THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 87
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 7.1980
Studio saueeze
Many students have complained that studios such as this one in Marvin Hall are poorly lighted and cramped.
Relocation snags Marvin project
Staff Reporter
Rv GRANT OVERSTAKE
More than 80 students and faculty of the School of Architecture and Urban Design were crammed into a seminar room in Marvin Hall yesterday afternoon to hear what they hoped would be the answers to the problems during a scheduled renovation.
The meeting was to be a regular faculty/student assembly, but several students not on the committee had occupied most of the seats before the meeting began.
They were told by administrators from the office of academic affairs that some of them would be placed in Lindley Annex, Blake Annex and Corrubt-014, but they exact dates and specifications on who would be placed. There were still several discussion areas.
There was some regular business and then Charles Kahn, dean of the school, began reading questions he had received from students in their classes during the summer.
The most common questions regarding the renovation, Kahn said, were particulars of the relocation of the students.
RALPH CHRISTOFFERSEN, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said his office was trying to keep the number of relocation sites to a minimum and as close together as possible. He said a time frame for the renovation and subsequent relocation was feasible, ranging anywhere from as early as this summer to as late as next spring.
"We're all in this together," he said. "And our first priority is to find the right space. I'm truly sympathetic, but this relocation is one that we must just have to live on."
"The students have shown us that there is an esprit de corps among them and we will take steps to maintain it."
Christopher森 then began fielding questions from the floor. Among other things, he was asked about the feasibility of building a classroom to keep a core of the students under one roof.
"I would like to set up a 40,000 square-foot building right next door to this one, but the cost estimates are around $500,000," he said.
AFTER THE MEETING, Christoferson denied that the students were having to scatter a苏埃塔 rebelation because the student had been on a mission to spend the money on a temporary facility.
Dennel Tacha, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University's main concern was the quality of the academic program.
"When they asked to fill out our budget over in Topper, there was no line on it for contingency," he said. "That's our basic budget." The answer would be skilier to use them on this project.
"I'm not about to trade off dollars for what is rood for the students," she said.
But Ruth Siezel, St. Louis four-year architecture student, said after the meeting that she thought the students were bearing the burden.
"We're always suffering from what the
administration is lacking and I think the problems that we have will just continue," she said. "I'd like to see the school lose it, then maybe they'd do something."
STEVE GRAROW, associate professor of architecture, said the relocation plan was insufficient.
Ralph Christoffersen
"Lindley Annex is already full and we occupy at least half of Blake and what's left
on the list, Carrish-O'Leary, doesn't meet
half of your grade needs. he said
Christopher offered that the planned use of the 12 by 29-foot rooms in Granary-O'Leary was for office space, not studios. He also noted that he would not solve the school's lack of space.
"This project is not being billed as a project that will meet the needed space for the current and future needs of the School of Science." "That does it do善 improve the quality of space."
John Morris, assistant professor of architectural engineering, said the renovation would actually leave Marvin with less space than it has now.
THE BOOKS currently housed in Marvin will be stored at Watson Library during the summer, and will be used for proposed west branch library to be built near the Military Science Building.
The unique needs of the architecture students to have their facility open for work 24 hours a day also would be considered in the move, he said.
Kahn said an all-school meeting was scheduled for Feb. 15. Yesterday's turnout was the largest he'd ever seen, he said.
"What I hope happened," he said, "was that our visitors got a pretty good idea of the degree of discomfort in the school.
"We need to know the specifics of where, when and what type of space will be involved in the relocation. And whether it is going to get the message had better get the message."
StudEx OKs bill on ballot issue, bypasses quorum
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER Staff Reporter
In a hasty assembled Student Senate meeting, a student bypassed a Student Senate quorum call last night, members passed a bill amid calls for adjournment and a clash of parliamentary power.
The approved bill called for placing certain questions related to the draft and the drinking age issue on the ballot of the upcoming Senate elections.
