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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 30,1992
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KU students take look at Lied Center
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt Kansan staff writer
The lights dim in the Lied Center auditorium. The stage lights come up. The curtain rises as the audience awaits the musical performance. But not until Fall 1993, when the new performing arts center opens its doors for its first performance.
Twenty-seven student leaders from Student Union Activities, Student Senate and Rock Chalk Revue gathered yesterday afternoon at the center for a first peek at the $10-million building.
The basic structure has been completed. Workers are finishing interior construction and decorating.
Daron J. Bennet / KANSAN
Randy Turner, field manager of the Universal Construction Company, has been overseeing construction of the center since January 1990.
"This is the most complicated building you'll ever see built or be a part of," he said. "We're very proud of it."
The 100-foot tall building has four levels. Turner said the center would be 10 stories high if it was laid out in typical 10-foot height.
"This building has every part of construction in it." Turner said. "This is a form of art to us. You're seeing things here that will never be seen before. To actually do it, that's our art. This thing is a work of art in itself. It really is."
Rite Litterbush, senior consultant for Kirkegaard and Associates, an acoustical consulting firm, said the building is in good condition.
"The key thing here is that we want the building itself to enhance or work with the performer," he said. "But at the same time we don't want sound to distract the audience from what he or she is listening to."
The main lobby, which is bigger than Hoch Auditorium's lobby, has a box office, restrooms and a concession stand. The first balcony contains a concession stand, restrooms and an outside terrace.
"When we were designing the building, I asked the designers to design a place where the students who play brass at Vespers can play," said Jacqueline Davis, director of the Lied Center. "I am sure that there are people that are going to be smoking out there — but it wasn't originally designed for that purpose."
Clinton Lake can be seen from the first balcony.
"The idea was to get the people in the building to enjoy it from the inside and out." Davis said.
The second balcony contains a projection room and box seats designed to create an intimacy between the performers and the audience, she said.
The bottom level of the auditorium has handicapped seats. The entire auditorium seats 2,030.
Backstage is a sound-proof warm-up room, a rehearsal room, seven dressing rooms with shower and restroom facilities, a lounge for performers and a small kitchen facility.
"It will be used by Chamber Music and New Direction Series," she said. "It will also be used by the School of Fine Arts. We will also market it to outside users and to people off campus, but priority will be given to the University."
Nancy Kaiser-Caplan, development coordinator of the Concert, Chamber Music, and New Directions Series, said
the program is "the best program in the world."
Top picture:
inside the lobby of the Lied Center, Jacqueline Davis, director of the center, shows the tour group some of the building's features.
Right:
At the site of the new Lied Center, still under construction on West Campus, a group of representatives from Student Senate, Student Union Activities and Rock Chalk Revue wait for a tour of the building. The center, which will be ready for use next fall, was inspected yesterday by some of the groups who will use the performance center.
Speaker says unity is key for Europe
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
European unification and the future of the European community were the focal points of a lecture given by Anders Uhrskov, director of Denmark's International Study Program, last night at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
Uhrskov's speech, "The Danish Referendum, The Maastricht Treaty and the Future of the European Community," focused on the Danish public's resistance to joining a united Europe. The Maastricht Treaty, a three-part plan to consolidate European political and economic goals, was voted down in June in Denmark by 51 percent of the citizenry.
Uhrskov said the treaty was an attempt to provide stability in Europe after the demise of Communism. The Soviet Union's loss of influence behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980's, the 1990 reunification of Germany and the 1991 disintegration of the U.S.S.R. all combined to reshape the political and economic scene in Europe.
"All of that created a completely new situation in Europe," he said. "The collapse of Communism means there is a power vacuum in Europe. Russia is on sick leave, and the U.S. has pulled back."
There are three aspects of unification addressed by the treaty, Uhrskov said. They are economic and monetary unification, coordination for foreign and defense policies and the removal of physical borders to create common policies concerning refuges.
Although there are problems with the treaty, Uhrskov said it was a good solution to the economic troubles facing the country.
"It was thrown together in haste, but I think if you step back, you can see that it is a reasonable answer to the creation of a power vacuum in Europe with the collapse of Communism," he said. "It's not a great solution, but it's a good one."
