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Monday, November 8, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Grant aids library finances
Problems for funding student employees at Watson Library have been partially alleviated by a $2,000 addition to the library's budget from the Office of Academic Affairs, Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said last week.
"This money will be enough to get us through 'til the end of the year," Ranz said. "I think we'll make out one way or another, but won't be reducing the hours of the library."
The money was granted after the University Senate Libraries Committee asked the University to provide $35,000 to supplement student wages in the library
system. The committee indicated that if additional funds weren't provided, it might be possible for a project to move forward.
Janet Riley, assistant to Ron Calgaard, vice chairwoman for academic affairs, said the money came from the Office of Academic Affairs because expected work-study funds intended for the library hadn't materialized. The work-study funds were merely suggested as a possible source of funding for the library budget, she said.
The $2,000 might be reimbursed to Academic Affairs, Rily said, the University collects additional fees from the state as a result of a higher enrollment this semester.
representatives. But they said some of the gulfines provisions were difficult to handle.
Fire inspections . . .
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However, four of the board presidents said that the smoke detection systems also might put a financial strain on their houses. The cost of such a system, according to fire safety equipment companies, ranges from $1,500 to $5,000, and some sorority representatives said they didn't have enough money for the equipment.
The detection systems aren't required by the state fire code, but Russ Collins, chief deputy state fire marshal, said the smoke detectors were included as a tradeoff for structural improvements in the houses that would be too expensive to undertake.
According to the sorority corporation board presidents, who are responsible for approving financial outlays for their houses, the chief stumping block has been installation of smoke detection systems, and a marshal recommended for all the houses.
“It’s going to be very expensive,” Jan Riley, corporation board president for Delta DeltaDelta sorochi, said. “We certainly don’t have that much money available. We might have to take out a short-term loan to pay for it.”
Mary Lawrence, board president for Alpha Gamma Delta, also said she didn't know where the money would come from to pay for the system. She said that attempts to comply with the yearly inspections by the city fire department had drained the funds and that they probably would have to make an appeal to alumni for contributions.
Another board president, Janis Hutchison of Alpha Phi, said that her house had budgeted money for a smoke detector after the city fire department had requested one last winter, but that now the state wanted a system with 13 of the devices installed.
"We didn't expect this at all," Hutchison said. "I doubt very much that we can comply with it."
Juliet Gilmore, adviser to the Sigma Kappa house manager, said her house had already complied with almost all the guidelines, but the cost of the smoke detection system could prove to be prohibitive.
Wescoe . . .
"WE CARE ABOUT fire safety," Gilmore said. "Goodness knows the safety of the girls is the most important thing to us. But this smoke system is going to cost upwards of $2,000 and I just don't know where they expect us to get all that cabbage."
In addition to the expense of the system, houses are having trouble soliciting bids because contractors say they are uncertain of what the state wants.
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A spokesman for a Kansas City, Kan. company that has been working with the sororites said he asked the fire marshal for detailed specifications on smoke detectors two months ago and hadn't yet received them.
emerging from a time of trouble, and that certain developments such as the credit-no-credit option and more vocational curriculum at the university level had helped to develitate education. He also said a need existed for more comprehensive course requirements and a more "liberalizing arts education."
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Wescoe said the myth that businesses expect a packaged project in university research is flawed.
THE STATE, for its part, said it would look at the systems that are submitted for bidding and then approve or disapprove them. Collins said the companies should be able to tell what is required from the guidelines that were sent to the sororities.
Four of the six companies contacted said they had systems they were confident would work with them.
However, Rick McKernan, director of Greek Management, Inc., an interfraternity purchasing agency that has offered to act as go-between for all Greek houses that are buying smoke detection systems, said the smoke has been very, very vague on what it wants.
"I'm almost embarrassed to call and ask the companies for bids because I don't have a concrete thing for them to bid on," McKernan said. "The state wants us to comply with something, but they won't tell us what it is."
MCKERMAN SAID that houses choosing to buy their detection systems through Greek Management would pay at least 20 percent less than the normal cost of the system.
Another problem has arisen over fire escapes. The fire marshal has said fire escapes must be approved staircases providing a continuous path to the ground.
Juan McGee, board president for Chi
Oslo *ga sozir*, said it would be dangerous
to have a stairway leading from the street
into the sleeping rooms. Such an
arrangement, McGee said, would make it
easier for intruders to enter the house.
McGee said she met with Dibbern, who said the house could convert a back stairway into a fire escape to fulfill the requirements. The Chi Omega sorority was the first house to meet with the marshal after the inspections, McGee said, and they felt "very, very positive" about meeting all state regulations.
"If the scriottes are having problems, we will meet with them," Collins said. "The level of communication between us and the houses has been acceptable so far."
COLLINS SAID the fire manshal's office would reevaluate improvements the sororites thought were impractical, such as fire escapes, but said much would depend on the progress and intentions of the houses in meeting the requirements.
"I don't think any of them are dragging their feet on this and I hope we don't run into anything."
"BUSINESS IS NOT looking for robots, but a bright minds that have learned how to work."
The need for placement education within the
factual group of all students is also very
important.
"There is something obscene about asking a student to mortgage his entire future in order to pay for his education," he said.
Wescoe said that the educated mind was the single most important source of energy for the country and that the people who had learned it were the most tremendous responsibility to keep it great.
Also presented at the banquet was the Higher Education Leadership Award. The award was given to Paul Wusch, Kingman, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents. It is given annually to a Kansas citizen whose outstanding leadership has contributed to the development of higher education.
Following wescoe's speech, the Rusty Leffel Outstanding Student Award was given to Rosalea Postma, SUA president. The award is given each year to a KU student for outstanding contributions either among the ideals of the University.
Recognized at the banquet as recipients of Higher Education Service Awards were Donald Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs; Martin Wollmann, director of Health Services; and Kathy Hoggard, director of the KU Information Center.
Although a network of underground tunnels connects buildings on the University of Kansas main campus, they aren't the comfort of pedestrians on cold winter days.
The tunnels contain steam pipes and electrical and telephone wiring, Rodger Oroke, director of facilities operations of buildings and grounds, said Friday.
Pressurized steam from the central power plant is sent through the pipes to heat buildings, and temperatures can get as high as 150 degrees inside the tunnels, he said.
"It can be dangerous down there, and have is a definite risk involved," Orokie said. "All workers who go into the tunnels have to be familiar with the entry points in case problems develop. We don't give guided tours."
Tony Bier *dee*, steam fitter foreman, has worked in the steam tunnels 19 years. He said the tunnels are made of brick or concrete and vary from four to seven feet in height.
"We try to send two meetings at a time down
the hall and we weekly at all of the
tunnel sail."
The first underground tunnel was constructed in the 1890s of brick and stone. Branch tunnels were added to it as new buildings were created. Today the main
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