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University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1981
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Hot rooms in Stouffer irk residents
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
The warm air hangs heavy in the apartment at Stouffer Place. Books and papers are spread on the table in the living room. The open windows fail to provide even a breeze. The young man covers his face with a cloth of hair off his rostie face as he talks.
"When we moved in my邻居 told me it's very hot in the summer, and that I'd better buy an air conditioner, Taiwan graduate student, said.
"I don't want to buv a new one."
"I don't want to buy a new one."
Like Haang many Stouffer Place residents are anticipating another scorching summer, and they want air conditioning installed in their apartments.
J. J. WILSON, director of housing, said yesterday he had no plans to install air conditioning in Stouffer Place.
"Air conditioning has never been offered," he said. "It is a service the people need to supply."
But Linda Donan, St. Joseph, Mo., graudate student, disagrees.
"We're poor," she said. "We live here to save money. We don't want to put out
Donna think foreign students, who she said composed more than half the residents at Stouffer, face an especially hard situation.
money for something we'll have to sell in a few years."
"Some are on very low scholarships from their governments," she said. "Cost is a painful factor to the majority."
Wilson said cost would still be a factor if air conditioning were installed. Rents would have to be raised, and utility bills would go up, he said.
"There are no plans to install air conditioning within the present rate structure," he said.
Stouffer residents have to pay their own utility bills.
Rent at Stouffer now is $115 and $125 a month. Next year it is going up to $125 and $140.
SOME RESIDENTS said they would be willing to pay a little more rent for a cool apartment.
"I'm ready to pay if it's acceptable." Mahmoud Jaafar, Palestine sohomore, said.
Wilson said another problem with
installing air conditioners and raising rents concerned residents who already had their own units and would have to pay the higher rent.
"Fifty to 60 percent of the residents have their own units." he said.
Some residents don't think rent needs to be raised if air conditioning is installed.
"It could be relatively cheap to add air conditioning because the funds are available," Bill Carswell, past chairman of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, said. "He (Wilson) has access to interest on reserve funds that he could use as capital to borrow, or use it directly."
"Stouffer Place runs on a larger profit margin than any other place on campus," Donan said. "They are able to make more money and should pay it all off and lower the rent."
ROBERT M. CANDLIN, assistant director of housing, said this was not true.
The housing office borrowed money and sold bonds to build Stouffer Place and some of the residence halls, Candiina said. Any money left at the end of
the year is pledged to two accounts:
repair and replacement, and debts,
which is used to pay the bondholders.
If you believe it should be used
anything else, he said.
Housing has a regular operating fund, which is used to buy equipment, Candilin said.
“Eventually we might buy air conditioning with this money,” he said. “We'd have to do a few buildings at a time. Right now, we don't have the funds available to purchase air conditioning.”
Donaan said she and other residents would like the housing office to consider renting units to them. At first, housing would have to put up a lot of money to purchase the air conditioners, she said, but eventually, it would pay off.
John Oehlerh of Cloud Trane Air Conditioning Co., 828 E. 28th St., said contracting for window units would probably be the most economical, although central air would be the coolest.
"Housing would get some break if they bought 300 at once," he said.
Celebration set May 10
"Something for everybody" is the goal of the seventh annual Everybody Day celebration May 10 in South Park.
The celebration sponsored by Headquarters counseling center, will include sports, crafts, contests, games, dancing and information booths, said Marcia Epstein, Headquarters director, yesterday.
"The idea is to have something for everybody," she said. "It's nice to do something for the community. Since Headquarters is a crisis center, we think it's important to have fun and be healthy."
Participants volunteer time and talent, and the admission is free, she said. Anyone with a skill, talent or nonpolitical information can participate by contacting Headquarters at 841-2345.
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