Thursday, September 2, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Colored stones causing delays at Spooner Hall
Bv Lori O'Toole
By Lori O'Toole
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Spooner Hall, is currently undergoing renovation. The building houses the Museum of Anthropology. Photo by Aaron Linden/BKANSAN
The Museum of Anthropology may have to wait longer than originally expected to have its building and porch improvements completed.
Renovations on Spooner Hall began June 23 to repair deterioration on the front porch and entrance of the 105-year-old building.
Bud Stallworth, design and construction management assistant director, said the project was scheduled to be completed by Nov.20.
He said employees with Kissick Construction of Kansas City, Mo., found additional deterioration in the building's support columns, possibly pushing back the completion date to the end of the fall semester.
However, construction on the building has not kept the museum's doors closed. A marked entryway in front of Spooner Hall leads museum-goers inside.
Stallworth said the $330,000 project is part of the Crumbling Classrooms project, which funds the renovation of buildings across campus.
Roger Harmon, design and construction management project manager, said the renovations were needed to repair decay, which was a long-standing problem in the building's stones.
The problem was that the University of Kansas and construction company employees were unable to find more of the same red-orange colored sandstone to replace the decayed stones, which more than a century of weather left soft and potentially dangerous.
Harmon said employees looked for replacement stones in several states, including New Mexico and Arizona.
"The problem was having to restore it with something that looks close, but isn't," Harmon said.
With the lack of replacement stones, the construction company employees had to make the repairs with the original stones.
Harmon said construction workers took the front area
apart and installed reinforced concrete columns.
He said they had to patch and clean the original stones before putting them back onto the building. The employees also had to tint the patching material they used to match the color of the stones.
Stallworth said the renovation was the most extensive work that had been done to the building's exterior and that everyone involved with the project had been careful not to drastically change the way it looked.
"You've got to understand when the building was built," Stallworth said. "We don't want to take away the historical architectural appearance."
—Edited by Chris Hutchison
Delta Force remains active despite last spring's election
Coalition keeps working to protect students' interests
By Chris Borniger writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Members of Delta Force said that despite their coalition's disappointing results in last spring's Student Senate elections, they would remain active both within and outside of Student Senate.
In April, the YOU coalition won 39 seats, including the student body president and vice president positions. Delta Force won 23 seats in the election — only one more seat than it won in Spring 1997, the coalition's first campaign. That year, Delta Force sponsored candidates for only 33 out of more than 60 seats.
Luke Pfannenstiel, Delta Force president and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences senator, said last spring's loss was discouraging, but that the coalition would remain influential at the University of Kansas.
"With any election, there's some sort of emotion when you lose," he said. "It came as a blow to us, but we'll work through it."
DELTA FORCE
that. We'll always try to bring our version of what Student Senate should be to reality."
Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator, has run and won with the coalition for the past three years. He said that although Delta Force no longer had the majority in Senate that it had last year, its members still would work to protect students' interests.
"We're like the super underdog. We've taken a few punches, but we're still around," he said. "You have to win the presidency to win a fundamental change in structure at the University. Our second goal is for the representatives we currently have to really represent you."
Mazumdar said he expected Delta Force to keep working on several campus issues, including the University's alcohol policy. He also said the coalition would expand its scope beyond the University on issues including citywide transportation, landlord/tenant relationships
and gay rights.
"Delta Force was never solely focused on Student Senate," Mazumdar said.
Chris Hess, social welfare senator, said he ran with Delta Force because he believed in the coalition's mission.
"I think Delta Force was in it for the right reasons," he said. "The people understood the power and limit of Student Senate better than the existing coalitions ever did. They wanted to do something, not be something."
Hess said even if Delta Force didn't sponsor candidates in the next election, it still could effect positive change.
"It wouldn't hurt to say we've done what we can in Senate," he said. "Student Senate isn't the only vehicle to accomplish goals. There are a million ways to do it. Delta Force has always been more than a coalition. It's always been about activism."
Nate Stange, Wichita junior,
said he didn't think Delta
Force's defeat would diminish
its ability to effect change
through Senate.
"I would expect to see them back again," he said. "I hope to see them still fighting the good fight."
Edited by Kelly Clasen
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