University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983
Page 13
Town in Costa Rica possible study site
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The banana port town of Golfto, Costa Rica, might become the base for a joint research program between the University of Kansas and the University of Costa Rica, KU officials said yesterday.
"What started as a will-o'the-wisp type of deal is turning out to be an unprecedented opportunity for interhemispheric study and research," said Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
John Augelli, chairman of the department of geography, said that in August the general manager of the Golfoft division of United Fruit Co. had offered KU everything in the company and the boat docks and the railroad lines.
"The shipping conditions for bananas are changing," he said, "and Golfito is being de-emphasized as a banana port."
UAGELLI, DIRECTOR of KU's Study Abroad program last year in San Jose, Costa Rica, said work in soil, climate, botany, language and social studies could be performed in the Golfof.
Golfifo, a 300-acre tract of land in the southeastern corner of Costa Rica in Central America, has been appraised at nearly $4 million, said Anita Herzfeld, director of the KU office of Study Abroad.
Herzfeld said KU decided to include the University of Costa Rica in the program because of an academic
agreement between the study abroad programs that began 25 years ago.
Herzfeld said she was in San Jose last weekend to help prepare a financial aid proposal for money to study the feasibility of the program.
She said that Charles Stansifer, director of KU's Center of Latin American studies, wrote the proposal and translated it from English to Spanish.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS in San Jose will send the proposal this week to the Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., she said.
The feasibility study would determine how much money would be needed for the joint program and what could be self-supporting. Cobb said.
Herzelf said that while she was the KU study abroad director in San Jose in 1968, she met Fritz Stargardter, the general manager in Giffo. He was then a supervisor of the banana box factory.
He asked questions about KU and eventually decided to send all five of his children to the University, she said. Stargarder said he thought about KU when his company was exploring ways to use the land.
"AN EDUCATIONAL center was one of the many schemes we have considered." he said.
He said the town had about 1,100 people and about 120 houses.
Herrfield said the banana company was employing more Costa Ricans now and relocating its Golito managerial workers to San Jose.
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KU accepts bids for engineering library
The University began accepting bids last week for a new engineering library to be built in front of Learned Hall, Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said last week.
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
approved the money for construction of a $24 million science and technology library, the engineering library would eventually be used for classrooms.
He said a bid of $922,000, submitted by Douglas Construction Co. of Topeka, was the lowest of six bids. The University will choose the contractor in a few days, after considering all the bids, he said.
The two-story building will be used as an engineering library. But Wiechert said that if the Kansas Legislature
HE SAID CONSTRUCTION of the science and technology library, which would be built where the Military Science building now stands, would be begin in July 1984 and would be completed in two years.
The engineering library was designed to be easily converted to classrooms, Wiechert said. Construction is scheduled to begin by late March or early April, he said, and should be completed by Jan. 1, 1984.
David Kraft, dean of the engineering school, said the school, in conjunction
with the Kansas University Endowment Association, raised about $900,000 from companies and alumni for the library.
Mariann Cyr, engineering librarian,
said 40,000 engineering books were kept
in the school's library in the basement
of the building with 85,000
kept in Watson Library.
MARTIN JONES, associate director of business affairs, said the room in the basement of the Satellite was leased from the Union for $22,000 a year.
Cyr said the room, which can hold about 15 students, had been used since 1932.
The new building will have room for about 150 students, she said, and it will
be closer to Learned Hall and will be part of the computerized circulation system.
She said librarians were already preparing for the move by entering book titles into the computer. After the building is completed, Cyr expected that it would take about six weeks to move all the books and start full operation.
She said the library would house all the books in the Satellite Union. Most of the other books will remain in Watson, which will give the new library room to expand its collection for about six years, she said.
Cabinet advises Reagan to deregulate gas prices
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Cabinet-level advisory group recommended to President Reagan yesterday that he propose accelerated deregulation of natural gas prices, but with safeguards to protect consumers, White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said.
Speakes, in a vaguely written statement, said the Cabinet council had advised Reagan of "the need to correct certain fundamental flows" in the Natural Gas Policy Act, which provides regulations control of natural gas prices by 1985.
The recommendation was made to Reagan by his Cabinet Council on Natural Resources and Environment. Spokes insisted the president took it under advisement without making any firm decisions.
ANOTHER WHITE House spokesman, Peter Roussel, and Reagan was 'concerned about the instability of prices and their effects on consumers.'
The Cabinet council has been reviewing the natural gas situation for some time, including a 25 percent rise in prices during the past year and
industry calls for accelerated deregulation.
Those calls have run into strong opposition in Congress from advocates of tougher controls. They particularly want legislation attacking "take or pay" contracts that have in large measure fueled the record price rise.
The contracts force pipelines to take expensive gas from foreign and some domestic sources, forcing out cheaper gas from areas such as Appalachia and Ohio.
Speakes said Reagan wanted to "solve problems in the current law
governing natural gas, while protecting the consumer from the present rapid increase in natural gas prices."
THE CABINET council, he said, told Reagan "that present legislation is not protecting the consumer from rapid price increases and is instead operating to subsidize more expensive imports and uneconomic production of natural gas."
Speakes later told reporters the administration had studies showing that accelerated decontol would result in only a 5 percent increase in prices.
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