Jayhawks to have their own day at Crown Center
If the five-day weather forecast for sunny skies and warm temperatures holds true, Saturday will be a perfect day to attend KU Day at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo.
"We were praying for good weather," James Collier, director of University Relations and chairman of the Crown Center Planning Committee, said yesterday.
Exhibits, demonstrations and performances by University of Kansas academic departments and organizations from the Lawrence and Kansas City universities will provide a cross section of what Kansas to offer.
The Crown Center complex is at the intersection of Pershing Street and Grand.
COLLER SAID KU Day would be a more extensive version of the unsuccessful "Spring on the Hill," an open house on the Lawrence campus in spring 175. The program, in which displays from each department at KU were开放 to the public, was a disappointment because of the small number of people who attended, Collier said. He heaped for a better runout at KU Day because of its different philosophy.
"The basic difference is the philosophy behind having it at Crown Center," he said. "We will be taking KU to the people as opposed to bringing the people to KU."
Collier conceived the idea for a KU Day last winter as part of the KU Outreach program, which makes University courses available to people throughout the state.
"We've had great cooperation from faculty members, staff members and student groups of both campuses," he said. "We are also anxious to meet with our members and staff members come to Kansas City."
WORK ON THE event's planning is greatly appreciated. Collier said.
Collier said free parking for faculty members, students and others from KU would be provided at the Hallmark employee's parking lot at Crown Center.
Saturday's events will open at 11 a.m. with a parade by the 283-member Jayhawk Marching Band, followed by a celebration commissioned by the KU potom squail, yell leaders and the Jayhawk mascots, will proceed from the
THE MORE THAN 40 exhibits in the tests will be on display until 5 p.m. There will be exhibits and demonstrations from such departments as space technology, design and theater, and exhibits from the KU Computation Center and the Division of Medical Exhibition. The KU Medical Center also will present exhibits.
Union Station to the Crown Center Square, where nine tents containing the exhibits will be situated.
Live entertainment also will be provided throughout the day. The KU band will perform with the pompon squad at 11:15 a.m. There will be three theatrical performances, include a number from the national theater, and another in Paris, a demonstration of traditional Japanese theater and a comedy sketch, "Sheila Levine."
ruppet shows, sponsored by Continuing Education, will be at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. a concert at 4:30 p.m. by the KU Pep Band and the pompon squad will close the daytime entertainment.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KU DAY WILL close with a combined concert of the University of Kansas Chamber Choir and Concert Chorale and the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra. The program includes the choirs, by the choirs, and Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 1," performed by the Kansas City orchestra.
The concert will be at 7:45 p.m. in the Multimedia Forum Room in Crown Center. The tickets for the concert are $8 and may be purchased from the Office of Public Affairs Association offices in Lawrence at 8447460 or in Kansas City at 238-5050.
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.22
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 22, 1976
Facilities draw new chief surgeon
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
The KU Medical Center's new $55 million clinical facility was one of the main attractions for Donald Barmhorn, nearly 70 years old, cardiac surgery, to the Med Center.
"The existing facilities are quite good, but the thing like best is the projections for the new hospital," he said yesterday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
KU's facility is scheduled to be completed by October 1978.
Barnhorst, currently a Mayo Clinic
specialist of surgery, accepted the
Med Center疹诊医师。
THE UNIVERSITY provides the things he has always wanted, Barnhorst said, such as
as involvement in academic circles, research and teaching at a university.
His decision to accept the new position also was influenced by the Med Center's strong commitment to high quality surgery, be said.
Barnborst dismissed charges made late last year that operating room conditions were "unfit for use."
"Very frankly, the existing operating facilities are more than adequate," he said.
Monitoring equipment, lighting and room size are excellent, he said. There is more space in the Med Center's operating rooms at the Mayo Clinic, he says he operates at the Mayo Clinic, he said.
HE NEEDS TO talk to Mayo Clinic of onlula, Barnhart so before he decides. The first thing is to ask him what he wants.
smarterost he didn't think he would be able to move by Nov. 1, when Malcolm Arnold, the only heart surgeon at the Med Center, leaves to practice in Australia.
The delay could interrupt heart surgery briefly, he said.
However, Loren Humphrey, chairman of the surgery department, said necessary heart operations could be performed by heart surgeons from nearby hospitals. The surgeons are usually four to six heart surgery operations scheduled a week at the Med Center.
ONE OF HIS first priorities when he comes to the Med Center, Barnhorst said, will be to choose a heart surgeon to replace Arnold. He said he had no one in mind yet.
training and patent referral programs, he said.
