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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 24, 1989
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Potter Lake loses water for dam repairs
By a Kansan reporter
Potter Lake was partially drained last week to permit a construction firm to repair a crack in the lake's dam.
Pipes fed into the lake allowed University workers to reduce Potter Lake's water level by about 1 $ \frac{1}{2} $ feet, said Bob Porter, associate director of plant management for facilities operations.
Wagner Mud-jacking Co., Inc., a Topeka firm which operates in Lawrence, offered the best bid for the job and was contracted to repair the dam for the University, he said.
John Wagner, owner of the contracting firm, declined to comment on the amount of his bid.
"We did work on the dam about a year and a half ago, but a part of it didn't seal un." Porter said.
Wagner said he was not sure when work would begin on the dam. His employees are working in the residence halls. They will begin work at Potter Lake when that job is finished.
Dam repairs should take about a day, he said.
The pipes in Potter Lake will not be removed until the dam is renamed. Porter said.
"We'll keep them down there to drain the lake in case there is rainfall that raises the lake too high," he said. "It's a gravity flow system. We can control it. It doesn't just drain automatically."
Ducks ignore pipes extending from Potter Lake that maintain a low water level, allowing workers to repair a crack in the lake's dam.
University of Kansas Food Service employees can say they are members of an award-winning team.
The meal that won was served in February to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
KU's food service recently won first place in a National Association of College and University Food Service special events/theme dinner competition, said Peggy Smith, director of food service for the department of student housing.
By a Kansan reporter
Food service takes the cake in competition
Food service employees decorated cafeterias for the meal, which included appetizers such as egg drop soup and egg rolls. Entrees included chicken chow mein, lo mein and egg foo young.
A food service manager used oriental cooking techniques which he learned in Korea to help the staff prepare the dishes.
"The major events are a huge undertaking," said Kathy Nace, graphic designer for student housing.
Nace said that giving meals a theme helped make students more aware of what was available in the cafeterias.
For the award-winning dinner, 10-foot banners of Chinese proverbs and four-foot fans were hung on the walls, Smith said.
KU parking wars continue on battleground next to campus
By Bryan Swan
Kansan staff writer
"We have three spaces and they say the third space on is their property," he said.
"They have a whole lot so I don't see why it's such a big deal."
Private parking close to campus is such a rare commodity that some people are willing to fight for it.
John Campbell, Winnetka, III, senior, said residents of his apartment house at 1400 Ohio St. had been engaged in a property dispute with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1425 Tennessee St.
David Frey, president of Beta Theta PI, said that he had been in contact with the owners of the property, who admitted a
mistake had been made, and that the gravel parking lot was on the fraternity house's property.
"We're planning a major renovation and we need to use that area as an access way," he said. "We need that space very soon for construction later in the spring. It must be done before the ground freezes."
Frey said that the dispute had been settled amicably, and that the gravel parking lot would be removed. He declined to comment on the proposed renovations.
Another Greek house's members have their share of parking woes.
Leslie Murphy is in charge of keeping an eye on the parking lot at the Chi Omega house, 1345 West Campus Road. She said signs that designate the lot behind the house
"With bad weather it is not as much of a problem as with spring weather, because people are out and about more," she said. "We also get visiting parents on game days, and we're very close to the Jayhawk Bookstore, where kids come to learn. People leave nicely, others just ignore you and go into the bookstore and leave when they feel like it."
The problem is compounded, she said, by last year's City Commission decision to not allow parking between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Strong Avenue, which is three blocks from the house. She said that because of limited
as private property were ineffective and had been stolen.
Murphy said people chose to park illegally on the house's lot for a variety of reasons.
space in the house's lot, half of its residents used to park along Strong Avenue.
Murphy said the house had the right to tow illegally parked cars from the lot, but usually did not because it was difficult to ascertain whether the car's owner was visiting someone at the house.
Often it's not just students causing other students parking problems. Businesses near campus also have to contend with the lack of parking spaces near campus.
All parking spaces adjacent to Rudy's Pizza, 620 W. 12th St., are reserved for delivery drivers, but the numerous no parking signs do not deter some people, workers said.
"The biggest thing is people coming up here who park and go to class," said Sean Lange, manager of Rudy's Pizza. "I've been pretty lax about it lately, but now we're towing people out of here."
Larry Whitson, an employee at Kinko's Copies, 622 W.12th St., said there was no way to enforce the two-hour limit that people were supposed to obey when visiting any of the businesses across from 12th and Oread streets.
"Students park here and go to class all the time," he said. "There are not many places for us to park when we come to work. Anyone could park there all day and they'd never be towed."
Kansas gives nurses' image a shot in the arm
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
The news and advertising media are beginning to show the public exactly what a nurse does and to destroy the idea that a nurse is only a handmaiden, Med Center officials say.
Eleanor Sullivan, dean of nursing at the University of Kansas Medical Center, predicted that growth in nursing school enrollment at the Med Center next year would match the 10 percent increase in enrollment for the 1989-90 school year. An increase of this size would increase enrollment from 284 students past its capacity of 300.
"I think we will be able to continue the slow, upward climb because of the press and our recruiting efforts," Sullivan said. "We have really geared ourselves up in the last three years to do some serious recruiting."
Nursing school enrollment at the Med Center dipped in 1987 to 234 students but has increased steadily since then.
Med Center officials will work with local health organizations on a statewide advertising campaign designed to improve the image of the nursing occupation, Sullivan said.
Rita Clifford, assistant dean of nursing, said the campaign would begin in January 1990 and would cost about $50 million in advertising expenses.
A shortage of nurses in the state means greater opportunities for nursing students, Sullivan said.
"It doesn't take long for people to figure out that they will have no worries about job opportunities in nursing," she said.
She said the statewide nursing shortage resulted from a combination of an increase in careers choices and the number of high school graduates.
"One of the major problems we've had is that in the last 15 to 20 years
It doesn't take long for people to figure out that they will have no worries about job opportunities in nursing. '
— Eleanor Sullivan dean of nursing
Sullivan said that there were three to four nursing school applications for each opening 10 years ago, but that there was about one application for each opening last year.
The number of high school graduates is expected to continue to decrease, she said, and the Med Center will begin focusing recruiting efforts on populations such as minorities and older individuals who are
there has been an increasing array of choices for women," she said. "And there is a smaller pie that has to be divided up between many choices."
changing careers or who have never had a career.
One of the myths of the nursing profession is that nurses are leaving the profession for better careers, Sullivan said.
In reality, 81 percent of the nurses licensed in Kansas are working in the field, she said, and the number of registered nurses statewide has increased by about 6,000 in the past 10 years.
Clifford said that the nurse's starting salary had changed dramatically because hospitals and health agencies were beginning to pay for good quality health care. She said nursing reported one of the lowest salaries several years ago, but is now in the middle range of salaries at $24,000.
Roger Fife, one of 13 male nursing students at the Med Center, said the image of nursing had changed enough recently to make the career an attractive choice for him.
He said that an increase in the number of men in nursing may have an impact on increasing the benefits and the conditions of nursing.
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
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