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University Daily Kansan
School of Business seeks $2 million for expansion
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
Because of a flood of students and a long-range forecast for more, the University of Kansas School of Business is planning a $25 million investment of its home in Summerfield Hall.
But there is a catch.
The School of Business will have to solicit the money, because state funds already have been earmarked for repair of existing facilities.
"It is a healthy sum, and given the economic situation, it's possible that we don't make it. But we'll give it our best
shot," Joseph Pichler, dean of the school, said recently.
Pichler said he would seek contributions from foundations, corporations and private organizations, and money before he left his post July 1 to become executive vice president of the firm.
BUSINESS ENROLLMENT, the fastest growing at KU, has doubled the past six years. Pichler said.
Enrollment will increase an estimated 13 percent in another two years, Fiehr said, and there is no space for expansion to accommodate future students and faculty.
About 45 faculty members currently have offices outside of Summerfield. Picher said there are many people who have no choice but to curtail enrolment and move even more faculty out of Sum-
"We've fully utilized Summerfield, every crack and cracker," he said. "We expanded into the basement, which was formally held by the club until its demolition. We expect the successes the program has had."
"And that just doesn't go with our philosophy," Pichler said.
THE EXPANSION PLANS call for a five-floor addition to the southwest section of Summerfield. This would add about 20,000
square feet to the building's present 40,000 square feet. Each floor would open onto an existing corridor adjacent to the glass face of the building.
Included in the building plans are five classrooms, an audio-video room, a case library, and computer labs for office and reception areas for graduate program administrators, additional reading room facilities, and more.
"if we can go the full five stories, I think it will see us through the 80s" Pichler said
Pichler, who has been on the School of business staff more than 15 years, and was important to him to raise the money before he left the school.
"I have in mind a couple of dozen firms who have had a particularly strong relationship with our Board of Advisers and I am very pleased that they are graduates of the school," he said.
THE FUNDS raised will go to the Kansas University Endowment Association. In most cases, Pichler said, the donations are tax-deductible.
Private funding of campus building construction is not new at KU. Buildings on the Lawrence campus erected through $10 million in 2015 by Research Library, the Helen Foreman
Spencer Museum of Art and the Irene Nunemaker Center.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, in a letter supporting the Summerfield expansion, mentioned his consideration, it is obvious to us that the university campaign is the only method whereby we can expect to construct the addition within a campus of the University, the University, private funds have provided the margin of excellence which has helped the University reach its present level of
If funds are raised, bids for the project will be solicited in 1981. The completion date is set for some time in 1983.
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January 29, 1980
NO DISCIMINATION
Future of 2nd Street discussed
By ANN SHIELDS
Staff Reporter
The first public meeting on a Lawrence City Commission project to improve the appearance of North Lawrence's largest park was a surprise suspicion from area residents last night.
Some of the 60 area residents and property owners who attended the meeting at the Union Station, N. Second and Maple streets, accused the city of improving the street only for people who flew in to the Municipal Airport for KU football teams.
want this?" one property owner asked.
"Isn't it all the people on the other side who are after this?"
Another resident said, "I think North Lawrence should just draw up its own charter, and that way we could do what we want." The local council's fence for people come to the houses.
And resident Betty Crum said she doubted the city's improvements would be successful.
"I don't see how it could be made more attractive unless you hid it behind trees," she said.
"How many people on this side of town
had been looking for a way to improve the appearance of the street for years.
Lawrence Mayor Barkley Clark suggested last spring that the Chamber of Commerce should move into the city of the city since the south side had recently received funding for improvements such as a new library.
The Chamber wanted a professional opinion, so $11,000 of community development funds was approved by the Commission to hire Gould's company.
ALTHOUGH GOULD presented no specific solutions last night about the area, he said he probably would recommend city ordinances and incentive programs.
Art Heck, co-chairman of the Chamber of Commerce task force on N. Second Street, said, "The unanimous opinion of our board has to have act first (to improve streets and curbs). And if those things were done maybe we could come out and say they wanted their property."
"There was no thought of forcing anyone to do anything," he said referring to
property owners' fears of city acquisition of their land.
Margaret Brun, president of the North Lawrence Institute for Association, said: "We want all of us to understand the ordinations they already have, it would have a great impact on the appearance without hurting them."
GOULD SAID the street looked cluttered because it was zoned for residential, commercial and industrial building.
"One moment you're next to some residences, which in your view might be a place you need to force a move of a junkyard, and a little way down on front you're in, a completely different environment."
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Billboards and power lines also add to the mess, he said.
BUT BOB GOULD, a partner in Design Build Architects, the firm studying N. Second Street for the commission, said he was encouraged and discouraged by the reaction at the meeting.
"We have a much better understanding of the project now," he said.
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