THE QUORUM CALL interrupted consideration of Senate funding of certain revenue code items. All the items had passed individually, but the whole bill was not voted on. The Senate was six members short of the required 50 senators for a
"Most senators didn't know what was going on, or they wouldn't have moved to cut out some serious debate on the revenue code items," Steve Cramer, Nunakeren 4 senator, said. "We are not using the medical procedure in a responsible manner."
But before quorum was called, the Senate had moved to approve Student Legal Services expansion to offer court representation to new clients in the now in the administration's court.
Passage of the Legal Services proposal was delayed briefly over the question of whether students should be allowed to sue employers for damages in the Services. The report excluded litigation
IN OTHER BUSINESS the Associated Students of Kansas reported that the Landlord-Tenant amendment has floundered in the Kansas Leislature.
"The University will be hard-pressed to find any logical argument not to approve in court representation with our report as it stands." Steve Leben, Student Legal Services chairman, said, "We have the best chance for success if we go in the middle
The bill was moved out of the House, Judiciary Committee, but because of a mechanical error was returned to committee. The amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act is designed to force negligent landlords to comply with building repair
And he said that time was working against passage of the Landlord-Tenant amendment.
Gary Kessler, a KU law student who addressed the Senate, said students needed to line up behind the bill or it would be killed in committee.
"Committee members are bending because of landlord pressure," Kessler said. "It is an election year and those people have the money."
involving both students suing students and a student suing the University.
"The landlords in this state now have a chance to make a big stink and that is exactly what is going to happen," Kessler said.
The chairman of the board is borderline, but is leaning against the bill, he said.
Delegation in Tehran after delay at airport
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
A 49-member delegation of Americans led by Norman Foster, KU associate professor and professor emeritus at the University after its arrival at Mebabesai airport in Tehran, according to Western journalists
Airport sources were quoted as saying there was confusion over the status of the Americans' entry visits. The sources said they had been told that flight and then sent home to the United States.
However, Forer's son, Robert, said last night that after four hours the group had received permission to leave the airport and headed to a hotel. "I don't say where the group was hosted."
Forer's son said the authorities in Tehran did not recognize the group's visas at first because they were issued in New York rather than in Washington.
FOREER ALSO CRITICIZED reports that the delegation might be sent as a "bout of sensationalic reporting," and said that information was on "second- or third-hand information."
The group's detention came on the same day that newly elected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, a member of militants holding the U.S. Embassy as "dictators" for engineering the arrest of a pro-Israeli commander.
It was speculated that Bani Sadir's emerging government could affect the fate of the 50 Americans in Iraq, and foresaw a showdown between them and Bani Sadir's emerging government that could affect the fate of the 50 Americans in Iraq.
IRANIAN LEADER Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei have accepted a U.N. plan for an inquiry into the ex-sahab's regime that American officials hope will lead to the release of the Khamenei.
But the Iranians continued to make conflicting statements yesterday about whether the hostages would be freed.
The government official arrested was the minister of national guidance and information, Nasser Minachi.
The militants alleged in a national television broadcast Tuesday evening that documents they found in the embassy showed that Minchah had "close links with
The minister, who denied the charges, was arrested by militia-like revolutionary guards at his home about midnight.
Bani Sadr denounced the arrest as unauthorized by the state prosecutor, and assailed the state radio-television system for violating military仗荡 without government approval.
In an interview with the Tehran press, Ahmed al-Mohseni, a longtime militant, were paving the way lawessness in Iran and he called them "detectors who have created a government system."
It was the strongest attack yet on the militants by Bani Sadr, who has taken over the government. The Council will be dissolved after the parliamentary election scheduled for
Group voices opposition to capital punishment bill
Rv SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
Three members of the Lawrence chapter of Amnesty International, a human rights group, will have 10 minutes with Gov. John Carlin tomorrow to express opposition to the
The group will inform the governor of its opposition to a bill passed yesterday by a Kansas Senate Committee allowing capital punishment for seven kinds of murder.
THE BILL, which was passed 5-3 by the
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, will go to vote in the Senate sometime next week.
