THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12.2009
NEWS
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by 10 percent per year, which is huge," Cook said, "it's going to take many, many years before renewables can play a major or leading role in the world's energy portfolio."
Joe Deneault, Topeka junior, said Cook's statements about renewable energy were the most interesting part of her speech.
"Most people are pushing for going completely green." Deneault said. "So, to hear somebody say that's not feasible right now kind of goes against a lot of what you hear in the media today and just what is the general consensus today in the population."
Renewable sources, such as wind, solar and biofuels, account for less than 1 percent of the world's energy, Cook said.
Energy from renewables can cost 20 to 50 percent more than energy from oil, coal and natural gas, she said. Engineers haven't developed the technology to make
alternative forms of energy more effective and therefore cheaper, she said.
Cook said she often used the example of wind turbines to help give alternative-energy advocates a different perspective. She asks them if, for the same amount of energy, they would prefer wind turbines across 300 miles of mountaintops or one nuclear power plant that covers one square mile.
"A lot of people say, 'Neither. I don't want more oil, and I don't want to give up my SUV, and I don't want to turn up my thermostat to eighty during the summer, and I don't want to pay more for my electricity." Cook said. "You get to an unsolvable equation, and all I have to say is thank goodness we have lots of kids majoring in engineering today because it's engineers who can really play a key role in trying to solve what are very, very difficult problems."
Deneault, a chemical engineer.
ing major, said his biggest goal was to help develop renewable energy resources.
He said it was important, however, to be realistic about switching entirely to energy provided by alternative sources.
"If 2 percent of the world is run by renewable energy in my lifetime, I feel that would be a huge advancement from what we have now," Deneault said.
Kaleigh Braun, Hutchison senior and chemical engineering major, said she appreciated the importance Cook also placed on finding ways to use nonrenewable resources more efficiently.
"She talked about how half of the energy we use is lost," Braun said. "That makes our jobs as engineers important because we need to make more efficient energy."
Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
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Linda Cook, former executive director of Natural Gas & Power for Royal Dutch Shell, speaks to engineering students about energy and the environment Friday afternoon. Cook graduated from the University with a degree in petroleum engineering in 1980.
DEPOT (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
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The Santé Fe Depot building will be remodeled by Hernly Associates. It will receive a new platform among other modifications, while keeping its historic integrity intact.
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he died. Because Corman's family had little money, he relied on the GI Bill to pay for his enrollment at the University. He left for school the same year he returned from the war.
He spent four years taking 20 to 21 credit hours each semester and spent every summer working. He graduated with a dual degree in engineering and architecture as part of the class of 1950, the first class of World War II veterans to attend college.
"We didn't do much but go to school," he said. "We were coming out of the war, we were interested, we were getting married and we didn't have time to mess around."
In 1954, he and Warren Jones, a Topeka childhood friend, began to design the new Santa Fe Depot. Corman said that they had been studying Frank Lloyd Wright's modern architecture in school, and that Wright was one of his heroes. Wright's designs inspired the style of the depot.
"I remember this: He was about halfway through his talk — there was about 50 or 60 of us architecture students in there — and he stopped and said, 'I've got to go take a piss.' Corman said, "And he said, 'Where's the toilet?' and then we said 'There aren't any on this floor.' So he went behind the curtain and peed on the wall behind the curtain.
During his sophomore year, Corman saw Wright speak in third-floor Strong Hall auditorium.
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"Years later, maybe a few years ago when they were remodeling up there, somebody said there were a bunch of stains over on the wall. And I said, "That's Frank Lloyd Wright."
Wright was known for his innovative, modern style of designing buildings. Though Corman and Jones were expected to design another old English gothic building, they followed Wright's example and proposed a functional, modern building.
The new dept was built with canopy columns, a raised train platform, window walls and radiant heating in the floors, according to a lead architect for Hernly Associates, Inc., a local architect-
nural and environmental consulting group. The depot is known to this day as a prime example of Midwestern modern architecture and a historic site.
Unfortunately for the train industry, President Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated the nationwide superhighway system not long after the Santa Fe Depot was completed. The convenience of the highway system resulted in the widespread abandonment of the train system.
REPAIRING THE DEPOT
The use of Corman and Jones' depot dwindled during the next 50 years. In the 1950s, the depot serviced about eight train lines. It now serves only one, the Southwest Chief. Trains arrive at 12:32 a.m. and 5:49 a.m., with no daytime service.
Maynard-Moody recalled first arriving in Lawrence by train in 1981 and being shocked at the sight of the depot. Rust had crept up on the canopy columns and the train platform was crumbling.
"My husband was a new young assistant professor, and we rode the train to a deteriorating, unstaffed, unsafe, pathetic — I did not feel welcome here," she said. "I wanted to go home. I did not want to live here. It sent me crying."
It took 27 years, but after Maynard-Moody retired in 2008, she made the Santa Fe Depot her personal project. She formed a volunteer organization to clean the
After 31 years as director of facilities for the Board of Regents, Corman now works as a University architect and special assistant to the chancellor. He advised the team of architects working on the depot project, but when they offered him a position on their team, he refused.
Because of the group, the city hired Hernly Associates, Inc. last year to assess the state of the building. The depot originally cost $140,000 to build in 1954. The group has not yet released a price estimate for repairs.
depot every Sunday, started a blog about the work it was doing and began to lobby the city to renovate the depot. She named her group Depot Redux.
Diane Stoddard, assistant city manager in charge of the negotiations, said that the city was also working to acquire the depot from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and that ownership of the building could be transferred by December.
"The desire is to be able to have the station under the city's control, so that we can apply for grants to improve the station and also do some restoration work," she said.
"All the architects they're going to hire want me to be on the team with them," he said. "I said, 'No, can't do it, I'm working here full time. I'm not in that business anymore.'"
— Edited by Abbey Strusz
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