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University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1982
Budget chairman: Board to approve plans for addition to Haworth Hall
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
Plans for a new biology department building, that have been in the works for 15 years, are scheduled to come before the Board of Regents for final approval tomorrow at its meeting in Topeka, Glee Smith Jr., Regents budget committee chairman, recently said.
Gov. John Carlin approved the $12.8 million project in April. The plans for the project were finished in July, said the director of the facilities planning office.
Smith said the Regents had been
planning the addition to Haworth Hall for so long that it already had a place in the budget.
"I anticipate the approval of the addition at the meeting," he said.
WIECHERT SAID plans for the project would go up for bid soon after the Regent's decision. Though the plans were completed in July, they have not been officially approved and the applicants did not meet in July or August.
The project should remain unaffected by the governor's 4 percent spending reduction at the Regent schools, Wiechert said.
The addition will be "an entire new building," said Gunther Schlager,
chairman of the division of biological sciences. The addition will sit on the east side of Haworth.
Construction will begin in January, Schlager said. The project's money is allocated in three stages. About $3 million is appropriated for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1983. About $5 million dollars has been appropriated for each of the following two years, he said.
THE ADDITION will have modern research labs, teaching labs and classroom.
The biology department outgrew Snow Hall and had to hold lecture classes in Wescoe Hall, Schlager said.
Professor plans to teach in Belfast if Regents approve exchange plans
Belfast, Northern Ireland, a city that has been marred by violence, is where a KU professor plans on teaching next semester if the Kansas Board of Regents approves a faculty program today, the professor said.
Queens College in Belfast is where Eric Straus, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, plans to teach next semester if the Regents approve his reciprocal faculty exchange program, he said.
THE REGENTS meet today and tomorrow in Topeka to consider the directions and requests of state schools. The University of Kansas has a number of items on the Regents agenda.
Strauss said he was sure the Regents would pass his request and that in the future KU would be able to
have a student exchange program with Queens College.
Strauss and his family visited Belfast in November to visit with college officials and began arrangements for the exchange.
"Belfast is an interesting place," Strauss said. "It has the worst housing in Europe."
And, because of the violence, the housing is still falling apart, he said.
THOUGH ONLY ONE faculty member will be coming to KU, Strauss said. Queens College has not offered of two professors chosen will come.
Both Dale Singleton and Malachy McEldowney are professors of architecture at Queens and are candidates for the exchange program, he said.
The Regents also will decide whether to approve a $2,560 increase
in funds to pay for a repaired filter system in the old swimming pool at Robinson Center.
It was the second time the pool had been repaired since being built in 1967. Taylor said.
Other items on the agenda include a request from Chancellor Gene A. Budig for the transfer of $80,000 from a utility project on the Lawrence campus to help pay for the repair of a broken vent at the university of Kansas Medical Center, which will improve the electrical distribution system.
BUDIG ASKED the Regents to authorize $90,000 from private funds for alterations and remodeling at the Med Center. Budig also asked the Med Center to power UPS' ability to improve requests from $88,700, $88,100.
Full House to vote on measure today Panel clears job-creating bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A key House committee Wednesday approved over Republican objections a $1 billion bill to create 200,000 public service jobs.
A vote by the full House on
democratic-hacked measure was
explicated.
The action by the House Rules Committee followed a call by Democratic leaders for quick congressional approval of the jobs bill, which was passed in the right direction" to put unemployed Americans back to work.
The bill would provide about 203,000 temporary jobs for the unemployed in repairing and maintaining bridges and roads and other public facilities, including conservation and energy-saving activities.
About 140,000 of the jobs are ear-marked for unemployed adults, with
the remainder for those ages 16 to 21
THE PROCEDURE approved by the rules committee allows Republicans to offer just one amendment when the bill comes up for debate today. Another vote to send the bill back to committee also is permitted at the end of debate, but Democratic leaders appeared confident the House would pass the bill and send it to the Republican-controlled Senate.
A motion by Rep. James Quillen, R-Tem., to delay the bill was rejected by the rules committee on a party-line vote.
At a news conference earlier in the day, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass, flanked by House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement:
"WE GAVE the president his program last year ... but we have 13 million unemployed. We're not going to sit back while unemployment goes
Wright said he expected the bill to pass in the House, and Kennedy, a co-sponsor of the bill in the Senate, said "very hopeful" it would pass the Senate.
Democrats decided to seek a speedy vote this week after the successful override of President Reagan's veto of the supplemental appropriations bill.
Republicans labeled the legislation an election-season gimmick, and one GOP congressman suggested it is the "son of CETA," the scandal-scarred Comprehensive Employment and Training Act that expires Sept. 30.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters Reagan probably opposed the program "by implication," but indicated the president would leave strategy on the bill up to the GOP leadership.
KU-KSU canoe teams to battle this weekend
Soggy Jayhawks and Wildcats will be batting on the Kansas River this weekend in the annual KU-KSU Canoe Race.
needed more members
"There's something in it for everyone," said Robert Jolly, Derby, Kan., senior. "It's a good time to drink some beer and have fun."
"We're hoping to have about 200 people in it," Jolly said.
Jolly, an active member of the Association of University Residence Halls, said two types of people competed at the event — people who were serious about winning, and people who wanted to have fun on the water. He estimated that 10 percent of the participants canned to win.
THE RACE BEGINS at a boat ramp off Highway 24 east of Manhattan, and ends at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets, in Lawrence. The course stretches over 100 miles, Jolly said.
Registration forms are available at the AURH office in McCollum Hall, he said. Jolly said he could help anyone interested in the race find a team that
Any number of people may be on a team, but each team must consist of members of both sexes. Teams may have more than one canoe; the canoe may never leave the water.
The canoeists will camp Saturday night at St. Mary's, Kan, and K-State's AURH has planned a party for the
residence hall winners. "K-State has won every year, Jolly said, although one year she an independent Lawrence completed the course with the fastest time.
"The food is just for residence hall teams, because they're the ones who have to pay for it," Jolly said. "Others have to provide food for themselves."
"ONLY RESIDENCE HALLS can get trophies, but that doesn't really make sense because the others pay a higher entry fee," Jolly said.
Each residence hall team pays a $5 entry fee. Teams mainly composed of residence hall people pay $15, and independent groups pay $30.
Trophies will be awarded to the
If a group provides someone to work during the race, the entry fee is reduced by $5, but only 12 workers are needed this year. Jolly said.
On campus
TODAY
ECKANKAR, a group that utilizes the science of soul travel, will have an introductory talk at 7:30 p.m. in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union.
GAY AND LESBIAN SERVICES OF
BANKSY, 30 p.m. in the
museum. Report of Mrs.
Miller.
CAMPUS LEAGUE OF WOMEN
OTTERS will meet at 11 a.m. in Alcove C
CAMPUS LEAGUE OF WOMEN
Participants must provide their own canoes. Canoes are available for rental from Student Union Activities and at local sporting goods stores, Jolly said.
SMALL CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Center for Religious Education.
GERMAN CLUB will meet for Stamtish, reserved lunch table, at 11:45
p. m. in the Cottonwood Room of the Union.
AMERICAN-ISRAELI FRIENDSHIP ORGANIZATION will have a Felafel Party at 7 p.m. at 842 Avalon St.. Apt. 5.
KU WOUND AND SHIELD will meet
at p.m. in the Oread Room of the
Umpqua School.
STUDY ABROAD informational meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. at the Lindley Hall Observatory if it is a clear night.
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