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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 10, 1991
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Poster removal angers faculty in Wescoe Hall
Housekeeping crew members say they were following orders
When M.J. McLendon left her office in Wescoe Hall on Thursday night, the basement walls were covered with posters and fiilers that students and faculty members had posted.
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
McLendon, assistant professor of English, said that most professors were angry about the cleanup because they had never expected the chance to claim what they hung.
When she returned at 9:20 a.m. Friday, the walls were bare. Only a few staples and thumbtacks remained where the posters and fliers had been.
McLendon said that when she told a junior she didn't want her personal property torn down, she was informed that the janitors were taking orders from their superiors.
"It was like the Germans taking orders from Hitler," she said. "It just seems like petty bureaucracy to me. Someone decided to play God. They suddenly found a rule that gave them a lot of power, and they used it."
A housekeeping crew from the department of facilities operations had torn down and thrown away everything tacked or taped to the walls, angering some faculty members in the department of English.
Hanging alone outside McLendon's office yesterday was a piece of notebook paper that she had posted, which Mr. Peyton said, juniors had simply followed orders.
McLendon said that the only warning the faculty had received was a hand-written sign attached to a bathroom mirror. She said the sign stated that nothing should be posted on the walls.
"There's always been stuff on the walls," she said. "We all thought it was a joke."
Paul Lim, assistant professor of English, said that faculty members were upset because a 10-year-old rule, stating that no tacks or tape should be attached to the walls, had not been enforced until now.
Lim is responsible for promoting awareness of the KU Asian-American
festival. He said he was upset because
janitors working Friday morning had
thrown away posters that had cost
$1.06 each to print.
"Many people said they did this because the basement of Wescoe was filthy. Lm said, "So why don't they leave the basement and leave the walls alone?"
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping for facility operations, said damage caused by tacking or taping should be removed on the walls was expensive to repair.
Endacott, who has worked at KU for 11 years, said housekeeping to keep the walls in good condition and the building as clean as possible by taking down posters two or three times a year.
"This has been a long-standing rule, and we constantly have to police it," he said.
The janitors tried to recover the Asian-American posters they had thrown away but did not succeed, Endacott said.
“It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t save them,” he said. “I’ve instructed the (janitors) to slip things under the fence, and we’re identification on any of the posters.”
Endacott said that faculty members should only post items on the doors and windows around their offices and on the six bulletin boards in the basement. He said items posted anywhere else would be removed.
Janet Hollady, housekeeping manager, said it was not the responsibility of housekeeping to tell faculty members their posters were going to be torn down.
"A committee on campus that gives students and faculty permission to tack things on the wall is supposed to help us maintain our boards, they'll be torn down," she said.
"You can imagine what this campus would look like if we didn't pull them
She said that faculty members in Wescoe Hall were the only people complaining about the removal of posters.
KU juggling club members Brian Moore (left), Overland Park freshman, and Kevin Stephens, Shawnee freshman, toss juggling clubs while Rebecca Horowitz, Denver freshman, works with weighted tennis balls. The club meets at 3:09 p.m. three times a week in front of Wesco Hall.
Kings of clubs
More emergency phones to be installed on campus
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansan staff writer
This fall, KU students will be able to reach out and touch the KU police department from 27 locations on campus.
would test a prototype of the phone.
Jan Weller, director of the KU department of telecommunications, said that before the phones were installed her department and the KU police
However, the money has not been available for the project until this fall, be said.
Thirteen more emergency phones, in addition to the current 14, are scheduled to be installed during the winter.
The expansion of the emergency phone system has been on the drawing board for two years, said Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative.
If it passes the test, facilities operations will begin wiring and installing the phones, she said.
The total cost for the phones will be about $6,000,
and telecommunications will provide the phone
The emergency phones are sometimes called blue phones because of a blue square box above the phone screen.
The new phones will be marked with a blue and white sign and have a punch button. The caller will speak into an intercom-like box.
Like the phones now in use, they will immediately connect the caller to the police dispatcher, and keep them connected.
The phones are situated throughout the campus at outside locations. The new phones, however, will be
located inside campus buildings, including Haworth, Wescoe, Fraser, Learned, Malott and Strong halls and the Kansas Union
These buildings were selected because they have people working in them on weekends and past 5 p.m.
He said the new phones would be placed in prominent locations within the buildings, usually near the main elevators.
Mullens said that when emergencies occurred, people didn't always take advantage of the blue sky.
The phones are for emergency use, and people should use them whenever they feel they are in danger.
From June 10 to Sept. 7, 17 calls were made from the phones.
HALO asks Student Senate for $3,000 to bring activist to KU
Kansan staff writer
By Blaine Kimrey
Kennon staff writer
Chavez pursues migrant-worker rights and safe pesticide
The KU Hispanic American Leadership Organization needs $3,092 by Oct. 4, or its six-month effort to lure Cezar Chavez to speak at the university of Kansas will have been in vain, Angela Cervantes, member of HALO, said.
Since spring, HALO has conducted fundraisers and accepted donations to raise the $5,000 fee necessary for Chavez, president and vice-president of Workers of America, AFI-CIO, to speak Oct. 4.
But because HALO has been able to raise only $1,908, Cervantes, an off-campus senator, and five other senators are backing a bill requesting $3,092 from the Student Senate unallocated account.
Chavez is noted for spearheading three national boycotts of table grapes. The current boycott, called "The Wrath of Grapes," began July 1984.
The focus of Chavez's protests has been the abuse of migrant farm workers and the use of harmful pesticides on farms in the United States.
HALO asked Chavez to speak at KU as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month activities, which begin Sept. 15.
"He's an activist for humanity and environmental rights, and people should know about
him." Cervantes said.
The bill must pass the University Affairs Committee and the Finance Committee before it can be heard at the Senate meeting tomorrow night.
However, with a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, the bill can be heard without committee approval.
Troy Radakovich, who heads the Student Senate Executive Committee, said the committees would be more strict this year with allocating funds for additional speakers because money for speakers had already been
allocated to this semester's lecture series.
"The Student Senate Rules and Regulations require that organizations exhaust all other possibilities before they ask Senate for money." he said.
Cervantes said, "In the case of HALO, Student Senate is definitely the last resort."
HALO has received money from more than eight organizations around Lawrence and has been rejected by about 50 others, Cervantes said.
to help HALO.
Loue Lopez, HALO president, said Enivron,
a campus environmental group, offered
HAPPENED.
"At the Environs meeting Wednesday night, they passed a hat around and collected $30," he said. "I thought that was really cool."
Lopez said Enivrons also offered to help pass out filters informing students of HALO's mission.
James Bauum, an off-campus senator, is one of the six senators who endorsed the bill to allocate funds to HALO.
"It's necessary for us to support projects like this if we want to foster respect among different races and culture groups here at KU," Baucom said.
"One respects another race or culture when one knows what that race or culture has contributed to the world," he said.
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