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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
PLEASANT
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.42
Wednesday October 26,1977
—Lawrence, Kansas
Architect board proposed
By SUSANT. HALL
Staff Writer
The state division of architectural services would be replaced by a seven-member building commission, including representatives from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University under a legislative proposal made this week.
Recommendations made by the Interim Ways and Means Committee would abolish the position of state architect, which has been repeatedly criticized for its role in state construction, and would create a state building commission. The committee decided the commission would include Charles Kahn, dean of the University of Chicago School of Architecture, and Foerster, dean of architecture and design at K-State.
The five other members of the commission have not been named.
THE JOBS OF 54 employees associated with the architect's office, a division of the department of administration, would be terminated, according to the proposal.
"We want to get rid of the civil service in the architect's office and cut down on the business that the company does. Sen. Norman Garr, R-Westwood, a member of the interim committee, said yesterday." We want to give the duties to a private firm and hold them responsible for the pro-act.
David Barclay, an administrative assistant to Garr, said the private architect is responsible for building a building's design, monitoring construction, dealing with problems that occur during construction and approving specific plans. This responsibility is currently done by the state architect's office.
But most important, Barclay said, the architect would be responsible for "adequate inspection to make sure the contractor does the work he was hired to do."
BARCLAY HAS been working on a summer-long study of state construction. He has spent the past year building the
totaling an estimated **£2 million** in repair work, in **£3 state buildings** and three state hospitals.
Included on the list was a charge of inadequate ventilation in Wescoe Hall and a faulty roof at Robinson Gymnasium that was repaired once but must be replaced.
Design and construction problems at the KU Medical Center also have been a constant problem for the architectural division, Barclay said.
At least three contractors have filed arbitration suits asking for compensation for work at the KU Medical Center's basic sciences building that contractors say was necessary because of architectural and design problems.
BARCLAY SAID the state architectural office played a large role in all aspects of state construction, including legal aspects. He also used a time inspector on all construction projects.
He said the new commission would be responsible for part-time inspection of the projects, and that he chitched's plans in contrast with the extensive review the state does now. The commission also would be responsible for the design and construction of small projects, for example.
There would be just enough involvement by the state under the proposed system to get a significant effect.
Garr said, "The most glaring problem in the state building construction mess is the lack of direction and responsibility on the part of the staff and firms."
Barclay agreed, and said that the responsibility of each of the various steps in state construction was shared by three or four architects. The architects were difficult to find out exactly who was at fault.
HE SAID THE resulting problem was that the state could not go to a single person if something went wrong in one of the construction steps. The new proposals, he said, would make the architect the responsible person.
The building commission would recommend three to five architects they thought were competent to do projects, Garr said. But the present architectural negotiating committee, composed of the state budget director and representatives of the state institution or agency connected with the project, would continue to select the private architect for the project, he said.
The commission, Barclay said, would hire an executive director to run it. Interim committee members agreed, he said, that the commission should architect with at least five years' experience.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION problems at the Med Center also have been a constant problem for the architectural division. Barclay said.
Krueger said when he resigned that "the division could be reorganized in numerous ways" and that he thought it was impossible for one person to be responsible for all the problems within the division. Carl Osman is the acting state architect.
Recent controversy surrounding state
construction led to the resignation of Louis Krueger as state architect on Seit. 15.
Garr said staff members from the interim committee, the legislative research office and the revisor's office were in the process of preparing a report and drawing up a plan for the legislation committee on the building commission. From there, he said, the proposed statute would go to the Legislative Coordinating Council, composed of state House and councilers, who would decide in which house the legislation would first be introduced.
Bowersock Mills site choice for city hall
By STEVE PARSONS Staff Writer
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Staff Writer
Syrian blames Iraq for murder
ABU DHABI - Syrian Forign Minister Abdel Hamid K哈麦dam blamed Iraq yesterday for the assassination of a United Arab Emirates official, saying it was an effort to underwrite the pan-Arab policies of Syria. It was believed that the Islamic State had taken the alleged袭击耐援 after a hijack attempt. See story page two.
Carter urges Senate energy action
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday that four years of federal investigations had failed to provide Israel had stolen information from the government.
Powell denies Israel stole uranium
Also yesterday, a House-Senate committee working on energy legislation rejected a provision that eventually would have prohibited automakers from selling carbon taxes.
The Senate Finance Committee has approved the tax measure and although it differs radically from what Carter wants, he urged the full Senate to adopt it quickly. Quickly action appeared unlikely, however, as a group led by Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., pressed for changes on the Senate floor. Numerous amendments are expected during the week to water down the Finance Committee bill or to insert some of Carter's tax plans.
