Friday, Feb. 21, 1986
University Daily Kansan
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Indiana man pleads guilty of rape in area
An Indiana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the Dec. 8 rape and attempted kidnapping of a KU student after forcing her to stop her car on Haskell Avenue.
Jerry Nunn, 27, will appear before District Judge James W. Faddock for sentencing at 1:30 p.m. March 24.
Nunn pleaded guilty to raping the student after he bumped her car and then pulled in front of her, forcing her to stop. He then pulled the student out of her car and raped her in a nearby field, Nunn testified.
Nunn was arrested at the crime scene after he returned to get his car out of the mud where it had become stuck.
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2 dinners planned
The African Student Association will sponsor African Night at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. A dinner, program and exhibits will be featured.
Also tomorrow, the Ellsworth Hall Black Caucus will have its annual Soul Food Dinner for students, faculty and staff at 6:30 p.m. at Ellsworth. The Rev. Mac Charles Jones of Kansas City, Mo., will speak on the "The Importance of Equality as a Reality."
Both events are part of Black History Month at the University of Kansas.
Editor to give speech
Monroe Dodd, managing editor for the Kansas City Times, will speak at 3:30 p.m. today in 210 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Sigma Delta Chi, the KU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, will sponsor the presentation, titled "Managing the Times: One Year into the Job."
New members and visitors are welcome. New officers also will be elected.
KU to host debate
KU will host the 29th annual Heart of America Debate Tournament tomorrow. About 50 teams from colleges across the country will participate in the tournament.
The debate topic will be whether there should be tougher academic standards for U.S. elementary and secondary schools in language arts, mathematics or natural sciences.
Teams will debate in eight preliminary rounds where they will take both sides of the issue. The top 16 teams will then move on to elimination round competition
Represented in this year's tournament are Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California.
Preliminary rounds will be tomorrow and Sunday in Wescoe Hall. The elimination rounds will be held Monday in the Kansas Union.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and warmer with a high around 30 and northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair with a low in the teens. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the 40s.
From staff and wire reports
Student's father named to Cabinet
By Brian Kaberline
Decisions made by the Department of Agriculture affect the lives of many people in Kansas. But the appointment of a new acting secretary of agriculture on Wednesday has especially influenced one KU student.
Staff writer
The man is his father.
Wes Naylor, Washington, D.C., senior, said he was suprised when his mother called with the news that his father, Frank W. Naylor, had been appointed to one of the most influential posts in the country.
The new acting secretary, Frank Naylor,
said yesterday from his Washington home that
Naylor has served as undersecretary for small community and rural development programs for the Department of Agriculture since 1980.
he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a degree in international relations and political science.
Before that, Naylor was a senior vice president of an agency that controls various farm lending institutions in five Western states. He served in different agricultural-related government agencies during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Naylor was appointed to his new job after secretary John Norton resigned. Naylor
President Reagan appointed Lang to replace John Block, who resigned as secretary. Frank Naylor said he would like to see Lang, a friend with similar political views, confirmed as soon as possible.
will retain the post until the U.S. Senate completes confirmation hearings for Richard Lang, probably sometime in middle or late March.
Wes Naylor said he respected his father's advancements and was trying to follow in his footsteps.
Wes Naylor said he also planned to go into politics. He will graduate this spring with a degree in political science and then plans to head for Washington.
Eventually, he hopes to establish himself and run for some public office, he said. Five summers of experience working for various senators and congressmen have convinced him he can do the job.
"I was kind of born and bred into politics," said Wes Naylor. "As long as I can remember, someone in my family has been working for some campaign."
Wes Naylor said he didn't think his father's new position would change the way he acted or was treated. He learned not to brag about his father when living in Washington because anyone he talked to might have had a congressman or senator for a father.
Parking board passes plan to thwart sneakv students
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
Students will try anything to pull a fast one on parking services, said George Crawford, chairman of the parking board. But parking service employees say they've had enough
On many occasions, students without parking permits have backed their cars up against walls to hide sticker-less bumpers, Crawford said. The parking service employees have found it impossible to put mirrors in the small space to check for permits.
"You can't imagine some of the burdens of this work," Crawford said yesterday at the University Council meeting. He presented at the meeting the parking board's plan to thwart crafty students.
The University Council gave approval to a plan to wheel-lock or tow cars that seem to be hiding bumbers with no permits or license plates with no license tags. Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Chancellor Gene A. Budig must give the plan final approval.
The council also approved changes in residence hall parking. One parking permit for all residence halls will replace the separate parking permits to prevent people who want to visit other residence halls from receiving tickets.
services, said the rule hadn't been enforced for two years because the tickets usually were invalidated, costing the parking services time and money.
Student Senator Gordon Woods expressed concern that a unified ticket would cause students from residence halls across campus to park at Daisy Hill on basketball game days and take up parking spaces.
Don Kearns, director of parking
The parking board also presented a plan to increase parking rates for special events by 50 cents. The price of football parking would be raised from $2.50 to $3 per space per game, and basketball parking would be raised from $1.50 to $2.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson objected earlier to the plan because he said the Athletic Department would lose $20,000.
