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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 12, 1987
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Local Briefs
Men armed with handgun rob E-Z Shop
Three men with one handgun robbed the E-Z Shop at 1414 W. Sixth St. early yesterday morning, taking $68 in cash, Lawrence police said.
Nobody was injured in the robbery, police said.
According to the police report, three men entered the store at 1:45 a.m. yesterday, held a gun on the counter, and stole the money from a cash register
The clerk described one of the men as black, in his 30s, 6-foot 6 and of medium weight. The other two were described as black, between the ages of 18 and 21, 5-6 and slender.
The clerk could describe the gun only as a handgun with about a six-inch barrel, police said.
Police said they had not identified any suspects yet.
Voter registration is nearing deadline
People may register during regular business hours at one of four Lawrence locations: Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets; City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets; Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell Avenue; and Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.
Voter registration deadline for the April 7 Lawrence city election is 5 p.m. Tuesday. KU students living in Lawrence are eligible to vote if they are registered.
People who aren't sure if they are registered may call the County Clerk's office at 841-7700.
Rotary Clubs offer three scholarships
Rotary Clubs in northeast Kansas are sponsoring three study abroad scholarships for the 1988-89 academic year.
The scholarships cover the cost of travel, tuition, books, and room and board for one school year.
Northeast Kansas District 517 will interview May 2 all candidates submitted by its Rotary Clubs in Atchison before recommending three finalists and three alternates to Rotary Foundation in Evanston. It
Applications are available at the KU office of study abroad and should be submitted to a Rotary Club secretary no later than March 27.
Applications for editor available
Applications for summer editor and business manager of the Kansan are available now in 119 and 200 Staffer-Flint Hall.
The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. March 23. Applicants will be interviewed March 24 by the Kansan Board.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the requirements of a travel plan for state employees were incorrectly reported in Tuesday's Kansan. State employees must make airline reservations through a designated agency in their area of the state, but they are not required to make hotel or other reservations through a certain agency.
From staff and wire reports.
Student senators pass fee increase
By LISA A. MALONEY
staff writer
The Student Senate last night approved a resolution to increase the student activity fee and vetoed a motion to grant revenue code status to KU Forensics.
The non-binding resolution, if approved by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, would increase the student activity fee by $1.25 next year, with an additional increase of $1.50 the year after that.
The money would go to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's women's and non-revenue sports programs, said Sue Glatter, law senator. KUAC would match 50 percent of the student fee increase.
Brady Stanton, student body president, said, "I know the facts on this, and what they're asking for is by no means extravagant. They're asking to get by."
But Stephanie Quincy, hold over senator, said KUAC had received money from a similar increase two years ago.
"I don't feel that that's fair to students," she said.
Eddie Watson, off campus senator,
raised a motion to overturn the
Student Senate Executive Committee's Feb. 28 revenue code status veto of both forensics and the Black Student Union. Discussion on BSU was tabled until the next Senate meeting on March 25, but the forensics motion lost its chance for revenue code
Dan Lingel, Freeport, III., junior and member of the forensics team, said, "I'm sure that when the best debate team in the nation gets killed, the fight's not over."
status with a 29-19 vote.
Late Tuesday night, the Student Senate Finance Committee set financing for several revenue code groups. The groups receive financing and the amounts the committee set are Hiltop Child Development Center, $6,432; Headquarters, $15,000; University Dance, $5,050; Robinson Operations, $79,132; Women's Transitional Care Services, $5,200; Recreation Services, $101,841; and 91 KJHK-FM, $32,622. The Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont St., was denied financing.
Clarissa Birch, co-chairman of the finance committee, said Consumer Affairs was denied money because the group duplicated the services offered by Legal Services for Students, which already received Senate financing. Consumer Affairs requested $19,680, and last year received $14,000.
Robinson Operations had requested $125,382, but the finance committee ruled out a fence and parking lot for the Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Birch said those costs should be University expenses.
The finance committee's allocations still must be approved by the full Senate on March 25.
Britain trip canceled by enrollment, cuts
By PAUL SCHRAG
A summer trip to Britain has been canceled, but interest in KU summer programs overseas has increased this spring, the study abroad director said yesterday.
Mary Elizabeth Gwin, the director,
said the University of Kansas Summer
Institute in Britain had been
canceled because its enrollment last
summer had been too low to justify
the trip's expense.
Staff writer
But she said she hoped that the trip, which has been offered since the early 1970s, would be improved and offered again in summer 1988.
Robert Linebree, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said a combination of last summer's low enrollment and this summer's budget cuts contributed to his decision in December to cancel the trip.
"It was so far below the reasonable threshold of enrollment that it was impacting adversely on our ability to offer other courses," he said.
Because the college's summer
Gwin said no other summer study abroad programs had been canceled. She said she expected all nine of the summer trips to fill up by the April 1 deadline. This would mean that about 250 KU students would study overseas this summer.
school budget has been cut 50 percent. Lineberry said, the college has to give low priority to financing study abroad programs not essential for degrees, such as the trip to Britain.
Gwin said she thought enrollment in the six-week trip to Britain had declined last summer because of the fear of terrorism. Twenty-one students participated last year, compared to about 40 in previous years.
