November 28,1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Student Sports Council applications being taken
The University Daily KANSAN
The Student Senate is accepting applications for positions on the Student Sports Council, the Sports Council chairman said Monday.
Applications for the five at-large positions are available in the Student Senate Office, B116 of the Kansas Union, or by calling (802) 754-3690. Applications are due by p. 3. f. p. t. Friday.
All students are eligible for the council, she said.
Applicants should sign up for an interview when they submit their forms, Notices.
Six other positions to represent various student organizations on the council are open, she said. Interested students should contact the executive officers of the Association of University Residence Halls, the University Hall Council and Senate, University Affairs Committee, Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association.
Illustrator to sneak Monday
An illustrator who has done work for several national publications will speak about his drawings at 6 p.m. Monday in 3140 Wescoe Hall.
Arisman's speech is the final lecture in the 1984 Hallmark Symposium Series sponsored by Hallmark Cards Inc. The lecture is open to the public.
Speaker to address geologists
A technical information specialist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. N.M., will be the featured speaker Tuesday at the Kansas Geological Survey's annual St. Barbara Day celebration.
St. Barbara is the patron saint of miners and geologists. The Geological Survey honors the role of women in geology on St. Barbara Dav.
Nancy Prett, the specialist, will discuss "The Role of Scientific and Technical Libraries and Data Bases in Scientific Research," at 10 a.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. At 4 p.m. in the survey's auditorium in Moore Hall on West Campus, she will discuss "How Geologists Create Use and Control Information."
Kansan taking applications
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
The Kansas is accepting applications for
sprint news and business staff positions
The deadline for completed applications is a p.M. Thursday in 200 Stuff-Fairlift Blvd.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 50 to 15 degrees. Winds of 10 to 20 mph will be from the south Tonght and tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Tonght's high will be in the upper 40s. Tomorrow's high will be in the upper 40s.
Where to call
Do you have an idea for a story or a photograph?
If so, call the Kansan at 864-4810. If your idea or news release deals with campus or area news, ask for Doug Cunningham, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, ask for Susan Wortman, campus editor. For news, ask for Greg Damman, sports editor.
Photo suggestions should go to Dave Hornback photo editor.
For other questions, comments or
complaints, ask for Don Kox, editor,
or Michael Cohn.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 864.4358.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Kansas Union Corp. offer considered
KUAC considers contracts for concessions
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
University of Kansas Athletic Corporation officials are considering the Kansas Union Corporation's most recent contract proposal for concessions at Allen Field House and Memorial Stadium, an assistant athletic director said yesterday.
The two corporations are now operating under a contract that expired last spring and was extended to allow both sides to study new technologies. The corporation of the Kansas and Frank R. Burge unions
The athletic corporation has not contacted Long with any questions or concerns about the recent proposal, he said. Neither side would release details of the proposal.
Lonny Rose, the assistant athletic director, said, "We're reviewing our needs and desires for the concession areas."
The contract extension expires June 30.
KUAC officials contacted their firms last year to explore possibilities besides the Union's proposal, Rose said, but no decision has been made.
"Our first effort is to continue the relationship with the Union that we had
Rose said he hoped a decision would be reached by Jan. 1.
for 25 years," he said. "Clearly that is our preference."
He said he was talking with officials at schools around the country to find out how they marketed food and souvenirs.
The athletic corporation is considering selling trinkets and pompons from stands at basketball and football games. On cold days, the stands will sello gloves, hats and scarves.
"What we want to do is change the concept for how we sell food and non-foot items," he said.
Long said improvements in the physical condition of the concession stands were needed before the menu could be altered.
"It goes beyond the Union improving the stands," Long said. "There also needs to be improvements in the utilities."
The electricity and water supplies now used will not support the equipment required to make the concession shoes more efficient and to vary the menu. Long said.
But upgrading the utility services to the stadium and the field house will involve the athletic department and the University library. The buildings are state facilities, he said.
Family donates 18-foot Christmas tree to University
Facilities operations workers used ropes to raise an 18-foot, 1,500 pound blue spruce in the Strong Hall rotunda yesterday. The Christmas tree, which will be installed on December 31, is a 70-foot tall tree.
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
The light snow that fell in Lawrence wasn't the only sign of Christmas on campus yesterday.
An 18-foot Christmas tree now stands in the rotunda of Strong Hall.
About 15 facilities operations landscape workers huffed and puffed yesterday morning to drag the 1,500-pound blue spruce tree into the building, said Richard Biens, associate director of facilities operations for housekeeping.
Bivens said the tree was among the largest he had seen at the University. The center two doors of Strong Hall had to be removed to get the tree in, he said.
"It's probably as nice a tree as I've seen," he said, "It's very full and is nicely filled in."
The tree is issued to the James E. Roberts family, 1211 E. 21st St. Bivens said.
BARBARA ROBERTS, AN 18-year-old senior at Lawrence High School, said the tree had blocked the view from her family's front window.
"It's been here forever," she said. "We had always complained that we couldn't see out. I guess they got tired of it.
"Instead of just throwing it away, we donated it to KU," she said. "Mom is responsible."
