THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol.86 No.95
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 26, 197b
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Old annexes on campus to be razed
Eleven annexes on the Lawrence campus of the University of Kansas, some dating back to World War II, eventually will be removed.
Keth Lawton, director of facilities,
painting and operations, said yesterday
that the company was developing a new
The first group includes those buildings that date back to World War II—the Linden, Bailey, Military Science and Oread annexes—all of which will be rained when it is financially possible to construct necessary buildings. Lawton said.
The second group—the Marvin annexes numbered three and four, Green, Blake and University extension annexes and the two annexes east of Summerfield-compresses that will eventually be taken off the central campus and put to other uses, he said.
Long range plans are to remove all anxines, Lawton said, but current academic needs and the unavailability of funds for education will be difficult to determine when this will happen.
The Bailey, Lindley and Oread annexes and the number three Marvin anxex, which are now occupied by visual arts students, will be vacated when the new visual arts building is finished in spring 1978, Lawton said.
The number four Marvin annex, now used by geology students, will be moved to Summerfield Hall in April for use by the computation center. Lawton said.
He said college students would use classrooms in Lindley Hall after the move.
By 1978, Lawton said, the new computer center building should be finished and the three annexes that would then be next to Summerfield could be put to other uses.
He said that planning money for a continuing education building had been given to the University by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
Continuing education classes are now held in the University extension annex.
Preliminary plans will be submitted to HEW along with a request for a funding grant for the actual construction, he said. Continuing education, elsewhere, are one
Lawton said more annexes were on campus now than several years ago because of increased enrollment during the late 1960s.
Building of service facilities will continue into the 1980s. Lawton said.
in addition to the computer center, service facilities needed are the satellite union and buildings for the west campus physical plant complex, he said.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Wind 1. kite 0
Gary Lieberman, Chesterfield, Mo, sophomore, reels in what's left of his kite at the intramural fields near Robinson. Gusty, unpredictable wedge made kite flying at high speed.
Festival changes probable
BY LYNDA SMITH
Staff Writer
The cancellation of Herbie Hancock and Lioned Hampton from this year's Festival of the Arts will probably spur changes in future festivals.
Hancock and Hampton were the festival's main attractions, Carol Poulson, Festival of
Foulson said she and Mike Muller, SUA activities adviser, discussed the possibility of changing the festival before Miller left for the weekend, but no specific changes were planned.
Tickets for the festival were sold in a package coupon booklet, Poulson said, and most people probably bought coupons from Hancock's and Hampton's performances.
"The biggest night for the festival has always been the Saturday night concert," Poulson said. "Most people don't really care about the other nights."
HANCKOCC to appear Saturday, April 10, and Hampton was to appear April 9. The American Chamber Ballet, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and George Plimont will still appear April 4, 5 and 7 respectively.
Poulson said she didn't think the festival would be discontinued, even though it was cancelled last year and had made money only two times in its nine-year existence.
"It would take an awful力 for it to be dropped," she said.
Poulson said she thought that if SUA didn't make money on this year's festival, she'd be a bad candidate.
"Now I think we will break on even the three remaining nights, but it will take a lot
SUA didn't release the news of the cancellations when they were made.
Poulson said, "As soon as we would have announced it, people probably would have wanted their money back. We looked for equivalent replacements instead."
GREG BENGTSON, SUA president, said a final decision on the festival's future would be made next week when Miller returns to Lawrence.
He said the festival must be discontinued, but changing it was more probable.
"We hoped it (the festival) would take place, but if it can't, we have to accept he said. "Booking practices are change- ing," it just a matter of the way things are."
Bengtson said it was fairly easy for performers to arrange tentative bookings in November or December, and then cancel them after Christmas.
Performers have to be booked as early as November, Poulson said, because tickets are sold during spring enrollment in January.
"It's difficult for a university to be hardened," he said. "Performers realize that many of us are not ready."
WHEN SUA heard of the cancellations
two weeks ago, Bergson said, it
two months on, Bergson replaced,
rather than replacements.
Foulson said SUA decided not to run the contract breaks because half of the SUA board, including herself and Miller, would probably be brought to court.
Replacements considered were Melissa Manchester, and two jazz artists taken from a group composed of Stan Getz, Freddy Hubbard, George Benson and Les McKown. They weren't offered contracts because they were not performing engagements scheduled or were too expensive.
"But I think it's important," she said. "I wish I could."
Poulson said she would send a letter to Hancock an urgent request reimbursement for the damage.
REMEMBLEMENT won't be asked from Hampton, she said, because Hampton didn't want to get the job.
"It was our fault in a way," she said, because Hampton's agent said he had "bad intentions."
Although the coupons haven't been issued, Poulson said, SUA has a list of people who purchased them. She said those who bought coupons should bring identification to the SUA office in the Kansas Union to have their money refunded.
