CAMPUS: One year after fire destroyed Hoch Auditorium, many plans have been made, but little progress.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101,NO.146
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1992
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KU professor runs for State Senate
Forrest Swall, University of Kansas professor of social welfare, is running for the state Senate seat vacated by Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. Swall, who has a long record of interaction with the Legislature and community service in Lawrence, wants his campaign to focus on children's issues and prison reform.
Daron J. Bennett/ KANSAN
Kicking off the opening night of Student Union Activities' Summer On The Hill program are Scott Stoiepe, right, Lawrence, and John Niccum, Lawrence. Both are members of the band Groovehead, which opened for Nic Cosmos Thursday night on the Hill. SUA will have either a concert or a movie on the Hill every Thursday night during the summer session.
Credit option deadline approaches
University of Kansas students interested in taking a summer course for the credit/no credit option must file by June 15, said Darla Perry, graduation counselor and records supervisor for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The deadline applies to all summer classes, including the second one-month course sessions offered June 29 to July 24. Perry said that students must file with their schools for the credit option. The option applies to all required and elective courses but not to classes in students' majors. Perry said the option was created to allow students to protect their grade point averages.
WEATHER
Murphy Hall may lose snack bar to machines
By Chris Moeser
Kansan staff writer
When Mike Boring heard that KU was closing the Murphy Hall snack bar, he chose to do something about it.
Boring, a secretary for the department of theatre and film in Murphy, started a petition June 2 to save the snack bar. Two days later, he had collected more than 500 signatures.
"We heard they were going to tear down the snack bar and put up vending
In addition to its normal hours of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Boring said, the snack bar is open
"If we lost that, we would really lose a nice touch to our productions," he said.
for performances in Murphy.
hive toucher on our project. Bob Derby, manager of concessions for the Kansas Union, said suggestions of the snack bar closing were "wild rumors." But he said that the Union, which operates the snack bar, routinely evaluates the Murphy Hall operation and the snack bar in the Art and Design Building for cost-effectiveness.
The fact that Murphy Hall's snack bar is being reviewed does not necessarily mean it will close. But the Union will review statistics for the snack bar during the next year and then decide whether to close it. Recent data was compiled by the Union
But Boring was convinced the Union
already had made a decision. He said that he saw Union employees measuring the space between the electrical outlets in the snack bar last week. Boring said he thought they were measuring to determine whether the space would accommodate vending machines.
Stephen Anderson, who heads the department of music and dance, said vending machines would be a disaster.
"It is completely unacceptable to have vending machines outside a performance hall," he said. He said that vending machines were noisy and that there were already noise complaints during performances in Crafton-Preyer Theatre and
Swarthout Recital Hall, which are both adjacent to the snack bar area.
Anderson added that an important human element to the building would be lost if the snack bar were closed.
"Some of the more valuable interaction among people takes place over a coke or a cup of coffee," he said.
Boring said he was glad he acted even if all the talk about the decision turns out to be just a rumor.
KU women's crew prevails
"I still don't regret it even if it was a misunderstanding," he said. "We wanted people to understand how important the snack bar is. I think we acted within our rights to tell them what we think."
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
The KU women's crew heads down the Kansas River in its last home practice before the National Collegiate Championships. The crew of (from left) Kendra Williams, Tonganoxie senior, Nancy Hemott, Lincolnshire, Ill., senior, Rachel McCallie, Kirkwood, Mo., Junior, and Tami Odell, captain, Norman, Okla., senior, along with coxswain Julie Lawlor, Chicago senior, practiced yesterday evening in preparation for the competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, this weekend.
Team competes in U.S. championship
Money problems present challenges
By Ana Kostick
Kansan Staff Writer
Members of the KU Crew women's team to work twice as hard as their competition to make it to the 1992 National Collegiate Championships in Cincinnati this weekend.
Team captain Tami Odell, Norman, Okla, junior, said the women had done exceptionally well despite the team's financial disadvantages.
"It's difficult racing against schools that are completely funded." Odell said. "Many of these schools even have a wait list for alumni to buy boat's."
Besides practicing every day, KU Crew members must raise money for operating expenses, equipment costs and replacement costs.
