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 scientists to perform a nuclear generator site Saturday afterparto.
The bikers, among them City Commissioner Marci Francis, will leave Lawrence in two groups at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Friday and will camp overnight at the Lawrence Bike Park. The 80-mile trek to carry food and drinks and provide resting 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.
At least 50 Lawrence residents will share car ride to Burlington Saturday morning, Dee Tolar, a representative of the group, said.
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.
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 75 Concession stands will be set up, as well as tables for meals at the Upper Hermesphalera, such as T-shirts and buttons.
The rally will begin with Lawrence
resident Peggy Hillman singing her own compositions, followed by singer Danny Gox
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.
Tolar said the rally would discuss alternate energy sources as well as nuclear power.
"THIS ISN'T 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 it was in favor 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 Mr. Tolar said would be a generator's arrival at the Wolf Creek plant.
Fed guidelines rule landlords
By ROBIN ROBERTS Staff Reporter
Students looking for housing in
awrence this summer will call to
expect to have a place.
"We're within the guildelines," she said. "We're within about 7 percent."
AT PARK 25 Apartments, 2410 W. 25th,
this year's rent increases will see
a rise of $370 per square foot.
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
THE SUMMER SESSION
Vol. 89, No. 149
Thursday, June 7, 1979
Furniture, dirt disputes at Jayhawker Towers go on
By MARY JO HOWARD
Staff Reporter
When tenants signed their leases, they were told they would have to take the lease if the landlord did not.
Differing interpretations of a designation on the Jayhawker Towers' rental agreement and uncle apartments continue to bring complaints from KU students.
The ambiguity in the agreement concerns the presence of an 'a' "F2" or "F4" written in a blank on the document after "furniture." Tenants say they expected to receive furniture without any warranty, 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 adds to the apartment manager and are not legally binding.
Barbara Fendley, Towers manager, said this week that the 'F-2' and 'F-4' are preferences indicating that the tenants want to have a space for guests per person. This helps her assign apartments.
Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., this summer,
furnished or furnished, rent for $200.
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 letter. 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 spokesman for the Towers also said that the designations were legally meanless.
"Obviously when you write a letter and a number, it's just a reference." Read said
HOWEVER, DARYL Stone, public relations director for the Consumer Affairs Association, does not agree that the designation is merely a reference.
According to a legal representative for the Towers, John Brand, the designations are only references. The students should have learned that 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's not really a big thing but it's a real difference." He added that it's fair to say many people have been bruised.
A LEGAL representative at the Consumer Affairs Association said that the tenants involved could possibly get out of their contracts by citing unconsciability.
"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 could break their agreement under the Kansas Landlord-Form Act," he said.
But Brand said that the unconscionability clause could not be applied to these cases because unconscionability means that the terms of a contract are so unfair toward one person.
parties that a court would refuse to them.
Fendley said that each apartment was cleaned.
"Each apartment is gone through by myself or an assistant," she said. "We chase them down."
Hale said her apartment hadn't been evacuated and that food was caked on the cake.
"This wasn't the kind of dirt that you come in and dump. It was 'use' dust," Hale
Although Kansas law requires that the tenant and landlord jointly inspect an apartment, take inventory and make repairs in the report, Hale said that this was not done.
"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.
June, 1979
Ampersand
eland built his machine in 1965 and has taken it to steam engine shows all over the vest. See story and other photos on back page.
likely at KU
or that pre-enrollment not be d at the present time."
EASONS given in the letter in “the costs involved, the high being placed on other activities for nation systems group and a lack of ad agreement regarding the ty of it.”
I stated in the letter that further 1 of pre-enrolment should be d until "some other matters can."
inquires, a member of Senate Committee, said he had not given the pre-employment issue for a 2014 case and not in favor of lized pre-employment.
he thought Shankel was right in here was not widespread support.
t detect a strong feeling in the $r$, for that fact, in the adjence, and student support is conj its absence," Marquis said.
RESPENT system of enrollment greater flexibility. Decisions on students could be made late by both y and students, Marquis said. If have had a pre-enrollment for the wards would have been ready by
January and students would have pre-enrolled in Anri.
"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-enrollment 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 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 preenrolment would mean to them financially.
"Hundreds of students are now employed at enrollment, but with a computerized job
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