Page 10 University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1981
KU's landscaped grounds gain national reputation, recognition
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Although most people choose a college for its academic programs, the director of facilities operations at the University of Kansas thinks the surroundings have something to do with it as well.
"When people come to our campus, all things being equal academically, they say it looks like we care a little more here," said Thomas Anderson.
Anderson's opinion was confirmed last month when KU was among four campuses featured in Travel & Leisure magazine's college travel guide.
KU was included in the guide along with the campuses of the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University.
ANDERSON SAID he thought KU had one of the four most beautiful campuses in the nation. He gave the credit to KU's grounds creepers in a 1,000 acres of grass in addition to caring for thousands of trees and plants.
The higher level of maintenance includes cleaning, planting and maintaining flower beds.
Almost 5,000 flower bulbs have been grown from seed and the crew planted 4,700 last year.
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TREES ALSO have been planted on a mass scale, he said. About 6,600 trees were planted in 1980 and another 3,000 have been ordered to be planted this year.
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The University has grounds crewmen who specialize in planting flowers, called florists, and four horticulturists work on the crew as well, Mathes said.
Planting this year will continue in the area of Malott Hall and Watson Island.
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"The horticulturists are to the grounds as electricians are to wiring in them."
"Many universities are extremely jealous that we have so much money to spend on new planting as we do," Mathes said.
Dog chains grinding against tree bark can severely damage a tree and lead to its decline and eventual death, Mathes said.
The institute consists of ground-skeepers of city parks, company properties and university campuses, he said.
Most of the mops being used are new, he said, but as they grow older mops tend to be a bit more expensive.
"A large portion of our time is spent just taking care of the grass," said Jim Mathes, assistant director of facilities operations in charge of landscaping. "And 600 to 700 acres of that receives a higher level of maintenance."
Mathes said he had been asked twice in five years to show a slide presentation to the National Grounds Institute Convention.
The grounds crew also is in charge of clearing snow from sidewalks during the winter, he said, but last winter the lack of snowfall provided the crew with a way to get water from a nursery on West Campus to the area around Robinson Center.
Mathes said, and dogs tied to trees with chains.
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HORTICULTURISTS evaluate trees and shrubs for disease, he added, along with doing other skilled work.
Committee will begin six days of bearings on Monday.
Organizations applying for funding through Student Senate supplementary budget hearings next week must have their request forms in to the Senate office in the Kansas Union by 4 p.m. today.
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The amount of money available for allocation will not be released, even to the committee, so that each organization will be judged on its own merits, Loren Busy, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, said.
THE MAJOR threats to the grounds are the increasing number of mopeds,
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