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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, May 1, 1968
He watches boilers
In this world of hypermodulation, supersensitivity, computers and commuters, the day to day confusion of living sometimes becomes enormous.
But for some, work goes on, in an environment all but untouched by the razzle-dazzy of urban drudgery.
A dial turned, a knob pulled, the quick energetic steps of a trained engineer who knows his job, his boilers, and then all is quiet. Heat and lights continue to function normally and we, on the outside, live on, unfettered by mechanics far beyond our concern.
Boilers are Homer Disque's job, and he has been firing them at KU for over 15 years. It is obvious he likes his job because he can talk of it with authority and yet fascination. He hasn't lost interest.
He will relate how the level of steam is kept between 15,000 and 60,000 pounds, according to the demands of the temperature outside and he will show you with pride the numerous safety devices which have been added to the boiler system since he came.
He might ask you to look into the back of number one boiler and view, "the prettiest fire you've ever seen."
Homer has some scars where the steam from the boilers has
taken its toll, but you can tell this never bothered him much.
"I didn't go to the doctor until it started to heal," he said.
He talked of the time he and his wife took a ferry across one of the Great Lakes. The captain had the chief engineer show him the boiler room and the tour was half over before Homer realized the man was dead drunk and being laughed at by his crew.
"There I was in the middle of a lake with a drunk engineer on my hands," he said.
Homer will retire soon and one of his younger assistants will take over his rotating shift at the power plant.
You can bet he will still be around to see the boilers, however. They're in his blood.
The problem of student representation on faculty and administration committees will be discussed at next Tuesday's ASC meeting, Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., junior and student body president said Tuesday.
ASC to discuss committees
Before that time Conrad said he hopes all students interested will contact council members and express their opinions concerning the subject.
"We need to talk to a lot more students before making any decision," he said.
"The basic issue in regard to the petitions circulating on this campus is not the specific wording of the statements of Dean Heller at a recent open meeting," Conrad said.
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Conrad said he is preparing a report concerning the present committee structure.
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role in regard to student, faculty and administrative committees at KU."
"The point here is that we should not get bogged down trying to interpret what Dean Heller said," he said, "Rather it is a question of the student's present
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NEW YORK — (UPI) —Columbia University classrooms were locked for a "day of reflection" today under pressure from a student-faculty strike and charges of "cop terror" over a police raid which routed rebel students from a week-long campus sit-in protest.
Columbia officials reported today that of 630 names given them by police so far, a little more than 80 per cent were students and faculty. The rest were students from other schools and outsiders.
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