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University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1982
Deliveries stall renovations
By LISA GUTIERREZ and BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A lengthy process of ordering building materials has delayed completion of the new women's locker room in Allen Field House.
"Nobody will stock any kind of materials any more," Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said recently.
"People aren't investing and they (manufacturers) can't afford to tie money up."
Anderson said the practice of not stocking materials had become a trend throughout the United States within the last year.
"IT'S BECAUSE of Reaganomics," he said. "It's a sign of the times."
Anderson said the completion of remodeling jobs and construction projects depended on several things, including a waiting period of approximately 90 days for building materials.
"Our latest delay was because of some special tile blocks we ordered," he said. The tile blocks were ordered for the new locker room.
Construction of the locker room, located in the southeast corner of the Allen Field House, began Oct. 21, 1981.
"We had hoped it would be done in January," Anderson said. "We're at the mercy of the manufacturers on which depend on when the file corners in."
Anderson could not give a completion date for the $2,000 project, but said construction was being finished and bound the absence of the tile blocks.
THE NEW LOCKER room will contain showers and 20 lockers, Marian Washington, women's basketball coach, said.
Until the new locker room is built, these two teams will continue to share with the women's golf, softball and tennis teams, she said.
"Certainly the locker rooms were a big challenge for us," said Washington.
Del Shankel, who is serving as Del athlete, athletic director until the newly appointed Jim Lessig assumes the post, was the acting chancellor last year when he approved funding for the women's locker at the university would provide a fourth locker room at the field house.
Shankel said that in addition to using the present locker room, staff members used some lockers in Robinson Center.
Washington, Bob Marcum, former athletic director, and other coaches told Shankel about the need for additional locker space.
Shankel said he hoped the delay in construction would not add to the cost of the project.
"we funded the project last year at the level facilities operation requested," he said.
The delay of materials had affected other building renovations on campus. According to Anderson,
remodeling office space for the African studies, women's studies and American studies departments on the second floor of Weseco Hall had also been delayed by a wait for special door frames.
The Wescoe remodeling began Feb. 2.
Waiting for materials to arrive was not the only factor involved in completing a project, Anderson said.
"It's a matter of scheduling around the needs of the area," he said.
Anderson said the recently completed University duplication center on the first floor of Wescoe was an example of this.
"It was a custodial material storage room and we converted it to a printing service." he said.
"Due to work load and material delivery, we didn't finish until Jan. 1." Anderson said.
Facilities operations received the order for the work in July 1981.
Facilities operations is busy with several projects on campus.
They are: renovations of rooms in Malott Hall and Spooner Hall; rebuilding of two air conditioning units at Watkins Memorial Hospital; installation of a genetics refrigeration unit backup in Snow Hall; and landscaping work around Lindley and Marvins hall.
Facilities operations completed a new box office for Murphy Hall last month, but Anderson said this was the first phase of the total project.
Competition for research aid intensified by cuts in budget
By VINCE HESS
Staff Reporter
In addition, they said, researchers must return part of their grants to the government so new projects can have funds.
A slash in federal funding and the resulting increase in competition for money has forced health researchers to submit better grant applications to get money, two KU professors who review grant applications said recently.
"The National Institute of Health budget has not kept pace with inflation," Donald Robertson, professor of microbiology and one of the reviewers, said. "The people I talk to are very frustrated."
Robertson is in Washington this week to sit on a review committee for NIH. Charles Rutledge, professor of pharmacy, pharmacology and toxicology, was in Washington last week for similar work.
"There is money for new ideas, there is money for very good ideas," Robertson said.
"But as there is less and less money for research, young researchers applying for their first grants won't find much money."
THE NIH distributes federal money for research in such areas as cancer, bacteriology and neurology, Robertson said.
The NIH has scientists who review grant applications three times a year and financial workers who determine
which applications will receive funds, he said.
THE WOMEN'S STUDY PROGRAM will sponsor a SANDWICH SEMINAR featuring David Katzman, professor of history, speaking on "Rethinking the studies of American History" at 11 a.m. in Alcove of the Kansas University.
The scientists use a scale of one to five to rate the applications; one is the highest score, and five is the lowest. Robertson said. The scores are averaged and multiplied by 100 to determine priority scores.
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Robertson said NIH financial workers used the priority scores to decide which applications received funds. The members of the review committee are not told who receives the money.
Rutledge said his committee reviewed 87 applications last week. Each requested $50,000 or $80,000 a year for an average of three years. About 75 were favorably recommended, and about 10 of these will receive funding.
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THE LAW SCHOOL REPUBLICANS will present Wayne Angell, financial economist from Ottawa University, speaking on "Reagan's Economic Program" and its relationship to the economic crisis, at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
ROBERTSON IS in the final year of a four-year stint on the bacteriology and mycology review committee. He became involved in 1978 when the committee needed another reviewer, he might serve another year if he needed.
ministration had proposed a 12 percent turnback, but Congress reduced the figure.
Grants usually run for three years, but rarely longer than five. Robertson said. They range from $50,000 to $80,000.
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Other costs for a project are supplies and special equipment, Robertson said.
Rutledge said he had reviewed health research applications for 10 years, including his work with the NIH section on neurology last week. He has also worked for committees outside the NIH, such as one on alcohol, drug abuse and mental health for the Public Health Service.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN SERVICES OF KANSAS will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union to discuss plans for Gay Awareness Week.
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Robertson estimated he spent two months of the year reviewing applications during his spare time. The second week was the nine days a year he is in Washington.
However, financial workers and scientists who have applied for funds say that cuts in federal funding mean that applications now need a higher priority score. Robertson said. An appleton survey of 150 used to receive funds, but not even applications with higher scores around 170 are not funded, he said.
A RESEARCHER whose application does not receive funds can revise the project to earn a higher priority score, but this is difficult when the project has already received a high score, such as 185. Robertson said.
Another change caused by funding cuts is mandatory turnbacks of grant money by researchers, Rutledge said. Researchers now receiving federal funds must turn back 4 percent of their fund to NIH for use in new projects.
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