12
Tuesday, November 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Ruth Jacobson/Special to the KANSAN
Magic bus
Jayhawk Boulevard as seen through the back of a KU on Wheels bus.
Science library construction on schedule
By JORN E. KAALSTAD Staff writer
Staff writer
Construction of a new $13.9 million science library is on schedule and will be finished in the spring of 1990, with planning and construction workers set.
"It's still a little early to say, but so far, we're on schedule." said Jim Modig, associate director of facilities planning.
The four-story science library will be southeast of Hoch Auditorium. It will house the University of Kansas'
science and technological collections, including maps, journals and microfilms.
The building will have a limestone exterior to match the style of older campus buildings.
Modig said the construction, which started in the beginning of October.
The first stage is the construction of the building. A $10.1 million bid was given to R.D. Andersen Construction Inc. of Topeka.
for R.D. Andersen Construction Inc., said construction was on schedule to be finished Oct. 1, 1989. Recent rainfall has delayed work just a couple of days, he said.
Stan Claassen, project manager
Claassen said the company so far was keeping within its $10.1 million bid. But, heavy rainfalls and a very winter pointer would increase costs, he said.
Right now, the company has dug 30 feet. Because the construction area is just 40 feet from Hoch Auditorium, the company had to support the soil
beneath the auditorium with pillars to prevent the soil from sliding, Claassen said.
Claassen said the basement of the library would be excavated in two weeks. After that, the exterior construction of the building will start.
Molig said the second stage of the construction was interior construc- tion.
Those who fear that the famous 50-foot American elm tree near the construction site will go down in the process can relax. Modig said.
KU Endowment hopes to get $100 million
3y BEN JOHNSTON
Staff writer
Campaign Kansas is off and running in its race to net the University of Kansas at least $100 million in private contributions over the next five years.
Since Sept. 1, six contributors have given $5.1 million to the Kansas University Endowment Association. The money probably will become available to KU students in the School of Business, the department of sociology and other undetermined parts of the University.
Donations to Campaign Kansas are used for what contributors specify, but officials expect money to be donated for a variety of areas, from scholarships to endowed professorships.
Jim Martin, executive director of Campaign Kansas, said committees of faculty members, administrators, members of the Endowment Association and alumni were being organized into committees to solicit contributions.
Martin said the success of the committees between Sept. 1 and May would determine how high the official goal for the campaign would be. The official goal will be set in May. Although the goal may be higher, the University and the Endowment Association hope to raise more than $100 million, he said.
Members of the committees have been contacting alumni, supporters of the University and corporations and asking them to contribute to the campaign. Martin said.
"It is important to have people on the committees who are well-connected," Martin said. "It is important that they have what we call a sphere of influence."
One of the six contributors is Dale W. Gordon, a 1943 KU graduate who lives in Wichita. He willed the proceeds of a $1 million life insurance policy and made a cash contribution of an undetermined amount of money. The money will benefit the
School of Business and the athletic program.
School of Business and the athletic program. John Tolleson, dean of business, said Gordon's contribution was one of the largest ever made to the School of Business.
"It will be a tremendous benefit," Tolleson said. "It is a timely example Dale has set for other friends of the school."
Tollefson said he was on a committee for Campaign Kansas and had talked to Gordon several times about contributing to the campaign after Gordon expressed interest.
Two other contributors to the campaign were identified by the Endowment Association;
Morris C. Pratt, Lawrence resident, left an undetermined amount of money for a scholarship
Virginia C. Beard left an undetermined amount of money for a fund to memorialize her husband, Roland T. Beard, a 1928 KU graduate who died in October. 1986.
Professor mixes cello, jazz music
By AMBER STENGER Staff writer
The cello is an instrument usually not associated with a jazz band, but tonight a Lawrence audience will hear a composition that features a KU cellist and jazz ensemble.
David Baker, distinguished professor of music at Indiana University, created Concerto for Cello and Jazz Band, which will premiere at 8 p.m. today at Liberty Hall. Edward Laut, a professor of music at the University of Kansas, will be the guest soloist and will be accompanied by the KU Jazz Ensemble I.