The interruption of heart surgery occurred in December 1975 when two Med Center heart surgeons resigned. Surgery ended when Arnold was appointed in March.
A four-month halt in heart surgery at the Med Center hindered the programs, he said.
People outside Kansas City should be told that problems have been solved, Barnhorst said, and that heart and chest patients can be referred to the Med Center again.
He said an increase in the number of patients would enhance the resident training program because residents would have more opportunities to observe heart surgery
More smoke alarms sold since fraternity fire
By DAKYLCOOK
Staff Writer
Sales of smoke alarms, devices that detect smoke and set off an alarm, have increased in the Lawrence area since five fraternity men in Baldwin City were killed in a fire in August.
"Just the week after the fire, our sales of smoke alarms went up," Cindy Shadye, an employee of Gibson Discount Center, said yesterday. "We've had two sales on the smoke alarms since then, and each time we sold several."
A spokesperson for Ernst and Son Hardware said they would back up smoke alarms before the alarm did now because of the fires that the alarms did.
THREE OTHER stores said that their sales also had gone up.
but not all of the smoke alarms available will fulfill requirements for Lawrence building codes.
As of 1973, all apartments and houses built in Lawrence must be equipped with smoke alarms. The alarmes used must meet specifications set by the International Conference on Fire Safety According to Roy Stratiphew, Lawrence building inspector.
some of the alarms sold in Lawrence aren't on the conference's list of approved smoke alarms.
"IF YOU WANT to go to Woolworth and buy one and stick it on your wall like a clock, go ahead, but it won't pass the building code until it's approved," Strutridge said.
Russ Collins of the Kansas State Fire Marshal's department said every smoke alarm marketed in Kansas must be approved through his department and tested by an independent firm that tests household appliances.
Strutridge said that the smoke alarms not listed by the ICBO might be approved in the future.
'Underwriter's Laboratories puts the alarms through
Staff photo
Smoke detector alarms
very rigid tests," Collins said, "and some of the newer models are the most effective smoke detectors yet."
Advertisements for two models that have recently been marketed, the Smoke Alarm made by Water Pik and Smoke Detector-Alarm made by Scovill, say that the alarms use an ionization process to detect smoke.
COLLINS SAID that ionization smoke alarms could cause smoke concentrations of between two to six per cm² in the room.
The ionization smoke alarms contain a radioactive metal, americium, which emits a slight amount of radiation. The americium particulate, which is inhaled, leading to Harold Roose, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
However, the Associated Press reported that a Ralph Nadar organization was urging the government to ban the ionization alarms because of a hazard from radiation exposure.
Richard E. Cunningham, head of the licensing division of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told the AP that a person flying const- to-coast would be subject to a fine if the person sitting next to a smoke detector 40 hours a week for a year.
THE FIRE MARSHAL'S department, after inspecting fraternities and sororites at the University of Kansas, has been recommending installation of smoke alarms.
Cindy Otto, Salina senior and president of Delta Delta security, said her sorrow had ordered a smoke alarm system last summer, but now was waiting to find out the cost of the fire marshal's recommendation.
Elaine Hill, housemother for Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, said that the installation of a smoke alarm is part of her plans.
Several sorority houses now are waiting to receive installation estimates.
"that a lot less than other houses have been paying to have their housesokely by the fire marshal." Hill said.
kinocular vision
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Umpire Nestor Chylak, left, apparently isn't pleased with the words of advice he's getting from Kansas City City manager Wilhey Herzog, center. Herzog said that the Oakland bullpen had honors to pick up K.K. Jaynes in pitchers' seats but still wasn't given a game's chance in the nighthoppers, in Chylak's left hand, were removed from the game. See story page seven.
By KENNA GIFFIN Staff Writer
K-10 transformation to make road safer
The notoriously treacherous and frustrating K-10, which runs east from Lawrence to the west edge of Kansas City, had its waist widened into a sleek superhighway.
For three years, University of Kansas students and football fans have had an easy drive into Kansas City once they were east of the Southern K-7 intersection at 87th Street in Lenexa. West of that intersection, K-10 is hilly, winding, rutted, and often bottle-necked with football or weekend traffic.
But by November, students and fans will find seven new miles of road when another season begins.
Because an estimated $20,000 worth of books is taken from Watson Library each year, some library officials say that the present system of checking briefcases and handbags as a person leaves the library is inadequate.
What's in the bag? Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Watson seeks new ways to stop costly book thefts
By SUSAN APPLEBURY
Staff Writer
Anyone can steal a book from Watson and it seems that all students want it.
