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Monday, October 20, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Regents OK plans to renovate Union
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
The Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to approve a $6.5 million proposal to renovate the Kansas Union.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said the renovation would begin either in late January or early February of next year. Wiechert's office will accept contract bids for the project in mid-December, he said.
The renovation, Wiechert said, will affect mainly the second and third floors of the Union. Books, including textbooks and those offered at the Oread Book Shop, will be sold only on the second floor. Food services will be consolidated on the third floor, he said.
Wiechert said that the Oread Book Shop already had been moved to the fourth floor in preparation for the renovation and that student offices temporarily had been moved to the room while their old space is renovated.
Student offices eventually will occupy the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, Wiechert said.
"It's going to be a very complicated task," he said, "because there are various stages, and we have to keep it functioning."
Wiechert said the renovation would organize the Union. He said that by consolidating the bookstore and food services on separate floors, students and visitors would find the services they wanted easier.
Jim Long, Union director, said the renovation was important to the Union.
He said that in addition to consolidating the bookstores and food services, a student organization center would be added. The center would include all student organizations, he said.
the basement area, where textbooks are now sold, will be used as an office, for storage and for an employee area, Wiechert said. The textbooks will be moved to the second floor.
Wiechert said the money needed for the renovation would come from two sources.
The Union, he said, will have $3 million from student fees by time the renovation is scheduled to begin. The other $3.5 million will come from selling revenue bonds.
The $6.5 million is the total cost of the project, Wiechert said. Architect's fees and additional furniture such as bookshelves are included in the figure.
The committee was made of students, faculty, Union management and representatives from Wiechert's office, he said.
He said the renovation had been considered for two years. In the summer of 1893, the University formed a committee to study the project.
He said that plans for any project involving state buildings had to be reviewed by the state architectural services to ensure the project's feasibility.
Group uses nonviolent martial art
By KIRK KAHLER
KU students, faculty and Lawrence residents were throwing each other to the floor Friday
Staif writer
But they weren't fighting over grades, noise levels or parking spaces on Massachusetts Street.
They were participating in a Ki-Aikido demonstration at Robinson Center sponsored by the KU Ki-Aikido Club, the Kansas Ki Society and the health, physical education and recreation department.
Wayne Osness, chairman of health, physical education and recreation, said the demonstration was to provided exposure for Ki-Alkido and the University's program.
The HPER department will offer a basic skills instruction course in Ki-Alkido next semester. Osness said.
Koichi Kashiwai, U.S. chief instructor for Ki Society International, demonstrates the Ki-Aikido technique with Stan Haehl. KU Ki-Aikido Club instructor.
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Andrew Tsuubaki, chairman of East Asian language and culture and professor of theater and media arts, said Ki-Aikido was a nonviolent martial art.
If conflicts can't be resolved through discussion and a dispute arises, he said, the person
Ki, energy that everyone possesses, is recognized by the participant in himself and others. Tsubaki said.
Violence is avoided at all costs, and is used only as a last resort, he said.
who has been trained in Ki coordinates his Ki with his opponent's. He uses his opponent's Ki, usually through momentum, against his opponent.
Tsubaki, who is the faculty sponsor of the KU Ki-Aikido Club, said the practice used rhythm, momentum and coordination of the body and the mind instead of muscle mass and force.
Most of the energy used in the confrontation, Tsubaki said, comes from the attacker. A Kitrained person is able to throw his opponent with a minimum effort.
Stan Haehl, Lawrence resident, said he
became interested in Ki-Aikido through a book review he read in the Whole Earth Catalog.
The review, he said, described Ki-Ai-kido as an 'ethical' form of self-defense. Haeli said the practice appealed to him because it brought no warm to the attacker.
Instead, the attacker's intentions are thwarted by simple, basic movements that do not allow him to harm his victim.
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