University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 11. 1978
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B&G makes clean sweep of KU
By FLORESTINE PURNELL
Last night two workers thoroughly cleaned all the bathrooms on the third floor of Learned Hall. They cleaned the chalk boards and vacuumed the cappel.
Yesterday, students have seen workers sweeping the steps at the main entrance of Strong Hall, passed another worker with a load of trash in Flint, or walked around someone buffing a stairwell in the Kansas Union.
The few workers a student may notice are part of the 375 buildings and grounds employees that maintain the University's facilities, Lee Ousdahl, assistant director of the physical plant and the Buildings and Grounds Department, said yesterday.
"Most of the work that our people do isn't recognized," Ousdahl said. "Our main purpose is to generally maintain the structure we have, and make noticeable when something isn't done."
Then, Ousdald said, people will call in with a maintenance problem. That's one way the office finds out what needs to be done. Then you determine where a group of workers will go
after the supervisors have made a daily survey of the campus, Ousdahl said.
Ousdahl said that there were two main groups of workers in Buildings and Grounds. One group, the grounds crews, generally takes care of the grounds, trees and buildings. The grounds雪的snows sands the streets and does a minimum of outside work in winter, he said.
The other main group of workers takes care of the buildings. Within both groups, Ousaid said, are skilled workers, such as carpenters and plumbers, who work inside and outside.
It's possible to find any type of person working for building and grounds, Ousdahl said, and there is a balance of younger and older workers. They all work eight hours a day, five days a week, except in cases of emergencies, he said.
"They are all people who want employment," he said, "and now the turnover among the unskilled workers isn’t as high as before. This is when people were moving around more."
Ousaidh said his turnover, which had been a problem in the past, was less now
Heavy snowfalls, breakdowns of equipment vital to University operations, and power failures are emergencies which allowed overtime hours. Ousdahl said. Power failures should be scheduled from 6 am to 3 pm, or 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
TODAY: SEN JAMES PEARSON, R-Kansas, will speak and answer questions from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in 104 Green Hall.
TONIGHT: Albert Gerken will give a CARLILON RECITAL at 7. The KU PREMEDICAL-PREDESTAL CLUB will meet at 7:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Jack Winerock will give a FACULTY RECITAL at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Events . . .
TOMORROW: ALLAN SHAPIRO, professor at the University of Haifa, will speak on "The Family in the Israeli Kibbutz," at 1 a.m. in 2 Fraser Hall, GOV. (807) 439-3525; 104 Green Hall, Charles Stuart, superintendent of schools at Clay Center, QUESTION-ANSWER SESION for education majors from 3 a.m. to 4:30 in 301 Haile.
Applications for the University's MINORITY AFFAIRS ADVISORY BOARD may be obtained at the Student Senate Office on level 3 of the Union. They are due on or before May 1, 2017.
Applications for the minority student representative position on the STATE COLLEGES COORDINATING COUNCIL are due Saturday, Feb. 14, and may be obtained at the Student Senate Office on level 3 of the Union.
Announcements . . .
Correction...
From 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., watchmen are on duty. Skeleton机械 crew work on buildings.
JIM PARKER, Assets Coitation School Senate candidate from the School of Business, was incorrectly identified as Jim Parks in Monday's Kansan. A Kansan story Monday reported that KU students had placement priority at the HILLSTOP program, which is a student achievement program number 175 when Hillip received federal approval and was made open to the public.
For a University of this size, much equipment is used. There are around 30 trucks in use by buildings and grounds personnel, but only one car, Odaushi said. The trash, ladder and wench trucks are the most commonly seen of the University trucks.
For summer work, there are about a dozen rider mowers and more than 15 power mowers, in addition to all of the trucks in use. Usdushal said that because of the large amount of extra work and equipment used by these machines, many temporary workers were hired.
Harold Bilch, supervisor of grounds and landscaping, said the amounts of sand and gravel used in the construction are
"We have sometimes used four times as much sand and salt as we have this winter." Blitch said. "But then, we get the biggest part of our snow in February and March."
Bilch said that during winter, grounds crews were on call 24 hours a day. Sometimes it is necessary to call people at 4 a.m.
Ousaidh said that Buildings and Grounds personnel are sometimes seen doing minor remodeling jobs. For larger jobs, the University will hire a contractor.
Residence hall areas aren't unset Buildings and Grounds care, Oduaiah said. The housing department takes care of its own walks and maintains its own buildings.
Student learns sight to return
A chemistry student who was blinded in a laboratory explosion Saturday night in Malet Hall Halt was told yesterday by Medical clans that he will soon regain total vision.
Anand C. Burman, Madison, India, graduate student, said last night from the Med Center that doctors told him he would have to see normally within a couple of weeks.
Burman was injured when an experiment he was conducting exploded in his face. The explosion caused $1,000 damage to the lab. Burman said he could remember nothing about the explosion until a minute or so after it happened.
Burman said he got the scis of his life when the experiment exploded.
He said he had made a mistake in not wearing the protective gear, such as safety goggles, required by the chemistry department.
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Tonite: Joe Utterback Trio
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THE HAWK'S NEST PRESENTS
Thursday, Feb. 12
5:30 THE K.U. BASKETBALL BAND to Director: JIM BARNES
7:00 "Everything from 'In the Mood' to the Moody Blues'"
7:00
7:00 to DINNER SPECIAL *1.25
7:30 Solo Performer: MAX TENANT
Spaghetti,
Tossed Salad,
Toasted Bread,
Beverage
7:30 to 'GOD'S OWN JUKEBOX' 9:30 ROGER NOLAN & GREG KESLER
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, Feb. 13 & 14 8-12 p.m. Disco by KJHK FM-91 DISCO SERVICE
Next Week—OPEN MIKE
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