University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 14. 1974
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KU building trimmed to match budget
By JOHN BROOKS
Reporter
It's a towering structure of concrete, glass and steel. It seems to be reaching for the ceiling. It has already blotted out the sun as you stand on the front steps of Strong Hall.
It is it some terrible monster sent by unseen powers to punish the students at the University of Kansas? Is it a new United Nations building? Is it a prop for a new Hollywood movie?
No, it's the newly completed humanities building at the University—or at least it is. So we are the new humanities building if the original conceptual building plan had been followed.
According to reports that appeared in the University Daily Kansan and the Lawrence Daily Journal World in 1967, the new humanities building was to be a 25-story building with two five-story wings, each comparable in size to Harold Hall, extended from its base.
THE 25-STORY TOWER was to be used for office space and was to be serviced by six elevators. If the tower had been built, would have been one of the tallest structures on a university campus in the United States.
The two wings were to contain about 300 student laboratories and classrooms. It was proposed that these two five-story sections be serviced by a number of escortors for the students and faculty to and from class. One of the walls would have contained a Kansas Union amber.
The new humanities building also would have contained a parking area for 150 cars. The parking area was to be used only by faculty members and handicapped students.
If this proposed structure had been built, it would have been located on the present site of Waggon Hall.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF a new basement building will allow plans far exceeded the building's capacity.
final product of a new University building.
But this isn't unusual for the University of
Maryland.
In past years, many of the designs and plans for new buildings have been totally discarded or trimmed to fall within building limits. In 1967 proposal for a new humanities building,
The original plans for the humanities building were conceptually sound, according to Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operation.
He said the main reason the original plans were discarded was the time span between the planning of the building and its actual construction. Because of the time delay, the costs of building the new structure had gone up tremendously, he said.
The original conceptual plans for the humanities building were developed in 1967, Lawton said, and at that time the best location for the new building was the site occupied by old Robinson gymnasium and old Howard Hall.
BEFORE A MAJOR NEW classroom building could be built on the proposed site, he said, these two obsolete buildings had to down and replaced by new structures.
The administration decided to build the new Robinson Gymnasium first, then to down old Robinson and begin construction of the new humanities building, Lawton said.
This was one factor that delayed the initial construction plans for the new humanities building, he said. The other factor involved funding for the structure.
He said that at that time the University was seeking partial federal funding for the new building project, so that the state would provide the necessary funds. The federal government would now need
However, Lawton said, it took a few years to get the federal government to allocate money to the state for University building projects.
BY THE TIME THE money was finally
allocated to KU it was not enough, he said, and this factor, coupled with the increase of construction costs because of inflation, has prompted the new humanities building impossible.
Construction costs for the proposed humanities building had increased so much from the original projected costs, Lawton said. The original concept had to be abandoned.
Attempts were made to trim the original conceptual plans so that construction of the new humanities building would have been financially possible, Lawton said, but during this process the concept became impractical.
Lawton said a new building concept was later developed, and it was this building plan that resulted in what is now Wescoe* Hall.
WESCO HALL WAS an example of original plains that were changed because of financial necessity. However, in the past other necessities have resulted in the building of a number of permanent structures on the KU campus.
The construction of Potter Lake wasn't so much a matter of finance as it was of funding.
According to a report that appears in Robert Tait's history of KU, "The Years on Mount Oread," the primary purpose for bringing water in was in water in case of a major fire on the campus.
By 1910 the University has grown quite large, and the physical plant included a small laboratory. At this time, the University Regents realized there wasn't an adequate method of fire protection for the academic and ad-hoc facilities. This was event of a large fire on top of Mt. Orca.
THERE WERE A FEW water mains reaching the campus from the city of Lawrence, but these didn't contain the necessary pressure to provide the University with enough water to fight a large and prolonged fire on the campus. It
Because of these factors, the University Regents decided to build a water reservoir and a pumping station on University property.
was also estimated that it would take only five minutes to completely deplete the water reserves of the city of Lawrence if a large fire broke on campus.