Kearns said this wouldn't be a problem because on game days, students would have to have their individual residence hall identification cards to park in the lots on Daisy Hill.
Abandoning ASK not a solution to KU's concerns, director says
Johnson said most universities benefited from the added revenue. At the University of Kansas, the Athletic Department pays a fee to University parking services for parking spaces used during athletic events.
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
If the University of Kansas pulled out of the Associated Students of Kansas, both would suffer, the executive director of ASK said yesterday.
Chris Graves, the executive director, said that even though the University had some concerns about its involvement in ASK, pulling out of the student lobbying organization would not be the best way to resolve those concerns.
"It would be better to present a united group, rather than a divided one," she said. "If KU pulled out, it would discredit both groups."
Graves said if the University left ASK, the organization would lose the money the University pays as a member of the organization. The University would have either no representative or would have to hire a professional lobbyist to represent it to the Kansas Legislature.
Mark Tallman, director of communications for Kansas Independent College Fund and former director of ASK, said he thought the University would be making a mistake by pulling out of ASK.
"ASK made strong strides after KU joined," he said. "If they pull out, KU would be alone, with only the alumni backing them. And ASK would lose a lot of political clout as well as money."
Amy Brown, student body vice president, said the Student Senate was considering pulling out of ASK because the Senate thought it was contributing much of the money that supported ASK. In return, she said, it was not being properly represented to the Legislature by the organization.
But Graves said the University was making the wrong assumption. Delegates from the other schools belonging to ASK had adopted some of the issues presented by the University, such as support of divestment from South Africa and concern about campus lighting.
David Epstein, student body president, said he had expected opposition from the other schools represented by ASK when he announced yesterday that the University was considering pulling out of ASK.
But he said none of the schools
seemed surprised by the decision.
"I expected opposition from the other schools, but they were not surprised, shocked or even moved," he said. "I guess they felt it coming."
If the University pulls out of ASK, Graves said, the other schools probably would try to recover the financial loss by raising their student body membership fees by about 50 cents. However, the other schools want the University to remain part of the organization.
The University now pays $24,436 to ASK, almost one-third of the organization's total budget. ASK receives a total of $79,000 from the six state schools and Washburn University, Graves said.
"If KU pulls out, then the other schools may adopt bad attitudes toward KU," she said.
Main Street program for all of downtown
By Juli Warren
Carolyn Shy, director of the Main Street Program, stands on Ninth and Massachusetts streets. Shy was appointed director of the program in January.
Mary Burger/KANSAN
"Many people who have businesses off Massachusetts have felt left out of downtown promotional activities," Carolyn Shy, director of the Main Street program, said recently. "The Main Street program is for everyone downtown."
Shy said one of her first tasks was to let businesses on side streets know they're part of downtown, too.
The name of the program may be Main Street, but it doesn't just include the main drag of downtown.
"The Main Street program is an opportunity to highlight downtown Lawrence's best features and to improve on the framework already established," said Shy, who started her job as director on Jan. 16.
She said that in her opinion, the boundaries of the downtown area were South Park, Rhode Island Street, the river and Kentucky Street.
Lawrence was chosen last fall as one of five Main Street cities in Kansas.
Goals of the program, which was established and sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., are to revitalize downtown areas economically and to emphasize the existing and historic assets.
Elements of the Main Street approach to building the downtown area's total image are organization, promotion, design and economic restructuring.
But, she said, she doesn't single out businesses that she'd like changed.
'Many people who have businesses off Massachusetts have felt left out of downtown promotional activities.'
- Carolyn Shv
Mainstreet Program director
Owners of downtown businesses who want to change or brighten up the appearances of their buildings notify her, Shy said.
It could be just paint or high-pressure water cleaning that the building needs, she said.
Promotional activities planned for the next year include bed races in the fall at the same time as the 10-kilometer Fall Classic.
She said she planned to contact KU student organizations to ask them to be involved.
An example of economic restructuring, she said, might be to designate an area as slum and blight in order to build a proposed downtown mall.
The area being considered is between Sixth and Seventh streets from Kentucky Street to the alley just west of New Hampshire, according to the request for proposals to do the study.
The city could condemn and buy land needed for the mall if the property was designated slum and blight.
The mall is planned by Town Center Venture Corporation, the city's developer of record.
Developments on the situation in that block will be followed closely to insure that they would unify downtown, Shy said.
Herrick, Feinstein Partnership, Overland Park, was named this week by the Lawrence Urban Renewal Agency to do the study to determine whether it was slum and blight.
Shy said Lawrence was a step ahead in design because it already had a developmental framework for owners considering changes.
A study of downtown building design was prepared in 1984 by five urban design graduate students for the Lawrence-Douglas County planning office.
"Lawrence is really lucky in that the major patterns of design in the downtown streetscape have been outlined in the study." Shy said.
The study describes strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement in downtown design. It recommends compatibility, rather than standardization, of the buildings.
Although Shy reports to the Downtown Lawrence Association board of directors, she also is guided by the National Main Street Center.
Peggy Livingood, program manager for the Kansas Main Street program, said that, as part of the program, a resource team was selected by the center for each city to visit and recommend strategies for the next year.