Gym addition to check HPER overflow
By BILL BUZBEE
Staff Reporter
Health, physical education and recreation courses at KU are reputedly the first to fill up at enrollment, but the $6.7-million Robinson Gymnasium addition may change that.
With completion expected in January 1980, the 101,000-square-foot addition will more than double the size of the project.
"It will provide opportunity for a greater percentage of students to take skill and personal development courses." Wayne Osness, HPER department chairman, said yesterday.
According to Owenss, increases in enrollment and interest in personal skill courses have placed a heavy
"With the new addition, we'll have the facilities to handle our needs," he said.
INCLUDED IN the state-funded addition will be four gymnasiums, one 28-meter swimming pool, 12 courts for handball and racquetball courts, five courts for basketball, and two archery, golf and tennis three locker rooms.
Onessa said more than 50 percent of the HPER
classees were filled during the first day of enrolment
Although designed to be primarily an educational facility, the addition will have considerable impact on the quality of instruction.
According to Richard Maher, director of intramurals, the addition will provide some relief for athletes.
"It is an educational facility," he said, "so classes will have first priority. I like to think that we will be able to stretch our hours, but other people are looking behind in activity classes, which are really crowded."
Marcks said the new addition would help out by giving the program two courts for basketball, but added that he could not reserve any part of the addition for intramural games.
MARKS SAID he expected to be able to expand open hours for some sports, such as handball and racquetta, but that others, such as swimming, might not be affected.
It costs money to keep lifeguards in the pool," he said. "Along with demand for something, you have to make sure they are safe."
Marcks said although the intramural program would get only restricted access to the new addition, it would not be restricted to any other location.
"Before, we have had to give up time for higher priorities," he said. "But with the new facilities we are able to improve."
We're certainly getting a good deal out of us.
But we don't really think the University is getting too much of a good deal out of us.
Funding for the Robinson addition was approved by the Kansas Legislature in spring 1977, and ground-
work began in October 1978.
K-State is preparing to accept bids on a $3.14-
mile course that will include bandball and raccetball court, a gym,
workout rooms with weights and combative rooms.
The recreation center will cost each student $12 a
month.
OSNESS, HOWEVER, defended the addition's educational billing.
"Some people have said that we should have added the minimum number of classrooms to the recreation center so we could call it an educational facility and set state funding." Brownback said.
"It is important to understand that the addition is educational in nature," he said. "Although the building will be used for intramurals when there are not enough buildings we have built if it were not educational in nature."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Tuesday, November 7. 1978
Lawrence, Kansas
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Election official readies his staff for today's vote
By BILL HIGGINS
Staff Renorter
Delbert Mathia's friendly, high-pitched voice bounced around the mostly barren basement of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center yesterday as he and his employees prepared for today's election.
Mathia, county clerk, is responsible for running the election. Because of that, his is the last county office left in temporary quarters in the Law Enforcement Center.
The other offices moved to the newly remodeled Douglas County Courthouse last summer.
Matia entertains his workers by talking to himself out loud, giving bits of advice and instruction. The mood yesterday was light because most of the election work was done.
"MOST PEOPLE don't realize that by election day, my job is really finished," he said. "Oh, sure, we come in and answer the telephone and count vote totals, but the biggest part of the job is organizing and preparing for the election."
Mathie expects an election with an average voter turnout and an early vote
"If ever there was a middle-of-the-roader, this election is it," he said. "It's an off-presidential year. Telephone calls, absentee ballots and every other indication points to a middle-of-the-road election. I don't think the election will make that much difference."
"If we get 20,000 votes, it wouldn't be bad."
Mathia, 59, has been the Douglas County clerk since 1854, when he won the elected position with more than 60 percent of the vote.
"I'm not sure whether I'll run again," he said. "I will denote on personal factors."
ALTHOUGH MATHEA has run unproposed in each of the 11 elections since 1964, this was not enough to win.
From his 24 years as county clerk, he has a perfect record for holding uncontested
Ballot boxes and voting booths were set up by Gilbert Gilges in the Township Hall in Worden, Gilges, treasurer of the township, prepared the building for today's voters. Polls in Lawrence will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Today, the county's 35,445 registered voters will test the poll workers again for twelve hours, starting at 7 a.m. However, Mathia's job will be before that.
"At six in the morning, we'll start to get the poll workers rolled," he said. "There are always poll workers who don't show up and they have to be replaced."
"THEY, FOR THE REST of the day,
give you every two seconds—people
asking where they are."
"We'll make the vote abstracts available but we will be barricaded in back here."
Mathia said he hoped to have the counting finished by midnight.
IN 1976, the length of term for elected county officials was increased from two to four years, so this year's ballot will vote to seat, the 1st District county commissioner's.
K.JHK will return to press box
KJHF-MF, a student-operated radio station, will have a permanent place in the Memorial Stadium press box to broadcast KU football games next year. Bob Marcum,
The University-owned station was asked to leave its usual position on level seven of the press box for the KU-Iowa State game, Oct. 28, because visiting businessmen and Iowa radio stations caused a space problem, to Don Baker, sports information director.
the first station to be moved, Baker said yesterday.
The station was forced to broadcast both the Iowa State and Nehrukas games from Florida.
Because KJKH does not pay rights fees—a $30 charge radio stations pay the athletic department to use.
"THERE are very few press boxes in the country that could handle what we have to do."
Baker said Marcum suggested a system of priorities to reduce the possibility of KJHK getting bumped from the press box in the future.
