University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1982
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Cost, complaints eliminate block parties
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Block parties, those beer-sweet festivals at which thousands of students dance in the streets, cost too much to be president of Oliver Hall said recently.
That cost contributed to the death this year of a 10-year-old tradition, the Oliver-Naimish block party on Nail Street. A couple of weeks between the two residence halls
Dan Ahler, Oliver's president, said, "I really wanted it. A block party is a lot of fun and well worth whatever you put in there." He described the financial situation's really tight this year.
The annual party cost each hall mall more than $1,000 last year, David Barnes, the resident director of Oliver, said. Oliver's hall government voted against
having a block party this year because of the cost, despite the popularity of past parties.
Barnes estimated that 3,000 people attended last year's party.
THE FIRST Oliver-Naismith block party 10 years ago was an attempt to eliminate animosity between the two balls. Ahert said.
"Lately, it hasn't really worked," he said. "Naisimm people stayed on their side of the street, and Oliver people stayed on their side. There was no intermingling."
EVEN IF the intent of the party had remained consistent, Oliver's hall government could not have afforded it. This year, for the first time, residence halls cannot overspend their budgets, Barnes said. Hall governments can use money left over from last year, but they cannot plan parties on credit.
Funds are allotted to each hall according to the number of students living there on the 20th day of classes, Barnes said. The hall government receives $15 from each resident's contract.
She said the spending policy was changed to conform with the practices of other KU offices.
IN THE FAST, the office of residential programs let balls spend money before the official amount had been allocated, because the money was sure to come back. Ruth Mikkelson, the associate director of the office of residential programs.
Barnes said that it would be too cold to have a party block by the time the money was allocated, but Ahilt said it was just as well.
"We've had a lot of complaints from the neighbors saying it was just too loud of an event, anyway," he said.
Block parties must be approved by the city commission a year in advance, so there also will not be a Naismith-Oliver party in the spring, Alhert said.
STUDENTS CANNOT drink and dance on Stewart Drive this year, even though
Jan Fink, president of KU Panhellenic, said, "From what we understand, the neighbors aren't too fond of the party. We think this year they'd have more objections than they had in the past."
Art Farmer, Interfraternity Council adviser, said the annual block party had not been canceled, but was just moved to Potter Lake to be more accessible to all of the fraternities and sororites on campus.
However, Fink said the Greek Week party at Potter was unrelated to the Stewart Drive block party.
Farmland revisions postponed
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Two proposed changes in the joint city-county subdivision regulations that planners said were designed to protect farmland will receive further study by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
On the advice of its attorney, the Douglas County Commission decided yesterday to defer consideration of the changes.
"We decided this morning based on an opinion by our counselor to send them back," said Beverly Bradley, chairman of the county commission.
DAVID Guntter, a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, said the amendments were designed to ensure that farmland was protected and that development occurred in an orderly manner.
One of the two proposed amendments would have eliminated an existing five-acre exemption to the subdivision regulations. Because of the exemption, houses built on plots larger than five acres do not need to be platted and zoned.
The other amendment proposed a change in the definition of land for agricultural purposes from a minimum of 10 acres to a minimum of 40 acres.
COUNTY Counselor Daniel Young wrote in a letter to the county commissioners that, on the basis of a case decided in 1980 by the Kansas Supreme Court, "it might be well to postpone the scheduled public hearing on this matter, and ask the planning commission to have its staff review the case in view of the leapworth laws as interpreted in the Leapworth case."
The Leavenworth case held that a dwelling located on a farm occupied by the owner-farmer serves an agricultural purpose. Young wrote, so therefore is exempt from county zoning regulations.
The agricultural purposes definition based on a minimum acreage requirement might not be enforceable. Young wrote, because neither statutes nor case law relied on the amount of acreage to determine agricultural use.
The agricultural purposes of land are determined by the actual use of the land. Young wrote, and not the number of acres.
Catalog and timetable are cut
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
Course catalogs are going to be harder to find and timetables will have fewer pages at the University of Kansas as a result of the summer's budget cuts, KU officials said yesterday.
These measures are expected to save $37,500 from the catalog expense account, Robin Eversole, director of university relations, said.
GRADUATE and undergraduate catalogs are being distributed now under a new policy that became necessary this year. Eversole said.
Jane Hoskinson, University Relations academic editor, said the University would hand out free copies of the 1983-84 catalogs only to newly enrolled students, and the Oread would sell copies for $2.50 to anyone else.
James Maloney, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the fall 1983 timetable would be reduced about forty pages.
he studied other college's schedules to try to find ways to more efficiently use them.
MALONEY worked with the admissions and records office to try to cut costs.
The timestables will be abridged by cutting out blocks of "appointment only" classes unless a professor requests the listing, said Patty Elliot, schedule coordinator for admissions and records.
Other space saving measures in the 1983 spring timetable were reductions in the space between class listings and in the margin space. This shrank the timetable by about forty pages, Elliot said.
ELLIOT said the student would just have to request a single listing from the timetable at enrollment. The computer operator would be able to call up a list of all the professors' names who offered appointments. "They already did and talked to the professor at that point anyway," she said.
