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Officials discuss building fund
University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1984
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
State financing of campus building projects was the focus of discussion among members of the Kansas University's Joint Committee on State Building Construction at a meeting Friday with KU administrators in Strong Hall.
The committee members met to review KU's budget requests for campus construction and maintenance requests for fiscal year 1986 and beyond.
SOME COMMITTEE MEMBERS questioned the legality of a proposed change in policy that would allow expenditures from the state Educational Building Fund to be covered temporarily by money from other state sources when the EBF is nearly depleted.
The EBF is financed by state property tax money and is used to pay for construction projects on campuses across the state. The fund now has no money, and state officials are refusing to use money from other sources unless the attorney general approves that practice.
Richard von Ende. KU executive secretary, drafted a letter to Attorney General Robert T. Stephan.
asking him to approve the practice of financing building projects with money from outside the EBF and paying it back later with EBP
KU ADMINISTRATORS TOLD the committee that short-term insufficiencies in the EBF had caused a delay in the early stages of the Applegate Energy Center project at the University of Kansas Medical Center and that the architects concerned with the law library on the Lawrence campus were concerned about working without a signed contract.
State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa, said he thought the authority to draw from different funds already existed, and that the committee might create a problem by asking for an attorney general's opinion.
"I don't think it a problem," he said. "By Dec. 20, the taxes are in the building fund money is in the bank; it just hasn't been transferred to the state from the county treasurers yet."
The committee decided to talk to Stephan and his staff informally before sending the letter.
THE COMMITTEE ALSO heard KU administrates explain a five-year capital improvements plan for building a new science library and
renovating four existing buildings.
As planned, the science and technology library will be built near the Military Science Building. The Legislature has already appropriated $170,000 and an additional budget for fiscal year 1986 to build the library.
The University is requesting $566,000 for fiscal year 1987, about $5.4 million each of fiscal years 1988 and 1989, and about $2.3 million in fiscal year 1990 to complete the project.
KU also has requested $638.625 to complete the renovation of Haworth Hall.
OTHER PROJECTS IN THE five-year plan are a $6.5 million renovation of Snow Hall to house the computer science and mathematics departments, school to becomenewly funded by a $275 million analysis of campus utility systems.
Allen Wiechert, KU facilities planning director, said water and sanitary sewer systems would be the critical points of the analysis.
Also among proposed construction projects, for fiscal years 1989 and 1990, are a renovation of Spooner Hall, the oldest building on campus, the replacement of the Naismith storm sewer and renovation of Twente Hall.
Seminar to help in job hunt
By BENGT LJUNG Staff Reporter
Recruiters will give clues for a successful job hunt tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The Second Annual Placement Preparation Seminar will start at 7 p.m. and continue tomorrow night at the same time.
"The recruiters are going to tell you exactly what they are looking for — what kind of key words and work experience they want," said Mike Kaiser, vice president of the Business Placement Council. "I'll make your chances that much better."
Each night, three recruiters will give 20-minute speeches and then answer questions. Tonight, representatives from American Hospital Supply, Payless Cashways and Volume Shoe will discuss respectively cover letter design, communicating with prospective employers and resume preparation.
Tomorrow night, Marion Laboratories, Procter & Gamble and Hallmark Cards representatives will discuss resources available interview techniques and developing a career search strategy.
"They are not asking you to be bogus." Kaiser said. "The key is to
be yourself and to be honest. They're just giving you some helpful hints."
The seminar will point out critical areas the companies look at in hiring employees, Kaiser said. Knowing what to expect should help students avoid sweaty palms and galloping hearts.
The seminar is being sponsored by the Business Placement Council, which is a student-run organization to help students in the placement process. Council activities such as last year's Placement Seminar and the Career Fair Sept. 19-20 have received positive responses from both students and companies. Kaiser said.
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THE SUA STRATO-MATIC BASEBALL Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
THE STUDENT CREATIVE ANACRONISTS will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
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SMALL WORLD will meet at 9:15 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St.
at 11:30 p.m. in Alcove B of the Kansas Union.
THE SIERRA A CLUBeill meet with representatives from the Slattery for Congress campaign at 7 p.m. in the Inread Room of the Union.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL will meet for a letter-writing session
THE KU SWORD AND SHIELD Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
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Superintendent Neuenswander categorized as "poppycock" the recent Newsweek cover story entitled "Why Teachers Fail", yet this very informative article attributed to David Img of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education the statement that "teacher education is and ought to be the next focus of those trying to improve the schools" because the teacher training apparatus is, as Newsweek put it, "the biggest running joke in higher education".
Commissioner Blackburn assured everyone he didn't "propose to sit by and let those who are ill-informed take our educational system apart", but he didn't mention the twenty-six million functionally illiterate adults whom that educational system exploited.
With the findings of various studies and the existence of many remedial programs demonstrating that our public schools fail to reach a significant percentage of their charges, how can professional educators so blithe bypass the factual?
While Dean Scannell claimed the teacher education process is a "rigorous funnel", the National Center for Education Information, a private education-research firm, recently found that fewer than 10 per cent of the teacher training institutions responding to the firm's survey used high school rank or grade-point average as a criterion for admission, 82 per cent didn't use standardized college entrance test scores for this purpose and less than half of the reponding institutions required their students to pass a test upon completing the teacher education program.
At a September 18th panel discussion sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, an education honorary society, Kansas Commissioner of Education Harold Blackburn, Kansas (University Dean of the School of Education Dale Scannell and Lawrence School District 497 Superintendent Dan Neuenswander agreed that, in the words of Journal-World reporter Katherine Weickert, "although some problems face educators today, the quality of education remains high and programs are being developed to improve it."
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