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London or Lawrence?
"What's that building looming ahead in the heavy fog?" "It's Spooner Art Museum." "And how did you deduce that?" "Elementary, my dear Watson. It's written on the wall."
Status of halls, Union not changed by tax bill
Passage of a bill to tax residence halls and student union buildings would not change the constitutional fact that these facilities are tax exempt conditionally, according to the opinion of the Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
The bill, which passed the Kansas House of Representatives Thursday, was designed to remove tax-exempt status of dormitories and student union buildings at state colleges and universities.
However, a Feb. 16 response from a member of the tax committee, Sen. Donald Christy, R-Scott City, told Keith Jorgensen, Mission junior and president of the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), that
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"the tax committee was of the opinion that these facilities were tax exempt conditionally and that the passage of the bill would not change the constitutional fact of the matter."
Christy said, "We have been issued in the committee an assurance that the Attorney General is writing an opinion that they are exempt by Constitution. Thus, whether the law is passed or not, really makes very little difference."
If the bill is valid and becomes law, student fees would probably have to be increased and dorm rents would rise. Keith Nitcher, vice-chancellor for finance, said the student fee increase would be at least $7 per year per student to cover the tax on the Kansas Union. This would cover the estimated yearly taxes of $245,000 on the Union building and its contents.
Libraries need more space bookshelves full in 2 years
A cry for more space is being heard from the corners and book-shelves of the University of Kansas Libraries.
Heron said that with the ever increasing number of students using the library and the number of books that are added, plans for such growth would have to be made.
Watson Library, the central building of the library system will be out of bookstack space in two years, and the science library in its cramped quarters on the sixth floor of Malott has already run out of space and is storing books in Spencer, said David W. Heron, director of libraries.
The present library, which at its beginning was a room in Fraser Hall, was last improved in 1964 when space was added on to the east and the west book stacks were built. At the time of the planning it was said this would take care of growth for 10 years, but by the time it was built five years had been lost.
A report on the library's needs and problems was presented at a University Planning Board subcommittee hearing last Tuesday.
The library at that time had reading room for 10% of the university population.
Since Watson has an open stack policy, changes are needed to accommodate graduate students who do all their work back in the stacks, Heron said. As it is now the desks and lighting for study and research are few and not the best.
Parking is also a problem for the users of the library. Parking spaces on Jayhawk Boulevard do not quite fill the needs of library patrons.
The Spencer Library, which added one third to the total library space, Heron said, "has not only directly added three years to the life of the Watson Library stacks but is already being used for storage of overflow from the science and law libraries."
There are four science libraries. They include the one on the sixth floor of Malott, a math library in Strong Hall, an earth science library in Lindley, and the engineering and architecture library in Marvin Hall.
The science libraries are most desperately in need of space and facilities now, Heron said.
Heron said of the science libraries, "The interrelevance of the sciences and the evolution of interdisciplinary research brings increasing complaint that related resources are in several different buildings, and there is considerable demand for duplication as a result. I propose for your (the University Planning Board subcommittee's) consideration a science and technology library, containing 80-90,000 square feet to allow for expansion and request that the planning for it be started at the earliest possible moment."
In Malott the study area in the library is filled in the late morning hours with students and people doing research. Bookstack space has already run out,
Three suggestions made for the improvement of the Watson Library at KU are expansion of the present building, replacement of it, or construction of an undergraduate library. Heron said these suggestions were presented to the subcommittee.
Heron said, with boxes of unpacked books for the library in storage in Spencer.
"The quantity and quality of library space are important to the quality of library service." Heron said. "Crowded stacks become disorganized and difficult to use; it is not easy for someone to study in a reading room which is noisy, hot or crowded."
BELL SYSTEM
Recruiting Team On Campus
Thursday, March 5, 1970
Representing
American Telephone & Telegraph, Long Lines Department Bachelor's and Master's candidates Electrical Mechanical, Civil, Mathematics, and Physics candidates with broad interests in economic and management problems. Locations: Mid-west states initially.
Bell Laboratories Research and Development — B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. candidates. Emphasizing E.E., M.E., Physics, Engineering Mechanics and Mathematical Sciences. Opportunities for graduate study. Locations: New Jersey, Illinois and elsewhere in eastern half of U.S.
Southwestern Bell Technical students, particularly those seeking management and administrative assignments-E.E.; M.E.; E.P.; C.E.; Math-Physics.
Locations: Kansas and the Mid-West.
Western Electric All Engineering disciplines needed to fill Technical Engineering positions in design, product, systems, military research and management training.
Locations: Southwest—Mid-West—Eastern and Northern States.
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