UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COMMUNITY LIFE
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1997
Welcome to Templin!
Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, takes you on a tour:
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Kenneth Stoner
Every room has a snack-preparation area with a sink and enough space for a microwave and a small refrigerator. Also provided is room for dishes, utensils and other amenities.
The provided furniture in the suites of Templin include a bunk bed, 5-drawer dresser, desks and chairs for every resident. Cable, data circuit and telephone connection is available in each suite.
Templin is a good housing model for 36 years, but styles are different now. For example, instead of flat chairs, suites include two-position chairs so students can rock and relieve stress without stressing the chairs.
The 2- and 4-person suites have sleeping rooms with a bunk bed and an adjoining common room. The suites also have private bathrooms off the common room.
Templin will cost about $4,700 per person this year. This price includes many things, but maid service is not provided.
University housing turns a new corner
By Daniel Ethan Thompson
Kansan staff writer
There's a magic mirror on top of Daisy Hill between Templein and Lewis Halls. The mirror reflects the difference between two formerly identical residence halls. Lewis remains unchanged, but Templin has been reborn.
The 37-year-old residence hall completed its $4.73 million renovation this summer, said Kenneth Stoner, director of the department of student housing. He said that although Templin and Lewis were identical architecturally, by looking back and forth, you can see the changes.
One of the changes gives residents of Templin a choice between suites for one, two or four students.
Residence hall employees are enthusiastic about the new living arrangements.
"Templin is a nice mixture," said Nick Walker, Wichita senior and a resident assistant in Templin. "It's apartment-style living in a residence hall."
The 2- and 4-person suites have sleeping rooms with a bunk bed and an adjoining common room. The suites also have private bathrooms off the common room.
Stoner said the changes showed student's shifting expectations for on-campus living.
"My generation is used to sharing," Stoner said. "I'm from a family of six. We
had one bathroom."
In the new Templin, a resident will have to share a bathroom with at most three other people.
"I don't like sharing a bathroom with 30 to 40 other people," Walker said.
But Stoner said some students are happy living in residence halls that have not remodeled into suites. He said Templin did not reflect a new trend in student housing.
"We're just turning a corner," he said.
We're just turning a corner.
The turn brings ethernet and telephone outlets to every room, each capable of being split into four lines. Stoner said.
"I can't imagine they'd use it this way ever, but it's possible all four students could be on the Internet and on the phone simultaneously," he said.
Each suite also has a cable outlet. Basic cable is free, and Sunflower Cablevision will offer premium channels for a fee, Stoner said.
Each resident has about one-third more space than residents of the old Templin. But the extra space has lowered capacity from slightly more than 400 residents to 280 residents.
Every room has a snack-preparation area with a sink and enough space for a microwave and a small refrigerator, Stoner said. Shelf space also provides room for dishes and utensils.
"People coming to college expect those things." he said.
When Templin shut down in the spring of
1996, there were 180 residents.
"There's a difference in what it could have held and what it was holding," Stoner said. "We feel like we've gained occupancy."
But the price to live at Templin is higher than other residence halls. This year, a 2-or 4-person suite costs $4,700 per person. Lewis Hall costs $3,736 per person for a double-occupancy room.
"Students talk with their feet," he said. "We knew they wanted more space and privacy when they started renting double rooms by themselves."
Stoner said other structural changes were made in the building.
New windows were installed that slide instead of roll out. Templin also has a new roof, and the bricks were power-cleaned and sealed, he said.
"Cinder blocks were a real neat experience," Walker said. "The idea was to cover the walls with posters."
Cinder blocks walls that used to divide rooms in the hall were removed and replaced with dry wall. Cinder blocks that composed the exterior walls are now covered with a layer of insulation and dry wall, adding to the building's energy efficiency, Stoner said.
Stoner said Templin had been a good housing model for 36 years, but that styles had changed.
"It's a different world," he said. "And who knows 30 years from now."
Presenting the new Templin Hall III Longrange plans call for an auditorium that could be used for freshman and sophomore core classes and evening activities or films. Enjoy your stay!
Templin changes
Regular 2- and 4-person suites or large 2-person suites instead of 2-person rooms with a common bathroom
Co-ed by floor or wing instead of men only.
Cinder block walls have been removed and replaced with drywall
The roof is new and the bricks were power-cleaned and sealed
The rooms have been wired for ethernet access to e-mail and the Internet
Groups list awareness members as fall priority
Cultural activities include conferences select guest speakers
By Tom Winter
Kansan staff writer
Television and film star Edward James Olmos will be coming to the University of Kansas on October 16.
