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University Daily Kansan, July 27, 1983
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Conservation continues, researcher says
By GUELMA ANDERSON Staff Reporter
In 1973 the United States was in an energy panic. The primary fuels of the nation — oil and natural gas — became scarce and costly because of an oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Americans were forced to drive less and cut down on overall fuel usage in
THE EMBARGO SPARKED nationwide concern about energy conservation, and now, in 1983, the effort to conserve continues.
John Clark, professor of history and a researcher of U.S. energy since 1968, said last week that domestic consumption of gas fell by as much as slower pace than it did before 1973.
"People are more conscious of the energy in their homes." he said.
Statistics prove Clark's assertion.
Energy-saving measures such as attic and wall insulation and storm windows were installed in 10.4 million households throughout the country in 1981, according to Statistical Abstracts of the United States. 1982-83.
KANSAS ENCOURAGES such measures with its state Energy Conservation Plan, according to Terri Muchmore, director of the Research and Energy Analysis Division of the Kansas Corporation Commission.
She said that the plan included five points of conservation methods - reduced lighting, car pooling, energy efficiency checks, thermal standards and cars making right turns on red lights.
The city of Lawrence also is conscious of its energy usage.
Allen Loyd, Lawrence management analyst, said that although specific temperature settings were not enforced rigorously in city buildings, more efficient lighting and new insulation had been installed.
He said now the city was considering the use of computers to adjust the climate.
ALSO, THE CITV promotes the practice of buying smaller pickups and touring.
He said that Lawrence had two programs that were available to the public — the Weatherization Program and Project Seal.
The Weatherization Program provides attic insulation, storm windows and weather stripping for people with low to moderate incomes. Project Seal provides a weatherization kit to anyone who attends a workshop.
Utility assistance programs for low-income people have been spreading throughout the country, and Lawrence is no exception.
Last winter State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, coordinated the Warm Hearts program, which distributed private contributions of more than $61,000 to individuals and families who needed help with their heating bills.
The University of Kansas al-o has joined the conservation bandwagon.
ROBERT PORTER, associate director of physical plant maintenance for Facilities Operations, said that when the energy crunch hit in 1973, the administration began to enforce strict conservation measures.
"We now have good support from the
He said that this fall the department was going to install timers in Wescoe Hall that would turn off lights in the classrooms every hour.
University community as far as turning off lights," he said.
"It will take some public relations by the administration to help with the success of this, but, if it is successful, call them in other buildings. Porter said."
During July the air conditioning in campan buildings is being turned off for one hour twice a day to conserve energy during peak periods, Porter said.
HE SAID THAT thermostats in campus buildings had been set for 68 degrees in the winter and 78 degrees in the summer. We have previous standard of 75 degrees all year.
The University has implemented other conservation measures, he said, such as switching from incandescent to fluorescent lighting, insulating steam lines in new buildings and installing to monitor all utilities in buildings.
Yet, for all the conservation efforts of consumers, there is still a good chance that the nation again will be crippled by a lack of available energy sources and towering costs because of dependence on foreign oil.
When OPEC placed an oil embargo on the United States in 1973, more than one-third of the nation's oil was exported to the US. It is a publication of Congressional Quarterly. But in 1981 almost half of U.S. oil reserves were imported.
In 1980 Congress decided to reduce dependence on oil from foreign countries by letting the price of energy rise to whatever level corporations thought it was worth, assuming that at some point expensive energy would force consumers to use less, according to the Energy Policy report.
"FOR EXAMPLE, coal is such a fiby fuel, and nuclear energy is so uncertain," he said. "And yet what else have we got?"
"Within another 10 years, nuclear energy may be revitalized because we don't have any other options — even if they were resolved the waste disposal problem."
But Clark said that this was a short-term solution that gave private companies good profits. But it did not tap alternative sources of energy.
THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S energy policy skirts the issues of alternative energy sources and the rise of foreign imports. Clark said.
"Prices are going up, and whoever composes low-income groups are the ones that pay."
"We are at the mercy of OPEC and other foreign countries," he said.
Clark said that U.S. energy independence rested on whether other energy sources that were available in the United States should be used.
"We're really teetering on the brink of disaster everyday."
Carol Prentice, administrative assistant to Demand Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that nominations for the position were solicited from the staff of the museum and from the faculty of the art history department. She said that Tighman was a unanimous choice.
HE REPLACES Elizabeth Broun.
Broun, who has been the acting director since July 1, 1982, said she was leaving Sept. 1 so that she could do postdoctoral work. She said that she had accepted an 11-month fellowship to study American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Tighman, who is now the assistant director for administration at the museum, is on vacation and was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Douglas Tlighman has been selected as the new acting director of the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania and for academic affairs announced Monday.
She said that Tilghman had been the acting director in the spring of 1978 when Charles Eldredge, then the director, was on sabbatical.
Chu-Tsing Li, professor of art history and chairman of the committee that is responsible for developing the museum.
Acting director selected for Spencer art museum
Staff Reporter
THE SEARCH FOR a permanent director began in December 1982, Li said, when Eldredge resigned to become director of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. He said that a new faculty member was needed February but he was unable to adequately search for a director by the April 15 deadline set by the vice chancellor for academic affairs, Deanell Tacha.
The duties of the director, he said,
include overseeing acquisitions,
exhibitions, financial development, and
educational and public programs.
The search, he said, was renewed in May.
By MICHAEL PAUL
said the committee would begin to review applications Sept. 1.
Li said that he had hoped to have a permanent director by this month, but that it now appeared that a permanent would not be named until January.
THE DIRECTOR REPORTS to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, the vice president.
Li said that the absence of a permanent director had not interfered with the scheduling of exhibitions for the event, but his plans planned nearly two years in advance.
But he said that the absence of a permanent director would delay decisions about future exhibitions and activities.
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