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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 24, 1990
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New Regents plans unveiled
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
The new Regents Center is scheduled to open in Spring 1993.
OVERLAND PARK — An architect's rendering and the site plan for the new KU Regents Center where were unveiled yesterday at the center's new home at 127th Street and Ouivra Road.
Gov. Mike Hayden and Chancellor Gene A. Budig unveiled the plans in front of about 80 people including leaders, legislators and educators.
In a prepared statement, Hayden said the $6 million center, expected to be completed by Spring 1903, was an integral part of the quality of higher education in Kansas.
"That strength and quality come with a price," Hayden said, referring to the Margin of Excellence. "Our Regents institutions have been well-served by the funding of the first two years of the Margin of Excellence and are deserving of support of the third year."
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 85 percent of their peer peers. The Board financed 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two
years but not the third.
Hayden said that he expected the fight to finance the third year to be difficult but that the goal was achievable.
"Nothing worthwhile comes easy," he said.
In a prepared statement, Budig said that the KU Regents Center had served Overland Park, Johnson and Owens. The KU Regents Center in Kansas City area for almost 15 years.
Budig thanked the individuals, groups and the Legislature for expressing their support and donating money to the center.
State Rep. Phil Kline, R-Overland Park, said that he was pleased that the center was becoming a reality
"I worked hard to get it funded," he said.
Kline, who is a member of the joint Committee on State Building Construction, is also the six-member committee initially were opposed to financing the center.
Kline said that he finally convinced two of the opposing members to vote to finance the center.
the building. The remaining money will come from revenue bonds supported by private sources and student fees.
KU Regents Center students will pay an additional $10 per credit hour during a 20-year period to help them prepare for college. 1,400 students are enrolled this
The state is providing $2 million for
semester at the center.
Regents Center will abandon old schoolhouse
Kansan staff report
When the new KU Regents Center opens in Overland Park, it will abandon its current home in an old school house.
Mission Road
Mary Davidson Cohen, assistant vice chairperson for the center, said the school building had been standing since the 1880s.
Beginning in Spring 1993, the center will be in a new building at 127th Street and Quivira Road. Since the center opened in 1975, it has been situated in the former Linwood Elementary School building at 9900
"The center was established under the chancellorship of Archy Dickes, who saw a real need and demand for adult, non-traditional students who had constraints of time, family and jobs, but who wanted the opportunity
for an education in the metropolitan Kansas City area, "Cohen said.
She said the school building was sold to the Kansas University Endowment Association in 1975 by the Shawnee Mission school district.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the converted elementary school never was the ideal place to house the center.
"It is now simply inadequate to meet our space and programmatic requirements," he said. "We cannot be prepared to change this area of this area without better facilities."
The new center will have 25 classrooms, including a 100-seat lecture hall and two 70-seat classrooms. The classroom contains a 6,000-square-foot library
KU police expansion nearing completion
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
If Elizabeta Phillips gets her way, the walls within the KU police department soon will come tumbling down
Phillips, KU police administrative officer, is eager to see the completion of a three-phase project that will upgrade the KU police dispatch communication systems and require drivers to respond to an increase in calls.
And when will that be?
"As soon as I can get my hands on a jackhammer and knock that wall down," Phillips said.
The expansion of the dispatching room likely will be completed during spring break, Phillips said. Since the dispatching room cannot be shut down completely to allow for remodelling or initial changes will have to be made.
This helps dispatchers deal with children who might not know their address, people who cannot talk or people who are so panic-denied that they do not tell the dispatchers their phones are hanging up the phone. Philips said.
Phillips said that the first phase of the project, which was completed about six months ago, involved the installation of an enhanced 911 system that allowed the caller's address to be displayed on a computer.
"That's the premise behind 911," she said. "If you can at least趾 that number, we can send someone and try to find out what the problem is."
The second phase of the project, which is awaiting completion, is the implementation of three different radio frequencies all being dispatched to the KU police department, Phillips said. In addition to the
rity employees last week began dispatching their safety and medical emergency calls directly to KU
Previously, campus security employees used radios to call supervisors or co-workers who could call KU police.
Plans to install security phones on every floor and hallway of every campus building also would increase the number of calls being dispatched through KU police, said Jim Denney, KU police director.
He said that this phase of the project would remain on hold until KU police and facilities operations staff will be able to phones to use and how to install them.
Another improvement to the current communication system will be the ability to dispatch the fire department and ambulance service directly, Denney said. KU police dispatchers reach those departments through Lawrence police dispatchers.
"It will increase response time by several seconds, and in a fire, a minute is thousands of dollars of money and possibly lives." Denney said.
The third phase of the project will consist of knocking two walls down and remodeling the dispatch room. Phillips said. The room will be expanded by about 65 percent and the ceiling height will be added. This will allow three dispatchers to work a shift, instead of the two now employed.
Denney said that two people were training to fill two new dispatcher positions, which would increase the number of dispatchers to 10.
Students volunteer at homeless shelter
Kansan staff writer
By Yvonne Guzman
Beginning in November, some KU students will spend one night a week studying not in the library but in the basement of the Salvation Army
These students will be there in order to ensure that there is a place for Lawrence's homeless to stay during the winter.
The Lawrence Salvation Army winter shelter, 946 New Hampshire St. is the only shelter in the city that is open to any homeless person for an unlimited amount of time. It will open Nov 1 for the first time. Blankenship, director of homeless services for the Lawrence Salvation Army.
Mark Peterson, who works a night shift at the Salvation Army sate house. 124 New Hampshire St., said she was called in to help the winter shelter when it opened.
"I work a night shift from 12 to 8 a.m.", said Peterson, Osage City senior. "It's a real quiet time."
Blankenship said the safe house, which opened in January, was meant to take the place of the shelter but lacked all that it would be the needs of Lawrence's homestead.
The safe house offers 24-hour lodging for families and is a transitional shelter. Blankenship said. Residents are counseled in job-finding skills, parenting and education. Residents may stay for about three months, after which they are expected to be independent.
The winter shelter, on the other hand, will be open from about 8:45
p. m. to 8 a.m. every day and is available for any person who needs a place to sleep. Blankenship said. But volunteers if it is to serve the community.
"It's just a tremendous job," she said. "Just to cover a week we need 14 separate people, and that's a lot. It's scary, but we have to do it."
The shelter will operate between November and March. In the past, it has required the help of about 100 volunteers. Blankenship said. Between 50 and 75 percent of the center's volunteers usually are KU students. A training session for volunteers is planned for Oct. 30.
Kristin Stolzenbach, Boulder, Colo. junior, said she had worked at the safe house and planned to work at the winter shelter as well.
"A lot of my myths about homeless people were dispelled," she said about working at the safe house. "I've stayed there by myself, and I've never been threatened or felt uncomfortable."
Two volunteers will spend the night in the shelter. One volunteer must be awake at all times. Blankenship said. There are no qualifications for volunteers, other than having a positive attitude.
People who want to volunteer should contact the Salvation Army safe house at 865-5688.
"If people want to try it and see if it fits into their schedule, that's fine." Blankenship said. "If they want to come to the training session but know they can't start until January, that's fine."
Under construction
Tammin Johnson, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Susan Heider, Springfield, Mo., sophomore; and Nicii Sowers, Wichita freshman, place crepe-paper flowers into chicken wire for the covering of a homecoming float being constructed by Alpha Delta Pi
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
sorority and Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. The float, following the theme "Building a Tradition of Excellence," is being assembled at the Phi Kappa Theta house, 1941 Stewart Ave., for Saturday's Homecoming Day parade.
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