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October 2, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Bad readings may be behind fee increase
Residents of Templin Hall will bring 25 veterans to campus for the Kansas-Iowa State football game on Saturday.
Eight KU debaters win honors
The veterans, patients at the Colmery O'Neil Medical Center in Topeka, will have lunch at Templin. Resi-
tionaries will tour a farm of the campus and accompany them.
Kyle Martin, Templin's service chairman, said yesterday that he expected between 50 and 75 residents to participate. This is the third year that the hall has hosted veterans from the Topeka hospital.
Eight KU debaters won honors last weekend in competition at the University of Northern Iowa and at Vanderbilt University.
At the University of Northern Iowa, Jerry Gaines, Houston senior, and John Calver, Overland Park sophomore, took second place in the senior division.
Robert Bradley, Wichita sophomore,
and David Thomanek, Wheeling, Ill.
sophomore won fourth place.
In the junior division, Eddie Watson,
Arkansas City sophomore, and Gavin
Fritton, Topeka freshman, won fourth
place.
At Vanderbilt University, Andrea Richard, Laramie, Wyo., freshman and Ofray Hall, Manhattan freshman, won third place in the junior division.
Debaters will attend tournments next weekend at the University of Kentucky and at the University of Wyoming.
Aerospace engineering students placed first in the individual award and second in the group award in the 1983-84 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Bendix and United Technologies Corp. senior design competitions.
Engineers win design awards
J. Turner Hunt, Richmond, Va., graduate student, won $1,000 in the United Technologies Corp. competition open only to individuals.
Three students earned a $500 second place award in the Bendix group competition for their design of a U.S. Navy jet trainer.
The students are John Hernandez, Topeka senior; Gregory Krekeler, St. Louis graduate student; and Patrick Vittum, Hays senior.
The four award recipients will be honored at an aerospace colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the George Waggoner Auditorium, 3139 Wescue Hall.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny, and the high should reach the low to mid-70s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. Tonight's low will be in the mid-to upper 40s. The high tomorrow will be in the low to mid-70s.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, sanctions against Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology in connection with a 1976 research trip to the Central American country of Belize, were incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan. In July 1983, an appeals board overturned a National Bureau of Statistics research fund Crawford used on the trip and found that all of the funds allocated to Crawford for the trip were properly spent
A reprimand mentioned in the same sentence was a University reprimand issued to Crawford in January 1978 for not turning in a form on time.
Because of a reporter's error, the address of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was incorrect in a story in yesterday's Kansan about the fraternity's new house. The correct address is 1003 Emerry Road.
Because of a photographer's error,
Becky Bondank, Leawood senior, was
incorrectly identified in a caption in
in yesterday's Kansan on page 3.
By CHRISSY CLEARY Staff Reporter
Iacquareares in reading utility meters is partly to blame for a proposed 12 percent utility rate increase for six of the eight scholarship halls, the director of housing said.
Thirteen scholarship hall representatives met yesterday with J.J. Wilson, the housing director, a few hours before their all-hall meetings last night in which residents discussed questions about the 1985-86 hall contract.
The housing department has proposed that the 1985-86 contract reflect the utility rate increase, which will contribute to an increase in residents' room and board fees. Halls
residents will vote tonight on the contracts
residents will vote toONG on the contracts.
Under the proposed contract, fees at mens halls will increase $28 from $1,626 to $1,708.
Sellards and Douthart halls will increase $78 from $1,519 to $1,597; and Watkins and Miller halls will increase $19 from $591 to $610.
The proposed increase in utility rates affects Stephenson, Pearson, Sellars, Battenfield, Grace Pearson and Douthart halls but excludes Miller and Watkins halls and halls had not used all of their utility appropriations in the 1883-84 contract. Wilson said.
Wilson said that facilities operations had been underestimating the meters at all eight scholarship halls but that estimates at Miller halls halls had the most inaccurate.
"One of the real problems with facilities
operations is that they don't think in terms of budgeting but meter charges." Wilson said. "Consequently, it's hard to work on regular patterns."
Wilson said that Miller and Watkins were lucky that their meters weren't as accurate, and that the rates were less for them than for the other six halls.
Facilities operations is reading the meters more accurately now, Wilson said, and consulted with the manufacturer.
Richard Perkins, associate director of utilities facilities, said that the meters were checked every month but that Wilson might have been referring to problems with reading the steam meters at the scholarship halls.
Problems have included meters needing repair or replacement, he said.
Sometimes replacements on the steam
meters take a month or two," Perkins said. "If the meters are broken, then we have to estimate by prorating, which is figured by assuming university average and figuring on square feet.
"If we estimate too low, it could account for a significant difference in the actual rates."
The steam meters were installed last year after a previous system failed. Perkins said.
"After the new steam lines went bad in about 1973, we had to revert back to the old steam lines." Perkins said. "We had to wait for the money to get new steam meters."
Wilson and the hall representatives also discussed the gas rates at the meeting.
Chris Magerl/KANSAN
Currently, facilities operations supplies gas for all the scholarship halls.
