University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 18. 1977
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Airport improvements scheduled for January
By HENRY LOCKARD
Staff Writer
Improvements at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, north of Lawrence, are expected to begin in January. Ross Copeland, chairman of the Lawrence aviation advisory board, said Tuesday.
Copenland said the Airport last year received a $440,000 Federal Aviation Authority grant to help fund $320,000 would be used to improve landing facilities and the remaining money would go toward the purchase of more land. The Air Force Department Association for future expansion.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said yesterday that two firms bid on the job last year but that their bids were higher than the airport could spend for improvements.
Copeland said new bidding should begin in four or five weeks.
Proposed improvements are to lengthen the existing asphalt runway by 1,000 feet, and increase the width of the road.
THE POSSIBILITY of building a 5,000 foot runway stretching east and west also allows for even greater speeds.
There are now two runways being used.
One grass runway 2,400 feet long stretches
Copeland said the improvements were drastically needed because the short runways were unsafe for twin-engine planes. Nevertheless, the commuter service operating from the airport has one twin-engine plane in its fleet.
east and west, and an asphalt runway, 3,000 feet long, stretches north and south
Copeland said that the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce sees Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma to find a city the same size as Lawrence with an airport in as poor condo market.
"We had to go to a little town with a population of fewer than 4,000 before we found an airport with as short runways as there are out there (Lawrence)." Copeland said.
COPELAND SAID the airport was a disgrace to Lawrence.
"I lawrence wouldn't settle for a second- library, or a second-rate bridge, or second-rate streets and schools." he said. "they've had a tenth-rate airport for years."
Robert Custer, director of commuter operations at the airport, said yesterday that pilots familiar with the airport were not afraid to land on its runways.
"After they've used it for about two months they'd get used it" Custer said.
Custer also said, however, that new pilots flying for the commuter service were scared the first few times they flew to other towns or other pilots from commuter services from other towns such as Capitol Air Service, Inc., in Manhattan, always commented on the condition of the airport.
that case the pilot would not have room enough to shut down without going beyond a certain radius.
Custer and the short runways could be dangerous if a plane ever had an engine failure. The runways are covered with
CUSTER SAID that such an emergency was not likely, but if it did happen, it would be worthwhile.
53 courses to be offered in intersession program
He said the plane most likely to be caught in such circumstances was a six-passenger Cheroke 6, the only twin-engine plane in the fleet.
He said that could happen only if the plane were loaded to its full gross weight capacity.
Intercession catalogues are available at the Office of Admissions and Records, 126 Strong Hall, or at the KU Regents Center, 900 Mission Road, Overland Park.
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The 178th intermission program, from Jan. 3 to Jan. 15, will offer 34 courses in 25 different areas.
Supervision, maintenance and utilities costs account for most of the increases.
Classes will be for one or two hours credit.
Course catalogues were available Monday.
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125 of the classes will be held at the KU Regents Center in Overland Park. Enrollment for both campuses will be from Dec. 3 to Dec. 9.
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Ervin said men's scholarship hall contract fees were raised from $928 to $976 a year. Douthart and Sellards halls' fees increased from $855 to $896.
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Other courses include an investigation of the current Korean bribery scandal, an examination of suicide cause and effect, a seminar in the art of Walt Disney, inventing and squaring dance dancing, pottery making and yarn design on a spinning wheel.
INTERSESSION FEES are $18 a credit hour for undergraduate credit and $27 an hour for graduate credit. No student may enroll for more than three credit hours.
The catalogue notes that, although regular University credit will be given for undergraduate courses, that intercession courses will count for degree purposes or that upper-level courses will count for graduate credit. "Students are advised to consult with the deans in their case."
On weekdays during the two-week intercession, the Kansas Union cafeteria will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Kansas Union bookstore will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Watson Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cal Williams, intersession coordinator, said that any interested person may enroll. However, if a class does not have adequate registration it will be dropped from the schedule, he said.
But Kent Ervin, All Scholarship Hall Council president, said last night the contract fee was increased only 5.2 percent—less than the rate of inflation.
Student earns research grant with mod piano
The first undergraduate research award in music recently was given to a student who had been accepted into the Music Program.
Avant-garde, Dunavin explained, is a term for music that cannot be categorized.
She said that the two works she researched were good examples of this type of music. Marto Davidovsky's "Synchronism" and John Furstenberg's a conventional piano score played "unconventionally with a pre-recorded tape segment, she said. The second work, "Five Pieces for Plano," by George Crumb, ended up being used to pluck the strings inside a piano.
Contract fees to be increased for schol halls
"It's very contemporary and the artist uses techniques that haven't been tried before."
Dunaina said that she would use the grant for her research expenses.
Scholarship hall residents will pay more for a room next year because an increased contract fee was approved by the Administrative Housing Board Monday night.
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