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Thursday, April 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
SUA expansion possible
By RACHEL LIPMAN
Kansan Staff Reporter
The SUA Board is waiting for approval of its $22,000 budget for next year by the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board. The board also Greg Bengston, SUA president for 1975-76.
That figure represents a 24 per cent increase from this year's $16,700 budget. Dave Murfin, this year's SUA president, said Wednesday that the increased allocation should solve some of the problems SUA has encountered this year.
SUA exceeded its budget this year, Murfin said, but the increased budget should allow SUA to stay within its budget next year.
Bengson said last week that SUA expected to expand its programs next year, and that it anticipated no financial difficulties.
SUA will supplement its present voucher system of bookkeeping with a double entry format next year, he said. This system is designed to make up for the lag between the time expenses are incurred and the time bills for those expenses are received.
"With the new system we will know our position at Amazon, who was a part of that SNA this year."
The primary sources of SUA's financial problems this year were two concerts during the fall semester that failed to draw the crowds SUA anticipated, he said.
Although none of the spring concerts have sold out, SUA hasn't increased its debt this semester. The concert problem has been solved for the most part by SUA's producing promoter concerts that guarantee SUA sales or sum a or a fixed percentage of the profits.
Until this semester, he said, the University Events Committee prohibited all promoter concerts, because the committee would be kept on the campus. Concerts would be kept on the campus.
Bengtson said that even though promoter
concerts involved no direct risk for SUA concerts of high quality instead of a great number of concerts would be the rule next year.
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Rich Lindman, chairman of the Special Events Committee, said SUA had presented 11 large concerts this year. He said that next he hope to schedule more small concerts employing local talent in the Kansas Union Ballroom. This year all concerts except Count Basie have been in Hoe Auditorium or in Allen Field House.
Wilderness Discovery, an outdoor equipment rental program, has proved to be the most successful of all the SUA programs. The program began in spring 1974 and involved a large initial capital structure by the Memorial Corporation Board.
Bengtson that income from the program varied from season to season, but that the program brought in about $500 a month during the spring and fall. All profits from equipment rental help pay for other SUA programs. Relief workers provide everything from sleeping bags to lanters and tandem bicycles, are paid for by money from rentals.
Terry Karnaze, outdoor recreation chairman, said she wanted to try to incorporate instructional programs with Wilderness Discovery equipment rental. The goal, she said, would be to interest visitors in the SUA outdoor recreation program.
Karnase said she wanted to establish a collection of information on outdoor recreation opportunities available within a 50- to 100-mile radius of Lawrence. This would be designed primarily for people who already know how to backpack, canoe and sail and want to go somewhere for the weekend.
Steve Benjamin, films chairman, said the
film program next year basically would remain the same. The popular film series always makes the largest profit, he said. This year the four other film series also made profits. Next year the film society will sponsor recent foreign films.
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The forums program, which had to be cancelled this semester because of a lack of funds, will be back next year. Bengtown said. Four or five major speakers are expected, and several public forums are also planned. he said.
Bengtson said he doubted that SUA would inaugure any new programs next year, but that the organization would work to expand and promote existing programs. The program's most people's interests, he said, and further program expansion might duplicate programs currently sponsored by the department of health, physical education and recreation.
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Bengtson he thought there was a trend toward individual activities rather than group activities, such as concerts, because of the economic situation.
"People are being more careful with their money," he said.
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Francis Thomas, Vroman's project adviser and professor of civil engineering, said last week that concrete floors on steel-lift supported beams were designed in such a way that motion was sensed. The project team also found the can from a psychological point of view, cause feelings of fatigue, poor work production and nausea.
"There are extreme cases, I am told," Thomas said, "in which it makes a person in
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Doug Vroman, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, completed a project in February that measured the effect of vibrations caused from the motion of steel-joint floor systems. The project, which he began in summer 1973, was part of Vroman's fulfillment of a master's degree in engineering mechanics.
The degree the vibration affects a person,
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Study indicates floors vibrate
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Vroeman's project apparatus, funded by the University's general research fund, is a 20-foot-square section of concrete slab steel-joint floor system that rests on two steel columns. Thomas said, is much like the building structure of the newer buildings on campus.
The floor is connected to sensitive equipment that measures floor vibrations and other information about the effect of movement on the floor. A person need only stand on the simulated floor and raise and lower his heels to trigger the equipment.
he said, depends on who he is and how perceptive of vibrations he is.
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Thomas said the equipment basically measured three things: the frequency and
"It's really a fatigue and nuisance problem," Thomas said.
Thomas said the project proved that the vibrational properties of floors could be determined before construction of a building. The results of the test showed that the frequency and amplitude of any floor could be predicted.
amplitude of the motion of the floor, the frequency and amplitude of the forces transmitted from the floor to the steel beam, and the vibrations produced from the floor.
... the frequency is how fast the floor moves up and down. The amplitude is how far the vibration goes, and the amount of the vibration is how quickly the vibration dissipates. All three, Thomas said, are criteria for the objectionable vibration level amount of vibrations that can be tolerated.
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