CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 31, 1994
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Chancellor namesake buildings
Source: Kansan staff research
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Budig must wait for immortal status
No new buildings needing names in near future
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
Former KU chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has Wescoe Hall. Former chancellor Joshua Lippincott has Lippincott Hall. And former chancellor Frank Strong has Strong Hall.
But former chancellor Gene Budig may have to wait a few years for his namesake building. No new major buildings will be built on campus for at least that long, said Allen Wiechert, university architect.
Recommending names for new
campus buildings is the job of a building naming committee, which is assembled when new buildings need names.
"You have to have something to name," he said.
The committee doesn't meet often because new buildings aren't built often, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor and a current committee member.
Meyen said the committee had no priority list of names for new buildings.
"It's not a list," he said. "It's a collective judgment."
After the committee recommends a name for a new building, the Kansas Board of Regents must approve the name. The Regents must approve new building names in all regents schools.
Warren Corman, director of facilities for the Kansas Board of Regents, said the Regents don't often reject the recommended name.
But, Corman said, he doubted Budig's name would be rejected.
"They wanted to name a building after a guy who they later found out was in jail," he said.
But once, the Regents rejected a name recommended for a new building at Wichita State University, a Regents school, Corman said.
"I don't suppose Budig's in jail," he said.
According to a biography of former cancellors provided by University Archives, Chalmers saw student dissent as healthy. He drew heavy criticism when KU students participated in a nationwide protest of the Vietnam War in 1969.
Of the 13 chancellors that came before Budig, only one does not have a namesake building or library. E. Laurence Chalmers, who was chancellor from 1969 to 1972, presided during the heights of the Vietnam War.
The Regents saw Chalmers as permissive — something that might have cost the University contributions from alumni. In 1970, an effort by some Regents to oust Chalmers failed by a vote of 4-3.
Chalmers left in 1972 to become the president of the Chicago Art Institute. Today he lives in San Antonio.
Corman, said Chalmers reigned during a tumultuous time.
Language classes pushed with fliers
"At the time he was here, he and the Board had some controversies," he said. "At that time, they probably wouldn't have considered naming a building after him."
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Posted in Wescoe Hall among the fliers advertising refrigerators and used mountain bikes is an unusual turquoise advertisement.
"Last chance until Fall 1996 - Beginning Norwegian." it reads.
The advertisement lists the line number and the time of the class and encourages students to enroll.
"Students do not really scour the timetable, and they never hear about languages like Norwegian and Polish," he said. "Languages other than Spanish and French are just as important, and this is the most effective way of informing students."
Norwegian is a four-semester sequence. Students could not enroll in the first semester of the sequence again until Fall 1996, Watkins said.
"When we put up signs two years ago, it was quite successful." Keel said. "Our enrollment this fall is down, but the omission from the timetable probably contributed to the drop."
William Keel, head of the Germanic languages and literature department, said staff members in his department posted the signs after Norwegian 104 was omitted from the Fall 1994 timetable of classes.
Four students have enrolled in Norwegian this semester, compared with 17 students in Fall 1992.
Keel said advertising was unnecessary for popular classes with high enrollments.
"I don't see the point of advertisements for popular classes, but I think some publicity is warranted for little-known classes," he said.
Publicizing a new professor was Elizabeth Kuznesof's reason for putting up signs advertising Economics 582. Kuznesof, director of the department of Latin American studies, said she wanted students to know that the Economic Growth and Development class would be taught by a Latin American.
"Mehrene Larudee is the first Latin American economist we've had at KU in more than 20 years," Kuznesof said. "We thought this news was stunning enough that we should advertise. I've had students come in and tell me that they saw the signs."
Larudee said although she didn't mind the signs, she didn't think they would impact enrollment dramatically.
"I know that a few students have come to the class because they've been encouraged by the Latin American studies department," Larudee said. "But I doubt if the signs will make much difference."
After he read the two advertisements posted on a bulletin board in Wescoe, Lenexa junior Jason Keiter said it was unlikely he would enroll in either of the classes.
"I didn't know that some of these classes existed, but I'm not going to go right out and enroll," Keiter said.
Eric Stevens, Jacksonville, Fla., junior, said the signs were useful.
"I think the signs show that the professor is enthusiastic about the class," Stevens said. "If I were adding a class, I would definitely look at enrolling in one of these classes."
By Carlos Tejada
Korean staff writer
Downtown building to get McDonald's
Kansan staff writer
A Big Mac and one large fry, please. And hold the secret sauce. Right now, that phrase will get you nothing but confused looks in downtown Lawrence restaurants. But by December, one downtown Massachusetts Street restaurant will understand that order. And businesses are divided over what effect that might have.
Lawrence's fourth McDonald's restaurant will move into the old F.W. Woolworth Co. building, 911 Massachusetts St., during Thanksgiving week, said Marilyn Dobski, franchise co-owner. She said construction soon would begin on downtown's first fast-food restaurant, which will take up 30 square feet on two floors of the vacant department store.
"Basically, they're taking the building down to the shell," Dobski said. "Then they'll start work."
Dobski — who with her husband owns the other three McDonald's at 901 W. 23rd St., 1309 W. 6th St. and at the Wal-Mart at 3300 Iowa St. — said the downtown McDonald's wouldn't compete with the 21 restaurants already located between the sixth and twelfth blocks of Massachusetts Street. She said McDonald's was different from the sit-down, waited-upon format of the other restaurants.
