Wednesday, August 23, 1978
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Union changes to serve students
By BRAD H. HAMILTON
Staff Writer
The Kansas Union provides a broad range of services to students in an atmosphere
According to Frank Burge, union leader for 26 years, the Union is geared toward wall-to-wall penetration.
"The prime reason we're here is to serve students in the manner in which they need to be."
"Through the use of the Union you got served the way you want to be served whether it's text books, food, refreshments, bowling or whatever."
Service is indeed available in the main lounge of the Union. On the east wall are areas for handling postage, a concession stand-in information counter, a check cashing service, a travel service and an automatic banking teller.
A student may watch television in the Traditions Room or relax in the music and browsing rooms. On the south side of the building, there is a library and the Student Union Activities offices.
THE NORTH side contains the Governor's room, the Forum Room, the Alumni Association offices and the administration area. The office area was completed in 1976 and a similar renovation of the bookstore was completed this summer. According to Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, the bookstore has recently undergone renovation.
Warner said that the north end of the top floor of the bookstore which carries notebooks, paper, general school supplies and gifts had been completely remodeled.
The Union, originally completed in 1927, was an 80-by-153-foot structure that stood
The original idea for the Union came from a committee appointed by Chancellor Frank Schoenberg.
KU men and women who died in World War!
SINCE THE building was completed in 1927 four additions have more than doubled its size. The first addition, which was a single wing for $2 million, added north and south wings.
A $1.25 million addition in 1957 added a story-and an extension the building to 13th street.
In 1965 student office and bookstore space were added. In 1968 the tunnel from the school to the library was built.
According to Burge, much of the renovation was a result of a survey conducted by a volunteer every year. Burge said this was in accordance with the principle of response administration that
Burge said that the advantage of the Kansas Union was its completeness which enhances its ability to offer service to almost anyone.
STUDENTS WHO don't want to take the time to go home between classes or drive all over town to cash a check go to the Union, he said.
"We have a complete student service center," Burge said. "People like to have a place to grab a snack and study or meet friends and that's what the Union is."
Burge said a student could save a great deal of time because he can do so much in less than an hour.
The Union, which he said is used by about 12,000 people a day has 35 rooms available.
The ballroom may be combined with the Big Eight room and the Jayhawk room to host a dance.
Other rooms include English, Curry,
Watkins and Centennial, which are
historically decorated and Woodruff
Auditorium which has seating for 536.
In addition to conference rooms, the Union has three restaurants. On level three is a coffee shop, and on level five is a restaurant.
lunch. The caterer also houses the Deli and the River City Salad Bar.
ON LEVEL 20 is the Hawk's Nest, with self service food and beer and dancing on football game days. Also on level two are the room snack bar and the Prairie Room restaurant.
The SUA, which is the program department of the Union, provides a wide range of services.
SUA is a group of thirteen students and four officers. They control nine different departments and each department has its own decision making committee. SUA operates on a half-million dollar annual budget.
The film department of the SUA show more than 250 fantasy, horror, SciFi and classical films a year. Its indoor recreation department sponsors the Quarterback Club, tournaments in chess, bridge, foosball and other games.
The SUA fine arts department sponsors a poets and writers series, dance performances and many other fine arts projects.
SUA ALSO SPONSORS special events concerts, some free classes and conferences
The size of the Union and the amount of offerings can be confusing. The Union staff has tried ease the confusion in many ways. Floor directories are hung in bright orange throughout the building and daily schedules of events are posted on the doors.
In addition, there is a closed circuit television in the north-west corner of the main lounge which broadcasts the day's weather. The TV can be mounted in the lounge can answer most questions.
SUA also sponsors a public relations workshop to help familiarize students with the SUA logo.
The total operating budget for the Union is about $7.5 million and comes from student fees, sales and rentals of rooms and equipment and services.
Many freshmen lack food sense
Staff Writer
By DEBBIE EIFFERT
Eating in a residence hall cafeteria is no picnic
It's an eating style that is very different and overwhelming for freshmen, according to Lucille McMahon, food supervisor and dietitian for the university food services.
"It's a traumatic experience for freshmen to be eating with many people for the first time," he said.
Mrs. McMahon, who is in charge of preparing three meals daily for approximately 700 women at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Residence Hall, is concerned that freshmen aren't educated about eating cafeteria-style.
if she chooses her food right, there's a meal at each serving for the woman who is overweight.
