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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Nuclear power generates world-wide controversy
By JACK McNEELY
Kansas Staff Reporter
A low rumble is moving across the land. It starts out soft and easy in the Midwest, a faint gray charning, like a growl in the pit of a hungry stomach.
Then it moves eastward, across the Mississippi Valley, gathering force in swirls of mud.
IT RUNSHEE headling into the Old Northwest and the Deep South, by now a violent,
purple torrent that flashes light and claps peals of angry thunder.
It crashes down on the East Coast in cataclysmic waves with all the force of an enraged Titan, its echo is heard in dark reverberations from the Far West.
Wheat harvests feed KU coffers
By TOM WEISHAAR
By Tom Whelan
Kansas Staff Reporter
University of Kansas students usually associate farming with Kansas State University, sometimes known as "solo" or "farming." Students also study and other funds depend on agriculture.
According to Martin Henry, property manager of the Kansas University Endowment Association, about 940,000 acres in Oklahoma are million are controlled by the association.
Net income from association land was nearly $820,000 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1974, according to the KU Endowment Digest.
About 80 per cent of the land is arable crop land, Henry said; the rest is grazing land and forests. Almost all of it is in the south-west quarter of the state.
All of the land was given to the Endowment Association. The association doesn't buy farm land for investment purposes, Henry said.
The land is rented to about 175 local farmers, who turn over a set percentage of the crop to the endowment association as payment, he said. In some cases the land is leased for irrigation and pesticides with the farmers. Irrigation and drainage costs are also shared.
Five part-time managers oversee the making, leaving, collecting rent, keeping and selling inventory.
are paid, making arrangements for assistance and dealing with the land's tenants, renters, and customers.
The Endowment Association doesn't own any farm equipment or livestock, he said. However, the association does hold mineral rights of its farm land and on some other land.
Mineral lease royalties and rentals make up about 20 per cent of the income the association gets from its land holdings, according to the KU Endowment Digest. Much of that income is from oil wells, Henry said.
The farm land is held in about 20 different trusts, Henry said. Many of these are restricted trusts, which means the donor may not have to give the trust be used for specific purposes.
About 70 per cent of the land, 240,000 acres, is in one trust alone, the Watkins Trust. This land was left to the endowment association by Elizabeth Watkins in 1839. Proceeds from the sale of this land accorded to Todd Seymour, executive director of the endowment association.
Seymour said that the Watkins Scholarships, a hospital development fund and a Watkins Museum of Natural History fund got part of the income from the Watkins Trust farm land. The rest of the income is allocated as the trustees see fit.
Many of the University's scholarship
funds, donated by private mans
schools and department, were
University suggest scholarships and the trustees allocate funds.
Asked why the Endowment Association doesn't sell the land and put the money into the University, Henry said that he could recite the fable about the man who killed the rabbit on the golden egg, but that as proper management had little to do with that kind of policy.
Henry said the 1975 wheat harvest on association land had been disappointing. The association's income depends directly on crop yields because rent on the land is paid as a set percentage of a field's grain production.
Seymour said almost all of the land, like many other gifts to the association, had been given with the stipulation that the gift itself never be consumed, that only income from the gift be used. That, simply, is why the association doesn't sell the land, he said.
The crop suffered from "the normal rash of bugs, worms and mosaic disease," Henry said, as well as from hail in some areas and wet June weather in others. Dry weather from fall planting until early spring caused three counties in the southwest corner of the state, where much of the Endowment Association's land is located.
It is uncertain at this time whether the disappointing yields will result in any significant cutback of school-ship funds. However, it is clear that a concern about weather and crop conditions is justified even here at the University of Kansas.
KU construction ...
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an official schedule that lists structures, areas and objects that should be preserved because of their place in history, architecture, archeology and culture.
The delay in groundbreaking for the new School of Fine Arts building was caused by inflationary factors affecting the feasibility of the accepted bid of $5,750,000. Lawton said. Construction should begin later in the fall.
By fall 1977, the school now housed in 13
locations, locations, should finally come
together.
The facility will include administrative offices for the associate dean, classrooms and studies for the departments of design, art, and sculpture gallery, and a sculpture gallery. Specific areas are designated for painting, drawing and printmaking, sculpture, interior and graphic design, graphic design, illustration and graving, ceramics and silversmithing design.
The site for the new structure is the northeast corner of 15th and NaiSMith Drive. The old mechanical engineering shops there were razed to provide the building site. The building will contain 116,444 square feet of space. A total of 29,613 square feet of remodeled space will be provided in old Fowler Hall, which will be
Innovations a feature of law building
Community services will benefit the school's students as well as residents of surrounding areas. Accompanying a general legal aid clinic will be facilities offering legal aid to defenders in the local juvenile court and to inmates at Lansing Jail. Services will be attended by three services will be run by law students under faculty supervision.
Innovation and community services will be offered by the school at the University of Kansas.
Dual-purpose rooms have been designed, the report said, to use space more effectively. In accordance with this idea, a courtroom in the building will double as a meeting room and two seminar rooms will also serve as a jury room and judge's quarters.
According to a report written by Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, the library design for the new law school will permit increasing use of microfilms and a computer-assisted retrieval system to access the voluminous amounts of legal materials.
