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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
77th Year, No.1
Orientation Special
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, September 15. 1966
Second Union planned soon
$18.6 million set for KU building
CAMPUS EXPANSION
By Barbara Phillips
NEW MONUMENT ON MOUNT OREAD
Plans for the Kansas Union addition and Satellite Union are in the making, according to Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union.
New Fraser Hall will be open in the Spring as builders will be putting the final touches on the building this fall.
The architect for the $200,000 addition will be Mann and Co. of Hutchinson, and the architect for the $2 million Satellite Union will be announced soon, Burge said.
The satellite will be built in the vicinity of the open area northwest of Allen Field House and south of Irving Hill Drive. It will be across Irving Hill Drive from a new private housing complex soon to be built.
THE BUILDING PROJECT will be financed by a recent $2.2 million revenue bond which in turn will be retired by a $5 per student fee increase inacted recently by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Burge said the addition to the Union, which will be in the northwest corner of the present site and will consist of four stories above the road level, has a proposed completion date of Homecoming next year. The satellite has a tentative goal of the fall of 1968.
THE ADDITION WILL CONTAIN more office space for student organizational use and an expansion of other facilities and services now being offered by the Union.
The satellite will include space for a significant branch of the Bookstore, a food service which will include a cafeteria and some coin-operated machines, a number of meeting rooms built around the refreshment and food area, a modest recreation area (but no bowling alley), and lobbies and lounges.
The satellite's food facilities will be "as complete as can be included," Burge said. "There will be thousands of students in the area who will need refreshments and we intend to build for them.
"THE UNIVERSITY HAS FOR a long time been considering the need for the establishment of a Satellite Union generally oriented toward the southwest part of the campus," Burge said. the Daisy Hill complex and surrounding areas.
The satellite branch will serve some 7,000 students who live in
The satellite branch will serve some 7,000 students who live in Burge said. "We're going to unload some of the crowded conditions in the building by transferring a portion of those services to the branch building."
ANOTHER PROPOSAL WHICH WILL benefit students and faculty both is a tunnel leading from the parking lot behind the Union, Zone X to the Union elevators. This will be considered if there is enough money for the project.
"We will seek to improve the accessibility from the important Zone X," Burge added.
"We will extend and improve on what is already here, and will specifically improve on the accessibility and traffic flow," Burge said.
THE ADDITION TO THE UNION building, which will be built above the bronze Jayhawk statue, will be designed to look like part of the original building.
Rooms for meetings are at a premium in the present Union and this will be taken into consideration. A meeting and lecture room, larger than the Forum Room will occupy the void left by the razing of Old Fraser Hall and its auditorium.
All plans for Union expansion and the creation of the satellite Union have been designed to "do for those students what they have demonstrated they want done," Burge said.
Construction will begin this fall on the Spencer Library, which is being built for the University by the Spencer Foundation of Kansas City.
A $2 MILLION GIFT
Sparked by the promise of $18.6 million from its alumni association in the next three years, KU has embarked on an extensive building program.
Fraser Hall, a $2 million classroom building, is the first in a series of new landmarks appearing on the campus since the Council for Progress voted last year to push the building program.
THE OLD FRASER Hall, razed last summer, was condemned by the state architect, and in a rush program new Fraser Hall was built. It is expected to be opened for the second semester.
The new research library, a gift of the Helen and Kenneth A. Spencer Foundation, will replace the World War II army barracks, which have been torn down behind Strong Hall. The $3.5 million library will overlook Potter Lake and Memorial Stadium.
Workmen are also just completing two new residence halls. Oliver Hall, which will house 680 women, was built by the university and Naismith Hall is a project of Northwestern Life Insurance Company.
NAISMITH WILL BE co-educational for over 500 men and women. It features central air conditioning and telephones for all students as well as dining facilities.
"Keeping abreast of the expansion and growth of the university as far as the building plan is concerned is a tremendous checker game." R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of university operations, has said.
With rush week completed, two greek houses, Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, are doubtful if they will be able to move in the new homes they are building out on the "south flats."
MEMORIAL STADIUM will have a 6,500 seat addition ready for the first game Saturday. The total capacity of 51,500 ranks KU among the largest in the Big Eight.
Old Robinson gymnasium, vacated during the summer when the new gym and natatorium opened, will be torn down after the first semester. The first few weeks it will house the department of Western Civilization and other classes.
On Daisy, already a complex of five dorms, space has been cleared on the corner of 15th Street and Engel Road for four residence halls to be built this fall by the Jayhawk Investments Inc. of Bartlesville, Okla. Besides the six-story halls, there will be a swimming pool, two-level parking structure and central dining area.
Scheduled on the south side of the campus, on the tennis courts, is a $2.9 million experimental biological and human developments building. It is expected to be ready in 1968.
THE SCHOOL OF Religion,
Myers Hall, will be razed the
end of September and will be
replaced by a $500,000 ultra-
modern building.
West across Iowa Street an expansion of the university campus is being built. A new Printing Service building will be ready for occupancy there second semester. They will move out of the west half of Flint Hall.
Other additions are also planned for many of the major buildings on the campus. Malott Hall, which houses chemistry and physics, will get a major wing addition soon.