Plans indefinite for building
By MARTHA
MANGELSDORF
Kansan Staff Writer
Wescoe Hall, the proposed humanities building, originally to have been the "tallest building in Kansas" with 25 stories, may be reduced further than its present 15-story configuration pending a decision in this session of the Kansas Legislature.
Bids for the structure were scheduled to be taken last spring and construction was to begin last summer with completion by fall 1970. But the pit in the
ground between Flint and Haworth Halls attests to the breakdown in development plans.
Lack of funds is impeding progress, R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor operations, plant development and coordination, explained yesterday. State funds were to match federal funds, 2 to 1, but completed architectural estimates called for more than the approximate $6 million requested.
The Kansas Board of Regents has appealed to the legislature for authority to raise the additional funds through
revenue bonds. Senate Bill 80, which passed the Senate Ways and Means committee Friday and now awaits debate on the floor, would allow academic building funds to be taken out of revenue bonds. The present law specifies only funds for such structures as classrooms, residence halls and student union facilities.
The building was originally designed in three sections: two five-story wings for classrooms and a 25-story tower planned as faculty offices and seminar and study rooms.
The architectural plans
completed by the Wichita firm of Woodman and Van Doren proposed two five-story wings with a 15-story tower. A suggestion to build three five-story sections did not meet the approval of the Regents. Additional appropriations are necessary for added tower stories.
Lawton said the 25-story tower had not been scrapped altogether. The remainder of the stories, he said, could conceivably be added to the tower whenever funds permitted, and they will be in
alternate plans when the bids go out for construction.
Lawton said that although the tower portion of the building has been reduced, the loss in space will be minimal.
Space allotment rearrangement included seven classrooms in the two five-story wings re-designed as offices and the tower re-arranged to accommodate more offices.
The glassed-in concourse areas, designed between the two wings to maintain the openness of Mt. Oread, will double as student study areas.
Photo by Mike Walker
Wescoe Hall progress . . .
Intensive English troubles students
If an in-class theme seems impossible and the right words just won't come to mind, imagine being a foreign student in the intensive English center required to write an English composition.
Edward T. Erazmus, director of the Intensive English Center and associate professor of linguistics, discussed "Form Class Frequency in Foreign Student Writing" last night as part of the Linguistics Colloquium.
He described the contrasts between the sentence formation of students writing English as a native language and those learning to write it as a foreign language.
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"Most foreign students are able to achieve the kernel structure of a sentence," he said, "but use a smaller variety of adjectives."
He added that students speaking English as their native language had more content words: nouns, gerunds, adjectives; while foreign students used more function words: pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions.
Erazmus said foreign students find articles extremely difficult to handle and tend to write from a personal point of view.
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