University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 22, 1988
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Architects help homeless
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
Two KU architectural design studios will design housing for the homeless in Kansas City, Mo., that could be built in the next two years.
The classes will design the interiors of three existing buildings in Kansas City, Mo., and North Kansas City, Mo., to accommodate a total of about 150 homeless people, said John Churchill, director of social services for the Salvation Army of Kansas and
"We're providing an experimental area so students can understand the problems of the homeless," Churchill said. "They'll be designing emergency and transitional housing for the homeless and all supporting services."
Dennis Sander, KU associate professor of architecture and urban design, said that his students' work would concentrate on the Salvation Army headquarters building at 101 W. Linwood Blvd., and a two-story building at 18th and Prospect that the Salvation Army plans to purchase.
"We're showing the community that the poor and homeless issue
needs to be addressed." Sander said. "We're showing them that regular people like architects, professors and students are here caring about their plight."
Sander said that the plans designed by his team of 12 fifth-year architecture students could be worked out technically by a Kansas City architectural firm and built within two years. The class will present the plans to the Salvation Army and other concerns in late April.
"It is a shock for architecture students to go all the way down the line to actually get something built," Sander said.
The 7-year-old building at 18th Street and Prospect Avenue will be a low-cost living complex for homeless families, homeless individuals and working homeless too poor to afford housing, Sander said.
Churchill said that about 60 homeless people would be able to use the building for stays of up to three weeks. The Salvation Army headquarters would be used as transitional housing where homeless people could stay for up to six months, he said.
Thomas McCoy, associate professor of architecture and urban design, teaches another design class working on the project. His class will design the interiors of former businesses in North Kansas City, Mo. He said the designs would be prototypes and could be used in old rows of stores in many different situations.
Sander said that his design class would meet with homeless people in the Kansas City area in late March to study their needs.
"The students will meet with them to gauge what they'll be needing in terms of comfort, privacy and space," he said. "We'll be looking at what they have that they don't like and what they don't have but need."
Sander said both his and McCoy's design classes would be designing space at about $30 a square foot. He said that most conventional buildings have a budget of about $100 a square foot.
"It won't be plush by any means but nice, livable and quiet." Sander said. "Students are going to see a cross-section of what architecture is by seeing a low budget and designing for that budget."
Black efforts praised
Kansan staff writer
By Katbleen Faddis
MANHATTAN — With the words of a poet and the oratory skills of a preacher, the Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver urged his audience Saturday night to be like eagles and take off on a high flight.
"Your mission is to leave this place committed, with the perpetual question, 'What if I had not come? Would America be better or worse if I had not come?' "
Cleaver, pastor of the St. James-Paseo United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo., and vice mayor of Kansas City, Mo., spoke to about 800 people at a banquet here during the Big Eight Council's Conference on Black Student Government.
"You, too, are eagles," he said. "The sky is your limit.
Cleaver, who comes from a family of preachers, told a parable of two eagles raised in a chicken coop who were afraid to fly because they thought they were chickens.
Cleaver, a national vice presi
dent of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a longtime civil rights activist, asked his audience to think about what the United States would be without black people.
In 1619, three ships brought a cargo to the harbor of Jamestown. That cargo was 15 human beings chained neck to neck, Cleaver said.
"When those black feet touched the black sands of Jamestown, America began a system of chattel slavery, the only people in this world to practice chattel slavery," he said.
Chattel slavery differed from other forms because the slaves had no chance of freedom. In other forms, slaves could buy their freedom.
About 58 million black people left the East Coast of Africa for slavery in the United States, and at least 18 million perished, he said.
The audience cheered as he read
"But in spite of all that, we've been able to make it anyway," he said.
off the names of blacks who have contributed to society; Jesse Owens, a gold medal winner at the 1936 Olympics; the mayors of Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.; Charles Drew, who developed the system of blood transfusions; and Benjamin Banneker, who laid out the street system of Washington D.C.
"If we had not come to America, there would be no such thing as a slam dunk," Cleaver said.
Cleaver told his audience they needed to know that they had great value. He asked them to think about what their values be like because they were here.
"We've reached a point in history where you must count," he said.
Cleaver also talked about the losses to the black community caused by drugs and drug dealers.
Committee to discuss Washburn, Regents
"We don't need any more doe dealer," he said. "We need physicians, teachers and lawyers. We need your minds."
New financing plan considered
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas House Appropriations Committee will hear arguments at 1:30 p.m. today concerning a bill that would affect the financing of Washburn University and place it under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents.
