University Daliy Kansan, June 19, 1985
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Biologists will move together in Haworth
By Shawn Aday
Staff Reporter
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Robert Lichtwardt, professor of botany, took a break from unpacking the boxes stacked in his new office on the eighth floor of Haworth Hall. Probably speaking for most of his colleagues, he said recently, "We've been looking forward to this for 10 years."
JOHN CERKEMAN MAYANE Bebh Ihekwereme, Jmuaiahia, Nigeria, graduate student, unpacks botany materials at the new plant research laboratory in the addition to Haworth Hall.
Lichtward was one of the first professors in the division of biological sciences to move into the $13.9 million addition to Haworth. Most of the division will follow him into Haworth this summer.
William Bell, chairman of the moving committee, said the department of botany already was moving into the seventh and eighth floors and the entire move should be finished by mid-July.
A greenhouse of more than 5,000 square feet soaks up sunlight on the south side of the third floor, and three additional sunrooms for the botanists are on the eighth.
The addition matches old Haworth's eight stories and doubles the total space of the building. It concludes with a final sentence that the professors helped design.
But when Bell, professor of physiology, spoke of the benefits of moving into the addition, he did not emphasize those features.
He began with the fact that most faculty will be moving closer together.
"All good intentions to the contrary, we don't discuss our research
as much as we could," Bell said. "I think drawing us together will stimulate more conversations and joint projects."
KU's biologists have moved together twice before: first in 1886 in old Snow Hall, which stood in front of Watson Library along Jayhawk Drive, and then again in 1929 when the present Snow Hall was built.
But the biologists have consistently outturned their new homes.
In 1886, two professors, Francis Snow and Lewis Dyche, taught 13 courses. The division now contains about 65 professors in the program of undergraduate biology and the other departments.
Doris Beloise, business manager of the division, said undergraduate biology classes still would be taught in Snow this fall. Also, some faculty will remain there for three years until the division of biological sciences can occupy all of Haworth. The department of human development and family life now occupies the first two floors of old Haworth.
Over the years faculty members have moved out of Snow into various buildings across campus and not all gathered into Haworth this summer.
The Entomology Museum will remain in Snow and several faculty of systematics and ecology will remain in Dyche Hall.
The addition is more than a way to bring the biologists together, because it's so easy. The department of botany, said the three growth chambers installed on
the eighth floor of the addition were great improvements over the old ones in Snow.
The huge silver boxes, one large enough to walk into, are used in experiments on plant growth. In them, the temperature, humidity and light can be precisely controlled to simulate any climate. With some modifications, the chambers will be able to reproduce sunlight. Hailey said.
In the hallway to Bell's office on the fourth floor of Snow, six refrigerators were lined up against the wall. The narrow passage. Bell said they
held necessary specimens and supplies. The refrigerators have been adding up there, one by one, for 10 years, he said.
Lichtward said, "I'm one of the few professors who will have less space here than I had in Snow. But I still like the less space because we designed it."
For example, in Lichtwardt's new office, the steel and glass cabinets that run the length of both walls are built into the walls to save space.
Another problem with Snow is the range in building temperature. Changes in temperature affect experiments, and Bell said the
temperature in Snow ranges from 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That fluctuation in temperature can drastically change the metabolisms and movements of living organisms used for research.
Despite the benefits of moving from Snow, not all is good news in Haworth. Lichtwardt said he saw little room for growth there and Belote agreed.
The humidity as well as the temperature in Haworth will be constant year-round, he said.
"Every room is filled." she said.
KU workers delay talks on asbestos
Bv Jill Ovens
Staff Reporter
A meeting to discuss a possible lawsuit by facilities operations workers who were exposed to asbestos during the removal of a boiler in the KU power plant has been postponed until June 26, the worker's attorney said yesterday.
Paul Hulsey, a Topeka attorney,
said the meeting was postponed because he had been out of town for a
month. He will attend the meetin
the scheduled last week.
He said there was no doubt that a number of workers and supervisors had been exposed to varying amounts of potentially hazardous chemicals in the workspace of the workers could sue the University for damages was another matter.
"This is a very complicated issue because asbestos creates a latent disease that can take from 20 to 30 years to develop." he said recently. "The legal question is whether you learn before the injury has developed."
A report released in late May by the Kansas Department of Human Resources confirmed workers' complaints about a lack of supervision and training, inappropriate protective equipment and clothing, and poor work area preparation during the two-year boiler removal project.
Asbestos dust contains fibers that have been linked to a variety of lung aliments, including mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer.
KANU's series on Haskell wins regional UPI award
By The Kansan Staff
KANU.FM received an award for Outstanding Documentary in United Press International's 1985 Southwest Regional Broadcast Contest last week.
The documentary, "Haskell: A Century of Change," centered on the Haskell Indian Junior College Centennial celebration and how the junior college's students relate to the community. Howard Hill, director of KANU, said Monday that the story was well-balanced and well-written.
"The reporter who covered the story showed an example of unusual sensitivity and insight." Hill said "I told him that I was trying to contact the issues and talk about them."
The documentary, broadcast in five separate segments on KANU's morning edition, covered the early days of Haskell and the difficulty merging the two cultures of the Indian and the white man, the American Indian Movement of the late 1960's, and the students today and their outlook on the Lawrence community.
Rob McNeyle, reporter for the documentary and a 1981 KU graduate, said that he had no difficulty with prejudice while working on the skis.
"Discrimination occurs because of lack of communication," he said. "Once those barriers are broken, there is no problem."
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