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Architecture students to help create new health department
By Janet Rorholm
Kansan staff writer
The department asked students in the School of Architecture and Urban Design if they would help them come up with ideas for a new health department facility.
The Osage County Health Department in Lyndon hopes that KU architecture students arecreative.
"We are now housed in a building that does not meet our needs," said Carla Falkenstein, administrator of the department. "It is totally out of bounds in both in terms of size and general surroundings."
Fourth-year architecture students have worked on the project for a few weeks and have
Falkenstein said the department needed drawings to accompany an application for a $300,000 grant. The building would serve 2,500 people a year.
"We're hoping we'll have a hard time
hosting what plans we will be using. 'Falken-
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The students went to Lyndon to talk with administrators and learn what the department needed and wanted. They also looked around and asked about the surroundings would fit in with the structures.
Their drawings are due Friday
Because the health department needs to submit its grant application soon, the students have less time to work on the project than usual.
Bryan Ruoff, Lawrence senior, said a group of students had worked on a design together in an attempt to get more detail in the project by building a model.
"The No. 1 problem I've had with clients is communication," Ruoff said. "The idea is to give them a visual presentation."
Kevin Ciabatti, St. Louis senior, said that working with so many people was difficult because everyone had their own philosophy and had to compromise.
The department did not have a strict plan for the new facility, so students were free to expire.
Greg McDowell, St. Louis senior, said his idea would cost more than the $300,000 budget
Some of his ideas included bookcases and a pool table in the waiting area.
"This proposal is not to give them just what they know they want, but possibilities that they might not have thought of," he said.
Michael Sizemore, Newton senior, said he had struggled with the project from the beginning because of the budget constraint.
"It is restrictive, but there still is enough idea and present what you want to." "Starmeyer"
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One of his drawings incorporated a pole barn into the design to match the rural look of Lyndon, he said.
David Willets, Kansas City, Mo., senior, is working on a drawing that will be considered as the design for the new Osage County Health Care Department.
Sen. Winter to pitch bill for Hoch money
By Gayle Osterberg Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Lawmakers are expected to introduce a new proposal today that would provide funds for rebuilding Hoch Auditorium.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he planned to ask the Senate Ways and Means Committee to introduce a bill that would finance the $18 million reconstruction project for the auditorium which was struck by lightning in June 1991.
The bill, called the State Building Emergency Reconstruction Act, would establish a method for replacing state buildings destroyed by natural disasters such as fire, flood or tornado.
The bill would borrow money through the Educational Building Fund, which is set aside for financing new buildings and maintaining existing buildings on Board of Regents university campuses.
The fund is maintained by a statewide property tax, which provides about $17.5 million to the fund each year.
Winter said lawmakers looked to the fund for money when Hoch first burned, but the money already had been budgeted for other projects and none would have been available for Hoch until 1996.
Winter's bill would allow the state to issue bonds and begin reconstruction of Hoch immediately. The state would pay back the bond money from the fund beginning in 1996 and other scheduled projects would receive money as planned.
Winter said his proposal would offer an alternative to the Board of Regents request that Hoch's reconstruction be entirely by the state's general fund.
"We need to present all the options we can over here," he said. "If we can get the $18 million out of the general fund without having to cut other expenses, we'll win our first choice. But we are talking about doing the possible, and this is possible."
University officials said the intent of everyone involved was to rebuild BH.
"If you're on general fund money to do this, you're taking a major risk of hurting some other state functions and of not getting (the project) done."
Winter said he expected opposition
"I think we have to explore every avenue," said Marlin Rein, KU associator director of governmental affairs. "In one form or other, I believe the Legislature is obligated to fund the project."
House panel OKs KU budget with planning money
Kansanstaffreport
TOPEKA - A House committee yesterday approved KU budget recommendations, including $1 million in planning finances to rebuild Hoch Auditorium.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the $1 million as recommended by a subcommittee and the Joint Committee on State Building Construction.
KU's budget now will go to the House for a vote.
The planning money was among items approved by the committee in a budget proposal submitted to the Board of Regents institutions.
Other approved items were a 100-percent fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants and a 2.5-unit fee increase for faculty and staff.
State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, unsuccessfully proposed an amendment to increase the tuition at the University to the average level of other Big Eight universities.
The amendment would have
raised resident tuition from $831
a semester to $997 and non-resident
tuition from $2,670 to $3,589.
Patrick said the increases would have generated $23 million in new revenue that would have been used to increase faculty salaries by 6.9 percent.
from lawmakers who thought Hoch was not necessary to the University and from those who did not like the idea of borrowing the money.
But he said he thought the Legislature should act on the issue during the current session.
"This is when the iron is hot," Winter said. "If we don't do it this year, I'm afraid a burned out Hoch Auditorium sitting in the heart of that University sends a negative message about our commitment to higher education."
- Staff reporter Greg Farmer contributed information to this story.
Souvenir seekers can buy a piece of basketball history: the floor
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Anyone seeking a Kansas basketball memento can buy a piece of Allen Field House from the Athletic Department.
Orders for one-square-foot sections of the floor will be taken beginning Sunday at the Kansas-Missouri game.
Doug Vance, sports information director, said the money made from selling pieces of the old floor would help finance the new building, which should be installed by next season.
A standard one-square-foot piece will cost $100.
Vance said requests for larger pieces could be discussed.
"If someone wants the Jayhawks in the four corners, we would try to negotiate a price," he said. "We'll look at the situation and a store wants more than one square-foot."
Vance said the pieces would be autographed by Kansas coach Roy Williams
and that a special design would be put on them.
"We're working on the design will be," he said. "But it will be a tribute to the Final Four teams that played on this floor. We want it to be a memento."
Vance said the floor, which has been in place since 1979, would replace a plastered wall.
"The current floor is restrictive," he said. "With the permanent court, we will have more to work with, and it will save us time." He added that putting the floor back up every year."
Vance said the floor-level bleachers would be raised three inches so the court could be extended underneath. The curved wall would also allow bleachers and sits on a rubberized surface.
Dean Buchan, associate sports information director, said the department was waiting until after the season to select a design.
The design for the new floor has not been selected.
R. C. Buford, assistant coach of the San Antonio Spurs, presented a $10,000 check to the Athletic Department at Monday night's Kansas-Oklahoma State game.
Bufard said he and Larry Brown, wanted to purchase pieces of the floor so they could give one to every player who played for them at Kansas.
Brown, who now coaches the Los Angeles Clippers, coached the Jayhawks from 1983 to 1988.
Buford was an assistant coach with Brown at Kansas.
"When Larry and I heard they would be breaking up the floor, we wanted to make sure all the players that played under us each got a piece." Buford said. "Those players gave us a lot of great memories in the field house and on that court. They deserve to have a piece as much as or more than anyone does."
The paying surface at Allen Field House will be torn up after this year and replaced with a larger, more versatile floor. The floor will be cut up into sections of one square foot each and sold.