Law School Building To Be Finished in 1977
The new $49.9 million home for the School of Law at the University of Kansas, to be insured in 1977, will be a building designed for the future, according to Martin Dickinson, dean of the law school.
"We are planning for the many technological advances in legal education that are already present or appear likely in the future. For instance, capability for video taping and closed circuit television will be provided, along with other forms of audio-visual instruction," Dickinson said yesterday.
"The library has been designed to accommodate the accelerating shift from traditional books to microforms. Computer-assisted retrieval of legal sources is already in use in other parts of the nation, and the building design incorporates the concept as well," said Dickinson.
The project, approved by the Kansas Board of Regents in April, should be let for bids this fall, and bids will be received in January. Construction funds of $2,992.07 were appropriated by the 1974 Kansas Legislature. Additional funds will be appropriated by the 1975 legislature to complete the project.
THIS SCHEDULE WILL ALLOW construction to begin in April or May of 1972. The building should be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1977. The KU Law School will
The six-floor structure of reinforced concrete with bronze trim and glass will be built on the west side of the main campus, north and slightly west of Allen Field House. The main building will be located in a quiet corner.
The building was designed by the firm of Lawrence R. Good and Associates of Lawrence for a maximum enrollment of 600 students, a level forecast to satisfy the needs of Kansas for many years. The facility will include a new courtroom, which will also be equipped to serve patients with serious injuries. Patients must be able to tie the various hallways together that will be used for student study and social areas.
Several innovations have been planned for the law library. The traditional large, noisy reading room will be replaced with student study stations located throughout the stacks. Another feature will be the inclusion of several student workrooms, designed for groups of four to eight students.
A SPECIAL FEATURE of the library will be the Raymond F. Rice Room. The room will be furnished by funds donated by the late Raymond F. Rice, a 1908 graduate of the School of Nursing.
As stipulated by Rice, the book collection of the room will be especially designed for use by visiting scholars, faculty members and practitioners who share Rice's devotion to the work.
The building also has been planned so that additions to the law library can be made. The library has planned capacity of 176,000 volumes, measured against the present law collection of 139,000 volumes.
Each student will be provided with a locker in the new facility. This feature, included in most new law buildings, is essential for today's student, who, according to Dickinson, must carry many texts, regulations and statute books and other required materials for courses. Dickinson said he would instruct each student concentrated in one area. Dickinson said this was done to maximize contact between faculty and students.
SPACE ALSO WILL BE PROVIDED in the new structure for the law school's Legal Entrance Committee to provide entrance for clients; the Defender Clinic, the Juvenile Clinic and similar enterprises.
Dickinson said a law school building served a constituency much broader than its student body, and those needs had also been taken into account.
"The classrooms are designed to facilitate continuing legal education for members of the bar. The library will continue to be readily and conveniently usable by members of the bar and the judiciary. The formal conference room is expected to be used often by the many students and bodies to which law school faculty members contribute their services," said Dickinson.
Dickinson added that economy had been a matter of prime concern throughout the design process so that the needs of the law school could be met at the lowest possible cost to the firm.
"MANY ROOMS have been designed to accomplish a dual purpose with resulting cost reductions," said Dickinson. "For example, the courtroom is also serving as a classroom. The building's two seminar rooms will serve as jury room and judge's chambers, when it serves the common areas will also serve as hallways, student study areas and social areas."
"Uche Jimmy Green," the 59-year-old statue and the only full length statue in memory of a college campus in the United States, will be placed on the plaza area or the north side of the building.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No. 147
Wednesday, June 19, 1974
Dog-Paddling
Committee Hears Tape; Nixon Testimony Differs
Kansan Staff Photo by DERRIK GUMP
The waters of Potter Lake may not be too inviting to humans, but two dogs found them refreshing yesterday. Their mistress, 'Valerie Hughes of 227 N. Sixth St., took them and two other dogs to Potter while she was submedicated on the shore.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Judiciary Committee heard a tape yesterday that sources said indicated President Nixon discussed the Watergate cover-up four days earlier than he had publicly said he learned of it.
No member would comment publicly on details of evidence heard in the closed sessions. But sources said a tape recording of Nixon listening to other tapes and commenting on them confirmed earlier claims that the president talked of White House involvement in the cover-up as early as March 17, 1973.
