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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 6, 1992
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Construction hurts SUA; Unions unaffected
Work to extend into November
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
The number of students using the Kansas and Burge Unions has remained the same this fall, despite the decrease in the number. said Jim Loon, director of the Unions.
But fewer students have visited the Student Union Activities box office and SUA Travel office since they moved last spring from the Kansas Union to temporary facilities at Burge Union.
"We believe the central location of the Kansas Union was more beneficial." Atchison said. "We have seen a decline in business and in traffic. That can make a big difference in whether you make a profit or not."
Marcia Atchison, manager of SUA Travel, said many students resented the inconvenience of walking across campus for the travel service.
Although the SUA box office has less traffic at its temporary location than at the Kansas Union, student members of the SUA said, Sue Morrell, manager of SUA.
they have a purpose."
She said many students complained about the inconvenience of going to the Kansas Union and then having to go across campus to the Burge Union
"They'll come to where they need to buy tickets," she said. "Students in general aren't dropping by to see what's going on. If they do come over,
"But once they get over here, it's not that inconvenient because there's parking," Morrell said.
People visited the temporary SUA office often this summer. The group sold 4,000 Worlds of Fun and Oceans from their store in business from the previous summer.
"I think for a temporary location it worked better than we ever expected," Morrell said. "I can't say there have been any negative effects of moving to the Burge Union."
Kip Chin / KANSAN
The move was not as bad as people at SUA expected because they planned for it, she said. Morrell put student employees to work by extending SUA's weekday hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays to 8 a.m. to SUA also is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
"We're having to make the extra
money we need" forget about us
over here. Mortgages.
People are not forgetting about the Burge Union, Long said. More people are recognizing the facilities there like the cafeteria, meeting rooms and bookstore, he said.
Stage one of Phase II of the Kansas Union's renovation should be completed by early November, allowing SUA to move into its new office space
KU students will continue until November to buy movie tickets and make airline reservations at the Burge Union. Stage one of Phase II of the renovation of the Kansas Union will be finished in November.
The Community Mercantile Co-op is relocating to the former Power Plant dance club building, 901 Mississippi St.
Co-op to move to Mississippi Street
By Delin Cormeny
Kansan staff writer
The co-op is flying the coop.
After 15 years in the same location, the Community Mercantile Co-op has decided to move from its small shop at Seventh and Maine streets to a space five times larger at 901 Mississippi St., formerly the Power Paint dance club.
"We've been wanting to do it for a long time," said Gretchen Gwaltney, mercantile employee. "We're pretty much busting at the seams here."
The Mercantile is a health-conscious shop that sells foods without additives and preservatives, organic food and locally grown food.
Jeff Helkenn, former co-op member, said the co-op bought fruits, vegetables, beef without hormones or antibodies and fresh eggs from Douglas County and surrounding
county residents.
The Mercantile has increased from 50 original members to 875 current members. Amy Fields, general manager, said that number was expected to increase to 4,500 when the new store opened Feb. 1.
"People make choices with their consumer dollars every day." Helkenn said. "We try to direct those dollars in a way that's respectful to the natural and social environments. That saying, 'Think globally, Act locally,' has been in our mission statement for the past 18 years."
The Mercantile grew from a 1974 merger of two buying clubs. Club members would pool their money, buy products in bulk and then divide the products among themselves.
Fields estimated that 20 percent of the Mercantile's customers are KU students but added that most
students were not co-op members. Customers need not be members to shop there.
Members purchase refundable shares for $75. The shares allow members to elect a board of volunteer directors, automatically enroll as members of the Free State Credit Union, which was started by co-op members, and get perks such as discounts, coupons and newsletters full of recipes and nutritional and herbal information.
The Free State Credit Union, 700 Maine St., Amazing Grikes Bakery, 701 Alabana St., and Kroeger Country Meats, 1410 Kasold Drive, also will move with the Mercantile into the new building.
The store's current building will go up for sale.
sunding a total cost of $400,000
— $200,000 of which was raised in a summer drive.
Fields said the move to the new building would cost about $800,000
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
Grant to finance research
Federal money will help create KU science project
Kansas will receive a $4.4 million, three-year federal grant that will increase cooperative research among three Kansas universities and create more research opportunities for students in the sciences, University officials said yesterday.
The grant money, awarded by the National Science Foundation, and matching state funds will combine to provide almost $9 million to finance a program called Kansas Science and Technology Advanced Research, or K*STAR.
"We have the opportunity with this grant to help build our quality and capacity for research in the science, math and engineering fields," Kuwana said.
The University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University will combine research resources under the program in the largest cooperative research effort ever undertaken by Kansas universities, said Ted Kuwana, KU professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, who
The NSF's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, awarded the grant money. EPSCoR helps states that cannot finance the research and technology development needed to compete for funds.
Because of its small population, large rural areas and small industrial base, Kansas ranked 34th in the nation in 1900 in federal research expenditures to colleges and universities.
Grants increasingly are awarded to projects combining math, science and engineering research. Kansas universities can attract more grants by sharing facilities and research from different scientific disciplines, Kuwana said.
"The multidisciplinary approach allows you to undertake complex, larger research problems, which would be difficult for single investigators," he said.
K*STAR also includes programs
designed to increase interest in the sciences among students on all levels
The K*STAR program will open more opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students and junior faculty in research projects created through the program, Kuwana said.
The investment in research at Kansas universities may attract industries to Kansas and help strengthen its current industries, said Bill Wentz, Wichita State University distinguished professor of aerospace engineering and executive director of the National Institute for Aviation Research.
"Providing basic research knowledge for our industries, the best in education for our young people and a climate to attract new industries and businesses to the region are worthy long-range goals," Wentz said.
"The EPSCoR program is one step in meeting these goals through a coordinated, efficient program, which will utilize and improve the best facilities and researchers from each of the state's three major research universities."
Suspected molester arrested
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt Kansan staff writer
A man who allegedly molested two Lawrence girls and one girl and one woman in Overland Park was arrested Friday night in connection with the case.
The Lincoln, Neb., resident was arrested on a Douglas County District Court warrant for molesting the girls Sept. 26. He is being held in the Lincoln, Neb., jail.
Lt. Ed Brunt of the Lawrence police said a man posing as a security guard in the parking lot at Dillons Store, 1740 Massachusetts St., approached a 10-year-old girl Sept. 26 and accused her of stealing candy from the store. After the man tried to lure her into a loading dock, the girl escaped and reported the incident to her mother when she arrived home.
Sgt. Mark Warren of the Lawrence police said that the man was arrested at his residence without problems and that Johnson County issued a warrant for the Overland Park incidents.
Police said the same suspect accused another 10-year-old girl of shoplifting at Checkers, 2300 Louisiana St., 30 minutes later. After the girl denied the allegations, the man promised to give her $20 if he were wrong. The two were involved in an altercation before the girl ran away.
Officer Ted Bordman of Lawrence said that he contacted Overland Park police Sept. 27 after reading an article about two similar incidents that occurred in Overland Park Sept. 25.
Police believe the same man grabbed an 11-year-old girl Sept. 25 outside Cherokee Sun Fresh grocery in Overland Park and accused her of shoplifting before she escaped.
The same day, the man grabbed a 25-year-old woman behind Oak Park Mall, 95th and Quivira streets, before she called security.
Warren said the man would face an extradition hearing to be brought to Lawrence and face criminal charges.
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