Thursday, March 22, 1979
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Oread plan gets county approval
A plan to rehabilitate and maintain the Oread neighborhood was unanimously approve at last night's meeting of the Oread County Planning Commission.
The Oread Neighborhood Plan, which includes zoning changes, street improvements and bicycle ways, must now be approved and implemented by the
White Marxists led ill-fated cult, lecturer says
The People's Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana, was led by an elite group of Marxist-oriented whites. Joseph R. Kernan, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, said much.
Washington spoke to about 50 persons at Smith Hall in the second of three lectures on culture in America. The lectures are jointly funded by African Studies and American Studies.
More than 360 persons died in Jionestown last November when followers of Jim Jones, the people's Temple leader, drank poisoned Kool-aid.
Washington said African blacks were community centered and not concerned with race.
They had nothing to hold onto when they came up from Africa to America, he said.
"Nearly 100 years later, religion came to them. Religion was everything," he said.
Washington said that religion was the center from which everything moved and that at the center was the search for God's power.
"Black religion is nothing more and nothing less for black people than freedom, justice and opportunity for all black people," he said.
Washington's book, Black Sections and Cults,
studies black religion in terms of folk and
mainstream religion. Bob Shelton, chair
of the department of religious studies,
said.
Washington said that the future of black religion is equated with the future of blacks.
Folk religion applies religion to a particular set of people. Mainstream religion is a form of religious belief.
"What they are is what it becomes, we said."
Lawrence City Commission, according to Garner Stoll, a member of the planning
The commission received opposition to the plan from several Oread landlords who said the zoning proposals would cause profit losses.
The proposals include changing the zoning of some areas of the neighborhood to lower its density, in order to allow moving to the plan, most of the neighborhoods changed to medium population density, leaving only a small area near the border of Kansas in a residential dormitory zone.
Residential-dortmorian zoning allows the highest population density of any zoning.
JOHN LUNGSTROM, representing a
BOUND of Greece landlords, with his clients,
including the owners of the estate.
"We question the effectiveness of
downzoning and we question its fairness," Lungstrom said.
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The best safeguard a neighborhood has, said Michael Young, 106 Tennessee St., is to change zoning to increase the number of owner-occupied buildings.
Several Oread residents, however, said they thought the setting changes would not alter their lives.
Despite disagreements on the zoning proposals, several Oread residents and
property owners said they thought the plan was a positive move.
Downzoning is the changing of zones to decrease population density.
"There is an agreement between residents and landlords that something must be done." Jerry Harper, 1209 Ten Points, says this plan is a step in the right direction.
Although the plan does not completely agree with a land use resolution passed by the Oread Neighborhood Association for area improvements, the association's members will support it, Kathryn Clark, association president, said.
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