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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Nov. 15, 1985
Lights in halls, library burn late Campus bustles under cover of dark
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
The University appears to sleep, but under cover of dark the campus teems with activity.
The night shift can be identified as the part of the evening when most KU employees have gone home to their families, and many students contemplate watching one last television program or heading off to bed.
Looking out over glittering campus lights in the evening, KU police dispatchers keep eyes and ears on campus people who work the night shift.
"It can be a lonely job," dispatcher Chris Keary said yesterday. "You don't have to be like me."
Keary said that although he didn't have direct contact with many people during his evening shift, he had fun looking out the window and watching people walking, jogging or wandering about.
"I can't say it does much for the social life," Keary said. "But I still like it. I wouldn't switch to another shift."
He said he liked the evening shift because he finished paperwork from the day shift and started the work of the morning shift.
Keary said it was impossible to guess how busv any shift would be.
"Anytime you can be just sitting here not doing much, and then, bang! We're real busy for 20 minutes," he said.
Besides monitoring the switchboard and directing KU police, Keary said, he maintains contact with campus security workers who have come in to make their rounds and checking for unusual happenings in buildings.
If something is happening, it's usually in the buildings. But for some students, those happenings aren't so unusual.
Karen Johnson, Lenexa junior,
said that sometimes she had to spend
long evenings studying at Watson
Library.
"I only come here when I have to," Johnson said.
Johnson said she had four roommates. When they get too noisy, she said, she heads to Watson to work.
"I usually come here," she said, referring to the stacks. "It gets quieter as the evening goes on."
Joelle Batchceler, Milwaukee sophomore, said she also studied late at night in the library stacks.
Batchelor said she especially enjoyed walking on campus during the evening.
main room, and it's too distracting." Batchelor said.
"It's peaceful," she said. "Not many people are around late at night. It doesn't matter."
'People walk by the tables in the
Around 11:30 p.m., studios desert the stacks. Before long, the lights will flick off. The daylong whisper of the library silences.
Soon, the only sound will be the whirr and whine of the copying machines waiting to be turned off. At midnight, the only remaining noise is a custodian's broom brushing dried and waste paper down darkened stairs.
After the library boots the last student from its confines, many trudge out into the night to continue studying in deserted classrooms in Learned Hall or any other building offering quiet and light.
But the campus doesn't sleep once the studium leave the library. Juggers still sprint by the couples walk in hand along Jayhawk Boulevard.
In Marvin Hall, lights burn brightly, signaling the presence of architecture students busily working on projects due in the morning.
Robert Porter, associate director of the physical plant, said, "I really think there is somebody on this campus 24 hours a day, seven days a
Porter said he had been on campus at all times of the day and night.
"There's quite a lot of activity up here at all times," he said.
Porter said the physical plant had a preventative maintenance crew on duty at night.
"There are a lot of things we need to do when the bulk of faculty and staff leave."
The crew searches buildings and their heating and cooling systems to find the small problems before they become large breakdowns. The crew also maintains equipment, he said.
Porter said he also had people working around the clock in the University's steam-producing power plant.
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