October 3,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Committee selects comics as homecoming theme
The 1984 homecoming theme will be "Contemporary Comics Come to KU." The homecoming committee, comprising staff and faculty members, selected the theme.
Budig to open Research Day
The cartoon theme will be used for the Oct. 26 homecoming parade along Jaya-hawk Boulevard. About 12 floats and five marching bands will be in the parade.
Homecoming Day is Oct. 27, the day of the KU-University of Oklahoma football game.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will open the ceremonies at the third annual Research Day at 12:30 p.m. Friday in Battenfield University and present information on the sciences campus in Kansas City, Kan.
Research Day was established to recognize research in the biological sciences by students and faculty members and to promote public awareness of research and its importance, said Billy Hudson, dean of research at the college.
Senate applications available
Applications for candidates for Student Senate and student body president and vice president are available in the Student Senate office, B105 in the Kansas Union.
Deadlines for filling the applications are is 5 p.m. on Oct.15 for presidential and vice-presidential candidates and 5 p.m. on Oct.22 for Senate candidates. The forms must be turned into the Senate office before a student may campaign for office. Student Senate elections will be Nov.
Student Senate elections will be Nov. 14-15.
Senatorial candidates must pay a $1 filing fee or collect signatures from 50 members of the professional school or organization by the seat for which they are running.
Memorial recital to be given
A memorial harp recital for a University of Kansas professor who died this summer will start at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall in miprury Hall.
The recital is in memory of Margaret Larg.ang, professor of harp, who died July 24 in New York.
Exam workshop is tonight
The Student Assistance Center will sponsor "Preparing for Exams," a study skills workshop from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas University.
The workshop is free, and no regis traction is required.
Political art to be displayed
An exhibition called "Angry Art: Political Expression in the Visual Arts" will be on display from Oct 15 to Nov 4 in the museum's fourth floor of the Kamas Union.
Artists who wish to submit works for the display should contact Steve C石灰an in the Student Union Activities office. 864-3477.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and the high will be between 75 and 80. Winds of 5 to 15 mph will be from the southeast. Tonight will be increasingly cloudy and the low will be in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and there will be a chance for thundershowers. The high will be between 75 and 80.
Where to call
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In other questions, comments or complaints, ask for Don Knox, editor, or Paul Severt, managing editor.
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Susan Petrovic, St. Louis sophomore, and Kevin Houston, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, fold the American flag as part of the Formal Retreat Ceremony near the Military Science
City follows legal advice, approves plat
Building. Members of the Aerospace Studies 100 cla ticipated last night in a leadership laboratory which quired for all Air Force cadets.
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Acting on advice from city attorneys, the Lawrence City Commission last night accepted the controversial final plot of the Naismith West Subdivision, a 24-acre area south of 24th street between Oustdahl Road and Naismith Drive.
The item had been deferred two weeks ago at the suggestion of Commissioner Nancy Shontz. In that time, commissioners were to obtain an opinion from city attorneys Milton Allen and Gerald Coley about what the plan was and responsibilities were concerning the plat.
The action means that the commission accepts the rights-of-way and easements on the plat, which is a map showing legal boundaries for a building. The compass container has a capacity of 350-380 living units on 16 lots.
Mayor Ernest Angino introduced the item at last night's meeting by quoting from the
"THE CITY COMMISSION has no role whatsoever in the approval of a plot which has been previously approved by the Planning Commission," Angino said.
The attorneys also said that if the commission did not accept the plait, its
Planning Director Price Banks said at the meeting two weeks ago that once a plaat was approved by the Planning Commission, that decision was final, by state statute. Therefore, the City Commission's only duty was to ensure the rights-of-way and easements, he said.
reasons had to be based on rights-of-way and easements.
THE FLOOD PLAIN, the maximum flooding level of Naismith Creek, lies behind the proposed living units. It is scheduled to be developed for parking.
Once commissioners had agreed to the limits of their responsibilities, the main point of controversy was whether the city had to give its equipment in the flood plain district on the plat.
Shontz questioned whether the commission had any control over development in the flood plain, and asked Banks to outline its rights.
Banks said that a parking lot first would require a "Use Permitted Upon Review" permit, which would have to be approved by the Planning Commission and the City门户网站.
The City Commission also controls the approval of site plans for the area, Banks said.
Commissioner Howard Hill said he was satisfied with the city's power in the matter.
"We have considerable control," Hill said.
"It's time for someone to bite the bullet."
HILL SAD AFTER the meeting that he made the motion because there was no real controversy about rights-of-way and ease which was all the commission had to consider.
The motion passed 4-0, and Shontz abstained from the vote. She said she thought the commission should try to obtain an answer, but if there was no agreement, would involve the city acquiring the land so
"I didn't think we were ready to approve the plat," Shontz said. She said she did not think the controls outlined by Banks were sufficient to ensure that the area was developed properly.
that it could be left undeveloped, she said.
Two weeks ago, about 30 residents of the area attended the commission meeting to discuss the new plan.