"There's not a lot of places you can just walk up, wait your turn, get your bag and take it to wherever you're going." Dobski said. At the same time, she said, the new restaurant would attempt to hand itself with the storefront of downtown.
"We're hoping to fit in to the environment of downtown," Dobbs said. "We'd like it to be an uncreative Mr Donald's."
The McDonald's wouldn't have room for drive-through service, Dobski said.
City ordinances prohibit signs such as the tall golden arches signs common at McDonald's locations from being erected downtown.
The downtown McDonald's also would feature a downstairs meeting area for business lunches, she said.
Dobbsi also said a fifth McDonald's soon would move in on the corner of 6th Street and Wakaraura Drive, but that restaurant hasn't yet met with the approval of city officials. A decision on that could come later in the year, she said.
Opinions about the future McDonald's have been mixed, said Lisa Blair, administrator of Downtown Lawrence, a community organization.
"Some see it as an asset, and others see it in a wait-and-see mode," she said.
On one hand, Blair said, restaurant owners were afraid McDonald's would take some of their business. Some business owners also were afraid a fast-food restaurant would ruin the downtown atmosphere, she said.
But Blair also said other business owners thought the restaurant would attract customers who normally might not visit downtown. She said some restaurant owners thought the restaurant would attract the downtown lunch hour crowd who go to Sixth Street fast-food restaurants to eat.
"There's a lot of businesses where employees have only a half hour for lunch and don't have time to sit down," Blair said.
Ellsworth converts dining hall to laundry room
Ellsworth McCollum Hall positioned for next renovation
By Ashley Miller Kansan staff writer
Karen Young, St. Louis, Mo., freshman, unloads her laundry, while Krissondra Brauer, Dodge City Ks., freshman studies while she衣 for clothes to drv. The two were using the new laundry facility in Elsworth on Sunday afternoon.
This year, residents in Ellsworth Hall can study for a test, finish a paper and wash a load of teans all in the same place.
Ellsworth's cafeteria, which shut down in the summer of 1991 to consolidate staff in preparation for the opening of Ekdahl Dining Commons, was renovated into a laundry facility this summer. The facility includes a walled-in study area where students can study without worrying about their clothes being tampered with.
Dana Blecher, Phoenix freshman, said she liked the new facility.
"It takes a lot of time to do your laundry, and it's nice to have the ability to do laundry and homework at once without having to leave," she said.
Jim Rupprecht, complex director of Hashinger and Elsworth Halls, said the new laundry facility was necessary because Elsworth lost one of its two original laundry facilities to the telecommunications department.
The department handles both telephone service and networking for the University. It was housed in the Ellsworth annex prior to the cafeteria's renovation, but expanded to the laundry room on the south side of the residence hall earlier this year, leaving residents with only one room of washers and dryers.
Rupprecht said the new facility had 14 washers and dryers, five more of each than last year. Both the washers and dryers cost 75 cents each.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing said McCollum's cafeteria probably would be the next to be renovated.
The cafeterias in McCollum, Hashinger, and Templin Halls also were shut down last year when the new cafeteria opened.
Stoner said plans for the cafeteria were similar to the plans implemented in Ellsworth, including a laundry room, game room and a room for vending machines. Offices for the Association of University Residence Halls, housed in the
cafeteria now, would remain there.
The association still is considering what to do with Templin's cafeteria.
Stoner said one idea included using Templin for lecture classes during the day and a movie theater at night. Renovations also would include a welcome center similar to the information board located at the corner of 15th and Iowa Streets. But Templin's center would have someone available to answer questions.
Stoner said there were no plans for the
cafeteria in Hashinger, but Mark Douglas, vice president of the association, said the hall wanted to extend its academic resource center into the abandoned space. The resource center provides residents with several types of reference materials including books, tapes and magazines.
"I'm hoping that we finish them this year." Stoner said.
No dates have been set to begin renovations in the other cafeterias.
Caribbean nations pledge support in case of invasion
Kansan staff writer
Yesterday's announcement that four Caribbean nations would join the United States in the event of an invasion of Haiti was not a surprise, KU professors familiar with the area said.
Charles Stansifer, professor of history, said that the nations — Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize — had more to gain by cooperating with the United States than by not cooperating.
"Those nations are so tied to the United States that they must conform to our wishes," he said.
"They don't identify with the fate of Haiti," he said.
Stansifer, who has traveled in Barbados, said that in those countries the feeling about Haiti was apathy.
"Hattit is so poor and economically so far behind the other countries that it's considered kind of a pariah," Stansifer said.
Haiti's poverty has led to a significant cultural division between it and other Caribbean nations, leaving Haiti very isolated. Stasier said.
Stansiver said that other Caribbean countries have begun expanding their economic interests. Jamaica, for example, has a thriving publishing and telephone answering industries.
Bryant Freeman, director of KU's Institute of Haitian Studies, said that the other nations joined the United States to show their support for democracy.
The other nations are democracies which understand the power of military rule, he said.
"The other countries want to make an example out of Haiti." he said.
Haiti has been under military rule since Sept. 1991, when elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a military coup.
Freeman said that a saying from Aristide expressed the conditions under which Haitians lead.
"Aristide said that it would be a long trip from misery to mere poverty," Freeman said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.