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Wednesday, March 22, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Faulty construction plagues KU
By ROBERT BEER and PAM MANSON Staff Writers
Problems with construction at the University of Kansas inherited by acting State Architect Carl Ossmann are still unsolved.
involvement, who took over the position last September, is contending with leakage in a new building, unfilled contracts and defective materials used in campus buildings.
Leaks developed in the roof and walls of Moore Hall, the geological survey building on West Campus, shortly after it was built five years ago. At that time modifications were made to the roof, window frames and the exterior of the building was sealed.
However, leaks developed again last summer in the roof and walls of the building, damaging the walls.
Max Lucas said yesterday that he had reguested an inspection by the State Ar-
chitelt's office to determine the cause of the leaks.
"FACILITIES Operations has done some repair work," Lucas said. "It became apparent that the repairs were more extensive than we thought they would be, so I requested the State Architect to reexamine the situation."
Luca wrote two letters to the office, one in December and one in January, describing the leakage problem and requesting the inspection.
Lucas said the building had been recently inspected by the architect's office was still impinging on the roof.
working on the project.
If the cause of the leaks were in the building's design, the University and the state would be responsible, Ossmann said.
state would be responsible.
However, if the leaks were caused by defective materials or labor, the contractor would be responsible.
would be responsible.
"Our contracts require a one year warranty against defective materials or labor," Ossmann said.
If a contract is not fulfilled, the architect's office may turn the case over to the Kansas Attorney General for litigation.
The general contractor for Moore Hall was B.B. Andersen & Co.Inc., Topeka.
In addition to the problems with the panels, another Cannon庐-contractor could have been a problem.
ANOTHER COMPANY, Casson Construction Co., also of Topeka, the contractor of Green Hall, has been denied the final payment of $13,000 until defective exterior panels are repaired and lasted 106 days by the State Architect's office.
"It is just one of those things," Ossamm said, of the problems may be conceivable.
Casson said the sub-contractor who supplied the panels was no longer in business and therefore identical panels could not be supplied.
However, Ossmann said his office was still working on the problems.
Jobs await aggressive graduates
By DENISE RUPP
Staff Writer
The rumors are true. There are people with college degrees who fry hamburgers, but they don't care about it.
But they are not a majority, and
their results are this year's
professionals do not have to join them.
"There are plenty of good jobs for people willing to look for them." Eleanor Turk, placement director for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday.
That opinion was echoed by people in placement offices all over the campus who said that the job market was good, that an increased number of inquiries from businesses had been received this year, and that salaries were the highest ever.
But despite these encouraging trends, officials said many students were still ill.
Maggie Cartart, placement director for the School of Law, said many students thought jobs were available only for the very best students.
"THEY HEAR' it's tough," she said, "and if they don't get called back after their first interviews, many students get depressed and give up."
What they do not realize, she said, is that a company may interview a large number of students at three or four different universities when it has only one position to fill. In that situation the odds for any individual are not very good.
Carrart said her attitude varied from the traditional approach to placement. Rather than finding job openings and trying to plug in the gaps, she wants students to find or create their own jobs.
"The whole thing is confidence," she said.
"I if a person is sold on himself, he will be able to make a company realize that it needs him, and then he'll have a job."
A SIMILAR attitude toward placement is evident in the College of Liberal Arts.
"Because students have limited contact with non-academic fields," Turk said, "they have no knowledge of what jobs are available. The hardest thing for them is how the skills they have can be translated something they can sell to an employer."
The college's placement program was just developed this semester; therefore the emphasis thus far has been on counseling individual students and helping them prepare resumes rather than on providing job interviews.
Although none of the placement directors questioned the practice of interviewing on campus, they had different opinions about its worth to the students.
"There is no time in your life when you'll ever have the opportunity to be in contact with as many potential hires," Frederick Madina, placement director for the School of Nursing.
'THEY MAY NOT all be good, but they're usually interested in hiring new graduates. Imagine how much it would cost to fly all over the country to these companies, assuming that you could even get interviews with all of them.
--want," he said, "so they look for the ideal student."
Although the law school also uses campus interviews to place students, Cartarr said it was not an effective method of finding jobs for most students.
A recent study done by the law school showed that top graduates were the only ones likely to be hired in this manner. The law school had found jobs through their own efforts.
Madaua, who conducted student job interviews in a previous job, said it is not surprising that companies hire the best graduates first.
Mataus said the companies wanted someone with the right degree, a 4.0 grade point average, some career-related experience, a lot of involvement in campus activities and a pleasing appearance and personality.
Big companies can have whomever they
"THAT PERSON obviously doesn't exist, but he can most likely be the chance of getting it."
