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Thursday. February 15. 1979
University Daily Kansan
KU seeks funds for new hangar
Staff Reporter
By SHIRLEY SHOUP
Raising money for construction is the next obstacle facing KU officials in their effort to build a new hangar for the department of aerospace engineering.
The University's site plan for the hangar was approved by the city Tuesday and is subject to approval by the Federal Aviation Association.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that the University was conducting "exploratory talks" with potential project contributors.
He said that the University would not take wwlpctanprojeecs.
approach the Kansas Legislature for funds, but that the money would have to come from elsewhere.
Alton Thomas, University landscape architect and site planner, said the estimated cost of the 12,547 square-foot building was $307,378.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that the University had been working on developing the building plan, but it was not in keeping with the way for seeking funding for the bangar.
HE SAID construction dates would not be set until funding for the hanger had been
Vincent Muirhead, professor of aerospace engineering, said the new building would improve KU's aerospace program as well as the existing programs at other universities.
found, but he hoped the building would be ready for the fall semester.
City representatives said they liked the haneur plan.
"This won't cost us a thing," said Marnie Areersinger, city commissioner.
In addition to building a new hangar, the意境 plans to remove the older hangar and replace it with a larger, more functional hangar.
WIECHERT SAID the metal prefabricated building could be constructed with cast iron.
Most of the building will be devoted to aircraft housing and research. The aerospace department owns two airplanes, which are used for research, but it is unknown whether both would be housed in the new hangar.
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Wieckert had the University plane used by the chancellor would be kept in the new
According to Muirhead, the type of research conducted in the hangar will vary, but it will primarily be propulsion and flight testing.
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College guide catalogs often may be a high school senior's bible when it is time to search for the perfect college.
Staff Reporter
However, most of the information given in many of these catalogs is not based on a personal visit to the colleges and universities listed.
"Only one member of a company has ever been on the KU campus that I know of," said Linda Thompson, assistant director of admissions. "And he was here because he just happened to be on a tour of this part of the country."
A college guide that offers more than statistics, the Insider's Guide to the Colleges, compiled and edited by the College of Arts and Sciences, is a "traditionally sock-oriented school."
The guide says that KU fraternities and sororities are dominated by upper-middle-class students from Wichita and the Kansas City area and that KU works hard to attract foreign students. It also says that dating at the campus is not a requirement for Midwesterners know how to enjoy Lawrence's unpressured environment."
The guide, published annually, also says that at KU "an unhealthy high percentage of degrees continues to be required in our schools as education, business and commerce."
The Inseader's Guide also says KU has common problems of large universities such as "overly large classes, inadequate facilities and a high percentage of graduate students in the classroom."
According to Susan Zucker, secretary of the business department at the Yale Daily News, the information about KU Student Senate, member of KU Student Senate and administrators in the office of admissions and records.
"WHAT WE usually do is send a form letter, a type of questionnaire, to these people at every college or university." Zucker said Tuesday. "The colleges or universities then send the form back to us and we edit it."
According to Thompson, most college guide book companies send a copy of what was printed in the book the previous year. Ask her to ask her to information.
"The companies take their information straight from these fact sheets and they don't alter them," she said.
One traditional college guide used throughout the nation is Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, compiled by the division of Barron's Educational Series.
Brent McPall, management analyst for the city, said, "It's compatible with what the city wants. In a way, it will be an improvement to the airport, improve the appearance and make it more functional. It also result in increased use of the airport."
Elen Siley, sales coordinator for Barron's in Woodbury, N.Y., said "About every year and a half we will write to a teacher who has taken admissions and included a questionnaire."
The new hangar should improve KU's instruction in propulsion, which Muirhead said was "not good." Propulsion, dynamics of flight, aerodynamics and structure are taught in the aerospace engineering department.
"THE COLLEGE will then send back the updated questionnaire and we publish that information in our book. But the ever goes to visit the colleges personal."
Barron's Profiles of American Colleges includes brief information about KU's history, enrollment, programs of study, academic focus, expenses, admission and student life.
Baron's reports student life as "students who have a voice in college affairs through student government" and also that Baron's offers also says that the University offers students AM and FM radio stations and a fine own art and natural history museums.
Sibley said that Barron's ranked KU as "noncompetitive" educational institution based on the information from the department of admissions.
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The University owns two hangings at the Lawrence airport, but they are inadequate for research, he said. "One of them is about ready to fall down."
A sophomore coed honors society at the University of Kansas is now accepting applications for its 1978-79 membership. Freshmen may pick up an application form from the university's Student Affairs office.
If you have any questions, please inquire at the Office of Student Organizations and Activities.
Muirhead said the University had been planning the new hangar for two or three
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sooner, if I had it to do over again," Harper said.
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"Unfortunately I won't get to toss them the keys," he said.
Harper will be unable to congratulate his successors in person but will do so by telephone. He is in Houston until Sunday at the University of Student Conference on National Affairs.
"Everyone's always saying that people run for office because it looks good on their resumes. In a way, I'm glad to get out of this," he said, the only thing on my resume, "Harper said."
Robinson also looked forward to the free time he would have after today.
"At the beginning of the semester, I was really happy," he said.
"As it gets closer, it is kind of sad to be leaving."
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Pot . . .
Glover said support for lower penalties for possession increased every year.
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"The public is getting more educated about the health and law enforcement problems that may or may not exist because of marijuana use," he said.
Another reason the bill might pass, Glover said, was because it would simplify law enforcement.
He said 79 percent of all drug arrests in Kansas in 1977 had been for possession of marijuana.
"WE WASTE TOO much law enforcement time that way," he said. "We probably should concentrate more on prisons against people and property."
Glover said that if his bill became law the state would save the $600,000 a year that it enforced the current law.
"In addition, the fines collected by the new law would be used to finance a program to curb drug abuse," he said.
SUPPORT FOR THE kite at KU is coming from the University's representatives to the Associated University of Kansas, a student lobbying group.
Mike Harper, student body president,
said, "We have contacted several local
legislators to lobby for the bill."
Harper said ASK officials had encouraged almost every legislator in the state to sunflower Glover's bill.
Support for the bill encourages Glover, in spite of his past failure to legislate lower possession penalties.
"It will pass sometimes," he said. "It depends on how many people want to do away with an unreasonable penalty."
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