FRIDAY. APRIL 26. 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.142
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Drake Relays await Jayhawks
Members of the Kansas track and field team head to Des Moines, Iowa. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Remember recess
Thelonious, a new student group encouraged students to express themselves in chalk yesterday. Page 3A
NATION
Minimum wage talks continue
The National Restaurant Association says the increase will cost jobs. Page 6A
WORLD
Chechen town attacked
Separatist leader vows revenge for the death of his predecessor. Page 5A
WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY
High 65° Low 45°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 5A
Features ... 8A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
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Opposition to proposal grows
Crumbling classrooms bill is stalled
TOPEKA — Several legislators are worried that opposition to the Board of Regents crumbling classrooms proposal may be building in the Kansas House.
Yesterday, the House voted 75-39 to send the measure back to a conference committee, the third such group
appointed to iron out differences the chambers have with the bill.
State Rep. Robin Jennison, R-Healy, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the House conferees on the bill, said the opposition to the crumbling classrooms proposal caught him by surprise.
"I think we have some hurdles to get over," Jennison said. "I think that some of the folks who are concerned about the bonding for the Regents institutions finally decided that they were going to vote the way they felt."
State Rep. Phil Kline, R-Overland Park, said that on earlier votes, legislators had not expressed concern about the bonding proposal.
At the University of Kansas, $25
million would be used for renovations at Joseph R. Pearson Hall and Murphy Hall. Improvements also would be made to bring University buildings into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
During debate on the conference committee report, State Rep. Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, criticized the bond proposal as a borrow-and-spend plan.
"We're going to borrow money instead of accepting our responsibility to do it within our budget," Reardon said. "We're going to borrow money, for new construction along with renovation, on the state university level. I think this new philosophy is going to have to be explained."
Bend, said, "The issue is whether we want to mortgage the future. I am uncomfortable with this use of debt."
State Rep. John Edmonds, R-Great
The bill also has been weighted down with another thorny issue — who should decide whether certain agencies in the Capitol should be evicted, making room to expand legislative offices and committee hearing rooms.
The original decision whether to renovate the Capitol, which was not part of the capital improvements bill, was to have been decided by the Legislative Coordinating Council, which consists of the leadership of both chambers.
Earlier in the session, State Rep. Clyde Graeber, R-Leavenworth, added an amendment to the capital-
improvements bill stating that the entire Legislature should have control on whether any money is spent for the purpose of renovating the Capitol, not just the leadership of the Legislature.
"I think this is such an important move because this is the people's Capitol," Graeber said.
He said spending $6.5 million to move both the secretary of state's office and the division of the budget's office was irresponsible in a tight budget year.
"All this in a year when we put no additional funding into schools," Graeber said. "We've cut certain funding for elderly meals. And we've done certain other acts that we just don't have the money for."
Campanile bells ring again
Recital will be part of Alumni Weekend
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Lubv Montano-Laurel / KANSAI
The carillon bells of the Memorial Campanile have been silent for 21/2 years. But at 2 p.m. today, they will ring again.
Albert Gerken, the University's cariloneur for 33 years, will give a recital as part of Alumni Weekend.
"I know he's going to give a great performance," said Chris Hepp, associate professor of piano. "I think a lot of the music department will turn out, and those who can't will be listening for it."
Gerken will play The Bells by William Byrd, Three Eudes for Guitar by Hector Villa-Lobos, and Allegro II for Carillon by Mathias van den Geyn.
Richard Watson and Brady Hull, employees of Meeks, Watson & Company, examine the bells of the Memorial Campanile. The bells will ring again today for the first time in 2 1/2 years.
Gerken also will perform three pieces composed by former KU composers, including Summer Fanfares by Roy H. Johnson, Landscape by John Pozdro, and Changes by Gary White.
Gerken will speak briefly before climbing the stairs at the Campanile to begin the recital.
Hepp said he could sympathize with Gerken not being able to play for 2 1/2 years.
"I had tendonitis once and couldn't play for six months," Hepp said. "It is very frustrating because you just itch to play."
Gerken has been busy the last few weeks supervising the final preparations for the rededication today, but he has been involved in the project for years.
