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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Summer construction work hits campus
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
A KU landmark for more than a half-century — the 245-foot-tall smokestack — was torn down this summer, the most visible example of a busy round of construction.
Work on dismantling the smokestack, which has emitted waste from boilers at the University's power plant since 1923, began June 3, facilities operations officials said. Two smokestacks reaching 15 feet above the roof of the power plant will replace the smokestack and should be more efficient, officials said.
Several other construction projects are underway or on the drawing board, including renovations of the Kansas Union, Snow Hall and Battenfeld Scholarship Hall.
Work at the union, which began in February, is now concentrated on food service areas. Before renovation began, food services were located on different levels throughout the building. After renovations, they will all be located on level 3.
James Long, director of the union, said the new system would be more efficient, allowing students and faculty to find food services more easily.
All of the food services will have new furnishings but will retain their original names, he said. A new restaurant called Union Square will be added and a window along the western wall of the Prairie Room will provide a view of the Campanile and the Spencer Museum of Art.
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall 1425 Alumni
Place, received a complete makeover this summer. Most of the project will be completed by the time classes begin, but the kitchen will take longer, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Stoner said Battenfeld residents will be given meal cards to eat at any of the University residence halls.
During the renovation, the hall's second and third floors were converted to four-man suites, he said, each containing a study room, an office and four bunk beds in two sleeping rooms.
In the past, battenfeld had one large sleeping dorm and separate study rooms. The sleeping dorm was eliminated because residents didn't like it. Stoner said.
Battenfield, an all-men's scholarship hall, built in 1940, was the first part of a project to renovate one scholarship hall each summer.
This summer, all eight of the scholarship halls received new electrical systems.
"This way, when we are ready to renovate the rest of the scholarship halls, the electrical systems will be ready," Stoner said. "Residents today require a lot more electricity than they did when these buildings were built."
Several parking lots around campus were resurfaced or given additional lighting over the summer, he said. The parking lot nicknamed East Topeka, which is west of Iowa Street and serves the residence halls on Daisy Hill, was given additional lighting and the McCollum Hall parking lots were resurfaced.
Also, construction has begun on a parking lot behind Jolliffe Hall that will serve scholarship hall residents. That lot should be completed by October. Stoner said.
Snow Hall has been under renovation this summer to house the University's mathematics and computer science programs.
Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said asbestos abatement had been nearly completed in the northeast wing and in the mammalian genetics lab. The labs previously in Snow have been moved to Haworth Hall.
Modig said the first stage of the Snow Hall project, which consists of building a new elevator tower, a stairway tower, new interior walls and modernizing the electrical system, will be started after the asbestos abatement and completed by summer 1988. The contract for the first stage was awarded to Kietzman Companies of Topeka.
The second stage of construction, which will be on the main portion of the building, will be open for contract bids after the final design is approved. The project is scheduled to be completed by fall 1990.
KU's new science library will be built on the slope between Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science Building starting this fall. Because of its three limestone textures, the four-story building will match the style of some of the older buildings on campus. Its main entrance will face east toward Wescoe Hall.
Kansan reporter Kirk M. Adams contributed information to this story.
Part of the construction going on around campus this summer was the dismantling of the smokestack.
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House
"We knew all along we'd have a house, but we didn't know when we could move in," Segebrecht said.
Rubis, who was membership chair man of the house, said that at first it was difficult to talk to people about joining the house.
Aside from spending Country Club Week in a motel, Sigma Phi Epsilon members said they had to deal with a number of inconveniences during the last four months. One problem in particular was recruiting new members.
Other members said rumors that the fraternity would not reopen had hurt recruitment. too.
"I think we lost some really good guys because of the condition of the house," he said. "All we could show them was a sketch of what the house would look like."
"Surprisingly, no one decided to move out of the house," Rubis said. "Everyone who had asked for a room 18.09p is moving back into the house this fall."
The house will be full this fall.
The house will be set up against fraternity fires in the future. Lawrence fire officials are inspecting all fraternities and sororites on campus for fire safety violations and fire hazards, Lawrence Fire Captain Stan Ray said.
Fire Chief Jim McSwan said earlier this summer that his department would take a "conservative view" of problems that have occurred in Greek houses in the past. He said all KU fraternities and sororites would be inspected before school begins next week.
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