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Note: This is the first of three articles on crime in Lawrence. Subsequent articles will deal with the victims of crime and with jails.
Violent crimes increase locally
By CHUCK WILSON Staff Reporter
A wave of violence swept across the country this spring, and usually peaceful Lawrence wasn't able to escape it. The worst month was February.
Within a two-week period at the beginning of that month, two middle-aged women were recruited to conduct an experiment.
On Feb. 7, two brothers were arrested in connection with the stabbing and strangling death of Margaret Maxey, 46. After Maxey was killed, the police arrested her legs and dunned them in a trash can.
On Feb. 12, a neighbor found the body of Mary Cox, 43, in the kitchen of Cox's apartment. A 14-year-old boy was later detained in connection with Cox's murder.
"It was a coincidence that the recent homicides in Lawrence happened at the
In Indianapolis, Kurtis Kirtsie wired the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun to the neck of a mortgage company executive and held bin hostage, for 63 hours.
YET NATIONWIDE, an uprunge of violence continued through the entire month.
In the western Indiana town of Hollandburg four young men broke into a mobile home where a mother had been sleeping on television. After taking $3, the bandits ordered the boys and their mother to lie face down on the floor. Five they were systematically shot in the back.
A 42-year-old Detroit man drove to Cincinnati and took eight persons hostage in a home for unwed mothers. He later surrendered to police.
In New Rochelle, N.Y., a hulking 250-pound furniture mover and Nazi cultist, Frederick Cowan, went on a rampage killing four co-workers, a policeman and killing four co-workers, a policeman and
Statistics have indicated that over the last year, violent crime has diminished in most major U.S. cities. But in that same period, the number of homicides has increased. There was a 12 per cent increase in 1978 and the figures for the first part of 1977 are expected to show a continual trend.
wounding five other persons. He then killed himself,
"people want something they can't afford or they want to avoid something they can't avoid," William Arnold, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern University, says a problem is to attack it violently.
Why has violent crime increased so much? Personal disagreements and money were the cause.
VIOLENCE SEEMS to be a solution for the moment, he said, and there is very little consideration about its long-term consequences.
"Three-quarters of all violent crimes on with people you already know." Arroyo.
Maj. Darrel Stephens of the Lawrence Police said most simple assaults, the crime that showed one of the largest increases locally, weren't reported to the police.
Simple assault is the term police use to describe such occurrences as bar fights, in which an individual is struck.
When a violent crime is committed to money, as in recent local liquor store robberies, the police are called.
LAWRENCE GUNN, a nationally known sociologist, did a study in Columbia, Ga., in 1972 to find out how much money actually was taken in an armed robbery. He found that if all offenders divided equally the money they sole in 1972, each person would have made only 55 cents a day, or about $200 for the whole year.
Even the most active robber, who according to Gunn's report accomplished at least six robberies, netted only about $2,000 a year.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
See VIOLENT CRIMES page nine
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, April 25, 1977
Vol.87,No.132
Visual arts building to open in fall
Space problems won't be completely solved when the visual arts department moves into its new building this summer, but it's still a challenge. The School of Fine Arts, said last week.
Classes will begin in the new building next fall, a year earlier than anticipated.
It will be crowded at first, he said, but the lack of space will ease as enrollment levels off and declines during the next five to 10 years.
"In the long run, we'll be glad we didn't plan for expansion of our programs" Thompson said. "It would have been costly as enrollment continues to drop."
The School of Fine Arts now admits about half of the art majors who apply to the University of Kansas, Thompson said, and about 10% of them will allow normals to enroll in art classes.
THE NEW BUILDING won't add enough
knowledge to allow more students enroll
in the school.
THE ALUMNI, he said, should provide more career guidance for students and he hoped that there could be a core of black alumni from the Kansas City, Lawrence and Topota areas who could meet monthly with students to discuss problems they faced at KU.
Eventually, demand for an art education will follow a national trend and decline, he said.
The visual arts building will have adequate space to meet the needs of all KU students, including nonmajors, in about 10 years, he said.
The new visual arts building will increase the quality of art education at KU, but not the quantity of students being taught, Thompson said, because the space gained by its construction is needed to provide adequate work areas for the current classrooms.
Work on the building began during fall 1975, and was scheduled to be used by the fire department.
The new building will have about 98,000 square feet of usable space.
He said there was nothing wrong with promoting black solidarity and that a continual effort should be made by the black students to support black students in this endeavor.
Jackson said the program was a direct benefit for graduating seniors, because they established job contacts, exchanged ideas with the alumni and gained information about job opportunities and professional experiences.
Good weather and good luck are the reasons the building is being completed.
The visual arts department is now scattered throughout 13 buildings. It has three offices in the building, Thompson said, and the only time some faculty members see each other is at the library.
Michael Shinn, co-chairman of the program, said the purpose of the program was to give students an insight into the professional world, to develop black models for the students to follow and to develop relationships between black alumni and students.