"I've been working to get the carillon rebuilt since 1984," Gerken said. "But it wasn't until the Campaign Kansas fund drive that we had the money to do it."
The $450,000 renovation included the relocation of some of the bells and the addition of a new window on the north
side of the carillon room.
"The new window makes the room much brighter and seem a little larger," Gerken said.
Gerken said the practice room in the Campanile also had to be taken out during the renovation work, leaving him no place for practice.
"I haven't been able to practice,but I've been working on the carillon library and teaching," he said.
Richard Reber, professor of piano, said he couldn't imagine not being able to practice for that long.
"That would be an impossible situation," he said. "For me to be without an instrument for 2 1/2 years, I don't know what I'd do."
Luby Montano-Laurel / KANSAN
Albert Gerken, University carillonear, plays with a practice carillon. Gerken, who has been the KU carillonear for 33 years, will give a recital this weekend as part of Alumni Weekend.
Last play of season to focus on water
Theater presentation hits the stage tonight
Kansan staff report
The University Theatre will finish its season with water as its main character.
Performances of To the Last Drop: The Ogallala and the High Plains of Kansas, by Delbert Unruh, professor of theater and film, are at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. May 2-4 at Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
"We are raising issues that should interest all Kansans," said Ronald Willis, professor of theatre and film. "This is a play about the availability of water, but it is also about the availability of a human community."
"One thing that really comes through is Unruh's ethical concerns for the quality of life on the family farm."
The play begins in the Rocky Mountains and progresses to Western Kansas and the problems farmers face in finding a source of water.
Tickets are $10 for the public and $5 for KU students and are on sale at Murphy Hall and Lied Center box offices and at the Student Union Activities office.
Budig Hall completion delayed until Spring 1997
Despite setbacks, project is on budget
By Heather Kirkwood
Kansan staff writer
Marlin Harmony, professor of chemistry, has been watching the construction of Budig Hall with a great deal of interest.
Because of the lack of classroom space created by the Hoch Auditorium fire in the spring of 1991, he has been teaching his Chemistry 184 class at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"We've been working under less than optimal conditions," Harmony said, "Woodruff is not a classroom, it is an auditorium. It's very crowded and it's not set up for teaching."
But Harmony found out six months ago that Budig Hall will not be ready for classes in the fall, as originally scheduled.
"It was disappointing," Harmony ssid, "but it should be nice when it is finished."
Doug Riat, assistant director of design and construction management, said the roughly $18 million project was within budget and would be finished by Oct. 1.
"The confines of the rooms are generally established, but as for the actual finishing, we are no where near done." Demnia Odgeri
Dennis Odgers DiCarlo project manager
Classes will be scheduled there for Spring 1997. Originally the project had been slated to finish July 8, 1996.
Greg Perry and Don Hood of the Therm-seal construction company clean out a cement machine at Buddie Hall. Construction at the site still is taking place.
"We feel like the project is going relatively well."
Riat said that several factors had delayed the project. The beams that will span the 1,000 seat lecture hall were the wrong size, and last year the hillside between the building and Broadcasting Hall had to be shored up after it caved in on the excavation site.
"We don't feel too bad," Riat said,
Riat said that neither problem had been a major setback and that they had been corrected.
Dennis Odgers, project manager for DiCarlo Construction Company, said weather had played a major part in the delay.
"If you're doing extensive masonry work and it's cold, you just can't do it." Olders said.
Odgers said the building was about 70 percent finished.
But as the project nears completion, weather will be less likely to interfere.
The confines of the rooms are generally established," Oddsers said, "but as for the actual finishing, we are nowhere near done."
Steve Anderson, who is head of the music and dance department, will be relieved to see that happen.
The department profoundly was affected by the fire.
Not only did it lose material things, such as a $40,000 grand piano, an organ, and choir robes that have never been replaced, but also they have had to share their performance space with displaced classes from other departments.
"People who come to see performances at 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m. don't see all the other work it takes to make that happen," Anderson said. "We have lost teaching time and rehearsal time and we've had to make up those teaching times late at night in strange circumstances."
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