THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.89.No.73
Christmas hours, building schedules
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Study of classroom use resumed
Rv TIM SHEEHY
Nathan Kenorter
A nearly forgotten legislative audit that indicated some Kansas Board of Regents universities have too much classroom space and are not adequately staffed at State Sph. Northern Gaur, K-Westwood.
The audit, done by the Legislative Division of Post Audit in 1977, warned that two buildings set for construction at Regents schools were not needed and would be wasteful if built. By 1890, the audit said, campuses will have excess classroom space.
The Legislature has ignored the audit's recommendations and has committed more than $10 million to erecting the buildings: an office and classroom building at Fort Hays State University, and an education and training building at Emory State University.
TO FOLLOW up on the post audit report, Dave Barclay, administrative assistant to Gaar, has studied the use of classroom space at six of the Regents institutions this
His study consisted of spending two days at each of the schools: Fort Hays State, Emory University, State University, Wichita State University, and Pittsburgh State University. Barclay walked through every classroom building and gathered data about classroom use.
Barclay, who last year did a study of state construction that led to reorganization of the State Architect's office, also is planning to recruit professors use their assigned office space.
HOWEY, HE did say that, in general, he supported the finding of the post auditors that large universities such as KU used their space well, and that smaller schools, such as Pittsburgh State and Emporia State, were less efficient space users.
Because the data from his tours of the universities have not been fully analyzed, Barclay was reluctant to discuss his findings.
"Although the Regents were very critical of the auditor's report they were never able to statistically refute it," Barclay said. "I have not found anything to refute it either."
The audit report also compared the amount of space expected to be needed in 1980, considering declines in enrollment, and the amount of space that would be available based on current building projections. The report concluded that by 2015, most of the non-residential space at Regents schools would be potentially excessive.
Barclay he thought the Legislature voted to fund the new buildings because planning funds for the buildings had been appropriated.
"AS FAR as I am concerned the time to
heat the process of building a new structure
from recycled glass," Barclay said. "When this study is
completed, a legislator will be able to look at
classroom and office utilization at any
time and decide whether fund for more space."
"As I have walked all of the Regents institutions, I have seen very well utilized space at the larger institutions," Barclay said. "We have utilized space at some of the smaller schools."
A study done last year by a legislative task force also indicated that the Regents smaller institutions are less than efficient at using their space.
The study used national standards that
a classroom use 30 hours each week is
branched into five weekly blocks.
The state researchers studied the flow of students at six Regent schools and one private institution for a week to see whether they use measured up to the national standard.
THEIR FINDINGS indicated that classrooms at Pittsburgh State were used least efficiently, at an average of 20 hours a week. Classrooms at Fort Hays State were used most efficiently for 27 hours a week, emulation State 25, Kansas State and Wichita State 30, and KU 35.
Barclay has used the same national standards to judge classroom use during his presidency.
"The mere fact that a school like KU can
average 30 hours or so shows that the standard is not all that hard to meet.
Planning directors at Emporia State, Fort Hays State and Pittsburgh State repudiated the findings of both the post audit study and the task force study, saying they were purely statistical and did not tell the whole story.
In reference to the post audit's recommendation that a new education and psychology building was not needed at State Director of facilities, the State Director of facilities planning, said other buildings on the campus would not be maintained and therefore the building was needed.
"IT IS a difference of views as to whether you think a college should be run like a factory or like an educational institution," Barnhart said.
Barclay offered several explanations as to why there was a disparity in how the schools used their space. He said the multitude of enrollment projections clouded how much the schools were justified in asking for. He also said the scheduling of classes and the attitudes of some faculty members added to the problem.
"In some of the schools there is almost a turf mentality" Barclay said. "Professors think they have to classes in the same building as their office, departments think
they should have their own building, and they don't need to. At Wichta, the professors walk all over campus and the system works fine."
Barclay said he expected his study to be done by Jan. 15 and to be the most comprehensive to date. It will identify surplus space and tie that information to requests for additional space so that the Legislature does not fund unneeded classrooms.
Barley said he also planned to send a copy of his final report to the Regents for approval.
