University Daily Kansan
Monday. February 5.1973
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Kansan Photo by PAULA CHRISTENSEN
Former Geology Prof Raymond Moore at Ceremony
. . . Old friends greeted at new geology building opening . . .
Moore Hall
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in 1948 and ultimately will consist of 24 volumes.
IRVIN YOUNGERG, director of the KU Endowment Association, announced that the building on West Campus that houses the Survey and adjums Moore Hall would be named Parker, former director of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.
To make cooperation easier between the federal and state surveys, the building is connected to the third floor of Moore Hall by an enclosed corridor.
Youngberg unveiled a portrait of Moore painted by one of his former students, John W. Koeenig, who had painted the portrait entirely from photographs.
Bill Barr, director of the Space Technology Center, presented Moore a picture of the earth taken from outer space by astronaut Ron Evans, a KU alumnus.
Moor and his wife, Lilian, listened as Barr read Evans' message: "We're on our way to the moon. However, our geological observations are here on earth. Best wishes, Ron Evans."
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said he received the building with a pledge to continue the high quality of research conducted at the Survey for the past 80 years.
William Hambleton, director of the William Survey, said that KU had produced more state geologists than any other university. He prompted Moore to call out, "Hear, hear!"
CLIFFORD STONE, chairman of the Geological Survey Advisory Council, said that although he was an outsider to science, Mr. Moore for Moore, "a giant, yet gentle intellect."
Frank C. Foley, director emeritus of the Survey, said that three generations of directors were present at the ceremonies, Moore, himself and Hambleton.
Bloodmobile Uses Dracula As Public Relations Man
Count Dracula will be putting the bite into KU students today and Tuesday in an effort to recruit donors for the Bloodmobile Wednesday through Friday of this week.
The Count, alias Ken Wallace, Overland University graduate students to the three-day drive as part of his new advertising program, according to Doug Spence, Shawnee Mission sophomore student.
Red Cross volunteers will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and from 11 a.m.to 3:30 o.m. on Friday, he said.
Students who miss the Count on campus will have another chance to see him in "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave." which will be show free to all donors.
11 in Dyche Auditorium. Show times will be 11 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9 p.m. also on the bill will be Abbott and Castelo Meet Dr. Jekyll and Spencer and a Road Runner cartoon, Spenger said.
Donors will also receive coupons for a free draw at the Stables and $1 off on a Shakey's pizza. Under the Red Cross Blood Entitlement program, each donor also is immediate family for year following his donation. Spencer said.
Spencer said Sunday that the Red Cross had set a minimum goal of 600 pints to be collected at KU during the three-day drive. This is approximately the amount of blood needed by the Center in Wichita sends to 110 Kansas hospitals during a three-day period, he said.
A Cavalcade of Quilts On Exhibit at Spooner
The quilts are part of a collection of more than 130 stored in the basement of the museum. They usually are not on display because they occupy too much gallery space and Gridley Smith, assistant professor of art history and a curator of the museum.
For pioneer women without the time to express creativity through painting or sketching, quiltmaking was an art form. About 30 quilts made by American women will be displayed at the Spooner Museum of Art Feb. 4 to Feb. 25.
Several quilts were exhibited last year in the Kansas Union, but many be in display there this spring.
Comp Center Prepares for Future
THE OLDEST QUILT is from the late 18th century, Smith said, and the newest was made in 1945. Most are handmade, but they were more modern quilts were sewn by machine.
Although the University of Kansas computation center recently has entered a long-term contract with Honeywell Inc., it is unclear about the future of KU's computer system.
By DAN GEORGE
Kansan Staff Writer
The contract with Honeywell expires in August 1975, but limited space conditions and projections of expanded and more varied use of the system have already sent KU planners to the boards in search of "a better mousetran."
Quitting patterns were similar in different time periods and in different regions, Smith said, so qualities other than patterns must be used in dating culfs.
Smith said the quilla came from all over the United States, and that many were well-educated.
She said textiles varied widely in technique and technology and were useful in dating. Colorfast dyes did not come into use because they were old. Some materials were used only in very old quilts.
There is no pressing problem in the system, as it presents already, at KU. But, according to Paul Wolfe, director of the system, there is a situation guaranteed not to last.
"We've made changes in computer software (instructions, programs, data). We've made small changes in computer configuration (style) and improvements in our tools. You can use that equipment only so long and then technology passes you by."
Although several other committees will be formed to aid in the study, the Task Force is the only active group at present. The Task Force, is represented by memb- nets of different schools and admi-native offices as will be the other committees.
THE KU EFFORT to plan for future computer needs began in the fall of 1971, when the University Computer Committee formed a subcommittee to study long-range needs. This subcommittee revealed its report in September 1972, and as a result the committee established this year to produce computer specifications for the future.
