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Wednesday, August 30, 1995
CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Distribution box design chosen
Mark Hunter,
Parkville, Mo.,
graduate student,
designed the winning model of a new distribution box for the University Daily Kansan.
It was chosen for its low cost and practicality.
Edmee Rodriguez /
Architecture student creates winning model for Kansan
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
Last week Mark Hunter, Parkville, Mo., graduate student, stayed up for two nights working on a design which might be seen all over campus.
"I just worked like hell for three days," he said.
"I just worked like hen for three days, he said. Hunter's was the winning entry out of approximately 200 submitted by architecture students who participated in a contest which allowed them to create a model of a new design for University Daily Kansan distribution boxes.
The contest was developed when Lori Henke, Pleasant Hill, Mo., senior and president of the American Institute of Architecture Students, talked to Tom Eblen, general manager and news adviser for the Kansan, about the possibility of designing a new box to be placed outside of Marvin Hall with replicas possibly placed all over campus. Eblen said the Kansan would be supportive of the project.
"We are willing to work with the students any way we can," he said.
Eblen gave Henke the OK, and Henke asked professors in the School of Architecture to assign the project as a charrette, a project done in a short amount of time but which requires high amounts of energy from those who wished to complete it.
Ten architecture classes were assigned the project on Tuesday, Aug. 22, and were instructed to have it completed by Thursday so that it would be ready for judging on Friday. Architecture students not enrolled in participating classes also were allowed to enter.
Eblen sent guidelines for the boxes to students in a letter. The ideal distribution center would create protection for the newspaper from rain or snow but would allow easy access for students quickly passing by, Eblen said.
Last Friday, a panel of six judges, made up of three professional architects and three faculty members from the school selected 16 semi-finalists. Of those 16, six were chosen as finalists.
"The winning entry was what we considered to be the ideal combination of state-of-the-art structural and aesthetic quality, practicality and cost," said John Gaunt, dean of architecture and urban design.
Hunter described his design as simple but practical and cost-effective. It contains a vertical truss which supports the box for the newspapers on one side. Above the box is a plexiglass case which would allow the front page of the paper to be displaced.
Henke said Hunter received a $60 prize. Three other students received $20 and an honorable mention.
Hunter also will receive money for supplies and labor to build the box outside of Marvin Hall, Henke said. She was not sure when the new box would be built.
Whether the design will be used by the University to build the boxes at other locations on campus would be up to several administrators. Eblen said.
Hunter said that allowing the box to be displayed in front of Marvin Hall would allow students and faculty in the school to show other students that they were serious about architecture.
"It also can be a symbol that could make the School of Architecture noticeable," he said.
Haskell starts first four-year program
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Classes begin today at Haskell Indian Nations University, and students and faculty are ready for a new year.
Haskell recently has begun developing bachelor's programs, and this fall the school will begin its first four-year bachelor's degree program in elementary education, said Hannes Combest, education assistant to the president.
"We want to give our students
Combesd said that they hoped to offer another bachelor's program within the next two years. Possible programs include American Indian studies, environmental engineering, tribal reality and land management, natural resources and general business.
the most options possible," Combest said.
Students and faculty also are beginning to work together, said Tammy Lowe, Haskell student and student senate president.
There has been a communication problem between students and the administration, and no one has seen the need to bridge that gap," she said.
Students now have a seat and a vote on committees such as the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee and the Evaluating Committee, which were once only administrative committees, Lowe said.
Lowe said that students had begun to realize that administrators were there to help and that administrators were realizing that students had good ideas.
A more tangible improvement at the university is the repair of air conditioning in classrooms and two residence halls.
Haskell also hopes to provide a new computer enrollment system in the near future, Combest said.
Loretta Yazzie, Haskell student, said that being a freshman had been all right so far. She said that she got the classes she needed but that there was only one problem — the heat.
Her freshman dorm is one of the two without air conditioning.
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