KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOREKA, KS. 44110
THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAN
VOL 101 NO.148
TOPEKA, KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 1991
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Hoch's back wall will tumble today
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Kansan staff writer
Portions of the back wall of Hoch Auditorium and possibly parts of the side walls will be torn down today because of safety hazards, Allen Wiechert, KU director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
The back wall will be removed in portions, and structural engineers will check the remaining wall period. The back wall needs to be destroyed. Wiechert said,
Wiechert said much interest was shown for saving the front facade, which he described as having "architectural character."
Structural engineers from the Topeka company Finney and Turnipseed spent much of yesterday at the construction site, the extent of the damage to the walls.
"We're hoping that at least the front part will be saved." he said.
Wiechert said there would be more flexibility in constructing a new building in Hech's place than in the existing plans to plans made before the fire.
The Historic Mount Oread Fund sent a letter to Chancellor Gene B. Budig asking that every effort be made to save the front facade, said Dennis Farney, president of the fund.
The fund, part of the Kansas University Endowment Association, is dedicated exclusively to preserving KU landmarks.
"The facade will keep part of the Jayhawk Boulevard streetscape intact." Farney said.
He said the group was not as concerned with saving the other
Although the group hopes to save
The second-floor balcony of Hoch Auditorium is covered with fallen support beams and ceiling debris from Saturday's fire.
the facade of Hoch, Farney said it had not discussed what it would like Hoch to become.
"The needs of the University have to be meshed with the desire to build some kind of a building that has soul." Farney said. "The best way to preserve it is making sure it has a bona fide use at the University."
Because Kansas does not insure state buildings, the cleanup work and rebuilding of Hoch will require money from the state emergency
Budget has asked that a request for state emergency fund relief be considered at the June 28 meeting of the state Finance Council
"The first step is to insure the safety of the structure." Konik said.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Board of Regents, said it cost too much to insure state buildings, so the state relied on the emergency fund to cover disasters. The money must be allocated by the Legislature.
Wiechert said removal of debris inside the building could not take place until the dangerous parts of the walls were destroyed.
The back wall of Hoch has had problems in the past, which the fire made worse. he said.
Structural problems originated from the way the walls were built, he said. A brick wall on the outside, which may have been added after the construction, was built, but was not connected to the foundation. It blocked the wall less secure after the fire.
Also, the roof and steel supports along the walls were destroyed, making the walls less stable. When part of the back wall is torn down, the side walls will have even less support. Wiechert said.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Budget cuts may compel some schools to trim course offerings next summer
By Kelley Frieze
Kansan staff writer
Students enroll in next year's summer session will have fewer courses to choose from if budget cuts for fiscal 1992 are implemented.
In budget contingency plans submitted to Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, at least three schools have decided to save money by cutting down their summer school offerings.
The possible budget cuts would be a result of Gov. Joan Finney's tax bill veto in May.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Fine Arts and the School of Social Welfare all included cuts in their summer budgets as part of the plans they submitted last week.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said in the case of budget cuts, the Summer
1992 enrollment capacity in the college would be reduced by about 40 percent.
"The first priority will be to protect the offerings that are unique to the summer session." Carothers said. "Beyond that we would try to make reductions so as to maintain as much enrollment capacity as possible."
The summer language institutes and geology field camp should not be cut, he said. Some classes such as Composition I still would be offered, but fewer sessions would be available.
A school's operating expenses and allocations for graduate teaching assistants may be limited next year if the budget is cut.
In the School of Fine Arts, photographic services will be cut if budget cuts are announced.
Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts, said the three employees of photographic services had been notified that in all probability, the service would be shut down
At photographic services, employees process black and white film, make slides, and take and develop photographs for passports, resumes and programs. The service is available to KU staff, students and departments.
"We had to get started based on what we assumed is going to happen." he said.
One employee would be kept to work needed by art and design students and students and faculty in the School of Fine Arts, but the service no longer would operate on a University-wide basis.
