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weren't satisfied with Jolliffe Hall.
George Rasmussen, assistant professor of journalism, said that the TV studio functioned well when he insisted faith "because 'the equipment was terrible' and the studio constantly needed repairs."
Rick Lucas, the electrician in charge of the color TV studio, said that maintaining the studio was "an ongoing repair job — there is always something that has to be looked into."
Sitting in his office in Jolliffe, surrounded by crumbling walls, Rasmussen said that part of the reason he came to KU was the promise of a new building.
Rasmussen was not the only faculty member who had counted on a new building.
SINCE THE DONATION was promised, journalism faculty had been busily planning new programs that could be implemented when the building was constructed.
The architectural drawings and model were completed two years ago by a Toeke firm.
When the Weirs rescinded the majority of their donation, $500,000 already was invested in the architectural plans for the 40,000-square-foot building.
Budig had to put the building plans aside but he appointed a committee last spring to evaluate the program's potential and to recommend actions to improve it.
The Communications Review Committee, which includes Weir, Brinkman and other journalism faculties and University administration, endorsed its recommendations to Budig in October 1983.
The review committee has four subcourses: personnel, structure,
curriculum and equipment.
AFTER THE EQUIPMENT subcommittee reported that KU's broadcast facilities were "inadequate and embarrassing," the committee said. The department's communications buildings would still be its top priority.
The committee's second priority, hiring a new chairman of the broadcast communications department, will be discussed.
The personnel subcommittee chose Max
Utsler, an assistant news director at a St. Louis TV station and former chairman of broadcasting company ABC Radio.
But that is the only goal on the committee's list that has been accomplished.
DEANLEE TACHA, vice chancellor for academic affairs and a member of the review committee, said that trustees of the William Allen White Foundation and televisionfilm company would be coming up with financing for a new building but that nothing had been accomplished yet.
The addition of two new members to the broadcast faculty is also among the committee's goals.
But Utsler, who is now a member of the personnel subcommittee searching for the new faculty members, said that the curriculum should be updated before a new building and faculty are considered.
"The administration gets too hung up on buildings." Uyler said.
HOWEVER, BRINKMAN said he thought that a new equipment and housing for the broadcast department were acquired first, other revisions would be required to maintain and personnel would be easier to accomplish.
The review committee's report to Budig recommended that $2.5 million be raised from private sources and that $1 million be requested by Kansas Legislature to build a new building.
But more than five months after the recommendation, Brinkman said, no attempts to raise wages have been made.
If money for a new building can't be raised, Brinkman said, the committee will look investigate the possibility of building an addition or renovating an existing campus building.
However, Brinkman said the committee did not have an existing building on campus in mind.
Other goals of the committee include creating a professional-in-residence program and adding a new structure for the graduate program in radio-television-film.
KU administrators and journalism faculty agree that something needs to be done to improve the broadcast program at KU.
Radio and television classes are now being taught in tollite Hall.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
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