August 28,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Freshmen to meet faculty at Mortar Board gathering
Fresheren have the opportunity to meet and chat with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and faculty members at the get-together room in the U.S.A., or post-montage in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"The value of it is the personal interaction with the faculty," said Craig Martin, assistant professor of botany.
Mayor will address Forum
Freshmen are usually nervous about meeting a college professor, but the meeting helps break the tension, Martin said.
Lawrence Mayor Ernest Angino will speak at the first fall semester meeting of the University Forum at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, September 7, at the Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread.
The topic will be "Lawrence Today and Tomorrow. State of the City."
Conference to look at abuse
The forum meets weekly to hear speeches and discussions of current topics of significance. A prepared lunch is held every Friday by made for noon today by calling 843-4933.
Child abuse, sexual abuse and abuse of the handicapped child are three of the seminar topics in this year's Kansas Head Start Training Conference.
Safety Training Conference
The conference, sponsored by KU's
Educational Systems Associates, will be
today and tomorrow at the Lawrence
Holidome Convention Center, 200 W.
Turnike Road.
The conference will train teachers and parents of children in Head Start programs throughout the state. Head Start is a child development program financed by the federal government.
Naturalist's works on display
An exot of drawings and paintings
titled "John Gould: His Birds and Beasts"
will be displayed in the main gallery of the
Spencer Research Library through mid
September.
Scholars applications offered
Gould was an English naturalist and artist whose books and expeditions helped to popularize natural history as both a science and an art. On one expedition from 1838 to 1840, Gould added more than 300 species to the list of known Australian birds and established himself as the father of Australian natural history.
Applications to the University Scholars program are now available to eligible sophomores in the office of Academic Staff (STA) 14. The deadline for applications is Sept. 14.
The program was founded four years ago to recognize and encourage academically talented students early in their undergraduate careers, said Carl Prentice, administrative assistant to the vice chancellor.
"Everyone who is a first semester sophomore with a 3.8 grade point average is eligible to apply," she said "There is an application blank, and they must send a transcript and provide three references."
Twenty University Scholars will be selected from a field of 30 finalists.
Weather
Today will be sunny and hot with highs around 100 and southerly winds of 5 to 10 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low in the 70s. It will be hot tomorrow, with highs again reaching 100.
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Two men find relaxation and enjoyment fishing below the rain received in the area in the past month, the river is at a Powerstock Dam recently. Because of the small amount of low level.
Research park to benefit KU, city
By JOHN REIMRINGER
Staff Reporter
The University Corporate Research Park, being developed west of Lawrence, could bring new jobs to Lawrence and benefit the University of Kansas, University and city officials said yesterday.
"It will be very important economically," Lawrence Mayor Ann Erngino said. "As each research group comes into that research park, I think you will see an expansion in the number of jobs that are available."
The research park also should broaden the city's tax base, keeping property taxes down.
Edward Meyen, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and public service at KU, said the park would aid KU in attracting professors and research. Meyen also is happy with the way the park's developers have worked with KU.
"THEY'VE WORKED WITH us closely, they've sought our advice, it's been a very compatible planning effort," he said.
Bob Billings, a general partner in the park,
said, "The University is essential to the
success of the park. They're the whole reason for our being."
The park consists of 296 acres, 60 on the northeastern corner of the intersection of Wakaraus Drive and the planned 15th Street extension, and 236 acres to the west of
Angino said that at its Aug 21 meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted to issue $2 million of bonds to make 15th Street four lane out to Wakara Drive.
David Kohlman, a former professor of aerospace engineering at KU, is the president of Kohlman Aviation Co. and Kohlman Systems Research, the first two companies to announce plans to move into the park
"WEWOULD LIKE to work as closely with the University as they will permit," Kohlman said.
Both companies will be in the same building, he said. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 1985, and the companies are expected to move into the park nine months to a year after that, Kohlman said. Before plans for the research park were announced, the companies had considered moving out of Lawrence.
The companies plan to double their dollar volume of business and their number of
employees within two to three years. Kohlman said. The two companies have 60 employees now.
CMPASS Bill Schweikhard, a former associate professor of aerospace engineering, left his job at KU this spring to devote full time to his job as vice president for flight testing with Kohlman Systems Research.
SCHWEIKHARD SAID THAT the company would be able to provide internships to aerospace engineering students who formerly would have had to leave the state
"We have a number of students that have worked here right from the very beginning." Schweikkard said. "I'd say that our engineering staff here is probably 60 percent KU graduates."
Although the Kohman companies are the only companies that have signed contracts, Billings said. "We have five or six other firms that we are working very closely with."
Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that the park could create 2,000 jobs in 15 or 20 years, after it had been developed
Tony Redwood, director of the institute for economic and business research at KU, said research parks connected with universities began to develop in the 1960s.
Opera House renovation one step closer
By CHRIS BARBER
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Opera House came one step closer to remaining a local landmark during the summer.
that has proposed the renovation of the opera house, now is trying to meet stipulations imposed by the Lawrence City Commission before renovation can begin.
