The heat goes on
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 29, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 143
(USPS 650-640)
21 summer classes added;new enrollment Friday
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
KU students who found summer session classes filled during early enrollment may have another chance.
University officials decided over the weekend to add 21 courses to 1987 summer session class offerings.
Students now enrolled at the University of Kansas will have a daily extra enrollment session Friday at 111 Strong Hall to sign up for the additional summer courses. New students or returning students who did not participate in early summer session enrollment will have a chance to enroll June 8
"We've added courses in 10 departments." Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
The additions will provide places for 499 students in the 14 freshman-philosophy philose
phy, communication studies, English, history, mathematics, political science and Spanish courses. It also will add 238 spaces in seven junior-senior classes in Western civilization, mathematics, psychology, communication studies, political science and sociology.
"Essential freshmen and sophomore courses have been added that were filled for summer and fall," said Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor.
He said that several courses required for graduation also had been added.
"This gives us 737 spaces for students in the summer term," Shankel said. "It will bring us to 80 percent of the originally planned summer session."
The additional courses have been added using money from the fee release recommended by a conference committee of the
'Essential freshmen and sophomore courses have been added that were filled for summer and fall.'
- Del Shankel acting executive vice chancellor
of the Board of Regents recommended fee release. The Legislisat is expected to take final action on the committee's recommendation later this week.
Kansas Legislature. The committee had recommended 75 percent, or about $935,000.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said the additional classes were targeted for current students who needed courses. He said the extra enrollment day Friday was planned so students would know they had courses before going home on break.
"Some students didn't have full schedules for summer or fall, even with alternative courses," Thompson said. "We wanted to give them a chance to get full schedules without going through add/drop later."
He said that completion enrollment day took place Friday for students who did not have full schedules for the summer or fall, but that enrollment had been by special
invitation
"This extra enrollment day on May 10 consistent with that goal," he said. "We wanted to give all students a chance to enroll in courses for the summer or fall."
Thompson said many students had decided not to enroll in the summer session because they could not get the courses they needed
"We hope this information will reach them early enough that they can still go to summer school if they want to," he said.
In a prepared statement, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the new courses were good news for many students who needed the offerings to meet degree requirements. He said that adding the 21 courses would give the University more flexibility in the fall.
Professors discuss glasnost
Guidelines for enrollment, listing class information and hours, will be published in advertisements in the Kansan today and tomorrow.
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on how some KU Soviet and East European studies professors view U.S.-Soviet relations.
By PAUL SCHRAG
staff write
The Soviet Union is trying to build a new image.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "glassmost," or openness, has some Kremlin watchers talking of a failure to resist the nature of U.S.-Soviet relations.
Gorbachev has called for multicandidate elections for regional party posts and public debate on vital issues. Most censorship of art and literature reportedly has disappeared, and a newly vibrant press now covers riots and disasters and criticizes government policies.
Is it the first step toward democracy, or a false front for a political system that can't be reformed?
KU professors of Soviet and East European studies, whose program has been ranked as one of the best in Europe, have opinions that span a diverse range.
"It's a great step, a marvellous step."莎萨 said. "Gorbachev is a man whom we should support with all our hearts. He is the greatest hope we have for a peaceful, liberalized SOVET 7.21.1
"It is hard to be objective about the Soviet Union," said Harry Shaffer, professor of Soviet and East European studies who specializes in economics. "Whenever a new thing happens, we know who will take what position."
Those positions are being debated as ardently as ever because some perceive glassnost as the biggest thing happened in the Soviet Union in decades.
See SOVIET, p. 7, col. 1
Students who attended classes in Wescoc Hall have been burning up because the air conditioning system has been broken since Friday. See story page 3.
Sweating it out
The Kansas softball team ended its regular season at 25-23 with a 13-0 no-hit win against University of Wichita. See story page 11
The Rating Game
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Richard Eason, Peoria, Ill., junior, and Ken Kirklin, Leawood junior, rate campus fashions with upon color coordination, creativity and the personality of pedestrians. Kirklin he hoped their self-made rating system. Scores ranged from 10s to upside-down twos and were based that no one took their ratings seriously. The two students rated students yesterday.
INSIDE
Ending in style
By TODD COHEN
Student to form tenants association
and PEGGY O'BRIEN Staff writers
Staff writers
After talking last week with local legislators and student leaders, Greg Stauffer, Lawrence graduate student, said that he was convinced there was strong interest in such a group.
