1979
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 bombers 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 ground where they 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 75. Concession stands will be set up, as well as other amenities such as a warm paraphernalia, 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 formerly 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.
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-Kansas, said.
The price of uranium fuel had gone up tenfold since the plant was been behead, he said.
Saturday's rally will be held in cooperation with law enforcement officials around Burington. The Sunflower Alliance said it had about 70 "peacekeepers" for the rally.
Tolar said no civil disobedience was planned for the rally, unlike the demonstration in Burlington last January, which had taken place the day the generator's arrival at the Wolf Creek plant.
Fed guidelines rule landlords
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Students look for *fousing in lawrence this summer and fall can help us get started.*
"We're within the guidelines," she said.
"We're in about 7 percent."
AT PARK 25 Apartments, 2410 W. 35th,
this year's rent increases will exceed
$3,000 per month.
Thursday, June 7, 1979
THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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 for their home, but they 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 for 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 need to be on time for appointments persons. This helps her assign apartments.
Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., this summer,
furnished or furnished, rent for $200.
When tenants signed their leases, they were told they would have to take the landlord's side of the contract.
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 Covall, Russell juniper, said she experienced a similar problem.
Fendley said she did not specifically remember Covalt签持 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 meaningless.
According to a legal representative for the Towers, John Brand, the designations are only references. The students should have been taught that the statement claimed if they did not understand it, he said.
"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.
"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’s a real need." And he said his fair to say the people have been mended.
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-Tenant Act,” he said.
parties that a court would refuse to them.
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 another.
IN ADDITION to the F-2 and F-4 designations resulting in furniture problems, Hale said her apartment was filthy 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 are always happy."
Hale said her apartment hadn't been vacumed and that food was caked on the stairs.
"This wasn't the kind of dirt that you come in and dump. It was 'use' dirt," Hale said.
Although Kansas law requires that the tenant and landlord jointly inspect an apartment, take inventory and make sure 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 west. See story and other photos on back page.
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January and students would have pre-enrolled 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."
Bigun, 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 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 pre-
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