Nixon has said he first learned of the Watergate cover-up on March 21, 1973, when John W. Dean III, then White House counsel, told him.
The comments came after members returned to their hearing room from a lunch break. Members commenting after the morning session, when only part of the tape had been played, said it was ambiguous and unclear.
One committee source said the tape, of Nixon talking to several aides on June 4.
KU Asks $20 Million Budget Hike
Kansan Staff Reporter
BvLOUANNLEE
Editor's Note:This is the first of two stories on the University of Kansas budget for 2015.
Nearly $20 million more is being requested for the University of Kansas in the 1976 fiscal year than was approved for 1975.
The Board of Regents will act on the request Tuesday.
The first budget meetings with the staff of the Board of Regents were yesterday, according to Del Shankel, executive vice-cancelor.
The 1978 request for the Lawrence campus totals more than $70.7 million. For fiscal 1975, KU has been allotted $81.3 million. The University of Kansas Medical Center totals $64.6 million. The Medical Center's approved budget for 1975 was $55.5 million.
PRIORITY REQUESTS, Shankel said yesterday, include salary increases for both classified and unclassified personnel, a 15 percent increase in the number ofenses, additional support for both the
University of Kansas Computation and the library, and repair and maintenance.
Shankel also said that requests for the State生物 Survey, the Minority Advancement Program, the State Drug Lab and career counseling were prior item.
THE OPERATING BUDGET for the Lawrence campus is $61,344,019, according to Keith L. Nitcher, vice-chancellor for business affairs. In addition, the budget includes $81,445,148 for auxiliary enterprises, which brings the total budget to $70,759,507.
Auxiliary enterprises are those campus organizations that are basically self-supporting, such as residence halls and the Kansas Union, according to Shankel.
Charles Brennan, assistant vice-chancellor of the Medical Center, said the $66.6 million request included a $27.8 million request for state funds, $18.8 million in research grants and a request for a $19 million hospital ceiling. The ceiling, the amount the hospital may collect in patient fees, must be approved by the legislature.
The Medical Center's 1976 request to state funds is 86.8 million more than state funding for 1975. Of this increase, $1.7 million will be spent to absorb staff expenses for three Wichita hospitals that offer intern and residence programs.
THE MEDICAL CENTER will also hire staff for the hospital addition to be completed in early 1977, and for the new basic building, to be completed in the fall of 1975.
Also, the Medical Class will enlarge the beginning class from 163 to 200 students in
Proposed faculty salary increases average 10 per cent as authorized by Regent guidelines, said Martin Jones, budget officer.
Faculty salary increases are given on the basis of merit, Nitcher said, and though increases will average 10 per cent they will not be uniform.
"What you have to keep in mind is that you're asking for a pool of money." Nitcher said of him. "I think I'm going to keep the pool."
Someone made a quiet protest against a parking ticket yesterday in front of the KANU studio. The toy car, neatly parked between the painted lines of the parking lot, had a ticket taped to the steering wheel. The ticket was dated June 6.
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBBIE GUMP
Law and Order
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calf, also said there was mention of the conversation of the 17th and said, "There's some ambiguities in the language," Nixon knew of the cover-up on that date.
somebody might get 3 per cent or nothing at all."
The career counseling request will be used to hire a career development specialist, said Richard M. Rundquist, counselor at the University Counseling Center and educational educator. The specialist would coordinate counseling efforts and start new programs.
The Computation Center request will provide funds for administrative and instructional computing and for long range computer development plans, Jones said.
The committee hopes to complete its bearings of evidence by Friday. Next week it is scheduled to consider procedural questions such as the calling of witnesses, Nixon's defense arguments and public release of evidence.
Nitcher said that adequate state support in those two areas had been lacked for a minority of the population.
A TOTAL of $85,152 has been requested to fund the Minority Advancement Program. The program will identify qualified minority students who might be interested in professional studies and help them begin work according to the budget request report.
Danielson said there was mention of Watergate in the President's comments about the March 17 tape. The White House has denied there was any such discussion of
But Danielson also said nothing in the portion of the tape heard so far had demonstrated presidential knowledge of the cover-up on the 17th.
Watergate matters on that tape, a partial transcript of which has been released.
