Page 8 University Daily Kansan, January 28, 1982
Chilly temperatures slow Alumni Center
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Construction on the K.S. "Boots"
Adams Alumail Center at 13th Street
and Oread Avenue is two weeks behind
schedule because of the cold weather,
Bill Valantine, construction superintendent,
said yesterday.
"The weather has been a little cooler than anticipated," said Valantine, who works for R.D. Andersen Construction Company Inc., Topeka.
Valantine said temperatures around zero and high wind chill factors over the last three weeks had slowed construction and that he was for the construction workers to work.
"Last week we had to put propane space heaters on the retaining wall so that the concrete would set right," Valentine said.
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He said concrete only can be poured when the temperature is above freezing, and it must be protected from moisture.
Continuous bad weather could cause further delays.
"A lot of snow would make it hard to work, but we would keep on working," Valantine said.
Rain would be the only thing that could out us out, especially a freezing
rain which makes things too slick to work," he said.
"Today is nice compared to what we've been working in." Valentine said about yesterday's weather-35 degree high.
Even though temperatures were warmer yesterday, all of the construction workers were dressed warmly in coveralls, boots and heavy gloves, and wore stock hats under their hard hats.
"We work in all kinds of weather, except on days like last Friday," Ray Frye, construction worker, said. "It was too slick then."
Valantine said the construction, which began Nov. 23, would take about a year and-a-half to finish.
Presently, 16 men are working on a retaining wall that faces Louisiana Street.
The men will begin working on the building in about six weeks, Valantine said.
The $4.2 million, three-story building, which is designed to blend architecturally with the Kansas Union building, will house offices for the Kansas Alumni Association, conference rooms and an alumni-faculty club.
Dick Wintermote, secretary-treasurer for the Alumni Association, said the second floor of the building
would be used by alumni and faculty for social activities.
This would include, he said, a bar set up like an English pub, a dining room, a lounge area and three mult-use rooms. The space could be expanded into one large room.
"The faculty has long needed a place like this where academic lines can be crossed and professors can get in touch with one another." Winternote said.
"It will be of particular value to new faculty as a place to go to acquaint
The family of Kenneth S. Adams, KU alumi, contributed $1.3 million toward building the alumni center.
The Kansas University Endowment Association owns the land on which the alumni center is being built and is in charge of its funding.
Wintermorte he did he not know whether the Endowment Association would retain ownership of the center or would be given to the Alumni Association.
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
The site of the new Archie Dykes Library of Health Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kau., bears little resemblance to the campus. The University dignitaries stood last July to begin the construction of the library.
Dykes Library on time
In place of the empty field, construction crews work toward completing the building by July 1883.
"It's been more than a year since a major change in the building design," said Earl Farley, director of the Clendening Library at the Med Center. "Everything seems to be right on schedule."
The Legislature allocated $3.7 million of the total $5 million cost of the library. Nearly $250,000 was raised through private donations and another $1 million came from additional Med Center student fees.
Funding for the Dykes Library, which was named after former October Archie R. Dykes last October came primarily from the Kansas Legislature.
The new addition will double the space available to the library system at the University.
"The new building will have 40,700 foot of actual usable space, compared with the existing building."
which includes a basement for storage.'Farley said.
Farley intends to keep the Clendening Library open after the completion of the new building.
By keeping the Clendening Library operating, Farley said, the Med Center will retain valuable space for its 131,000 volumes and journals.
Farley said the Clendening Library could be used to house the 18,000 volumes and journals of the medical history section while the Dykes Library could be used for the latest medical materials.
Although the details are not set, Farley said that the Dykes Library would offer between 400 and 600 seats for library patrons. This seating space, he said, would primarily be study booths.
"There won't be many tables and chairs in the new library, it will be mostly individual study areas," he said.
The library will continue its extensive use of computers to help trace books and also to catalogue them, Farley said.
The library is a member of the Ohio College Library Center. This center, based at Ohio State University, contains over 1600 books at L.400 university libraries.
All of the Board of Regents schools, with the exception of the Kansas State Institute in Salina, are members of the cataloging center, Farley said.
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Better study skills aim of center's rapid-reading course
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Writer
If heavy reading assignments already are looming ominously, the Student Assistance Center's rapid response system can help to help students handle a busy schedule.
"You might be able to read a novel at 1,000 words a minute," Lora Zimmer, the center's director, said recently. "If you increase your speed from 250 to 600 words in reading textbooks, you have done a lot for yourself. If you're slow and cannot get through what you need, that's a core comprehension, while, after taking this course, you may get 80 percent comprehension at least."
The course has two goals, Sara Martin, course instructor, said.
"First, we break old reading habits,"
she said. "For example, some people have subconscious vocalization as they read.
Martin said the second goal was to teach new physical skills. How to move one's eyes when reading a page is such a skill, Martin said, and coordination of hand and eye movement is also important.
"Some actually matter as they read or are conscious of hearing the words in their head. If you can read only as fast as you talk, you can't read too fast."
Martin said that "Another way to be more time-efficient in reading is to decrease the number of times one's eyes stare down the number of stories," she said.
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Zimmer said that study skills were not taught at these courses but were included in the Academic Skill Enhancement workshops.
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She warned that while students were pushing to read faster, comprehension temporarily went down, but, with practice, it would return and increase.
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