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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 69 (USPS 650-640)
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Marvin Robb, facilities operations employee, clears the sidewalk in front of employees worked yesterday to clear campus after the weekend snow and ice Robinson Center with a snow blower. Robb and other facilities operations storm.
Temperatures dip to record lows
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Yesterday's blazing sun blinded those who walked around campus, but did little to warm them as temperatures in Lawrence and many other cities in the Midwest hit record lows.
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While students trudged through snow and slipped on ice to get to classes yesterday, they also had to face record-breaking low temperatures, a forecaster for the KU Weather Service said yesterday.
Lawrence yesterday was two degrees, breaking the record set in 1895 of five degrees. Sunday's low of five degrees broke a record of nine degrees, said Wikile, an Overland Park senior.
Today, temperatures should reach 20 to 25 degrees, he said. But a 20 percent chance of light snow and freezing drizzle will accompany the warming trend.
Heller, staff nurse at Watkins Memorial Hospital,
said the most common problem in this bitter
weather was frostbite, especially of hands, ears,
noses and toes.
Although it is unusual to have these extremely cold temperatures early in December, Wikle said, the outbreak of cold weather is not only in this area, but also in eastern and western Kansas.
Heller said no serious injuries related to the weather had been reported at the hospital yesterday, but many phone calls had been received from students asking questions about illnesses they may have.
Chris Wikle, the forecaster, said that the low in
Although the sunshine looked inviting, many students couldn't enjoy it because of the cold. Lynn
Students have inquired about continuous coughing, sneezing and sore throats and about the causes and condition of frostbite, she said.
"In the past, we have seen lots of cases of frostbite but the cases tend to be mild," she said.
New dean announced tomorrow
By a Kansan reporter
The new dean of engineering will be announced tomorrow, Don Green, chairman of the dean search committee, said yesterday.
Green would not release the name, upon the new dean's request.
The School of Engineering has been without a dean since David Kraft resigned 16 months ago. William Smith has served as acting dean since he was called back from retirement in August 1984.
The search committee, representing different segments of the engineering school and the University, followed the affirmative action rules for the search. It advertised in professional journals last fall and allowed reasonable time for responses. Green said.
Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the wait was because of the lengthy search process.
"We made an offer in the late spring of '83 to the dean at the University of Syracuse, but he turned it down," Green said. "We had negotiations with that person, but he decided to stay."
A few candidates were invited to the University for interviews, he said
Little was accomplished over the summer, Green said, so the search continued this fall. The committee considered previous applicants and ran additional advertisements.
Smith said he was happy with the selection.
"This means I can retire," he said.
"I'll be 71 in February. I'm getting
too old for this."
Smith was dean of engineering from 1965 to 1978.
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Hassles are just part of job
Jim Norton, an employee of Domino's Pizza, 1445 W. 23rd St., says he knows well the perils and pitfalls of late-night pizza delivery. Norton was delivering pizza last night.
Pizza drivers encounter all
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Peddling pizzas may not be a supreme job, but most pizza delivery men say the problems they encounter are just slices of the delivery life.
Fake orders and be chased by dogs come with the territory. So does the frustration of rush-hour traffic.
"Traffic on game days is bad," Ted Bordman, Overland Park sophomore, said last week. "Parking is also a problem. I got three tickets in two nights."
"We usually get a fake order once a night," he said.
"If that happens, sometimes we bring it back to the store and someone here eats it."
Bordman, who has delivered for Pyramid Pizza, 507 W.14th St., said false orders were big problems that delivery people faced.
started a new policy last week to curb false orders.
Rick Hays, Derry senior and an employee for Domino's Pizza, 1445 W. 23rd St., said Domino's had
"When we get what we think is a bad order, we call back and check it, especially if it's a frat," he said. "We got three bad orders just tonight and caught them. If we find the person who called in the bad order, we can charge him for the pizza."
Hays recalled a night that he delivered a pizza to an apartment and met up with delivery men from two other pizzerias.
"Someone was playing a joke on these girls," he said. "And the three of us just stood there looking at each other."
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
False orders aren't the only frustrations that delivery people run into. Many find that college students are not good tippers.
Construction won't be hurt by budget ax
"Students are about 90 percent of our customers." Bordman said. "They don't realize we depend a lot on
At a time when the state's budget director is cutting more than $17 million from the budgets of the seven Board of Regents schools, the University of Kansas is in the midst of some of the most expensive construction programs in the 119-year history.
See PIZZA, p. 5, col. 1
Despite the drastic cuts, huge building projects at the University will continue as planned, with previously budgeted state aid and some private and federal financing, according to campus officials.