A story in an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine alleges that an Israeli commando unit hijacked two uranium shipments in France and Great Britain in 1988 and 1989. The article said Israel began hijackings and clandestine operations in Iraq in 1987, which resulted in its obtained uranium from a nuclear material processing plant in Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON - President Jimmy Carter yesterday urged quick Senate action on an energy tax measure while Senate liberals began the time-consuming process of trying to alter the $40-billion program of tax breaks for industry. No substantive issues were decided.
Powell told reporters investigations by the Atomic Energy Commission and the FBI had failed to uncover Israeli diversion of U.S. enriched uranium.
TOPEKA-Civil Service salaries may become more competitive with the private sector if important revisions in the state's pay plan are approved next year. Keith Welttm, secretary of administration, said the $24 million-$30 million increase would not include any additional money for the state's contributions to the public employees' retirement plan or to social security. See story page two.
Plan increases civil service pay
Violence in protest of the deaths of three West German terrorists continued yesterday in Italy, Turkey and France. West German police have said the three committed suicide following the failure of a hijacking at freeing them, but leftist sympathizers said they were murdered. Meanwhile, police say they have a new lead in the murder of German industrialist Hamns-Martin Schleyer. See story page two.
Violent protests continue in Europe
While thousands of fans jam into KU's Memorial Stadium on game days, groups of people in tarry parking lots to eat. Some have lunch at a restaurant, and some truck. Henry Sullivan, a 1949 graduate, has been one of these "tailgaters" for 27 years. For some, the pre-game get-torgers are a special time for class reunions. Others just for the "high times." See story, picture pages sk.
The Lawrence City Commission decided last night to build a city hall at the Brownsock Mills site near the Kansas River to promote private development of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, the downtown area directly south of the site.
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The commission also decided to build a new East Lawrence Community Center near 151th Street and Haskell Ave., adjacent to Edgewood Park, despite protests by the East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA).
There was little opposition to the commission's decision to locate the proposed $20 billion loan.
JACK ROSE, city commissioner, admitted that the site had limited accessibility, but said that the major reason for its lack of development enhancement and development of the downtown area. He said the commission thought that down town business was strong enough to promote private development of a new building, with the city hall giving the initial impetus.
However, one citizen questioned why commissioners decided to locate the city hall on a site that had limited accessibility. The commissioner asked them be one-way. This would limit traffic flow.
The commission rejected a proposed site on the east side of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, leaving it open for private development.
A city hall design has not been chosen, but the commission stipulated that the grain elevators adjacent to the site be torn down. It also authorized that the Kansas Fiberboard Co. building east of the site be used and not specify how the building would be used.
THE COMMISSION also asked that Peters, Williams and Kubota Architects, the
Corps blastings to rid reservoir of risky bridges
By MELISSACORDONIEI
Staff Writer
Vic Counts, project director for Clinton, said yesterday that a demolition battalion from FT. Riley had been contracted by the Water Quality Dept. to be under water when the reservoir is filled.
Douglas County's peaceful countryside has been disturbed the past two days by loud booms. The noise accompanied the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Clinton Reservoir, southwest of Lawrence.
Counts said the bridges would create a boating hazard if they were not destroyed.
HOWEVER, MARGARET Hodges, who lives near the project, said she had known that the bridges would be blasted but hadn't notified that the work was starting this week.
There are 45 bridges to be destroyed.
Counts said, and the blasting will continue.
"the blasts shake the house. They shake the windows. They shake everything," she said.
Hodges had no damage had occurred yet, but she was afraid the blasts would be damaging when a bridge closer to her home was destroyed.
He said residents living in a one-to-twelve radius of each blasting site would be more likely to die.
Counts said the chance of property damage was slight, but the U.S. Army would be responsible for any damage that was caused by the battalion's work.
Clinton Reservoir is to be filled in stages over the next four-and-a-half years. After the fourth and last filling in 1881, the lake reached 7,000 acres, 475 feet above sea level.
The lake site is four miles southwest of Lawrence. When filled, several boat and recreational areas along a 72-mile shoreline will be available.
The city commission approved setting itself up as a building commission so the city could issue revenue bonds to get immediate capital for building the city hall. A building commission is necessary for the city to issue revenue bonds for city buildings.
firm designing the city hall, study the possibility of including underground parking along with the proposed parking spaces east of the building site.
The revenue bonds, which are sold to major investors in New York or Chicago to get cash, would be bought back with federal funds. The city will get quarterly through 1980.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said the revenue bonds would be issued to acquire all money at once so that the building would not have to pay taxes. He said he awaited quarterly revenue sharing checks. The revenue bonds, he said, will be brought back as each portion of the $2.1 million in funds he received.
