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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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KU construction has only just begun
Construction worker Tim Douglas prepares limestone stabs for use on the Robert Dole Human Development Center. Douglas was working at the site Monday afternoon.
by Paula Parrish Kansan staff writer
And more is on the wav.
Students have walked around construction areas featuring blowing dust, swinging equipment and noisy machinery for months on the KU campus.
Construction work on five new buildings, the first of which will be ready for use at the end of this month, is under way.
Parking Services soon will be moving into its new offices, located in the parking garage nearing completion north of Allen Field House.
Donald Kearns, director of parking services, said 400 of the spaces in the parking garage would be set aside for visitors and 378 would be reserved for faculty, staff and students.
Revenue bonds will provide $5 million of the $5.4 million needed for the project, and Parking Services will supply the remainder, primarily through the sale of permits.
The Marian and Fred Anschutz Library, under construction south of Hoch Auditorium, will be dedicated Oct. 7 and will open its doors some time next spring, said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
The library is named after the parents of Philip Anschutz, 1961 KU graduate. According to a Campaign Kansas news release, Anschutz's father, Fred, gave $1.4 million for Anschutz Sports Pavilion that carries his name.
Philip Anschutz and his wife, Nancy, donated $6.5 million to the University's library system through the Campaign Kansas fund drive, Wiechert said, and the rest of the $13.9 million needed to complete the structure was obtained through state funding.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year, $150-million fundraising drive.
Wiechert said the 91,000 squarefoot science and technology library would consolidate the math and architectural libraries, along with most of the science library located on the sixth floor of Malot Hall. Most of the science and technology, volumes in Watson
Library also will be moved to the new library, leaving more room in Watson for humanities volumes.
Only a building away from the new library, to the east of Haworth Hall, is the Robert Dole Human Development Center.
the four-story brick center, named for Sen. Robert Dole, will be used for the instruction, actual
rehabilitation and therapeuputic treatment of handicapped people.
Dole was a major impetus in getting Congress to allocate $9 million of the $12 million needed for the building. The remaining $3 million was received from private donations.
Within the next year, ground is scheduled to be broken in
Overland Park for a new Regents Center and for the Lied Performing Arts Center, to be built on West Campus.
Plans call for the center to be built on 18 acres of donated land at 127th Street and Quivira Road in Johnson County. It will replace the current Regenta Center at 9900 S. Johnson Drive formerly an elementary school.
The $2,700 square foot building will contain 22 classrooms, six laboratories, a library, media center and office facilities. It also will be connected by satellite to the main campus in Lawrence.
A third of the $6 million needed for the construction of the center was approved by the state Senate April 15. The rest will be obtained from the University of Kansas Medical Center and the division of continuing education that will rent space in the new building. Students who attend classes at the center also will pay a special fee.
Wiechert said that the facility would be used by more than 1,600 students for upper division courses and graduate studies.
Construction of the Ernest F. Lied Performing Arts Center is scheduled to begin around the first of the year at 15th and Iowa streets, Wiechert said.
The Lied Foundation, of Las Vegas, Nev, donated $10 million of the $13 million needed for the project through Cmaign Kansas.
Campaign Lawrence, an effort by Lawrence businesses, KU alumni and Campaign Kansas organizers, will attempt to raise the remaining $3 million.
When completed, the 2,160-seat theater will have a main lobby, a grand staircase, courtyard, reception area, artists' lounges, administrative offices, a warm-up complex, a box office, and conference and dressing rooms.
Renovation of campus buildings also is playing a major role in the construction on campus.
The five-year renovation of Snow Hall will enter its final phase this fall. Work has been slowed because of asbestos removal.
A major reconstruction is currently underway at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall.
KJHK's adviser to be appointed
by Cory S. Anderson
Kansan staff writer
The end could be near in the search for a new adviser for KJHK, the KU student radio station.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism,
said Monday that an appointment
could be made within a couple of
days.
The search began in June after KU's radio and television faculty decided to change the job description length of appointment of the station adviser. Kautsch said 31 applications had been received.
The station adviser had been hired on a semester-to-semester basis. Under the new description, the job will run through the school year.
Kautsch said that in changing the job description an emphasis was placed on the applicant's ability to balance the roles of academic adviser and general manager.
Sam Elliott, former general manager, was not one of the applicants for the revised position and had no comment on his decision to leave the station. Elliott said he would miss the relationship he had with students but did not know if he would return to teaching.
"We hope the appointee will be able to reinforce the student management and encourage it to have more successes," Kautsch said. "Our main interest is in providing supervision and guidance through a highly qualified general manager."
In a June 13 memo to the KJHK
board, Kautsch wrote, "In recent
In accordance with University policy, when a job description or appointment length is changed, a search for applicants must be conducted, Kautsch said. The search includes advertising the position, accepting applications and interviewing the applicants.
Kautsch said the search began in response to problems the station was having.
"The station has a pretty long record of internal conflict and strife." Kautsch said. "There have been a variety of programs where the student station manager wasn't aware of what was going on the air or hadn't participated in the development of the programs."
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VVe hope the appointee will be able to reinforce the student management and encourage it to have more successes. Our main interest is in providing supervision and guidance through a highly qualified general manager.'
— Mike Kautsch journalism dean
years, turmilover KJHK has jeopardized its function as an academic laboratory and its ability to comply with federal licensing requirements."
Last year, the station was under investigation for possible violations of regulations concerning donor announcements and questions were raised about staff hiring practices.
Those factors prompted the faculty to adopt a statement of purpose for the station, which reaffirmed the station's function as an academic laboratory. Kautsch said.
In addition to changing the general manager job description, the statement also provided a graduate assistant for the general manager.
Bruce Rowley, program manager, said he thought the search would help the station.
"It's a strange job." Rowley said. "It's not a job where the person is at the station all the time."
Rowley, a member of the search committee, said the new manager should have a wide range of experience in all areas.
He said the appointee should have teaching experience and college radio, sales, management and promotional experience.
Kautsch said, "The managerial challenge has become extensive, and in the midst of all this the resources aren't any better than they were." Kautsch said, "What we've got is essentially a new general manager's job that comes out of a lot of study by the faculty."
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