THE GRADUATE School office is still mailing and giving away some 1983-83 catalogs, free for the asking, said Louis Byrd, a clerk at the askin.
Only 20,000 of the scheduled 35,000 copies of the undergraduate catalog
distributed this year, said Hoskinson.
The number of graduate catalogs printed this year will be reduced from the 20.000 scheduled to 12.000.
The undergraduate catalogs had already been ordered from the printer before the budget cuts took effect, Hoskinson said. The other 15,000 catalogs are waiting to be bound at the printers and will be distributed next year, in effect keeping the same catalog in service for several years.
LAW SCHOOL catalogs would not be available until fiscal year 1984 in order to defer the printing costs until that period. As a further means of reducing costs, the graduate school is thinking of two-year catalog for next year, she said.
Hoskins said most other schools charge everyone for catalogs.
The $2.50 charge will prevent KU from having to pay for students who throw away the catalog and then want another, she said.
In addition, faculty and staff who receive their copies of the catalog will be expected to keep them for another year. This will stretch the 15,000 copies of this book to another volume. University can make do with a smaller number of catalogs, Hoskinson said.
Office insulation may not be tested
Staff Reporter
By DIRK MILLER
Staff Reporter
An office at the University of Kansas that was insured four years ago with a suspected carcinogen probably will not be tested for dangerous levels unless a U.K. hospital administers the public, the KU administration or the public, the KU official said yesterday.
The official, Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said, "We've looked at it numerous times and said that there wasn't any hazard there."
THE UNIVERSITY Relations office was insulated with urea formaldehyde foam in 1978. The insulation was made of polyurethane into the exterior walls of the office.
Bob Wadsworth, an investigator for the Consumer Products Safety Commission, said that urea formaldehyde was banned by the commission in August for use in residential homes and hotel and motel establishments. The insulation releases minute amounts of formaldehyde gas into the air, he said.
Wadsworth said the commission had received 2,200 complaints about the
insulation, affecting more than 5,700 people. The most common complaint, he said, was dizziness caused by breathing the formaldehyde gas.
JOHN IRWIN, chief of the occupational health section of the Bureau of Air Quality, said the bureau could conduct a test in the office, at a cost of $30 million. There was significant public complaint or a request by University officials.
But he said he did not think dangerous levels of formaldehyde gas were present in the office. The bureau said it would be impossible to provide 0.4 parts per million to be a high risk.
Most residential buildings with urea formaldehyde foam insulation have about a 0.05 parts per million (ppm) of formaldehyde gas, Irwin said.
HIGH LEVELS of formaldehyde gas usually are found if the insulation has been improperly installed, Irwin said. He said he had never found an instance
of improper installation of urea formaldehyde foam in Kansas.
A novel study of the effects of formaldehyde gas on rodents by the Chemical Industry Institute of Technology found that a significant number of cancerous nasal tumors when subjected to a 6 ppm concentration of the gas.
ACCORDING to Architect Hyatt, staff architect at the state architect's office, the state no longer puts urea formalin in insulation into building specifications.
Other studies have found formaldehyde gas a cause of eye, nose and throat irritation and headaches, nau-
cleal problems, skin infections and gastrointestinal problems.
"We try not to specify anything at all that is considered a health hazard," he said.
Hyatt said the state used only rock wool insulation (a mineral-fiber product). Styrofoam sheets and fiberglass batting for insulation.
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He said a heavy frost wouldn't hurt any pumpkins still in the patch, but he said he hoped to have them all harvested within the next ten days.
Phil Shideler, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka, said upper-level air currents had recently made temperatures cooler than average. In the last several days, temperatures have risen in the face of high pressure has risen over the area, damming the flow of cooler air from the north.
Barry Martin, Hutchinson freshman, stood out against a foggy backdrop yesterday morning. Martin sketched in the misty wooded area behind Spencer Museum of Art.
Kasson, who has had a pumpkin patch since 1836, said the Farmer's Almanac predicted frost on the vine on the 10th of October this year.
SHIDELER said a return to the chilly, below normal temperatures of a week or so ago probably would follow the warm weather in about 10 days.
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KASSON estimated that he grew about 900 pumpkins this season, and said that a few of the biggest ones were still on the vine.
ONE LOCAL pumpkin producer, Marvin Kasson, said this year's crop of jack-o'-lanterns-to-be was good, although the rains of spring drowned many bees, hindering cross-pollination between pumpkins.
"We've got some 40 pounders out here," Kasson said. "Pumpkins are in big demand these days. In the days when they were hard to find, we didn't waste it on jack-o-'lanterns."
Shideler said that temperatures that were cooler than average throughout the spring and summer had left weathermen debating the effects of a volcanic eruption in southeastern Mexico last March. He said some experts believed the dust from the eruption would lead to cooler temperatures this year, but a precise prediction was impossible, he said, because the effects of volcanic dust on weather were not completely understood.
The approach of October's first frost signals the season for another fall rainfall.