University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 22, 1974
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Former Pipe-Puffing KU VP Directs Dorm
Editor's Note: This is one of a series of articles about former University of Kansas
By BUNNY MILLER
Remember Molly Laflin?
University of Kansas juniors and seniors may remember her as well for her famous pipe smoking as for the year she was student body vice president, 1971-72.
Laflin, whose real first name is Mary Theresa, is still around KU as director of Lewis Hall and assistant director of Notre Dame College, but she's given up pipe smoking.
"I only did that for about three months," she said yesterday. "But I gave it up because it just makes your breath bad and leaves a bitter taste."
The flamboyant Laffin, however, is always doing things to shock people.
"I really do love to do things to shake people up," she admitted with a laugh.
But Lafflin hasn't always wanted to be in the spotlight. Although she won a Student Senate seat for 1970-71, she often had feelings of insecurity.
When Dave Miller asked her to be his
running mate in 1971, she said, told him,
"I'm not the kind of person you're looking
"I had always gone around with the impression that only certain kinds of people could be important," she said. "Whenwer someone like Dave Awbrey or Chancellor Chalmers walked by me, I'd stare at him in awe."
But Miller and his supporters "blackmailed" her into running anyway, Lafflin
"They told me if I wouldn't run they'd ask someone I knew was less qualified than I am."
Running for student body vice president was one of the best things she's ever done,
"At the first senate meeting I ran, I got up in front of all the senators and I could tell they thought I was someone really important," she said. "That made me realize that nobody is more important than anybody else."
"I saw how I had matched myself against some mattainable perfection. Now I feel like I'm not going to lose."
Miller and Laflin campaigned for broad
reorganization of the Student Senate and won the election. However, the campaign was stained by another vice presidential candidate's reaction to a "campaign sonnet" written by Lafflin. The Kanesi of Feb. 17, 1971, reported that the candidate, Sarah Scott, said the sonnet contained "suspectly integral integrity of some of the other candidates."
"Iwrote it at four in the morning and was dead tired," Lalfi replied to Scott's charges. "How could anyone take it seriously? Everyone accuses everyone else of mudlinghust. But this gave us an opportunity to laugh at ourselves."
Under the Miller-Lafin administration, the senate committee structure was reorganized, the bus system was saved, and an allocations enactment which provided for distributions of activity fees a year in October 1985. Hilltop Child Care Center was established.
The biggest issue of that administration, Laflain said, was funding the Atheletic team.
"Some people didn't want to give it a penny," she said. "They thought it was expensive."
B&G Uses Men Instead of Machine
Building and Grounds doesn't really create busyness for itself - it just seems
Three times each year Building and Grounds men spend about 10 days repainting curbs and crosswalks on University streets, only to have it wear off again, according to Leo Oudahs, assistant director of building and grounds.
When asked if there wasn't a paint
available that would resist wear better and reduce the costs of continuous repainting, Oushdal said: "Building and Grounds is being run like any business. We do the job at the lowest cost possible. We are required to buy our paint from the state penitentiary. It's a high quality paint and we get it at a low cost.
"The University has to paint curbs and
GSP, Corbin Lose Steaks In Contest to Save Energy
All University of Kansas residence halls except Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin halls will be rewarded by a steak dinner Tuesday for saving energy in the Association of University Residence Halls. The halls offer free WiFi, Harry Wigner, Lulette freshman and AURH communications coordinator, said yesterday.
The energy conservation program required the halls to use at least 5 per cent less gas and electricity from last year during the Jan. 20 to Feb. 19 billing period.
Wigner said that all together the residence halls saved enough energy to meet a quarter of their annual water usage.
The savings was attributed to warm weather throughout the period, students cooperation and the competition the program urged.
Joseph R. Pearson residents conserved most greens. The residents used 35 containers until they ran out.
less gas; however, they didn't win a steak dinner because they used about 10 per cent
The city has a machine that heats the paint before it goes on, Ousdahl said, but the cost of such a machine for the University would be prohibitive. The machine costs $26,000 according to Ervin Hodges, Lawrence purchasing agent.
The other residence halls conserved:
Ellsworth Hall—24 per cent gas, 18 per cent electricity;
Hashinger Hall—14 per cent gas, 23 per cent electricity; Lewis Hall—24 per cent gas, 23 per cent electricity; Oliver Hall—24 per cent gas, 23 per cent electricity; McColum Hall—15 per cent gas, 18 per cent electricity; Templin Hall—17 per cent gas, 23 per cent electricity.
crosswalk three times a year, while the city usually paints theirs only twice because they don't have to paint in the summer; but we have to for school summer," he said.
"We also buy our paint from the penitentiary," he said, "but we aren't required to. We've found the pain to be good quality and competitively priced."
"This machine saves on man hours because the paint drys within 10 seconds or so, so it can be used to prevent cars from driving over it. But we can't say yet if it will last longer. We need more testing."
GSP and Cortin residents, who entered the contest together, consumed 12 per cent
Plastic inserts sunk into the street at crosswalks in some cities are very expensive and not suitable for university's needs. In a building, such as cholizh, director of building and grounds.
"The corners on the inserts stick up after a little wear and they get ripped out by the snowplow in winter." Buchholz said. "They use the rubber inserts in Washington, D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue. But, of course, they can afford to replace them."
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--priorities for the University. It got to be a circus."
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--priorities for the University. It got to be a circus."
"In Dave Awbrey and Bill Eberts' time (1969-71), they'd vote on huge things like the war—as if it were going to make a difference," she said.
Laflaïn said she thought the senate was calmer now. The senate is "looking more toward itself and the University, rather national and international issues," she said.
Lafin is now doing graduate work in higher education and administration; During her years at KU she has become involved with the women's movement and was an assistant to the dean of women last year.
Lafin said she thought the Beiserer ad ministration would be similar to Miller's. "they're both doers," she said. "they're going out there, scream and demand rights. He's extremely capable and the University really needs this kind of person to get things done."
"I see the women's movement as a humanist movement," she said. "It's equally important to be worth anything at all if it's just one side against the other."
Lafin said she would remain director at Lewis Hall at least one more year.
"We've planned some exciting things for Louis, and I want to see how they work," she said.
She said she didn't know what she would do after next year.
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