University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Course on downtown offered
A course tracing the history of downtown development is being offered this semester by the department of urban architecture. School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Palos said the course would be a textbook and would feature several lecture lectures.
Dean Palos, city-county planner, will
hridings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in 364 Marvin
Lakefront.
Steve Jensen, director of the Watkins Community Museum, will be the first guest lecturer. Jensen will discuss the history of downtown Lawrence.
The survey course is not listed in the timetable but is listed in the spring addendum. Graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students may enroll in the class during their add-drop appointments.
Gymnastics clinic scheduled
The Kansas Special Olympics will conduct a gymnastics clinic Saturday from 4:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Robinson Park. The clinic is free and open to the public.
Bob Lockwood, KU Gymnastics Club coach, will instruct the athletic portion of the clinic. Ron Cooper, certified athletic trainer, will teach the skills he will speak on preventing athletic injuries.
General information about mental retardation and the Special Olympics will be discussed as well as specific gymnastics skills.
At the clinic, coaches can receive training to become certified Special Olympics gymnastics coaches. Certification includes an eight-hour training session and a 10-hour practicum involving Special Olympics.
Business service seeks clients
The KU Small Business Institute, a consulting service for small business owners, is looking for additional clients for the spring semester.
Joyce Claterbos, assistant director of the Small Business Development Center, said that between 50 and 69 business school students worked with about 30 businesses each year, analyzing financial control, marketing and inventory control.
The service is free. For more information, call Claterbos at 864-3117 at the Small Business Development Center in Summerfield Hall.
The Kansas National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering honored 15 KU minority students at a reception Monday at the Granada Royale hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Six engineering freshmen were honored at the reception. They were selection on the basis of high school grades, ACT scores and extracurricular activities.
Nine upperclassmen engineering students, who received recognition as freshmen, also were honored during the reception.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny, and the high will be in the low to mid-30s. Tonight there will be increasing cloudiness, and the low will be in the teens, Tomorrow will be cloudy and colder. There will be a 20 percent chance of snow. The high will be around 30.
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
By CAROL STEPHENSON Staff Reporter
Designer to talk on science library site
An architect working on preliminary plans for the proposed science and technology library on campus will speak tonight about progress on those plans.
Rick Kanoy, an architect with Peckham,
Guyton, Albers & Viets Inc., in Kansas City,
Mo., will speak at 8 p.m. in 3139 Wescoe Hall.
The speech, open to the public, is part of a
Design Week sponsored by the School of
Architecture and Urban Design.
As planned, the library would be built between the Military Science Building and Hoch Auditorium. Some students have opposed building the library there, saying they don't want to see the stretch of green space in the area replaced by bricks and concrete.
Game Stiles, an architecture student, said he had organized Design Week because many architecture students were concerned about how to find jobs and wanted to help suggest alternative sites.
THIS IS THE first year the school has sponsored Design Week, Stiles said.
"This our realm, and we could directly relate to it and provide some positive elements," he said.
On Saturday, architecture students will participate in a design charteet, or brain-storm session, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Stiles said he had invited Allen Wiechert, University director for facilities planning, and Jim Ranz, de libraries, to Design Week activities. But Stiles said he didn't know whether any of the designs drawn by him could be considered by the administration.
Teams of architecture students will exchange ideas and prepare designs for the new library. The results of the design process will be displayed at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room.
"This is an effort to stimulate ideas," Stiles said. "We're hoping to give concerned people a chance to visually see what the library is going to do to campus."
SEVERAL ARCHITECTS from Peckham,
Guyton, Amers and Viets Inc., also have been contacted about Design Week activities, Stiles said.
"They seem very responsive," he said. "They're not disregarding our efforts. They're not going to ignore us."
Chris Theis, an associate professor of architecture and urban design, said secondyear through fifth-year architecture students this week would be exploring different aspects of building the new library in their classes.
'This is an effort to stimulate ideas. We're hoping to give concerned people a chance to visually see what the library is going to do to campus.'
Jamie Stiles
Jamie Stiles architecture student
One alternative the students will work on will be a proposal to build the first phase of
the science library as an addition to Hoch Auditorium.
Curtis Besinger, professor emeritus of architecture and urban design, last semester suggested to administrators that architects could design an addition to Hoch instead of constructing a free-standing building.