The main reason for opposition to the treaty in Denmark is a fear that the country will lose its sovereignty, Uhrskov said. He quoted from a poster urging citizens to vote against the treaty: "If you think there are enough idiots running your life, then vote no."
He also cited a 1991 poll where 75 percent of Danes surveyed said they thought a political and economic union was too extreme for the problems facing Europe.
Uhrscrik ended his speech by emphasizing that unity was the only way the countries of Europe would be able to deal effectively with their problems. He said that countries no longer had sole control over their economies and that the effect of this interdependence would force nations to cooperate.
"The concept of sovereignty has changed because of the changing economy." he said.
Discussion about the treaty will continue between Denmark and the other 11 countries of the European Community, Uhrskov said. The countries will have to decide how to reconcile differences over economic strategy and extent of unification and cooperation.
Uhrskov said although he thought there must be a true common market in Europe, he did not think a giant European superstate would evolve out of the treaty.
Advisers to help department
By Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
The committee was formed on a recommendation from two outside consultants, William Kubitz, professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Clayton Lewis, associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado.
A three-member advisory committee has been formed to address concerns in the computer science department.
James Mukensk, dean of
labor arts and sciences, on Sept.
9 appointed Jack Porter, professor of mathematics; James Roberts, head of electrical and
computer engineering; and
author of Jodin professor
of economics, to be on the
committee.
Dennis Karpowitz, interim department head since June 1, said the committee would help the department move forward.
The consultants visited the department Dec. 2 and 3 at Muyksens' request to examine departmental problems. Internal conflict, a heavy faculty load and low research activity were among topics the consultants addressed.
They recommended that a committee be established to advise the department head in decisions related to hiring, tenure and promotion of faculty.
With the committee's input, the department intends to hire
The advisers will meet with the computer science faculty committee for the first time Oct. 6.
three more faculty members within the next two to three years, including a new head for the department, said Karpowitz, whose inter term lasts one year with the possibility of a second term. He was previously the associate head of KU's psychology department.
Karpowitz said that there was not alarge shortage of faculty but that the department had fewer faculty members than it did six years ago.
The computer science department currently has 11 faculty members,378 undergraduate majors and 83 graduate students.
He said additional faculty would help the department accomplish its academic missions.
Hearing date set on restraining order against ABC
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence judge Friday set a hearing date to decide whether he will sign a temporary restraining order that would alter how officers from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Bureau approach bar patrons who they think could be underage.
Judge Mike Malone of the Douglas County District Court decided he would not issue the temporary restraining order until the Oct. 14 hearing at the Douglas County District Court in the Law Enforcement Division. The judge said the urgency was no longer present in the case.
A former KU student filed a petition Sept. 23 seeking a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction against the ABC, its director and its mother organization, the Kansas Department of Revenue.
Whitney Blake, 21, filed the petition in an attempt to immediately halt further
checks by ABC officers at last week's "Pub Crawl," an organized event among Lawrence bars.
The order would prohibit ABC officers statewide from asking bar patrons for identification unless the request was accompanied by a statement informing suspects of their right to refuse. It would further restrain officers from continuing to question or detain suspects after they refused to provide identification.
The judge has not made an official decision on the request for temporary or permanent action. Donald Strole, Blake's attorney, said that he and the ABC would present their positions on the temporary restraining order at the hearing but that he did not know what the judge would do regarding the permanent injunction.
"He may or may not take up the permanent injunction," Strole he "may decide to rule on that at the same time or later. We'll know a lot more after the 14th."
"The 'Pub Crawl' kind of provided the catalyst for us filing the petition when we did." Strole said. "The urgency is not there before, but the issue is still very much there."
Strole said that he and his client wanted to address the issue of how the ABC approached certain bar patrons.
Blake, who works at Quinton's Bar and Deli, 615 Massachusetts St., said in the petition that she had observed law enforcement officers and ABC agents threaten individuals with arrest when they did not surrender identification, take individuals outside after obtaining identification and request identification from persons on a random basis.
Strole said ABC methods violated constitutional rights as stated in the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unlawful searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment, which protects individuals from incriminating themselves.
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