"We're considering what should be our configuration and ability to meet demands starting in 1975 and into the 1980s not considering not only how much it will be used but also the different ways in which it will be used," said Wolfe.
THE PURPOSE of the committees, according to Terry, is that there be the widest possible range of input.
Terry said he expected the first stage of operations, which will be to decide on the facilities and type of systems to be used, to be concluded by the end of this year. After that, final specifications, including the bidding, will begin.
the computer's use throughout the University community.
Although the Task Force group is working for future needs, it is using the current system to respond to changes.
This system, of course, has both strengths and weaknesses. One strong point, accents of this kind, is the computing system also been installed for six years. This has allowed continuous development to proceed without major interruptions for new hardware or software.
ANOTHER STRENGTH is the cooperation among different disciplines and the computation center in implementing significant education and research efforts involving different approaches to computer networking, he said.
The third strength has been the retention of a high-quality professional staff to assist on-going projects.
But there have also been drawbacks. A tightening of the computation center budget, in contrast to cutbacks in the number of computer clusters in the center. Because of this, several sections do not have adequate backup people. Other staff members are overloaded to the point where they can no longer work.
But the biggest problem, according to Wolfe, is simply a lack of space.
"We serve a variety of students," he said.
"We serve everybody from the freshman student taking a course to a Ph.D. candidate finishing his thesis.
"DURING THE LAST calendar year, something like 320 courses used the computer to teach our students. An increasing number are undergraduates, and more and more of them are using it."
One of the things that may be considered by the various committees is a new building for the computer system. Wolfe said he favored that if it's financially feasible.
KU Employes Granted Bargaining Unit Status
By CAROLYN OLSON Kansan Staff Writer
The Kansas Public Labor Relations Board (LRB) has recognized $35 University of Kansas maintenance and service personnel as a bargaining unit, Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, reported Friday.
KU employees at the Lawrence campus and at the Medical Center were formally recognized Jan. 18 by the LRB. The only other state institution whose maintenance have been recognized as a bargaining unit are Fort Hays Kansas State College.
The recognition of building and grounds, housing, and health services personnel was caused by Senate Bill 333, which became effective March 1. 1972.
The bill establishes a framework of employer-employee relations by providing training on how to handle employees and public employers. The bill prohibits strikes, but allows the bargaining unit to act as a lobby. The passage of Senate Bill 1594 restricts public Employees Labor Relations Board.
MAX PITNEY, business officer at the
Maxwell University of Kansas Medical Center, said
750 medical students attended.
the medical Center were also recognized as a bargaining unit by the LRB.
Pitney said that after the LRB recognized the 750 employees, the employees had to receive a training program from the Medical Center employees voted by a 90 per cent majority to join Public Service Employees Local Union 113, instead of the association of Public Employees (KAPE).
Pitney said many Medical Center employees had been associated with Local 1132 for about six years, but that the University, which is a nationally federally bargain with the union until now,
Nitcher said the 535 KU public employees would vote later this month or in early March to join either local 1132 or KAPE. He said many employees favored joining Local 1132, as the Medical Center employees did last week.
NITCHER SAID the bill should make bargaining with the maintenance and repairs team a possibility.
"During last spring's walkout by the B & G employees, the University had informal talks with the employees' leaders," Nitcher said. "But until the LRB had officially recognized the employees as a bargaining unit, nothing could really be decided."
Cal Phallus, junior, felt threatened when his parents suggested he work. "They called me a burn and said they wanted to get them."
Car he'd set out as long as possible. "Two days after they stopped sending bread I got into a Providence Mutual Bank where we had a credit card machine. Can make my own hours. Can make good money. I got a job waiting for me when I graduate. My parents said, 'Get yourself a job.'"
"The computation center is located in a portion of a building (Summerfield) formerly used for business education," Wolfe said. "Clearly, we are not in an environment designed to house a computer facility and facilities question becomes very important."
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"But I'm not for helping one thing if something else suffers. I'm not going to boost the comp center if it means the library is going all to hell."
STILL, WOLFE is aware that in recent years the computation system has been given the support of a new operating expenditure 1973 was $1,233,067. This is roughly two per cent of the operating expenditure, $853,842-$853,842.
"Our budget at the present time is lower than it was four years ago," Wolfe said. "And if you look at an diagram, you'll see that we're doing work as much as work as
at that time "
A lot of the extra wk has been a result of changes in the system since the signing of the Honeywell contract. In recent months, the computation center has added ad-hoc tasks, an improved input-output controller and an add-in printer with a high-quality printer.
But the future and the changes that come with it are the concern of the committee.
"It's a dynamic system of requirements and needs which you must respond to in a timely fashion."
"The system should be modular. You should be able to add on to it without sonderable new expense. And it should be financially supported."
"This is why it's so important that any new system be flexible. If your demands change, then your system should be able to change to meet those demands.
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