University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 22, 1973
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Kansan Photo by ALICE COSTELLO
Freeman Talks on China's Foreign Relations
Charles W. Freeman Jr., President Nixon's chief interpreter on his trip to China, will be on the University of Kansas campus. Dr. Martin Kovacs will speak before various University classes.
Interpreter For Nixon To Visit KU
Wednesday, Freeman spoke to students in
East Cham study center; program on
problem solving for middle schoolers
Freeman will discuss U.S.-China relations at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. At 9:30 a.m. Friday in 303 Bailey he will speak on Asian history, geography and politics. At 10:30 a.m. Friday, when he will speak before a Chinese documents class in the East Asian Center, 1332 Louisiana.
Freeman will be the featured speaker at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce breakfast at 7:30 Thursday at the Eldridge House. The event will be made at the Chamber of Commerce office.
Freeman was born in Washington D.C., in 1943. He attended the Universidad Nacional in Mexico City and Yale University, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. He began work with the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965.
From 1966-68, Freeman served as vice-consul and cultural affairs officer in Madras India. He is currently county of Mumbai. He has also served in an affairs section of the State Department.
Audio-Visual Evaluation to Continue
RvGARY ISAACSON
By GARY ISAACSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The chancellor's communications task force, which submitted its phase one report to the university to evaluate future facility to evaluate audio-visual facilities at the University of Kansas into next year according to Bruce Linton, the university's chief spokesman of speech and drama journalism.
some of the problems brought out in the
incremental's phase one report can be solved
quickly.
"But I hope that we will be able to continue to work on some of the more complex issues."
The committee, appointed by Nichols last fall, recently completed the first part of a two-part study of the problems and facilities required for the equipment and facilities on campus.
The report said KU was far behind other universities in facilities and use of equip-
"The most troubling conclusion is that KU is alarmingly deficient in the quantity and type of equipment used in direct support of the teaching function," the report said. "We remain in the age of film projectors and audio tape recorders, and even here we cannot stay up to date. The age of cablevision passed by almost un-
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Building Need . . .
unrepaired, he said, the sheathing may rot. Then the whole roof must be replaced. In this case, the repairs would cost more when the warmer was closer to emergency proportions.
Lawton emphasized that there were two sides to the story. He said he realized that there was not enough money for all main priorities and that had been *e*stablished.
"We feel it is obligatory, at the maintenance level and at the facilities level, to identify defended maintenance problems to be addressed," he said, "and to try to obtain funding." Lawton said.
If over a period of 10 to 25 years maintenance crews do not point up the mortar in wall joints, water seeps into the plaster and the mortar becomes mushy. If they chisel out the old mortar and replace it results in structural damage to the building. What was once deferred then becomes an emergency, Lawton said, but the University has now dealt with such dangerous structural defects develop.
After his office has taken inventory of maintenance needs, Lawton said, it is up to the state to decide whether there are funds for the maintenance projects. He said the state should also ensure that emergency maintenance had been quite good but that funds were still unavailable for many deferred maintenance projects. The situation is not trouble to complain about, he added.
"There is some light on the horizon," Lawson said. "The problem is not unoccupied."
He said that as people at the grass roots level became more aware of the importance of water, he said that they were less
Custodial care of buildings is financed through a different fund from that for repairs and building improvements, Lawton said.
He said that KU had a shortage of janitors
Campus Bulletin
East Asian Studies: 12:30 p.m. English Room.
West Asian Studies of Managuerre Interviews: 1 p.m.
Room 303A
TODAY
Human Relations Training: 12:30 p.m. Alcove A.
Psychology: 12:30 p.m. Alcove D.
Social Welfare; noon, Abreve B, Cateredia, Kanaan
Union
Junior Year in Costa Rica: 12:30 p.m. Cork Room
Cafeteria.
Student Teachers: 1 p.m., Big Eight Room.
Speech Coach:
Student Teachers: 1 p.m. Big Eight Room,
2 p.m. Little Eight Room,
3 p.m. Big Six Room,
4 p.m. Big Five Room,
5 p.m. Big Four Room,
6 p.m. Big Three Room,
7 p.m. Big Two Room,
8 p.m. Big One Room,
Ku Nunnamath教室 Ciblab: 4 p.m. Oread Room,
5 p.m. Oread Room,
Psychology Colqubium: 4 p.m. Forum Room,
6 p.m. Forum Room,
Mek Ed: 3:30 p.m. Above D,
5:30 p.m. Inroom Flower Room,
Junior Year in Course Club: 3:30 p.m. Centennial Room,
4:30 p.m. Curry Room,
The Way: 3:30 p.m. Oread Room, Parkers,
Lumpur Campus: 3:30 p.m. Oread Room, Parkers,
Astro: 3:30 p.m. Oread Room, Parkers
**Phase 2:** 7 p.m. Oread Room, Parkors.
**AAUF:** 7 p.m. Oread Room, Parkors.
**International Club:** 7 p.m. Alone B
International Club: 7 p.m. Alcove B.