Despite chances that appear slim, competition for interviews in the School of Business is fierce, Madaua says. Sign up sheets are posted on Monday morning, and students wait outside the building during the order to be first in line in the morning.
"The waiting doesn't really bother me too much," Madaua said, "but when people wait in line and then get shut out, that bothers me."
Especially with big companies, he said, as
seven one-fourth the students who want to
leave school.
In the School of Education the situation is reversed. Herold Regier, placement director, said the interview schedules there were not as tall as he had hoped they would be.
"That percentage could go up if they were more aggressive," he said. "But if some people would rather do something else and not do what they are doing, the jobs are, that's not my responsibility."
"EVERYBODY WANTS a job in Kansas City," he said, "but we have to beg candidates to interview for some of the small town schools."
Willmington to go where the jobs are may be part of the price students will have to pay in order to get jobs this spring, but all the jobs that were said that jobs were available in all fields.
Attorney general candidate backs abolishing indeterminate sentence
Judge Robert Stephan, candidate for the republican nomination for Kansas attorney general, said last night that the criminal justice system in Kansas needed changes.
By MARY ERNST
Staff Writer
StafF Writer
Stephan told about 25 members of the Young Republicans in the Kansas Union that he resigned as judge of the 18th Judicial District in Wichita because he thought he had made mistakes in his ideas. About changes in the criminal system system openly as attorney general.
"One change that needs to be made is to abolish the indeterminate sentence," he wrote.
The indeterminate sentence does not set a definite period of time that the sentenced person must spend in prison, Stephan explained, but only established a minimum and maximum number of years that they would be imprisoned.
"Therefore," he said, "the end of those sentences (indeterminate) doesn't really mean anything because the sentenced man has been sentenced time after the minimum was completed."
Stephan stressed that abolishing the indeterminate sentence did not mean that there would be a mandatory sentence for all crimes. A judge would still have the option of considering the person involved and setting an individual sentence.
"THAT IS NOT mandatorion sentencing,
and in work we have to abolish the parole system."
Edward Lee Harris, 24, of Denver was ordered extradited to Lawrence Tuesday by a Denver district court judge, but a 10-day stay for his appeal was granted to allow him time to appeal the order.
Norwood killer extradited
Harris was charged in the Nov. 28 slaying of Sam Norwood, 30, manager of the F.W. Harris team.
Judge Henry E. Santo ruled that Harris has granted the delay to appeal the extradition order, according to Judge Khalifa.
Harris and two other persons were arrested by Denver police last December.
Norwood was abducted as he left Woolworth's to attend his son's fifth birthday party, and was found shot to death the next day.
An extraction bearing for Charles Moore Jr., 22, also charged in the slaying, was scheduled for Friday in Arapahoe County, Colorado. District Court.
Harry Warren, assistant Douglas County
Manager at Older Harris had little chance
of having his son work there.
He said that there would be no parole because the parole system existed only between the two courts.
Stephan, who spent 13 years as a district judge and was named Kansas Trial Judge of the Year in 1977, said that through his exp in prison, he learned that courtship should be made in prison organization.
He said he had seen too many first-time officers offenders to jail with hardened crime.
This affects not only the prison system but also the problems of curbing drug use and improving the juvenile justice system, he said.
"There should be three types of penal institutions instead of two," he said. "There should be a prison for the hardened, violent criminal; a prison for the non-violent but non-first-time offenders; and a dormitory for the first-time, non-official offenders."
"About all he can do is kill a lot of time," he said.
He said savings in security costs alone would be great, because Kansas currently spent between $8,000 and $9,000 per year on each maximum security prisoner. Changes in the criminal justice system are difficult there; there is always a lack of funds, Stenhan said.
"WE'RE GOING TO have to set our priorities because we do have a limited
budget," he said. "We have to decide whether we want to spend more on people with joints or on catching those selling the heroin."
If many juvenile laws that aren't offenses under
authority, they can be used to "book the books,
and it would also be help."
"Laws such as truancy and running away take up a lot of time and money," he said.
The local prostitutes may be victimless, he said, but often groups travel across the country to see them.
Turning to the question of enforcing prostitution laws, Stephan said that there is little doubt that the legislature will do.
Stephan has not officially filed for candidacy, but he said he has file to form a candidate committee which will allow him to start collecting funds. He said he would probably announce his candidacy sometime in mid-April.
ALTHOUGH NO OTHER republican candidates have announced candidacy for the office and Attorney General Curt Schneider, a democrat, has not decided whether he will run for re-election, Stephan he thought it would be an interesting race.
"I've got a few sins here and there," he said at the close of his speech, "but I try to keep them at a minimum and I think I can represent this state."
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