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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 2, 1991
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Hail, Final Four party take campus by storm
Labor hours cost $774 after Saturday's celebration
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Between last week's bail storm and KU fans celebrating the Jayhawks' Four First victory, the damage done campus buildings, trees and vehicles has been costly.
Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, says, "The storm damage is much more widespread, whereas the effects of the celebrating have pretty much been confined to the Wesco area."
Storm damage included roof leaks, broken roof tiles and broken windows in buildings and cars.
Steve Green, associate director of facilities operations, said damage was caused not only by the hail but also by a storm that passed through the property.
"Hail damage and wind damage has come to $3,907 in time and materials so far," he said. "I can't say that everything has been repaired. There probably will be more to add to the remair list."
Green said there had been $774 worth of labor hours related to damage done during the Final Four celebration Saturday night.
Richardson said the facilities operations crew that cleaned up the campus after the celebration had found evidence of broken windows.
"We're going to have to remove three of those trees in front of Wescoe," he said. "That's several thousand dollars worth of damage."
Richardson said some lights in front of Wescoe were broken, people climbing on them.
"Generally speaking, we weren't hurt too badly." he said.
Richardson said the damage was comparable to the damage when KU won the national championship in nine.
"We had some damage to some juniper bushes in front of Wescow that night," he said. "They were just taken out on the ground."
Richardson said that facilities operations did not put anything up to prevent students from climbing the trees on the rooftop.
"People come up here to have fun, and we don't want them to get hurt by climbing the trees," he said.
Property owners, tenants disagree over placement of campaign signs
According to regulations, owners can place signs on property
By Vanessa Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
As local political campaigns come to a head, some Lawrence tenants complain that rental-property owners and candidates have put words in their mouths by putting signs in their vards.
According to Lawrence Building Inspection Office regulations, rental-property owners have the right to place yard signs with political slogans on the property they rent. However, some tenants said the signs made it appear that they endorse candidates they do not support.
Steve Lytle, a Lawrence senior who leases a house at 2301 Massachusetts St., said he objected to David Penny campaign signs on the property and asked his landlord to remove them.
"There were about 20 Republican signs in the yard," Lytle said. "We didn't want to support them."
Dick Lynch, who manages the property for Lynch Real Estate, 1711 Massachusetts St., said he removed the signs upon the request. However, which reserved the right to determine which signs were placed on the property.
"As long as I maintain the lawn, I decide," he said. "Some of them get sneaky and pull them down anyway."
Lynch and other rental-property owners said that campaign officials contacted them during every election season to ask whether they could put property signs on the rental property.
"I always say, 'Ask the students before you put them up.'" he said.
'It's really up to them. I try to stay out of it. When you get into the political part of it, you get a lot of headaches.'
Roger Tuckel Rental property owner
Lytle said nobody had notified him or his roommates about the signs.
Roger Tuckel, who also owns rental property, said that he usually complied with candidates' requests for his tenants, and that his tenants had the final decision.
Apartheid laws linger despite reform efforts
"It's really up to them," he said. "I try to stay out of it. When you get into the political part of it, you get a lot of headaches."
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
The struggle to end apartheid in South Africa continues even though there has been less media attention focused on the region since the Persian Gulf War, said some African-American students at KU.
"Everybody shifted their focus to the gulf, but now we need to shift back." said Cory Anderson, executive board member of Black Men of Today. "The effect the media has on American society is phenomenal."
Anderson said that students needed to be aware that inequality still existed in South Africa and that they should work together to that have investments in the region.
"Black people as a whole will never be free until Africa is a free continent." Anderson said. The American group did not make it a truly democratic society."
Tonya Sanchez, Brooklyn, N.Y., junior, said apartheid in South Africa continued to be a neglected topic in the United States.
"The U.S. was so eager to liberate Kuwait," she said.
"The economic basis is in the hands of the whites," she said. "The Africans have no power there."
Sanchez said Western economic interests in South Africa obstructed the United States from applying for further democratic reforms.
People's apathy toward South Africa contributes to the growing problem of racism in the United States, Sanchez said.
"How can you go and try to liberate people in another country when the people in your own country aren't liberated?" she said.
"There is no question that racism and discrimination in the United States guides the thinking toward South Africa," said Bhana, who is from Johannesburg and teaches South African history.
Bhana said inequality still remained in the region even though F.W. de klek's government had tried to institute reforms.
"He (de Klerk) is playing the game to secure for the whites the best amount of power instead of handing it over to the Blacks." Bhana said.
He said Western nations put faith into de Klerk's reforms because of their own commercial interests in South Africa.
The Hawkmobile
Kerry Menzie, Derby junior, paints a Jayhawk on the side of his car. Menzie began of the men's basketball team. He said it would take him 5 or 6 hours to finish all the painting Jayhawks on the sides, front and back of his automobile vesterdav in support painting.
Survey gauges student opinions about Watkins
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
The Student Health Advisory Board is conducting a survey to determine how KU students perceive Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The survey is being conducted by selected members of Student Senate and the health advisory board. Each member of Student Senate gives numbers and first names of students
that were taken from the student directory, said Aime Hall, student body vice president
To get a random sampling of 500 students, the name of every 52nd student was taken, Hall said. The Senate and board members are supposed to call the numbers and conduct the survey by telephone.
Cindy Snyder, chairperson of the patient relations subcommittee of the
health advisory board, said the survey took about seven minutes for each student to complete.
The individual responses to the survey are confidential, Snyder said.
The idea for the survey is not new, Hall said. Both she and Mike Schreiner, student body president, discussed the survey when they decided to run for office last year, but t did not become a campaign issue.
she said.
When the appointments to the health advisory board were made, the survey was put on the board's agenda, Hall said.
"It it was something that we felt would benefit both the image of Watkins and the student body," she said.
The survey contains questions about satisfaction with Watkins,
whether students have health insurance and whether students receive care outside of Watkins.
Snyder said the health advisory board would release the results of the survey to Watkins. The results probably will be ready by April 12.
To get an accurate survey, Snyder said those conducting it would have to get responses from about 80 percent, or 400, of the students listed.
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