Thursday, December 1. 1977
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Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
University Daily Kansan
Proarammer
fans. Wilkerson has been the scoreboard programmer for three years.
Scoreboard programmer Tom Wilkerson glances up at the Allen Field House scorecheck to check his messages to the cheering
Programmer punches cheers
By DEB RIECHMANN
Sitting at a small grey control board, a man punches keys, creating messages that flash across the scoreboard to University of Kansas basketball fans.
Staff Writer
Tom Wilkerson, one of two men who operate the computer scoreboard, has battled his way through the court of the court and scored the scoreboard alive with flashing names and revolving cheers for the last two seasons. He also won a national scoreboard in Memorial Stadium.
"I thought it would be enjoyable and it gave me an opportunity to see the basketball and football games," he said.
"I got here just about the time the board was being installed," Wilkerson, KU director of recreational services, said yesterday.
Wilkerson said it had taken him about 12 hours to learn to manipulate the computer.
"It knows only as much as you know,"
THE COMPUTER keyboard works much like a typewriter.
he said. "It doesn't even know the alphabet, unless you tell it."
Wilkerson begins his work by feeding
program instructions to the computer.
If he does it correctly, the computer
responds with a yellow printout, saying,
"Congratulations--You have suc-
cessfully loaded the mark 304A message
center."
He then inserts the names of KU players, matching them with the correct player numbers in the computer memory.
This allows him to flash different player names by pressing the number alone, he said.
Wilkerson, demonstrated by pressing keys that told the computer to display message number 14, automatically keying a number or nickname of KU player number 14.
Wilkerson said that he or Dick Bennett
NEW CHEERS are fed in with commercial messages from the four sponsors, who bought the scoreboard three years ago.
a Lawrence resident who also volunteers time to operate the scoreboard, arrived about 90 minutes before game time to check and program the computer.
Sometimes, Wilkerson said, the computer does not work because of electrical shorts or because there has been a failure to fix the spike, in the electrical current source.
Recently the computer has not been working properly, and Wilkerson said the football game computer has been supporting the Allen Field House system.
When this happens, he said,
the computer dumps everything in its
memory and they have to put all the
information back into it.
The basketball scoreboard computer can store 9,500 characters or about 125 messages. Additional information can be stored in message sequences.
Dykes denies recent rumors on Senate bid
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday denied the validity of speculation that he is considering running for the U.S. Senate seat located by retiring Sen. James Pearson.
"I have no intention of running for the Senate," Dykes said. "I have not talked with either Gov. Robert Bennett of Sen. James Pearson about my possible candidacy."
Bennett and Pearson have been mentioned as being among those who asked Dr. Hodgson to resign.
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Split architecture library called intolerable by dean
The architecture library situation will become much worse before it will get better, according to Rich Elsner, professor of archi- dence and curator of the architecture library committee.
Staff Writer
By LAURIE MARTIN
The architecture library was split two years ago, leaving some architecture books and slides in Marvin Hall library and allowing the rest in the art library in Watson.
"The split was suppose to be for short-term storage," Elsner said recently. "But our books are still in both Marvin and Watson."
the space is divided among engineering, geography and geology holdings.
According to Eisner, 15 per cent of the space in Marvin library is given to archeology.
"IF AN ARCHITECTURE book is construed at all to include any art or history, it is put in the art library in Martin instead of the library in Martin, "Eisner said. "The problem is that architecture is both art and technology."
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture, said the split of architecture holdings between Watson and Marvin was "intolerable."
"The students need to have all ar-closure materials together for ease of access."
The matter was father complicated by a proposal to move the art library in Watson to the basement of the new Helen Foresman Spencer Museum.
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Grad forum to be visited by officials
The forum is sponsored by the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
Four Kansas legislators will attend a forum on the proposed graduate student fee waiver from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
HE SAID DECISIONS about the architecture library were being made on an economic basis rather than on an academic basis.
Another legislator, Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, may come later in the aftermath.
The legislators are Rep. Patrick Augustine, D-Ellis; Mike Glover, D-D Lawrence; Irving Niles, D-Lyndon; and John Vogel, R-Lawrence. They will attend a luncheon as well as the forum, Lynn Bretz, coordinator of GSC, said yesterday.
GSC invited all Kansas legislators and KU graduate students, faculty and staff, she said. Kansas State University graduate students also will attend.
State Budget Director James Bibb cut the fee waiver request for $282,044 from KU's budget. However, the waiver could be reinstated when Gov. Robert Bennett and KU agree to fund the budget. If Bennett endorses it, the fee waiver will be sent to the legislature for a vote.
The waiver would eliminate incidental fees for graduate students who work half-time for the University as teaching research assistants or assistant instructors.
"Our facility is totally inadequate," Eisner said.
BRETZ SAID the purpose of the forum was to inform graduate students of the history and present status of the proposed fee waiver.
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The problem with the architecture library is not only that the holdings are split between Marvin and Watson, Eiener said, but also that Marvin has a poor environment for studying.
He said the facility was overcrowded and had a poor ventilation system.
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Eisner said the majority of the faculty in the architecture school was extremely diverse.
"KU would be a first-rate university if it didn't have a fifth-rate library system," she said.
He said he had received complaints from faculty because architecture holdings were split and inaccessible, which made it difficult for students to complete their assignments.
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