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 power station workers and nuclear generator site Saturday afternoon.
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 grounds of the Museum before providing rest space for weary cyclists.
"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 rides 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 1. Concession stands will stand, as well as booths, for attendees of the paraphernalia, such as T-shirts and buttons.
The rally will begin with Lawrence
resident Peggy Hilman singing her own compositions, followed by singer Danny Cox's song.
Jeanne Green, a Salina resident former of Lawrence, and Pat Slick, 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. The rally would discuss alternate energy sources as well as nuclear power.
"THIS NETT GOING to be an anti-type event," she said. "We want to discuss feasible solutions to the energy problem. Of course, we'll talk about Wolf Creek too."
"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 been he, said
Saturday's rally will be held in cooperation with law enforcement officials around Burlington. The Sunflower Alliance said of about 70 "peacekeepers" for the rally
Tolar said no civil disobedience was planned for the rally, unlike the demonstration in Burlington last January, which he said would be the generator's arrival at the Wolf Creek plant.
Fed guidelines rule landlords
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 commuting as a President, Student, C
"We're within the guliders," she said.
"We're within about 7 percent."
AT FARK 25 Apartments, 2410 W. 25th,
this year's rent increases will be
$6,795 per square foot.
KANSAN
THE SUMMER SESSION
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, June 7. 1979
Vol. 89, No.149
Furniture, dirt disputes at Jayhawker Towers go on
By MARY JO HOWARD
Staff Reporter
Differing interpretations of a designation on the Jayhawker Towers' rental agreement and unclean apartments continue to bring complaints from KU students.
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 that was not included in 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 manager and are not legally binding.
When tenants signed their leases, they were told they would have to take the apartments as they were, she said. All double occupancy apartments.
Barbara Fendley, Towers manager, said this week that the 'F-2' and 'F-4' are preferences indicating that the tenants may prefer to work in apartments for persons. This helps her assign apartments.
HOWEY, 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 any one signing a lease, but said she was familiar with the information about the apartments. Another spokesman for the Towers also said that the building was in disarray.
HOWEVER, DARLYI. Stone, public relations director for the Consumer Affairs Association, does not agree that the designation is merely a reference.
"Obviously when you write a letter and a number, it's just a reference" Renn said.
According to a legal representative for the Towers, John Brand, the designations are only references. The students should have written a statement if they did not understand it, he said.
"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 not really a big thing but it is a real pleasure." It was fair to say the people have been mutilated.
A LEGAL representative at the Consumer Affairs Association said that the tenants involved could possibly get out of their contracts by citing unconsonability.
"If there's some pressure applied, or if someone has never rented an apartment before and they're given any misrepresentation, it's possible that they could break their agreement under the Kansas Landlord-Tenant Act," he said.
But Brand said that the unconsciliability clause could not be applied to these cases because unconsciliability means that the terms of a contract are so unfair toward one party.
e parties that a court would refuse to e 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.
Fendley said that each apartment was cleaned.
"Each apartment is gone through by myself or an assistant, she said. "We have to go."
Hale said her apartment hadn't been vacuumed and that food was caked on the floor.
"This wasn't the kind of dirt that you come in and dump. It was 'use' dure," Hale
Although Kansas law requires that the tenant and landlord jointly inspect an apartment, take inventory and make duplicate copies of the report. Hale said that such actions are uncommon.
"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.
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January and students would have preenrolled in April.
"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.
"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."
Bigus, also a member of the pre-enrollment committee, said pre-enrollment might be an incentive for students to choose KU.
AS FOR student support, Bigus said that in a petition he presented to students in Allen Field House last fall during enrolment, 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, student body president gave a contrasting student view. She said that most students do not realize what preenlobilment would mean to them financially.
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