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Thursday, November 30. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by J. R. HIMES
Progress Still Slow for Wescoe Hall Construction
... Consistent bad weather winds many campus projects ...
Weather Slows Hall Work
By MIKE BAUER Kansan Staff Writer
Weather conditions in the next three weeks will determine whether Wescoe Hall will be completed on schedule in July 1973, according to Keith Lawton, director of the Office of Facilities Planning and Operations.
"All construction progress has suffered since August, by virtue of the fact that there have been very few uninterrupted construction days," Lawton said. "Up to this point, it had been four days since August that weren't interrupted with rain or bad weather."
Cement has to be poured in a certain sequence on the west roof of Wescoe Hall before the side panels can be put in place and before work begins on the inside. However, the roof on the east side is compaired and the outside walls are up. Lawton said,
He said it was too early to tell to what extent the bad weather had had on the December, 1973 completion date of the Student Health Center. The contractors expected, which he said could at least advantage in hitting the completion date.
Even after Wescoe Hall is completed, Lawton said, movement into the hall will take a full semester. He said 11 departments would move into the building.
IF THE WEST side is not completed by next year, there is a possibility that partial occupancy of the east side could take place, and if the west side is completed of the west side, Lawton said.
In discussing other construction on the campus, Lawton said construction was near completion on a courtyard and fountain on the south side of Murhuy Hall.
"This summer a garden court was built, and it was designed for a pool and a water basin. Lawton said. The courtyard was built in 1982, but from former KU Chancellor Franklin
Murphy, who was chancellor from 1961 to 1960.
After the garden courtyard was completed Murphy decided to complete the fountain with his own money. Lawton said he would do this as a minor job and should be completed soon.
Bad weather has stopped construction on the eight new tennis courts being built next to Robinson Gym. Lawton said that the tennis courts should still be ready by spring, which would be in time to accommodate additional tennis players, in warm weather.
PLANS HAVE been drawn up for expansion of Learned Hall, Lawton said. Two stories will be added to the top of the east wing, and a separate five-story lab building will be connected by corridors to the main building.
Lawton said the University would ask the Kansas Legislature for the building funds in January. If the funds are granted, construction will begin next summer, he said.
The addition to Learned Hall is part of a "master plan" to build and centralize buildings on the central campus area, Lawton said.
Learned Hall will house the remaining mechanical engineering facilities and the chemical and petroleum engineering facilities now housed in Fowler Hall.
Lawton told the School of Engineering would vacate Fowler and the building would be remodeled and turned over to the department of visual arts.
The old mechanical engineering shops will also be vacated and that building will be used for other purposes or torn down and the building will be constructed, Lawton said.
A NEW VISUAL arts building is in the "programming stages" but it will be some time before working plans are drawn up by an architect, he said.
Lawton's office is now involved in upgrading the University's primary electronic repository.
"The electrical demands of the campus were forecast to be greater than the old system could accommodate, so we are now running it from 4,180 watts to 12,470 watts," he said.
Members Elect 3 to Complete Business Board
Three new board members were elected to the nine-member executive board of the School of Business Board of Advisers during the board's seminal meeting Wednesday.
The new members are Robert Busler, of Hallmark cards in Kansas City, M., Dick Boushau, of Vickers Petroleum of Wichita Falls, and the Martin Tractor Company in Topeka.
The executive board is rotated each year with the election of three new members, according to Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Business.
A panel discussion was presented by five University of Kansas graduates of the School of Business to the Board of Advisers, which frequently makes curriculum lessons for the school, to help them understand the value of the business school, Clark said.
Although the panel responded favorably to the flexibility in the programs offered, they believed that more "real world ex-ience" was needed while in school, Clark said.
An internship program including summer and semester break employment with various companies and more discussions on campus with businessmen were some of the panel's suggestions to alleviate this problem, Clark said.
The business school deals with on the job experience in small ways, he said, but they know what they are doing.
Bargaining Unit Set For Medical Center
The Kansas Public Employee Relations Board approved Wednesday in Topeka a petition submitted by the union local of service workers at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which requested the Board's recognition as a bargaining unit.
The board did not approve the union as a representative of the workers, but only recognized the service and maintenance center as an appropriate bargaining unit.
The state had proposed that service and maintenance workers at the medical center and the Lawrence campus be combined into one unit and that workers from the other state colleges be combined into another unit.
The five-member board's decision yesterday eliminated the possibility of the workers being combined as the state had suggested.
At the same time, the board granted the status of an appropriate bargaining unit to maintenance and service workers at Fort Hays State College.
"We assume that this will mean that service workers will be approved as separate units at every state school," said Lowell Long, state director of personnel.
The petition for the medical center was submitted by Public Service Employees Union, local 1123, which also the union service workers at the Lawrence campus.
Service and maintenance workers led by the union local struck last spring on the Lawrence campus in an effort to improve working conditions and salaries.
The strike ended one day before a new kansas law requires all bargaining units to be paid.
To represent a unit a group must be approved by more than half of those voting in an election, after the group has presented a petition and the signatures of 30 per cent of the workers.
In its decision the board said that "each institution is a separate, distinct, operating unit, and concluded that the service workers be considered independently of each other.
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