Photographic services costs the school twice as much to run as it gains from its services. Thompson said.
Last year, it generated $22,000
from student and faculty business, not including department use.
"It's been a good service, and I'd like to continue to run it, but we just can't afford to," he said.
Thompson said he had received several telephone calls from people who were unhappy with the decision to include the service in cuts.
The service could be closed as early as August 1.
Classroom instruction also would take cuts if necessary, Thompson said.
"I just cannot take it all out of classroom teaching." he said.
Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare, said all of the cuts for the school would be taken from the summer session.
"We plan to pretty cut our summer budget," she said. "It seemed like the best course given the options available."
Alumni donations assist fund drive
Kansan staff report
Virginia Speaker Benson of Kansas City, Kan., donated a trust of nearly $1 million, which will benefit the Children's Rehabilitation Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, John Scarff, director of public relations for Campaign Kansas, said yesterday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement that Benson would direct the Endowment Association to divide the trust equally between the rehabilitation center and the scholarship fund.
Benson attended KU with the class of 1934
January 1901, and in May it reached a total of $189.1 million, Scarfe said. Campaign Kansas last week
The campaign surpassed its goal in
The donation will be counted toward Campaign Kansas, the University of Kansas's five-year, $177 million issuing drive, which began July 17.
II the estate of Frederick B. Parkes
$200,000 to establish a new scholarship fund for Hispanic-Americans
students of students in Hawaiian
Parkes, a Kansas native, died in 1987 in Maryland. He was a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Mela Hughes of Wichita and her children established a scholarship fund in honor of her late husband, Oliver Hughes. The gift establishes the Oliver H. Hughes Scholarship Fund at the Endowment Association
Hughes was a 1942 graduate of the School of Business, and he earned a master's degree in law from KU in 1947.
Military dependents flee volcano
The Associated Press
MECHORD AIR FORCE BASE Wash. - Air Force officers geared up yesterday to receive as many as 20,000 U.S. military dependents fleeing from the deadly eruptions of the Philippines' Mount Pinatubo.
Base officials expect to handle up to 900 people daily in a round-the-clock operation, McChord representative Sgt. Jim Davis said.
The first planeload of 300 to 400 dependents was expected at the base near Tacoma late last night, Davis said. McChord is a frequent point of arrival for large-scale military flights from overseas.
The Defense Department said that all 20,000 U.S. military dependents from two Philippine bases would be evacuated. Most of them are relatives of U.S. personnel at the Base and the Sibic Bay Naval Base.
At Anderson Air Base in Guam, Debbie Parker of Roanoke, Va., waited among the evacuees with her three young children, hoping to hear when her husband, Maj. Greg Parker, could join them.
"I've heard that my husband has evacuated, and I don't know where he is," she said in a telephone interview. "I would love to know how it is, but this thing that is bothering me right now besides wanting everyone out."
Clark, about 10 miles east of the volcano, has been shut down since June 10 and is thought to be blank
- Debbie Parker of Roanoke, Va.
'I was just driving down in between eruptions, and when it would erupt, ash would come so bad you really couldn't drive because it would scratch your windshield.'
The evacuees were taken aboard U.S. navy ships to Cebu on the Phillipine island of Mindanao, then flow to Guam. They were to be transported to Miami after diverted, commercial jets after refueling in Hawaii, Davis said.
et by more than a foot of volcanic ash. About 15,000 troops and their families evacuated Clark last week.
The Air Force planned to process them through U.S. Customs at the McChord arrivals terminal, then bus them to a gymnasium on the base where they will be able to talk with Red Cross workers, as well as financial-assistance and support-services workers.
Scores of public telephones were being installed so the evacuees could call their families.
The evacuees then were to be bused back to the air terminal and issued free air tickets to commuters. The airport also was to go in the United States, Davia
"I really don't know where to go so I'm just gonna go home to Roanoke. Parker said, "I doubt which I assume I've lost everything."
