CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 11, 1993
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New horizon looms for Lawrence
City, county goals through year 2020 opened for debate
By Tracl Carl Kansan staff writer
About 200 people gathered last night in Lawrence High School's cafeteria to discuss the Horizon 2020 plan, which is Lawrence and Douglas County's comprehensive development plan for 1995 through 2020.
Graham Toft, consultant for Horizon 2020, said the community needed to focus on the goals and strategies of the plan. The plan is based on reports from members of the community who served on different task forces.
Toft said one goal of the plan was for the community to have a self-sufficient economy while maintaining disciplined growth.
"You have to have lots of commercial and industrial and urban growth to sustain quality of life," he said.
Toft said one strategy of the plan included expanding international trade and cultural activities.
One of the points of the plan was that there were too many Lawrence residents commuting to work in other cities and that those commuters needed more jobs in Lawrence.
"You have the opportunity to become international in your outlook, economically, socially and politically," he said.
The strategy that produced the most discussion was pursuing business growth aggressively while pursuing a
balanced land-use pattern.
Toft said that he was surprised that Douglas County and Lawrence would want economic development and that he supported the plan to strengthen Lawrence's tourism industry.
"There has got to be competition," she said.
Jo Barnes, a Lawrence realtor who served on the Horizon 2020 land-use task force, said the plan did not represent the task force's recommendation for free enterprise. The plan stated that downtown would remain the primary commercial center, but Barnes said the task force did not state that.
One part of the plan stressed more vocational training opportunities and lifelong learning opportunities.
Barb Smith, director of United Way of Douglas County and member of the economic development task force,
said there should be more education al opportunities for people who cannot attend college. She suggested the University of Kansas develop evening and weekend degree programs..
Tracy Karner, Pocatello, Idaho, graduate student who served on the environmental and natural resource task force, said she thought the forum focused too much on improving the community by improving job opportunities. There is more to a community than economics, she said.
"To me, quality of life means I have a nice downtown area that I can walk through and my kids can run around and be safe," she said. "No one has raised any issues of social needs."
The City Commission and the Douglas County Commission will pass the completed plan in March 1995 after the two groups revise it.
Second case of robbery at Dillons store
By Scott J. Anderson
kansan staffwriter
Lawrence police are looking for information about two similar robberies at the Dillons store at 1740 Massachusetts St.
In the most recent case, a KU student told police he was robbed by a man he picked up at the store on Tuesday.
The victim was leaving the store at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a man asked him for a ride to the KU campus, said Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police. The victim agreed to give the man a ride. The man then told the victim he wanted to go to 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue.
The suspect asked the victim about his bank, and the victim told him he did not have one, Nickell said. The suspect told the victim he was from the Kansas City area and had lost his money in a fight.
The suspect then pulled out what the victim said he thought was a handgun and demanded money, police reports said. The victim gave him $25. The suspect then told the victim to take him back to Dillons. The victim dropped the suspect off at Dillons and later called police.
On Friday, a man got into a student's car while the student was waiting for friends who were inside the store. The suspect said he had a gun and told the victim to take him to a bank, police reports said.
The suspect in both cases is described as an African-American male in his early 20s, between 5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall and 160 to 190 pounds.
The victim went to an automated teller machine, withdrew $50 and gave it to the suspect, the report said. The suspect took $10 more from the victim before getting out of the car in southwest Lawrence.
Detective Lt. Kevin Harmon of the Lawrence police said that these two cases were considered related.
"Both happened at the same place with a similar method of operation." Harmon said. "Both victims were asked to drive to their bank and withdraw money, and the description of the suspect is very close. They are too similar not to be considered related."
Harmon said the two incidents might be related to a third incident at an ATM machine Tuesday night. Harmon did not have any information on the third report.
Anyone with information about these incidents should call the Lawrence police at 841-7210.
75 YEARS LATER...
KU AND WORLD WAR I
Photo courtesy of University Archives
Soldiers in a World War I University military training program gather in 1917 in front of Fowler Shops, the former shop building, now Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Students pulled together to fight disease and war
By David Stewart
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The country realized early that World War I was going to be bloody and difficult, said Norman Saul, professor of history.
Memories of World War I may have faded since the war's end 75 years ago today, but the University still honors those who died in the war to end all wars.
One of the war's first effects was a sharp decrease of enrollment with the enlisting and drafting of KU students, Robert Taft, former professor of chemistry, writes in his book "The Years on Mount Oread."
"The goals of the war were vague," Saul said. "What we wanted to do was try to create a situation where there weren't going to be any more wars like that."
The Kansas Union and Memorial Stadium serve as reminders of the sacrifice students and faculty made. But the memorials cannot tell the whole story of how the University contributed to the war or how the war changed it.
During the war that ended on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1993, the University saw a loss in enrollment, military barracks on campus and an influenza outbreak that shut down the University.
