FOR student support, Bigus said that in a petition he presented to students in Allen Field House last fall during enrollment, he received signatures from every student that passed him-1,000 to 1,500 of them.
Also, he said, it was evident that there was faculty support because the assembly that recommended the proposal was made up primarily of faculty members.
Margaret Berlin, body president gave a contrasting student view. She said that most students do not realize what pre-enrollment would mean to them financially.
"Hundreds of students are now employed at enrollment, but with a computerized new
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