Finally, the military planned to bus the evacuees to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to flights to their final destinations.
"I was just driving down in between eruptions, and when it would erupt, ash would come so bad you really couldn't drive because it would scratch your windshield" she said. "Trees had been blowing all night, falling, cracking because the ash was so heavy. It's just real frightening. The smell of sulphur was real strong."
Parker described her experience during the eruptions as harrowing
"At first I thought I wouldn't leave my stuff, but when everything got dark and all the devastation started, I didn't care about anything but getting my kids out of there."
McChord officials made arrangements to provide overnight shelter for up to 350 people, and the Air Force contracted area motels and hotels to provide additional accommodations.
But, Davis said, "Ideally, we're hoping not to house and shelter them at all."
Volcano victims say they got no help
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos complained yesterday that their government failed to prepare them for the fury of Mount Pinatubo, and President Corazon Aquino acknowl-
畴 comings in Manila's response.
Scientists said the volcano was steadily calmed yesterday, and they reduced the danger zone around Pinatubo from 18 miles to 12 miles. At least three small earth tremors were recorded at the volcano, and one small explosion covered nearby Clark Air Base with fresh ash.
Eight more U.S. warships steamed toward Sibir Bay to help speed an exodus of U.S. military dependents from Clark and the Subic naval base.
Military officials hoped to remove all 20,000 dependents by the end of the week
Since Sunday, 10 warships have carried more than 7,000 spouses and children from Subic.
The Red Cross said 146 people had died since June 9, when the 4,795-foot volcano began spewing ash, steam and superheated rocks for the first time in 600 years. About 200,000 stones were forced to flee their homes.
In Angeles, the city adjacent to the Clark base, officials began clearing roads of tons of mud and sand that flowed into the city after a river carrying volcanic debris flooded. The city was filled without electricity and tan water.
"The government gave us no help," said Estrella Lacson, 52, of
Angeles. Angeles was covered with nearly a foot of ash, which knocked out electricity, disrupted telephones and snarled traffic.
Aquino, in a brief statement, acknowledged that at times government efforts would sometimes not be adequate and that some of the victims might not be reached immediately.
Food and clean drinking water were running low in the central and southwestern portions of Luzon Island, which bore the brunt of the eruptions that culminated Saturday morning. The fire buried thousands of homes in ash.
Ash forced the closure of Manila's international and domestic airports Saturday. Yesterday, propeller-driven aircraft were allowed to ferry passengers from the indianapolis airport to here in international flights had been diverted.
Officials said they would decide today whether they would be resume jet flights.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology had been warning since April that Mount Pinatubo was threatening to erupt and
Bren Guiao, governor of Pampanga province, which includes Angeles, said his administration faced the staggering task of feeding more than 120,000 refugees, many of them from different provinces.
"We were really caught flat-footed," Guiao said. "They (the national government) had not detected anything of this magnitude."
But most of the early evacuation efforts were limited to primitive tribes living within seven miles of the volcano.
that people should move from its slopes.
In Olongapo, home of the Subic base, long lines formed yesterday at bread shops, but merchants were rationing customers one small loaf apiece. Streets remained buried under a foot of ash, and drinking water was polluted with mud and debris.
Banks were closed, and many of the more than 200,000 residents were running out of cash.
The United States, Japan, Belgium and the United Nations have pledged aid. officials said.
U. S. Embassy representative Stanley Schrager said 16 U.S. earth-moving machines at Subic would be turned over to Philippine authorities to help clear ash from roads. One million packed, ready-to-eat meals left from Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf also would be brought here by Navy ships by the weekend, he added.
"Obviously, while the evacuation of American dependents is our priority, I do want to emphasize that we have not lost sight of our wish to help victims of this calamity," Schrager said.
Monday, the U.S. State Department warned U.S. citizens not to travel within 18 miles of Pinatum and fears of further volcanic activity.