Few pieces have been composed for the cello with a jazz band, Baker said. Tonight's concerto is Baker's first cello and jazz band composition
Baker started playing the cello after he broke his jaw in a car accident 20 years ago, he said. Before the accident, he played the trombone and had played in the bands of Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson and Quincy Jones.
Laut told a music class yesterday that performing with a jazz band was much more fun.
He said it was logical that the premiere of his concerto would be in Lawrence. He said that Laut was a world-class celloist and that his own ties were strong with Laut and the conductor, Ron McCurdy, assistant professor of jazz at KU.
Cellos usually are excluded from jazz bands, just as some jazz instruments are not found in orchestras, he said.
"Finally, I get a chance to experience all of the energy of a jazz band." Laut said. "It's like a wish fulfillment. It's as if David Baker has lent me all of his expertise so that I can do this."
"F
Finally, I get a chance to experience all of the energy of a jazz band. It's like a wish fulfillment. It's as if David Baker has lent me all of his expertise so that I can do this.'
— Edward Laut KU associate professor of cello
Laut said one reason that the cello has not been incorporated into jazz concerts more often is that other instruments easily prevent the cello from being heard. He said he would use a floor microphone to provide volume balance tonight.
Baker said he hoped that more jazz pieces would incorporate the cello.
The KU Jazz Singers and KU Jazz Combo I also will be featured in the performance.
Cadets to take a spin to try out air force life
Tickets for the concert are $4. The proceeds will help pay for the Jazz Ensemble I and the Jazz Singers to participate in the jazz festival in Switzerland in July.
By a Kansan reporter
KU Air Force ROTC cadets will get a different perspective today as about 30 of them take turns riding in a military helicopter at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
Capt. Joe Goldblatt, assistant professor of aerospace studies, said yesterday, "We attempt during the school year to provide opportunities to cadets to show them the different aspects of the Air Force life."
He said usually he took cadets to nearby bases for the rides. "But this year we had the opportunity to get the 'copter to visit us,'" he said.
The helicopter will come to Lawrence from Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, Mo., and will take up five or six cadets at a time from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Goldblatt said he'd hoped to have the helicopter land on West Campus. But that idea was shot down by KU events, a committee of the organizations and activities center.
Ann Eversole, chairman of the committee, said the committee had been concerned about the safety of landing the helicopter on campus, when a suitable space was as close as the Lawrence airport.
"It wasn't intended as criticism of the ROTC," she said, but only to guard against unnecessary accidents. Kansas is not equipped to handle.
Students
Cadets don't seem to mind the change in plans, though, and some said yesterday that they were excited about the trip.
Continued from p. 1
"We made appointments this summer to cover the demand for freshman courses."
"We think it is good at the freshman level for students to be in smaller classes rather than large lecture classes." he said.
Graduate teaching assistants in the history department are appointed for 20 hours each week and teach independent class sections, an average of two three-hour classes each week. They must have a master's degree and teaching experience or experience as a teaching assistant.
"Our enrollment has grown. Our number of graduate assistants have grown, too, but not as much as the enrollment," Saul said.
The enrollment crunch will loom above the department for a few years, Saul said. Forty percent of the history department's enrollment is at the junior and senior levels. That means that when the current freshmen and sophomores become upperclassmen, the history department will be forced to deal with even more students.
"There's going to be less choice for students. Students are going to have
trouble getting into junior-senior level classes," Saul said.
Saul said he thought it was good to hire lots of GTAs to help build a strong graduate program to attract other graduate students.
And James Woolfel, director of Western Civilization, said, "Just because they are a faculty member doesn't mean they are a better teacher."
The goal, said Frances Horowitz, dean of the graduate school, is balance. "What we hope is that freshman and sophomore students will have a mix of GTAs and full-time faculty." Horowitz said.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the math department, said he thought the GTA to-professor ratio in the math department was lowed.
"And because we could not add faculty, we have taken faculty lines, divided them up, and hired more graduate teaching assistants." Ramaley said.
But little will change until more money is available, Ramaley said. KU's temporary solution to increased enrollment has been to hire more graduate teaching assistants because it cannot afford to hire more full-time faculty, Ramaley said.
