CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, September 4, 1984
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Campus safety a much-debated problem for KU
Blue phones can summon assistance Financing is barrier to safe KU lighting
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
They go unnoticed by KU students most of the time, a part of the landscape on and around Mount Oread.
The 12 phones, found in gray boxes mounted on poles topped with blue lights, provide a direct line to the University of Kansas Police Department's dispatcher's office in Hoch Auditorium.
When a phone's receiver is lifted, a light in the dispatcher's office shows which phone has been tripped. A KU police officer is sent to the location immediately, Sgt. Mary Ann Robison said.
The officer usually reaches the phone in two to three minutes, Robison said.
NO DIALING IS necessary, she said, and the person using the phone doesn't need to speak — just pick up the receiver.
The phones are used about 30 times a month, Lt. Jeanne Longaker said.
"It's the type of prank that could jeopardize someone's well-being," she said.
The thefts were discovered immediately by the officers who responded, Longaker said. Each $25 receiver was replaced within 24 hours.
OF THE 12 phones on campus, eight were installed in late 1976, and
the remaining four were installed in 1980. Each phone costs about $1,200 and the University pays a monthly fee of $25 and $25 to maintain each phone
The phones are located on Irving Hill Road, on 15th Street near Green Hall, at the intersection of Sunnyside Avenue and Sunflower Road, at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road, at the intersection of 13th Street and Oread
Avenue and at the intersection of 14th Street and Alumni Place.
ADDITIONAL PHONES ARE at the north end of Potter Lake, at the north end of Spencer Art Museum, at the north end of the parking garage near Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, at the Pearson Place fountain behind Fraser Hall, between Malott and Wesco halls, at the intersection of Na smith Drive and the service drive leading to Watkins Hospital.
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Campus lighting at the University of Kansas could be improved, most KU administrators and student senators agree.
But how to make the improvements and where to get the money are the problems.
"It's been studied to death," said
Russ Ptacek, Nunemaker student senator. "That ought to be the one subject that the Senate can unify and work together on."
Carla Vogel, student body president, said that one solution might be to increase the student activity fee by as much as $1 per student to help finance additional lighting on campus.
Vogel also suggested that the University of Kaisers Alumni Assoc-
ation help raise money for lighting improvements.
THE DEPARTMENT OF facilities operations recently received $25,000 from the Kansas Legislature to improve campus lighting, said Allen Moyer, a director of facilities planning. But that money won't go far, Wiechert said.
Plans for the use of the money haven't been completed yet, he said. Much of it probably will be used to replace outdated incandescent street lights with metal halide fixtures, and prove the quality of the light, he said.
University officials know that campus lighting needs to be improved, Wiechert said, but that the money hasn't been available.
"We usually ask for some every year," he said, which is the first wave of cuite suites.
Helms conducted a similar study at the University of Colorado 10 years ago.
RON HELMES, PROFESSOR and director of architecture, recently completed a study of KU campus lighting, which he said he hoped would spur an improvement in campus lighting. I.e. plans to present the results of the study to KU officials within a few weeks.
"It resulted in a major re-lighting of the campus there," he said.
In the meantime, Helms advised students to be careful when walking on campus at night.
LI. Jeanne Longaker of the University of Kansas Police Department said that some areas were safer than others for students walking on campus at night. These areas include Jayhawk Boulevard, 15th Street, Irving Hill Road and Sunnyside Avenue, she said.
"At Colorado we found the beginning and end of both semesters to be the most dangerous," he said.
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