Wednesday, August 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Summerfield remodel continues
By DANNY CAPLAN Staff Reporter
The majority of a $285,000 improvement in the athletic facility Hall will begin this fall after a seven-month delay, according to Allen University director of facilities planning.
Work on repairing the roof of Summerfield, the first phase of the project, was completed in early July at a cost of $85,000.
Wiechert said recently the remodeling project should additional steps before the School Business scheduled to begin last year, but problems in selecting an architect post-Bachlorine.
Kenneth Von Achen, Eudora, was selected last April as the architect for the remodeling.
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said the remodeling included
expanding Summerfield's basement to provide a larger reading room, eight to 10 offices for assistant instructors, a job position for computer facility and two classrooms.
THE SPACE FOR the $200,000 expansion became available after the computer center moved to its own building last summer.
Pichler said the project also would correct a heat retention problem caused by the building's six-story, window-covered south side.
"We have put tremendous pressure on this building."
Pichler said he hoped the increased spaces from the renovation would ease some of the business schools's growing pains.
John Toilefson, associate dean of the School of Business, said that since 1973, the school's enrollment had doubled to about 1,800 students.
Pichler said that along with an enrollment increase, the school needed a larger job placement office because the number of jobs needed to fill positions in 3,000 from 1,980 to more than 4,700 in 1979.
"THE PLACEMENT center addition will provide a total of about 10 interview rooms." he said. "We only have free now."
The reading room, as it is now, is 1,000 square feet. With the renovation, that space will double.
Pichler said the reading room now could only accommodate 25 spaces for students, but that with the renovation, the space can be increased to accommodate 50 students.
Besides space problems, Pichler said, the building retains an excessive amount of heat because so much sunlight comes through the windows on the south side.
Wichert said the large amount of glass created an imbalance in the building's temperature system. The amount of solar generated through the glass varies depending on the number of people present heating and air conditioning system cannot handle the temperature variation.
THEERE ARE SEVERAL alternative ways to solve the retention problem, Wiechert said.
- The amount of glass could be reduced.
- The heating and air conditioning system could be revamped to accommodate the excess heat.
- The amount of glass could be reduced.
* The glass could be replaced with solar glass which reflects some of the heat causing light.
- A combination of the above.
Wiechert the architect and engineers would be responsible for coming up with the most economical long-term solution.
New garage eases parking woes
The overcrowded parking situation at the town hall caused many residents of the hall to park their cars more than a block away, should be used somewhat first by the addition of staircases.
According to J. J. Wilson, director of housing, the garage created 190 parking spaces on a large lot in which were blocked all of last year by construction of the garage, also will be built.
"This won't alleviate the problem entirely," Wilson said, "but it's to help out a lot. I've never seen a parking lot yet and I'm not sure if everyone who wants to park there."
There are now off-street parking lots for
residents of GSP-Corbin on Indiana, Louisiana and Mississippi streets. Last year, these lots often were filled and many cars were forced to park on the street, he said.
*WE SHOULD HAVE enough room now in all of the lids to keep students from falling off. 'There will be the usual seven 'clock rushes when people come to visit, but we don't.'
He said that in order to use the new garage, the students would have to get a GSP Carbine with which cost $10 a semester, will be available to GSP-Corbin students at fall.
Wilson said that even though theparking
spaces would be available for students when school started, there still was some work to be done before the garage would be completely finished.
THE ONLY THINGS left to be done on the garage are the addition of parking signs and some landscaping work.
Wilson said that the hill leading from the garage to Indiana Street would be planted with grass at some point in the future, but he did not know when or how much the landscaping would cost.
The hill, which is now covered with weeds and eroded furrows, is the main part of the area to be landscaped.
The garage, which has two levels of 60 parking spaces each, is built on the same
site as the original parking lot at GSP-Corbin. The top of the new garage is level with the surface of the old lot.
"We tried to build it into the hill for financial as well as for aesthetic purposes," Wilson said.
HE SAID THAT it was easier to build the lot underground than above ground and that the underground lot did not obstruct the campus from the residence halls.
Access to the garage, which is on the corner of Indiana and 11th streets, is on the east side of the structure, facing Corbin. There are no side doors for pedestrians.
Construction of the garage, which was done by Dolstrum and Farrel of Topeka, was begun July 1 of last year.
Documents move begins Watson renovation
Several changes have already been made by the KU library system in preparation for a $2. 2 million renovation of Watson Library, scheduled to begin in January.
Transfer of the 500,000-piece collection of government documents from the Watson Library basement to the basement of Spencer Library was completed in June.
Marien Way, documents librarian, said the move of official publications of the United States and British governments, the
United Nations and other international publications was permanent.
"We will not be going back to Watson," she said.
The documents could, however, be relocated in a proposed branch library, if the Kansas Legislature approves funds for the building next year.
THE BASEMENT SPACE at Spencer library was refinished through a separate $291,000 state allocation. The funds also
provided for lighting, painting, floor sealing, a stand-by emergency electrical backup and maintenance basement of Watson library. The two basement areas total approximately 23,000
THE WATSON EAST sub-basement now houses books categorized by the Dewey system. Brief-listed books, or uncalculated books, moved to the spacious of the Spencer Library.
CAROL CHITTENDEN, associate reference librarian, said that Watson library was clearing center stacks which would be rebuilt during the library's upcoming renovation. The main floor levels will extend into the stacks.
Updates on locations of the stacks will be available throughout the renovation process because frequent moves will be required to accommodate the construction.
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THE CORPS SAID there was no emergency with the Lone Star dam, and did encourage the county to take some measures to improve the lake's safety.
Dooley said the county would decide what improvements to make at the lake after the corps presented its recommendations.
County urged to repair leak in Lone Star dam
The dam is more than 50 years old, Dooley said, and the repairs that he recommended were small in comparison to that it now would cost to build the lake.
Douglas County is considering a repur-
pment of the old Lake. That could cost more than $790,000.
The plan was drawn up this summer by
Mike Dooley, county public works direc-
tors.
In May, the county was notified in a letter from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the Lone Oak star dam was in need of repairs. But the plan presented to the Ripley County Commission in July was not approved on the corps' report, Dooley said.
"We drew up our plans for repairs and improvements before they even sent us the letter," Dooley said. "But we still are waiting to receive the full report from the firm. I sure that there will be some things in it that might change what we planned."
The corps told the county that Lone Star dam could only withstand 35 percent of its possible maximum flood level. The reservoir should be able to withstand at least 50
percent of the possible maximum flood level.
Doiley said he would not know whether his recommendations met all the corps' specifications for improvement until the report was completed.
Dooley's plan for improvements include repair of the lake's flood-gate at the base of salt from the lake ($220,000) and improvements to roads around the lake ($174,000).
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HE SAID THERE also was a strong interest in upgrading Robinson Gymnasium.
"The interest in the indoor facilities may be a result of the Olympic competition, and the legislators saw that interest," Nichols said.
Historically, Nichols said, there was a slowdown of state funds for building during student unrest at KU in the early 1970's.
"The public did not understand these days, and in 1971, the legislature gave the same amount of money they had in 1970—not a penny more."
He said there was a slowing down of this prejudice, but it had taken two or three years for the public to forget the turmoil.
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