Friday, October 8, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Repairs leave Chancellor scholarship halls in cold
By Lori O'Toole
By Lori O'Toole
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and scholarship hall residents will have to take cold showers early next week.
Facilities operations will have a steam shutdown beginning Sunday evening and extended as long as Tuesday.
Mike Richardson, facilities operations director, said it will affect buildings on campus that rely on steam. He said the scholarship halls and the Chancellor's house will not have hot water.
The department sent memos to campus buildings that will be affected. Sabrina Marino, Robinson Center employee, said the building would be without hot water and towel
service during the shutdown.
Richardson said the steam would be shut down Sunday between 10 p.m. and midnight to allow the pipes in the system to cool.
Monday morning, workers will perform an asbestos abatement, install chemical injectors and repair a leaky expansion joint.
Richardson said repairs should be completed and the steam should be turned on some time Tuesday.
"We hope to get it done sooner than that." he said.
Each year, an annual steam shutdown occurs the week following commencement. This shutdown was an additional unexpected one.
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall will have a bathroom with hot water. It is located in an annex
that was added to the building in 1987, and it runs on its own hot water heater.
Nate Stange, Wichita junior and hall president, said they will be loaning the bathroom to Watkins Scholarship Hall residents for an hour and a half each night of the shutdown.
Katy Pacey, Manhattan freshman and Watkins resident, said she and the other residents plan to use Battenfeld's bathroom or go to the residence halls.
"They called us and asked us if it would work," Stange said. "We don't mind helping out our neighbors. It will be an inconvenience, but it will be an inconvenience to everyone."
"We weren't too happy about it," she said. "It will be a big inconvenience."
Edited by Katrina Hull
Edwards Campus set to expand
Rapid growth, added programs made new buildings necessary
By Julie Gurnon Special to the Kansan
University of Kansas administrators continue to move toward expansion of the Edwards Campus in Overland Park.
On Sept. 16, the Board of Regents approved the longrange master plan for the Edwards Campus, once known as the Regents Center. The plan, which calls for three new buildings and an extended parking lot, will take 10 years and about $70 million to complete.
"The goal is that 36 months from now we will have been in the new building for at least one academic semester," said Bob Clark, dean of the Edwards Campus.
Clark said he hoped groundbreaking could begin next year but not before achieving several objectives.
The first and most obvious task is raising the funds for the expansion project, which will come from endowments and bonds.
artist's rendering
Second, the Overland Park planning commission must review the plan. Although the commission's approval is not necessary because the Edwards Campus is on state land, the University wants to respect the city's building expectations, Clark said. The review is to take place later this month or early November.
Finally, the campus must establish an advisory board. Clark said he hoped to have the board started by the end of the year.
The growth experienced by the Edwards Campus necessitated the expansion. Clark said.
"In the last two years we have added five new programs, and since the first semester in 1993, we have gone from 19,000 to 30,000 credit hours," he said.
The Edwards Campus' student population has an average age of 32. About 60 percent are married and more than 90 percent work full-time.
Under the long-range plan, the Edwards Campus will be able to serve 5,500 students.
Statistics reveal the sizable market potential for the
University. About 25 percent, or 36,000, of all KU degree holders from all three campuses live in the Kansas City area, said Michon Quick, director of the Rock Chalk Society and Greater Kansas City Area Alumni Programs.
"Plus, there are 60,000 former KU students who did not obtain a degree, and a very large percentage of those students live in Johnson County," she said.
Still, the Edwards Campus expansion concerns the entire University, not just Johnson County. Chancellor Robert Hemenway has been a supportive figure in the expansion process. Clark said.
Hemenway said part of the University's strategic planning was to act as one so that the institution as a whole could prosper.
"Acting as one university will mean that KU lives up to its responsibilities to be Kansas City's research and graduate degree granting university." he said
When the expansion proceeds, the first new building will include 24 classrooms, a 240-seat auditorium, 30 faculty offices and expanded administrative offices.
— Edited by Jennifer Roush
National chain stores make some local businesses worry
By Derek Prater
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Pop stars LFO may sing about liking girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch, but not everybody in downtown Lawrence is crazy about the chain store, or about other national chains in the area.
More national chains have entered downtown in recent years and will continue to do so with nascent development projects, causing concern among the owners of local stores.
"People need to realize the difference between businesses that support the community, and ones that just make money off of it," said Sarah Fayman, president of Downtown Lawrence Inc., and owner of Sarah's Fabrics, 925 Massachusetts St. DLI is a business trade group that works to enhance the economic development of downtown Lawrence.