Jim tzum, dean of libraries, said, "Lots of books are taken out by students who keep them, but they will be returned. Most come back at the end of the semester."
vacancy Lyncty, circulation librarian, said that Watson didn't lose as much as the national university average of $50,000 to $70,000 a year, but that "Anything we lose is too much."
Rod Runyan, clerk in charge of security, said
he was an estimated $20,000 worth of
books was taken from his office.
In the present system, a security guard is stationed near the prevent books that contain important information from being left behind.
*THE THING WE need is an electronic*
*device that system we have now is not*
*extremely complex.
**brief entry**, Lawrence senior and a security guard at Watson, and she checked due dates to the event.
CLARK SAID that she checked back packs, brief cases and folders, but that she used a new system.
"I check purses that are big enough to stick books in," she said.
When Clark finds a book that hasn't been
checked out, she sends the person upstairs to the circulation desk to check it out.
Ranz agreed that the present system was inadequate.
"I wish it could be better," he said. "An electronic system could be put in right now if we had the money."
There are several types of detection systems for book thefts, Ranz said. One system, designed by the 3M company, uses electrically charged stripes that are placed in a book's binding.
When a book is checked out, the strip is decharged. When leaving, people walk through a turntable, and if the books they have aren't properly decharged, an alarm sounds.
He said that the library would ask for an electronic system, which would cost between $50,000 and $100,000, in the next budget request.
"THE PRESENT system is kind of silly," he said. "It's an imposition on the library user. The ones who do check their books out are the ones who get hassled."
`we do as good a job as we can, but if a person wants to steal a book from here, he
He said that people who were caught stealing books weren't prosecuted.
"WE TAKE THE book away and give them a
hard time," he said. "The possibility exists that someone could be prosecuted. We use a casein most cases of missing books, Lyft said,
a book usually has been missing, or the
seller's information is not available.
Lynott said that despite the fact that many of the stolen books were returned, other library records and records from the library are
"Someone has to want a book before we find it has been taken or misplaced," she said.
it has been taken or misplaced," she said. Ranz said that because the departmental libraries were so small and had such staircases they were a major system and didn't have security guards.
She said she couldn't estimate how many books had been stolen from the law library
"We don't know if they are stolen, mislaid or hidden from other students," the
Head said she believed that more books were missing and were stolen.
ALTHOUGH THE law library in Green Hall has the same security problems as Watson, it can't afford fulltime guards, Anita Head, law librarian, said.
DeSoto Mayor Charles Schmidt also is happy about the new road.
"Our security system is very simple," the be-
career says "only one exit and often there is a secu-
rity."
He said that there was always a guard in the morning, the library's business time.
"It won't have any adverse effects," he said. "It will make it possible for more industry to come in and for more people to be living in the area."
THE SEVEN miles will extend from the western edge of DeSoto to a new southern intersection with K-7 at 103rd Street in Overland Park, Jim Nickelson, Olathe construction office coordinator, said Nickerson.
Within two years, all of K-10 will be a four-lane highway from Lawrence to 103rd Street in Overland Park. The new road will run south of the road that is now closed, a few miles will run north of it. New K-10 will pass Eudora, Glencrover City and DeSoto.
Eudora Mayor Jim Hover said the new K-10 would be an asset to Eudora.
"IT WILL BRING people out of the bigger cities—in fact, it has already," he said. "It's a 100 per cent asset. There isn't a vacant house in Eudora."
In Douglas County, the new K-10 is 90 per cent complete, and about one third of the required bridges have been built, Gerald Ping, assistant resident engineer, said. But it will be at least another year before the seven miles from the east edge of Lawrence to the Johnson-Douglas county line is finished.
ANOTHER FOUR miles of K-10, from the Johnson-Douglas county line to the west edge of DeSoto, is being graded. The surfacing contract will be awarded early in 1977, and that stretch of road should be open by Labor Day 1977, Nickerson said.
The federal government and the state shared the costs of the K-10 project. The state paid for surfacing, seeding of grass in the median and on the road's edges, signs for the DeSoto to k-7 stretch, and for half of the costs of grading and bridge construction with $9,644,500 in highway bonds. The federal government's share was $8,494,000.
For the DeSoto to Johnson county line section of K-10, the state付 $2,405,500 for half of the bridge construction and grading of the new government spend the same amount.
IN DOUGLAS County, the federal
investment is paying $75 million.
The costs for the project are
minimum values of K-10.
Grading will cost $2.5 million and bridge construction is estimated at $3,668,000. Clifford Price, a Kansas Highway Commission engineer, said. The state will pay $2,149,000 of these costs, and the federal government will pay $5,016,200. Surfacing, seeding and signing contracts won't be awarded for several months.