Slide rule faces extinction
Tickets for the remaining performances will go on sale March 8.
By JAY BEMIS
The slide rule is doing
University of Kansas professors and local office supply managers report that the once-popular mathematical tool is losing its popularity in modern technology—the hand-held calculator.
"CALCULATORS can do more and they're more accurate," he said yesterday.
J. D. Crestman, manager of the Kansas Union Bookstore, says more students are buying calculators because of their convenience and capabilities.
Before July 1 of last year, Christman said, the bookstore had sold an average of 240 slide rules a year. Since then, however, he has only five. Five slide rules have been sold, he said.
The bookstore has eight different brands of calculators. Two of the most popular brands, Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments, each feature six different models.
Workers accept move to remedy complaints
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
The United Public Employees Association (UPEA) last night cautiously accepted a resolution adopted by the Lawrence City Council on Monday to disarrange between city and employees.
The UPEA, which comprises six employee groups, met at the home of Dennis Smith, president of the Lawrence Sanitation draft a uniform response to the resolution.
a move toward regulations and away from favoritism, chaos and indifference."
Before the UPEA announced its response.
However, the UPEA statement said that none of the issues in the resolution were new and that city government had promised to correct them as early as last May.
The resolution, which ends three months of investigation of city mismanagement charges, contains 28 proposals to improve working relations and marks the end of a commission review of most employee grievances.
THE UPEA response said the resolution had "finally acknowledged to the public the existence of the many problems in city management. The resolution appears to be
"After almost ten months, little has changed, which is why we called for the investigating committee," the statement concludes. "In the resolution are still very vane."
THE STATEMENT was signed by Smith; Alvin Sammels, president of the Lawrence Firefighters Association; Earl Silvers, president of the Lawrence Street Department Employees Association; Gene Bouchard, president of the Lawrence Water Department Employees Association; Terry Parks, president of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Employees Association; and Eric L. Smith, president of the Lawrence Police Officers Association.
Smith, one of six people who investigated mismanagement during the past three months, said he thought the resolution wouldn't solve the disagreements.
Argersinger, Binns and Henderson signed
The Rev. Homer "Butch" Henderson, also a committee member, was at Tuesday's meeting. Reading from a prepared statement, Henderson told the commission he was pleased with the investigation.
Smith was present at the commission meeting but didn't comment during the hearing.
"I I would have said what I felt in my heart," he said, "they (the commissioners) would have listened, as they always do, and that would have been the end of it."
COMMISSIONERS Marinne Argeringer and Donald Bins, both committee members, also said they were pleased with the plan.
a committee report in mid-January. Smith, Samulis and Muriel Paul, the committee's citizen representative, signed a separate statement that they said was more specific and productive.
The second report, a 20-page document,
made several charges including charges of
theft.
"THERE ARE some desired recommendations, such as those in the areas of safety and employee evaluation," she said. "But the resolution in the main represents a greater threat than a direct attack upon, the very serious managerial problems in the city."
Paul, who wasn't at Tuesday's meeting,
said she was disappointed with the
resolution after briefly studying its proposals last night.
Paul said the city commission and Buffalo, city manager, were "culprits in the mayor's case."
"The city is the loser," she said
Christman attributed the increase in calculator sales to more than just student
*Are they buying them for nothing more than balancing their checkbooks and books?*
Fred Stubuek, owner of Carter's Stationery Supply, said he had definitely noticed a decline in the sale of slide rules, since the "advent of the calculator."
STUBECK the prices on his slide rules ranged from $1.50 to $40, depending on height.
"They've got prices down on calculators," he said. "Though they're higher-priced, all you have to do is press a button and you've got your answer."
Professors who were interviewed agreed that slide rules were losing popularity with students.
"The electronic calculator in the new slide rule." Paul Willhite, professor of chemical engineering.
anything that could be on a slide
rule, he said, also could be done on a
card.
"I've thought about taking my slide rule and mounting it on a wall plaque, just to remind me of the old days," be said. "I don't even know a student who owns a slide rule."
STUDENTS ARE allowed to use calculators for tests in Wilhelm's classes, he said, explaining that calculators are an instrument from the standpoint *d* the student.
"I think it is a generally accepted fact that calculators are a tool can use," he said. "However, a calculator also allows a student to answer the problem out," if he hasn't thought the problem out."
Will it arise that it would be detrimental if students started using calculators in class?
"If students don't know the basic arithmetic tables by the time they get to the college level," he said, "I don't think they'll have the time to trw."
Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry, said a calculator did essentially the same thing as a slide rule would, but more accurately.
"CALCULATORS are dropping in price at the time," he said. "Some are the same as last year."
Although calculators are gaining popularity, Bricker said, there is still an air of uncertainty.
