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Tuesday, February 4, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Student wants sought by recreation coordinator
By MARK ZELIGMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Finding out what students want from their recreational facilities will be Tom Wilkerson's main priority as the University of Kaunas' recreation coordinator.
Wilkerson, who is the University's first recruitment coordinator, officially began his job.
The first thing we need to do is take a program equipment inventory to see what items are required.
Before coming here Wilkerson was on a state council for outdoor recreation in Missouri. He administered and distributed funds for the western half of Missouri.
HE HAS BEEN spending most of his time here becoming acquainted with the artists and their works.
"At the same time, I'd like to run a student and faculty survey to find out what they'd like to do during their leisure time," he explained.
"For example, one question might be, 'If you had eight hours a week, which of the following activities would you do?' he began. "A teacher is to meet students and faculty needs."
Wilkerson said he would use a random sample or a telephone survey. The most important thing, he said, will be to let the students say what they think.
He said he would find out how many people used Robinson Gymnasium during certain hours so that he could fill the gym in the most economical way.
"THE DEMAND SURVEY will dictate what we should do and will dictate our policy," Wilkerson said. "My long range management team is capable of shape in the way of recreational opportunity."
My door's open. I like phone calls. I like
people. if they've got a complaint about the recreation program, I'd like to hear about it.
Recreation, be said, is an important part of a student's total college education.
Wilkerson
"It is the University's responsibility that we offer the student an expanded overview of recreation" he said. "Recreation is more of a continuing education here. A student should be offered a variety of recreational experiences so he can choose one he will continue with as a lifetime activity."
Wikerson's main job, he said, will be to organize, plan and supervise recreational activities.
He said the recreation program was so big that it took a full time employee to coordinate it. His duties had been performed by various people. His job will coordinate everything and assign it to one person, he said.
ONE IDEA Wilkerson has is to coordinate recreation with departments on campus, such as woodworking and arts and crafts. He said a student then wouldn't have to take a course, in ceramics, for instance, to see if he liked it.
Wilkerson is well aware of the University's overcrowded recreational facilities, especially Robinson. Phase II addition to Robinson won't be completed for a few years. Until that happens, he said, there can be the do to remedy the space problem.
separate program under control of Bob Lockwood, director, he said.
A personal priority, he said, is making better use of Allen Field House. He said he would examine the recreational usage there would also use the idle space as much as possible.
Games not requiring much space, such as ping-pong, could possibly be installed in the field house, he said. Wilkerson doesn't want to use computers on his own, with any Kansas Union activities, however.
Another of Wilkerson's projects will be the development of football fields at 23rd and Iowa. The Student Senate has allocated approximately $2,900 for that development, but Wilkerson said he would also try to get federal money.
FLAG FOOTBALL, rugby and soccer would be the main activities at the new fields, he said. He would also like to see an area set aside for picnics.
As politicians and scientists scratch their collective heads for a solution to the energy crisis, an answer might be found in the song "The answer is blowin' in the wind."
Bill Ward, former assistant attorney general under Vern Miller, announced last week the formation of Great Plains Wind Industries, Inc., a nonprofit organization that promotes development of wind as an alternative energy source.
act as a clearing house for information on reliable wind power systems;
Ward, president of the organization, said the functions of Windstorms would be to
—establish a demonstration project.
"From a legislative standpoint, there's nothing I can do," he said. "From a budgetary standpoint, I can make a request. From a personal standpoint, I can provide the most economical use of the building and equipment that we currently
WARD SAID MEMBERSHIP in Windies was $5 and was open to anyone who wanted to support the development of wind power as an alternative energy source.
promote the opportunities and advantages of wind power and
"Energy problems are incorrectly thought of in this country as national problems." The problem region, the area that has a different energy region, and a different energy potential.
-build a consumer lobby dedicated to the wind power for the Great Plains so that it can be built.
"In the great plains, our potential is wind."
Soccer, track request expanded use of Allen
He said radioactive contamination wasn't the only disadvantage of nuclear power plants. He also release a great deal of heat just like power plants that burn oil or natural gas. This can also be a major pollutant.
WILLIAM SMITH, dean of the School of Engineering, said that a strong advantage of wind power is its nonpolluting effect. Wind power can be abundant and renewable or inexhaustible.
Perhaps the worst disadvantage of wind power, Smith said, is the cost of setting up a wind generator. He said windmil sets for farms could be purchased from $2000 to $5000 and would produce only one kilowatt of power.
Wind considered as a solution to energy problem in Kansas
Use of Allen Field House by athletic groups during recreational hours is now under consideration by the Allen Field House Utilization Committee.
Grisale said that anyone 18 years of age or over was urged to join the chair, superintendent, Rehearsals服从7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, 801 Kingston.
Ward said that problems could be overcome by the application of new designs, new materials, mass production, and by government aid to the consumer.
Grisafe said the board hoped for 60 to 80 members.
Representatives of the University of Kansas Soccer Club appeared before the committee Monday to request reserved time to practice. Pat Cassidy, secretary of the club, said that three soccer team needed at least three times a month until spring to practice.
The only alternative, he said, would be to keep Robinson open as long as possible.
By DAVID OLSON Kansan Staff Reporter
The request raised the problem of reserving time for organizations during time previously set aside by the utilization committee for use by students and faculty.
