Wednesday, August 25, 1978
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Allen Wiechert
University Daily Kansan
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New planning boss sees smaller projects
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After serving for 10 years as University architect and associate director of facilities planning, Allen L. Wiechert took over the Director's Office of Facilities Planning on Aug. 1.
Wiechert had been interim director since July 17, following the resignation of former district attorney Michael K. Browne.
Laura will return to teaching in the School of Architecture and Urban Design this fall.
Wiechert said Monday that although he had become director at a time when more than 50 building and remodeling projects were under way on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses, the transition from Lucas to himself had gone smoothly.
"We've had a very busy summer," Weichert said. "There have been more people on campus than before. And it was a lot easier for me than it would have been for someone from outside of Lawrence, because I was familiar with most of the staff." Those who are involved in the planning process.
The number and types of projects that were under way this summer are an indication of what will be needed in the years ahead, he said.
HE SAID his main goal—and the main goal of the Office of Facilities Planning—to ensure that the school is safe.
Because the enrolment in colleges and universities is leveling off or declining all over, he said, "We have new facilities," he said. "There will be fewer and fewer projects as we have seen."
But, he said, although there will be fewer big projects, there will be many more small projects, such as maintenance and remodeling. There also will be projects to save energy and projects that will meet the requirements of applications, such as those for the handicapped.
Much money, he said, is being spent not only on energy projects such as replacing windows and insulating roofs, but also on systems that will improve the older buildings.
"The NEW COMPUTATION Center, which will be opening this fall, is one of the finest buildings that has been built recently." Weichert said. "It has all of the things that we're looking for—energy efficient, intelligent and equipped for the bandcapped."
Gymnasium addition, scheduled to open in the spring of 1808, and the $11.5-million Malot addition, also scheduled to open in the spring of 1809.
The Maltot addition probably will be the issue of KU's major projects for the next few years.
Other large projects in the works this summer are the $2.5-million Satellite Union, which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 1979: the $6.7-million Robinson
The shift in emphasis from large to small will not mean less work for Wiechert. In fact, he said, it could mean more work for facilities planning.
"Those smaller projects sometimes take a lot more work than one or two of the big ones."
WIECHER, A 1982 graduate of architecture from Kansas State University, had helped plan facilities at colleges and universities before he came to KU in 1988.
"I was working for a private firm in Kansas City, Md., and we were doing some work for the Missouri university system," he said. "That's where I developed an interest in computer science, and I thought that if I ever had a chance to work with a university I would take it."
The KU Marching Band will be seated higher in Memorial Stadium during football games this season to avoid blocking the vision of students behind the band.
The Student Senate Seating Committee voted yesterday to move the band to the top of sections 38 and 39. Students will be seated below the band.
Marching band's seating moved
Previously, the band was seated at the bottom of sections 38 and 39.
Ron Allen, committee chairman, said yesterday that the action came after several band members requested last year that the band be moved to higher
seats so they would no longer block the vision of students sitting behind the band.
Allen said it was difficult for students behind the band to see, especially when the band stood up after touchdowns and during timeouts at football games.
Dou Messler, assistant men's athletic director and advisory member on the committee, said that Robert Foster, director of the band, had approved the band's rehearsal schedule more people would hear the band better in the new seating arrangement.
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County seeks past sheriff as witness
PARSONS (AP) -The former Labette County sheriff, D. Carl. C. Lock, will be called a witness at next Tuesday's inquishment of her sheriff's office-if authorities can find him.
But Cloke, who resigned his job last week after leaving the post for several weeks without explanation, has not told anybody where he is living.
GRAY SAID he also would subpoena members of a committee who led a petition drive for Cloke's recall. The committee also has submitted petitions asking for a grand jury investigation of the sheriff's department and other county offices.
County Attorney Charles S. Gray said yesterday that Cloke and three persons suggested as candidates to inherit his badge because he was not sure about possible wrongdoing in the office.
"Everything that has come out from the committee has been hearsay. There have no facts . . . Let's either prove our allegations or just douse them." Grave said.
BRINGLE IS one of three persons who Gray said had been mentioned as Cloke's successors. Another candidate, Leo Frederick, is on the committee that sought Cloke's removal and circulated the grand jury petitions, Gray said.
CLOKE BECAME the center of controversy this year after he offered his resignation and took it back. The effort to recall him began after he left the job and stayed in touch with his office only through occasional telephone calls.
Gray said that although he had formed no conclusions, he thought the inquisition and a grand jury probe would show that an investigation had taken place in the sheriff's office.
undersheriff Tom Bringle said then that he thought Cloke, who recently had been divorced and had filed for bankruptcy, was trying to straighten out his personal life.
Under Kansas law, Cloke's successor must be appointed by Gov. Robert F. Robert F.
The third candidate whom Gray mentioned was Mike Womeldorf. former United States senator.
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