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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.53
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City ponders downtown bars
Commission to focus on limiting number
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
After the City Commission met last night, about five or six people mingled outside of a bar on Massachusetts Street. Their voices rose and fell as they talked and every once in a while they would yell at someone across the street or at a passing car.
It is this sort of congregation that has city commissioners worried. Before the group gathered in front of the bar, commissioners pondered the appropriate way to limit the number of downtown bars.
They decided to focus on limiting the proximity of bars, requiring establishments to have a majority of their earnings come from food sales and limiting the amount of square footage that could be developed into a drinking establishment. The commission probably will not be able to make a final decision until January.
No Regulation: The City Commission decided not to regulate Sunflower Cablevision, which could affect Lawrence cable prices. Page 3.
The commission also decided to have its staff draw up a loitering ordinance that would deal with increasing incidents of damage to public property, verbal abuse and graffiti. The ordinance would be based on behavior, not how long or where a person was.
Commissioner Bob Schulte said he wanted an even balance in the variety of downtown stores.
"I don't think any of us are against drinking establishments or evening entertainment," he said.
Earl Reineman, president of Downtown Lawrence Inc., said he supported reducing the number of bars in the downtown area, but he also wanted to see more police patrol Massachusetts Street at night.
"The people who are downtown in the evenings usually are bothered by large numbers of young people congregating downtown," he said.
Dave Corliss, assistant to the city
manager, said voters decided last year to lift the food requirement for drinking establishments. Under the requirement, if bars did not earn a certain percentage of their profits from food sales, they would have to be a private club, and their patrons would need a membership.
When the requirement was lifted, it changed the nature of many bars, Cortliss said.
In August of 1991, when drinking establishments still had to meet the food requirement, there were 36 drinking establishments and 18 private clubs in Lawrence. Now that the requirement has been lifted, there are 68 drinking establishments and one private club.
Daniel Brostella, Panama senior, said Lawrence was a college town, and bars were part of the territory.
The bars had no effect on downtown businesses, he said.
The bars are open at night, and the stores are open in the day," he said.
But he said bars could attract conflict.
"They should control more violence and fights," he said.
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
Track recruitment is a global affair
The Kansas track program refuses to follow a national trend of aggressively recruiting foreign athletes in order to bolster its success.
Gary Schwartz
Bob Timmons
ansas is one of a shrinking number of university track programs that does not depend on talent from outside the United States. In the
Big Eight Conference, every school but Colorado and Kansas actively recruits foreign athletes.
Despite making up only 5 percent of the total participants in college track and field, foreign athletes accounted for 12 of the 19 individual championships in the 1991 NCAA Outdoor Championships for track and field.
Tennessee was the last school, in 1991,
to capture the men's national outdoor
championship by winning all its points
from U.S. natives.
"I thought about it, but I never really liked the idea," Timmons said of recruiting foreign athletes.
The trend of recruiting foreign athletes has worried former Kansas track coach Bob Timmons since the late 1960s. Timmons coached Kansas track from 1966 to his retirement in 1988. He now coaches volleyball at Baldwin High School.
One student who made him consider allowing foreign athletes was Tony Watkins. Watkins ran for Kansas during the 1985 and 1986 seasons.
Although Watkins did not compete in Big Eight meets, Timmons said that having Watkins, a walk-on from Dungannon, Northern Ireland, made him feel hypocritical at the time.
He said that in the early 1980s he was forced to rethink his stand against having foreign students on the team.
By Kent Hohlfeld Kansan sportswriter
"Here I was criticizing other teams, and here we had Watkins," Timmons said. "I began to think, 'how can I discriminate
against a whole segment of the student population?"
He said that he still did not believe in recruiting directly from foreign nations and that U.S. universities should recruit from their own country and develop U.S. athletes.
"I'm a flag-waver, and I want to see American kids on those Olympic platforms." Timmons said.
During the 1950s Kansas dominated the Big Eight, winning eight straight conference indoor and outdoor track titles. That span of domination included two outdoor national titles.
When Timmons took over in 1964, that tradition continued as did the recruiting philosophy of staying within U.S. borders.
Kansas won three national indoor titles and one U.S. outdoor title during Timmons' tenure. He said that during the late 1960s and early 70s, the national track power shifted to teams like the University of Houston and Texas at El Paso, which had many by foreign athletes.
Kansas' domination of the Big Eight continued through the early '70s, while most Big Eight teams stayed within the United States for their talent.
That ended in the mid-1970s with the rise of the Iowa State Cyclones track program.
Some coaches say the Big Eight mirrors what has happened around the rest of the country.
The Big Eight:
See INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES, Page 9
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Ready, aim...
Greg Harms, Lawrence graduate student in chemistry, adjusts aiming mirrors to direct a pulsing light laser. The laser, once it is focused and aligned, will be used on different biological samples to study the effects of the laser on each sample.
PLO, Israel hit snag in withdrawal talks
Sides dispute interpretation of word in plan
TABA, Egypt — The Palestine Liberation Organization indefinitely suspended talks with Israel today, saying Israel did not intend to withdraw from occupied lands.
