Page 10 University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1981
Flint renovation adding space
The renovation of Flint Hall may have an enormous impact on the William Allen White School of Journalism and the assistant Journalism dean said yesterday.
"Good facilities are always a definite plus," Dana Liebeogain, assistant dean, said, "but it will be just one part of our overall program."
THE RENOVATION will provide new offices for the University Daily Kansan in the west end of Flint, along with new offices on the basement, first and second floor.
"When you look at the space the Kansan has now and the space in the new newsroom, you can see what it means to innovation will have." Lebedeng said.
Considering the contractor's late start on the $949,000 project, Leibengood said, he is pleased with the progress.
Construction began the first week of July and should be completed by May 1982.
The contractor, Douglas Construction Co. of Topeka, first stripped the second-floor interior to the stone walls of the building and began rebuilding from the shell.
PLANS CALL for a larger journalism library on the west end of the second
floor, with a new dean's office on the
facility of faculty. The space will
fill up the space in bed.
An amphitheater-style lecture hall will be built on the first floor during a second phase of the project, and the rest of the room will be renovated for laboratory use.
New darkrooms, a new photo studio and a classroom-office will be built in the basement. Portions of the basement previously been unfinished and unusable.
The Flint Hall renovation was discussed for several years before construction started this year, said Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism. The renovation proposal was turned down by the Kansas Legislature for several years before it finally was approved.
The Legislature approved funds for the renovation in 1840, and additional funding was provided.
When plans were announced for the school's radio, television and film department to move to the soon-to-be-built Communications Building on West Campus, Brinkman said, plans were revised.
CONSTRUCTION ON THE Communications Building is expected to begin next spring. The department is organizing partners in Jolliffe Hall and Blake Annex.
"That gave us more flexibility," Brinkman said, "but there still isn't enough space and the roof and windows to be repaired in separate projects."
In addition to larger offices and new reporters' desks, the Kansan may be using electronic editing equipment as well. The system includes Rick Musser, Kansan general manager.
The electronic video display terminal equipment may cost several hundred thousand dollars, Musser said, so the School of Journalism may lend the Kansan money from a special improvements fund.
THE ELECTRONIC equipment would enable the Kansan staff to write and edit news copy easier and would eliminate the need for KU Printing Services to typeset news stories, he said.
"We would have full control of the copy from the reporter's first efforts to the way it finally appears in the moratorium," said Scott Faust, Kansas editor.
The renovation is the second major remodeling effort in Flint Hall.
Flint was converted from an industrial shop building and re-named Nissle 852 in honor of Leon Nissel Flinton, KU journalism instructor from 1906 to 1946.
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Intra-University awards available for development of faculty interests
What can KU faculty members do if they want to write a book or do some research in an area other than their specialty?
They might apply for the Career Renewal and Development Awards offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
According to Sally Sedelow, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, these six awards, or intra-University visiting professorships, may be awarded to any faculty member of any school, at any level of professorship at the University.
The purpose of the awards is to accomplish several functions. These functions include generating new courses and programs; the revision of existing courses; and initiating interdisciplinary research projects.
The award provides a salary for the academic year and one summer month plus an academic year free of departmental responsibilities. This is to allow the professor to take courses as well as to team-teach in
The applications, which are due Nov. 1 at the college's office in Strong Hall, should indicate what department or school the faculty member would be associated with. As a teacher, you can show how the proposed effort relates to the faculty member's current responsibilities.
Although the awards have been offered for the past two years, until
one or, at most, two courses in another department or school at KU.
this year they were only open to faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Another change this year is that there is no longer any restriction on the number of years a faculty member has taught at KU. Previously a faculty member would have been required to have taught at KU for about 20 years, Seedelow said yesterday.
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