CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 8.1992
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
KU police investigate reported hall battery
Kansan staff report
An 18-year-old female KU student said that a man attempted to rape her Thursday evening near Ellsworth Hall, KU police reported. The woman was unable to describe the suspect, police said. Police are investigating the case.
Lt. John Mullens said that anyone with information should call either the KU police or the KU Crimestoppers tips hotline at 864-8888.
Student arrested in battery at Oliver Hall
Kansan staff report
A KU student was arrested yesterday on counts of battery and giving terroristic threats in an incident in Oliver Hall on Thursday, KU police reported.
Lt. John Mullens said that the student was arrested after an investigation into a report that a female KU student was struck and threatened by her boyfriend.
The student is being held in the Douglas County jail. No budd has been set and formal charges have not been filed.
Greek event to show faculty appreciation
The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council are sponsoring a Faculty Appreciation Night from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Malott Room at the Kansas Union. The following groups have invited members of the faculty to the event: Panhellenic executive board members, Junior Panhellenic council members, Panhellenic delegates, campus affairs members, fraternity chapter presidents, fraternity rush chairmen, Interfraternity delegates and Junior Interfraternity council delegates.
The purpose of this event is to foster better relationships between the greek community and University faculty.
Two KU women win greek scholarships
The Panhelienic Association has awarded two $500 scholarships to two University of Kansas undergraduate women. Elizabeth Duran, Lawrence senior, was the winner of the Outstanding Minority Women's Scholarship. Elisha Tierney, Manhattan freshman, was the recipient of the Outstanding New Member Scholarship.
Both scholarships were awarded on the basis of the candidate's leadership qualities.
Condominiums nearly complete
Students to move into new homes after semester delay
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
The long-awaited Building A of College Hill Condominiums at 927 Emery Road is nearing completion. KU students who were scheduled to move into their condominiums in August should be able to move in Dec. 15.
"We've basically been pushed back and pushed back this entire semester," said Jim Turrell, Huntington Beach, Calif., senior. "It is kind of frustrating."
"If I had to live in the Days Inn another day I'd probably sit my wrist," he said. "It would have been tougher to have a successful semester living in a hotel, versus in an apartment living situation."
Because of the four-month delay, Turrell spill the first two weeks of the semester living in the Days Inn, 2309 Iowa St. He now is living at Holiday Apartments, 230 Mt. Hope Court, with his three roommates.
The College Housing Group, the Roanoke, Texas, firm financing the construction, has been compensating the condominiums' owners, mostly parents of KU students living there, for the hotel and apartment expenses.
James Young, sales and marketing director for College Hill Condominiums, said the residents and owners had been patient with the wait.
"It's something that has been very aggravating to us too," Young said.
Construction of the two 12-unit condominium buildings began in April when crews from D.M. Ward Construction of Overland Park demolished the old Theta Chi fraternity house just south of Ninth Street.
Summer rains and complications with a retrain wall delayed construction, Young said. Residents of Building B moved in at the end of August after waiting 18 days from the original move-in date.
The city's building inspector will examine Building A today. Mike Garber, job superintendent, said the building should pass inspection and be ready by Dec. 15 for people to move in.
He said construction crews were putting up siding and finishing the interiors of the apartments.
Ellen Evans, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, and a tenant in Building B, said construction of the other building, which is directly west of her unit, was noisy as they worked on the exterior earlier this fall.
Last Saturday her electricity was turned off from about 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. and for another hour that night — leaving her and her two roommates with no heat or hot water.
The developing firm plans to build two more buildings south and east of the two existing condominiums, beginning this spring. The buildings are expected to be ready for the fall of 1993.
Richard Devinki / KANSAN
Ice scraper
Don Heim, utility worker with facilities operations, breaks away from sidewalks to help students and faculty walk around campus without slipping. The KU weather service forecast calls for partly cloudy skies today, turning cloudy tonight with a 55 percent chance for rain mixed with snow.
JRP could relieve overcrowding in Bailey Hall
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ings from that era, Bailey was built from a wooden frame, so interior reconstruction is not only difficult, but nearly impossible. Bailey already has one annex, and the building has no more room to expand.