According to Big Eight Conference rules, each school must reserve a space for the designated sports network of the visiting school.
Marcum said the KU Sports Network would have top priority, the officially named network.
would have second priority and KJHK would have third priority.
However, finding a permanent space for KJIKH does not allocate all the athletic space available.
"The problem is the number of radio stations that we are trying to accommodate," Marcus said. "We'll just have to try the best we can with them."
Polls open across county
The polls will be open today from 7 a. m. to 7 p.m. About 20,000 of the 35,000 registered voters in Douglas County are expected to vote.
For information about which precinct you should vote in, call 841-700 and ask for the county clerk's office. Follingsgate High School - KU campus
Allen Field House - KU campus
American Legion Building - 3408 W. Sixth St.(842-3415)
Babcock Place - 1700 Massachusetts St.(842-8538)
Centennial School - 2145 Louisiana St.(843-6101)
Central Junior High - 1400 Massachusetts St.(843-6500)
Central United Methodist Church - 1400 Massachusetts St.(843-7006)
(845-1067)
City Library - 707 Vermont Street. (843-3833)
Community Building - 115 W. 11th St. (843-7122)
Cordley School - 1887 Vermont Street. (843-1251)
Douerdief School - 101 N. Lawrence Ave. (842-6416)
Douerdief County State Bank - Ninth and Kentucky streets. (843-
7274)
East Heights School-1430 Haskell Ave. (843-8268)
East Heights School - 1430 Haskell Ave. (843-6268)
Hillcrest School - 1043 Hill Drive (843-6279)
Indiana School - East 23rd St. (843-7867)
Hudson Valley High School - Appalachian streets (841-7500)
Kennedy School - 1655 Davis Road (842-1323)
Lawrence High School Administration Center - 2017 Louisiana St.
(842-6222)
National Guard Armory—200 Iowa St.
National Quince Archway - 260 W. 5th St.
New York School - (843-1426)
Pinehurst School - 410 W. 5th St. (843-4622)
First Presbyterian Church - 2415 W. 3rd St. (843-4171)
Rusty's South 23rd and Louisiana streets (843-6588)
Schweyler School - 2201 Oudahl Road (842-0373)
South Junior High School - 2734 Louisiana Street (842-5160)
Sunset School - 901 Schwarz路 (843-4323)
Valleyview Care Home - 2184 Ridge Court (843-2621)
West Juniper School - 2900 Ridge Court (841-4109)
West Junior High School - 2700 Harvard Road (843-4772)
Woodland School - 508 Elm St. (843-4686)
ALTHOUGH BOTH the athletic department and KJHK were unhappy about KJHK being moved, both parties said they were pleased with the new agreement.
"I think it's unfortunate that pressure was placed upon the athletic department, but I think the right decision was made," Steve Doevk, JKH station manager, said.
"Now we have an agreement that we won't have to do that again, and I'm satisfied. The resolution is greatly appreciated by the station."
Bill Tencza, KJHK sports director, said, "I like the idea of an athletic director who comes down to the students and is very humble about the whole thing. It was
taker said. "We are just as unhappy
bearer of it. Is the Situation will never come up again."
KJHk will not have to pay rights fees, Baker said, even though the station now has a high spot on the priority list of available spaces.
"We could charge them if we so desired, and the reason we do not is because they are too large."
Sleepless students use caffeine, conversation
Staff Reporter
By MARY ERNST Staff Reporter
It's midnight and they're just beginning to get going.
They do it everywhere--residuaries, Marvin Hull stadium, residence hall cafeterias, church basements, the law office, laundromats, art studios anywhere.
They are students who by preference or necessity have left their homes to study into the early morning hours.
The reasons for being awake at 3 or 4 a.m. vary, but most of the late-nighters have developed skills to help keep them awake. They say substances that contain caffeine, such as No-Doze, Vivarn and large amounts of coffee and tea, hard work and just friendly conversation are the secrets to late-night studying.
"Prices have gone way up on all of the caffeine alkaloids," Gleason said. "But if even they were all the same price, I would never have to make it don't make me feel as sick as No-Doze."
Gleeson was studying at 1 a.m. one Friday at the Independent Co-op, an event that Gleeson attended and said he liked Caffeine because it was the best pill containing caffeine he could get
"I If I think we want to stay up, I take a couple of Vivian." John Gleason, Oettinger, and I would have been for quite a few years. They keep you awake, and I just get used to taking
Although he drinks tea, Gleason said, he never drinks coffee to get the caffeine to keep him awake.
"But there's been caffeine junkies throughout history," he said. "Look at the British tea tax and the Boston Tea Party. It was a way for our staff to set zoom in the morning too."
DENNY DORAN, Lawrence graduate student in fine arts, had a lot of help from his friends and helped him stay awake during the many nights he worked on his paintings in the city.
Doran said he worked about 11 hours a day in the art building, and some weeks he averaged only two or three hours of sleep a night.
"I like to work at night and I always been a late-nighter," he said. "During the day more people sift in and out, and a lot of undergirls come in and ask about
Doran, like Gleason, thinks that some form of caffeine helps him maintain the type of schedule he has.
"I drink huge amounts of coffee—
maybe 10 to 30 cups each day," he said.
Everyone has his own system and ways
of shopping. I just happen to do it at a nighttable.
MOST NIGHTS, there are not many people in the art building, Doran said, making his time more productive, but not necessarily more creative.
Sambo's, 1511 W. 23rd St., has become popular over the years as both a good
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