THE RESIDENTS, MANY of whom have complained of flooding in their yards during heavy rains, were concerned that any further development in the area would increase flooding. They said that replacing vegetation and铺嵌 more water downstream during rains.
The commission's action now allows the developer to begin selling the land and creating a new business.
The commission also approved the preparation of a resolution to set a public hearing on a property at 725 New Jersey St. to consider demolition of the property.
Lynn Goodell, director of community development, said that the city staff had tried for three years to work with the owner of Robert Brown, to improve the property.
GOODELL SAID THAT several times Brown had been given extra time to complete necessary improvements to make the house habitable by city code.
But he said Brown had continually failed to meet agreements with city staff.
The commission will decide after the public hearing whether to order the demolition.
KU gets $285,200 to remodel for energy efficiency
By MARY CARTER
Staff Reporter
More than $285,000 in federal and state energy conservation grants will be used to make Fraser Hall, the Kansas Union and the Central Power Plant more energy efficient, the KU director of facilities planning said yesterday.
Board of Regents schools received $76,666 this summer from the Department of Energy Of that, the KU campuses in Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan., received $253,387.
Two weeks ago, the Regents released the match funds required by the DOE. Allen Wiechert, the director of facilities planning, said the Lawrence campus will receive $285,200 in DOE and match funds.
FEDERAL MONEY IS awarded first to those buildings that can be most improved and whose improvements will pay for themselves quickest, Corman said.
Warren Corman, Regents director of facilities
The DOE began the Institutional Conservation program six years ago to encourage energy conservation in state buildings, said
Corman said utility costs at Regents schools had decreased greatly since the mid-1980s.
"A year or so ago, we did a study on all the Regents campuses, and the savings were up in the millions of dollars on each campus," he said.
"Based on what has happened so far and what was projected for the next five years and the next 10 years, KU has avoided over the next 10 years, that's $25 million."
"It adds up to fantastic amounts of cost avoidance," he said. "If these projects hadn't been done, we'd be paying around $30 million more in utility bills."
audits of all buildings on the six Regents campuses to determine which buildings were wasting energy, Corman said. Then technical assistance studies on all of the buildings were conducted, and suggestions were made for correcting specific waste problems.
The improvements pay for themselves by reducing utility costs, Corman said.
DURING THE EARLY phases of the program, the Regents conducted energy
Wiechert said the heating, cooling and ventilation systems of Fraser Hall would be modified to change the volume of air circulated.
"By changing the volume of air circu-
sure, we can better control the tempera-
tion."
A BOILER ECONOMIZER will be installed in the Central Power Plant to turn wasted energy into savings. Hot exhaust from the smokestacks of the boiler will be recirculated and used to preheat water in the boiler. Less energy is needed to convert the warm water into steam than to convert cold water into steam.
Hall seeks nullification of proposal
McCollum residents upset about sharing space with freshmen
By CHRISSY CLEARY Staff Reporter
Residents of McCollium Hall do not want their hall reclassified to allow freshmen to live there, a McCollium representative told the Association of University Residence Halls.
At that meeting, the AURH general assembly approved a proposal that McCollium be reclassified starting next year to only upperclassmen and graduate students.
Kristi Berglund, the representative, said that because of a mixup at an AURH general assembly meeting on Sept. 18, the opinions of McCollum residents on the reclassification were incorrectly represented.
AURH recommended the reclassification to accommodate about 100 freshmen who are assigned to McCollin each year on a basis because of overcrowding at other halls.
Mark Denke, assistant director of residential programs, said a McCollum representative was at the Sept. 18 meeting and approved the reclassification proposal.
Denke said the general assembly had assumed that the McCollum resident was representing the views of the hall's senate. But Brennand said that was not the case.
"The reclassification proposal went through the hall senate and McColum doesn't want to be reclassified," she said. "We will be happy to take the overflow of freshmen from other halls or if they were put there because of an error."
"If they choose to stay, fine. We're not going to kick them out, but they will be limited to the bottom three floors."
The proposal approved at the Sept. 18 meeting will be disregarded because of the misunderstanding. Denke said, AURH will recommend that the Residential Programs Advisory Board nullify the proposal and adopt Berglund's proposal allowing freshmen to live on the first three floors of the hall, which would likely be unfitly or because of overcrowding, he said.
RPAB gives final approval for proposals on all KU housing contracts
An AURH constitutional amendment was passed stating the responsibilities of the state.
The general assembly also approved a residence hall softball tournament Oct 20 and 21 sponsored by AURH.
In other action, the AURH general assembly unanimously appointed David Forney to the judicial board. Students living in residence halls can appeal hall cases to the AURH judicial board if they feel they have been treated unfairly.
Inquiry's results to be disclosed
Warner Eisenbise scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference in Wichita, where he is expected to announce whether Schultz should be allowed to lead the state wave dispute hearing in January, 1983.
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Robert Stephen to investigate allegations of perjury against Bernard Schultz is to disclose his findings today.
Schultz, attending the state Board of Education's monthly meeting in Topeka yesterday, said he was confident Eisenbise's investigation would clear him. He said he had not been advised by the special prosecutor on the outcome of the investigation.
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