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Library study gets under way
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Reporter
The first stage of a study funded by the Kansas Legislature to determine the library needs of three state universities will be completed this week, a study team member said yesterday.
Jerry Howey, a New York City architect, is the last of three representatives sent by Peal, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., a New York-based accounting firm, to conduct the study. The accountant's situation at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
He declined to comment on what the results of the study would be or if there were a need for expansion.
"I trust numbers more than observations," Howett said. "Looks are deceiving. Clearly, some places are crowded.
"The art library has more than adequate space for growth for several more years, while the music library is better because it can't handle the books it has now."
Requests from the three universities for almost $4.7 million in capital improvements for library expansion promoted the study.
RICHARD RYAN of the Legislative Research Department said the Legislature appropriated $100,000 to do the study.
"KU requested $19.5 million for capital improvements, Wichita's asking for $12.4 million and Kansas State's request is for $13.8 million,"
After various companies submitted proposals, the New York-based company was selected to do the study.
"While we are an accounting firm,we
do have a large consulting staff in New York," Howett said. "Before me, Katherine Wolf, who had been a librarian, interviewed heads of departments about library operations—staffing and acquisitions."
She was followed by Lawrence Lieberfeld, coordinator of the entire study. Howett said.
Howett's job was to go into every library space, upgrading the drawings available and describing stacks, desks and any major piece of furniture.
"From this, I will work out the net area for each library function when I get back to New York—the space available for the collections, the space available for office and service and the area for the reader," he said.
THE COLLECTION will be measured in terms of space per volume on the shelves and also by the square feet allotted for books. Reader space will be calculated by counting seating space by the number of students enrolled.
"After we figure out all the assigned space in the current layout of the library," Howett said, "we will come up independently with an architectural planning standard coming up with a plan for use or the amount of space for each area."
Howet completed his assessment yesterday of every library except Summerfield. When Summerfield is done, the first stage of Phase I for the study will be complete. The firm will then present options to the Legislature.
Phase II will begin after the committee selects the options it decides are most suitable. Howett said. The firm will normally arrange with each option, arriving at a cost.
The entire study will be completed sometime before June 30, which is the end of the 1982 fiscal year. Ryan said.
Students ring up large unpaid phone bills
By JANICE GUNN Staff Reporter
KU residence hall students rang up a $15,438 long-distance phone bill last year and then skipped town.
While most students in KU residence halls pay their phone bills promptly, the offenders create havoc for their roommates, according to a Southwestern Bell official, the housing office and the hall directors.
LATE PAYMENTS or unpaid bills can be costly for a student and the housing department, and the student can have his service disconnected permanently. The housing office charges a $20 penalty for a disconnection and also charges the student to have the phone reinstalled.
"This might come as a shock to some people who don't realize the phone really will be disconnected if they don't."
Some students forget to pay their bills because they are used to having a phone at home and someone else, usually their parents, pay for it. Knight
pay their bill." Polly Knight, manager of the Lawrence Southwestern Bell service center, said recently.
Some losses occur when a student runs up a bill and transfers schools, moves out of state or returns to a foreign country, she said.
The phone company's biggest loss at KU was in 1980 when one foreign student ran up a $3,000 bill and moved home.
When a bill becomes delinquent, Southwestern Bell takes three steps to collect it. Knight said. It first tries to get the bill out of the system. If the bill is not paid, service is ended.
Then it looks at the offender's bill for a frequently used number and calls it, in an effort to locate the student's
parents. If these two attempts fail, the bill is turned over to a collection agency.
KATIE COX, manager of the housing office, said that she received a computer printout from Southwestern Bell and that her service was disconnected or suspended.
"Last year there was not a day that went by when I didn't get an envelope from Southwestern Bell full of suspensions and disconnections," she
When a student's service is suspended or disconnected in a residence hall, he or she is not the only affected by the end of service. The student's roommate, who may be a teacher, also is left without a telephone.
gets shut off, you don't have a phone," said Fred McElhennie, the director of the office of residential programs.
"Shutting off the phone sounds like the reasonable thing to do, but the problem is that if you're the one who ran up the phone bill, when the phone
KNIGHT SAID, "That's a touchy situation because the one who does pay his bill will call and want his service, or do we protect ourselves from losses?"
He and the residence directors try to solve this problem by talking to the offender and explaining that his or her roommate's rights will be violated if the phone is disconnected, McEhenie said.
Scott Corbett, Tempil Hall director, said he and the other directors were told in directors' meetings to put non-working members in one room if the situation arose.
since the beginning of the semester,
51 suspensions and 10 disconnections
have been issued, according to
Southwestern Bell.
Von Ende savs bed glut not KU's fault
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary to the University, said yesterday that expansion of the University of Kansas Medical Center could not be blamed for the glut of oxygen in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Med Center has not been able to attract enough patients to fill its empty beds because there are 1,000 to 2,000 extra beds in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and hospitals are competing for patients.
"Our expansion was planned almost 10 years ago," he said. "In the meantime, a lot of new hospitals, such as Suburban Medical Center, have been
A COPYRIGHT STORY in last night's Kansas City Star said that the
Therefore, the article said, Med Center expansion with the taxpayers' money may have been unwise.
"I think it is inappropriate to criticize the Kansas Legislature for an appropriation that they made 10 years ago," Von Ende said.
The Bell addition, completed in 1979, added $40,000 square feet to the Med Center. The addition cost $88 million to build and equip.
However, the low occupancy rate is not a newly recognized problem at the Med Center.
Both legislators and Med Center administrators have been working to solve the problem.
Last spring the University Daily Kansan reported that the Med Center officials told the Legislature they were not meeting with their families, ultimately because of the low occupancy rate.
WHEN MED CENTER administrators met with the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee on occupancy rate was discussed again.
Wichita, suggested then that the Med Center officials start marketing their hospital's services more aggressively.
Med Center officials responded by saying that they were already operating the Outreach program, which spreads the influence of the Med Center through Kansas by educating doctors and attracting new patients.
They also reminded the Legislature of the new satellite clinic that was built earlier this year in Overland Park to attract new patients, and described plans to establish a Health Maintenance Organization by Jan. 1, 1983, to attract patients from neighboring counties.
Committee chairman Paul Hess, R-
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