University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 4, 1987 5 Mall to go on ballot April 7 By PAUL BELDEN Staff writer Lawrence residents will be able to vote April 7 on whether they want a downtown mall, the Lawrence City Commission decided last night. The commission unanimously approved an ordinance requiring a city-wide referendum to decide three issues concerning the proposed mall. The commission will not be bound by referendum results. The three issues are whether Massachusetts or Vermont streets should be closed anywhere from 6th to 11th streets, whether the city should use tax money to help finance construction of an enclosed mall downtown, and whether any downtown streets should be closed for a mail. Phil Minkin, co-chairman of Citizens for a Better Downtown, asked the commission to restrict the referendum to the closing Massachusetts and Vermont streets and to make the referendum binding on future commissioners. But Commissioner Ernest Angino said, "The public wants to vote on that mail issue, and I propose we give him the right. I feel very strongly about that." Angino said he wanted to hear the public's opinion of the mall "before we stand accused, as a commission, is putting any more money into this thing." The commission also voted 5-0 to pay an engineering consultant firm about $17,000 for a report on managing stormwater in the Naismith basin, which is the valley south of campus. The report will concentrate on the area from campus south to 31st Street and from Louisiana Street west to Iowa Street. The $17,000 will also buy a computer program to compose a model of the area's stormwater drainage and an city personnel to use the program. Jim Patti, president of the Schweizer Neighborhood Association, told the commission, "We need this study and data to show it is it. This is what we need to do." The Schwegler neighborhood is in the Naismith basin. 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Staff writer That was the message from bloodmobile nurses yesterday afternoon, after the first day of KU's spring Red Cross blood drive. The bloodmobile nurses from 9:30 a.m to 3:30 p.m today and in the Kansas Union Ballroom. K-State has a four-day blood drive goal of 350 pints each day, but the KU drive lasts only three days with goals of 175 pints the first day, 224 the second day and 250 the third day. Ruth Meulbrook, charge nurse with the Wichita Regional Blood Center, said that yesterday was slow and that KU did not meet its goal of 175 pints. Of the 175 people who showed up, eight were turned away because they didn't meet Red Cross health guidelines. Mary Kaye Wiemeyer, nurse technician with the blood center, said that the blood drive was a bigger deal at K-State and that living groups there were in competition with each other to give the most pints. "There's not as much enthusiasm here," Wiemeyer said. But KU does have a lot of volunteers, she said. About 120 volunteers, Jaci Metzger, a KU student intern for blood services with the Douglas County Red Cross, said that all students at K-State knew about the blood drive because its time, date, place were on their enrollment cards. mainly from sororites and fraternities, helped the blood drive staff of 10 yesterday. "It's the 'in' thing to do there, to give blood." she said. Metzger said that because the KU drive was run by Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council, students who weren't members of sororities or clubs would see the blood drive ads in the Kansan might not be aware of the drive. Because of Metzger's efforts to work with campus groups who hadn't been approached before, she said she had expected to see more first-time donors yesterday. But only 18 showed up. "We're missing a lot of people," she said. Laura Reid, Mission junior, said she was a first-time donor. 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