CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 8, 1992
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Daron J. Bennett/ KANSAN
Have a seat
To handle the anticipated crowd for Saturday's football game against Kansas State, Steven Renfro, Lawrence resident, assembles temporary bleachers at Memorial Stadium as Rick Festa, Norfolk, Va., watches. The bleachers will add 1,500 seats in the south end zone.
Free CPR classes offered
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
When Jack Ellena, owner of the Lawrence Ellena Honda dealership, 2957 Four Wheel Dr., suffered cardiac arrest last year, he learned the importance of a few hours spent in class.
CPR class, that is.
"Right around Christmas time he collapsed at an appliance store downtown, and there was a gentlemen there who knew CPR," said John Ellena. Jack's son and the general manager of the Honda dealership.
"It was quite obvious to the doctor that if he hadn't been there, we would have lost him," he said.
As a result, John and Jim Ellena, also Jack's son, decided to offer free CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, classes twice a year through the Douglas County Ambulance Ser-
"We have them right here in the showroom," John Ellena said.
The classes began yesterday and will be held every Wednesday evening during October, said Pat Mavo, paramedic and CPR project coordinator at the ambulance service. The free classes, which normally cost $15 per person, were held for the first time last March.
Mayo said that the Ellena brothers were the only ones currently helping to defray the cost of tuition for CPR classes.
"It's a pretty big deal." Mayo said. "They're paying a lot of money."
For passing one evening of classes, which run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., a person will be certified by the American Heart Association, Mayo said. Training in adult CPR will be offered the first three nights. Child and infant CPR will be offered the final night of class, Oct. 28. Mayo said that CPR students could sign up for the class by calling the ambulance service.
"We're hoping for about 60 people per night," he said.
"The real important thing is increasing the chance surviving any kind of thing where the heart stops," John Ellena said. "If they can get someone there within the first few minutes, their chances of surviving are much greater than if they have to wait until someone dials 911."
John Ellena said that about 200 people took the class in March.
Student housing rates may go up next year
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
Residents living in KU housing units next year might pay higher rates, according to proposed rate increases announced yesterday by Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Stoner presented the proposed rates at yesterday's meeting of the Residential Programs Advisory Board, made up of representatives from all on-campus housing groups.
He said the increases were due to inflationary pressure, pressuring utility rates, for example, and staff being injured.
The highest percentage increase would be at Sunflower Duplex Apartments, an 8.1 percent hike. Those residents at the Sunflower building units housing units would pay an extra $30 a month.
Residents of Jayhawker Towers Apartments could pay $88 more next year, a 5.8
Students living in residence halls will have the option to pay yearly rates that would include 15 or 19 meals a week. For the new 15-meal option, students would pay $3,152.
The 19-meal rate, at $3,232, would cost a resident $152 more next year, a 4.9 percent increase.
If representatives of the Association of University Residence Halls vote to install cable television, some residents in double-apartment rooms would pay an additional $48.
Rates at Miller and Watkins scholarship halls would rise 2.1 percent, though rates at other scholarship halls would increase 4.7 percent.
The increase would mean Miller and Watkins residents, who pay for their own food, would pay $16 more a year. Residents at the other scholarship halls would pay $104 more.
The increase at Stouffer Place Apartments would be 4 percent, or $15 a month more than last year for residents at renovated three-bedroom units. Residents in newly renovated two-bedroom units would pay $10 more a month, a 3.4 percent increase; in regular two-bedroom units, $8 more, a 3.5 percent increase; and in one bedrooms, $6 more, a 3 percent increase.
KU's housing rates lowest among peers
Student Housing rates are cheaper than at these four peer institutions.
school total cost, 1992-93 KU $3,080 University of Iowa $3,291 University of Oregon $3,212 University of Oklahoma $3,358 University of North Carolina $3,670 KU Department of Student Nursing
Source: KU Department of Student Housing Dan Schauer / KANSAN
Forum criticizes Columbus
Stoner will discuss the proposals with residents of the various housing units who then will give suggestions before he submits the final recommendation to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. Administrators and a finance committee will review the recommendation before sending it to the Board of Regents.
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival to America is not necessarily an occasion for celebration, panelists at a forum discussing the quincentennial said yesterday.
The forum, sponsored by the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and the KU Concert Series, brought together six panelists and 40 audience members, some of whom were dismixed at Columbus' legacy.
Columbus' arrival meant the arrival of diseases that killed most of the indigenous people in the Americas, said Dan Wildcat, head of the human sciences at Haskell Indian Junior College.
"For that reason alone, if you said, 'Hey, I want you to celebrate the arrival of a person who brought your clan, your family, your people diseases that killed nine of 10 people,"
I think you would find that difficult to celebrate," he said.
Octavio Hinojosa, who descended from Spaniards and natives of Mexico, will celebrate on Columbus Day but not because it marks the explorer's visit to the Americas.
"I see the 500th anniversary as my birthday," said Hinojosa, member of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization. "Yes, it was a bloody birth. But I see it as a celebration of my birth as well as 350 million other Hispanic Americans."
David Skeeter, president of the Native American Student Association, said that ideally, he wished Europeans had not settled in the Americas but that he could not reject the benefits of the society they helped to establish.
"I don't know how to reconcile my idealistic feelings and the feelings of the people in my tribe and other tribes about how important this contact has been and how import-
tant things like a university education are now,"he said.
"I really feel like much of my problem and a problem other people have is trying to figure out where we want to go from here."
Hinojosa said he thought the key to resolving much of the tension about Columbus' true legacy was to incorporate a more accurate portrayal of his arrival in history books.
Looking at the impact of Columbus' arrival from many different cultural viewpoints would give a more accurate portrayal of the event. Wildcat said.
Jon Ortiz, a third year law student from Overland Park, said the cultural mix that resulted from Columbus' arrival was something to celebrate.
"I can take a look at that mixture and marvel in it," Oriz said. "When the time comes, I will celebrate Columbus' 'discovery' of us because for me, I am a better person for it."
Bv Muneera Naseer
Students to study energy control
Kansan staff writer
KU engineering students will examine office buildings, hotels and shopping centers as part of a program to study energy conservation in commercial buildings.
The proposal also has a good plan to include students in the program, he said.
The U.S. Department of Energy notified the University Sept. 29 that it would house the new Commercial Buildings Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center in Broadcasting Hall. The Department earlier accepted a proposal made by Clay Belcher, associate professor of architectural engineering, that calls for a nine-month pilot program at the new center.
Jack Stacy, member of the proposal review committee at the Kansas City regional office for the energy department, said the KU proposal was the most responsive to the department's requirements.
The program will involve three employed engineering students who will study eight commercial buildings in the Kansas City and Lawrence area and make recommendations to building owners on ways to save energy. The recommendations would help reduce the cost of building operation for owners.
The program will cost the energy department about $50,000, part of which will pay the students' salaries.
Belcher said that the cost of energy used by a building could range from $1 to $2 as a square foot. A 100,000 square foot building, such as Anschutz Science Library, could run $10,000 to $200,000 in energy costs a year.
ing, operating elevators, pumping water and lighting.
He said that there were various uses of energy in a building such as heating, cool-
Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation in Kansas City, Mo., and Trammell Crow Company in Overland Park are two of the companies that will provide some of its buildings for the audits. The program will include consultant assistance from the Lighting Research Center in Troy, N.Y.
Mark Guthrie, senior property manager for Trammell Crow, said the students would audit three Crow buildings that cover an area of 500,000 square feet and run a total energy bill of about $700,000 a year.
The recommendations from the audits could help reduce the operating costs, which would result in more business competitiveness because of lower operation costs.
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