Dennis Stewart (left) and Ken Nevins used 3,746 assorted soft drink cans to form this tunnel entrance in their McCollum Hall room. They hope to add about 4,000 more cans to make a maze leading to their beds.
Men redecorate with thousands of cans
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Passers-by still do double takes when they see the 3.746 soft drink cans—held together with 1/4 gallons of contact cement—that form a tunnel entrance into a certain McCollum Hall room.
By Jane Albildgaard Kansan Staff Reporter
Dennis Stewart, Topka sophomore, and Ken Nevins, Overland Park sophomore, said they started collecting soft drink cans in October. They gathered the cans about once each week from McColum, Summerfield Hall and various trach containers on campus, Stewart said.
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After collecting the cans, Stewart and Nevins had to clean them—a process that included taking showers with the cans. The men took the cans into the showers and filled them with water, then got into the showers with the cans and rinsed them out. They then took the cans back to their room to dry.
The next step was deciding what to do with the cans. They considered partitioning their
room into a bedroom and a dressing room, raising the floor with a layer of cans and making smoken beds, before deciding on the tunnel.
After adding about 4,000 more cans, Nevins said, the tunnel will be a maze leading to bunk beds. Now, their beds are supported by cans rather than the conventional bed legs.
Before building the tunnel, Stewart and Nevins had the cans arranged in three pyramids down from the ceiling and out from the walls. The pyramids took up about a third of the room's floor space, Nevins said.
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Building of the tunnel began about semester break, Nevins said. He estimated the entire process of collection through building took about five minutes per can.
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Nevins said they plan to store the cans in his basement during the summer vacation.
You never know when 7,000 soft drink cans may come in handy.
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Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-New York, announced today that he will speak at KU the afternoon of March 5 in Allen Field House. The senator will appear at K-State earlier the same day.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday,February 22,1968
"We can't have all the buses lined up on Daisy Hill between 8:10 and 8:20 and carry out a schedule," Ogle said.
When Sen, Robert Kennedy cancelled his speech here Wednesday, most people who were planning to attend found out soon enough they weren't caught in front of Allen Field House wondering what happened.
Early rush overflows buses
Students should blame themselves for the overcrowded buses on Daisy Hill. All students want to ride the same bus.
Buses arrive at McCollum at 7:55, 8:00, 8:10, 8:20 and 8:30. An extra bus was added this year at 8 a.m. in an attempt to relieve the later, more crowded buses. This
"If students would get around earlier and not all try to ride the same bus, they could have a seat on an earlier bus," said Duane Ogle, manager of Lawrence Bus Co.
But a Lawrence high school teacher got rather excited when someone told her Kennedy wasn't coming.
No extra cost to the student body will result from the All-Student Council (ASC) bill passed Monday which, starting next fall, allocates salaries for the student body president and vicepresident.
Students won't be charged for ASC expense accounts
The bill, to go into effect Sept. 1, establishes an expense account of $100 a month for president and $50 a month for the vice-president. The allowances will be paid on the first of each month.
The ASC obtains its budget from state funds and, indirectly, from student fees. Student ac-
Absence of RFK flusters teacher
Apparently buses are crowded at 8:10 and 8:20 a.m. because most students prefer to leave the residence halls at these times for 8:30 classes.
bus often carries fewer than 10 students.
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"Good heavens," she said. "I let my class out of school today
With that, she turned and hurried back to her car.
He argued that the Daisy Hill students weren't the only peas
The time of his KU speech has not yet been scheduled, but classes normally in session will be dismissed.
"Do you think they'll be in class waiting for you when you get back to school?" someone yelled after her.
so they could come up here to hear him speak."
The silence that followed was the silence of a teacher who had just made a boo-boo.
Buses could operate at a profit just by filling the seats and allowing no stand-up passengers if students were willing to pay 25 or 30 cents each, Ogle added.
Allen pointed out that a bus company would be liable for negligence under Kansas law if an injury resulted from overcrowded conditions.
Some students believe a solution to the problem of overcrowded buses lies in city legislation. However, there is no city ordinance which restricts the number of passengers a private bus may carry, according to Milton Allen, Lawrence city attorney.
in the pod. The buses serve 1,100 women at Corbin and Gertrude Sellard Pearson Hall, and citizens of Lawrence who work at the University, and must pick them up north of campus. Also at this time, "we must pick up 250-300 junior high pupils," Ogle said.
Ogle said he would welcome reasonable suggestions to improve the bus schedule.
"We appreciate overcrowded buses because that is what allows us to operate on a 15-cent fare," he said.
tivity fees go to the state, and in turn the state allocates funds for the ASC budget. Although student fees are included in the budget and the expense accounts will be drawn from it, there will be no extra cost to the student body.
Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, said the salaries were necessary "considering the time and responsibility involved" in the offices on campus.
KU currently is one of the few major schools that does not pay its student body officers. In this state Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and Kansas State University pay their officers each semester.
However, KU's new allocation will be "quite a bit lower than many schools," said Brian Barker, Virginia Water, England, graduate student and student body vice-president.
Students in ASC offices incur large campaign expenses and often are forced to cut down on
their class load. Craig said his campaign cost $700, the cheapest in a number of years.
A campaign usually costs between $600 and $1,000, he said.
Expense accounts will help to cover some of the officer's personal expenses, many of them "intangible," Craig said. These "intangibles" depend on the individual, he said, but they may consist of cleaning bills and meals he must buy himself when he has been involved in long meetings.
But the major benefit of the allocation is that of defraying the cost of summer school, which the person must often attend to make up for lost hours.
The financial burden placed on the person often limits office seekers to those who are able to afford it. The expense account would broaden the field of those who may run.
"Nobody should be excluded." Barker said.
See Expenses, page 9.
Photo by Moe Behrayesh
CHILLY SOLILOQUY
Following the brief Tuesday night snowfall, a KU student wanders by Potter Lake on his way to an early Wednesday class.