Commissioners have said that this method of payment also would keep locally collected tax money from being used for the building.
Although the city hall site was not tested, the East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA) objected to the commission's choice to place the new East Lawrence Community Center south of 18th Street, several hundred feet of Haskell Ave.
THE ELIA represents the residents in the area bounded by Oregon, 15th and Massachusetts streets and the Kansas River.
Richard Kershennbaum, president of ELIA, said the Edgewood site violated the spirit of the Community Development Act, which is meant to benefit low income people, because most of those people in Lawrence were north of 15th Street.
Kershenbaum also said a center was needed where the current one was, at 10th and Delaware streets, to act as a buffer between residential and residential areas in East Lawrence.
Mayor Marine Ardersinger said she
signed Khersonbaum's arguments "kind of
belief" on the proposed plan.
She said the ELIA strongly opposed a Haskell Loop when it was proposed for the area. It would have been a better, permanent buffer. she said.
Also in opposition, a petition signed by 87 residents in the vicinity of the Edgewood
THE HASKELL LOOP was a roadway proposed last year to speed traffic through east Lawrence, going by the location of the town square. The proposal was voted down last year.
The commission also last night decided by a narrow 3-2 vote to relax a city employee
Keep-away
A warm fall afternoon seemed the perfect time for a spirited battle between Boh Whelen and Fonzie, the "soccer dog." Neither of the two came out victorious, though, after the game.
Staff Phdto by ELI REICHMAN
Senate to consider organization funding
Two bills allocating $25,316.13 to 30 student organizations will be considered by the Student Senate at its 6:30 meeting in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
The two bills are the result of four nights of hearings held by the Senate Fall Budget Committee last week. The committee's budget recommendations were drawn up in two separate bills to allow the Senate to consider the funding for four new groups that have not received Senate allocations in the past year. The Senate, the new groups, requires a two-thirds majority of senate votes while the second bill requires a simple majority.
A bill submitted by Ralph Munyan,
student body vice president, designating Nov. 19 as Alumni Appreciation Day, also will be considered. The event would be held at the University of Missouri for Higher Education Week, Nov. 14 to 19.
Steve Leben, student body president, said yesterday that the question of changing the University recognition policy might also be discussed. In late September, the Senate approved a resolution poised for recognition policies required by the vice chancellor for student affairs office.
Current guidelines for the policy state that religious and political groups are prohibited from applying, as well as groups that deal with external "activities, halts or proclivities."
Parking board admits confusion
Rv BRIANSETTLE
Staff Writer
Andrew Torres, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, told SenEx members yesterday that because of recent problems, the board was "in somewhat of a disarray."
Torres was invited to speak before SenXen by William Westberke, chairman of SenXen. Westberke said he wanted traffic board members Torres and Julian Holtman to appear as speakers in recent activities, specifically of changes in university campus parking.
Recent changes in distributing parking permits have reduced the number of permits available to KU faculty members, staff and students. This reduction has raised
Torres said two problems were responsible for the confusion.
"We ARE in the end stages of separating police services from parking services, and our former chairman, Benita Bock, recently resigned from the committee." he said.
Torres said distinguisht between parking on campus and police patrols on campus, on campus
completed. However, he said the process was dealt a setback this summer when Bob Ellison, coordinator of parking and traffic, died.
Westerbke told the meeting that Bock had resigned about two weeks ago because of academic considerations. Torres was informed Monday that he would serve as chairman of the board. Torres had been vice chairman of the board.
Bock agreed that complaints were an annual occurrence and said that the normal procedure for parking complaints on the property will permit them to a Traffic and Parking subcommittee.
Torres said the board had re-evaluated all on-campus parking last spring and had made some changes concerning universal permits and medical disability permits.
"WEVE RECEIVE several complaints, and we receive several complaints every year," he said. "Obviously, we are going to have to deal with the complaint zone or parking space he or she wanted."
"If they still have a complaint, the appeal will then go to the full board," she said.
Torres also told SenEx it was not the board's responsibility to answer to SenEx and that no one should be responsible.
Torres said he thought there had been a misunderstanding about the role the boards were playing.
"WE PREPARE only a preliminary budget," Torres said. "Then the office of business affairs takes it over. We only amend the budget; we don't determine it."
Torres said the budget was ultimately approved by Chancellor Dykes. SenEx had earlier told the board to give a more accomodated chartered budget to the University Council.
In addition, SenEx told the board to document and present to the Council the financial impact resulting from major fiscal changes.
"I think you're asking the wrong group for information," Torres said. "Martin Jones (associate director for business affairs) is one who will have the information you want."