Wednesday, November 5, 1975
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Summit conference Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Two workmen take a break from work on the new $4.3 million law school building near Allen Field House. The five-floor building replaces Green Hall, which has housed the city's police department.
KU student exchange pact with Costa Rica renewed
The agreement provides for KU students to spend a year in San Jose, Costa Rica, and for costa Rican graduate students to attend KU.
The third renewal of the long-standing exchange agreement between the University of Kansas and the University of Costa Rica was signed here yesterday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and the actor Gustavo Dulce of the University of Costa Rica, Chando Gutierrez.
"this contribution of the University of Kansas to the University of Costa Rica," Gutterzeer said, "has been one of our paramount contributions to this institution that has occurred in our university."
In a short speech before the signing of the agreement, Gutiérrez said the University of Costa Rica had received many benefits through the agreement. According to Gutiérrez, the many students and faculty members that have visited the University of Costa Rica have enriched the campus and opened up a new culture and perspective.
The University of Costa Rica has had the benefit of technological assistance in many
On Campus
Events ...
WORDS AND SILENCE, a time for meditation for everyone, will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Danfort Chapel, THE BIG ROOM in the big Room of the Union, JOHN McCAULEY, assistant professor of history, will give a historical approach to bible study at 7:30 p.m. at the United Ministries Center, ROBERT EWEDARDS, AN EDITOR'S VIEW" will be given by David McDowell, an author and editor, at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. ROBERT EDWARDS, a visiting artist from Rochester, NY, will recital at 8 p.m. in SWarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW; the aptitude test for en-
gagement program will be administered at 8 a.m.
Suitcases filled with pottery, baskets and
maps will be the topic of a presentation on
SUITCASE IBIBITS by. Michael W.
Williams at 9:30 a.m. in the Main Gallery of
Wells Fargo.
Announcements...
ELIAS K. MICHAELIS, assistant professor of human development, has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health to deploy seizures during alcoholic withdrawals.
RONALD SHULL, Haven graduate student, has received a Fulbright-Hays travel grant from the University of academic year 2014 to modern drama at the University of Mainst in West Germany.
ways and has had the opportunity to send many of its instructors here, he said.
Gutierrez singled out George R. Waggoner, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, and his wife, Barbara Ashton Waggoner, as two remarkable people who had contributed to the program. In 1960 Waggoner, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, initiated the exchange program.
"I hope we have given something to you in the way of experience and a different outlook," Gutierrez said. "I hope this will continue on the same line."
KU construction making progress
About 65 people attended the signing of a resolution in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
Dykes said that for many years the University of Kansas has had a distinct record in international education and that institution was still another step in that direction.
According to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, students in the program spend their junior year at the University of Costa Rica. The university members usually went alone as an adviser.
By JOHN FULLER
Construction projects at the University of Kansas are progressing on or ahead of schedule, according to Keith Lawton, operations and facilities, planning and operations.
Staff Writer
A pedestrian undergass beneath Naimsim Drive connecting Learned with the main campus was also completed recently, he said last week.
Except for a few minor details, the new additions to Learned Hall have been completed a month ahead of schedule, according to Lawton.
Lawton said that satisfactory progress had been made on the new art museum and the new law school. The foundations of his school were built by a well under the first floors, he said.
Shankel said that some faculty members had the chance to do research and that students had the opportunity to study at an academic university and to learn about a different culture.
Howard T. Walker, dean of the division of continuing education, said yesterday that a site for the proposed statewide continuing education center would be chosen within weeks.
"We had a good summer for construction work because of the favorable weather
WHILE construction work proceeds,
plans are being prepared and discussed for
the building.
A committee appointed earlier in the month by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will discuss and plan the new architecture project. He recommended one of two sites, Walker said.
The sites, which are owned by the KU Endowment Association, are at 23rd and 10th streets and at the present location at 1246 Mississippi St., across the street from
The $8.75 million project at Learned adds 82,000 square feet to the existing 100,000 square feet in the building. The project was begun in September 1973.
Walker said the project was still being discussed, and he predicted it wouldn't be completed until about 1980. He said he would have cost approximately $7.5-$8 million.
THE TWO-STORY addition to Learned, built on top of the original structure, provides space for administrative offices and classrooms for the School of Architecture, which is added to the east end of the building will accommodate laboratories.
Some of the administrative offices in the new addition have been occupied since August, according to Carl Burkhead, an environmental health division of the civil engineering department had already completed its move into its new accommodations in Learned. The division had only been in the Nuclear Reactor Center.
More space, better lighting and new equipment, such as walk-in incubators, were some of the advantages of the new facilities, Burkhead said. The incubators are environmental rooms in which termites can be kept constant for extended periods.
the chemical and petroleum engineering department will gradually begin moving into learned around Nov. 11, according to the latest reports of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Preston said he was happy to see his department moving out of Lindley Hall because the laboratories there were cramped and drab. The department hopes to be fully operational in Learned by the beginning of next semester. Preston said.
THE MECHANICAL engineering department begin classes in the new additions of equipment, resetting of heavy equipment belonging to the department won't be completed until the beginning of next semester, according to the formal, professor of mechanical engineering.
The department had been in Fowler Hall. Forman said much of the departments obsolete or seldom-used equipment be moved to a more appropriate because it would be a waste of space.
Students in the department had to arrange their schedules to exclude any laboratory courses this semester because of a computer crash. However, regular classes were not disrupted.
The three departments are being moved by the company moving firm and building by the ground crews.
T. R. SMITH, professor of geography, said he was glad to see the chemical and petroleum engineering department move because the vacated space in Lindley would be moved to the department of geography and meteorology and the department of geology.
However, the move did present a problem, Smith said, because the space that was vacated was unmissable to the two departments in the condition in which it was moved. The situation is one of major remodeling of the space but he didn't know how it had been acted upon.
"I think funds for remodeling are just as important as those for new buildings," said
Lawton said that funds had been allocated for major repairs and special maintenance for the vacated space. However, no funds were be allocated for a total remodeling job.
The plans for the proposed School of Fine Arts building are still in the hands of the architect, according to Lawton. The project has been delayed because factors made the previously accepted bid of $7.5 million unfeasible. The plans are awaiting further approval from the bittersweet prerelease of labor and materials.
Lawton said he would know in two weeks when new bids for the building could be made.
Lawton summarized other building and major maintenance activities at KU;
and that we $70,000 less than the original estimate came in last week for the KU Medical Center. The bid of $2,025,000 was less than the budget used to form the floors of the structure.
—A bid came in last week for the resur-
facing of Allen Field House. The $80,600 bid
was about $70,000 less than the original
estimate.
A ~ $25,850 contract was awarded last week to repair the roof of Robins Gymnasium.
-Bids will be taken soon to provide new lighting for M-zone.
—The waterproofing and tuck-pointing of specified buildings on campus is 85 per cent.
Staff Photo
Nouveau art
The $3.8 million art museum is slowly taking shape on the lot west of the Kansas Union. The museum will provide more and safer display and storage areas for art objects.
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