University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 9, 1986
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News Briefs
KU student charged with knifing assault
A KU student charged with aggravated assault is scheduled to appear in Douglas County District Court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing.
Mark Sprague, 19. Oliver Hall resident and a freshman, was charged Monday in connection with an incident in which a man was knifed Saturday.
His hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
Sprague was released on a $2,500 own-recognizance bond.
3 local men arrested
Three Lawrence men were booked into the Douglas County Jail on Tuesday on charges of attempted theft and attempted sale of stolen property.
Lawrence police officer Ernest Gwin said yesterday that the three men were renting videocassette recorders, removing the identification marks from the machines and selling them in the Kansas City area.
An officer noticed the VCRs in the back of an automobile parked in a grocery store parking lot, the spokesman said. The men were arrested when they attempted to rent a VCR from Vision Quest, a video rental store, 2449 Iowa St.
The Minority Relations Committee of the University of Kansas Alumni Association will sponsor Expo '86, a symposium on career options, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Career fair in Union
Representatives from 10 corporations will discuss career options for KU alumni, pre-med students, pre-law students and students who haven't declared a major.
Registration is on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Students will receive a free lunch if they register with the Alumni Association by today.
The symposium is sponsored by the Alumni Association, the University Placement Center, the Division of Continuing Education and some local merchants.
AURH gets leaders
The newly appointed Association of University Residence Halls of officers have been approved by the AURH General Assembly.
■ Vice president, Ross Nigro,
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore,
from McCollum Hall.
■The AURH Judicial Appeals Board, Kevin Caffrey, Newton freshman, from Oliver Hall.
■ Programming chairman,
Karen Musket, Richardson, Tx.
 junior, from Oliver Hall.
■Publicity chairman, Alison Steibel, Highland Park, Ill., freshman, from Ellsworth Hall.
*Student Senate representative, Robyn Merrill, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, from Corbin Hall.
Executive Board members selected the new officers Sept. 14. The General Assembly approved four of the new officers Sept. 23, and Steibel was approved Tuesday.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance for rain and a high temperature in the lower 60s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance for rain and a low temperature in the 40s.
EPA grants KU $374,000 to research air pollutants
By CRAIG HERRMANN
From staff and wire reports.
Staff writer
Five KU researchers recently received a $374,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to study the possible hazards of nitrogen pollutants suspended in the atmosphere.
Dennis D. Lane, associate professor of civil engineering and research team leader, said yesterday that the grant would be used over a three-year period to study how microscopic dry nitrogen particles might be damaging forests.
The research will focus on nitrogen in its pollutant form, which is emitted from power plants, automobile exhausts and fertilizers. The particles "piggyback" on dust and eventually come to rest on plants and in the soil, he said.
"We in the scientific community have known for four or five years that dry-deposition of nitrogen particles is part of the decline of forests in the U.S. and Europe," he said.
Lane said the goals of the research were to determine how much dry nitrogen was in the air, how it gets to forests and prairies and how it affects plant communities.
Stephen P. Hamburg, assistant professor of systematics and ecology and member of the research team, said that nitrogen stimulated the growth of plants but that growth was not always good.
For example, nitrogen particles in the atmosphere can cause growth during the onset of winter, leaving the sprouting plant vulnerable to frost, he said.
He said the towers would be built eight miles north of Lawrence, with one in a forested area and the other over a prairie. The towers should be in operation by the end of next month.
Lane said the University would construct two towers fitted with highly sophisticated equipment capable of determining nitrogen levels and patterns in the atmosphere.
Glen Marotz, another member of the research group and professor of physics, civil engineering and geography, said he thought Kansas was a good site for the nitrogen research.
Environmental conditions in Kansas are close to the natural atmosphere, he said. The study of a relatively pure environment is best for developing pollution standards.
Lane said he thought that eight or nine other research teams submitted proposals to the EPA for the research of dry nitrogen but that KU was chosen because of the varied backgrounds of the members of the research team.
Marotz also said that the atmospheres on the east and west coasts were too polluted for the research.
"KU was able to put together an interdisciplinary group of people," he said. "Apparently it was the best group."
Other members of the group are Craig Martin, associate professor of botany, and Stephen J. Randtke, associate professor of civil engineering.
Senate OKs bills to bring author add Vietnam Memorial lighting
Bv SALLY STREFF
The Student Senate last paved the way for author Tom Wolfe to appear at the University of Kansas and for lights to go up at the KU Vietnam Memorial.
Staff writer
The Senate unanimously passed a bill allocating $8,000 from the Senate's unallocated account to pay for Wolfe to speak at KU either April 7 or April 16. The Student Union Activities Forums Committee also will sponsor Wolfe's appearance.
Ruth Lichtwardt, holder senator and a sponsor of the bill, said Wolfe, author of "The Right Stuff," would speak at Hoch Auditorium, autograph books and go to one class during his visit at KU.
The Senate also unanimously voted to allocate $800 to the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee to pay for lighting at the memorial.
The Vietnam Memorial, located between West Campus Road and Memorial Drive near the Chi Omega fountain, was dedicated May 25.
