CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 1, 1984
Officials hear heated gripes
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By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
Bob Porter doesn't hate to see fall arrive, but he probably ought to.
Autumn's cool mornings, sunny afternoons and sometimes rapid weather changes bring to Porter's attention increased complaints that campus classrooms and offices are either too hot or too cold. Porter is associate director of the KU physical plant.
"It's a difficult time for us," he said this week. "We're the gremlins in the fall. No matter what we do, it doesn't appear that we can satisfy all the people all the time."
TOM ANDERSON, FACILITIES and operations director, said the heat was on in all KU buildings. It was turned on earlier than usual this year because of a cold snap earlier this month.
"We try to target it for a certain time, but the temperature and the weather pretty well dictate when we do it." Adperson said.
The air conditioning in campus buildings is usually turned off in mid-September, and the heat usually comes on between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1. The time between is "no-man's
land," Anderson said, when most complaints come in.
"With 27,000 faculty, staff and students, there's no way to satisfy everyone," he said. "We try to make it so that it's comfortable for the majority of people."
KU buildings have steam heating systems, and it takes a while to turn the heat on, he said. Facilities and operations crews spend 10 to 14 days each spring and fall turning heating and air conditioning on and off.
PORTER SAID. "YOU can't turn steam on and off as you would a furnace. If the pipes are cold, you have to crack the steam in slowly or you'll rupture the pipe."
Thermostats are set at 68 degrees in winter and 78 degrees in summer, Porter said. Buildings that house research animals and computers are kept between 55 degrees and 72 degrees all year.
"We keep the temperatures regulated in animal rooms and computer rooms before classrooms and offices," he said. "That throws energy out the window, but you can't abort research to save dollars."
KU$ utility budget is just less than $6.7 million, Porter said. A little less than $2.2 million is budgeted for natural gas, and almost $4 million
will go for electricity. The remainder of the utility funds will pay for water, sanitary sewer and landfill costs.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Kansas has spent about 29 percent of its budget in the first quarter of the year, Anderson said.
The boilers generating the steam that heats campus buildings are powered by natural gas. KU also has the capacity to change to oil generation. KU switched to oil briefly last winter and also during the summer.
"If the price of gas goes up, we're going to oil." Anderson said. "And if the price of oil drops a little, we may just use it." It will be more economical to use oil.
"That's what we're charged to do. We're supposed to watch things very, very closely and do what is most economical. Over time, using oil could be significantly more economical."
Bob Allison of Kansas Public Service Co., KU's present supplier of natural gas, said he didn't foresee a gas price increase. University officials are considering switching suppliers but have not made a decision.
"We are not anticipating any great deviation from our present price," he said. "We would like to serve KU. I don't know what will happen."
By FRANK HANSEL Staff Reporter
The United States should use its influence to persuade Israeli forces to withdraw from Lebanon, a member of the American Friends Service Committee said yesterday.
Speaker urges Israeli withdrawal
Chris George, the member, who spent 18 months in southern Lebanon rebuilding homes destroyed by warfare, told about 50 students in Blake Hall that Israel was violating human rights and basic international law and should withdraw from Lebanon.
George said Israeli violations included the mistreatment of prisoners and the use of collective punishment. An example of collective punishment is the israeli's routine bombing of houses where terrorists families live as punishment for terrorist activities.
The American Friends Service Committee policy that George is delivering is one of pacifism, he
"THE UNITED STATES has an obligation to speak out against these violations of human out," George said.
said, and the conflict in Lebanon should be resolved peacefully.
The committee supports the struggle of Palestine to realize national self-determination, the removal of all foreign forces from Lebanon and a secure Israel with internationally recognizable borders.
George is in his fourth month of touring the country, speaking at universities and to organizations about problems in Lebanon. George uses a slide presentation of South Lebanon to bring faces and images of the events frequently covered in the news.
"THE PEOPLE IN South Lebanon wanted me to tell the people and the government of the United States what it is really like in Lebanon, and by using slides, it better educates people," he said.
George said the Lebanon issue virtually was dead in the United States because it hadn't been a significant campaign issue. The only aspect discussed in the United Nations is the issue of human rights violations. George said, and he wants to make people aware of human rights violations.
He said Israel's withdrawl would be for Israel's own good because
the country was making new enemies every day it occupied Lebanon.
"When Israel first invaded Lebanon June 6, 1982, the Lebanese were glad to see them get rid of the PLO," he said, "but now Israel is facing its biggest enemy is the resistance of Lebanese."
LEBANESE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL locations used to occur about once a week. George said, but now resistance attacks, led by Shiite Muslims, happen about three times a day.
The attacks usually occur around crowded market areas. Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon is costing Israel $1 million a day — a cost, George said, to which the United States contributes to through military and economic support.
Dan Friessen, a member of the Mennonite Central Committee, who also aided the Lebanese recovery effort for two years, said before George's speech that most Americans thought the United States was not directly involved in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel when in fact the United States was.
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