6A the university daily kansan
tuesday, September 30, 2003
news
University to recycle outdated, unused equipment
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is full of useless ink.
Old computers, broken desks and old chairs take up valuable space in offices on campus. They accumulate there at a constant rate as they wear out and are replaced.
"It's just one of the costs of doing business," said Barry
Swanson, director of business services for the Comptroller's Office.
So this semester the University will try something it has never done before: a campuswide cleanup campaign.
Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support, came up with the idea for a unified effort to get rid of all of the random junk taking up space in University offices.
"I suspect it's been a problem for well over 100 years," he said.
While it's usually up to individual departments to take care of the clutter that continually accumulates, Steeples decided that by organizing the cleanup and joining forces with Facilities Operations, the University could save time and money.
He said that the campaign, though still in its beginning stages, has been a success so far.
"We've seen quite a bit of enthusiasm," he said.
While the departments take care of figuring out what they
want to get rid of, the administration is providing trash bins through Facilities and Operations and helping to pay for temporary help with the cleaning.
During fall break, which lasts from Oct. 20 to Oct. 24, the provost's office will match funds dollar for dollar with administrative units to hire temporary student employees to help with the cleanup.
Facilities Operations will haul all of the items removed that aren't immediately thrown away
over to the campaign's staging area at West Campus.
From there, discarded items will either be shuffled to a different department, recycled donated to a not-for-profit organization or, as a last resort, thrown away.
All old computers, which make up the bulk of the trash according to Swanson, are slated to be recycled.
"They're really of no use unless you need a 286 computer for a doorstop," he said referring
to an outdated model.
Items that are still useful, but cannot be donated or reused by the University, will be sold to anyone who wants them. Swanson said administration would determine the date of the sale after fall break.
Any money made from sales will go to Facilities Operations, individual departments or to help pay for the temporary employees hired for the cleanup.
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GRANT: Politicians say grant will benefit Kansas economy
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University are working on the project. University officials will use the money to support research on developing environmentally safe chemicals for manufacturers to use.
Bala Subramaniam, distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and project leader, said the research focused on chemicals used to manufacture everyday items such as gasoline. The chemicals used to create these goods are hazardous to the environment and create toxic waste, which costs manufacturers an average of $10 billion dollars a year to clean up and contain.
The University's research will try to find safer ways for
manufacturers to create products like gasoline, Subramaniam said. The goal, Subramaniam said, would be to replace toxic solvents with benign, environmentally friendly solvents.
The safer acids that Subramaniam and his researchers said they wanted to create would be more cost-efficient than the ones being used now. This will save industries money that will also save consumers money as well, Subramaniam said.
Grant money will be used to gather faculty and instruments for the study. Subramaniam said. Eventually a new building may be built to house the research.
Until a new building is erected, work is being done at the Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis located in the KU Life Sciences Research Laboratories, 15th and Wakarusa streets, as well as at locations on the University's West and Main campuses.
The disciplines included in the research are chemistry, biology and engineering. The research will be interdisciplinary, Subramaniam said, combining the efforts from various scientists for various projects.
Money from the grant will also be used to focus on science education and outreach, Bretz said. This focus means that researchers will be working in K12 schools in Kansas.
"They want to train tomorrow's scientists to learn to do research that is environmentally friendly,"Bretz said.
The center will also try to reach out to minority researchers. Bretz said that Garden City Community College had signed an agreement that would help recruit scientists from the school to the University. Bretz also said that the center would focus on finding African-American, Hispanic-American and Native-American researchers.
The significance of this grant is evident in how the University competed with all other universities in the nation for it, James Roberts said. The University is one of 20 existing schools that have received a grant like this, Roberts said. Only 37 schools have ever received such a grant.
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REPAIRS: Leaks force garage to close for up to three weeks
she said after parking her car on Ohio Street. "Why don't they do it in the summer when no one's here?"
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Hultine said the timing of the problem's discovery and the need to go through the state for funds made a summer project impossible.
"I don't think we realized the severity of the problem until it
was too late," she said. "Getting it done during the summer wasn't an option."
Safety has always been an issue at the all-female residence halls. Nicole Nance, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and GSP resident, said the decrease in parking added to the danger residents faced.
"I was ticked off when I found out about it. I hate having to walk home alone from the
stadium lot," she said. "Safety is definitely something that's on my mind."
Hultine said the University took steps in recent years to make sure the path up the hill from the stadium was well-lit. She also said residents must take steps to ensure their own safety.
"They know it's going to be crowded," she said. "It's also their responsibility to take some precautions."
Hultine recommended residents park in short-term parking and get a friend from inside the building to ride to and walk back from a parking spot.
Nance said closing the lot was an inconvenience, but that she was resigned to the situation.
"I know they have to do it," she said. "We don't really have a choice in the matter."
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The Kansas secondary, which has had a tendency to be victimized at times this season, helped keep Smith's arm in check. Senior Remuise Johnson re-staked his claim on the starting cornerback position he lost in training camp, and junior safety Tony Stubbs showed why he was the defensive player of the game the week before with seven tackles and three pass break-ups against the Tigers.
DEFENSE: Kansas secondary restrains Mizzou quarterback
Even though the Jayhawks silenced almost all their critics with their performance on the field, the team credited a crowd of 50,071 fans as its 12th man on Saturday. The team thought the crowd, the 13th largest ever to see a game at Memorial Stadium, gave it extra adrenaline.
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"I thrive off the crowd, and I've always been like that, ever since I started football," sophomore linebacker Gabe Toomey said. "Whether it's one person or 50,000, they came to see us play and I'm just going to feed off that."
While the tearing down of the goalposts was something the players decided not to take part in, unlike the Missouri players last year, they enjoyed watching the celebration, raising their helmets and index fingers in triumph.
They looked kind of nice
"I thrive off the crowd, and I have been like that, ever since I started football."
Gabe Tommey
tophomore linebacker
coming down," Stubbs said. "But we weren't over there. I watched and put my hands up, because they did it to us."
Kansas Football Notes
■ Yesterday the layhawks were named the Team of the Week by collegesportreport.com. This is the second award Kansas has brought in this season from the Chicago-based site. The first came after its victory over UNLV, as senior quarterback Bill Whitmore was named National Performer of the Week with 270 passing yards and three touchdowns.
Kansas received 17 votes in this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Missouri fell from its perch at 23rd in the poll and received 19 votes. In the Associated Press poll, the Jayhawks garnered 19 votes, while the Tigers, who were also previously ranked 23rd in that poll, did not receive any votes.
— Edited by Andy Marso
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