Building projects over the past four years as well as those planned for the next five years will amount to about $95 million, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said last month.
Budge said "Over the past four years," Budig said, "we have completed 12 major construction projects on the Lawrence campus valued at more than $38 million. We, today, have another nine projects in planning. These projects amount to more than $57 million worth of campus improvements."
Budig said that the projects were vital to the academic mission of the University. He said the growth of the University was of extreme importance to Kansas because it represented the state's future.
Represented The University recently passed its 10-year accreditation review by the North Central Association, Budig said, encouraging KU to continue its growth pattern.
"The official accreditation report resulted in a unanimous recommendation from the evaluators that KU receive a full 10-year accreditation." Budig said. "This is a strong vote of confidence in the academic wellbeing of the University of Kansas."
Budig said the Regents had supported the University's growth.
"The Regents have a program review in process," he said. "Thus far, KU has fared well in that process."
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the Regents five-year capital improvement plan for KU, issued July 1, was evidence of that support.
or that support.
According to the plan, the University of Kansas is scheduled to receive $23,834,000 from the state over the next five years for six construction projects. This figure is not affected by the recently announced cuts. The report also showed that private sources, and other sources would take care of an additional $17,550,000 of projects.
The six projects set to receive state money are:
*construction of a new Science and Technology Library, $13 900.000.*
■ renovation of Snow Hall,
$7,230,000
■renovation of Spooner Hall,
$2,200,000.
■ remodeling of Haworth Hall,
$800,000.
- analysis of University utilities,
$275,000
Recent projects that have received private and federal support are:
remodeling the Fowler shop and Broadcasting Hall, $560,000.
bung said the drain on state money by the other Regent schools has meant that KU had had to increasingly rely on private funds. He said the University had relied on private funds in the past for building and would do so in the future.
the construction of the Human Development Center, $12,000,000
the remodeling of the Kansas
Union, $5,000,000
**work on the facilities operations complex.** $550,000.
Without private support, Budig said, the University could not grow as it is now.
"The five-story addition to Summerfield was constructed with private funds," Budig said. "The new library for engineering in Learned Hall was constructed with private funds."
"We have done quite well in attracting increased levels of private support in the past five years. We have a record number of contributors today. This speaks well for the University of Kansas and the confidence that people have in this institution."
Wiechert said two of the University's largest projects — the Science and Technology Library and the Human Development Center — were already receiving money.
"With the assistance of Sen. Robert Dole," Budig said, "the University of Kansas received a federal grant of $9 million to construct a national center for research and training in the area of developmental disabilities."
The federal grant for the Human Development Center, Budig said, was the largest in the history of the Lawrence campus. The money was appropriated in the fall of 1948, but the center is still in initial planning stages.
"It is recognition by the Congress of our international leadership in this vital area." he said.
The science library, which is ex
See PLAN, p. 6, col.1
Counsel says group did violate KU code
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Student officials received an official opinion yesterday stating that the Student Senate Elections Committee violated the University Senate Code when it closed a meeting last month.
But Senate officers say the recent elections will not be affected.
The four-page opinion from Vicki Thomas, University general counsel, was in response to a Nov. 12 letter from former student body president William Easley and former vice president Jeff Polack. They asked that Thomas review actions taken by the Elections Committee at a Nov. 6 meeting.
Amy Brown, student body vice president, said yesterday that there was no point in taking action on the decision since closing the meeting did not affect the outcome of the election.
Brown said that she and David Epstein, student body president, opposed closing meetings, and that the counsel's opinion would give them "legal clout" if a similar situation were to occur.
David Day, Elections Committee chairman, said yesterday that the opinion could not affect the elections because the deadline for appealing he elections had passed.
He said it would serve as a guideline for future committees.
Easley said that the opinion was a "token statement."
In its Nov. 6 meeting, the Elections Committee discussed Senate seat apportionment figures. Easley, Polack and Tony Arnold, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, wanted to use 20th-day enrollment figures to apportion seats. The committee had earlier sent a different set of figures to StudEx, which StudEx rejected.
While discussing whether to send the same figures back to StudEx, the committee closed the meeting. Michael Foubert, vice chairman of the Elections Committee, said committee members could have been intimidated by others present.
Foubert said the meeting was closed to discuss personnel matters, which he defined as possible conflicts of interest of StudEx members. All non-members, including Easley, Polack and Arnold, who are StudEx members, had to leave.
When the meeting re-opened, the committee voted unanimously to send the same figures back to StudEx.
The opinion from Thomas said the committee did not necessarily violate the Kansas Open Meetings Act, but said it did violate the Code section that requires University governing committees to follow open meetings laws.