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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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Marvin Hall needs more space
Students design proposed addition
By Roberta Johnson
kansan staff writer
Some architecture students complain about the lack of space in which to work. Others do something about it.
For the past month, four students have been at work designing an addition to Marvin Hall.
"After five years, we realized that there are some deficiencies to Marvin," said Chris Spurgin, Wester Groves, Mo., senior.
The students have designed a 25,000-square-foot addition to be connected to the Jury Room on the south side of Marvin, said Vince Haines, El Dorado senior.
The addition would include studios designed similar to those in Lindley Annex, said Scott Capstack, Rapid City, S.D., senior.
"There's six studios where you're free to walk among them without going behind a locked door," he said.
The design also includes additional shops and offices, said Dan Rockhill, associate professor of architecture and urban design.
Haines said that the addition was needed because Marvin had been filled above capacity for years. Because of the overcrowding, second-year architecture students have had to work in Lindley Annex.
"We learned that the building was 30 percent over capacity when it was renovated," he said. "It's now over 40 percent. This way we can vacate Lindley Annex, as well."
addition when Marvin was remodeled in the early 1980s but had yet to do anything about it.
Capstack said that that the University had recognized the need for a building
The students' design for a possible addition was inspired by a trip to Arkansas, Haines said. One weekend they attended a lecture on how university architecture affects students.
"When we got back, we noticed that this facility lacks what peer schools have," Haines said.
The group developed the initial design in 18 hours.
"We developed a plan for future expansion," Spurgin said. "The piece we hope to be built is not large, but we put it in scope of larger things."
Bill Lepentis, Kansas City, Mo., senior, also has contributed to the project.
The group has not begun to push the design through the system toward construction.
"One candidate was very receptive and said he hoped he could be involved," Capstack said. "The other one gave us the overall impression that, it's there, but I don't know if I want to be involved."
Faculty members and two of the four architecture dean candidates have seen the design.
Haines said that Max Lucas, dean of architecture, had not seen the project. Haines said they thought that Lucas' opinion was not crucial to the project's realization because the new dean could overturn his decision.
The design has not been proposed to the Office of Capital Programs. Financing for the project also must be approved.
"One only hopes that when students take up where others left off, the state legislature recognizes the situation and gives us more space," Rockhill said.
Proposed Marvin Hall addition
Four architecture students have proposed a 25,000 square-foot addition to Marvin Hall's south side. The addition would be supported by cables and would be connected to the second floor.
Jennie Zeiner / KANSAN
Joe Harder/KANSAN
Source: Vince Haines
After seeing pink fur in the Gallery of the Kansas Union, Brian Hott, Wichita a sophomore, examined one of the works of student art currently on display. The pink fur is actually a Yamaha roadbike garnished with faux fur, lace, enamal, and glitter and was done by Rachel Owens, Lotawana, Missouri sophomore.
Tickled pink
Persian-American students celebrate their culture's roots
Club Persia exists to inform, educate
By Denise Neil Kansan staff writer
Today in Iran, people will be lighting fires in the streets and jumping over them.
The act celebrates the Persian New Year and symbolizes the end of winter and the beginning of spring, said Haleh Taqhavi. Teheran, junior.
Taghavi said that she and two other Persian students had started Club Persia in September because they had wanted people to be aware of Persian traditions such as this one.
"A lot of people would always ask me about our traditions," she said. "I heard about people who had other clubs, and I thought, 'Why not a Persian club?"
The club will celebrate Eid Nororou, or the Persian New Year, at 9 p.m. Friday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Taghavi said the goal was to simulate the Persian New Year celebration.
UNITING TO BE HEARD
"It's a time for families to gather in Iran," she said. "Younger family members go to the homes of older family members and exchange gifts. It's just a time to be happy. We wanted to simulate that and get everyone together."
Taghavi said the club now had about 65 members. In addition to the about 40 Persian students who attend the University, she said, Pakistani, Indian and American students also participate in the group's activities.
Taghavi said that another of the group's goals was to clear up misconceptions about Iranian culture. She said people often made the mistake of associating the nation's politics with the culture.
"People watch the news and see political things, but politics are different from culture," she said. "People confuse religion, politics and culture all together."
