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Thursdav. March 31. 1977
University Daily Kansan
Five candidates favor city commission form
The candidates for city commissioner in the form of city governments in the form of city governments.
BARKLE CLARK says the commission-manager government can be responsive. Reasoning that elections every two years for mayor would throw city government into "chaos," Clark said his commissionerOWER. He said Lawrence needed a professional manager to deal with its $14 million annual budget.
CARL_MIBECK said the lack of details on the mayor-council form of government has made it difficult for proponents had avoided giving specific information of the cost of the change and had given contradictory views on whether council members should be full or part-
ED CARTER says the existing form of government can be competent and responsive if properly run. He says that with proper management of city affairs and
proper control of the city manager by the commission, the commission-city manager system would continue to work for the good of the city as a whole.
MURIEL PAUL with "many misgivings" announced her support yesterday for the mayor-council form of government. She said she was influenced to take this stand by the "steady decline" in the quality of services and a belief that particular areas of Lawrence had been "consistently short-changed."
JERRY ALBERTSON says the commission-manager form of government is the most efficient for Lawrence if the right people serve as commissioners. Lawrence had his best growth since 1913, he said, and has maintained the commission-city manager government.
JACK ROSE personally favors the commission-city manager government, but he says it is an issue for the important issue in choosing commissioners.
Set design key to 'Vanya'
When the curtain rises for Anton Chekovskoy's play, "Uncle Vanya," in the University Theatre tonight, the audience hears a scene where the house that forms the setting for the play.
For example, during the fourth act, a scene will occur in the bedroom, but the audience also will be able to watch a workman having his tea in the dining room.
Pat Atkinson, set director and assistant instructor of speech and drama, designed and built the back yard terrace, dining room, drawing room and Uncle Vanya's bedroom on a turbule, which is rotated under the desk. Set is the center of attention for each act.
The skeletal outline of the house is an abstract, suggestive representation of a traditional Russian countryside home at the turn of the century.
"It's realistic, but it's not all there," Atkinson said yesterday.
The open construction gives a feeling of
the size, age and solidity of the structure, he said. No dialogue is exchanged in the background rooms, but characters may be entering and leaving through the doors.
"Uncle Vanya" is the complex story of an aging professor and his young wife who come to live at a country estate. The estate is being managed by the professor's daughter and the brother of the professor's bachelor and boredom complicate the plot.
The house helps establish the mood of the story. Atkinson said.
“There are characters who live in this house who have lived here for years. The house has to reflect their feelings, and the house also has a sense of belonging to the house.” he said.
"Uncle Vanya" begins at 8 tonight and will be performed nightly through Saturday. There also will be a Sunday matinee at 2:30.
Government change . . .
Lawrence had a mayor and council before it switched in 1851.
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Since the mayor and council are elected on a partisan basis, there would be more political influence on local government than is the case with the commission-city manager form. The use of political channels established under the commission system could be additionally denied by defenders of the form as a necessary channel for citizen input into government.
Advocates for the change to a mayor and council and advocates for retaining the commission and city manager have debated several key issues underlying the nature and structure of both forms in the past several weeks.
Leaders of the movement to change the form have emphasized a need for improved responsiveness of city policy makers, a shift of power from professional planners to officeholders and an effective check and balance system in city government.
THEY HAVE ARGUED that the policy making power was now concentrated with the city manager and his staff because the city commissioners lacked the time to sufficiently guide the activities of city government. They also say that the problem with the present system is a lack of adequate and diverse response from the citizens because there isn't a political medium available for the average citizen.
Advocates of the change say that if office-
holders were elected by wards that would make them more accountable and responsive to a definite constituency. They say that there is no way that commissioners elected at large can be representative of the needs of more than 50,000 people.
They have said that businessmen and professional people dominated city government and the "little guy" and special interests were neglected. Advocates of the change have used the Haskell Loop coeflct model to describe the residents of East Lawrence as an example of the commission's lack of responsiveness in citizens and neighborhood groups.
OPPONENTS OF THE CHANGE have said that the commission-city manager form of the Commission is under attack.
by keeping the cost of government down and by meeting the needs of individuals, special interest groups and the community as a whole.
Cypriots pledge new talks move
They say that a full-time and professionally trained administrator is needed to run the everyday affairs of the city because it is a multi-million dollar investment. It is too large not to have a city manager, according to opponents of the change.
The increased costs of a shift to the mayor-council form because more people would have to be paid more money is a major objection the opponents have raised. The increase the yearly increase in administrative costs at between $100,000 and $150,000.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI)—Both Greek and Turkish Cypriots reportedly have agreed to a new negotiating approach to minimize the risks of stalemate when the Cyprus negotiations resume in Vienna today.
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The rival sides appear eager to maintain the diplomatic momentum imparted by Clark Clifford when he visited the region last month as a special envoy.
It is understood here that each side will submit a detailed proposal on the issue it considers of parament concern—for the Greek Cypriots this is territory and for the Turkish Cypritis it is a new federal constitution. Each side has pledged to respond with serious, constructive consideration of the other's propositions.
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