THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 21
Tuesday, September 27, 1977
Bennett backs library renovation
By STEVEN STINGLEY
Staff Writer
Attempts to improve Watson Library were boosted yesterday when Governor Robert Bensel said he would support KU's new library and would plan funding for the library's renovation.
Library funding was one of the topics discussed by the governor at an open question-and-answer session attended by the Kauai mayor yesterday afternoon at the Kansas Union.
The governor also fielded questions on a variety of subjects including state funding for women's athletics, a graduate student fee waiver, marijuana and livery--thedrink laws, KU Medical Center tuition and Board of Regents appointments.
INCLUDED IN KU's fiscal 1979 budget requests is $550,000 for planning the library's renovation. Over $6 million was requested by KU to expand or completely remodel Watson Library over the next few years.
When questioned about the inadequate funding for Watson Library, the governor said he would fund for funds to renovate the library. He said the need for more library student employment
and longer library hours were up to the Board of Regents. . .
The request, along with budgets from all Regents institutions, has been submitted to the state budget director's office and will reach the governor's office sometime in
Med Center building woes aired
BvSTEVEN STINGLEY
The governor said yesterday that a task force was studying problems in state-funded libraries. He said the cost for maintaining the libraries has become very high, and he said a task force was trying to eliminate duplication in state library services to cut costs.
Staff Writer
October for further examination. The final step for the biddets will come next spring.
A Board of Regents official said yesterday that he welcomed help from the Kansas Legislature in solving the many design and construction problems still planking the KU Medical Center's basic sciences building and hospital.
The official, Warren Corman, Regents director of facilities, told a legislative interim committee investigating the Med care system that "We feel we are struggling just to stay alive."
The $2.5m basic sciences building and $55m hospital projects have been troubled with design problems, delays and lawsuits since construction began.
Corman told the committee that the problems began with incomplete architectural design for a school in Kansas City, Kan., architectural firm. Subcontractors then filed suits against the state for extra expenses incurred because of the faulty designs, he
THOSE SUITS, amounting to nearly a half
million dollars, are still pending.
The firm has received about $8 per cent of the originally contracted fee of just over $2 million.
Corman said Marshal and Brown-Sidowry were still demanding full payment from the state for clinical facility design plans they never completed.
Corman said he went to Kansas City in the spring of 1978 to see how the firm was progressing in revising drawings for the hospital, which were to have been completed by October. 1972. Corman said he had visited office locked and the furniture removed.
He then went to the offices of Marshall & Brown and found that very little work had been done in revising the architecture's office eventually completed the design work on the
hospital project and at that time found that the designs were full of errors.
CORMAN SAID that as construction progressed and more problems occurred, the state architect's office finally gave the project engineer authority to make changes in the design. The state architect was supposed to approve all costs involved before changes were made.
Robert McFeeters, chief of construction and project inspectors for the state architect, told the committee, "I believe that's when we lost control of the projects."
Corman said problems throughout the construction were compounded because there was a lack of coordination between the two contractors. Corman then chicted the state hire to oversee the job
(Sidowicz 'firm) and the other contractors on the project.
THE GOVENOR also said that it might not be possible for the state to continue supporting highly technical and professional libraries at all Regions in England.
W. Keith Weltner, secretary of administration, told the committee that the state will to alleviate design and construction problems like those on the Med Center projects by hiring a project manager to oversee construction projects costing $100 million. The state will be to oversee the construction and to inspect work as the building is constructed.
Weltmer also said that the state would start letting one contract for future projects instead of three separate contracts to better define construction responsibility.
In answering questions about state funding of women's athletics and graduate student fee waivers, Bennett warned that budget requests would have to be cut somewhere and that he could not pledge his money for the program until the governor's budget hearings.
he said that the 16.9 per cent increase in budget requesta from the Board Regents was due to a new contract.
Lawmakers estimate it would cost the state more than $1.5 million to correct recent construction defects around the state.
"Several members of the legislature have approached me and informed me that they weren't going to be as generous this year as they did in 2014," she thought. They were pretty stingy last year."
HOWEVER, HE SAID that funds for HOWEVER, he would be near the top of women's athletics because she had
The Board of Regents has approved
$84.815 for staff and operating expenses for
See BENNETT page five
Common name is problem for KU prof
By DAVID ALFORD
Staff Writer
His name spells double-trouble for Carlyle S. Smith, professor of anthrology.
Smith frequently receives mail, phone calls and even billies that are not his own. The mistaken parties want Carlie H. Smith, retired professor of design. The two men both had been professors at KU for 30 years and the professor of design's retirement on June 1.
when the professor of design retired and left the professor of anthropology as the only Carlyle hoped on KU's faculty, the anthropologist smoked the confusion would
"Instead of getting better, it got worse," he said. "Now it's all on me."
The professor of design, now living in Albuquerque, N.M., said he was surprised to hear that the other Smith was still having name problems.
The two men first crossed paths in 1947 when both professors began their jobs at
"WEHAD our times in the beginning," he said. "But when we moved down here, I thought that he would have Lawrence all to himself."
A few weeks after his interview for a faculty position, the professor of an art department, Mr. Tennant, why he applied for a position in the design, as well as the anthropology, department. He said he thought the call was "the call" he calls "his case of much-mistaken identity."
When the anthropologist moved into his Lawrence apartment in the fall of 1947, he found out that the professor of design lived in the same apartment complex. Each received phone calls and mail intended for the other.
Carlyle S. Smith has traveled extensively in the South Pacific. He is an expert on Easter Island. In 1955, he travelled to the island with Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian explorer, who used Smith as a character in the travel story, "Aku Aku."