Barbara said her family had planned a special trip to Strong Hall to see the tree
KU landscapers cut the tree down Monday morning. Painters spent Monday afternoon spraying the tree with a chemical to make it fireproof. Bivens said.
Electricians will begin stringing lights on the tree this morning, said Harry Buchholz Jr., an facilities operations electrical supervisor.
"WE JUST KEEP adding them till it looks good," he said. "We use a range from miniatures to regular lights, and there are some other decorations that go with the rest."
Buchloch decorating the tree was a full day's work for two electricians.
"When there are more than two, people start getting in the way of each other," he said. Generally, nobody complains. We tell the individuals to make it look good."
Ornaments and lights that disappear from the tree have not been as big a problem recently as in years before, said Buchholz, who has been involved one way or another in decorating the KU Christmas tree for about 10 years.
"We have had decorations given to us, but they are usually few and far between." he said "Something like that has a tendency to disappear. People will come out of the door and the wind will catch things when the doors open. Or people will take souvenirs."
The campus lights will be turned on Dec. 7, and will be on from 5 p.m. to midnight each day, he said. The lights at the chancellor's home will be turned on and off independently of the rest of the lights, he said.
Electricians also will work as weather permits to string lights on Hoch Auditorium, Danforth Chapel, the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center and the trees in front of the chancellor's home, Buchholz said.
'Hurts need at hearing
Staff Reporter
By CHRIS BARBER
Staff Reporter
The Humpty-Dumpty principle has entered into the battle over the proposed expansion of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
At a hearing on the Catholic Center yesterday in Douglas County District Court, John Nitcher, a lawyer representing B.G. Barr, president of the Crescent English Association, quoted Humpty-Dumpty in reference to positions of the other parties in the case.
"If you don't apply the city code literally, you get into an Alice in Wonderland situation," Nitcher said during his closing remarks at the hearing. "In that book Humpty Dumpty said, 'When I use a word, it means just what I say it means — neither more nor less.'"
Barr billed suit against the city in February after the Lawrence City Commission approved the site plan for the expansion. Barr is arguing that the site plan is invalid.
THE SITE PLAN includes a new church building and an expansion of the existing student center at the southeast corner of Crescent and Engel roads.
been fighting since April 1983, when the center announced plans for expansion on the 2.26-acre lot. Residents have argued that the development would create traffic problems and would be too big for the residential area.
At the hearing, Nichter and lawyers representing the city and the archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan., which owns the property, presented their arguments.
Area residents and center officials have
After hearing the argument, Douglas County District Judge James Paddock took the suit in advance. He probably on the case in a week to 10 days. Nichter said.
THE KEY CONTROVERSY yesterday focused on how three sections of Lawrence's city code should be interpreted if they should be interpreted at all. The three sections of the code deal with the number of uses for a piece of property and city parking and yard requirements.
"It is the plaintiff's position that the code is not subject to very much interpretation." Nitcher said "You apply the code literally. If something doesn't meet it, a variance should be requested."
Patrick Perry, a lawyer representing the city, said at the hearing that Kansas Supreme Court precedent uphold the City Commission's approval of the plan.
The Kansas Supreme Court has said that
when there are two possible readings of an ordinance, the legislative body should control." Peery said. "In this case, the legislature is the City Commission."
NITCHER SAID THE code allowed only one principal use for each piece of property. A principal use is a building such as a church that would be self-supporting.
But because the site plan includes a church and a student center, Nitcher argued that the site was not intended.
Robert Van Cleave, a lawyer representing the archdiocese, said that although two buildings were on the proposed lot, they were in close proximity to only one use, that of a place of worship.
Nitcher argued that if the complex were defined as having only one use, then one of the buildings must be considered an accessory building. Since the student center has been renovated several years ago, for several years, Nitcher argued that the church would be the accessory building.
UNDER THIS INTERPRETATION, he said, the site plan would be invalid because the church would be somewhat in front of the student center. Nitcher cited a portion of the city code that says an accessory building must be behind the principal building.
Van Cleave said the archicloe considered the church building to be the principal
Nitcher's second argument concerned the city's requirement of one parking space for every four seats in a building. The site plan required that the building be the requirement for the 392-seat church.
Nitcher argued that seating for the student center should be included in the requirement.
PEERY SAID THE CITY staff had interrupted the requirement as only referrals were needed.
The city ordinance also was amended in August to require parking for only the auditorium space on a site plan.
"The student center has traditionally had no requirement for parking because there is no auditorium space." Van Cleave said. "There won't be after the expansion either."
Nitcher's third complaint was that the church, as planned, would be built on land that was required by city ordinance to be part of the front yard of the student center
Van Cleave said yesterday that he was pleased with how the hearing went.
"I was encouraged," he said. "I felt we refuted the plaintiff's arguments."
The Rev. Vincent Krische, director of the center, also said he thought the hearing went
"I heard what I wanted to hear," he said.
"Of course, you never know."
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NOTICE:
The Student Senate is accepting applications for the following Senate Staff Positions:
- Executive Secretary
- Treasurer
- Administrative Assistant
- A.S.K. Director
- Sports Council
Applications may be picked up at the Student Senate Office, 105B, Kenyon Union.
Due date is 5 p.m., Fri., Nov. 30th Paid for by Student Senate