"The interest is obviously very high," she said. "We're having the biggest year we've ever had."
Gwin said that she was disappointed the trip had been canceled, but that she thought the decision was necessary.
The trip is sponsored by the departments of English, history and history of art.
Fred Woodward, director of the University Press, sits among the piles of books stored in the basement of Oliver Hall. Because of an overflow of books, University Press will be moving its storage location to West Campus sometime during the next school year.
University Press' success overflowing at Oliver Hall
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
Books are spilling out of their storage space in Oliver Hall's basement as the University Press of Kansas publishes more books than ever.
"We're in an enviable financial situation," said Fred Woodward, director of the University Press, a nonprofit publishing operation of the six Board of Regents universities.
When Woodward came to the University of Kansas in November 1981, the University Press was publishing eight book editions, or titles. Now it is the largest in Kansas at 23 titles and could publish 35 titles in fiscal year 1990.
Founded in 1946, the University Press publishes scholarly books, books about Kansas, the Great Plains and the Midwest. History, political philosophy and natural resources are subjects of many of the books.
Publishers look for and receive manuscripts, determine whether they should be published and contract with printing companies.
But before the books reach their readers or the stores that sell them, they are kept in Oliver Hall, where Woodward said about 112,000 books are being stored.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said his department threw away broken and excess
equipment earlier this year to make additional storage space for the University Press.
"They couldn't expand without something else going," he said.
This month, the University Press and student housing authorities will look at preliminary plans for a prefabricated steel storage building to be assembled nxt year. It will be on 15th Street, west of Iowa Street, between the University Printing Services, which is unrelated to the University Press, and the new facilities operations building.
Woodward estimated the cost at about $225,000 for the University Press and about twice that for the housing department.
Stoner said the housing department needed the new building as a receiving area for shipments of large equipment. Smaller equipment and dry goods will be delivered to and stored in the basement of Oliver.
Some companies will not deliver to each residence hall, so the two central receiving areas are needed. Stoner said.
Woodward said that the new building would be well-ventilated to protect the books from extreme heat and cooling and cooling would be too expensive.
"It certainly wouldn't be living space," he said.
The building will have a reinforced concrete floor to support the weight of the books that will be stacked up to the 18-foot ceiling.
Woodward said the stacks of books represented success that came from recruiting more authors and selling more books.
From Feb. 20 until Sunday, Woodward was in London where he met with authors and publishers who may send manuscripts to the University Press.
"You don't have anything to publish if you don't acquire manuscripts," he said.
One manuscript that brought success for its author and the University Press was "Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution," by Forrest McDonald. The University Press has published more than 29,000 copies of the book.
"That's phenomenal for a scholarly book. It almost unheard of." Woodward said.
McDonald was named the 1987 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities and will speak at KU on May 13. McDonald, professor of history at the University of Alabama, chose KU as a site for his speech, which he will deliver first in Washington.
"He picked KU at least partly because of his connection with the press." Woodward said.
Plan would give visitors more campus access
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
Motorists who wish to enter Jay-
hawk Boulevard during class hours
without a permit may find it easier to
do so next semester.
The KU Parking Board wants to move one traffic control booth from Jayhawk Boulevard and 13th Street, outside the Kansas Union, to the 14th Street intersection, between Danforth Chapel and Lippincott Hall, south of 14th Street.
Donald Kearns, director of KU Parking Services, said the proposal came on the heels of a 1986 study of KU parking by Illinois parking consultant Jean M. Keneipp.
Parking officials want to free the northern portion of Jayhawk Boulevard and the intersection at 14th Street to provide easier access to the Kansas Union, Smith Hall, the Hilltop Child Development Center, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Anthropology and the scholarships on Alumni Place.
The study recommended making campus more accessible to visitors. Now, visitors to main campus during class hours must present convention permits or special KU parking stickers to get past the three traffic boots.
"It will give more flexibility to visitors who come up here daily."
Kearns said. "We feel it's good PR for the University to open up access to the Union and the museums. We've got those things here. Let people get to them."
The parking board has approved the proposal, but facilities planning and University administration officials will make the final decision.
Parking officials are looking into the project's cost and time schedule, but they have not come up with specific figures, Kearns said. But he said he hoped the booth could be moved by the beginning of the fall semester.
If the project is approved, Kearns said, KU Parking Service probably
would finance it by installing parking meters in the lots between Smith Hall and the Museum of Anthropology.
Kearns said he preferred building a new, better-looking booth to moving the old one.
"We're looking into building a new one with a little bit more glamour to it that will blend better with the aesthetics in that sector," Kearns said.
Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said he hoped to help plan the parking outside the Union.
"It's important that we take a careful look at that area - permits, meters, possible conference fees for
parking — all the variables," Long said.
Cathy Dwigans, assistant director of membership and public relations at the Museum of Natural History, said she hoped the museum's visitors would have better parking opportunities when the street was open to traffic.
"If the parking is truly available for museum visitors, it would definitely be good," Dwigans said. "But if it's used by students and University employees who park there at 8 o'clock in the morning, it will be of no use to us."
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