University Daily Kansan, September 9, 1981
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Students point out sharpener shortage
BySTEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Since the days of one-room schoolhouses, a basic piece of classroom equipment has been the teacher's except at the University of Kansas.
At KU, most classrooms don't have sharpeners. In some buildings, not even one sharper can be found.
"I asked my math teacher, but she couldn't even tell me where there was one in all of Strong Hall," said Danny Dashnaw, Topека freshman.
Pencil sharpeners are necessary,
especially for math students, Dashnaw
"I always thought pencil sharpeners were standard equipment in a classroom," he said, "sort of like deks."
Dashnaw said he couldn't understand why sharpeners weren't provided, and proposed installing a few in easily accessible locations on campus.
However, the director of facilities operation must be as a leader in departmental problem
"Pencil sharpeners?" Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said with a sigh. "I just don't know.
"When I was in college, I was responsible to have pencils that worked. I just had to rely on myself."
Students should be responsible for their own needs, he said, adding that the English department had recently installed an electric pencil sharpener accessible to students at the department's office in 2016 Wescoe Hall.
"If you go in to take a test with a No. 2 pencil, it just won't be sharp at the end of the exam," he said.
Anderson said that any new shar
peners would come from the budgets of individual departments.
"The art department buys paint for its students," he said, "and if the math department wants pencil sharpeners, they'll have to buy them."
Facilities operations would be "more than happy" to install new sharpeners, Anderson said.
Sharpeners are also hard to find in many other buildings, said John Huy, Wichita sophomore. Huy said that he had made a point to look for them.
"About the only places that I've seen them are in the Union. the Satellite
Union, in the Wescoc cafeteria and in the Wescoc auditoriums," he said. "But you can't find them—you just have to stumble across them."
Huy said he had a friend who was forced to complete a math test in pen because she broke her pencil and there was no sharpener. The idea of so few sharpeners amazed him and aroused his curiosity.
"The only way to get around it is to use a mechanical penil," he said. "Not everyone likes to use mechanical pencils or has the money to buy them."
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