New mayor outlines priorities, concerns
By SHIRLEY SHOUP Staff Reporter
With his feet propped up on his 100-year- old roll-top desk in his fourth-floor office of Green Green Hall, Lawrence's newly elected mayor, Barkley Clark, leaned
back and talked about some of his interests and concerns for the next year.
Clark, a RU law professor, estimated the job of mayor would and five or six
"Part of the mayor's job is ceremonial—
Barkley Clark
Clark, who was mayor for one year in 1975/76, said city government was more complicated now than during his first term as mayor.
open houses, kissing babies, cutting ribs
because they'll be called to city hall
for damages or protests.
"Now there are neighborhood groups, community development funds to handle
But despite the problems of city government, Clark said he preferred working in city government to state or federal government.
EVEN THOUGH THE city does have its
clerk, Clark said. "It is a good time to
be in the city."
Clark did not think the two new faces on the city commission, Marci Francisco and Robert Schumm, would change the commission very much.
"Their views will be somewhat different, but it's amazing how much consensus there is on the commission," he said.
"I'm very glad there's at least one woman," he said, and "I would have hoped there might be more. Marci has very strong ties to the University as Marnie
Clark said 95 percent of the decisions made by the commission were five-person
"Jack Rose was pragmatic and down to earth and I think Bob has many of those same qualities. I'd say the commission changed ideological makeup that much,
Argersinger did, and I think their votes might be similar.
Argeringer and Rose were on the city commission during the last term but did not run for re-election.
Clark characterized the new commission as middle-of-the-road, or slightly liberal in comparison to past commissions.
ONE OF CLARK'S priorities is completing city building projects, primarily the new city hall at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
"I think the decision to put the city hall on the riverfront will be one of the most-reaching decisions the commission has made," he said, a catalyst to keeping downtown strong."
Clark linked another of his priorities, enforcing the city's environmental cleanup laws, with the downtown area. He said the city should get tougher in enforcing the city codes requiring people to clean up the exterior of their property.
"This includes cleaning up downtown and the riverfront park system. I see all these tying in together. With Maupinture proposing to build there, maybe others will be encouraged to develop in the downtown area.
"I'm concerned with the overall planning package. I'll do everything I can do to keep the downtown strong."
CLARK SAID THAT although he was proud of the downtown area, "I'm not prejudicial against the mall. The two may well have to coexist."
If the mail issue were voted on by the community, Clark said he thought the vote would be split down the middle.
Clark said he strongly favored the annexation of the land.
"I don't like to have developable land that close to the city not paying city taxes when they are getting all the benefits of the city," he said.
Clark also said the city should have control of the land.
He said if the developer's request to change the zoning of the proposed site south of the city from residential to commercial would have to be on solid land-use principles.
"You can't deny it because you don't like the looks of the developer or to protect the environment."
The zoning issue will be voted on in May or June.
far, city commissioners have received no information from the developers.
WITH ISSUES such as the mail, Clark and Lawrence was an interesting place to be in.
'It's just the right size. It's not too big so problems are overwhelming, yet big enough that it has some of the problems of a big city.
"There is a chemistry between the University and the town," she said. "I've never found a city anywhere with a better business community, business community and the University."
He said although there sometimes was friction between the townspeople and the University, he thought 99 out of 100 people they were glad the university was here.
"It gives the city added culture that other towns this size can't have. There is a different economic interdependence. Sales really drop in the summer and even more in August when the summer students of the university is the lifeblood of the city," he said.
Shankel recommends policy on videotaping
Lawrence, Clark said, does many things that have direct influence on the students, although most students do not vote in city elections.
"I want to emphasize the need for students to come down and try to get interested in city government," he said, while many were on their own city government some day.
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Guidelines that would restrict the videotaping of campus events were recommended yesterday to the University of Texas at Austin by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
"What we really need are some general guidelines indicate that the University has some concern and would like to see some restrictions." Shankel said.
"But we should recognize that sometimes it is a desirable thing to do," he said, and he continued.