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka and chairman of the committee, said that the bill was not a direct move to make Washburn a Regents school but that it could be an indirect move.
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Currently, Washburn falls under the administrative arm of the State Board of Education, which deals primarily with elementary and secondary schools.
"Washburn should be a Regents school and shouldn't be competing with Emporia State University or Fort Hays State University by duplicating the courses those schools offer." Bunten said.
Washburn also receives credit-hour aid from the state, which is the same aid package that Kansas community colleges receive. Credit-hour aid is state aid of $26.25 for each credit hour in which each student is enrolled.
Washburn should be a Regents school and shouldn't be competing with Emporia State University or Fort Hays State University by duplicating the courses those schools offer.
Bill Bunten state representative, R-Topeka
Although Bunten said that placing Washburn under the Regents would be a positive move for all the Regents schools, some have expressed concern that the University of Kansas and other schools would receive less money if Washburn became a Regents school.
Bunten disagreed.
"No. it's just a myth that opponents state in order to create opposition to the bill. There isn't a pool of money for higher education," he said. "We can put as much money into higher education as we want to."
Board Walk
A couple walks beside empty boat docks at the marina at Clinton Lake, Yesterday's warmer temperatures began to melt the ice.
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
but boating enthusiasts will have to wait awhile longer because this week's temperatures will dip back into the 40s.
SUA to celebrate 50th anniversary with full day of entertainment
By Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Student Union Activities was founded 50 years ago to entertain and involve the 4,899 students that attended the University of Kansas
Tomorrow, SUA will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a complete day of events for more than 27,000 students, including free films, a rock music performance by the Rainmakers, a casino party and 50-cent bowling at the Kansas Union Jaybow.
Steve Marshall from the Socialist Workers Party of Kansas City will speak at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union's Javhawk Room.
Jeni Cardin, public relations director for SUA, said the events would cost SUA $2,500. This excludes the Rainmakers concert, which will come out of the special events budget, and the Steve Marshall lecture, which will come out of the forums budget, she said.
"We chose Tuesday because it fit into our scheduling." Cardin said. "We thought we would see how it works out."
Steven Traxler, SUA president, said, "It was the same day as the Rainmakers and we thought, 'why not?' The Rainmakers tickets are selling really well. We expect a great turnout for activities all day."
at 9 p.m. in the ballroom on level 5 of the Union.
Student Union Activities was created in 1938 and operated under the Union Operating Committee. Originally there were three student offices, a board of five student directors and 11 student committees.
The types of services and clubs have changed drastically since a 1945 headline in the University Daily make Huba Huba Plans."
Popular events of the past were Saturday tea dances, Union carnivals, elections of Miss Union, fashion shows and book and bridge clubs.
The Rainmakers will be in concert
Special entertainment guests over
the 50 years have included Count Basie, the Pointer Sisters, Gordon Lightfoot, Sonny and Cher, the Beach Boys, Roberta Flack, ZZ Top, R.E.M., and Bill Cosby.
Activities for tomorrow include:
■ From 9 a.m. to: 3:30 p.m., students will be able to draw with marking pens on their "wall" in the Kanaqs Union Gallery.
Brochures, pencils and open house information will be given out at a table set up in front of the SUA office until 3.0 m.
Free popcorn will be available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a coupon available in the Kansan.
From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., the Jaybowl on level one in the Union will sponsor 50-cent bowling.
From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., shoot
At 4 p.m., the movie "Top Hat" will be shown free of charge in the Javhawk Room.
comedy films and cartoons will be shown free of charge in the Union's Jayhawk Room.
From 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., the Hawklet food counter on level five of the Union will be open.
■ The Jaybowl also will sponsor Moonlight Madness, $4 for three games plus an opportunity to win cash with colored bowling pins, starting at at 7 p.m.
At 7 p.m., the movie "The Sting"
will be shown for no charge in Alderson Auditorium.
From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., SUA will sponsor a casino party. Students can show a KUID at the door and get $500 play money. Auctions will take place every 30 minutes for prizes such as SUA T-shirts, free movie passes, tickets to the Dead Milkmen concert and candy. Chuck Berg's jazz band will play during the casino party. There is no admission charge.
At 9 p.m., the grand prize drawing will be held for a place on the SUA ski trip to Winter Park in Colorado. Players must win a certain amount of play money before their name is eligible for the drawing.
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