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Friday, July 16, 1971
81st Year, No. 11
Wescoe Hall: Still A Long Time Coming
By DAVE MORGENSTERN
The dump truck drivers were sitting in the hot shade during lunch and watching the girls walking in front of Malott. Actually, they were hoping one would slip in the mud. "See that one over there?" Gene said to me. "She's an Indian. You can tell cause she looks different."
I asked them how the construction was going. It was going OK.
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By late 1973, without interference from Acts of God, civil insurrection, union pickets, or bad weather. Wescoe wrote that she had "never found Young Minds searching for the Truth.
will also house the departments of Speech, English, French and Italian, Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, German, Slavic languages, Philosophy, Western Civ., Classics and Classical Archaeology, and American Studies.
The air conditioned humanities building will be made of poured concrete stretching two stories tall on Jayhawk Boulevard, four stories at the base of the hill. It's actually been around a long time. The only reason we couldn't see it before is because we had our eyes closed.
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Ten years ago the University Planning Council knew deep in its collective
heart that a new humanities building was just the thing for that spot over there across from Strong Hall. (Carrus folklore tuns it that Strong is actually hall backwards. Go look at the side facing Spencer and see for yourself.)
State Architect Jim Canole, appointed by Governor Avery, commissioned the architectural firm of Woodman and VanDoren of Wichita to draw up plans for the new building. The architects were told, of "WVandan" were told. They bead
Money was duly appropriated from the State and Federal governments to the tune of $8.5 million. (It's a nice tune. Hum it to yourself a while.)
this. What they didn't hear was "Give us a building we can pay for."
Even before the plans were finished, everyone involved knew it was going to cost way over the funds available. Even though it had a swell 25 story tower, making it the tallest building in Kansas law at that time stated that the bank before construction could begin. And there wasn't nearly enough.
Turned down by the Regents, Woodman and VanDoren were down but by no means out. Lopping off ten stories, a re-shuffle of classrooms and zap) a fifteen story tower, and a 4.8 million dollar construction cost.
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Health Lab Underfunded
Tuesday, July 20, 1971
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More Crowded Funds Shrink
d money.
library borrowing is a reflection of for library resources which cannot locally," the report said, "and its inversely relates to the adequacy of airaries collections. This volume d to increase during 1968-70.
number of bound volumes in the $i$ collection has increased from 1 in 1983 to 1,500,073 in 1970. This has urben on the storage for stockage of military equipment, government pamphlets, and foreign nis which are not bound.
on Library is not in desperate shape ormentes in terms of book space." Heron will be in two or three years. In 1968, she left for the University of the staff and of Watson Library."
said, however, that the library is a whole was overcrowded.
crackdowns of the past weeks,
; were not only aimed at hippies and
aged excesses.
said was going to be a birthday party,
aided by some villagers, fired
proceeded to round up
followers. Witnesses said some
beaten by police.
lee and law libraries are really 1—old books are having to be stored in ment of Spencer," Heron said.
riters recently suspended the Madrid
treaty "Ikunfo" for four months because
shed articles contrary to accepted
principles which advocated laws
divorce.
annual report for 1969-70 called the
*of library space" severe."
ent space problems in the science are indeed severe," the report says, mentioning the Bareter-Shillinger library system as a dictates that it is required. It requires the Spencer Library abundant storage space for the time
Spiegel, Germany's lending news, has been repeatedly banned. Last issue of Time Magazine was held up at a protest because it can picture of two nudes.
siveness uisition
is jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in a spokesman at the hospital said died shortly before noon Monday as a injuries suffered in the fall.
orkman and another was in the are center of Lawrence Memorial Monday after the scaffold on which re working collapsed.
name of the second man is being L.
dispatched at about 9:45 Monday
Johnson, a sub-contractor for the
Construction Company of Topeka,
and a man were working on an addition to
Hall at KU, when the scaffold appa-
gage way without warning and the
labout four stories to a concrete
below.
being, but the 'same formula' in the science libraries have only one third of the space they
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Watton Library built in 1924, has had three additions and is expected to "that it is not an ideally designed building."
"Statistically, it's rather short of seating space," Heron said. "We should be able to seat 4,300 in the entire library system. We have seating for 2,500. This is somewhat different; there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terribly overcrowded."
Another problem the library has is a shortage of personnel.
"This year the work load is going to increase," Heron said, "and there will be fewer, rather than more, people working here." The library also has a brieflisting problem. There are currently about 250,000 books which are only brieflisted and not fully catalogued. To the user of the card catalogue, brieflisted books are not as useful.
Heron said the library needs more employees to speed up the briefing work.
"Increasing doctoral programs also mean greatly increased burdens on the library."
