Warming to the task THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas Details, page 2 Monday March 2, 1987 Vol. 97, No. 106 (USPS 650-640) Election will pare commission field By TODD COHEN Staff writer The road to a seat on the Lawrence City Commission will narrow after Tuesday's primary when the 12-candidate field is cut in ball. However, only 10 candidates, including three incumbents, are actively seeking the three commission seats up for election. Two candidates, Carol Hamilton and Sandra Quinlan, withdrew from the race but their names will be on the ballot. A proposed mall in the 600 block of downtown has dominated the primary campaign. The proposal calls for a 360,000-square-foot mall that would permanently close the 600 block of Massachusetts and Vermont streets and cost the city $20.2 million. Emily Powell, Lawrence graduate student and principal cellist for the KU Symphony Orchestra, performs at the Music to China festival. The festival was held at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, on Saturday night and included Chinese music, art and food. A three-question advisory referendum on the mall also will appear on the April 7 general election ballot. Below is a list of the 10 active primary candidates. **Commissioner Ernest Angino, a KU professor of geology who is seeking his second term, doesn't like being in the classroom and supports having a referendum.** However, he strongly supports downtown development, and at last week's commission meeting, he welcomed the closure of downstreet streets naive. "You're very, very naive. The control with where you put development is with the department) stores." Angino said at the meeting. Station, 1119 Massachusetts St., says her top priorities are improving traffic safety around schools and completing the bypass and mall. Angino, who says planning is the key to keeping Lawrence healthy, says the proposed southern Lawrence bypass is needed and has been properly planned. Carol Brown, owner of The Hair Brown says the 600-block mall proposal is a good plan. "Presently we have a quality developer I can be enthusiastic about," she savs. However, she says the referendum is necessary to gauge public opinion. ■ Dennis Constance, house manager of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, is opposed to the 600-block mall proposal. He has argued that the study that says neighborhoods wouldn't be adversely affected by mall-generated traffic. "Lawrence is home to its citizens, before it's a retail center," he says. He says he is not convinced that the bypass would solve 23rd Street traffic problems, and prefers an eastern route. He says it will help the new eastside industrial park. ■ Tom Graves, owner of Kwaiity Comics, 1111 Massachusetts St., has distributed posters protesting the "maulin" of Lawrence. "The mall is a mistake for both economic and aesthetic reasons. In no way would the mall economically benefit the downtown," he says. Graves says the mall would ruin downtown's unique atmosphere which attracts shoppers from Kansas City and Tomeka. Festival features Chinese strings Graves calls the Business Improvement District, a city program that requires businesses to pay a fee to finance downtown improvements. "Burdens Imposed on Downtown." By JENNIFER FORKER Staff writer "I don't think government should SEE PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1 Tong Xiao, Koto, Er Erh and San Hsien. Those are the names of Chinese musical instruments displayed Saturday night at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets. Monday Morning The Tong Xiao is a bamboo flute and the three others are stringed instruments. The instruments were exhibited as part of a two-hour Music to China festival. The festival featured music by Zuohuang Chen, conductor of the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and Zhilian Xu, assistant conductor of the KU Symphony Orchestra. Music fraternity members throughout Kansas have been collecting musical scores and sending them to China for two years. Last spring, they sent more than 200 student records to the member Betty Jo Miller said. Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music faternity, sponsored the festival to raise money for the Library of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Chen thanked the members for their efforts in helping the Chinese people increase their awareness of Western music. "As a musician, the best way to say thanks is through music, but I don't have my orchestra," Chen said jokingly, and then played Chen is returning to China after this semester to conduct the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. He thanked the Lawrence residents in "Celebration of a New Life" on a piano for the 150 people who attended the festival. "My experience in Lawrence will be my lifetime experience." he said. "I will not forget the warm feelings." the audience for being kind and warm people. BSU is denied revenue code status See MUSIC, p. 6, col. 3 Senate decides group must continue to submit detailed annual budget Staff writer BY LISA A. MALONEY The Student Senate Executive Committee denied revenue code status to the Black Student Union on Saturday, hours after the Senate Finance committee had granted the group status. Del Bynum, president of BSU, told the Finance Committee that although all black students automatically were considered members of BSU, the group was open to all KU students. "We share our culture with everyone," she said, citing the Soul Food Dinner sponsored by the Ellsworth Hall Black Caucus on Saturday as an example. Eddie Watson, former president of BSU, said, "We're not finished with the issue yet. Just because a few people decided that we shouldn't be going to jail, we are not going to stop us from getting that money." Kelly Milligan, student body vice president, said, "It seems that revenue code is the next logical step in the evolution of BSU. They're not just here for blacks, they're here for everybody, and we have a vested interest in keeping them strong." Gordon Woods, StudEx member, said BSU should be denied status because it didn't differ significantly from other black organizations and didn't represent all students. Steve Gilchrist, finance committee chairman, said BSU still could function as a student organization without revenue code status. "Student organization" shouldn't be a dirty word. "be said." The finance committee granted BSU revenue code status unanimously, but at a 3/4 meeting, StudEx denied status with a vote of three in favor, three against and three members abstaining. The finance and StudEx committees had decided earlier that if one committee approved revenue code status to a group but the other committee denied it, the organization would not receive status. 