Birdwood Audrey-Bachelor: 7:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson
KU Sailing Club: 7:30 p.m. Meadowlark Room.
RCG Chair Hall: 7:30 p.m. Council Room.
DC Room, Chartered,
DC Room, International
Room
5.25 p.m., 5.10 p.m., Regional Auditor.
Film Student Room, Woodruff Auditorium.
Black Student Union Room,
International Law Society, 7:30 p.m., Pine Room.
Chinese Students, 8:30 p.m., Aloe A.
The report said that 45 per cent of the funding for equipment came from the state. KU has a total of $1.25 million in audio visual emuiement.
noticed, and now it is the age of multiple delivery systems and computer-aided aiding.
John Conard, director of university relations and a member of the committee, said that the state money came from supplying companies and funds that certain departments had saved.
but that the University could run without a full lantilier staff.
But, he said, custodial service at the university is pushing the borders of accountability.
Inadequate custodial service has a detrimental long-range effect on the buildings, Lawton said. Failure to keep sand off the floors and carpets causes deterioration, and dirty walls eat into paint, he pointed out.
Conard said the outlook for more state money was not very good for the next few years. For the next two or three years, he said, any legislative funding would have to come from other sources than other expenses. But, he said, the outlook for five or six years from now is brighter.
Lawton said low salaries were directly related to the University's inability to keep house. The pay scale makes it difficult to fill jobs with good people, he said.
But there are two sides to this story, too. The state must have priorities in its budget.
Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant, Harry Buchholz, directors no longer just work on room and a bed.
Buckholz said that custodians must also know about the different types of floors, walls and equipment. Maintenance is much more technical, he said, and low salaries make it hard to hire people who can be trained to handle technical equipment.
The personnel deficiency is made worse, he said, by the fact that employees of a company may remodeling jobs in department offices and in classrooms. He said buildings and grounds could do the work at a lower cost than private construction alone for maintenance.
There are some good people working in buildings and grounds, he said, but they are not necessarily good people.
Buckholz said there had been very little increase in personnel for buildings and facilities.
An inadequate staff leaves no time for a training program, which is a necessity because maintenance is becoming more technological, Buckhohlzol said. The minimum number of personnel means that there often is only one supervisor for 30 men, he said.
The sophisticated equipment in newer buildings requires more training on the factory level, not just on the local level, but there is not enough money to send maintenance men to factory training schools, Buckholz said.
"The chancellor is already interested in making improvements in audio-visual imagery."
"It won't be too hard to sell the other top administrators on the idea either."
Conrad said Nichols would probably use the committee's reports as a basis for a presentation to the Kansas Board of Recents and the Kansas Legislature.
Linton said he hoped the committee's reports would help to create some coordination in the acquisition of new equipment, especially television equipment.
"It is simply a problem of keeping abreast of what is happening in the industry," Linton said, and lines of communication must be opened. He said that while there are many people on campus who need a need but do not know what can be done.
"It seems to me that there are pieces of equipment both in one department and another that be used."
Linton said that in phase two of the study the committee would make specific recommendations to the chancellor that she add a focus on university budget requests for fiscal 1974.
Sunflower Cablevision and the Shooting Gallery, a local photography studio, are sponsoring a film contest that is open to anyone in the Lawrence area. The film submission will be shown on the local television show "Are We On It?" From March 26-31.
Film Contest Sponsored By Cablevision
The entries can use photographic animation or other techniques and can be with or without sound. The films should be recorded on sound on both the film reel and the leader.
The deadline for the film entries is midnight, March 23. The films can be either 8mm, super or 16 mm, and can be color or black and white.
The winning film and its maker will be shown on the show March 31.
Clinton Coalition to Hold Hearings
The steering committee of the Citizens Coalition for Clinton set up agendas Wednesday night for a series of public hearings on the Clinton Lake project.
the coalition is made up of representatives from county, city and community organizations concerned about the use of the lake.
The committee, which met for three hours, discussed development of public and private lands, water recreation and supply, and general land development.
The committee decided that the agenda of the first public hearing, which will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lawrence Public Library.
Dan Palmquist, chairman of the committee, said that a consensus vote would be taken at the beginning of the meeting to determine opinions on whether the lake would have multiple or restricted use. Aftertha, he said, anyone wishing to speak on specific topics would be allowed to do so within certain time limits.
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