THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 24
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Thursday, September 27, 1979
Marvin Hall renovations will not solve crowding
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Crowded conditions in the School of Architecture and Urban Design will persist even after the long awaited $2.2 million renovation of Marvin Hall next year, the school's fourth major project.
"But we will still be short of space by thousands of source feet."
The assistant dean, Dennis Domer, said, "The renovation will give us a little additional space when the architecture library is moved to some unknown location.
The $2,178,000 renovation will include improving accessibility to the physically handicapped, and improving heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical systems.
Domer said, "In the last five or six years enrollment has grown by leaps and bounds We are overcrowded."
This fall's enrolment, Domer said, is up 5.6 percent from last fall. Projected enrolment for fall, spring and summer is 1,064, up 6 percent from last year.
IN THE 1978-79 school year, enrollment increased 12.6 percent from the previous year, he said.
Enrollment next year is expected to grow to 1,109, a 5.2 percent increase over the 1979-80 school year.
"We will see a leveling in 1981-82."
Domer said, "because it literally will be impossible to fit any more students in the building."
Domer said the increased enrollment had forced the school to locate students in Lindley and Blake annexes, which he said would allow him to serve the needs of architecture students.
"It is ironic," he said, "that architecture students must work in buildings that are in such deteriorated states."
Doman said sharing Blake Annex with the Applied English department caused problems because other departments did not understand the needs of architecture students."
"They don't understand that the school's standards require that students be able to use their drafting boards 24 hours a day," he said.
PETER BURGESS, assistant professor of architecture, said he moved his class from Lindley Annex into Marvin Hall because of the aunt's condition.
Burgess said, "The roof leaks during the winter and the building is difficult to heat because it has no insulation.
"I couldn't expect my students to work under those conditions, so I put my sophomore class in with a junior class that met in Marvin."
Although funds to repair Linden Anne's roof have been provided, Domen said, the internal wiring and heating and cooling systems need radical renovation.
"When the air vents come on," Domer said, "they create a low roar that makes it
impossible for students to talk to one another and to instructors."
IN MARVIN HALL, Domer said, overcrowding allowed students little space in which to work.
"The National Architectural Accrediting Board has said that each student should be allotted 60 square feet for space," he said. "We average about 35 to feet."
John Knapp, Lawrence special student in the school, said he had even less space.
"I'd settle for half the space the board recommends," Knapp said. "I barely have enough room to stand up in back here."
Domer said the crowded conditions in Marvin forced students and faculty to examine and critique others' work in halls and inconvenient room sets.
"THE RENOVATION could cause more problems by displacing large numbers of students. Domer said.
"It could turn into a nightmare," he said. "We will be putting our graduate program in Lindley Annex and will put other students in Blake Annex and who knows where else we are." He added that communication difficult and make it hard to maintain any sense of identity for the school. This could decimate the population学校 some students might find harder to manage.
Allen Wischert, University director of facilities planning, said the University would examine this month possible sites to plan for future renovation, which should take one year.
City cites sign violations; sets deadline for changes
Staff Renorter
By ANN LANGENFELD
More than 50 signs and billboards in Lawrence will have to be either altered or removed by Oct. 22 to conform with the city's sign ordinance.
At the end of last week, city officials notified the businesses and organizations that were in violation of the ordinance.
An approved variance would allow the violation to remain.
The business owner or manager can file for a variance at the city offices in the First National Bank Tower, 910 Massachusetts St. (212) 364-8050, considered by the city commissioners at a
regular commission meeting before the Oct 22 deadline.
The city's sign ordinance was first written in 1988, and was revised in 1914 and 1977. It required that all signs of the city would have to be removed within five months of October 22, 1974, the effective date for such removal.
Wall signs are restricted to 150 square feet or 10 percent of the building's wall space.
No business may have more than two wall signs and the signs must face the street right of way. Also, roof signs are prohibited by the ordinance.
Many of those who plan to seek variances said they could not afford to replace their current signs.
Duane Buck, manager of Bucky's DriveIn,
1,210 W. 9th St., said that when his sign
was installed almost 20 years ago it cost several thousand dollars.
"I can't imagine what a new sign would cost now," he said.
David Cox, the owner of Independent Coin Op. 9th and the Mississippi streets, said he would seek a variance because, "I don't think there should be retractive laws."
When his sign was installed in 1851 it conformed to the existing ordinance, he said. If he has to replace it, it probably will cost about $3,000.
Al Hack, president of the Lawrence Bank and Trust Co., he said he would seek a variance because he thought there was a "difference of interpretation of the sign ordinance."
The bank was cited for having a sign that does not face a street right of way, for having more than two wall signs, and for having a roof sign.
He said he had been chairman of the task force that wrote recommendations for the
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Adviser builds athletes' GPAs
By BRETT CONLEY
Staff Reporter
In Allen Field House, they call Mike Fisher the brain coach
Fisher is the academic counselor for the athletic department at KU. It is his job to help the coaches keep student athletes academically eligible.
"Academics are the most important part of inter-college athletics." Fisher said, "when you realize that only two percent of collegiate athletes become professional athletes.
All first semester freshmen athletes on the football and basketball teams are offered a scholarship to Fisher. Fishers, Athletes who are in academic trouble at the end of the first semester
The hours of the study halls are 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
TO HELP student athletes overcome the stress of athletic practices and academics, Fisher has developed supervised study programs for athletes.
"Many parents of athletes we recruit are concerned about their kid's academics and they like our program of mandating study hours for them," Fisher said.