The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1 at its Aug. 14 meeting in favor of a resolution of intent to issue $1.75 million in industrial waste tax revenue that will be used for renovation of the opera house.
At that time, the commission cited a lack of information concerning Bowersock's financial backing as the reason for the denial. The backers had chosen to remain anonymous, but the commission insisted on Bowersock supplying additional information to City
This decision followed the commission's refusal to issue the letter of intent at its July 16 meeting, a decision that was met with booze from members of the crowd attending the event.
Manager Buford Watson.
Bowersock came to the Aug. 14 meeting after supplying the information.
At that meeting, the commission said that its questions had been answered satisfactorily, and the resolution for the letter of intent was passed.
B·bowersock must buy an insurance policy from a "qualified savings and loan association or other appropriate guarantee approved by the commission," Watson said at the meeting. This policy must insure the IRBs for no less than $75,000, or one-third of the project cost. The other two-thirds will be guaranteed by the equity of the building.
However, several stipulations were placed on Bowersock, which the commission said were necessary for Bowersock to meet before the actual bonds could be issued. These were:
- The opera house must be used in accordance with the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, which says that only 25 percent of the building may be used for entertainment.
- Bowersock has only 120 days to complete any necessary work before the bonds are
ssued, unless the city grants an extension.
- Bowersock must pay, instead of complete taxes. 100 percent of what the taxes would be on the assessed value of the commercial and office space in the building, and 50 percent of what the tax would be on the auditorium part of the building.
He said the group was disappointed because the amount they would have to pay would be based on the property's assessed value after improvements, instead of its present relatively low assessed value of the property.
Amongwatson sat said at the Aug. 14 meeting that Bowersock was satisfied with the 50 percent tax abatement on the auditorium part of the opera house, Tom Tracy, a member of Bowersock, said yesterday that they were disappointed that there was no abatement on the rest of the building.
However, City Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that the commission felt it was granting a privilege to try to sell the IRBs and wanted some additional taxes in return.
"we couldn't just give them the whole cake," she said.
Halls change telephones, save money
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The KU housing department will save $60,000 this year because of the purchase of new phones in the eight residence halls, housing officials say.
Using diligence about J.J. Wilson, director of the housing department, said the department had replaced 2,401 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. phones in residents' rooms in late July and early August because AT&T informed him that it intended to raise the rental fee.
Previously, the phones were leased from AT&T for $2.15 per month. The increase in the rental fee was announced after divestiture of AT&T in January 1984. Wilson said. The changes in the residence halls are among several being considered throughout the University of Kansas.
The department purchased the phones from Graybar Electric Inc., a national electrical and communications supply house. Each unit cost $42.88 and included a cord aid a phone with a tap, an access card, a transfer card and to Diana Miller's customer service representative for Graybar
"IT'S JUST LIKE any household. We're free to buy our own phones now. I think we can recover the price of the phones in about two years." Wilson said.
Wilson said the housing department paid $107,450 for 2,500 phones. The extra phones are needed for units that need to be replaced, either permanently or temporarily as some telephones are repaired.
"The reason we bought so many is so we can have about 10 in each hall for switch
THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT will be responsible for the maintenance and replacement of the phones themselves, he said, but the lines still will be provided by AT&T
"When they've (students) got a phone problem their supposed to let the house manager know, and we'll call AT&T or whatever the case might be." Wilson said
James Jeffrey, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said, "We have a large number of freshmen who think this (the phones) is standard fare. Very few students know we've bought our own phones."
phones. He said that AURH was not involved in the purchase of the new phones but that he was "fairly pleased" with the phones.
Jeffley said he hoped AURH would be more involved in the development of the new University-wide phone system.
WILSON SAID THE University was considering a University-owned telephone system that would be part of a larger statewide system. The University Telecommunication Committee is studying the change. The target date for switching to the new system is between spring and summer semesters of 1986. Wilson said.
KU now uses a Centre II system that allows phone users to call within the University using only a five digit number. All phone numbers with the prefix 864 can be reached from other 864 numbers by dialing only 4, plus the last four digits of the full phone number. Under Centre II, dialing 9 allows a caller to dial outside the system.
Centre II allows AT&T to bill individual users, such as residents in halls, directly. The housing department is not responsible for collection of phone bills. If the University buys its own phone equipment, it would be responsible for the collection of bills from hall residents.
WILSON SAID THAT if the system were developed, students probably would have to pay a deposit of $25 or $50, which would be included in their residence hall contract.
He said the deposits would ensure that housing department could pay the bills that a student didn't pay. The deposits would be refunded at the end of the year if the student paid his bills.
"Our gueststaments, and these are only gueststaments, are that students in the residence halls have bills totaling 800 per student. "There are other words about 10 percent." Wilson said.
Jeffey said AURH would be opposed to such deposits.
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