CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1985
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Visit to hall begins needed repairs
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
A recent visit to Watkins Scholarship Hall by the director of housing and four former hall residents has prompted an increase in hall repair work, hall residents said yesterday. J.J. Wilson, housing director, and four women who lived in Watkins during the 1930s toured the hall April 11.
"There is a definite increase in the amount of maintenance that has been done this past week," Deb Miller, president of the hall, said yesterday. Verda Shields, one of the women who toured the hall and who now administers David Amber's last month to David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, concerning complaints she had heard about the upkeep of the hall.
The letter was referred to Wilson, who met with the women and gave them a tour of Watkins.
SHIELDS SAID THAT during the tour of the hall she had noticed makeshift repair work.
Wilson said after the tour that he understood the concern of the women but that he didn't think some of the improvements they had suggested were as pressing as the women had thought.
Nancy Miller, Watkins house manager, said she and most other residents were pleased with the maintenance work now being completed. She said the former residents' visit had spurred the increased maintenance work.
"I'm not sure they (housing officials) knew how bad the shape of the hall was before then," Miller said.
more and Watkins resident, said she had noticed more windows had been fixed, an antenna had been added to the TV, some holes in the walls had been putted and more painting had been done.
Eileen McFarren, Wichita sopho
MCFAREN SAID NO drastic changes had been made, but more basic maintenance projects had been completed.
"Paint on the wall doesn't affect one way or another the way we live." McFarren said. "But the little things have been a help."
have been Residents have complained for several years about cracked plaster, leaking ceilings and peeling paint.
Don McConnell, physical plant supervisor for the housing office, said that he had toured the hall with Miller last week and that they had compiled a list of maintenance requests.
McConnell said publicity about the
hall after the visit by Wilson and the four women had prompted him to go to the hall and see for himself what needed to be done.
"I wouldn't want the other scholarship halls to feel that we were letting their hall go just because we're running at Watkins," McConnell said.
McConnell said repair work on many other maintenance problems in Watkins and other halls had been scheduled to be started this summer.
Miller said the hall's problems weren't the result of neglect by the housing office but were because the house was about the type or amount of problems.
"I think that the tour Wilson conducted really addressed some of the problems this hall is undergoing." Miller said. "It's not the frills we want for the hall, it's just the fundamentals we want fixed."
Faculty discuss retirement preparation
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Faculty members at the University of Kansas will have a chance to learn about making the best of money and preparing for retirement at a meeting later this week.
KU faculty will be told the choices they have concerning benefits and investment opportunities at the spring meeting of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, scheduled to begin at
8 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The meeting will be followed by a program that will include four speakers who will speak about faculty retirement and investments. Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and president of the KU chapter of AAUP, said each speaker would talk for about seven minutes.
Shapiro said a panel discussion and a question and answer period would follow the speeches. The meeting is open to the public.
Sandy McKenzie, professor of law.
said she would speak about retirement planning. McKenzie said there were many options faculty members should know about before they were ready to retire.
She said she also would discuss retirement planning and benefits that are currently provided for faculty.
"We'll be comparing the different things faculty can do to prepare for retirement." McKenzie said.
A retirement fund made up of 10 percent of the faculty member's salary is currently used. Five percent of the fund is taken from the faculty member's paycheck. McKenzie said.
The other 5 percent is put in by the state. This year, the Kansas Legislature approved financing for another t percent for faculty retirement funds beginning with fiscal year 1986. The increase includes faculty members at all Board of Regents schools. In addition to the increase in retirement benefits, the Legislature approved a 5 percent increase in salaries for Regents faculty members for fiscal year 1986.
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