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University Daily Kansan, October 20,1981
Penn House
Blurton made during meetings of the East Lawrence Improvement Association and the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting Sent. 23.
"Most people blow off Sonny's remarks, but they intimidate others," Workman said. Blurton often has worn a knife on his belt, Workman said, and "they also find that pretty intimidating."
One east Lawrence resident, an executive board member of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said that he had felt intimidated by Blurton during August and September meetings of the East Lawrence Improvement Association.
"He basically told people that they shouldn't show up at Penn House if they didn't agree with the plans for the new facility," the member, who asked not to be identified, said. "He said that Penn House had ways of dealing with people who opposed them."
"The attitude was 'To hell with you and we have ways of dealing with you,'" he said.
Other meeting participants said they too had heard Blurton say that Penn House had ways of dealing with the opposition.
PENN HOUSE office manager Jessie Nichols said that she had talked to Blurton about the complaints and that he denied threatening anvone.
"We're working blind in this situation. We don't know who's accusing us of threatening people."
Blurton, who is food manager for Penn House, denied making any threats
I care a lot about Penn House, not enough to go to jail for it," Blurted an. "I don't make threats. I take action. Then I talk about it. Anyone who knows me will tell you that."
Workman said that the petition that he and Kite presented to the commission was signed by several East Lawrence residents who opposed plans to tear down the existing Penn House residential-style building and replace it with a non-residential structure.
BINNS SAID that he had received a call from Penn House officials after last week's commission meeting asking him to release the names on the petition.
"Penn House officials wanted me to tell them who conducted the petition and who signed." Binnis said. "I told them that I couldn't give them that information. I also told them that I'd better not hear anything more about threats. We don't operate like that here."
City Commissioner Tom Gleason and Mayor Marci Francis said last week that they would disregard a survey conducted by Penn House and the East Lawrence Improvement Association because of rumors that it had been conducted improperly.
"The petitions and surveys won't have much influence on my decision," Gleason said. "I'm not sure that they're valid because I've heard that people were threatened.
"I don't think it was conducted scientifically or
manually," she said, affected by the Papa Hushla plan were contacted.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,” Francisco said. “Surveys and petitions are tools to document concern, and it’s obvious that there is a lot of concern over the Penn House proposal.”
FRANCISCO SAID that she would be more influenced by the number of people who came to the commission meeting than by surveys and petitions.
fact that we had a problem on our hands,' Gentrv said.
Nursing
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"This is not the first time we've had a crisis. We had one back in the '60s," said Gentry, who added that the Kansas shortage was only part of a nationwide problem.
Rita Clifford, assistant dean for student affairs, that financial aid was a concern for the nursing program.
"There have been cases where students were admitted but not enrolled because there weren't sufficient funds for them to go to school," Clifford said.
She said that the School of Nursing had been recruiting since the shortage of nurses appeared.
ALTHOUGH FEDERAL and state aid is not in supply support for nursing students, Cliffordason and Garrison have no plans.
Private hospitals are paying for some students' nursing education, provided that they meet the state's standards.
Besides offering scholarship money to potential nursing students, the Kansas Hospital Association is also trying to attract retired nurses back into the profession, said Gentry.
"We've figured that it takes about three minutes in the flow to get one to stay active in the order.
Although nurses are better paid today than doctors, Nursing doesn't have the large i need it to be used.
The average pay for a staff nurse in Kansas is $7.50 an hour, Gentry said.
Although the number of applicants in KU's nursing program has remained constant in the past several years, Clifford said the school had only about 25 students each year for the past five years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The consulting engineers of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where two skywalks collapsed and killed 113 people, have filed court documents in which they said a critical design change made in those skywalks was suggested by the steel fabricators.
Hyatt engineers question change
By United Press International
The Kansas City Times today reported that Gillum-Coalco Structural Engineering Consultants Inc. of St. Louis filed documents in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday. The newspaper reported that those documents seemed to contradict an assertion by the steel fabricators, who said it was the engineers who originally told it to make the design change.
In those documents, Gillum-Colaco said the suggestion for the change from a single-rod suspension system to a double-rod suspension based on the steel by the fabricator, the Havers Steel Co.
The Havens Steel Co. filed court papers earlier in this month which it said it Gilum-Colaco had ordered the design change after Havens sought a repair of the bridge, which he received from Hayt engineers and architects.
Last week, the Eldridge & Son Construction Co., the general contractor for the $50-million, 40-story luxury hotel, filed court documents in which it said Gillum-Colaco and Hyatt architects made changes in the design of the skywalks before they were built.
A circuit judge had set Monday as the deadline he said he expected all defendants named in more than 100 lawsuits arising out of the disaster to respond to questions seeking the role of each defendant in the construction and financing of the hotel.
Phone Books
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"It's either at the printer or the comptroller," she said.
The University compilator furnishes the directory information on computer tape, and then National Advertising and Publishing Company has it printed.
Eversole said a computer failure probably caused the omission.
"It's all done by computer. Computers sometimes glitch and leave out things," she said.
In the meantime, facilities operations and the office of residential programs will continue delivering the phone books to University offices and residence halls.
Eversole said the delivery began yesterday and would last two or three more days.
**Bill Getz**, manager of the Oread Book Shop in
Boston, will deliver 50 books to bookstores be-
sold there for 50 cents starting this month.
The printer gives the book book to offices and residence halls free of charge and makes its money with advertising. Eversole said. *The printers work both books and journals in the university contract must be paid for.*
Pencil
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The only reason people would return the penicillus. Howe said, was honesty.
"I don't want to make any statements about tuition going down" if the pencils are returned, she said, "and I can't think of a reason that will appeal directly to student's greed."
"We're nice people," she said. "We want our enclips back."