"I took orders for some in class recently",
he said. "It's a good model because it's only
three inches square and you can carry it a
pocket or purse anytime. They cost $6 or $7
for $3 and them for $3 by ordering more. I told class
and 20 people who wanted one."
Bricker said he also feared what might happen in calculators used in school and high schools.
"We're going to generate a whole generation of people who don't know elementary arithmetic, he said. They will get confused unless they count it on their fingers."
YTRONE DUNCAN, associate professor of math, said he had not noticed any recent changes in the program.
"Calculators have definitely taken over," he said. "You can buy a calculator that performs the basic arithmetical operations cheaper than you can some slide rules."
Don Dungherby, associate professor of electrical engineering, said he thought that at least 50 per cent of his students were using calculators.
Although there might be some sort of historical importance, the slide rule, due to its simplicity it doesn't allow a switch to calculators because "as an engineering tool, the hand calculator is
"We can do problems never assigned to us before." he said.
DAUGHTERY SAID an advantage of the side rule was the fact that it is "failure rate" or a statistic.
"I've heard of students running out of batteries in the middle of a test," he said. "That's sort of a failure on the student's part, because if a calculator is durable, he before has recharged it the night before the test—but it has happened."
*With a slide rule, unless you smash it on the floor or something, there's no way you can measure.*
Roaches, leaks not part of leases
(Editee's Note): This is the fourth in a five-part series examining where students listen and why at the University
By LIZ LEECH
Students won't end up in an apartment where cockroaches replace landlords and kitchen floors are flooded by running bath water if they are cautious when renting.
Staff Writer
*“WHEN YOU are a tenant, you have the responsibility of understanding the agreement under which you are*
Carol Stohrbehn, administrative director of the Consumer Affairs Association (CAA) in the Kansas Union, said yesterday that repairs and rent agreements were the things students complained about most often.
Lawrence housing authorities advise students to read apartment leases carefully before signing.
them to think that they even belonged to a landlord. "But that there's not," she said. "An oral agreement is." But that is not true," she said. "An oral agreement is."
Sometimes students think they aren't obligated to a lead if there is no written agreement, happen them.
Verbal agreements are called "rental agreements." Written ones are leases, she said.
apartments since the passage of the state Residential Landlord-Tenant Act last July.
MOST LANDLORDS have check lists and inspect premises for damages with the tenant. When the tenant is ready to move out, Strobbem said, they again inspect the property for any damage done during the tenant's occupancy.
She said the law required that the tenant and landlord jointly take inventory of the apartment within five days of the end of the lease.
Strobben said the CAA had been receiving fewer complaints from students about repairs needed in their
"It's just so he (the landlord) won't get blamed for things he hasn't done and, in turn, the landlord can see if he's doing anything wrong."
Pat Bally, Lawrence Renault Exchange manager, said students should read lenses carefully and ask their landlord to ensure they are safe.
does questions it is uneven don't understand the agreements.
Le La孔菲ite, off-campus housing secretary, said
bac off-campus housing secretary.
who has not appointed descriptions or forum summaries. She is not the counsel of any law firm and lacked complaints, but that she referred them to a lawyer.
She said that students had been in inquiry about apartments for next fall but that she didn't have new listings.
SOME HOSING authorities said students should begin looking now for next fall's apartments to avoid future
Bailey said many apartment complexes were filled by August and many were prelaceasing now.
She said one complex would soon raise its rates $20, but students signed leases for the fall by March 31, the institute said.
The easiest way to save money in an apartment is to have a roommate. LaFollette said.
She said out-of-town students sometimes lived in expensive apartment complexes because of information about
La Follette said that she had heard about room rented in old houses for $45, but that she didn't know who the landlords were or where the houses were. Townhouses are much more expensive to rent, with some coating about $450, she said
There is a wide range of apartment prices in Lawrence, but what is included in the price is what makes the dif-
(Tomorrow): Houses, rooms-for-rent, trailers, married housing, co-op living and students living at home.)
Most furnished apartments provide beds, dining tables,
chairs, dressers, mirrors, couches and end tables.
THE SIZE of the apartment, whether it is furnished or unfurnished and whether utilities are included in the rent are all factors that cause prices to vary. Most apartments range from which range $50 to $150, depending on the complex.
Rent survey
APARTMENT COMPLEX ONE-BEDROOM TWO-BEDROOM THREE-BEDROOM BATHING
Avrami Quarter Creek 175-190 $125-145 325-345 $150
Apple Croft 175-300 190-325 x x 145-175
X 160-180 190-220 x
Awakon 160-180 190-220 x
Woodland Gardens 160-180 190-220 x
Brand X X X X X
Similarity for the short chart was generated by the Ramanan in a survey of the listed apparatuses. The prison differ for varying reasons, including either the burden or utilization of utilities and furnishings or beds.