Lt. William Fitzsimmons, of KU, was the first U.S. officer in killed World War I.
According to the book, "The fall of 1917 opened with a greatly decreased enrollment. The previous year it had reached a high water mark of over 3,400 students, but the following fall it was 600 smaller."
As explained in the 1918 Jayhawk- yearbook, students served in many capacities. In May 1917, a month after the United States entered the war, the University gave academic credit to the 500 KU students who left to enter officers' training camp or work on farms.
According to the 1918 yearbook, "The past year has been marked by a spirit of restlessness which has pervaded the entire University atmosphere, making faculty members and undergraduates alike a lit
little more serious, a little more intent,
a little more impatient to be doing
more to help win the Great Victory."
Students who had not gone immediately overseas could join the University's Student Army Training Corps, or SATC, established by the War Department in August 1918 to prepare students for the war, according to Clifford Griffin in his book "The University of Kansas — A History."
The University's SATC had about 1,700 recruits. Housed in a dozen barracks at the University, members of the SATC practiced and took classes in their military speciality, according to Griffin's book.
Just a week after the SATC recruits pledged their oath of allegiance on Oct. 1, 1918, an outbreak of Spanish influenza hit Lawrence, shutting down the University until Oct. 15, 1918. Cramped conditions forced the University officials to keep the school closed until Nov. 11, 1918, the last day of the war.
"32 students — 10 of them from the SATC — had died and as many as 750 had been ill at once," according to Griffin's book.
Frank Strong, chancellor during World War I, said in 1921 that the University had suffered in many ways during the war.
"I saw what I hope no other university administrator will ever be obliged to see," Strong said, "A partial paralysis of the activities of the University and draining of its best blood onto the battlefields of Europe."
ON CAMPUS
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have an information and registration table from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. For more information, call Wendy or Meg at 843-0357.
Canterbury House will celebrate Holy Eucharist at noon today in Danforth Chapel.
The Anthropology Club will meet at 5 p.m. today in 633 Fraser Hall. For more information, call Destiny Crider at 832-1496.
Associated General Contractors will meet at 6 p.m. today at Room 232 in the Art and Design Building. For more information, call Charlie at 832-2170.
Center for Community Outreach will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Julie Harris or Shanda Vangas at the Student Senate office, 864-3710.
Latin American Solidarity will sponsor a rice and bamboo dinner and video, "Panama Deception," at 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Kenny Kincaid at 749-0789.
KU Champions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Erik Lindsley at 841-4585.
Circle K Club will hold an organizational meeting at 7 tonight at the Multi-Purpose Room in McCollum Hall. For more information, call Jim Rowland at 864-4620 or 842-5959.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call David Zimmerman at 864-7117.
KU Pre-Law Society will meet
at 7 tonight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call John Wasylenko at 843-6585.
Le Cercle Francais will meet at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Alice Yeo at 865-1907.
Students in Communication Studies will meet at 7 tonight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Mid Johnson at 842-9713.
KU Triathlon and Swim Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in Robin-
son Center. For more information, call Sean Roland at 865-2731.
University Chess Society will meet at 7 tonight at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Nathan at 842-0049.
LesBiGaySOK will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Kansas Union.
Amnesty International will meet at 8 tonight in the Glass Onion, 624 W.12th St.
KU General Union of Palestine Students will meet at 8 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jamal Jach at 841-3407.
Jayhawker Campus Fellowship will sponsor a lecture at 8 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call John Dale at 864-1115.
Iethus Christian Outreach will meet at 8:30 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Mark Winton at 843-2260 or Noel Storey at 749-5848.
KU Fencing Club will meet at 9 tonight in 130 Robinson Center. For more information, call Jen Snyder at 841-6445.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
School of Social Welfare creates jobs fair for students
internship opportunities.
Representatives from about 60 Kansas social welfare agencies will discuss employment and
A career fair for students interested in jobs in social welfare will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Social welfare careers include working with victims of sexual abuse and the homeless, or in correctional facilities, public housing offices and public schools.
The School of Social Welfare is sponsoring the event.
ROTC will celebrate its 50th year in building
The KU ROTC programs will celebrate their 50th year in the Military Science Building with an open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
A display of items for the event will include photos of the building, which cost just more than $200,000 to construct and was dedicated in 1943. Models of Navy vessels and weapons also will be on display.
The building serves as home to the Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs.
More than 270 students are involved in ROTC.
Fire at Anschutz library prompts evacuation
Library staff evacuated about 150 students last night from Anschutz Science Library after a trash-can fire in the second-floor men's room set off the fire alarm.
Firefighters extinguished the fire in the men's room at 10:40 p.m. and searched the building for any other
fires, said Bill Stark, battalion chief for the Lawrence Fire Department.
Anthony Case, St. Louis, Mo., junior and employee at the Anschutz circulation desk, said the library closed for the rest of the night.
Briefs compiled from Kansan staff reports.
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