"Publishing this report will serve as a warning to the Regents that before they request money for more classrooms they better be sure it is needed," Barclay said.
Terry Asia prepares to pack up one of the remaining puppets of the discontinued Puppet Theatre in his studio at 624 New Hamp-
Old friends
brist St. Asia was director the three-year program and made
most of the puppets for the show, which was discontinued Nov. 22.
Report awaited on Green Hall
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Renorter
A proposal recommending ways to correct structural and appearance problems of concrete panels on the exterior of KU's Green Hall is expected in month 1, according to Allen Wiechert, KU director of facilities planning.
Wiechert said yesterday that the recommendation would be given to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes for his consideration.
Pre-cast panels that make up the outer surface of the building have been a problem since the building was constructed in 1977.
Wiechert said he could not estimate how much money had been spent so far in the effort to determine the best way to improve Green Hall's appearance, the cracks in its concrete and the structural deficiencies of the panels.
However, Brad Smooth, attorney for the state Department of Administration, recently estimated that $10,000 of Kansas tax revenue went on the Green Hall panel investigation.
IN ADDITION, he said, money has been spent on legal fees and time has been taken away from other projects.
Recently, Wieicher, Smoot and Warren Corman, facilities officer for the Kansas Board of Regents, traveled to Hartford, Conn., to look at products that might solve the appearance problems of the panels.
Smoot said, "You've got to figure out
"We don't want half the building when we're done. We want the building we paid for."
whether the products will satisfy the University and whether they will provide longevity for the canals.
ONE PRODUCT is an appy concrete surface material. If applied, it would improve only the appearance of the building and would seal cracks in the panels. It would not solve the building's structural problems. Wiechert said
The $-million structure was built by Casson Construction Co. of Topeka, Wiechert said that the contractor had cooperated with the investigation and had agreed that would go along with the recommendation and correct the building's deficiencies.
Wiechert said KU would try to find the products they saw in Connecticut at dealers closer to Lawrence.
Before the first of the year, Wiechert said, he hopes answers to the structural problems will be found so that a recommendation can be made.
After a proposal is approved by Dykes and John Conard, executive officer of the Regents, it would be given to Casson for implementation, Wiechert said.
If the contractor does not take care of the building's deficiencies, the problem could end up in court, he said.
Smooth said, "We're getting closer and all the time to a solution. We want the University to take the lead on this." We listened with distilled with the building after it is fixed."
Motion to eliminate surcharge postponed
By BARB KOENIG Staff Reporter
Members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Advisory Board last night postponed a motion that proposed a $250,000 in 1980, of a student ticket surcharge.
Mike Harper, student body president and a member of the board, proposed a resolution that would automatically eliminate a $5 surcharge on football season tickets and a $4 surcharge on basketball tickets. The student ticket would be left for the board to decide each year at its annual spring budget meeting.
"My main objection is that from the students' point of view, I don't feel we were aware that the surcharge of the ticket would be $". "Harper said."
The total of $8 for each student season ticket is being used to pay off the two tuition fees.
"I don't like the idea of the corporation committing $5 of student funds to the new school."
A new surcharge of $3 was added this year to make a total surcharge of $4 for student
The additional surcharge for football of 50 cents a student season ticket a game and $1 a public season ticket game was imposed in the stadium finance a $1.8 million stadium renovation.
The 1986 SURCHARGE<sub>E</sub>, imposed to help KUAC finance a student addition to the east side of Memorial Stadium, was scheduled for review when a $355,000 loan for the project expired in 1880. The surcharge has not been reviewed.
Richard Von Ende, University executive secretary, moved that Harper's motion be postponed because he said a more complete review of the terms of the 1978 loan
agreement with the University of Kansas Endowment Association was needed.
VON ENDE ALSO wanted the KUAC executive committee to meet with officers of the Endowment Association to discuss financial commitments for the new renovation.
According to minutes of the Dec. 18, 1977, KUAC board meeting, the advisory board voted that money generated from the 1966 loan was used to the new loan after the 1966 loan expired.
