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Vol. 90, No. 72 10 cents off campus The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas free on campus Thursday, January 17, 1980
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State Legislature to address student-related issues
The 1980 session of the Kansas Legislature, which convened this week in Topeka, will address several issues that affect direct effect on University of Kansas students.
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Among those issues are:
- A proposed bill that would raise the minimum drinking age in Kansas to 21.
- An amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, designed to force negligent landlords to comply with existing health and safety codes, and with their rental agreements;
- Proposed salary increases, to the $3.10 minimum wage, for students employed by the University;
- A bill reducing the residency requirement from one year to six months for out-of-state students;
- A bill raising tuition by $300 for foreign students:
ASK's Bob Bingaman said that almost every legislator he talked to this week wanted to know what ASK's position would be on such a bill.
*A bill that would prohibit the use of student fees to pay for academic, instructional or health care buildings, schools, and payment payments they are making on them.
The executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby group, said yesterday that changing the drinking are said to be "a very hot issue."
- Proposed funding for non-student users of student unions, such as faculty and administrative meetings, which now are partially funded by student activity fees;
- If passed, the self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act would affect students who rent apartments or other housing.
- Proposed increases in the maximum amount of federal funds available for scholarships will increase the proposed bill increasing the number of scholarships available to students at state universities.
- According to the bill's sponsor, State Rep John Solhach. D-Lawrence, the amendment would give a tenant an easy legal means to get over any lease agreement or with state health and building codes, if the landlord refused to make necessary improvements within a certain period.
- A proposed 100 percent fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants.
Although a bill to raise the drinking age has not yet been introduced, most observers are confident that the issue will be raised this session.
The I.A, with representatives from each member school, sets the issues for lobbying priority. KU has 23 voting members.
Bingaman said he expected such a bill to be introduced, but Mr. Trump says that ASE's position on such a bill would be determined by the Legislative Assembly when it meets in Washington.
Landlords not be liable for anything not already included in the existing act, Solbach said, and only necessary repairs could be made.
before a House Judiciary Committee for a vote in about two weeks.
The amendment is expected to come
Most students employed by the University will receive an increase in salary from $2.90 to $3.10 an hour if the Legislature follows its recommendation to raise student salaries.
By CINDY WHITCOME Staff Reporter
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Twenty months after opening, the Art and Design Gallery in the Visual Arts building has its first alarm system.
Dillingham could not be reached for comment, but Forer said he didn't think Dillingham was planning any action against the University now.
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Forer and Clarence Dillingham, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare who was on the staff at the university given 20 days of leave without pay after their unauthorized trip to Iran. Forer left Washington in August.
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past remain long after buildings die
Next to Watkins, on the southeast corner of campus, is Old Blake Hall, completed in 1895. Its climbs steeply into a crenil roof, and at the front corners of the building, two round turrets rise. Centered between their cone-shaped domes is a large facade that has a window and a clock, archways provide entrance to a porch on the front of the building. A balcony on the front of the roofs of the porch. You decide that Old Blake looks very much like a Swiss town hall.
TO THE NORTH of Blake there is a sloping lawn lined with tiowers. Towering majestically over the lawn at its west edge stands Old Fraser Hall. It is the oldest building on campus, dating from 1027. It is one of the largest college buildings in America.
The central part has high, narrow windows, appropriate for the chapel that once occupied the second and third floors. The chapel and its pipe organ are gone by 2015. It is now converted to the University theatre. In future years it will become a lecture hall.
The building is composed of three elements: its central section, two domed towers that rise above the central section on both sides, and two adjoining wings.
The flag of the United States and the KU flag wave lazily from two high poles which seem harpounded into the tops of the wowers.
THE ONLY THING that interrupts the proud bearing of the structure is a curious stone portico that serves as the east entrance to the building. The porloe was not part of the original building at all, but was originally designed for the State Insane Asylum at Osawatime. But because of a mistake by the stonecutter it could not be built.
hall was built with, "stuck" the portico on, though it was not similar in design.
You enter through the stone portico and mount one of the towers, contained in the tower. Visitors are on the cupulas, and from the north one you can clearly see the remainder of the tower.
The University administration, seeing an opportunity to finally replace the "temporary" wooden frame entrance the
DYCHE NATURAL History Museum, finished in 1902, is undergoing extensive repairs. Spooner Library, built in 1834, was restored and became the Spooner-Theater Museum in 1928 with the completion of Watson. Finally, Memorial Union, opened in 1972, sits in the museum.
It is here, atop one tower of Fraser, that two students reassembled Chancellor Snow's buggy. To get the buggy to the top, she had to climb the stairs and the pieces up the staircase to the cupola.
Years later, Old Fraser itself would be dismantled, not by pranksters, but by a wrecking球. The job would not be done secretary, methodically, piece by precious piece, but suddenly and amid a storm of proteins from students, faculty and alumni
And the proud old building, like so many which once graced Mount Oread, would never be reassembled, only replaced.
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"THEY TOOK one swing at one of the towers with the wrecking ball and the whole central section collapsed."
This is how Curtis Biesinger, professor of architecture, learned the beginning of archival preservation of the Old Fraser With the leveling of proud old Fraser of the University was his last vestige of the original University ware.
Old North, the first University building, had been built in 1866 on the site of the present-day Gerrtude Sellars Pearson-Corbin residence hall complex. It was torn down in 1919, and Fraser Hall in 1875. But it survived until 1987, became the oldest building on campus.
"At the time, when talk first began, I thought it would be a mistake to tear it down, but there were places in the building
where you could stick your whole arm through cracks in the wall," he said.
"IT COULDLE been saved," he said, "but the building would've almost had to have been rebuilt from the inside out. It would have been very expensive."
It was possible to stand on a railed platform on the roof of the flag towers, and Besinger said that at a graduation ceremony a student, as his name was caused for, ranks, presented a surplus chancelier with one of the flags that fainter a florat.
Old Fraser was not the first University building to go under the wrecking ball. According to Keth Lawton, law enforcement began in 1951-52 to evaluate a long-range development plan, which Lawton said he thought had much improved the campus.
A MAJOR GOAL of this plan, he said, was to build a large general classroom building in the center of campus to meet the basic major requirements needs of
students. But Jayhawk Boulevard already was lined with buildings. Obviously, something had to go.
Robinson Gymnasium and Haworth Hall, built in 1906 and 1908 respectively, were sacrificed to make way for the new school building. Wesco Hall, dedicated in 1973.
Beesinger said that when construction was started on Lindsey Hill, builders noticed the uneven limestone as they had for earlier buildings, but when they reused the quarry, they found it even more uneven.
However, he said there was a stockpile of stones salvaged from campus buildings torn down that was kept in a pasture on the campus. He also said that support services at KU, said that the stockpile was not very large and was used only for decorative and retaining walls on campus.
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