Fayman said that whereas many small, privately owned businesses contribute dues to the DLI to improve the economic climate downtown and the community in general, national chains eschew the organization and give nothing back to the community.
Amanda Rivera, Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., freshman, said that she shipped at national chains downtown and that she saw both sides of the issue.
"It's a good thing and a bad thing," she said. "It opens up more options, but it also brings in more commercialism."
Urban Outfitters. 1015 Massachusetts St., which opened in July, is the latest in the national chain movement downtown, which includes The Gap, 647 Massachusetts St.; Abercrombie & Fitch, 647 Massachusetts St.; and Borders, 700 New Hampshire St.
Fayman said the rumor of more retail chains such as Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer and Talbots was nothing new.
"That rumor has been circulating for a long time, and we do have retail space opening up," Fayman said.
Representatives from The Gap, which owns Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer and Talbots, could not be reached yesterday for comment.
New retail space will be opening up downtown in the next couple of years thanks to development projects on the 600 block of Massachusetts Street and the
Downtown 2000 project, which will develop the 900 block of New Hampshire Street.
Jeff Shmalberg, a partner in 9-10 L.C., the private developers of the Downtown 2000 project, said between 25 and 30 percent of retail space in the project would go to national chains. He said it was important to find viable businesses to guarantee returns on the investments made by the City of Lawrence and private investors.
"The few nationals we have generate a lot of foot traffic and that has to help other stores," Shmalberg said.
"Whether they are local or national isn't the concern." Shmalberg said. "It's whether or not it's a good business."
Shmalberg said that he had spoken with representatives with DLI and that they agreed that a mix of local, regional and national businesses was important.
Fayman said she thought that in some cases competition from national chains was hurting locally owned businesses and that too many chains would hurt the downtown environment.
"We're in a crisis situation, but we are on the edge," Fayman said.
Gould fields evolution, ACLU questions
Rv Todd Halstead
— Edited by Ronnie Wachter
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
During a lecture yesterday at the University of Kansas, Stephen Jay Gould discussed his views on the evolution debate in Kansas and dismissed KU ACLU's protest of the University's seal as misdirected energy.
He said that compromising with creationists by giving them equal time in school was not the answer.
A capacity crowd of professors and graduate students converged at 10 a.m. at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union to hear the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who came to KU as part of the Hall Center for the Humanities' Millennium series.
"The reason the school board's methodology has become such an issue is that science has won on so many other decisions." Gould said. "I understand how embarrassed Kansan intellectuals must feel, but it's not their fault."
He said the Kansas Board of Education couldn't ban evolution in public schools. They made evolution optional because they couldn't teach creationism to balance out science.
"It not a correct educational model to give equal time," Gould said. "Creationists have an idea for equal time, which is great for
political debate but horrible for education."
He said that the board eventually would be legally stymied.
“It’s very important to recognize there is a political struggle.” Gould said. “What you have to do is fight them, isolate them and beat them.”
He said that trying to explain the debate to a European intellectual was like trying to explain the Monica Lewinsky scandal; they don't understand it.
"It isn't an intellectual debate at all, but it shows an American sociocultural history," Gould said. "It comes up in this country given the immense diversity."
When Gould was told about KU ACLU's objections to the University's seal, he said people had to know where to direct their energy. Bible stories such as the one depicted on the seal, he said, were wonderful stories that everyone needed to know.
"No, I love it," he said, looking at the seal. "It's one of those great folk tales of our culture."
Janet Crow, executive director of the Hall Center for the Humanities, said the discussion was necessary for people who wanted to know Gould's opinion about the evolution debate. He did not address the controversy extensively in his speech Wednesday night at the Lied Center.
"There were people who had
questions and who wanted to talk about the debate," Crow said. "And I think that was evident by the amount of people who didn't get up at the end."
Jason Botz, Phoenix graduate student, said Gould covered the basic debate.
"I didn't come with any expectations," Botz said. "I just wanted to listen to the questions. I found it in room 102."
very instructional"
"It was very
Gould: spoke about evolution debate,
KU seal
comfortable and informal just as he likes it," said Hanson, who escorted Gould during his time at the University. "People asked very good questions."
Crow declined to divulge the cost of bringing Gould to KU. She said speakers usually cost from $3,000 to $25,000 and that Gould was at the high end of that range.
- Edited by Jennifer Roush
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