However, the committee did charge Tom Wilkerson, recreational coordinator, to investigate when the field house was being used the most, and to see whether the soccer club could be given time that wouldn't interfere with student recreational time.
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director,
said no group could presently reserve time to practice in the field house during recreational hours. Hours reserved for students and faculty are from 7 to 10 p.m.
Monday through Fridays, room 3 to p.30 on m.p., with special event schedule. Special athletic events scheduled in the field house would cancel student recreation time.
The sounds of choral music drifted through the hallways of the First Baptist Church Sunday afternoon in a musical interlude. The first meeting of the Lawrence Civic Choir
This first meeting revealed what many people had suspected. Lawrence has the ability to make things happen.
Local civic choir shows potential, seeks members
"Yeah! We're going to have a chair!" said Leslie Adams, associate professor of music education, the choir's guest conductor.
Grisfe said the choir was started by Tom Willecox, the board chairman, who got the choir under his care.
David Grisfeis, vice chairman of the chair board, said he was pleased with the sound of the rehearsal, although it was short of men's voices.
The civic charity is funded by the members and the Friends of Music. Each member is a contributing member in the rental. The Friends of Music, a non-profit corporation, contributed $350 to the chair.
The choir will perform its inaugural
worship at the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Wilkerson said he would conduct a study during the next four to six weeks to determine precisely how the field house was utilized by students and faculty.
"I think what I'll have to do is take a head count and see what hours are least utilized"
Wait, "what hours" is not followed by any numbers.
Let's look at the word "least". It's clearly a word.
Maybe it's "least".
Let's look at the word "utilized". It's clearly a word.
Maybe it's "utilized"
Wayne Ossen, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation, said the next six to ten weeks would be the time that the field house was most heavily used. Allen Field House is the only building on campus for student use because Robinson Gramasium is reserved for the intramural program.
A similar request for practice time was made by the Lawrence Track Club. The club, with supervision from Bob Timmons, KU track coach, was allowed to practice twice in the field house over semester break.
The only times available for organizations to reserve use of the field house would be from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. or from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., with committee members agreed. Wilkerson said he would investigate the possibility of opening the field house during those hours for the soccer and track clubs. He will then recommend backs to the committee.
The possibility of having either of the two time periods set aside for organizations to reserve is under consideration, according to Waugh. The main problem in opening the field house more hours than it is presently open is the cost of supervision, he said.
"The nuclear power industry," he said,
No action was taken on either of the requests. Onesssa said if one request for reserved time was granted, then other organizations would make similar requests.
JAYHAWK'77
JOHN BUSH
PRESIDENT
DAVID WITTIG
VICE PRESIDENT
MARYA PODREBARAC
TREASURER
CAROL KENNEDY
SECRETARY
Jr. Class Officers
paid for by JAYHAWK '77 coalition
"has never been independent. It's been
now by the AEC through the U.S. agency."
"If we're permitting (oil) companies to keep those immense profits, to write off on their taxes the efforts of getting energy sources, why not an individual who puts up a windmill or solar plant; why not give him an investment tax credit?"
We are celebrating TACO JOHN'S
100th unit
during February - We are not changing the QUALITY or the SIZE, just the PRICE
THE BIGGEST PART of the initial cost to set up a wind power system, according to Arthur Breiphol, chairman of the department of electrical engineering, is the cost of storing the power. Because wind power is so expensive, we need to have a channel it directly into a utilities system.
Ward said Windstuarts was trying to get a
set up of $300,000 to $400,000 set up
the hydrogen
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ALSO: Details about prizes and a trip to ACAPULCO to be announced Feb. 8th
Windinesters, Ward said, is attempting to set up a wind-powered hydrogen plant near Kansas City, Mo., had said that its fertilizer plant in Dodge City could use the hydrogen from a wind-powered plant; however, Farming Industries had made no comments.
Smith said batteries could be used to store power from wind generators but were not used in the project.
the nitrogen could be used instead of
gas to heat homes or make fertilizer.
"WE AREN'T GOING to get everything we need out of the wind, but we don't have to," he said. "What we'll do is reduce the carbon other forms of energy, such as fossil fuel."
Smith is skeptical of the future of wind power.
or the SIZE, just the PRICE
In this process, water is broken into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen.
"My own feeling is that a flywheel may out to be the best storage mechanism, he said.
Smith said that flywheels had been developed so that when they were spinning, free they lost less than one percent of their velocity in a week.
TACOS
25¢
ANOTHER WAY to store wind energy, Breipohl said, is to use windmills to pump water into a reservoir. The water would later be released to drive electric power.
Electricity generated by the wind could be used to electrolyze water. Breelshol can.
"I don't think in the next ten years we're going to see the U.S. covered with wind tunneling."
To supply the power needs of the main KU campus would require 100 windmills 125 feet in diameter, Smith said, a sight that wouldn't please area residents.
*Only research, development and time will tell which of the alternative energy sources is the most efficient.
PADRE ISLAND FOR SPRING BREAK??
Price: $120.00 March 7-15
Price includes:
—round trip charter bus
—6 nights on South Padre Island
(includes kitchonettes)
—trip into Mexico (day and evening)
-various recreational opportunities
—beach party (beer and fish)
Stop by or call the SUA Office for more information (864-3477)
—beer and soft drinks on bus
Deadline February 21
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