KU power shortage now critical
By DONNA SHRADER
Kansan Staff Correspondent
The growth potential of many KU buildings rests with this session's Kansas Legislature.
Two bills now before the legislature provide the hope for updating an antiquated and insufficient electrical system in Malott Hall and the other buildings built before 1959, said R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of operations.
The electrical system is not an emergency yet, however, the problem is critical John Landgrebe associate professor of chemistry and associate department chairman said. The shortage of electricity is so acute.
it is rationed.
The University needs $200,000 for the initial upgrading of the system, Lawton said, and this is the request before the legislature. Malott needs an additional $50,000 to overcome its critical situation.
All secondary lines of power are saturated, Landgrebe said.
"I understand the transformer gets so hot in the summer they (Building and Grounds men) have to pour water over it to keep it from blowing," he said.
Need air-conditioning
"In Malott some of the tabs and rooms need to be air conditioned in the summer," Landgrebe said. An example, is the
summer institute for high school chemistry teachers.
"We draw teachers from other states as well as from Kansas, and these teachers are the ones who are not trained to teach chemistry. This is why the program is so critical, yet we stick these teachers in an unair-conditioned lab all afternoon five days a week. This situation does not help our program or the image of the University." Landgrebe said.
The problem is even "critical" in the winter months, he said. The chemistry department recently obtained federal funds to get a new spectrometer, but they can't plug it in unless another piece of equipment
drawing equal power is unplugged.
"It is becoming easier, to obtain the hard to get federal funds for new equipment than it is to find the power to run the new equipment," he said.
The chemistry department has reached the "rationing" point of asking all persons to shut off lights immediately when finished, and to unplug coffee pots and hotplates when not in use.
Landgrebe said, if the transformer "blows" the older buildings on campus would be without overhead lights for three to four weeks, so the rationing inconvenience is a necessity.
Athletics gets fee boost
The problem Lawton said, lies with the University's small transformer. The University receives nearly 33,000 volts of electricity near the campus at the Kansas Power and Light's (KP&L) transformer which is then transformed down to more than 12,000, which the newer buildings can accept and make usable for the 110 and 220 volt wall outlets. The older buildings can't accept this large voltage so the University operates another transformer to convert the 12,000 volts to nearly 5,000 volts which the older buildings can handle, he said.
The largest portion of the yearly $24 student activity fee, which goes to the KU athletic department, has risen from $11 last year to $12.02 this year, Raymond Nichols, vice-chancellor of finance, said last week.
The fee is included in each student's general fee payment and is used to support various student activities and organizations.
Nichols said allotments of the student activity fee are
submitted by the All-Student Council (ASC) to the Chancellor's budget committee. The committee reviews the budget allocations and returns them to the ASC for final approval.
Student activities included in the fee allocation are: I.D. cards, concert series, athletics University Daily Kansan, band ASC, dramatics, debate, intramural sports, Associated Student Students, film series and
miscellaneous activities, Nichols said.
The approximately $186,000 budgeted to the athletic department from student fees is in addition to athletic ticket revenues. The total is more than four times the amount set aside for other student activities, Nichols said.
Flint has problems
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The University's transformer is working at maximum power, so the older buildings can't get any additional power, and the existing power put out by the transformer has to be "rationed" among the buildings still on the old system.
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