University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1981
Page 3
KU arts festival, council formed
By CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporter
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Cobert recently killed two stone by naming a 19-member committee and by announcing the date of the first-ever University Arts Festival.
The 19 KU faculty and staff members appointed to the new University Council on the Arts will advise the administration on arts matters, will coordinate activities on campus arts groups and will serve between the University and local, state and national arts agencies.
The council also will coordinate arts fund-raising activities and will become the standing committee for the University Festival of the Arts. The festival is scheduled from March 23 to April 12.
James Moeser, arts council chairman and dean of the School of Fine Arts, said. "There are so many different art groups on campus that felt we needed an organizational committee so that we could get together and discuss common issues."
"We needed something to represent all the various art factions here at KU," she said. "The arts are becoming more important in today's world, beginning to recognize the need for art and are supporting the art more."
CHARLA JENKINS, council member and public relations director for the school of Fine Arts, said that because of the prominence gained by the various arts departments at KU, "it became obvious that there needed to be one central arts committee to organize things."
Moeser said the council would be responsible for developing proposals for a performing arts center, making decisions on acquisition and placement of works on campus, and for developing an artist-in-residence program.
ALTHOUGH PLANS for a new performing arts center are still in the "hopeful" stage, he said that plans were being laid now so that the project could be carried out within five to 10 years.
lack of office, library and rehearsal space for many years, Moeser said.
The School of Fine Arts, located in Murphy Hall, has been plagued by a
Under consideration now is either a major addition to Murphy Hall to house the arts center or a new building on West Campus.
"The longer we wait, the more it's going to cost," Moeser said. "A seat-of-the-pants type of estimate would be between $20 to $40 million."
THE UNIVERSITY ART Festival,
also announced by the
administration, is an attempt to focus
on art programs in the various arts
programs at KU.
"KU has a spring program in performing and visual arts that is really special worldwide," Jenkins said. "We need to call extra attention all of the events are going on at KU in a six-week period."
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andre Previn, will open the festival. A solo performance by Matsislav Rostropovich, the world's premiere cellist, will follow on April 2, along with other concerts, lectures, play and opera performances.
REMEMBER! We'll Service Your Car For Less!
Ron Griffin
Service Manager
Jerry Sinovic
Service Adviser
All Japanese Imports Coupons must be presented at time of write-up.
PRE SPRING BREAK SPECIAL 10% DISCOUNT on Maintenance-Related Items
TOYOTA
LAWRENCE
MAZDA
LAWRENCE AUTO PLAZA 843-2191
Includes:
-Oil changes
-Brake inspections
-Wheel bearings repacked
-Plus many more
LAWRENCE AUTO PLAZA 842-2191
Additional work needed also receives 10% discount on parts and labor.
(NOTE: 10% discount does not include Tune-Up Special)
(NOTE: 10% discount does not include Tune-Up Special)
TUNE-UP SPECIAL
LAWRENCE AUTO PLAZA 842-2191
$3695 4cyl.
with coupon
Includes all parts
and labor — (6cyl).
engines slightly higher.
We'll:
• install new spark plugs
• replace points and cond. (if appl.
• set engine to recommended
  manufacturer's specifications
• adjust carburetor
• inspect operation of choke
• install new fuel filter
• check all underhood fluid levels
KU decides on Centrex II
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has chosen a modified Centrex II telephone system, which will mean $40,000 to provide in increased costs to provide telephone service until 1985. Acting Chancellor Del Shulker, said yesterday.
"I'm not sure of the exact cost because we do not yet know how the company Corporation Commission's approval of the latest rate increase will affect us," he said.
The effects of the rate increase would be known by tomorrow, William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said last week.
CHOOSING THE MODIFIED system means KU would retain rotary dialing phones and have 4,000 station lines on campus. Shankel said. Under a regular Centre II system, KU would have to add one phone and 6,900 station lines.
"The basic reason we chose the modified Centrex II, was that if we had
gone to the other alternative of keeping our present Centre I system, we would have had to pay a penalty for terminating the contract," Khanel said.
The University will pay for the modified Centrex II system out of its Other Operating Expenses fund in the 1982 fiscal year budget, Shankel said.
"If that doesn't cover it, we are going to put in a request for the money the governor set aside for state agencies and telecommunications costs," he said.
KU's search for a new telephone system began in October 1979, when the University signed a contract with Bell for a Centrix II system at no additional cost per phone. At that time, the monthly rate per phone was $8.75
BUT IN FEBRUARY 1980, monthly rates per phone jumped to $14.56, after the Kansas Corporation Commission approved a Bell rate increase.
Because KU had 2,000 station lines and the contract would have increased that number to 6,500, the University
"It was unfortunate, but the original
from any rate change," Shankar said.
met with Bell officials to discuss phone service alternatives.
The final two alternatives were either a modified Centrix II system or a standard Centrix II system and later buying a separate interconnecting campus phone system.
"Staying with the Centre I system would have cost us $27,000 in penalties to terminate the Centre II contract," Shankel said. "Then we would have had an additional $500,000 penalty to pay if we had wanted to terminate our Centre I contract early and go to the Interconnect system."
The University residence halls have a regular Centrex II phone system, Shankel said, because the funds for the increased costs were available.
FURTHERMORE, retaining the Centrel I would have cost the University from $50,000 to $60,000 yearly in increased costs, he said. But the University had original Centrel II contract would be paid to $100,000 in increased annual costs.
Conversion to the modified Centrex system has already begun, Shankel said. He did not know when conversion would be completed.
monday madness
841-7900
1445 W 23rd St.
841-8002
6 L. FIELD RD
Fast...Free Delivery
Hours:
4:30 - 1:00 Sun - Thurs.
4:30 - 2:00 Fr. & Sat.
Limited delivery area. 1861 Dominos Plaza Inc.
$6.50
Mondays only...
Pay only $50 for a 4 item item
plus a large item Pepsi+
( tax included in price)
One coupon per person
Expres. 5/31/81
Family Fare
114 W. 23rd St. 841-7900
610 Floor 841-8002
Drivers carry less than $10.
13094/6301-2
Advertise it in the Kansan. Call 864-4358
Dear KU Students,
I strongly urge all KU students who are Lawrence residents to vote tomorrow in our city election. Progressive city government is important to you. For example, we need to maintain a police department which is sensitive to the special problems of a university campus. We need to expand recreational opportunities for students, from primitive areas at Clinton Lake to bike trails along the Kansas River. We need to expand part-time employment opportunities. We need to maintain a strong and attractive downtown, which is so entwined with the needs of students living and going to school close by.And we need to keep solid bridges between "town" and "gown."
I have served two terms as city commissioner and
Mayor of Lawrence. I teach at the KU Law School. I ask for your support in the election tomorrow.
Thank You.
Buckley Clock
Barkley Clark