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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 24, 1987
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Local Briefs
Closing times to be different during break
KU buildings will be closed at various times over Thanksgiving break.
The Kansas and Burge unions will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow and reeon at 7 a.m. Monday.
All Strong Hall offices wil be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow but closed Thursday and Friday.
Watson Library will be closed
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. It
will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
tomorrow and Friday, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Saturday, and noon to midnight
Sunday.
The science library in Malot Hall will be open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
tomorrow, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, and noon to midnight Sunday.
SenEx will discuss admissions policy
The University Senate Executive Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in the Regents Room in the Library building a selective admissions proposal.
The proposal, which is from the chief academic officers at each Regents university, would restrict admissions by requiring in-state freshmen to complete a high school core curriculum with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Discussion on proposed changes in the add-drop policy will be delayed until next week, said Sandra Wick, SenEx administrative assistant.
Agencies may apply for United Way help
United Way of Douglas County now is taking applications for nonprofit organizations wanting to sponsor the 1988-1989 fund-raising campaign.
Organizations must apply by Dec. 1. For more information contact executive director Barb Smith at 843-6626.
"What people forget is that we're not raising money for United Way, we're raising money for the agencies," Smith said.
United Way now sponsors 24 agencies, including Hospice, Red Cross and Douglas County Child Development Association.
This year's United Way fund raising goal is $638,000. Currently,
$571,726 has been raised.
Study abroad offers West German jobs
The office of study abroad is accepting applications for apprenticeships in West Germany for summer 1988.
The German Academic Exchange Services will place students interested in agriculture, engineering, forestry or natural science, human company or universities, sales Mitchell, study abroad adviser.
Program details and applications are available in the office. The deadline to apply is Dec. 7.
Protester is looking for peace
Activist Hickey talks of arrest on test site
By BRIAN BARESCH Staff writer
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
Donna Hickey will go to jail soon for an anti-nuclear protest last May, but that hasn't slowed her activism or kept her from recruiting others to join her cause.
Hickey, a Dodge City native who now lives in Boulder, Colo., spoke to about 20 people last night in the Kansas Union about her arrest last summer at a nuclear test site in Nevada. Her appearance was organized by Neither East Nor West, a student organization.
Hickey said she and five other women hiked for four days in the Nevada desert last May to try to reach ground zero, the spot directly over an underground nuclear test.
"I have never been so scared in my life," Hickey said. "I thought I was going to die out there."
The women did not quite reach ground zero, but they blocked a highway and搔住 a bus carrying officers then arrested them, Hickey said.
The helicopters landed, and these guys in little Rambo suits came over and aimed machine guns at us." Hickey said. "We were singing."
Hickey, now out on bail, must start her jail term Jan. 8.
The women all belong to an activist group called Pele, named after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and perfect love, Hickey said.
While at the site, Hickey said, the woman saw eight other ground zeroes under construction, craters from above-ground testing done in the 1950s, animals used to test radiation effects and some Stealth bombers, which Hickey made practice bombing runs. The U.S. government has not officially acknowledged that it has Stealth bombers.
Hickey said she opposed nuclear testing because without testing, new weapon systems could not be developed and those already in place could not be checked. She joined the Plee protest after hearing about her test site protests in magazines and talking to organizers, she said.
Hickey read a poem one of the protesters wrote while on the hike. The poem was titled "An Affirmation of Life from Mother Earth." It expresses outrage at what Hickey calls the rage of the earth by nuclear weapons and other destructive forces.
Hickey said the women read the poem at the test site. The poem's subversive content was what led to their conviction at the trial, she said. "It was great hearing them read it into the record," she said.
John Dreiling, Lawrence resident, said he thought that President Reagan's agreeing to meet Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and work out arms control agreements was partly due to pressure from hundreds of peace activist groups in the United States.
Several people in the audience said they thought Hickey's brand of activist politics was helping bring about changes, although the process was slow.
If at first enrollment fails,try again
Teddy Newman, Las Vegas, Nev., senior, scanned the list posted outside Strong Hall's enrollment center yesterday.
By NOEL GERDES
On the last day of regular enrollment, three of Newman's first-choice classes, classes he needed to graduate, were closed.
Staff writer
at its busiest today in the early morning. Lines probably will be shortest in the afternoon.
Today, hundreds of students like Newman, who didn't get the hours they needed during their first enrollment center appointments, get a second chance to complete their schedules.
"There's a good chance that I'll be back in line tomorrow," Newman said.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said yesterday that he expected the enrollment center to be
"We didn't want to make a schedule, because of Thanksgiving break, so it's first-come, first-serve," Thompson said.
