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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday December 3,1987 Vol.98,No.71
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Census will alter way of counting city's KU students
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
Kansas will begin its once-a-decade census this January to reap portion legislative districts according to population.
ing to populate A bill passed by the Legislature last session will change the way KU students are counted but will not affect where they are registered to vote.
Under the new law, students who are not permanent residents of the state districts in Lawrence will be counted in the district where their permanent residence is
perpetuity.
"Students should be counted at home unless they have abandoned that residence and established a new permanent legal residence at college," said Frank Ybarra, co-director of public relations for Secretary of State Bill Graves. The census will be conducted by Graves' office.
beginning Jan. 8, Graves' office will send cards to every household in Kansas asking them to list all members of the household and designate those who are college students.
Census workers then will match that information against lists of students given to them by universities to ensure that students aren't counted twice. It also will determine those students who were not registered on one of the cards.
In February, census takers will go door to door in Lawrence and across the state to obtain information from those who have not been counted
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the new way of counting students was a bad idea. Winter said he represented everyone in his district, whether they did or didn't vote for him, whether they were registered voters, residents or neither.
If students were not counted, Winter's senate district and Lawrence area house districts could be reapportioned. That would result in area legislators representing more people in a larger area, he said.
"It treats students as not being here when they really are," Winter said.
See CENSUS, p. 6, col. 3
The Lights and Sights of the Plaza
No matter from which direction you approach Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, the famed Christmas lights are suddenly there, without warning, outlining and accenting the ornate Sevillean buildings with 156,000 bulbs in red, green, yellow, white, orange and blue.
The Plaza is like a fairyland this time of year, detached from the rest of the world. Horse-drawn carriages show visitors around the twelve square blocks that, thanks to Brush Creek to the south and the large residential area to the north, seem miles from the brightly lit boulevards of the surrounding city.
Story by Brian Baresch Photos by L.A. Rauch and Fred Sadowski
This is the 58th year for the Christmas lights, which have gone up every Christmas since 1925, except for a brief hiatus during World War II. It started as one string of bulbs on what is now the Mill Creek building at 4646 J.C. Nichols Parkway, the first Plaza building, completed in 1923. What emerged was the first extensively planned, architecturally homogeneous shopping area in the United States, a knot of brick, limestone and mosaic tile buildings housing only those merchants that could pass J.C. Nichols' meticulous screening.
Laura Lawrenz, Olathe resident, has been driving the cabs for more than four years. Some of her customers want to see the plaza, she says, and others want to escape the crowds or find a little romance. Last year, a horse-and-carriage wedding was performed in a carriage Lawrenz was driving.
meticulous Nichols spent about $1 million between 1912 and 1922 on the land between 46th Street and Brush Creek, from Broadway to Jefferson. The original tenants were a brickyard, a lumberyard and a city dump. Nichols also acquired much of the land surrounding the present Plaza and turned it into residential land to provide a buffer between the city and his project.
Evening tails around five, when the lights come on and the sense of otherworldiness descends. Everything is highlighted in fantasy colors, like the setting for a favorite childhood dream about heaven. For a perfect seasonal touch, a light dusting of snow should be falling, the kind that loops and swirls and dusts the sidewalks like powdered sugar.
A line of restored horse-drawn carriages awaits riders in front of Seville Square on Nichols Road. In front of the line, a handsome black horse, Pride, stands in front of a black two-passenger brougham cab that’s twice as old as the Plaza. The cab, which looks like a prop from a movie set in the mid-19th century, was made on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1850. Nine years ago, Pride was the first horse to pull a carriage on the Plaza, working for Pride of Kansas City.
Nichols opted for Spanish architecture for all the buildings, including bell towers
Evening Plaza strollers buy tickets from Pride of K.C.'s owner, Mary Greene, who sits in a sidewalk booth that's just big enough for her and her cashbox. On a busy holiday evening, all 21 of Greene's horses are at work. If the brougham is occupied, the rider will take an open steigh or, perhaps, hop into an ornate hansom cab that MGM once used in the movies.
Everything about it is highlighted in fantasy colors like in a favorite childhood dream about heaven.
Dan Kreutzer, Overland Park, is the Christmas season doorman for Swanson's department store.
Nichols wanted to make his shopping area accessible to automobiles, even in 1922, so he made the streets straight and wide and built several parking garages. All 5,000-plus parking spaces are free, as they always have been, except for a brief flirtation with parking meters shortly after World War II.
and domes on corner buildings. The first merchants to pass his rigorous screening process and open for business were a photographer, a women's hat store and a beauty shop.
Although Nichols died in 1950, the J.C. Nichols company is still checking prospective tenants meticulously. Each must be practically assured of success and preferably be a one-of-a-kind shop, according to Mike Shields, director of the Plaza for J.C. Nichols Co. According to Shields, high fashion is the focus of the Plaza, so stores such as the Gucci outlet and Bonwit Teller fit right in.
Hires said the models helped bring attention to her store, which is dwarfed somewhat by Bonwit Teller on one side. Saks across the street and Dillard's a block away. "People know department store names, but specialty stores they're not familiar with," Hires said.
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Debbie Hires, owner of the store, has been putting on the living display since she opened the store 2-1/2 years ago. Once a month, and every Saturday during Christmas season, two pairs of models take turns sitting in the window
On the way to the carriage stop, the cab passes in front of Hires, a women's clothing store that draws a crowd to its front window every Saturday afternoon during the Christmas season. Up-tempo, fashion-show music from a loudspeaker in front of the store alerts passbys of the two elegantly dressed mannequins staring through sunglasses at the onlookers. When one of them slowly sits down, the newcomers realize the models are real—the only living window display on the plaza.
The models enjoy watching people as much as they do being watched. Anita Munzo, a model for eight years, has been working as a model in Hires' window for about a year. "Some people will sit on their cars for an hour and stare," she said between shifts. "Some will do all sorts of crazy things, and they're just embarrassing themselves trying to make us laugh."
From the beginning, Nichols wanted short buildings. Most of the Plaza structures are two stories tall, and 16 towers break the skyline. The tallest building on the Plaza is four-story Seville Square.
About 8 p.m., many of the carriages are full. It is just about the time that the night life rew up, especially in the Plaza's 40 restaurants and seven cinemas. Houlihan's, a restaurant and bar, has been named the best meeting place in town by Town Squire magazine's annual Best & Worst listing. It's easy to see why: It has more people to meet per square inch than anywhere else on the Plaza, if not in Kansas City. The clientele is well-dressed. A small plaque on the wall five feet from the floor says "Brush Creek Flood High Water Mark, September 12, 1977. McGillicuddy's and the Granfalloon, just down 48th street, are other popular Plaza watering holes.
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late October, Iowa released the nate of four potential candidates the university presidency, includ- Horowitz. Challenger was added to list of candidates in November the other candidates for the posi are Nils Hasslemo, provost at University of Arizona at Tucson; nald N. Langenberg, chancellor at University of Illinois-Chicago; Robert Stein, dean of law at theiversity of Minnesota-Minneapolis
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sam Becker, president of the arch committee, said yesterday it committee members would be using Horowitz about her leadership perience, her vision for Iowa and understanding of issues facing students and faculty.
Iowa is a Big Ten conference hool and has garnered a reputation a major research university in the idwest. Its enrollment this fall was out 29,000.
dorowitz has taught at the University of Kansas for the last 26 years. e began in 1961 as a research sociate in the Bureau of Child search. In 1978 she became the st vice chancellor for research, aduate studies and public service. dorowitz received a bachelor of degree in philology from Antioch College in Springs, Ohio. she has a master's degree in education from Goucher College in wson, Md.
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