During the past 20 years, Fisher said, 75 percent of KU athletes have left KU with a degree. And in the past four years that has increased to 82 percent.
"Most athletes spend about five hours a day practicing and lifting weights. Fisher said. When they get home they are tired and it's hard for them to concentrate. Some people would say that it is a terrible experience, but way to look at it is performing upward stress.
Jim Boushka and Dave Wessling, both freshmen football players, said that
"I think that ability to perform under stress is important. It will certainly carry over into later life and help them be more successful."
Fisher's program had helped them adjust to college academics.
George Fisher
"We go to study hall four nights a week an hour and a half and it helps a great deal." Boukaisha said. "It makes you do your work and it provides a good atmometer."
"One rule we do have is we don't allow 'any tutoring unless it's supervised in a study hall.' Fisher said. "We have found that tutors more often tutor tutors more often than the poorer ones."
FISHER SAID he urged athletes who needed tutoring to meet with professors individually and to get recommendations from them about tutors.
Athletes are expected to make the same effort in class as they do on the field, Fisher said. This includes getting to know their classes, attending class regularly and studying.
Wessling said, "Fisher and the tutors at the study hall really help. It really helped me a lot, because studying is a lot cheaper now than it ever has been for me."
Fisher has firsthand knowledge of the aircraft used by the Hellenic Air Force at defensive power for KCU football team in 1958 and 1959, and he received the Arthur Waver award for being the senior player on the team.
"I think athletics handle the pressure pretty well," Fisher said. "We're getting athletes that are more sophisticated today. I just want a reflection of our society as a whole."
"How successful a team is on the field often has a to do with how well they do in class," Fischer said. "We will lose some kids who are intimidated by our academics, also."
"My job them is to look at athletes who do poorly in class as disadvantaged students. To me they're not athletes, but student and all the same regardless of athletic ability." All of them.
FISHER SAID the percentage of athletes getting degrees was increasing because more students were attending football scholarships every year. This makes it essential for athletes to be kept in
There are many factors that determine how well an athlete does in class, Fisher said.
THE ATHLETIC department makes a special effort for those students who do not get a degree after four years by allowing them an extra year to finish school. Fisher
"We bring back everyone who does not graduate in four years and give them an additional year on scholarship—if they have been required to do so, they return they perform douts around the of-
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lifts a load of bricks over a fence. Middlemas is laying a walkway of nearly 350 bricks at the corner of Oread and University Drive
Huna over
Keith Middlemas, a stonemason from Oskaloosa, grimaces as he
Kansas needs bilingual education school district officials maintain
By HAROLD CAMPBELI
Staff Reporter
Officials from Kansas school districts said yesterday a lack of bilingual education degree programs at universities and in Kansas was hampering their efforts.
"We have a crying need for more teachers in our program." Horace Good, superintendent of Garden City schools, said yesterday.
Good said the Garden City school district has had to hire bilingual education teachers 'rom as far away as California.
The Garden City school district employs
16 bilingual education teachers, and Good said it "could use 20 more." About 300 students are enrolled in the district's program.
Gracia Barrera-Brito, director of the Wichita school district's educational education services, and her bilingual education teachers were hired from the Southwest or Florida, where she is based.
SHE SAID a number of universities in those areas offered degree programs in bilingual education.
Officials in the Manhattan school district
However, Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence schools, said he thought Lawrence had enough teachers for its bilingual education program.
also said they had difficulties finding qualified bilingual education teachers.
The Lawrence program received a $12,000 state grant this week to hire a second teacher. He said he thought the two teachers Lawrence had were enough for the 70 students in his district.
The concept of bilingual education is the development of proficiency in English for
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Senators discuss rights
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Repeate
Chancellor Arike H. Dyke has assured student leaders that the KU administration will ensure that students' activities on campus, George Gomez, body student vice president, last night taught at the school.
Gomez said Dykes' remarks came at a recent meeting of the President's Roundtable, an informal group of administrators and student leaders.
Previously, Dykes had said he was opposed to endorsing activities that would hurt the Commission's treasony activity about a plant sale sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women. He had also said it was "higly doubtful" such sales would be permitted in campus on the basis.
Incidents that allegedly violated students' rights in the past several months were listed in the resolution.
On a related issue, the Senate passed a resolution encouraging the KU administration to "become a forerunner in the matter of rights, especially student rights."
A Lawrence merchant, Fred Pence, objected to the plant sale because he said, it caused unfair competition to local merchants.
At its meeting two weeks ago, the Student Senate passed a resolution supporting the plant sale and the right of other student organizations to hold fund-raising activities.
Rex Gardner, chairman of the Student Rights Congress and author of the resolution "A Call to Stand," said a take on the rights resolution it could only blame itself for further violations of its constitution.
An unfair literature distribution policy, disregard for student privacy rights in residence hall room searches and unusual interpretations of Kansas Board of Regents policies, specifically concerning the banner policy, were some of the incidents listed in
"I would rather blame someone else," he said, "and at least we made an effort."
The resolution also stated that the Student Senate realized the administration had readjusted some of its policies.
However, Steve Cramer, Nunenaker Center centerer, said that although the administration had "smoothed over" some of the differences had智慧ed in students' rights.
"It's time we make a stand to uphold human rights." he said.
Opposition to the resolution was voiced by Greg Snacke, journalism senator. The resolution, he said, was too broad.
He also said he did not think the resolution should both "commend and chastise" the administration at the same time.
"I think it's a mistake for the Senate to support the resolution," he said. "If we chastise the administration, we won't be given permission from them when we work with them."
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