Nabil Shaaah, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Israel's interpretation of the word "withdrawal" really meant redeployment.
This is the first major dispute since the talks began three weeks ago. But both sides seemed interested in resuming the talks, and the Palestinians might have walked out to demonstrate their anger over the Israeli position on withdrawal.
Shaath said he would return to Tunis to confer with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. He urged Israeli delegates to consult their leaders to "come up with an interpretation that would allow us to proceed smoothly."
The talks in Taba, in their fourth round, are meant to define how Israel will transfer some powers to Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and Jericho on the West Bank under terms of the Israeli-PLO accord signed Sept. 13.
"We feel that the Israeli interpretation of that agreement is quite falling to grasp the meaning of withdrawal and its requirements," Shaath said.
"The agreement provided for withdrawal by the Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area, and
not within the Gaza Strip and Jericho area," Shaath said. "This is a withdrawal agreement and not a redeployment agreement."
Under the Sept. 13 autonomy agreement, Israel is to start withdrawing by mid-December from Gaza and Jericho and turn over internal security matters to Palestinian police.
Today's dispute grew from maps and withdrawal plans the Israelis presented Monday.
In the autonomy agreement, the PLO ceded to Israel the right to maintain security over Israeli settlements in the vacated territories. How Israeli forces will provide that security emerged today as the key dispute.
Shaath said at a news conference that the PLO interprets the accord as prohibiting Israel from leaving any troops in Gaza and Jericho.
Shaath's news conference was held almost two hours after it was scheduled, reportedly because of a private meeting between Shaath and Maj. Gen. Amnon Shahak, the chief Israeli delegate.
Shahak later said that he thought the talks should continue. The Israelis had put forth their withdrawal plan expecting it to be negotiated, he said.
"We did not present the withdrawal plan as an ultimatum," Shahak told reporters. "It seems they need the time to clarify some things for themselves."
The withdrawal plan presented the first obstacle in the Taba talks, he said, and it "surely won't be the last one or the most difficult."
Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, told reporters in Tel Aviv that he was aware of difficulties in the
talks, but added: "We will not compromise on anything that is linked to the security needs."
Earlier reports said the disagreement focused on whether Israeli soldiers guarding Jewish settlements would have unfettered access to roads through Palestinian areas to other settlements.
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported today that Palestinians were upset with Israel's demand to use roads connecting three settlement areas in Gaza. Use of these roads would give Israeli troops a presence on major roads in a large part of the strip.
In Jerusalem, Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin criticized the Palestinians for halting the talks.
"We have made a proposal that I think is very legitimate, and it is a great shame that the Palestinian response is to get up and leave, to pack up instead of talking," said Beilin, one of the architects of the Israel-PLO pact.
Beilin said that while the accord obliged Israel to withdraw, it also required Israeli troops to protect Jewish settlers remaining after the withdrawal. He said the Taba talks were meant to negotiate a way to ensure the settlers' safety.
Israel's housing minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, suggested the talks would be renewed soon when he told Israel army radio he was not too excited about the halt.
"The Palestinians have an interest no less than we to complete the negotiations," said Ben-Eliezer, a former military governor of the occupied lands. "They simply have no other alternative."
Wetland Debate Students at Haskell Indian Nations University discussed the religious significance of Wetlands south of the school with officials.
KU sees increase in grants
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By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
The quantity and quality of research grant applications has allowed the University of Kansas to receive an increase of $9.8 million in research funding for fiscal year 1993, University officials announced yesterday.
KU this year received a total of $86.8 million in grants — $50.3 million for the Lawrence campus and $6.5 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"I think the faculty deserves a lot of credit for writing strong proposals," said Kim Moreland, director of research support and grants administration, whose office oversees all grant application requests.
Howard Mossberg, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said that he expected KU to reach
$100 million a year in grant funds before the end of the decade.
"The trend reported here supports the belief that our faculty research activities, both sponsored and self-generated, have been growing for an extended period," he said.
Moreland said the Lawrence campus sent out an average of 1,100 grant applications every year. The Lawrence campus usually receives grants from about 150 agencies a year, but most of the funds come from the federal government.
After the application is filed, Moreland said, each agency takes about six to nine months to review the grant application.
A. L Chapman, associate vice chancellor for research administration at the Med Center, said research grants were necessary for the Med Center to operate effectively.
Chapman said the Med Center applied for about 200 different grants each year, most of which came from the National Health Institutes, a government institute that finances biomedical research.
KU's Institute for Life Span Studies, which deals with research and service training for developmental disabilities in children, annually receives the most research money, about $10 million, Moreland said.
"You can't have an academic health institution without the acquisition of new knowledge," he said. "New knowledge leads to technology, and new technology is an added benefit to the state."
Paul Diedrich, associate director for project development at the institute, said research grants were essential to the institute's budget since 90 percent of the budget came from grants.
Funding goes . . .
During the last five years, research grants have increased from $52.9 million to $86.8 million for an average increase of 12 percent a year.
Source: University Relations
Dave Campbell / KAMAN
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