Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Battenfeld might lose 6 members at break
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
By Bob Tinsley
The addition now being complete west of Battenford Hall is supposed to alleviate crowding in the hall's study rooms.
Addition could be completed next week
But when the men of Battenfield return for the spring semester, they may find that they have more room than anyone had anticipated.
John Miller, vice president of the All Scholarship Hall Council and Battentfeld resident, said yesterday that the hall could lose as many as six residents at semester break.
Battenfeld has space for 52 residents.
"We have 45 living in the hall at the moment," said Miller, Fort Scott junior. "This has fluctuated because we have had people coming and going during the semester."
The loss of residents will cut the hall's food budget, Miller said. But Battenfeld residents won't have to tighten up their belts just vet.
"The housing office said, 'Eat what you need to and do what you need to do, and don't worry about starving.'" Miller said.
The amount the hall's food budget will be cut depends on the number of residents, he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the office of housing would underwrite any budget shortage.
The hall opened in August with fewer residents anyway, Stoner said, to ease the burden of living with the
"we could have filled it and pu them in if we had wanted to," he said
addition's construction.
Battenfeld residents originally were told the addition would be completed Oct. 9. Ground was broken last semester, Construction, however, was delayed during the summer by rain.
Stoner said that Kurt von Achen,
the project's architect, told him
Tuesday that the addition would be
completed next Friday.
The $276,000 addition will contain four study rooms and a laundry room
Residents had hoped it would be completed for an open house that will
be given Saturday for Battenfeld alumni.
"We will remove the barricades so the guys can let their guests wander in and see what it looks like," Stoner said.
In the meantime, the men of Battenfeld can yawn, stretch and enjoy their extra space.
"It would be nice to fill them, there's no doubt about that."
John Corvin, Fairway junior and Battenfed prector, said, "It's going to be nice because there won't be as many people in the rooms.
Mark Denke, assistant director of residential programs, said losing residents at semester break in
scholarship and residence halls wasn't unusual.
The office of residential programs won't know before Dec. 10 how many vacancies will exist in the eight KU scholarship halls, Denke said.
"That is when we told residents who are leaving to tell us," he said.
None of the seven other scholarship halls expect a significant loss of residents, hall spokesmen said.
Chris Dalleger, director of Stephenson Hall, said his hall might lose a few residents, but he hadn't heard for sure that anyone was leaving.
"We'll want to fill those spots," Dalleger said, "but I imagine they'll be trying hard to fill Battenfeld."
The office of residential programs will accept spring applications for the scholarship halls through tomorrow.
Researchers study reactions to sexual assault
Beginning this week, women who have been sexually assaulted will be interviewed as part of a pilot study being conducted by two researchers in the department of psychology.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Six women have responded to a classified advertisement placed last week by Sara Gutierres, assistant professor of psychology, and Patricia Schoenrade. Detroit fifth-year graduate student. The participants are women who responded to the ad or who were referred by the Sexual Assault Counseling Program, Topeka.
done in the past. She worked as a counselor in an Arizona rape crisis center for two years.
United Press International
BURLINGTON — A make-believe "unusual event" at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant yesterday escalated into a fictional general emergency and state disaster declaration during a regularly scheduled staff drill.
False crisis tests plant
The participants will be paid a small fee to complete a questionnaire and participate in an optional interview. In the interview, the participants will answer questions similar to those on the questionnair
"We're trying to find out the victims' reactions to the event of sexual assault," Gutierres said Tuesday. "We are looking for the relationship between the perceived causes of the event and the subsequent coping."
"I have some crisis experience," Gutierres said. "I've worked with victims in the past, and it's something I've been interested in for a long time."
The researchers hope to interview 20 victims for the pilot study, which Gutierres said was part of the preparation for a grant application to conduct a statewide study. She said she hoped the pilot study, which began about eight months ago, would be concluded in May so they could apply for the grant this summer.
"The purpose of a statewide study is to better understand the phenomenon of the trauma of sexual assault," Guierries said. "Then we can make recommendations to people who have clients who have been sexually assaulted, so they can help people cope."
"It's a sensitive issue," Gutierres said. "Some people are reluctant to talk, and it's also hard to get the information that we're doing the study to the people whom it applies to."
Although a simulated evacuation was ordered in areas around the atomic plant near Burlington, the Wolf Creek staff brought the make-believe emergency under control by late afternoon.
The drill's scenario began as an "unusual event" — the least serious event at an atomic plant — when a fictional plant worker named Joe Scully was injured in a fall.
the interviews, they are preparing to talk to the women.
Although the two have not begun
"I've given a good deal of thought to the nature of the interview," Schoenrade said.
Gutierres said the study was part of her research at the University of Kansas and was something she had
The worker sustained head injuries, a broken right leg and some radiological contamination. He was reported in satisfactory condition at Ransom Memorial Hospital.
Even though the researchers have had only a small response, they said they hoped that more women would come forward.
Spokesmen for Kansas Gas & Electric Co., operator of the plant, said the daylong exercise involved fictional incidents at or near the plant and escalated through the various stages of "alert," "site area emergency," and the most serious, "general emergency."
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