KJHK-FM 91. Lightwardt also fielded questions about the controversy surrounding a petition written by Steve Imber, Lawrence senior.
Ruth Lichtwartd, president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, speaks with Alternative Conversations host Chris Admissen, Clayton, Mo., junior, during his call-in show on
County wants safer site for tower
Staff Reporters
By CHIRS BARBER and BENGT LJUNG Staff Reporters
A proposal to erect a 150-foot communications tower northwest of Lawrence was set back at yesterday's Douglas County Commission meeting, although commissioners
The proposal for a conditional use permit to build the tower at the southwest corner of Peterson Road and Monterey Way was favored by county commissioners, provided that the applicant find a safer site on the property for the tower.
THE COMMISSION VOTED 2-1 to defer the item at Commissioner Bob Neis' request. Neis was concerned that the tower was too close to surrounding property.
"I would not grant something that would fall on someone else's property." Nees said.
But Neis said he would support the request if the tower were relocated.
"I can't see that it's really going to hurt anyone if it's not going to fall on someone else's land," he said.
Commission Chairman Beverly Bradley cast the dissenting vote because she favored the original request.
"We should make a decision and go on." she said. "There are towers all over not hurting anything. Those towers don't fall unless someone cuts the wires."
United Telespectrum, the company seeking the permit, now must submit a new application to the Planning Commission to locate the tower elsewhere on the property.
CHUCK WINTERS, CONSTRUCTION eng
ing United Telespectrum, said he
be thought of as a great man.
"If we do find a site, I think the County Commission will approve it," he said. "We'll have to submit a brand new application. The earliest we can get this to the Planning Commission again will probably be late November."
"It will just set us back some more," said Winters, who viewed the decision as a partial
The Planning Commission gave the request for negative recommendation on Wednesday
Richard Branham, professor of design, and Ruth Branham, assistant professor of design, were the authors of a protest petition against the state rate and opposed the commission's decision.
THE BRANHAMS OWN property adjacent to the proposed site. They and other neighbors were concerned that the tower would devalue property, interfere with radio and television transmissions and ruin the aesthetics of the area.
Budig asks Stephan to reconsider hiring counsel
A letter from Chancellor Gene A. Budg asking the state attorney general to reconsider a decision not to hire counsel for some former and present professors and administrators named in a lawsuit was delivered to the attorney general's office yesterday.
"I don't intend to stop." Ruth Branham said yesterday. "It's a principle."
Neil Woermann, special assistant to the attorney general, said yesterday that the attorney general, Robert Stephan, was out of town yesterday, but would consider the letter today.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said that the chancellor's letter probably would not be made public.
Sid Shapiro, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said Sunday that the decision of the mayor's office involved a conflict of interest.
Stephan last week said that the state would hire outside counsel to represent two of the 11 appellants.
The conflict, Shapiro said, is that Bruce Miller, the deputy attorney general in charge of the investigation that led to the decision, defended Henry Lundsgaarde, professor of anthropology, against a 1980 suit brought by Michael Crawford, also a professor of anthropology.
Crawford is one of the defendants in the present suit, filed by two former graduate students, Elizabeth Murray and Nancy Sempolski.
KU, K-State might link departments
Proposal joining computer programs is before legislators
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Meshing the KU and Kansas State computer science departments could pave the way for millions of dollars in research money for both universities, the acting chairman of the KU computer science department said yesterday.
A proposal to combine the programs, now before a Kansas Legislature subcommittee, must be approved by the Legislature and Gov. John Carlin. If the proposal is approved, the University of Kansas and Kansas State University would finance the $200,000 computer link, which the Board of Regents accepted this summer.
IF THE COMPUTER LINK becomes a reality, both universities could receive millions of dollars in research money and grants — possibly resulting in the establishment of a computer research in Lawrence and William Bulgen, said William Bulgen, the acting chairman.
The link would be established in fall 1985, he said, and would be operable in spring 1986. Eventually, the link could be expanded to include undergraduate computer courses.
The system, which will allow KU and Kansas State to pool faculty and computer resources, would use a microwave communications system provided by Topeka television station KSNT to establish a live video link between the two schools. Bulgran said
The television station already has links between Topeka and Lawrence, and Topeka and Manhattan, and the station has offered the KU-Kansas State link at no cost, Bulgren said.
"ITS A CONSIDERABLE savings," he said. "It's a beck of a deal."
With the aid of the microwave link and video cameras, KU and Kansas State then would be able to enhance the graduate programs of both computer departments by sharing visiting lecturers, offering joint courses, conducting projects among the faculties and graduate students and exchanging computer hardware.
'We want to have more collaborative departments, between the buildings. Bulk items are a key part.'
Bulgren said the computer link would be a first for a Regents school
Bulgen even fororese a time when the computer link may expand into a computer network, connecting other Regents schools in the state.
"This is very innovative," he said. "As far as I know, no one nationally is really doing it."
About 300 computer science graduate students would benefit from the computer link, he said.
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