"It is not the kind of structure you can go in and gut and do lots of things with," Meyen says. "It is not the kind of structure you would want to do that sort of thing with."
Cramped offices that could easily be mistaken for closets are scattered throughout Bailey Hall. Most are stuffed with more than two instructors and even some tenured professors are doubled up in the tiny rooms.
But many Education professors are not excited about the possibility of moving to online learning.
A caretaker for the Joseph R. Pearson residence hall, 1122 West Campus路, walks inside the hall. The man, who refused to give his name, said on caretakers were living in the
"If they renovate it and it's a useful building, that's fine," says Neil Salkind, professor of education psychology. "But we just don't have enough information about it right now not to be skeptical."
architectural plans that we envision are approved, that building will not look like a dormitory. It could be a real state-of-the-art facility."
But before JRP can be used for anything, its roof must be reconstructed, and its air conditioning and heating units need to be installed because the primary reasons it now stands empty.
Whelan acknowledges the skepticism among his faculty, but he says he is optimistic that the proposed outcome will increase staff members and professors happy.
"What we're recommending is not the same as going in, painting walls and putting down new carpet." Whelan says. "If the
"When you walk into JRn now, it's kind of depressing because there's nobody there and a building needs people in it to be alive," Whelan says. "I see why people might not be too enthusiastic now, but as they see the plans develop I think they'll get excited about it."
As dean of Education, Meyen set up a planning committee of administrators, staff and faculty from each department in the School of Education. With the help of an architecture and urban development professor, the committee, headed by associate dean of psychology research John Poggio, has been conducting a feasibility study for Education's potential use of JRP. That study will be sent to facilities planning for approval this week.
Education's plans for reconstruction of JRP will not be cheap, but Whealan says that it would cost far less for Education to move to the country. "And we think they have asked for every year since 1986.
Meyen says, "I would guess that it would run one-third, maybe one-fourth, the cost of new construction. That certainly costs a lot." He is able to achieve something for Education."
If Education does move into JRP, it will be the first large reallocation of teaching space in years.
Wescoe Hall was the last building constructed for classroom use on campus, and that was opened in 1973. Since then nothing has been built, in fact, space was lost when Hoch Auditorium burned down two years ago.
"The total amount of space we have available — space that we own on campus right now — is one building," says Bearse. "Just like a building on Louisiana Street. That's it."
The logjam of cramped conditions broke open a year and a half ago when the space committee decided something had to be done.
On May 30,1991 the space committee wrote to the then interim executive vice chancellor Del Shankel, requesting that he
free up space somewhere on campus.
That fall, the committee was told that a residence hall would be emptied of students. Later it became clear that JRP was that hall. On Nov. 14, the committee wrote to the University's four vice chancellors and four University directors and asked them to submit proposals from each department in need of space.
"The major criteria was to use the space in the best way possible for the University at the least cost to the University," Bearse says. "Education's proposal was the best thought through and the most obviously beneficial to the University."
In the campus game of musical chairs, Education's move to JRP would leave not one, but two sites empty: Bailey Hall and a building site between Robinson and the Computer Center, which Education had been eveing.
KU has been trying to relocate its professional schools to the edges of campus to make easier for graduate students and to reduce the amount of traffic on campus in the evenings, says Bearser. Moving Education to JRP would fit that plan.
"Freeing up Bailey would also provide a lot of space in the dead center of campus where we desperately need it," Bearse says. "We're always short on space for teaching assistants and space to conduct research grants."
If Education were to evacuate Bailey, the building would probably be used for laboratories and offices for research and teach- ment of those who are crammed into Wescoe Hall.
"The quality of space in Bailey varies depending on the function," Meyen says. "Some of the space is very good, but it isn't particularly functional for a large professional school. It just doesn't meet the needs."
Meanwhile, the school of Education will continue to function with instructors packed elbow to elbow in Bailey, all of KU will wait for $82,000 square feet and some expensive legislation, and JRP will still sit as it sits now - silent and silent.