Many of the top crew teams KU competes against are varsity collegiate teams, financed by their athletic departments, said KU Crew coach Rob Cattail. These programs allow crew members to concentrate on their rowing without having
fully-financed teams such as Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin- Madison and the defending women's champion, Boston University, are among the 16 universities that will compete for both the women's and men's national titles.
the added pressures of coming up with money. Many of these variety programs also offer schoolships to members and therefore can recruit the bestowers in the country.
Cattoth said the women had a good chance of making the finals and possibly taking a medal in the national championship. They will compete in the 2,000-meter course on Friday in one of three qualifying heats. The fastest two boats from each heat will compete in the finals Saturday afternoon.
The national competition has races of four and eight member teams. Catloth said KU would be entering a team of its top four women rowers and one coxswain, a fifth woman who sits at the head of the boat and directs the rowers.
Because KU Crew is a club sport, members have relied on fundraising, working football and basketball concessions and digging into their own pockets to help finance the program
The 1992 University budget shows that KU
Crew also received $14,360 from KU recreation services last year.
Cattloth said the money was spent quickly. An eight-man racing shell can cost between $14,000 and $16,000, a four-man racing shell $8,500 and a pair of oars $300. The racing shells have a five-year lifespan.
Another problem for KU Crew was crew retention. He said building a strong team was difficult if there were not many experienced rowers. Although 60 to 70 percent of the members return after the first year, only 10 percent are still with the team by the fourth year, Catloth said.
He attributed the drop in numbers to the amount of time the members spent training and to the financial burden. Crew members initially pay $100 each semester to help cover expenses, but Catloth said members easily spent $600 a year individual for travel expenses, including lodging, food and gas.
the people that come out really want to make a serious athletic commitment," Odell said. "But it's difficult to keep them out for four years if they can't afford it."
Cattoth said he thought crew would remain a club sport at KU even though the teams were becoming strong competitors.
"It's taken us six
years to get to this
point. Our hard work
is paying off."
Rob Catloth
KUCrew coach
"It would be nice to get more funding," Cattoll said. "But crew is a very expensive non-revenue sport. It's much cheaper to run a program that brings in money for the university."
Nevertheless, Catloth said he was very pleased with the team's success.
In the spring, the women's eight-member team took a thirdplace medal for the first time at the Midwest Championships behind two teams from the top ranked University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"It has taken us six years to get to this point," he said. "Our hard work is paying off."
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
KU students make University work
KU libraries allocated $407,000 to student employees, topping the list as the single biggest employer.
By Julie Wasson
Kansas staff writer
Kansanstaff writer
The department of student housing dominates the list of the 10 University employers of KU students, based on the sum allocated to pay student employees in the 1991 fiscal year.
Dawn Kingery, student employment coordinator in the department, said that housing employed about 680 students during the regular
Six of the top 10 offices are part of housing, with allocations totaling $642,500.
She said students worked in many positions in the residence halls, including desk assistants, security monitors, resident assistants, food service and custodial workers. Other positions include working as receptionists and in payroll in the housing administration office.
school year.
KU libraries allocated $407,000 to student employees, topping the list as the single biggest employer. Sandy Gilland, assistant to the dean of libraries, said that students primarily worked at the circulation and reserve desks at the libraries. Students also provide information to library patrons and help in processing collections information.
"During fall and spring semesters, we usually employ from 300 to 350 students part time," Gilliland said.
Student health services allocated $125,000 to student help in fiscal year 1991. James Strobl, director of Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that Watkins was financed entirely by the student health fee.
"Students do not work in areas where there is a high degree of confidentiality," Strobl said. Students are not allowed to work in admission, for
Other student positions at Watkins include custodial jobs and internships in health education.
example, because they would have access to information about other students.
"Most of our students work in physical therapy, as interns or assistants," Strobl said. "They also work in the pharmacy as part of training."
Ann Pierce, administrative secretary at Watkins, said there were 27 student employees at Watkins last semester.
Students on salary
(In thousands) $0 100 200 300 400
Student Health Services
Jayhawker Towers
Housing Administration Student Health Services
Jaylahwker Power McCollum Hall Dining
$207,500
Parking Services GSP/Corbin Hall Rental
GSP/Corbin Hall Rental
$120,000
$90,000
Recreation Facilities
$125,000
$149,000
Kansas Budget, 1991
Sean Tevis/Daily Kansan