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Thursday, December 6, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Senate Advises Tartan Floor Plan
By JILL WILLIIS
Kansas Staff Reporter
The Student Senate voted 52-7 last night to recommend that the University of Kansas athletic department receive $180,000 to install a Tartan floor at Allen Field House.
Clyde Walker, athletic director, said Allep Field House was a disrucer to KU.
'1 estimate that it would cost half a million dollars to get the field house in the city.'
re said the door now consisted of $44,000
feet of dirt.
"We have to spend thousands of dollars a year just to keep the dust down," he said. Walker said the wood floor used in basketball games was "dead" in a lot of spots.
"The floor could fall down before this season is over," he said. "If we don't get a new floor on, the field house, we might not be able to play." And you can raise money to get a new floor."
WALKER SAID the project would take approximately four months.
The improvements in the field house would include the construction of a six-lane track, a basketball court, two practice courts at the ends of the basketball court, 10
basketball goals, volleyball courts and badminton courts.
Walker said the installation of the floor would require new automated bleachers.
The $180,000 was in a fund earmarked for the improvement of recreational facilities. The money had originally been collected from student activity fees before 1966.
"If we're going to do a project, we're going to do it right. In 55 seconds we will be able to win the basketball arena to a multi-purpose area," with the automated bleachers, he) said.
Walker said tractors and several men were now needed to move the bleachers.
"IF THINGS REMAIN the way they are, we won't have anything but a place to practice basketball and run the track," he said.
Walker said the new floor would be adaptable to concerts and convocations,
He estimated the total cost of the improvements to be about $300,000.
"I've stuck my neck out to the point that I can we get this money for the beginning, I'll go back," she said.
Walker said he planned to raise the
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them in the Jayhawker about 10 years ago," Nichols said.
At least two ads for Pacachamac appeared in the Jayhawk recently. The first appeared in 1984. The second was almost identical to the first and was published in
"The Society of Pachacamac," the ads said, "although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in life and lifelong education." Kansas. Pachacamac isn't an organization that exerts its power through coercion or force, but instead is a society which, because of the quality of its memorials, is able to realize through influence and persuasion.
The ads said Pachacamac had disappeared as a political party in 1854.
is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics, the society divorced itself and its people.
Identities of society members are kept secret, the ads said, because "a group free from outside pressures is more likely to attain its goals than one influenced by the external, and often personal, motives of others."
The society's seal, depicting a sunrise over mountains with an oblivion in the background, has been a symbol of the region.
One former Pachacamac member has said that former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. also was a member of the secret society, but Nichols disagreed.
"I couldn't at all conceive of his being a member, much less ever attending any of its meetings." Nichols said. "This is a student organization, and it belongs to the school district and to administration; it don't belong, and I wouldn't join even if I were invited."
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would be good to have someone on campus to make internal decisions.
Keith L. Nicher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said the need for the chancellor to communicate with people throughout the state was so large that one individual couldn't attend to these duties effectively.
Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed that the change was appropriate.
I PRESUME the issue of having someone to be on campus to make decisions might be a problem.
William M. Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that the chancellor was the one who should communicate with outstate people and that someone was needed on campus who could act directly and make decisions.
"I think it's a splendid idea," Balfour said. "The job of the chancellor has to have this kind of position. Mr. Nichols has done a job. Unfortunately, he has to retire."
William J. Argersinger Jr., vice-chair for research administration, said the administrative job at the University had required a degree of need for a number two administrative post.
William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs at the Medical Center, was unhappy with the decision.
Members of the search committee to fill the position are Nichols; James Seaver, professor of history and chairman of the Senate Executive Committee; Beverlee Anderson, assistant professor of business and member of the affirmative action
board; Don Green, assistant professor of human development and chairman of the minority affairs advisory board; and Mert Wichta senior, student body president.
SEAVER SAID last night that he thought the committee should try to select someone with knowledge of the University and its personnel. The ability of someone to work well with Dykes should also be a point considered by the committee, he said.
He said he thought there were several people at the University who would be qualified for the job. He said he was confident the committee would be able to submit more than the minimum of four names requested by Dykes.
Buckley said, "the chancellor has decided to take a more overt position around the state than Chalmers did. This requires affairs to attend and more people to see."
With the proposed improvements, the field house would be a multi-purpose building for students, faculty and staff members and athletes, Walker said.
remaining funds from private contributions.
"As a result, decisions on campus have been slowed down and providing an executive vice chancellor on campus would make things run more smoothly."
Dykes asked the committee to suggest four names by Jan. 10 for consideration. He said he hoped the post would be filled by Feb. 1.
KU STUDENTS will have top priority for the usage of the facility at these suggested times. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.
If the petition receives Chancellor Archie Dykes' approval, the project would begin in
John Beissner, Salma junior and candidate for student body president, said, "I don't believe going to the legislators in the future and saying the University is in a financial crisis after throwing $180,000 into a gym floor in the University of Kansas Athletic Center."
Jon Kassem, Johnson sophomore, said, "I think it would be gross incompetence of this body to turn around and give ourselves more money to play with."
ALSO PASSED by the senate last night was a petition to raise the salaries of the student body president, vice president and treasurer.
The president's salary would be raised $65 a month to $150 a month, the vice president's salary would be raised $35 a month to $125 a month and the treasurer's salary would be raised $15 a month to $100 a month.
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee reported the bill unfavorably.
Bruce Kepling, Lenexa senior, spoke against the petition because "it makes further discrimination between those who have a disability and those who are hard, hard, but don't get any money for it."
BUCKLEY SAID the current salaries prohibit people from middle- or low-income
Kenneth Lenzen, professor of civil engineering, has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Engineering. Lenzen's appointment was made to P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering it is effective for the 1974 spring semester.
New Dean Appointed
KU Grad Promoted
J. Russell Mills, an alumnus of the University of Kansas, was appointed superintendent of the Osawatome State Hospital on Monday, Mills, a long-time employee of the hospital, has been acting superintendent since August. He is the only business manager the hospital has ever had and he graduated from KU in 1964. Mills received his Master of Public Administration degree from KU in 1970. Mills is the first superintendent of a Kansas state mental hospital who isn't a physician.
Comet Sight Times
The open house scheduled for yesterday morning at the KU observatory to see the comet Kahoutek was canceled because of clouds. Other open houses are scheduled for 5 a.m. Dec. 12 and 19 and 6 p.m. Jan. 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22 and 24, weather permitting.
NOTICE:
ALL MEN INTERESTED
IN FRATERNITIES
The Interfraternity Council will sponsor a Spring Membership Program. This program will give all interested men the opportunity to visit all and possibly affiliate with one of the Twenty-one National Fraternities at the University of Kansas. This program will occur January 13-16, 1974.
Register for the Spring Membership Program in the Dean of Men's Office, 228 Strong Hall between December 3rd and December 14th.
from running for office.
The replacement fee will be $14 for the first three weeks of the semester and will drop by $1 every week until a $1 price is reached.
Stolen passes will be replaced free after an investigation.
The senate also passed a bill to implement a replacement fee for lost or遭运 bus damage.
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