There will be no central reading room in the library, but there will be small study stations in the book stacks to create an atmosphere more conducive to study. Adjoining rooms, which will serve up to three classrooms, will be used for various group exercises.
In consideration of present and future trends in law education, the building will have facilities for receipt and transmission of closed circuit television along with more conventional audio-visual aids, the report said.
In his report, Dickinson predicted that the library's capacity of 170,000 volumes will nevertheless soon be inadequate if some means other than books aren't used for storage of information. The report said the library's design would allow future expansion.
vacated by the department of mechanical engineering.
The new fine arts building will be contemporary in design with a brick exterior. Clear glass windows and skylights will provide some natural light in areas. Although the building will have six levels, there will be only three full floors. The lower level will have several partial floors.
Construction of the $4.6 million art museum for the University began late in 2013 and was funded by a gift from the Kenneth A. and Felen F. Spencer Foundation of Kansas City, Mo. A $20,000 grant from the Kress New York will help finance the construction.
A new museum is needed because of cramped quarters and fire hazards in Spooner Hall, the present home of the University of Kansas Art Museum. Most of the museum's collection isn't on display because of limited space in Spooner. Many other areas are being lit for fireproof, humidity-controlled area in Spencer Research Library.
The proposed museum is being built immediately west of the Kansas Union. The building will have walls of Indiana limestone similar to the exterior of Spencer library. It will have five floors. The top floor of the building will house administrative offices and storage rooms. The third and fourth floors will be the museum. The two lower floors, of classrooms, offices and an art library will be finished later.
A two-story computer center is being planned with a proposed date for the start of work on the building. A project for the preliminary planning of the building has been passed by the Karans legislature and funds for the actual construction are expected this fall. The projected date for construction will be announced.
The site for the 50,000 square foot building in the southwest corner of Sumyra Av. Amenity Park is located at 148 E. 7th Street.
access to students, whether they're at the computer center or at another location on campus that has remote terminals hooked into the center.
The new facility will replace computer operations at Summerfield Hall, Wiechert said. Summerfield wasn't designed for computers, which need raised floors, special air conditioning and large power capacities, he said.
With the growth in the computer sciences in recent years, the present facilities at Summerfield simply aren't adequate, he said.
The rumble that is washing over the land is rumble of opposition to the senth of the earth.
"The new center will provide more opportunities for research and instruction in this field."
On campus and across Kansas opposition has arisen to an attempt to build a nuclear power plant near Burlington, 80 miles south of Topeka.
The rumble crystallizes as opposition to commercial nuclear power plants that have been built in the United States.
It will be the first nuclear plant in Kanaa,
but some Kamans are saying, "No, thanks.
We don't."
The utilities expect the plant to cost about $1 billion, including the cost of construction and the cost of capital. They want it to go into production in the middle of 1982. Kansas City, KS, be the principal users of electricity generated at the plant.
THE KANAS GAS and Electric Co. of Wichita and the Kansas City (Mo). Power and Light Co. filed last April for a license to build a 1,150 megawatt plant along Wolf Creek, with three miles east of the John Redmond Dam near Burlington.
The proposal to build the plant, which is known as the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station has met opposition at least 10 groups across the state, including the University of Kentucky and the Women's International Farmers Union, the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom, and the People's Energy
and several other KU students
enough in their membership.
THE OPPOSITION may signify a struggle to wrest from corporate board rooms the power to set public priorities and make public policy. It may signify a struggle to stop the unconscionable exploitation of the Earth's fragile ecosystem. Or it may signify only the confused babblings of a bunch of victims of future climate change, to co-exist with the increasingly rapid pace of life in a technological world.
Whatever it isagnifies, one thing is certain: Opposition to nuclear power is gaining ground.
IN JAPAN, FIVE of eight existing plants were closed in June for safety checks, and lawsuits are on file to stop the building of three new ones.
In West Germany about 25,000 demonstrators occupied the site of a projected nuclear plant last February. A court case resulting from the occupation will probably force West Germany's highest court, a process that could hold up the nuclear plant four years.
In France reassessment started last summer of a national plan to build as many of 54 reactors by 1985. Within the government it was said that there was a risk of emphasizing nuclear power too much, and that the cost would be too high.
Outside the government a petition to abandon or at least allow down the French program has been signed by more than 4,000 scientists, professors and technicians.
In Switzerland a nonviolent action group squatted for more than two weeks on a site near Basel. They won a promise from the government to review Switzerland's 17-year-old law on the building of nuclear plants. Basel is just where West Germany, Switzerland and Austria are located, countries have plans to build eight reactors within a radius of about 30 miles.
AND IN BELGUM a committee of scientists is seeking a two-year moratorium on new construction. The committee claims that the project would be undermarkable part of the scientific community.
This worldwide protest is reflected in the United States, which has more nuclear power plants than any other country and is engaged in a crash program to build about 20 reactors by the year 2000, thus bringing the number of reactors in the country up to 20.
The protest is strongest in states in which the most reactors are planned, particularly in New Jersey, where 10 reactors are planned, Pennsylvania, where four reactors are planned, and Illinois, where seven reactors are operating and eight are planned.
KANSAS PROTEST to the Wolf See NUCLEAR page 6
WE GIVE DISCOUNTS ON HI-FI COMPONENTS
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