University Daily Kansan, July 3. 1980
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New gym ready soon
By DAVID STIPP
Staff Reporter
When students return to the University of Kansas this fall they will find in Robinson Gymnasium four new basketball courts, a new swimming pool, 12 new raucquetball and a gym full of drafting tables.
The new physical education facilities will be a part of the Robinson addition, which is scheduled to open the first day of classes this fall after an eight month delay, Wayne Ommess, chairman of department of health, physical education and recreation, said yesterday.
The drafting tables will be used by architecture students who will occupy the old north gym in Robinson Hall. The room is being renovated, Ossa said.
"It's going to be a challenge for us when the School of Architecture takes over the old north gym," Osness said.
BECAUSE THE ARCHITECTURE students will need to have their makeshift drafting studio in Robinson open 24 hours a day, a security problems with Robinson's physical education facilities, he said.
"We could have some problems
with illegal swimming and use of the weight room after hours, so we'll need good security to protect both students and the safety of students using it," he said.
Offsetting the temporary loss of a gym to architecture classes will be the approximate doubling of the room's size in the Robinson addition. Besides the new gym and pool, the addition will have a new weight room, locker rooms, a soft floored exercise room, and a clinical clinic and a physiology laboratory.
The human physiology laboratory will be the only such facility on campus. The school will also expand the research capabilities of the 30 graduate students studying exercise physiology at KU, who are trained by faculty in the laboratory in Allen Field House, he said.
INCLUDED IN THE new lab will be a special climate chamber for studying physiological responses at different temperatures and humidities, a kinethetics lab for human motion and a special humidity weighing tank to be used in studying body composition.
"Some people are surprised at the level of sophistication of the things we're doing here," Osness said.
One of the things studied in the physiology lab will be the effect of exercise on blood composition, including the study of high density lipoproteins, which have been studied with heart disease, Osness said.
Delays in the completion of the Robinson addition resulted from problems in the original design of the building, Osness said.
"The basic problem was that the architectural drawings needed some extra attention to ensure that we had to reopen the binding process for new materials involved in the adjustments. Since the bidding process had to be completed at an architectural office, this took time."
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS was that existing ventilation ducts that had to be moved were not accounted for in the original design. Osness said.
When the architectural firm, Lund & Baldarsson Architects and Plan- ing Company had justitions had to be made after its contract was completed, it did some additional work to correct the problems without charge, Ossness
"They could have just said, 'Sorry folks,' to us since their contract was already finished, but they didn't," he said.
Police, city negotiate settlement
The 12 demonstrators arrested May 11 for disrupting KU's commencement will be offered deferred prosecution as an alternative to trial Coll Knutson. City prosecutor, said yesterday, However, the group rejected the group request.
By IAN SIMPSON Staff Reporter
Lawrence police arrested the 12 at the ceremony for displaying a banner that said, "Protect First Amendment rights at KU." The group mostly consisted of faculty and staff, was protesting the University's policy on the display of banners.
Protestors decline city's offer
The protesters were charged with disturbing the peace and with criminal trespass.
KNUTSON SAID deferred prosecution meant they would not be prosecuted for the incident if they did not commit a crime within one year. He had been suspended during course between dropping the charges and prosecuting the protesters.
"They are going to be given the opportunity to defer the prosecution or trial," he said. "They simply agree not to plead." The defense last month period, which is not a big deal.
"The important thing is that it is a voluntary agreement," said Kevin
Daniel Wildcat, Lawrence graduate student and spokesman for the group, doubled any of the persons arrested would agree to the proposal.
THE TENTATIVE agreement still has a few loose ends that negotiators said they hoped would not create problems when the proposal is forged. The negotiators sealed the tentative agreement with a handshake yesterday morning.
"Personally, I am not interested," he said. "I have talked to several of the people involved, and their response is similar to mine.
SHELLEY MILLER, a University employee charged with criminal trespass, said, "Deferred prosecution means they are going to keep their eye on you for a year, and that is a bum deal."
Knutson said he had a good case against the 12.
The suggestion that there is some middle ground conveys a misconception of what is involved here. Why should I sign a piece of paper that says, 'I will not prosecutue you for the next 2 months if you are a good boy?'
"We don't want to leave ourselves with the stigma of guilt, because we are innocent. We think we are on legally good ground." he said.
"I think the cases are definitely strong enough to go to trial" he said. "At a minimum the accused should be bound by any court agreement, or face prosecution."
Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies, charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass, said he preferred to see the charges dropped.
The package proposal that will be taken to the City Commission for approval in two weeks contains a 10 percent increase in the percentage raise in 1982. The agreement includes an increased clothing allowance for plainclothes officers and a 17-cent-an-hour differential rate for working between midnight and 8 a.m.
He saw some difficulties with bringing charges, however.
membership would support a work slowdown in response to a commission decision that went against the association.
"That is almost tantamount to a parole."
The City of Lawrence and the Lawrence Police Officers Association reached a tentative agreement to extend their two months of heated negotiations.
same as prosecuting a thief," he said.
"That is easy to get fired up for."
Knutson said those charged with disturbing the ceremony are sincere. They view it as a First Amendment violation, but some mitigation on their side, he said.
HE SAID his office would mail the derail-of-prosecution forms to the accused this week. They would have to sign the agreements, Knutson said.
Trial is set for August 28 at Municipal Court.
"But they knew what they were staring at" when they displayed the banner. Knutson said.
Bonnie Yoder, a Lawrence lawyer sponsored the petition of a Civil Law Union to aid him and doubled the offer of deferred prosecution would alter her clients'
"Prosecuting these people is not the
Staff Reporter
By MARK PITTMAN
Burt, chief city negotiator. "We did not have to go to the City Commission for a solution."
The talks, Burt said, were tense and had been characterized by shouting matches across the table. A federal mediator spent one day last week dividing the two sides and shuttling proposals between them.
"I see it as being in the middle," she said. "But the defendants are not prepared to compromise on that issue."
IN THE PAST, Burt said, lack of dialogue had led to widespread police agreements reached at public hearing in a mission. Work actions followed, such as the 1978 work speedup when officers were sent on the slightest infraction of traffic codes.
Future problems with negotiations may be alleviated by a provision in the latest agreement. It provides for meetings between the city and police about the term of the agreement to allow discussions between the two sides.
Earlier in the week, Gary Sampson, chief negotiator for the LPOA, said his
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