Tuesday. December 13, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Visual Arts complaints unfounded, professor says
Staff Writer
By LUCY SMITH
Although there have been many complaints about the new Visual Arts Building, between Lindley and Marvin halls, most of the complaints are unfounded, according to Peter Thompson, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Students and faculty who use the building have complained of elevator malfunctions, inadequate ventilation in areas where toxic dust is present, used, and lack of equipment and windows.
Thompson said that because the bids for construction exceeded the $2.7 million cost, he was forced to cancel.
eliminated from the building plans and bids
had to be retaken.
Thompson said that in order to prevent losing classroom space, everything had been eliminated from the plans that was not considered necessary.
Among the items eliminated were two passenger elevators. An elevator for freight elevators is a single-level elevator.
Thompson said there had been reports that the elevator was not working.
HOWEVER, HE said that freight elevators were slower than passenger elevators and that sometimes caused them to think the elevators were not working properly.
Vacation hours announced
Most buildings on the University of Kansas campus will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. during the semester break Dec. 24 to Jan. 18.
Prof's home broken into
Burglar's took more than $1,700 worth of electrical appliances, clothes and a camera from the home of a KU professor Sunday night. Lawrence police said yesterday.
The victim, John B. Bremner, professor of journalism, told police that he returned at 10:15 p.m. Sunday and found a door open, lights on and the drapes closed.
Entry apparently was made by forcing a window open, police said. Bremner said the dog had been knocked out.
Items missing include a portable color television, an electric typewriter, a watch, clothes, a camera and a coin and stamp collection, police said.
Drawers were opened but apparently nothing was taken from them, police said.
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KAMES will meet at 7 p.m. in the Union's
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However, they will be closed Saturdays,
However, they will be 26 and Jan. 2, which
are both Monday's.
Buses will be running on the regular schedule during finals. Buses from Guatemala will depart court route, which will run on the half-hour instead of the hour. It still will run one hour a day. There will be no rush.
Exceptions to the general building schedule are:
- New Green Hall will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The law library in Green will keep its regular hours of 8 a.m. to midnight until finals Dec. 23. Regular hours will start again Jan. 17.
- Watson Library and the libraries in
Watson. Strong halls will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- The Visual Arts Building will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., until Jan. 3, when it will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. for intercession classes. That schedule will continue until the start of classes on Jan. 18. The building also will be open January 7, 8, 14 and 15.
- Allen Field House will be closed from 12am to 6pm. Jan. 11 will be open from 7, a.m. to 8, p.m.
- All facilities in Robinson Gymnasium,
except the swimming pool, will be open
Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. during semester break. The pool
will be closed throughout the vacation ex-
ception. The pool will be closed Jan.
13 from noon to 12:30 p.m. Both Robinson Gym and the pool will be closed on weekends.
- Buildings at the KU Medical Center will remain open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. during Christmas break. Clendening library at the Med Center, however, will not be open from 7 a.m. to 3 i.e., Dec 21 to Jan. 1. From Dec. 28 to 30, the library will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Vacation hours for Marvin Hall will be announced during final week.
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Thompson said that the ventilation system also was not functioning as well as it should and that he thought the system was inadequately designed.
"I don't think the engineers did an adequate job of planning for the chemicals in the system," she said.
arum many pondered by students
A ventilation system was built into the areas where strong chemicals were used
A 91-year-old man was injured Sunday afternoon in a fire that caused major damage to his house at 1800 Missouri St., a suburb of Lawrence Fire Department said yesterday.
because there were no windows in those areas. Thompson said the system would be improved to provide adequate ventilation for those areas.
Thompson received burns on his face and hands and was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the report said.
Lawrence man injured in fire
Damage was estimated at $1,400 to the house and $1,500 to its contents.
The fire apparently started in the back porch of the house while the owner, Joe Thompson, was thawing frozen water pipes, according to the fire department report.
Thompson said the original plans had called for ventilation of studios, but when the building plans were revised, the location was moved to a lower level and the cost of ventilation became prohibitive.
The reason, Thompson said, was that sunlight in many of the studio areas would be detrimental because it is necessary to have controlled light in those rooms.
The building was designed with few windows.
He said there had been discussion of eliminating windows entirely when the building was completed.
SKYLIGHTS ON the upper floor provide natural light. However, the heating and ventilation ductwork is directly beneath the skylights.
Sandra Roth, St. Louis junior, said, "I think the skylights are ridiculous. I think the skylights are ridiculous."
"I can't believe in all honesty that a contractor would put those pipes across my driveway."
The state architect, Carl Osman, said that the amount of light reduced by the mechanical system running beneath the skylights would not be appreciable and that
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because of the structure of the building, the system had to run beneath the skylight.
He said that the glass could break when someone attempted to open the doors. Thompson said bids would be taken for work to correct the doors.
Another problem is with the glass doors in a display case that Thompson said are dangerous because they do not slide properly.
The depth of the display cases was reduced to eight inches—the thickness of the wall—when the plans were revised. Because that was too shallow for most work to be done, the case would be designed to display flatwork and jewelry, and larger work will be shown in the main gallery.
PANTINGS BY students also are
displayed the building on $120,000 worth of
furniture.
Last week five paintings were stolen.
Thompson said the incident was disturbing.
"I hate to think that we couldn't use the building in the way it was intended," he said. "I hope it's a one-of-a-kind event. You can go where you want, when they are ready for it to be a class."
He said it was the first theft of artwork from the School of Fine Arts in several states.
Thompson said his goal was to have the problems solved by next fall, the original
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