Earlier, commenting on the morning session, Rep. George Danielson (D-Callif) said he heart* Nixon, on the June 4 tape; and Rep. Donald J. Trump, on March 21 conversations with Dean.
The State Drug Lab request would be used to develop a drug analysis program for emergency drug overdose cases and to identify unusual samples.
"We could do a more adequate po' n u m
"bad another person," said Rquistet. "We
could do a better one."
Other fund requests include money for an occupational health and safety officer who would check the campus for unsafe working conditions, a scanning electron microscope, a system for unclassified employees and a payroll system for unclassified men's and women's intercollegiate sports.
For the first time, faculty-student task forces were charged to make budget recommendations. Five task forces presented proposals to Shankel.
1973, confirmed a statement made May 21 by committee chairman Peter Rodino (D.N.J.) that Nixon's remarks on the tape about the March 17 discussion "includes a message that Watergate matter and possible involvement of White House personnel and others."
Nixon to Meet with Portuguese President
President Nixon will meet with Portugal's new president Gen. Antonio de Sola, in the Azores. Nixon stepped at the Atlantic Islands last night on
School Lunch Buy to Aid Meat Industry
The President's seven-day diplomatic trip through four Arab capitals and Israel drew large crowds and confirmed what King Hussein of Jordan called "a new era of good will that is opening up between the United States and the Arab world."
The U.S. government will buy up to $100 million worth of beef and pork for school lunch programs this summer in an effort to aid the depressed cattle and hog industries, Kenneth Rush, White House economic coordinator announced yesterday.
Officials of the Agriculture Department said they could not predict how the government meat purchases might affect consumer prices.
Track Coach Named Women's Sports Head
Marian E. Washington, assistant instructor of physical education and winner of many track and field and basketball honors, was named yesterday as assistant director of intercollegiate athletics for women's sports.
Washington will be in charge of the women's intercollegiate athletic program, which includes field hockey, track and field, golf, volleyball, tennis, swimming, gymnastics and cell.
Washington is now head coach of women's basketball and track and field. She will continue some of her coaching response to the women's football women's athletic director on July 11.
Washington has a B.S. degree in health
and physical education from West Chester State College in West Chester, Pa., and will receive an M.S. degree in biodynamics and kinesiology from KU this year.
Among her many athletic honors, Washington was Middle Atlantic A.U.A. discus champion from 1964 through 1970 and Missouri Valley A.U.A. discus champion in the number of the United States Women's National Basketball Team in 1969, 1970 and 1971.
Women's athletic director is a new position at KU, which reflects a growing interest in women's athletics. Washington will report directly to the University's director of intercollegiate athletics, Clyde Walker.
Campaign Spending Limits Urged
WASHINGTON (AP)—The staff of the Senate Watergate committee is urging strict new limits on the role of money in presidential elections, but has taken no position on proposals to fund those elections from the federal treasury.
The staff's report calls for creation of an independent and nonpartisan election commission to oversee the conduct and operations.
THE REPORT RECOMMENDS barring campaign contributions from foreign citizens, setting $3,000 as the legal limit from one donor and placing a legal limit on over-all campaign expenses at 12 times the total voting age population.
The latter, similar to a bill already passed by the Senate, would put the total spending limit for each presidential candidate at $2,500 million.
The draft report, made available to the Associated Press by a source and submitted to committee, notes that in 1921 President Nixon sent a memorial to the late Ralph Nixon.
The report gives this description of the abuses the committee's investigations allude to have uncovered:
"Some solicitations were tinged with extortion and bribery.
"Huge cash contributions, legal and illegal, were transported to campaign offices in everything from plain white envelopes to airline flight bags and utilizing corporate-funded tickets and even corporate jets.
"THE RESOURCES of corporations and government contractors were tapped.
"Foreign nationals, out of the reach of scrutiny by American officials, gave contributions, or made loans for contributions, to"
"the United States."
"There were contributions, apparently entire legal, which by virtue of their enormity—individual ones of $1 million or more—gave at least the appearance of disproportionate liability to those as well as potential obligation on the part of the recipient."
"Large and wealthy organizations pooled their resources and gave control of large kites to a handful of representatives to make contributions and to engage in discussions or negotiations with their self interest, in connection with the contributions."