'We're not finished with the issue yet.' Eddie Watson former president of BSU Revenue code groups are organizations large enough to have their own support staff. They receive two-year allocations from Senate during revenue code hearings after re-establishing status. Student organizations, however, must petition the Senate every year for financing. The finance committee originally denied the KU Forensics team revenue code status, but reconsidered at the end of the meeting, and granted the team status. StudExed Saturday to deny the team revenue code status. But according to Student Senate Rules and Regulations, StudExed has no power to revoke the scholarship. The student chairman, StudExed chairman, said yesterday, StudExed members yesterday decided that their veto was invalid. Steve Ellis, president of KU Forensics, said the Senate had financed the 118-year old debate team as a revenue code group since 1968. "Without Student Senate funding, there is no debate. Our theme today is, 'We're cheap to keep.'" The team presented a budget request of $14,256, which included $6,400 for transportation, $1,800 for tournament fees, $5,456 for food and housing, and $600 for copying. Ellis said the team saved money by using a van or by using the director's car for transportation and by staying in university housing instead of motel rooms at overnight tournaments. Miligan said, "A debater's life is not a sumptuous one. Robin Hood and his merry men would have done nothing." But Phil Duff, StudEx committee member, said revenue code status should be reserved for groups that provide services to all students. "This happens to be a much smaller group and if we're going to compare it to KU crew, then I'm not convinced that they're doing enough fund raising." he said. The other groups that received revenue code status, and the amount they requested were: University Theatre, $63,582.75; Student Bar Association, $11,330; Headquarters, $16,342.45; University Dance Company, $11,111.94; Consumer Affairs Association, $19,630; KU on Wheels, $20,000; KU Books, $65,470; Hilltop Child Development Center, $64,272; Concert and Chamber Music series, $92,472. W. Europe hopeful for missile accord The Associated Press U.S., Soviets to negotiate in Geneva LONDON — Western Europeans yesterday welcomed the Soviet offer to eliminate medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, saying it was the long-awaited breakthrough to an agreement. Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany said it removed the main obstacle to an accord. NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington called the offer "a substantial step forward." The Danish Foreign Ministry said it was "a good and positive signal" and Belgian Foreign Minister Leo Tindemans said he was rejoicing. The governments of Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands refrained from any quick assessment timed to study the Soviet offer. U. S. Gen. Bernard Rogers, the departing commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, warned against abolishing medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and against either East-West disarmament issues. In a significant policy switch, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced Saturday that the Soviets were dropping their insistence that a medium-range missiles agreement be linked to limiting testing of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. Soviet and U.S. arms control negotiators in Geneva scheduled a special session today to discuss Gorbachev's appeal that an accord on medium-range missiles be reached without delay. Sens. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle, in Geneva to observe the arms talks, welcomed the offer. "It is reasonable to hope that a breakthrough on the question of medium-range missiles will have a positive effect over other issues." Gensche said. Since NATO's decision in December 1979 to deploy 572 medium-range U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 nuclear missiles in five European nations, the Atlantic alliance repeatedly has said it would dismantle the rockets if the Soviets agreed to destroy their intermediate SS-20 missiles. Reported property crimes in student housing Includes: Criminal damage, temporary deprivation, theft, burglary, petty larceny and related crimes. Reported property offenses and damage amounts in 1986
casesdamages
OLIVER22$5085
JAYHAWKER TOWERS16$2875
McCOLLUM11$4789
GSP8$2236
ELLSWORTH8$1190
TEMPLIN6$1306
JRP5$2607
HASHINGER4$ 386
OORBIN3$ 128
STOUPPER PL.1$ 200
BATTENFELD1$ 140
LEWIS1$ 70
STEPHenson1$ 10
TOTAL87$21,612
Sterner view of crime taken by KU hall staff By JOSEPH REBELLO Staff writer The day before winter break in December, a newly installed Macintosh computer vanished from Oliver Hall. The $1,800 computer had been placed in the hall library in October for student use. Hall staff had just finished checking residents out for the break when they discovered the computer was missing. The incident was reported to KU police. The computer's serial numbers were registered with the National Crime Information Center. A $100 reward was offered for anyone who could provide information that would help recover the computer. But the Macintosh is still missing. "We consider it a problem," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing. "It amounts to a lot of wasted But the matchup is both hard. Housing officials say the case is the most extraordinary one they can remember in nearly a decade, but theft and vandalism of housing property are not new. The figure is lower than the national average for most other state universities, but is still large enough to be viewed with concern, he said. Every year, property crimes involving such items as furniture, carpets and equipment cost the housing office nearly $40,000. Stoner said. In 1986, 87 incidents were reported in all student housing units. Only 50 were reported in 1985. Housing property worth $14,090 See THEFT p. 8 col. 1 Since 1985, the office has taken a sterner view of theft and vandalism and has asked its staff to report all serious incidents to KU police. Before 1985, residence hall staff reported fewer cases to KU police. resources, because if we can redistribute that money, we can work more efficiently." As a result, the number of reported cases involving property crimes such as theft, burglary and temporary deprivation of property has increased by almost 60 percent in the last year. INSIDE Which wav? Orienteer Kansas sponsored a meet that had 20 people going every which way trying to navigate their way through a West Campus course. See story page 3. Finals time The Kansas Jayhawks held on and beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers 74-73 yesterday and will play Kansas State tonight in the women's Big Eight Conference Postseason Tournament in Salina. See story page 9. .