Between 1958 and 1970, the number of masters degrees awarded at KU has increased 182.2 per cent, the number of doctoral degrees increased 4.4 per cent, and the library budged has increased $316,000.
The root of the libraries' troubles is the refusal of the Board of Regents and the state legislature to allot more money for books, library operation and extension of facilities.
In 1968,69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,588. In 1969,70, the total expenditure was $1,914,383. In 1970,71, would probably pay below $2,000.72
Heron said the administration has been advocating a new system of budgeting, called formula budgeting, used widely by other institutions of higher education. He said that the library submitted a formulated budget two years ago, (1984-89) in which it requested $50 million. This budget was turned down by the board of Regents it never made to the legislature).
The annual report for 1985-70 summarized the success of the formula budgeting technique for that year: "It went down in flames with the rest of the squad, but some day when the weather improves it should fly better than the old magic carpet."
With a shortage of employees and operating funds, another economy instituted by the Federal Reserve is
"This is a problem this summer," Heron said. "People who work during the week can't afford it."
Heron said that the library would be closed on Friday evening during the coming school year, and that the library would be forced to curtail its hours of service a total of five to ten per cent during the year. He added that other state schools were having the same problems.
make very many specific proposals for consolidation or elimination of particular programs.
The University of Kansas library system is not facing an immediate crisis. Libraries at KU will continue to operate. But they will be overcrowded, understaffed, and the quantity and quality of resource materials will continue to decrease in future years unless the university more financial aid from the Board of Regents and, ultimately, the state legislature.
Kissinger Reveals Details of Trip
WASHINGTON (UPD) - Henry Kissinger's trip to China was so secret that even one of the two Secret Service agents who went with him didn't know the destination.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of our Peking trip during a chat Sunday aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called meetings of his cabinet and congressional leaders to discuss the importance to continue discussions of his upcoming China
political campaigns for several years, had never discussed the ACUP post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
Kissinger declined to discuss what type of aircraft was used on his clandestine trip, or even what route he traveled. But he said one of the two Secret Service agents with him was in the dark—until he spotted a Chinese aircraft, presumably on the flight into China.
On arrival in Peking the Chinese kept their promise of strict secrecy, even to the point of winking him away from the airport in a room behind a rear windows hidden by kick sidelocks.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped his teeth.
Once he began his 20 hours of talks with Premier Chou En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be better informed about some of Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Chou immediately started pepping him with intelligent questions about an off-the-cuff briefing Nixon held for newsmen in Kansas City July 8.
He also brought back memories—as the U.S. table tennis team died before him—of the year he won his first World Cup title.
served 12 courses at every meal, but he did not use the vory chapstick, fearful of his taste.
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Chiu; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
The following morning Cheng sent him a copy of Nixon's remarks, in English, with his personal notations on the margin and a note reading "please return, our only copy."
Kissinger said he had to admit he had been traveling and was out of touch, save for press reports.
Although no date for Nixon's visit has been announced, Kissinger said diplomatic negotiations were underway to make sure the groundwork will be well laid. White House officials said Nixon will probably go late this year or early in 1972.
Docking Fights AEC
TOPEKA (UPI)-Gov. Robert B. Docking Monday made a last ditch effort to halt the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funding for the nuclear waste dump near Lyons.
"I do not believe the AEC has made every effort to determine the safety of the Lyons project. Many of our state's prominent scientists, knowledgeable in the technical complexities and potential dangers of storing radioactive waste, have joined with me in asking that the AEC conduct further research on the safety of Lyons project before proceeding with site acquisition and construction." Docking said 'in the letter.'
The governor's office released the text of a letter sent by the Kansas governor to all 100 members of the U.S. Senate. The Senate will consider the request today.
The governor said the AEC "for the most part has ignored our concerns" and gone on to say it is not a priority.
Docking ask the Congress approve AEC funds for research on the project, but defer the requests for funds to acquire land and complete project until all safety tests are completed.
The AEC wants to take over an abandoned salt mine near Lyons in central Kansas for the nuclear waste dump. Radioactive waste would be deposited at the facility.
Spencer library has been closed due to a 12,500 volt cable broken by a construction worker at the site of Wesco Hall Tuesday, July 13.
Spencer Closed This Week
There has been a generator installed to keep the library at a cool temperature. It is not known how well the generator will provide the library until the cable is repaired.
Spencer contains many old documents, manuscripts and rare books which might be destroyed if not kept in a controlled atmosphere. There are no lights in the library.
The closing of the library has caused an inconvenience for approximately 40 students and 45 faculty members who are using the library this summer. Three of these have been provided with space near a window in the library to continue their studies. Two are doctoral candidates and the third is a faculty member.
Most of the staff employed at Spencer library have been transferred to Watson Library.
The Cannon Construction Co. said the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this week.
Kansas Photo
Spencer Library with emergency generator