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Friday, April 16, 1971
University Daily Kansan
was a Men's Residence Hall 25 Years Ago
Oread Hall Is Used for Offices
KU 'Temporary' Buildings Have a 25-Year History
By MIKE LEWIS Kansan Staff Writer
One of the things a visitor to the University of Kansas might notice is the existence of box-like auxiliary buildings which dot the campus. Boxed buildings might be less apt to notice some of the historical forerunners to these buildings, which have been "temporary" since 1846.
The story of the buildings began at the close of World War II, when University officials, expecting an enrollment of about 7,000 were swamped with more students. In an attempt to accommodate this flood of returning veterans, the University applied to the
The agency supplied KU with a number of Quonst huts and several wooden-frame barracks which were taken from an Army Air Force base in Coffeyville and used City, Mo. ordinance works.
for offices crowded out of permanent buildings.
Federal Works Agency for 10 temporary buildings.
In the same year the State War Emergency Fund granted KU $75,000 to obtain a structure to be used for university construction. In a university contract, the Constant Construction Company relocated a building from the Parsons Ordnance Works to Johns Hopkins University to make-shift residence hall was named Oread Hall, and housed 160 students. It is now used, as are most of the temporary space space for faculty members.
One of these structures is located to either side of Marvin the Artist, a series of the visual arts department, the other houses the faculty and administration of the museum and literature department
The two buildings just east of Summerfield Hall house the computation center offices, while the speech communications buildings west of Fraser Hall. One temporary structure is used by Watkins Hospital staff for office space, and two buildings to the north of the Kansas Union are continuing education offices.
Commenting on the buildings, Jerry Hutchison, assistant vice chancellor of academic affairs, wrote that all of the buildings, which means by their very nature they are unplanned. "I want to do but were forced to do."
The eight or nine men on the second shift conduct foot patrols and vehicle patrols of the campus from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. This is one of the busiest times because more people are on the moving traffic is heavier. The second shift conducts traffic control, boots until they leave at 4:45 p.m.
The third shift has four men out on patrol from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., and there is a split shift from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. with 9 officers on security duty in the residence halls.
The office has 12 officers on the first shift which runs from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. These men visit the campus and investigate reports, excort monies for the business office and patrol the campus in their own
Car patrol on the second shift tends to become someone to distract tedious when the man someday arrives. As Sgt Mike Hill said, "The routine bogs any body down but it's part of the job. I like it."
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An evening of patrol with Hill can be quiet, with nothing more eventful than the discovery of a large rock.
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Boredom Is Worst Problem
The more recent additions to the part-time skyline at KU were put into place in the fall of 1987. The new building provides a 1,400 square foot area
Possibly one of the most familiar functions of the Office of Traffic and Security is that of manning the five traffic control stations on campus.
The busiest of the control stations is at the Chima Omega officer, Fountain William Morrill (F. Morrill). It is not clear whether it does not keep an officer constantly occupied. He does not have time, however, to do so.
Morrill says that the worst problem is the
By ANN McKINNEY Kansan Staff Writer
Officers Perform Various Duties
The Traffic and Security officers perform a variety of duties at the University of Kansas, but most of them end up being merely part of a routine.
"I think we have a little different situation up here. That what intrigues me, Hill said, is the lack of people. We are in a Security Society a population of 18,000 students and about 2,000 staff members, most who are between 18 and 23 years old. This means that we deal with very different kinds of problems than municipal officers are. For example, the KU men do not get many domestic calls but the Lawrence Police department does."
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Meanwhile, Hill continues to drive slowly, and he checks doors and checkers doors and padlocks.
Hill said mayor or worker, calls such as “resolving a problem,” routine, but that, in another way, it was good to have someone at his service.
boredom. He says he gets along well with the students, often to take them on the girl who was his first victim and has several years ago. He got to know her because her bicycle chain came off every day and he was very excited.
Officer Sylvester Posch, who was in the Chi Omega station, he didn't mind the routine at all because the five officers on duty in the unit rotated to new stations every two weeks.
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Mike Thomas, director of traffic and security, said he looked for younger men who were "understanding in this kind of work (traffic and security) rather than police work," and had "understanding, responsibility and understanding."
When an officer is hired he is on probation for six months before he attains permanent civil service status. During that time he can be called to the police if he questions being asked by the civil service authorities. Within the year he is hired a new police academy at Hutchinson.
Additional training is given to the men during training schools which are held between academic semesters. Thomas said, "You can be outside the office are invited to give classes."
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