Once the lake was finished, students started to use it for sailing and swimming. This resulted in the drowning of at least six students in the lake between 1911 and 1921. In an effort to alleviate this problem, the University Regents decided in 1924 to provide adequate swimming facilities at the lake for students.
A DIVING TOWER, PIER, springboards and dressing rooms for men and women were built during 1924, and lifeguards were also provided at University expense. Later, plans for cementing the entire bottom of the diving and for disinfecting the water were considered necessary. These plans were abandoned when in a public pool opened in Lawrence in 1927.
Potter Lake, named after former same senator T. M. Potter, was built with this purpose in mind and was to be a reservoir of four million gallons of water.
departments simply grew too large for the structures in which they were located. These buildings became either obsolete or were used for other purposes. Sometimes additions to existing structures provided the solution to overcrowding.
The Spooner Museum was originally the University library, but by 1915 the collection of books in the building had become so large that a new library was needed.
FUNDS WERENT IMMEDIATELY available for the construction of a new library. However, in 1921 the state library allocated enough money for a library.
From 1915 to 1924, a number of departmental libraries came into existence as a partial solution to the lack of space for books in Spooner Library.
Throughout the years, many of the buildings at KU have been used for different purposes.
The new Watson Library, named after Miss Carrie M. Watson, who had been the University librarian for 35 years, was finally opened in 1924. The Old Spooner Library was reopened as the Spooner-Thayer Art Museum.
However, it wasn't long before the collection of books once again became too large to be kept in one building. More than 20,000 volumes were stored in the Kansas University Library. The books were kept in Malot Hall. Many school departments also had their own libraries.
The most critical time period for a heart attack or accident victim occurs before he reaches the hospital. Even so, in the past many people have not been prehospital emergency care personnel.
Med Center to train paramedics
The program was approved by the
King's College regents at the board's
September meeting.
The program will be conducted in conjunction with junior colleges throughout
A new, state-wide paramedic training program could start Kansas communities on the road to improved pre-hospital care. The program will begin in KU Medical Center, will begin in JUICU.
"Students in the program will attend a junior college for one year," McSwain said. "Courses taken during the year will include accounting and personnel management."
A paramedic is trained to deliver pre-hospital care, under the direction of a physician.
Kansas, Norman McBain Jr., director of emergency medical care at the Med recorded this training.
The first semester will include classroom and laboratory work, he said. The second semester will be spent in the hospital operating room, delivery room, emergency room and coronary and surgical intensive training. During the second semester, clinical applications of the knowledge presented in the first semester will be studied.
McSainn said the students would then train for two semesters and one summer at McCormick.
The summer session will be a hero internship, McMain said. Each student will travel with an already functioning paramedical unit.
"A graduate of this program would receive an associate degree in emergency medical services." McSwan said, "and he would be eligible for certification as an emergency mobile intensive care technician."
Many employment possibilities will exist for graduates, McSwain said. They can work as paramedics or can be hired as managers for emergency care systems.
Previous paramedic programs have trained only firemen or other city employees, McSwain said. The new program will be open to any qualified applicants.
Tonight, the Northeast Kansas Personnel and Guidance Association will have a dinner meeting at 5:30 in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Herb Harris will lead a Linguistics Colloquy entitled 'Differential Reactions to Neoligism in English' a!t:30 in 206 Blake Hall.
Questions about hormones, birth control, gynecological examinations and female sexual response will be discussed.
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A culture under a picture of the "L.A. Flash" exhibit in last Friday's Kickin' Out exhibit will continue through Oct. 30. The exhibt will continue only through Oct. 31.
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Moeser, who has been at the University of Kansas since 1966, is organist-choirmaster at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence and is past dean of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Moeser, who received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, studied with Marcel Dupre in Paris and at the Chouchouseh musk in Berlin.
His program will include works by Cesar Franck, J. S. Bach, Jehan Alain and Franz Liszt.
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