Black alumni and students participated in career sessions that advised black students in allied health, architecture, athletics, business, communications, education, occupational health, medicine, music and the performing arts, nursing, psychology and social services.
THE ENTIRE department won't be able to move into the new building this fall. Most
Career day designed to help black students
More than 50 black alumni of the University of Kansas returned this weekend to participate in the first annual Black Student Career Day. It was sponsored by the Black Alumni Committee of the Kansas University Alumni Association.
Jun Dumas, co-chairman of the program, said the program was held to make black professionals more visible to black students. He added that he'll sell their skills and not just their degrees.
James Anderson, associate professor of curriculum and instruction and political science at the University of Houston, said in his keynote speech that students, when entering the working world must treat everyday challenges as educational ones.
DUMAS SAID the alumn tried to convince
backroom agents that they could succeed in
the job.
It is important, he said, to encourage students to acquire valuable skills to better themselves and their opportunities in the working world.
"The building was planned on the assumption that art programs don't remain static." Thompson said. "Space is the most important aspect of art education."
mass blowing classes will be at Charnney farm, Thompson said, and aren't expected to meet.
classes that will eventually move to the old Fowler Hall structure will remain in their present locations for at least another semester.
STANLEY WILLIAMS, Wichita senior, said he thought the program was successful because it brought black alumni and students together to work toward providing important opportunities for formal and informal job contacts.
The new building has been built around Fowler Hall, formerly the engineering shop. Remodeling of Fowler Hall will continue into the fall and the hall probably will be ready for the spring 1978 semester, Thompson said.
The jewelry and silversmithing department will remain in Broadcasting Hall next fall, and industrial design classes will remain in Flint Hall next fall.
THE VISUAL ARTS building is designed to provide maximum use of available space. About half of the inside walls are filled and may be shifted around for space changes.
Jackson said that he was pleased with the student turnover for the first career day and that the black alumni committee would be invited to another program organized for next year.
Existing space will be budgeted by clustering similar classroom activities in the same area of the building. This will avoid the duplication of equipment that is common now because the departments are scattered across campus.
THE HIGH-CEILINGD shop areas in Fowler Hall will be used by ceramics and sculpture classes. Climbing cranes will enable students to move large, heavy objects, such as completed sculptures, from one area to another.
Printmaking, film and photography classes are grouped around the photograph darkrooms to enable students to use common work areas.
Special features in the visual arts building include a display gallery inside the main entrance, a projection room and a viewing room.
Students and faculty members will be able to display their work all year in the
The viewing room is a large, well-lit room where instructors can hang student's work for evaluation. It is equipped with side and movie projection equipment, and will seat students seated in the viewing rooms are luxuries that will add flexibility to the art program, Thompson said.
gouery. Thompson said he would like to establish exchange displays with other area art schools to be shown in the gallery from time to time.
MEMBERS of the art department began looking for a building to consolidate their programming soon after the music department was formed in 1957, Thompson said. The Kansas Legislature allocated money to plan a structure in late 1973, and $8.8 million was allocated for the project.
The building receives little sunlight from the north, which is the best lighting for painting because it is diffused. Thompson said. Mistrooms in the building, if they had windows, would receive harsh western sunlight. he said.
Windows in some areas of the building are small to maximize wall space that may be used for a work area and to conserve energy. Thompson said.
SOME FACULTY members and students
about the building's lack of
windows. Thomason
Skylights have been installed to allow room on the top floor to receive sunlight.
Some of the cost-saving measures initiated included eliminating most of the remodeling of Fowler Hall, omitting ceilings in many of the classrooms and university hallways, instead of built floors in all but the galleries and entrance areas of the building.
The first bids on the building exceeded the allocated funds, and the structure had to be built.
The new visual arts building is located between Murphy and Lindhays labs, near the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Outside looking in
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
While many students took advantage of Saturday's clearing skies to bank on biernets while watching the Retails, other nonpaparring spectators opted for the view from behind.
Victory and defeat mean agony in marathon
BY JOE BADCLIFFE
Staff Reporter
A Snuckers, an orange, a cheese cracker and a medal—that's what awaited the finishers of the Kansas Relays Marathon Saturday morning.
The runners also received sore legs, blisters, shin splints and a numb feeling of satisfaction that comes after running 25 miles, 385 yards.
Finishing about two hours later was another winner: 12-year-old Gabrielle Warrington from Kansas City, Mo. who runs marathons not because she is pushed by her parents but just for fun. "I wouldn't run for any other reason."
The finishers included Bob Busby, a school teacher from Pleasant Hill, Mo., who was still recovering from the flu and couldn't run very hard, even though he toured the course in the winning time of 2:23:06.6.
They had all assembled at 7 that morning in Memorial Stadium before a few hundred parents and friends and several dozen cameras. They stood around, applying Vaseline and Ben Gay, tucking in their bouncing up and down on the starting line.