Angered by an unannounced increase in a friend's rent, a KU graduate student says that he is forming a Lawrence tenants association for students and others.
"The main thing I hear is that people feel they're helpless in dealing with landlords," he said last week. He's wrong with tenants having a say."
"I think there is a tremendous amount of misunderstanding. We're talking about economics, not about being mean to anyone," he said.
James Dunn, president of Lawrence Landlords, Inc., said that he had talked with Stauffer and supported his idea. He said the group could help smooth relations between tenants and landlords.
State Rep, Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who talked with Stauffer, said that landlords had a lobbying group at the Kansas Legislature but
Stauffer said that besides rent increases, his planned tenant organization could address such things as the availability of 10-month leases
Cynthia Harris, consumer affairs specialist with the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said, "Landlords say laws are all for tenants, and tenants say the laws are all for landlords."
"I think slumlord" is a common term in Lawrence," he said. "That must mean something. Whether we buses going on now, I don't know."
tenants didn't. Such an organization could give tenants a voice that landlords already have, she said.
Harris said yesterday that tenant/ landlord disputes did occur in Lawrence and increased in May.
Harris said that her office averaged five calls a day regarding tenant/landlord inquiries and complaints, and August, the numbers are higher.
Unreturned security deposits are the most frequent complaint, she said. Students can ask Consumer Affairs to mediate through a formal complaint procedure.
Cynthia Woelke, director of Legal Aid for Students, said that proper written notice about intent to move from the renter was important. That
and maintenance disputes.
Woelke also said that mostleases required renters to give 60 days notice before they moved out. She advises renters to get a copy of their leases as soon as possible. Some renters only require 30 days written notice.
information usually is in leases.
She said that she had a theory that sometimes landlords didn't refund deposits to renters on purpose. The chances that the student renter would never come back to claim the money are much greater than the chances that the student will sue.
Student renters should give their landlords forwarding addresses so a refund check can be mailed. Woolke said that taking these steps now could prevent a conflict or prepare a takeover by another landlord to take legal action against a landlord.
City terminates contract with mall developer
By TODD COHEN
Almost a month after Lawrence voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 600-block downtown mall, Lawrence City Commission last night voted to end the project and start over.
Staff writer
Few people were at City Hall to watch the commissioners vote to terminate the city's contract with the mall's developer, Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs of Cleveland and its local partner, Town Center Venture Corp.
Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx said,
"Being one of those who said I would
be bound by the results, I think this is
a necessary step to fulfill that obligation.
"We no longer can continue with this agreement."
The commissioners' action brings JVJ's contract to a close eight before it was to expire. It also leaves the city without a downtown mall plan.
Allen's report said the city only had to notify the three groups to terminate the contract. A clause permitted the public to vote if they rejected the public financing proposal.
The commissioners voted after receiving a report from Milton Allen
Sr., city attorney, on how the city could break its developer-of-record contract with JVJ, TCVC and a company that was to work on the mail.
Commissioner Sandra Praeger, a mall supplier, argued briefly that the city not break the contract and JVJ explore new possible downtown
"All we've done is to put an end to this project. Now we need to assess what the people want," he said.
"Eventually we'll have to name another developer-of-record," she said. "It seemed to me that would keep other options open."
development. But Praeger found no support for her proposal and later made the vote unanimous.
But Commissioner Dennis Constance, a mall opponent, said that the city would not necessarily name another developer-of-record
Crossing may get signals
A train crossing where four KU students were killed last month probably will receive flashing lights and gates, a member of a review team that studied the crossing said yesterday.
Bv PAUL BELDFN
The team member, Ed Brady, of the Kansas Department of Transportation design department, said, "Right now, we have recommended signals with gates for the crossing. Also, the railroad talked about raising the tracks on the east side six inches and leveling it off."
Staff writer
The blacktop at the crossing now is folded and buckled so much that a person trying to drive a car across the street would be nearly to nearby a crawl or be loisted hard.
The review team studied the crossing, located about a mile north of Interstate 70, and 50 yards west of road 1900N, late yesterday morning.
The team consisted of representatives from the state Department of Transportation, Union Pacific railroad and the Douglas County Public Works Department.
Stan Whitley, a transportation department official who was at the crossing for the review but did not
See TRAIN, p. 8, col. 1
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