The event, sponsored by the Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO), is part of Hispanic Heritage Month, said Gloria Flores. HALO sponsor.
Hispanic Heritage Month will kick off at 4 p.m. Sept. 14 at Holcom Park, 2700 W. 27th St., and will continue until Oct. 29.
Almos' arrival is one of many activities planned for the month. A leadership retreat is planned for October 9 through 12 in Chicago, Ill.
Some of the other activities scheduled are a Mariachi band on October 3, a HALO reception on October 6 and a dance on October 18. All three events will be held in the Kansas Union.
"Hispanic Heritage Month is the big event which HALO plans. We've been spending a lot of time putting it together." Flores said.
But HALO isn't the only organization planning for the fall. The Black Student Union also has a number of events scheduled.
A welcome-back swim party will be held Aug. 30 at the Lawrence Aquatic Center, 727 Kentucky St., said Eva Bradley, BSU president.
"We are looking to improve our relationship with students and other organizations on campus this year." Bradley said.
The organization has seven members, but leaders are hoping to recruit more.
Other BSU fall events are the Def Comedy Jam in September, a guest speaker in November and a Miss Black Kansas pageant in November. Details about these programs have not been determined.
The group also will start a tutoring program with Black Panhellenic.
"I want BSU to be seen as a strong academic organization out to do good on campus," Bradley said.
Nellie Kim, external vice president of the Asian American Student Union, also is getting her organization ready for the fall.
"Our main focus for the fall is to get more members." Kim said.
The Asian American Student Union now has about 100 members with Middle and Far East Asian backgrounds.
"It is very much an eye-opening experience," Kim said. "We try to get people aware of the fact that we are not the quiet Asians which we are so often stereotyped as."
The Asian American Student Union also will coordinate leadership conference for Asian-American high school students later in the year.
Budig Hall ready and waiting
Advanced technology enhances auditoria
By Daniel Ethan Thompson Kansan staff writer
Budig Hall has set down on the ashes of Hoch Auditorium, and people are coursing through its halls.
But this time, the historic structure seems more like the Starship Enterprise than the place where Phog Allen coached and thousands of students slept through chemistry classes.
The self-professed chief of engineering, James Vaguir, director of Hoch complex, has been hard at work getting the technology ready for lift-off.
The mother ship has landed.
"Are there going to be glitches?" he said.
"Let's put it this way, I'll make my salary in the first two days."
The building cost $22 million and incorporates the facade of Hoch Auditorium, which was built in 1927 but was gutted by fire in 1991.
"Students will be impressed by that 85 percent." he said.
But even with the expected problems, Vequist said he thought that the complex would be 85 percent operational when it opened for classes.
The construction gave University officials an opportunity to design new facilities including three lecture halls with state-of-the-art equipment.
The technologies are classified by Vequist into transitional technologies and cutting-edge technologies that can be controlled from a central room between the lecture halls. Transitional technology will allow instructors to use the lecture halls while learning how to operate the new equipment.
"It is as technologically advanced as we were able to afford," said Richard Givens, assistant provost.
Top-art, or presentation, cameras, are some of the most important changes, Vequst said. It is a side and top-lit board about the size of a newspaper page with a camera attached. An instructor can use this in place of a handout, overhead, or passing an object around the room.
If an instructor is used to using slides, they can bring in their regular tray, Veqstul said. The difference is, in the control room, those slides will be converted to video and rear-projected onto on of the screens, he said.
"An object the size of a watch or a quarter can be projected on a 14-foot screen," he said. And there are three screens in each auditorium.
Vequist also said the three screens in each auditorium could be used independently.
Each auditorium has an instructor camera, Vequist said, and can have a floor camera on a tripod, which could follow the instructor around the room, or project another angle of a demonstration.
"You could have slides on one screen, notes on another, and since it's a big auditorium, your face on the third," he said.
Vequist said other transitional technologies were: dual operating platform and internet connection, direct lap-top plug-in ability, two-way video that could allow an instructor to have a live-event in the classroom and audio/video laser disc.
Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
The cutting-edge technologies are fiber optics, file-sharing, and scan doubling.
The restored Hoch auditorium is open for classes this fall. It provides students with advanced multi-media learning equipment.
"It will be very movie-like," Vequist said.
Veuistur has kept the scan doubling secret until now. It is a technology that will make the 14-foot screens look more like computer screens.
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It will be very movie-like, yequist said. Although students will probably be talking about the technology, much more will
be housed in Budig Hall.
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In addition to the three lecture halls, a number of University offices will have space in the building, Anschutz Library will expand into the lower levels along with the government documents and map library and a computer laboratory.