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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 17, 1998
Students live the good life in Templin
Remodeled hall has few problems, residents report
Lewis Hall is closed because of renovations this semester. Upon completion, the hall will be similar to Templin Hall. Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN.
By Jason Pearce
Special to the Kansan
The first year of living in remodeled Templin Hall gave KU students a firsthand look at the future of University of Kansas residence halls — and the future appears to have more amenities and fewer problems.
Paul Turvey, Lawrence sophmore and Templin Hall president during 1998 spring semester, said he noticed fewer incidents of vandalism in Templin than what he saw a year earlier as an Ellsworth Hall resident.
"When you move into a room that is nice, you have more of a tendency to keep it nice," he said. "Templin has a good community interaction and the lower number of people gives us a better sense of community."
Kimberly Grassmeyer, assistant director of student housing, said she had not reported any staff harassment, noise violations or intentionally pulled fire alarms for Templin.
"I think people may respond to each other a little better there," Grassmever said.
Two Templin roommates from the fall 1997 semester, Traci Cuevas and Sara Huerter, echoed Turvey's and Grassmeyer's assessments.
"It is a pretty safe environment," Cuevas said. "Everyone seems to get along here."
The year before, Cuevas,
Topeka sophomore, and Huerter,
Pittsburg sophomore, lived on
the same floor of Ellsworth Hall.
"There was just more noise and distractions there." Cuevas said.
"If you wanted to be by yourself, you would have to leave the premises."
Huerter and Cuevas applied to live in Templin for many reasons
Huerter said, "I saw the floor plans, and I liked that it had all
me space with the convenience of living on Daisy Hill. But the main reason I wanted to live here was because my friends planned to live here."
The big closets, personal bathroom and kitchen area also annealed to Huerter.
Cuevas said that she thought Templin offered a better chance for privacy than Ellsworth, but that living in Templin might have drawbacks for freshmen.
"Templin is not as conducive to meeting people as other dorms because everything need is in your room," Cuevas said.
Other problems Cuevas described were with the study rooms and the bathrooms.
"I don't like the study rooms being on each floor because they can become a noisy place at times," she said. "The bathroom becomes a problem when more than one person has the same morning class time."
able and very convenient."
Both Cuevas and Huerter agreed that Templin's positive qualities outweighed the negative ones. Neither planned to live in Templin this semester because they wanted to live off-campus.
Down the hall from Cuevas and Huerter, Steve Davis, Overland Park sophomore, and his three roommates had everything they needed piled into their rooms.
In the living room there were two couches, a television and videocassette recorder, a stereo, a new wooden desk and carpet. There also was a kitchen area equipped with a sink, cabinets, a microwave, a refrigerator, silverware and enough food to last the residents a couple of weeks.
"I never really have to leave my room if I don't want to," Davis said. "Everything I need is here."
Davis and his roommates also had another couch in a bedroom, two additional televisions, three computers, two mountain bikes and an extra refrigerator. Two of the computers are connected to the Internet through the University's ethernet connections.
"It is nice to be able to have enough room for everybody's stuff and to not be crowded," Davis said. "My room is comfort-
Room modifications were designed to satisfy the changing needs of students wanting to live on campus.
"Students who are coming to college now are from families of one, two or three kids who may have never shared a room with anybody before," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Stoner said that in 1996, the year before Templein was remodeled, only 200 men lived in a space designed for 430.
"They were renting the rooms
as singles so they could get more space," Stoner said. "Now 280 people can live there. You can say we lost over 100 capacity, but the capacity is no good to you if people aren't renting them as intended."
Lewis Hall will be the next residence hall that will undergo renovations. The transformation began spring 1998 and will continue until the fall of 1999.
Stoner said that after Lewis was remodeled, it would be very similar to Templin because it was built as a duplicate of Tem-
"The only difference with Lewis will be that the single rooms become doubles," Stoner said.
Stoner said that there would not be a housing shortage with the closing of Lewis this semester.
Along with room renovations, the building also will be modernized to meet safety and mechanical building codes.
According to a Board of Regents report, the estimated cost of the renovations will be almost $6 million
Stoner said that the University would finance the renovation by
issuing revenue bonds.
The cost of living in Templin for the 1989-99 school year is $4,700 for regular two-or four-person rooms with a full meal plan.
Residents of Ellsworth, McColum and Hashinger halls will pay slightly less than $4,000 for a twoperson room and full meal plan.
Stoner said that all of the residence halls would be renovated the future, but not necessarily with suite-style rooms.
Renovations on Ellsworth are scheduled to begin in the summer of 2000, and the hall should reopen for the fall 2001 semester.
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