She said that after three years as a food supervisor at GSP-Corbin, she has become concerned that the women there don't know how to choose the foods that are right for them.
However, about half of the women in the hall gain weight during the first semester.
She said that the variety of food so readily available makes it difficult to choose.
"THEY DON'T know that there are 120 calories in each glass of that orange juice, and that's the amount of cheese has 400 calories," she said. "Girls who think they are dieting will take fruit yogurt, but it has 280 calories while the girl in the container of plain yogurt has 140 calories."
"We use one and a half to two 30-pound tubs of peanut butter a week."
"They'll take four packages of crackers each, or two hard rolls," she said. "On top of that, they eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."
She sees women standing in line for dinner with soft drinks and ice cream bars from the restaurant.
The favorite dishes are pizza, lasagna and tacos, the things they are used to getting at
'WE WANT TO try to run a series of routines on how many calories are in each entrainment.
Diner is served from two serving lines in a dinner room with 54 tables from 5 to 10 p.m. Lunch meal hours are from 10:45 a.m. to 14:30 a.m, and hot breakfasts are from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m.
For those women who like to sleep past 8 in the morning, she said, "bread and spread" is provided. This includes toast and bread, butter, dairy, dry cereal, milk and orange juice.
Other special services, Mrs. McMahon said, include sack lunches, which may be picked up between 6:30 and 9 a.m., trays of cookies, plates of mashed potatoes, and plates for students who miss their meals. Although the procedures for arranging these services may vary, all residence halls provide them. In most cases they call the cafeteria office or the main desk.
Mrs. McMahon serves approximately 450
week breakfast on an average weekday,
21 hours a day.
and has almost 600 for lunch, and at least 60)
for dinner.
SHE SAID that her weekly grocery list includes 150 dozen eggs. She orders meat weekly, including beef, pork and chicken months. Bread and milk are delivered five days a week, unless heavy snow prevents
"But even if they had to fly me in by helicopter, I'd get there something," she said.
In case of emergency there enough food in the stockroom to last 24 hours. Mrs.
"The girls have to eat."
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Loneliness
GSP-Corbin, said she realized that a lot of the residents are from Shawnee Mission schools and from the greater City City objects to some of the residents' behavior.
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"The RA staff noticed that there tended to be cliques and that's really not what a team wants."
Some students who came from small towns and who lived in GSP-Corbin during their first year said they would have liked to have known in advance that a lot of the hall's residents were from Kansas City and were society-oriented.
There is an information booklet, Residence Hall Living, which is sent out with the residence hall contract and lists the different hall locations and facilities.
BUT OFFICIALS at the dean of women's office did not know whether it would be a good idea to advertise what kind of people generally lived in GSP-Corbin.
"I think it could be very discriminatory." Carvi Smith, dean of student life, said.
And, she said, maybe by the time GSP-Corbin is advertised in informational booklets as housing Kansas City women it will not be true anymore.
"Residence hall preferences are somewhat faddish," Smith said.
The same figures show that 285 participants in rush were women from large Kansas cities. That category compries Kansas City, Kan., Leavenworth, Lawrence, Hutchinson, Topeka, Wichita and Johnson County.
However, she doa think that the complaints should generate improvements in
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Although a number of students complained about the atmosphere at GSP-Corbin, not all small-town women who lived there were unhappy.
Smith also said that one of the reasons there was a greater percentage of sorority-oriented students at GSP-Corbin was that the residents were mostly freshmen. They were also some sophomores. These facts are specified in the residence hall contract.
For her adjusting to big-city people was easy. She says she felt equal to them.
ACCORDING TO spring, 1977 figures from the office of the dean of student life, 331 women from GSP-Corbian participated in the sorority membership rush out of a total number of 446 rush participants. That is about 71 percent.
Liz Penner, imminent junior, is one of those who was happy. Maybe having her sister here and not being too homey helped in. She also made a lot of people during her freshman year.
"I'd talk to everybody," she said. "I was used to talking to everybody at home and knowing everybody at home. I was very outgoing."
But for the majority of the newcomers from small Kansas towns, Lawrence appeared to be a hostile and unfamiliar place. And many people who were not used to towns the size of Lawrence confined themselves to their rooms.
MEREDITH HEINEN, Cawker senior; says she met a lot of people.
"My whole first year I didn't know where
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