AS GUIDELINES, Shankel suggested that:
- The University will not, in routine matters, videotape scheduled meetings.
- Videotape would be used only when it is reasonably expected that illegal activity was detected.
- All video tapes, where no illegal activity did occur, will be erased.
- They should not be used surreptitiously.
When used, they should be used openly.*
- The University police have to have the opportunity to use videotapes to verify illegal activity, but they should be used with discretion.
The concern about students' rights stemmed from a demonstration March 30 in front of Strong Hall against investments in South Africa by the KU Endowment and the protest, KU police videotaped participants from the second floor of Strong Hall.
Don Marquis, professor of philosophy and SenEx member, said he thought the com-
TWO DAYS EARLIER, a demonstration against the Egyptian-Iraeli peace treaty was videotaped by KU police. Mike Hull, a member of the KU police, was the first protest videotaped by police.
muttee did not have the competency to deal with a law-enforcement problem.
Scott said the committee should consult the traffic council, the American Civil Liberties Union president and the University Council.
Murcia said, "Are students rights being violated? If they are, I'd be happy to vote for them."
"BUT THE UNIVERSITY may have reason for videodating, for controlling the relationship."
Marquis used the Shockley incident of 1917 as an example of when poison gas was used.
William Shockley, Nobel Prize winner, was on campus for the J.A. Vickers Sr.Memorial lecture series. She was shouted down by protesters and not allowed to speak because of his theories that blacks were genetically inferior to whites.
At that time, members of the American Association of University Professors issued a letter to Dr. Shackley saying that the potential for such events as those surrounding Shackley's appearance be
SAM *ZWEIFEL*, Lawrence graduate student and SenEx member, said students were very excited to also at basketball games and football games. He said long-range lenses were used
Hill said students were not continuously taped during games, but only when a problem was cited, such as drinking, fighting or a medical emergency.
When an officer is sent to deal with the problem, he is followed by the videotape camera, Hill said. This occurs about six times during an average game, he said.
In addition to following incidents, the tapes are used for training officers or as a tool in providing training.
State considers lawsuit for unrepaired panels
By PATRICIA MANSON
The state may take legal action against a contractor who worked on the new Bell Memorial Hospital at the University of Chicago. The attorney assistant attorney general said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Jerry Dickson, the assistant attorney general, said the contractor, Vincent DiCarlo, had not submitted an acceptable plan for repairing about 140 panels that make up the outer walls of the hospital.
Patrick Hurley, secretary of administration, has not yet decided whether the state would use DiCarlo for the county clerk's office. A lawyer in the secretary's office, said.
"I anticipate that the state of Kansas will terminate Mr. DiCarlo's contract and seek whatever legal remedies are available." Dickson said.
"I DON'T know if Mr. Hurley is going to sue anyone," Briscoe said. "We are considering the options.
The state already has withheld about $50,000 from D'Carlo on the $2.35 million contract because of the damaged panels.
Dickson, who was appointed last year to handle legal problems with Median Life, told the group whether the state would die DICarlo, but said, "We believe our damages are
"I will guarantee that Mr. Hurley will make some decision this week."
Last May, 140 cement panels on the hospital were found to be cracked and chipped. DiCarlo was told to repair or replace the panels.
DiCarlo, president of V.S. DifCarlo General Contractors, Kansas City, Mo., could not be reached for comment.
DiCarlo told state officials last week that the panels would be repaired by April 25. He said two Kansas City city governments would pay the panels at a cost of about $15,000.
Briacoe said the state also might use another company, Thomas Construction, a firm that builds construction worked on Orr-Major Hall, the basic science buildings at the Med School.
The panels have been inspected three times since then by state and University officials and have been judged unacceptable each time.
The state last month threatened to terminate DiCarlo's contract if he did not submit an acceptable plan for repairing the panels.
State officials said the building was not structurally sound. A state architect's report last winter said that the floors of the building slope excessively and that the elevators lacked adequate ventilation.