In Besinger's plan, the addition would bridge the service drive behind Hoch and would not intrude significantly on the green space between the auditorium and the Military Science Building.
KU administrators say they have considered several sites for the library, but think the land between Hoch and the Military Library would be best. They use the science classroom buildings in the area.
In August, the University hired Peckham, Guyton, Albers and Viets Inc., to draw preliminary plans for the library. KU officials hoped to present plans to the Kansas Legislature this spring to receive additional money for planning.
Roy 3towart/KANSAN
A television sits in the front yard of a house at 1145 12th St. The television dree curious glances, but no one knew why it
was there, but one passerbedy afternoon offered the explanation, "It's art."
Campus quiet after whistle blows its top
Students and faculty will have to depend on their watches for the next few days. The whistle that usually marks the end of class periods will be mute until the end of this week or early next week, the associate director of facilities operations said yesterday.
The metal dome cover blew from the top of the whistle at 10:20 a.m. yesterday, said Bob Porter, the associate director. The cover was found on the roof of the power plant. The dome was replaced but blew off again at 1:20 p.m.
"This will be No.1 priority," Porter said. "The whistle should be working no later than Monday."
Porter said threads on the mounting bracket would have to be replaced. The threads will be cast out of brass, the metal the whistle is made of, he said.
Students and faculty didn't seem bothered by the absence of the whistle.
"The threads are not standard; they are metric. We are going to have to make them ourselves." Porter said, "That takes time."
"I hadn't even noticed," said Mike Johnson, chairman of the English department. "I've been locked up inside all day."
Board of Regents approved funds for switch
Aimee Alderman, Olathe sophomore, said that she had noticed the whistle wasn't blowing but that it did not bother her much.
"I just figured they hadn't started that up vet," she said.
Bryan Stubbs, Shawnee freshman, said, "I don't like the whistle, personally."
KU personnel will get new payroll system; University's equipment will replace KIPPS
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
After two years on the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System, the University of Kansas plans to partially withdraw from the system April 1, the University's comproter said yesterday.
John Patterson, the comptroller, said that April 1 had been set as the tentative date for the change, but that the move could be because of programming or testing problems.
After the withdrawal, the University will use its own Human Resource Management System, which will allow KU to calculate and store its own personnel and position data. Students will be required to pay payroll information to be sent to KIPPS in Tooneka for the printing of the University's
paychecks. Patterson said he thought little or no money would be spent on the switch.
"THE HARDWARE THAT KIPPS payroll runs on is simply overloaded. We either have to withdraw or they would have to buy more hardware." Patterson said. "The Legislature appropriated money this fiscal year for the withdrawal of all Regents institutions."
Russell Getter, state director of information services and telecommunication, said the Legislature last year approved $300,000 for the Regents schools to withdraw from KIPPS. Each Regents institution will follow a different withdrawal schedule.
In November 1983, KIPPS left more than 350 KU employees without paychecks and between 800 and 1,100 employees with checks for the wrong amount. One month later, the problems had not been corrected, and more than 100 employees still had not received
their paychecks. At least that many received incorrect amounts.
RICH AUGUSTINE, director of payroll, said KU would have the new payment system fully tested before it went into effect. The University may have some minor problems, he said, but it would be nothing like last November.
Patterson said, "We have been doing substantial testing already for the payroll in January, February and March. When we moved to KIPPS, we converted four systems. This time we are only converting one system. The level of difficulty is not nearly the
Tests done on the system compare the University's calculations and figures with those currently done by KIIPS, Patterson and these tests have showed no significant problems.
last year was KU's complicated payroll system. Many student employees on the payroll work infrequently or at irregular intervals, and students' salaries often are financed by sources with tax-withholding options.
One of the biggest problems with KIPPS
KU PLACED STUDENT employees on the new payment system in May and met few problems, said Patterson. The change in systems has helped include classified and unclassified employees.
KU's dual pay-per期 also caused problems with KIPPS. One period runs from the first day to the last day of the month; the second day is a month to the 17th day of the following month.
Because KU will have its data under more local control with HRMS, KU officials expect some of the problems with the different pay periods to be eliminated.
THIRD ANNUAL SPORT-A-THON Friday, January 18, 1985 5:30 p.m.—11:00 p.m.
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Entries Due: Thursday, January 17, 5:00 p.m. in 208 Robinson
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