"I just think they need a richer senior faculty mix," he said.
"Now, that does not automatically reduce the quality of instruction," she said. "But it does mean that a freshman will be less likely to have scheduled classes with a lot of experienced faculty."
Low salaries
According to an April 1985 report prepared by the Task Force on Graduate Students, the stipends that KU awards to graduate teaching assistants are not nationally competitive.
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the college gave the departments a lump sum for GTAs. GTAs may draw higher salaries in some departments than in others because of national competition.
The Western Civilization department this semester has 31 GTAs, who are paid a base salary of $6.220 for a nine-month appointment, Woelfel said.
Haskell Springer, director of freshman and sophomore English, said the English department had about 50 GTAs last fall. This fall, the department has 60.
"I think it is difficult for KU to compete in terms of institutions that I consider to be of the same quality." I regard of graduate teaching assistants.
English teaching assistants are
"A number don't come to KU. We got turned down by a number of people we offered positions to," he said.
The English department is teaching 1,000 more students this fall, compared with last fall, partly because of new requirements that undergraduates enroll in English and math their first semesters at KU.
"Now, with the new requirements, we're having a surge in those courses because students aren't allowed to put them off," Springer said.
Since full-time faculty focus their efforts on teaching upper-level English classes, teaching assistants and part-time faculty are bearing the load for lower-level courses.
Like other KU faculty, Springer agrees that pay for graduate teaching assistants is far too low.
"What we have, then, is the need to hire part-time teachers and to have them teach more," Springer said.
expected to teach four classes a year over two semesters and are paid $6,000 a year. The department has about 50 full-time faculty.
Horowitz said that since 1980, KU had increased GTA stipends, but she conceded. "We have not made as much progress as we'd like."
Horowitz said that in 1984 KU was at 76 percent of its peer school population.
"We need more dollars than we have," Horowitz said.
He said this amount was enough to keep the graduate students who are at KU already but not enough to be able to study with other schools that want them.
Horowitz said the graduate college was relying on resources from program maintenance and the state Board of Regents Margin of Excellence proposal to increase pay for graduate teaching assistants.
Robert Spires, chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department, said his department had not had any directing graduate teaching assistants.
Himmelberg said that the 55 graduate teaching assistants in the math department were able to teach.
But, he said, stipends are inadequate.
"They are inadequate by any measure. This has been a major concern in our department for some time," he said.
"There just hasn't been any money over the last few years."
A rubber mask was found near the body of John Markle, the 45-year-old son of actress Mercedes McCambridge. The mask probably was worn during part of the shooting, said Sgt. Eddie Alexander.
Markle's wife, Chris, 45, was found in her bed on the third floor of the house, shot in the head, and his two daughters, Amy, 13, and Suzanne, 9, were found in another床 on the second floor, police said.
that now KU is at 89 percent of the peer average. She said a long-term goal for the graduate college was to raise GTA stipends to 100 percent of the peer average.
BEFORE YOU BUY,
Check the KANSAN.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An investment banker and son of an Oscar-winning actress shot and killed his wife and two young daughters and then took his own life yesterday, possibly because of financial troubles, police said.
Our advertisers
Our advertisers might save you money.
The Associated Press
Arkansas banker kills family, self
Did you know that your student activity fee funds a law office for students? Most services are available at NO CHARGE!
Legal Services for Students
- Preparation & review of legal documents
- Advice on most legal matters
- Many other services available
- Preparation & review of legal documents
- Notarization of legal documents
Funded by student activity fee.
8:30 to 5:00 Burge. thru Friday
148 Burge Union 864-5665
Call or drop by to make an appointment.
LOOKING FOR A PART-TIME JOB? Find It At UNITED PARCEL SERVICE
Wanted: Loader/Unloaders
to work 3-5 hr. shifts mon.-fr.
at Lenexa, Ks. facility
(30 min. east of Lawrence).
Shifts begin at approx.
11 a.m., 11 p.m.
$8^{00}/hr.
UPS Representatives will be on campus Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1987 12-5 room 110 Burge Union eoe/m/f $8.00/hr.