Von Ende said he thought all information concerning the terms of the Endowment Association loan should be put into one package so that board members would fully understand the terms before voting on Harper's proposal.
HARPER And Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, were appointed to assist the KUAC executive committee in reviewing the terms of the loan agreements. The findings will be presented and a meeting of the board. A date has not been set.
Laura Smith, chairman of the Athletic Seating Board, asked that the number of available student seats for basketball be re-evaluated. There were 160 more student tickets available in 1975 than have been sold this year.
Smith said she had received several phone calls from students who complained because there were no more season tickets available.
"I think their complaints are valid and we should do something about them," Smith
Bob Marcum, men's athletics director,
said he would meet soon with the seating
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The board also discussed salaries for assistant coaches but the meeting was closed to the press by Del Brinkman, Dean of Journalism and chairman of the board.
Godfather 'Papa Joe' rules Kan. county
He's 74 years old. A boulevard and an overpass are named after him. A plaque on his office wall from the墙 Democratic Party calls him "A Living Legend, a man of famous U.S. politicians and him hamming it up."
There's a fat old man in southeast Kansas who accidentally got into politics and became a living
D. "J. Papa Joe" Saia, Frontenac, a Crawford County Commission since 1938, already had one hound and two dogs.
His education, political success, antics and hobbies attract attention. He's the boss of southeast Kannas
Sela earned the name "Papa Joe" from the manner in which he put county funds to use. He taken
IT IS RUMORED that Saia has Mafia connections but that only ticks Saia.
"About the time Aiupa was on trial a reporter from Arkansas came to ask me about my connections with the Mafia. Hell, we were just about finished talkin' and some guy drops in and says 'Hiya, Papa Joe,' and the reporter took that to mean the wrong thing," Sala says.
He says the rumors started in the early 1960s when a reputed mug figure from Chicago, Joe Auppa, was thrown off the street.
Sala says Aiupua was "a very well-behaved man" and that he wouldn't be ashamed to be associated with the group.
"I'm not a member of Mafia na, or I never have been," he says. "People think those mob guys go around killin' people and hurtin' people. Well, my wife has had an affair with anyone who wants to join. I don't turn one a way."
Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general, knows
Sata about as well as anyone. Sata was Schneider's campaiz co-chairman.
**SNHEIDER SAVS** Sain sometimes gets in an emery mood and starts up with the Mafia act when she is called.
He said it was Sala's speech and manner that had led to the godfather image.
"You ever heard Joe give a speech?" Schneider asked. "You ought to hear him. He's always using the wrong words and we're sitting there holding our hands. We've fired up because he believes in his 'saving.'"
It was Saia's beliefs that landed him in politics in 1935.
Saia says he ran for mayor of Frontenace because "I saw how the town people were being cheated and I was stunned."
He lost the election despite promising people free water, electricity and a completely new police force.
But that was the only election he lost until this November, when he ran for state representative.
CRAWFORD COUNTY fails into the state's Fourth Legislative District. But Sala's campaign area stretched onto foreign land, and he lost the election to Senator John D. Conway, a dairy farmer, by about a two-to-one margin.
Beeley said he was surprised that he beat Sai, who sources close to Beeley say they were all along with him.
On a Friday night recently, an univertified reporter stopped by Sai'a's home in Frontenaca to find out
Saia credit benefits with waging a smart campanage against Saia's bid. Others say that Saia's campaign is ineffective.
Salaaya says of the defeat, "It's either a message that on the way down or that these people don't want it."
why his backers wouldn't let him go, if in fact they wouldn't.
Frontenca, near Pittsburgh, is a town about the size of Eudora. Finding Sala's home was easy. Probably everyone in Crawford County knows where "Papa Joe" lives.
A SIGN IN his front yard directs all visitors to the "office in back."
Saira greets his visitors personally. Not all legends took alike. Saira is dark complaceted, has a gray hair and a big nose.
He wasn't eager to talk about politics. Instead he wanted to tour his garden, sausage-making operation and go fishing.
Apparently, Sala lives simply, made mysterious only by his dedication to his beliefs and power to success.
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