IN ADDITION to the two were about 225 other runners that included old men, young men and college women with transistor radios.
The campanile rang, the gun sounded and the 250 starters were off; yelling a cavalry charge with a group of runners pleading, "Ston me, please! Don't let me do it."
out of the stadium they ran, up campanelle hill, across Mt. Oread and south, for 13 miles of rolling hills to the halfway point at Vinland and back again.
"WATER, GATORADE or ERG!"
attended the adults at the nine mile check-
point. The adults were very excited.
"Nothing," yelled one runner.
The 250 starters were off; yelling a cavalry charge with a couple of runners pleading, "Stop me, please! Don't let me do it . . ."
"Scotch and water," called a third, as they ran up the stairs, carrying little paper cups from the workers without spilling the contents on their shirts. The runners passed in groups and alone.
The runners passed in groups and alone,
in team uniforms and T-shirts with
"Anything." velled another.
Kathy Smith, a junior at Kansas State and a member of the K-State women's track team didn't want anything to drink. She was quietly smiling as she waved radio she was lugging in her right hand.
"Distance runners do it longer" printed on the back.
At the 17-mule run, the runners were starting to become delirious. The paper cups they reached for were dropped more quickly than before and become glossy and their words were few.
"THAT'S ONE way to keep from getting bored," said a worker who was staring in the mirror.
Busby had ended his 15-mile running conversation with the eventual second place
inhisher, Dennis Hinkamp from the University of Missouri. Bussy had a slight sad now, averaging $2.53 a mile and going 148 miles each week to add to the plaque he won two years ago.
THE RUNners were nearing the 20-mile mark, where the real battle starts—between mind and body. The carbohydrates from all the spaghetti and ice cream the runners ate the night before had long since been used up. What fat there was didn't break down fast enough to be useful as fuel. And the marathoners ran on guts. If nothing else they were proving that their minds were still the masters of their bodies.
The body bells back—with pain. And the course isn't much help. Some of the rolling hills never seem to back up row back rows and then they runnng. And then there's Indiana Street.
BOSTON MIGHT have Heartbreak Hill, but kansas has LegendHill. It stands at the 25 mile mark, gradually growing steeper for several hundred yards until it reaches a peak at Jayhawk Blvd., a final obstacle for those who have already beaten the course. The only good thing about this field is that it rests of the race in downhill—aCross Jayhawk Blvd., around to the campanile, down into the stadium and . . . the field.
The pain doesn't end with the finish of the race, but the mental struggle is over.
The runners finished with a final lap around the track, waving to the sparse morning crowd in the stands as if to say, "Look," to no one to fix the damn thing."
RUSS JEDICKA, Lawrence graduate
student, lay sprawled on the grass outside
the stadium after finishing his first
marathon in 3 hours, 4 minutes.
The first woman finisher was the musician, Katy Smith, who ran 1:30:14 to easily qualify for next year's Boston Marathon.
"3.94, on four weeks of training," he moaned, shaking his head. Other finishers hobbled around, nibbling oranges and drinking watered-down lemonade.
"I'm glad it's over," she said as she limped off the track in her stocking feet, "and I'm ready."
"I like to listen to an AM radio when I run, but there aren't any good AM stations around here," Smith said. "So I had to borrow an FM radio from a friend."
SHE SAT DOWN on the grass.
"I am a pretty good race," she said, "but I could've done without that hill."
"I'm not cut out for this stuff," he said with a laugh. "I really want to be bad until I am old."
An alternate finish was set up outside the stadium after four hours, and Jedlicka was among those who were still around, exounding on their races.
She said that she runs about 12 miles a day, on her own, but that 'sometimes my mother is in charge'.
"I definitely need a beer."
"I really died," he said. "I don't care. I finished. I did not care who beat me. I beat
About four hours and 30 minutes the starting gun had sounded, little Gabrielle Warrington crossed the finish line, amidst aplause from astonished onlookers.
A high school runner who had finished second in a relay than he had expected, didn't seem concerned.
Gabrielle started to drink and looked up,
"This is lemonade?"
"I feel just fine," she said, sitting down as her mother handed her some lemonade.
SHE WALKED away from the finish,
systematically devouring an apple while
As she finished the apple and started tearing into an orange, Gabrielle said that this was her third and last marathon for a while.
"I run them just to see whether I can do it," she said. "You don't race against anyone."
After finishing the orange, she looked to her mother for more food. "Can I have some
"Maybe you can find someone with an apple—a banana?"
George Carlin cancels concert
George Carlin, comedian, Saturday cancelled a concert for last night in Hoch
Mike Miler, SAU adviser, said last night that SUA received a call from Carlin's
"They canceled several other concerts and ours because they diagnosed that Carlin had cancer."
Miller said Z.Z. Top would be the last concert this semester. Z. Top, a country rock band, will perform May 7 at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Refunds to Carlin ticket holders will be given at the SUA office, Miller said. Out of town ticket holders can mail in their tickets for refunds, he said.