On July 4, someone defaced the memorial by using a black marker to write a slogan on the stone monument. The slogan was, "While waging a genocidal war for U.S. imperialists."
Tom Berger, chairman of the memorial committee, estimated the cost of the lights to be $1,400. The lights would resemble those at the Campanile. The committee has $900 to help pay for the lights, he said.
Berger said the lights at the memorial would be put in when work started on new lights for Jawhawk Boulevard.
Bids for the lighting project on Jayhawk Boulevard should be taken by Oct. 15.
"The lights will help with security and will help make the memorial a permanent fixture on campus." Berger said.
After the Senate passed the bill. Berger thanked students for their continued support of the Vietnam memorial.
"The memorial is a part of this campus, and that is due largely to the efforts of students," he said.
The Senate also allocated $3,600 to pay for an appearance by Ruby Dee, an actress and black activist. Dee is scheduled to speak Friday at a luncheon at the 1962 Career Expo sponsored by a committee of the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
The Senate last night also:
Allocated $667 to the Student Health Advisory Board to place advertisements promoting awareness of services offered at Watkins Hospital.
■Allocated $200 to provide printing and duplicating services for the Study Abroad Club.
■ Refused to allocate $1,300 to pay registration fees for 20 architecture students who are scheduled to attend a convention Nov. 25-29.
Re-roofing will begin on Watson
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
A $90,285 project to partially reproof Watson Library is scheduled to begin soon, the associate director of facilities planning said yesterday.
Jim Modig, the associate director, said that as soon as the contractor set up scaffolding, work would begin on the north and east sides of the building.
A wooden structure now covering the entrance of the library is a safety measure for library users, Modig said. Stevenson Roofing and Sheet Metal Co., Topeka, built the wooden structure last week, and scaffolding began climbing the front of the building this week, he said.
The completion date set in the contract with the company is March 1, 1987. Modig said.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the construction work would not affect the operation of the library.
The project will complete another partial re-roofing project that occurred at the end of Watson's renovation in 1982. Modig said.
After the renovation, Modig said, the south and west sides of the roof were repaired because they exhibited the most wear. That project cost $75,560, he said.
The new project was needed because other parts of the roof had worn out. Modig said.
Karl Rosen, left, associate professor of classics, and Joel Grantham, Overland Park sophomore, walk under the wooden structure outside the
"It's been up there for about 20 years," he said.
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Modig said the University was saving money on the project because the present roof tiles would be reused.
He said he didn't know the exact amount being saved but he thought it would be substantial.
watson Library doors. Because the library will be partially re-roofed, the cover was built to catch any tiles that might fall.
The department of facilities operations hadn't purchased new tiles in a long time. Modig said, so he didn't know the present price of the tiles.
Workers will be able to repair the east side of the roof from a staging area built on a flat roof just below the damaged section of the roof.
However, scaffolding with plywood runways will be erected on the north side of the building for public safety
and because there isn't a staging area to work from.
In addition to the two sides, Modig said, a smaller flat roof on the south side of the building, above the center stacks, also will be completely re-roofed.
Modig said a felt-like paper beneath the roof tiles was what actually guarded the top exterior of the building, and the tiles protected the paper.
But, he said, as the paper aged, it turned into a powdery substance.
College office staff gets beaned by coffee prices
By ATLE BJORGF
Staff writer
Staff writer
The budget-cutting axe has struck a blow at some caffeine addicts in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Starting this semester, committee and staff members in the college office who drink coffee will have to pay $5 a month to fill their cups. The coffee had been supplied by the college at a cost of about $1,500 a year, said Robert Lineberry, dean of the college.
"The college just can't afford to give away free coffee anymore," Lineberry said, sipping his from a brown mug.
year because the college had to take a reduction in its travel budget, from $18.000 to $6.000
"It seemed silly to put coffee ahead of travel" he said.
He said that he had noticed the cost of the coffee in budget reports but that it stood out this
Lineberry said that the travel budget allocated money to send chairmen of college departments to academic conventions and that it was important for faculty recruiting.
Standing committees meet two or three times a day. Lineberry said, and each committee has from three to 15 members.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said he had put his $5 into the coffee fund. "It's another sign of the tighter times," he
chairman of the college committee on undergraduate studies and advising, joked about the tighter budget at a recent committee meeting.
"First they take away the limousines; then they take away the man that opens the door for me; then they take away the cookies; and now they take away the coffee," he said.
Felix Moos. professor of anthropology and
Carothers said he didn't think the college ever had provided any free cookies.
"But I brought a coconut cake to the office once," he said.
An office secretary in the School of Architecture and Urban Design said that the school didn't have funds for free coffee and that it hadn't during the five years she had been in the
office.
But most spokesmen for KU professional schools, as well as those in the chancellor's office, said they had a free brewing pot.
"At this time we are providing coffee," said John Tollefon, dean of business, "but it is possible that we will stop."
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said the school had free coffee in the dean's office and in several departments of the school.
"It is difficult to say if our situation is correct, or if the college was correct, if they indeed do not furnish coffee," he said.
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