The bonding company, Travelers Indemnity of Hartford, Conn., would be responsible for any debts related to Orr-Hall Hall that Construction Thomas did construction.
BRISCOE SAID the state had not accepted DiCarlo's plan because it was too vague.
Spokesmen for Thomas Construction have denounced the state's claims. The company has asked for about $200,000 to compensate for money it says it spent because of inaccurate architectural drawings.
Briscoe said KU construction crews might do some of the repair work on Orr-Major.
Thursday, April 12, 1979
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Vol. 89, No.130
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Crunched car
Laura Bedwell, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, removes some belongings from her battered
itafl Photo by ALAN ZLOTK
car, which was hit yesterday by a food delivery truck that rolled down an incline near the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The truck damaged four cars. See story page 3.
Carlin, Stephan to inspect plant; NRC says 71 nuke designs flawed
From the Kansan's wire services
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin and Attorney General Robert Stephan will participate today in an inspection tour of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant now under construction near Burlington.
Dan Watkins, Carlin's chief administrative assistant, said yesterday that the day-long trip was designed simply to provide the state's two top elected officials with more knowledge of issues surrounding the complex plant.
"It is an informational and fact-finding trip to put some perspective on the facility." Watkins said.
Both the governor's office and the attorney general's staff have been studying the controversial plant and chemical use in the region.
Interest in Kansas first nuclear power generating plant has swelled in recent weeks, since the accident at the plant in Oklahoma.
Watkins said, "We have been studying, since John came into office, the issues of quality assurance and quality control and ways to analyze any safety questions that may exist or potentially exist.
"THAT IS not to say that we are suspicious of some safety defect."
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Regulatory Agency said in Washington that the Three Mile Island accident had demonstrated the need for urgent safety corrections in nearly all of the nation's atomic power plants.
The agency reported that it had discovered a design flaw in some power plants designed by Westinghouse Corp. and
that the flaw was similar to the one found in the Three Mile island plant.
The flaw could mislead plant operators and prevent vital emergency cooling in the event of an accident, the com-
The agency said safety corrections were needed "on a priority basis for all light-water power reactor facilities." That would affect 71 of the 72 licensed nuclear power plants in the country. The exception is the Fort Saint Vrain plant at Plattville, Colo., which is a high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor.
COMMISSION SPIKESMEN did not list the corrective actions that the plant considered necessary at the plant.
Westinghouse had no immediate comment on the NRC statement.
A status report from NRC officials at the plant said that when engineers had lowered pressure in the reactor to remove gas bubbles from the coolant system, too much water had accumulated.
But NRC spokesman Tom Elsamaar said the problem should not block a cold shutdown of the reactor, the point at which the reactor could shut down.
In Washington, the NRC said it was preparing to send a
Meanwhile, technicians at the Three Mile Island plant outside Midtown Pa., reported difficulties yesterday in operating machinery.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS, who were testing residents of the Three Mile Island area, said radiation levels in the water were low.
preliminary notification of the newly discovered flaw to all reactor operators.
Westinghouse sent plant owners a notice April 7 warning them that some of the plants it had designed depended on a combination of two instrument signals by the plant company, which was not available often when there was trouble with the main cooling system.
Cooling failure could lead to a meltdown or overheating of the reactor's core and the release of large amounts of
however, builders of the Wolf Creek plant were not among owners contacted by Westinghouse regarding the design flaw, a spokesman for Kansas Gas & Electric Co. said.
The spokesman, Bob Rives, said Westinghouse's action "does not in any way affect Wolf Creek."
KG&E AND Kansas City Power & Light Co. are construct the plant.
The Wolf Creek plant was designed by Bechtel Engineering but will have a reactor vessel designed by Westinghouse. The Three Mile Island plant was designed by Westinhouse but built by Babcock and Wilcox.
Another K&G E spokesman, Lyle Koerper, said representatives of Westinghouse and K&G E had met
"The idea is that anything that is learned during investigation of the accident will be taken into account," he