Kamelia Favokhi, Lawrence senior and the group's vice president, was one of the students who helped
Tagahvi organize the club in September. Favokhi said that like many of the Persians in the club, she had lived in Iran for only a short time as a child. The group tries to teach those students about the Persian culture, she said.
"Many Persian Americans never lived in Iran," she said. "What I would like to see is future generations of Persians become aware of their culture. They're not backwards like people and the media portray. Our culture really has gotten a bad rap from the media and press, especially after the 10-year war with Iran and Iraq."
"It's almost more important for me to have Iranian students learn about the culture than for others to learn," he said. "It's really important for us to have that because it's where we're from. It's a part of us."
Electronic mail: Your free ticket to faraway places
Ali Norbash, Lawrence junior and treasurer of the club, said he agreed that it was important for second-generation Persians to know about their culture. The group has shown an Iranian movie and plans to sponsor a trip to a Persian restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., to help club members become more familiar with the culture.
Special to the Kansan
Bv Chris Dovle
Gary Hanna's fingers raced clicky-click across the keyboard, his eyes glowing with the reflection of the monitor. While he typed, his fingers talked with someone in a library in Denmark. Another swift keystroke and Hanna read a news clip from China.
Clickby-click and off to Russia. Next? Maybe Brazil
From his yellow-padded chair in a small corner office in the back of Room 203A at the Computer Center, Hanna, Lincoln, Neb., senior, can reach anywhere in the world. So can any KU student — and it's absolutely free.
Hanna is using a communication system called electronic mail, or E-mail. Hanna works at the center as a systems access employee. There he assigns E-mail accounts and teaches people how to use them.
E-mail, a product of computer technology, is
like a postal system in which computers are mailboxes, postal carriers don't exist and the stamps are free.
"E-mail is like regular ground mail," Hanna said. "You write a message on the screen and send it wherever you want in the world at no cost."
An E-mail account, which is free to students, faculty and staff, has a wide variety of applications, Hanna said. Students can reduce phone bills by talking with their parents by computer. University departments can communicate with each other quickly. Researchers can gather data from around the world, and foreign students can keep contact with their home countries.
"As long as they have an account in the international network, you can talk to them," he said.
After an account has been assigned, students can use it to receive and send messages from any campus computer. IBM-compatible
E-mail hookups are available at the center, most residence halls, Snow Hall, Strong Hall and most computer labs in the professional schools. Students can tap into this free technology from their homes with a few simple additions to their computer systems.
"You need a modem and modem software that can get you access to all of this," Hanna said. "You can get a cheap modem for $50 or less. It really doesn't take that much."
At Watson Library, BarbaraJones,reference librarian, uses E-mail to send memos to her co-workers.
"I if have something to get out to the staff, I don't have to type it up, Xerox it and get it out to them," she said. "Also, it's easier and faster than using campus mail."
Using the network to communicate with people around the world is one of the reasons Jeff Fale, Bartlesville, OKa, senior, wanted
an E-mail account. Users can communicate on an international level by tapping into the global computer network. Internet.
"I'm lazy, and I would rather type it on a computer than send a letter somewhere," Fale said.
Lately, the center has seen an increase in the number of account requests, said Joanne Peterson, data control technician at the center.
Hanna said that communicating through the voiceless, faceless medium of the keyboard had its drawbacks. Emotion sometimes can be lost in conversations, he said.
However, a few tricks put some emotions into words on a screen, he said. Computer users can use all capital letters to scream or a colon, a dash and a close parenthesis to make a smiley face.
Although some E-mail communication barriers may exist, sometimes people discover — through the words on the monitor — that they
Hook up with E-mail
Step 1. Go to Room 203A in the Computer Center between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Step 2. Show your KUID with current fee sticker.
Step 3. Key in your name, address, telephone number, user ID and password on terminal with help of systems access staff.
Step 4. Contact anyone in the world on the Internet system, anytime, for free.
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have much in common. Hanna said his neighbor had met her boyfriend through E-mail communications.
"It's not a big part of mainstream society now, but it's coming," he said. "The best way to learn about it is to jump on."