As of 10 p.m. Friday, about 250 classes were closed, and 37 were canceled. About 50 classes have been added that were not in the timetable
Last year, about 1,300 students
last year enrolled the enrollment center
on the landing page.
English 102, a required class for most freshmen, was on the closed class list as of Friday, but Michael Johnson, chairman of English, said yesterday that all students would be accommodated.
Johnson said that the department would not add any new sections of
English 102 but probably would allow most sections to expand. He said the department could accommodate about 100 more students...
Also closed as of Friday were Math 102. Math 115 and Math 365.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of math, said yesterday that he would add one new section each of Math 115 which is Calculus I, and Math 365, which is Statistics, because of high demand. The two math courses are prerequisite for many classes in engineering and business.
However, he said the math department didn't have enough money to re-open Math 102. Most freshmen can satisfy their math requirements by enrolling in Math 101 instead of Math 102, he said.
with 20, psychology with 16, communications with 15, political science with 14, business with 14 and theater and media arts with 12.
The departments or schools with the most closed classes were Enlish
Several advisers will be available today inside the enrollment center to help students get into closed classes or find alternatives.
Joe VanZandt, coordinator of the undergraduate advising center, said yesterday that his staff of seven people would be available, along with advisers from each professional school. He said five or six advisers would be available at any one time.
VanZandt said students should enter the enrollment center with a lot of alternate courses in a wide variety of departments.
VanZandt said advisers would insist that students show time flexibility.
Terry Thomas, Topeka resident, measures a piece of steel to be used on the renovation of Snow Hall. The first phase of work on Snow Hall should be completed this summer.
Construction at Snow Hall on schedule
By JORN E. KAALSTAD Staff writer
The $7.23 million renovation of Snow Hall is on schedule, and the first phase of work may be completed this summer.
Allen Wiechert, university director of facilities planning, said the contract with the construction company was for one year and he expected work to be finished July 1.
"Things are going fine, and as far as we can tell the first phase is on schedule," Wiechert said.
Wiechert said the renovation was split into two phases because financing had been spread over six years. Kietzman Companies construction company of Topeka won the $1.2 million bid for the first phase, he said.
The first phase of the construction involves renovating Snow's new wing, installing an elevator shaft there and building a new fire escape to face Memorial Drive. Wiechert said
The new wing was built in 1961 and will be remodeled completely, he said. It will get new mechanical and electrical systems, new walls and new ceilings.
"We're totally gutting out the building," Wiechert said.
Kietzmian said that before starting demolition, the company had to remove asbestos from Snow.
Larry Kietzman, owner of Kietzman Companies, said the renovation was coming along fine except the company had some delays at the beginning of construction this fall.
"I figure we're three weeks behind schedule, but I see no problem in finishing on time," Kietzan said.
Wiechert said bidding for the next phase of renovation would be opened sometime this spring.
That phase will be a continuation of the first phase. Phase two will wrap up the new wing before work starts on the old wing, built in 1929, he said.
Before the renovations began, Snow housed the biology department, the Entomological Museum and architectural studies.
Watson lacks resources to extend hours
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Watson Library still hasn't found the money and staff needed to extend its hours during finals, the assistant dean of libraries said yesterday.
Two weeks ago, assistant dean Mary Hawkins and a Student Senate library task force discussed the possibility of extending library hours with the help of Senate financing. About $800 would pay for the extra staff needed if the library remained open until 2 a.m. each day starting Nov. 30, Hawkins told the task force.
But no student senator has submitted a bill that would finance the extra hours. Bills had to be submitted by Friday to be discussed at the next
Senate meeting, which is Dec. 2.
Jason Krakow, student body president and the person who appointed the task force, said yesterday that he was opposed to Senate financing the extra library hours.
"Right now we feel that it's possible to secure money elsewhere in the University to pay for it." Kramer
Hawkins said that if the libraries were to finance the extra hours, money would have to come from an area other than the budget for student assistant salaries.
Hawkins also said it would be difficult to find student assistants who wanted to work the extra hours. She said student assistant supervisors at
Watson had been unable this week to find anyone interested in working late.
"Finding any student assistants who are willing to work from midnight to 2 a.m. when they themselves have finals will be difficult," Hawkins said.
Hawkins said four student assistants would be needed for the extra hours. Although about 200 student assistants work in Watson and KU's other libraries, Hawkins said she would hesitate to transfer assistants from the branch libraries to Watson.
"It would be a problem because they would be completely untrained in any of our emergency services."
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