Tom Burns, Overland Park graduate student and leader of the Lawrence chapter of Amnesty International, said yesterday that the three members would give Carlin an opportunity to discuss capital punishment and would answer any questions he had about the group.
We're not lobbying the governor at all."
SEE PUNISHMENT page seven.
Study finds KU library system inadequate
By KEVIN MILLS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Editor's note: This is the last story in a three-part series on library renovation.
Since then, the Legislature has allocated $6.2 million for the renovation of Watson Library. That amount is not sufficient to solve problems mentioned by the survey, Dan Politokos, chairman of the University Senate Libraries committee.
The survey, conducted by W. Carl Jackson, dean of libraries at Indiana University; David Kasser, professor of library science at Indiana; and Warren McCormick, professor of libraries at Iowa State, was commissioned by KU.
A 1974 survey of the University of Kansas libraries said the library system was "undernourished in all areas."
Plans for a new West Library building will be proposed to the Legislature when the University presents its 1980-81 budget requests. A West Library would alleviate much of the space problem, Folkstone
Whether we get the West Library probably will
depend on the financial state of the country at that time, he said.
"When you compare us to our sister institutions' libraries, we really come off rather poorly." Politkos said. "The library situation here is poor, at best, and some would say it is worse than poor."
BUT THE ADDITION of a West Library would not solve all the KU library problems, he said.
"The library's operating budget is by no means a disgrace," Ranz said. "We spend more dollars than any other institution in the Big Eight. But that doesn't mean we're doing a better job."
Last year the library was allocated $1,505,221 for materials and acquisitions, a 7 percent increase from the previous year.
INFLATION ROSE during the period by 14 percent. This meant a loss of $7,000 in purchasing power.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, a considerable budget increase was needed to offset the effects of
The library will need $2.2 million next year to keep pace with infection, he said.
The Association of Research Libraries, an organization composed of 98 academic libraries.
including KU, determined that libraries of KU's size should add a minimum of 100.000 volumes a year.
KU added 87,123 volumes last year, which ranked 40th in yearly volume additions among association members. This year, Ranz said, the library would add even fewer volumes.
The average per volume cost of hardcover books
in increased 152 percent, from $7.65 a volume to
$13.30 a volume.
CLINT HOWARD, acquisitions librarian, said the library was able to manage last year by reassigning many of its holdings.
Almost one-third of the acquisitions are purchased
overseas, mostly from Great Britain. Devaluation of the dollar increased for about a 12 percent loss in exports.
It's universally accepted that the University has lagged in its commitment to the library in the past," Howard said. "There was a response over a period of time and only once only taken part of the way to where we should be."
"We're going to be falling behind when we should be moving ahead." he said.
Shortage of staff was another problem assessed by the 1974 survey.
In 1970, student enrollment at KU was 17,475. That figure has increased 33 percent. at 23,280.
"It is all too likely that such materials will never be developed, because permanent areas of weakness," Ranz said.
THE LIBRARY has approximately 300,000 un-
In 1970, the library offered 124,000 hours of student assistance. In 1980, it will offer 110,000 hours—a
The library had 51 and a half librarians in 1970; today, there are 52 and a half, an increase of 8 percent. The library has about 360 members.
cataloged volumes that have piled up because of a staff shortage.
Ranz said that last year the library received a federal grant of $125,000 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which was used to purchase some catalogers and two classified staff members.
Once the system is installed, library users no longer will have their balances checked at the door.
They will catalog about 15,000 of the backlogged books this year, Ran said.
He also said a new book the detection system would further alleviate the staff shortage.
Once the system is 'installed', liberal users no longer will have their belongings checked at the door. They are urged students to contact legislators and inform them of the library's deficiencies and budgetary needs.
"The library is certainly the heart of any university," Pollokse said. "At KU it is the one major academic problem, and the faculty and students have realized this for years."
The 1974 survey concluded: "Time-worn as the sentiment is, it nevertheless is also more true today that one cannot have a great university without a great library."