University Daily Kansan
Thursday. June 19. 1975
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Committee formed to referee University space battle
By KAREN LEONARD
BY KAREN LEONARD
Kansan Staff Reporter
1975: a space odyssey. The proportion of file cabinets to free floor space at the University has reached critically lopsided proportions in the past few years.
The file cabinets appear to be winning the battle. The number of departments, organizations and institutes searching for space far exceeds the amount of space available.
A Space Advisory Committee is being formed that means the candidates don't win the win.
"The Committee will make recommendations on who gets what space on campus," Eloise Coiner, administrative vice executive vice chancellor, last week told
Space reassignment committees are nothing new, Coiner said, such as a space allocations committee that was set up long ago by former Chancellor Raymond Nichols when Wescoe Hall was in the planning stages.
With new law and fine arts buildings scheduled for completion in the next few years, Coulier said, a new space advisory facility being used by the two schools.
Five faculty members and one student will serve on the committee. Names of committee members have been recom- mended in various University groups, Coerner said.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said committee members would study
requests for more space made by any
committee, organization or group for the
two to two-and-a-half years. Members
will begin meeting within the next few
weeks.
In addition to the new law and fine arts building, preliminary or final plans are scheduled to be completed in the next year for three more building projects, Shankel
Shankel said planning would begin on July 1 for an addition to Robinson Gymnasium to relieve KU's shortage of physical and recreational facilities. The addition will almost double the building's space and provide another swimming pool, he said.
An addition to Malott Hall will provide more space for the School of Pharmacy, a new science library and new animal care facilities, he said.
A new building is being planned for the Computation Center, Shankel said. It will provide extra space in Summerfield Hall for the School of Business.
Enrollment increases and the removal of some old buildings have caused the decrease in water use.
Remodeling projects include additions to Haworth and Marvin halls. New library space will have high priority within these buildings. Shankel said.
But in the meantime, the only building available to solve immediate space shortage problems is a small frame building that currently houses the KU Endowment Association. The building will probably be vacated by the association before November 1, according to Todd Seymour, president of KU Endowment Association.
The association will move from 1317 Louisiana St. to the Center for Research Incorporated (CRINC) building on West Campus.
The association has been considering the move for three years, Seymour said, and had considered building a new facility until the company moved into the CRINC building came up.
Robert Walters, research facilities manager, said Tuesday that CRINC would move its offices to Nichols Hall and will move its office in other buildings, such as Learned Hall.
Walters said CHNC decided to move into smaller quarters because it was one of the rare groups on campus that had excess floor space.
Association planned to take possession of the CRINC building on July 1.
Seymour said the Endowment
The present Endowment Association building was built in 1915. It was originally the Oread Training School and was used as a training facility for prospective high school teachers and administrators. The building saw the build in 1850 and moved out.
In 1981, the KU Faculty Club moved in. The university's government Association took over the building.
The Endowment Association plans to move out of the building as a result of the closing of the building.
"This is a frame building and pretty inadequate for our records," Seymour said. "They are kept in the basement and it gets pretty damp down there."
The building may have its structural problems, but there are at least two groups on campus that would be more than happy to have it.
The Space Advisory Committee will
once the Endowment Association leaves.
Shankel said that there were a lot of groups on campus that could use the space but might not know it was available.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor,
said the criteria for determining who would
get what space would probably depend on
the availability, scheduling and remodeling costs.
Rosanna Hurwitz, director of Audio
Rockville and her group would like to
kobe the Endowment's program.
Thomas Galloway, director of the Institute for Social and Environmental Science (ISSE), said that the Endowment Association has recommended an excellent solution to ISSE's space problem.
"We would have liked to have been in a different building to begin with," she said. "I wanted it that way."
"We can't accommodate all our staff, equipment and research within the confines of this building."
"We'd like the rest of this building, (Sudler House)." Hurwitz said. "We are running over into the space of Architectural Services."
Evelyn Degraw, head of the textile and weaving department, said she needed more space now that the southwest room of Lindley Annex, where the weaving department was located, was removed to build a tunnel to the Learned Hall.
Parking, said a security consultant recommended that the department needed more space, better space and more useable space. Thomas said he hadn't seen the Endowment Association building or made a written request for more space yet.
One of the groups that has solved its space problem is Project More, part of the Bureau of Space.
Richard Schiefbusch, Bureau director,
said that after making a request last fall,
Project More was assigned to 1318
Louisiana.
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In the meantime, other organizations and institutes will just have to wait and hope that cabinet space doesn't exceed floor height before the space odyssey comes to an end.
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