University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
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Police move provides opportunity to update
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
The KU police department is consolidating its force — from three buildings into one.
Last month, facilities operations workers started remodeling the north end of the third floor of Carruth-O'Leary Hall for the department. KU police started moving into their new quarters Friday and expect to finish the job today and tomorrow.
The police department and facilities operations will do the actual moving. Currently, the department has operations in Carnuth-Ob'Leary Hall, Hoch Auditorium and a small building south of the power plant.
"We first moved the dispatch records here," Jim Denney, director of police, said last week. "As long as we were moving, we got a new communications dispatch console.
"The old one was 16 years old and they don't make parts for it anymore. The new console cost $35,000 installed."
DENNEY SAID moving the old console would have cost between $6,000 and $8,000. He said the company that made the old console wouldn't guarantee that it would work if it was moved.
"I have reserved $14,000 for the remodeling," Denney said, "but I haven't received the bills yet to know the exact amount it will cost.
Before office desks and books could be moved, the third floor of Carruth-O'Leary had to be remodeled.
"We're paying facilities operations to do the work, and $5,000 of the $14,000 went for an electrical generator. We need emergency power for dispatch, and that's the major material expense of the move."
DENNEY SAID $14,000 would get the department through most of the move. But it won't be enough to move his office to Hoehudt Auditorium. She said section from Hoehudt Auditorium.
custodial building south of the power plant. The time of those moves has not yet been determined.
The communications console was installed Jan 26 in the first phase of the move. Two dispatchers can use the console at the same time.
Doug Ward/KANSAN
In 1983, Denney said, dispatchers handled 44,000 incoming calls and initiated 120,000 radio transactions. Figures weren't available on the number of calls and transactions the dispatchers handled in 1984.
The dispatchers handle nine radio frequencies, which include Lawrence police, the Douglas County sheriff's office and the Kansas Highway Patrol. They can transmit on six frequencies.
About 35,000 Teletype messages are sent by the dispatchers to other law enforcement agencies in response to incidents such as arrest warrants or stolen cars.
are there ARE 42 telephone lines THEIR ARE 42 telephone lines the dispatchers have to handle. The lines go to emergency phones, business lines and direct lines to residence halls.
They also are responsible for keep track of every officer out on patrol and keeping control of as many as 35 officers on days of football games.
"Gerald Ford was here in 1978." Denney said. "We had 140 officers on duty and they were all handled through dispatch.
neer most important job is to keep the KU police department accessible to anyone who needs them to work as officers to where they're needed."
In 1974, no dispatch operators worked for the KU police. Now, five full-time dispatchers and one part-timeatcher work for the department.
"BEING A DISPATCHER isn't an easy job." Denney said. "They must be able to work a computer, understand radio equipment, be totally dependable and be very+ very patient.
"We've gotten calls from someone who said I'm going to blow my brains out."
Mark Conner, 3038 Harvard Rd., plays with Rocky, by Jane Tusten, 1818 Vermont St. at a program, sponsored by the Lawrence Jayhawk Kennel Club, to make more children aware of how they should treat their pets. Pet owners who belong to the club brought their pets to the Museum of Natural History Saturday and demonstrated to four young visitors how they could take better care of their dogs.
Water, sewerage study endorsed
Two proposed engineering studies would indicate whether new water or sewage lines were needed on campus, the University director of facilities planning said last week.
Financing for the committee's recommendations next must be approved by the House and Senate Ways and Means committees, then by the full House and Senate before being sent to Gov. John Carlin for his signature.
The studies, which together would cost $91,000, were approved last month by the Joint Committee on State Building and Construction, which endorses financing for all building and remodeling projects in the state.
signal. I approved, the studies probably would begin in the summer and take three to four months to complete, Allen Wierich, the director said.
One study, which will cost about
$51,000, would determine whether the campus water distribution system provides enough water pressure and water line capacity for campus buildings. Wiechert said. The University wants to make sure enough water is available in case of fire.
The studies were part of the University's fiscal year 1986 capital improvement requests to the Legislature, Wiechert said.
Claremont wins KU debate meet
Clarenton McKenna College won first place Feb. 25 in the Heart of America Debate Tournament at the University of Kansas.
A team from the Claremont, Calif. school defeated a team from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., in the finals of the 29th annual tournament. Forty-two teams competed in the three-day event, which took place on the campus tournament in the country by college debate coaches.
Teams from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, and Wayne State University, in Detroit, were the other final four teams. One KU team qualified for the tournament but KU customarily does not compete in the elimination rounds of its own tournament, Donn Parson, KU debate coach said.
Parson, professor of communication studies, has directed the tournament for 20 years.
ON THE RECORD
FOUR TIRES AND four wheels, with a total value of $888, were stolen between 6 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday from the back of a pickup parked on the Turner Chevrolet Inc. lot, 3400 St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
A CASSETTE PLAYER, 15 tapes and two car speakers, with a total value of $380. were stolen between 9:15 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday from a car parked in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, police said.
A CASSETTE STEREO and two speakers, with a total value of $235, were stolen between 8:30 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. Friday from a car parked in the 1800 block of Stratford Road, police said.
TWO CASES of chewing tobacco, 1 valued together at $180, were stolen on between 7 p.m. Friday and 8:45 a.m. Saturday from a car parked in the 3000 block of West Eighth Street, police said.
A RADAR DETECTOR valued at $250 was stolen at about 9 a.m. Saturday from a car parked in the 3400 block of Westridge Court, police said.
Measles shots offered this week
the vaccine, or eggs should not be vaccinated. McClure said.
Because of an outbreak of measles at Boston University and two deaths during a measles epidemic at a small Illinois college, Watkins Hospital the week plans to vaccine students for the disease, hospital officials said Friday.
R. W. McClure, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said the vaccine would be offered to students born after 1956 who never had measles vaccinations or did not know whether they had been vaccinated.
Students who have shock reactions to neomycin, the antibiotic used in
Also, students who are pregnant, who have an altered immune system, who are taking cortizone or who have had measles before should not be immunized, McClure said.
"One of the things that concerns us is people leaving for spring break and coming in contact with meauses," he said. "The vaccinations are just a preventive measure."
No cases of measles had been reported at Watkins Hospital as of Friday.
At Boston University, officials were forced to cancel campus events such as plays, art exhibits and large lectures after 53 students contracted measles. No one was allowed to attend a hockey game on campus.
Officials at the Christian Science Church school in Eslah, Ill., said 79 cases of rubella measles had been reported at the school, which has 719 students. Two students have died during the outbreak, but it is not clear whether the students died from the measles or from measles complications.
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