University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 12, 1989
Board picks high school site
By Dave Wakefield
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence School Board members unanimously decided last night to build Lawrence's second high school on land the school district already owns, west of Lawrence.
The 50-acre site, located about one mile west of Wakara Drive along still uncompleted 18th floor, was transferred from a final list of four sites.
The most important factor was choosing a site that would enable both high schools to maintain a socio-economic balance, said Mary Lou Wright, president of the board.
Board members addressed concerns that the school would serve only upper-middle-class students in the residential areas west of the city.
"Economics was not the overriding issue," said school board member Marry Loveland. "The only thing that mattered was how well it would answer our concerns
about the school really being a part of Lawrence."
The board members did not reveal how they rated sites for balance because the criteria was not objective. Loveland said.
Other criteria used to choose the site were: natural features such as site size and topography, availability of city services and proximity to roads, anticipated costs and planning issues such as the proximity of student and residential populations.
According to a report by the PKG Design Group, an architecture firm hired by board members, the district-owned site was ranked twice: once on the basis of present development in the area and once on the basis of projected development outlined in the western development plan, which was adopted by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission this summer.
No other site was rated twice because development has already begun in those areas, said Richard Peters, an architect with PKG.
The district-owned site would have ranked last among the four sites based on facilities and utilities now available, but it was ranked highest assuming sewers, roads and city water supplies would become available in the next 18 months to two years, according to the report.
The other three sites were:
► A 50-acre site at the southeast corner of Sixth Street and Wakarau Drive.
▶ A 50-acre site at the northeast corner of Sixth Street and Wakarua Drive.
Board members had considered 10 sites, but the field had been narrowed to four before last night's meeting.
▶ A 55-acre site along the north side of Sixth Street east of Folks Road.
The estimated cost for the school was not released at the meeting, but land development costs were expected to be from $445,000 to $690,000, according to the report.
Lecture to address employee input
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
One might think that either Lee Iacocca or Donald Trump was coming to the University of Kansas given the demand for tickets to this week's speech by an important person in industry.
Instead, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who for many years was a lone voice as a management consultant in the United States, will discuss his ideas of quality control and cooperation at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Dave Frev. forums coordinator
with Student Union Activities, said only a few of the 300 free tickets allotted for students remained. Tickets can be picked up at the SUA office in the Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Freed said.
James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said 1,200 tickets had been reserved by faculty, staff members and the general public.
“It’s an unusual practice, but we expect a large turnout. We did not want people to drive in and not be able to get in to the speech,” Scally said.
Deming is better known in Japan than in the United States. He was
assigned to Japan by Gen. Douglas MacArthur after World War II to help rebuild that nation's industries. Many Japanese believe that a primary reason for their nation's leading global role in manufacturing is the adherence to Deming's policies of "total quality control" through the use of statistics and employee input.
Deming also offered his expertise to U.S. industries, but was ignored because of their record profits during the post-war expansion. However, each of the Big Three automakers have used his consulting services during the 1980s, when Japanese exports eroded their market shares.
2 Lawrence alumni donate $125,000 to KU
ing drive.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year, $150 million fund-raisers.
The Kansas University Endowment Association has received a $125,000 gift to be used for a School of Business distinguished professorship and other University funds.
By a Kansan reporter
KU alumni Chester B. and Patsy Straub Vanatta, Lawrence, made the contribution, which has been included in Campaign Kansas, John Tollefson, dean of business, announced Friday.
The Vanattas said that $75,000 was to be used for the established Arthur Young Distinguished Professorship, and $50,000 would go to various other funds, including the Second Century fund, which supports University of Kansas Alumni Association activities.
Chester Vanatta, a former president of the Alumni Association who serves on the business school's board of advisers, is the Paul J. Adam distinguished lecturer and an executive in residence for the school.
"Patsy and I are grateful for our association with KU," Vanatta said. "We are pleased to make this gift as a modest measure of our interest and appreciation."
In a statement issued by Campaign Kansas, Tollelloison said campaign officials were grateful to the Vanatas.
John Scarife, director of public relations for the Endowment Association, said an update on total campaign contributions would be released tomorrow. At last count, the campaign had raised $124.2 million.
KU groups take action on report
By Doug Fishback
Kansan staff writer
KU groups are taking action to implement suggestions made in the Minority Issues Task Force report, Skip Turner told the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
Turner, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, told SenEx that various offices had taken advantage of the summer months to consider ways to implement suggestions made in the report, which was issued in May.
This is the first year all new KU police officers have gone through such an orientation, which included viewing a film series dealing with the value of diversity. Turner said.
He said his office had worked with the KU police this summer during a half-day workshop to increase police awareness of minority issues.
The awareness workshop will be offered twice a year, he said.
The office also is working with students and with the Black Student Union to produce a short film spot that will run before Student Union Activities features, Turner said. The spot will follow the University's "celebrate diversity" theme and will be produced by students.
Several University units also are interested in purchasing a series of five telecommunication satellite broadcasts, he said. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Office of Minority Affairs are working to buy the series, which focuses on subjects such as minority faculty rights, the civil rights struggle and health care for Blacks. Turner said.
The Office of Affirmative Action also has completed a computer data base that allows officials to call up statistics on minority enrollment, employment and other issues, he said.
Turner said the data base would help the office work with the office of institutional research and planning. He said staff of the two offices were considering issuing a minority statistics report in January.
Turner also said he would like to see the formation of a task force to recognize and reward efforts to educate and advance good human relations.
He said students sometimes were graduated from the University without being recognized for their contributions.
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