University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. January 22,1975
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Inflation hinders campus projects
By RICK GRABILL
Kenneth Stall Reports
BY RICK GRABILL
Kansan Staff Reporter
Several construction projects on campus have been recently completed or are now being completed, but the bite of inflation has taken its toll.
The proposed new law school building to be built directly northwest of Allen Field Hospital, where it will cost construction costs. According to Martin Dickenson, dean of the School of Law, the entire sixth floor of the proposed facility has been cut from the plans by the state ar-
Funds for the construction of the law school facility were estimated in 1972 when the plans were drawn up but those estimates have fallen short because of infilation, according to Keith Lawton, director of the American Law Institute. Lawton said recently an inflation factor was included in the estimates but it had fallen short of the current inflation rate.
By cutting the sixth floor from the building plans some library space and student study areas were eliminated. The university offices and additional library stacks,
Bids for the construction of the building will be accepted Feb. 6. If they fall short of the budgeted amount, Dickenson said, only a shell of the fifth floor will be constructed, leaving the interior useless until funds could later be raised for its completion.
Other modifications that have been made in the building plans to save money have been the elimination of a proposed steam tunnel, a change in the type of concrete to be used, the use of lower quality window walls for the heating and air conditioning controls.
Work on the new facility is to begin in April or May and is scheduled for completion.
Meanwhile, construction of the proposed $750,750 visual arts building, to be built at the site of the old Fowler engineering shops, will proceed as scheduled, Lawton said.
Removal of the Fowler shops will begin soon, Lawton said, and construction of the new building is to begin immediately after the work is readied. Completion is scheduled
Construction of the $3.75 million expansion of Learned Hall is going along quite well, he said. Burring foreseen occupancy by fall of this year, Lawton said,
The Learned expansion consists of the addition of two floors to the present building.
The expansion will add classrooms, laboratories and office space for the development of engineering and mechanical engineering, and the environmental engineering division of the department of civil engineering. Also, the expansion will be for the dean of the School of Engineering.
Two other construction projects were completed on campus over the semester break. These were the third floor Flat Fill Fire Station and the balsam of the auditorium in Strong Hall.
The Flint Hall project, which entailed an expenditure of more than $130,000, was finished in time for classes Monday. The college's library offers a media lecture room, a small classroom, a seminar room, a lounge, restrooms and a laboratory for advanced reporting classes. Also included was the installation of airconditioning for the second and third floors.
The project, which was the first extensive remodeling of Flint since 1852, provides
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John Beinser, student body president,
said Tuesday a name for the cafeteria
would be chosen within a week. The name
was last in the 284 contest entries
submitted last Spring.
poration Board of Directors, was initiated after spring vacation last year to find a
new office.
The contest, which was conducted by the Program Concept and Building Use Committee (PCBUC), a subcommittee of the University of Kansas Memorial Cor-
The cafeteria in Wescoe Hall won't be nameless much longer.
Wescoe cafeteria name contest revitalized
An Oread Bookstore gift certificate of $25 was to have been presented to the winner. But after $24 people submitted entries and the contest had closed, no announcement was made about a winner or a name for the cafeteria.
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, was chairman of the PCBUC when the contest
began. He said there was no special reason for the delay on the decision.
This fall the cafeteria was still nameless and the contest had no winner. Beisner said he took over the charismantry of the PC-12s, which were not in the cafeteria didn't yet been named.
"We discovered this in November, and now
we're going to barrel ahead and get it done," Beusner said.
The members of the PCBUC have been given a list of names submitted and will be used to assign the code.
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When asked how the PCBUC planned to give an award to someone who might have graduated last spring, Beisner said, "We'll track them down."
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