The men's coincidental relationship reached a peak in 1961 when the professor of anthropology's daughter, Pamela, enrolled at Columbia University, the teacher was the professor of design's wife.
CARLYLE H. Smith is a professor of design and Latin American studies at KU. From March 1965 to February 1966, he was the director of the program at the University of Washington and he established the first course in jewelry and silversmithing in a Central American university.
During this time, both families lived on Harvard Road. When the professor of anthropology subscribed to a magazine, it was delivered to the professor of design's home.
After the professor of design's retirement, the professor of anthropology began to study and re-examine human behavior.
The anthropologist finally received his magazine when the designer's wife brought him a new model.
This semester, during enrollment, when the professor of anthropology asked for his KU parking permit, he found that his name had been removed from the faculty pass list.
"They must have thought that there could have been two Carley Snails in the water."
Pondering
tov. Robert Bennett thinks before answering a question posed during his forum with University of Kansas students yesterday in the Kansas Union. His Lawrence stop was one of the first times he felt the importance of an online forum.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
Phone sales risky, consumer official says
With telephone solicitations apparently on the increase in Lawrence, Judy Kroeger, campus director for the Consumer Affairs Association (CAA), said yesterday that most telephone sales should be approached cautiously.
By KEVIN KIOUS Staff Writer
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
"We recommend you tell salesmen that you don't do business by phone and that the company should submit the details in writing," she said.
Senate group kills proposed oil tax
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee took another major bite out of President Jimmy Carter's energy program yesterday, voting 10 to kill his proposed tax on crude oil. The tax was designed to force energy conservation.
The vote prompted a counterattack from Carter against the oil industry and an appeal to senators to stop dismantling his plan. See here two.
Con Ed promptly reduced voltage by 8 per cent throughout the city, a move that apparently helped a repetition of the earlier massive power failure of
NEW YORK — About 130,000 people, most in New York City's northern suburbs, lost power yesterday as a severe lightning storm struck Consolidated
Con Ed President Arthur Hauspring said the operator overseeing the Con Ed system acted within two to three minutes after the lightning struck, as compared with the 20 to 30 minutes it took the him to act at the outset of July's blackout.
NYC power outage affects 130,000
Both Clancy and Bakke charged they were passed over for admission while less qualified minority persons were accepted. See story page slx.
Court says school must take woman
Authories cited the arrest of Robert Chamblis, 73, came after a Jefferson County grand jury, looking into a series of racially motivated bombings during the period, issued an indictment. A source close to the investigation said he expected the grand jury to return more indicments in connection with the church bombing and nearly 60 other racially motivated bombs during the sixties.
Rita Clancy, who immigrated from the Soviet Union seven years ago, enrolled at the same school to which white student Allan Bakke sought admission. Her father, Larry Bakke,
**DAVIS, Calif.** A 22-year-old woman who challenged the state of California in a reverse discrimination suit was admitted yesterday to the University of California at Santa Barbara.
1963 bombing suspect arrested
BIRMINGHAM - A former member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested and charged with bombing Birmingham church bombing that claimed the bombs on four young black girls.
A building built by the German population in Lawrence more than 100 years ago still is in good condition and is in use as a recording studio. After some remodeling to suit the recording operation, the building, at 307 E. Ninth St., contains stones from old Fraser Hall and lamps from old Bierstadt. The company does activities, such as a meeting place for the German population, a chicken hatchery and an appliance repair store. See story page two.
Locally . . .
Rolling along
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Although most people are around KU prefer more conventional forms of travel, Steve Griffith, 8, and Patty Jenkins, 6, choose to let the skates do the walking. The two were on their way across campus to the Kansas Union.
Krooger said she heard telephone
frequently she's occurring more
frequently in Lawrence recieved
In the past month, two companies have been trying to sell light bulbs by phone to fraternities and another company has been selling coupon books to local residents. The company, also called Soreo, sored the sale of the books of discount coupons for Lawrence businesses.
Kroeger had 18 persons had called CAA to ask if the coupon book sales were legitimate. Three others had called to complain after they received the coupon
"WE TELL THEM we are selling coupon, so that they we don't think it's a scam," she said. "I'm not."
Cindy Vasil, Newton, Mass, sophomore, said she bought a coupon book last week but intended to get her money back. She said she was told there were coupons for free dry cleaning and found only discount coupons when the book was delivered.
"I probably wouldn't have bought it if I bad looked it over," she said.
Anouner problem arose with the coupon books when buyers found that Country Kitchen restaurant, 1503 W. 23 St., would not honor its coupons for free dinners.
Earl Culver, owner of the restaurant, said last week he was not bound to honor the coupons because the previous owner had made the contract with Consumer Sampler Co., the firm that is selling the books for WDAF.
GLEN CULVER, manager of the restaurant, said yesterday that the free dinner coupons included in books already in circulation would be honored, but that WDAF had agreed to delete the coupons from any more books sold.
Kroger said the coupons were not as good a deal as they seemed. The books cost $21.96 and are supposed to contain $225 worth of coupons.
"it people had $20 to spend, they probably wouldn't spend it on the things offered in the coupon book," she said. "The best general rule is not to make a deal on the phone."
She said the company that had been offering sales of light bulbs during the past decade did not.
"It seems like a well-known racket," she said.
Salesmen have called at least three fraternities and identified themselves as employees of the Small Business Commission in Washington, D.C.
KROEGER SAID that using an official sound source, a hard trick to get tricked to buy over the phone.
Directory information in Washington said yesterday there was no listing for the company, nor did the Better Business Bureau have any knowledge of the
Jamie Hall, Salina sophomore, said the company called his fraternity last Friday and offered a special deal on a shipment of light bulbs.
See PHONE page six