University Planning Board hears
Departments cry for more space
By JOHN GOODRICK
Kansan Staff Writer
The geography department has lost three potential cartographers (map makers) because of space problems, Thomas Smith, KU geography professor, told the University Planning Board Thursday.
The planning board heard the needs for more space and space re-arrangement from the departments of geology and geography and the School of Architecture.
Smith said the main space problem in the geography department is a lack of seminar rooms, a need for a staff and student meeting space, and a need for a better map library. A second major department problem is it is in four buildings, he said.
The location of the department, in one word, is "awful," Smith said. He said the need to bring the staff and classrooms together in one building. He said the clustering needed could best be solved by a major building built on the west side of campus close
Power plant threatened
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The government may take a Florida utility company to court to halt part of a nuclear power plant project which it says could pollute Biscayne Bay, the oceanfront where President Nixon owns a vacation compound.
Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel Wednesday asked the Justice Department to take legal action against the Florida Power and Light Co. to stop it from building a six-mile canal. The canal would carry water from the plant south of Miami to Biscayne Bay and Ord Bay.
Hickel said the water would be heated and could cause a thermal pollution of the two bays which he referred to as "two of the cleanest bodies of water remaining in America." Thermal pollution involves the introduction of heated water into naturally colder water, a condition which can cause unusual organic growth and changes in the water environment.
Hickel asked the company to stop digging the canal earlier this week, but the utility turned him down. The Justice Department said Hickel's request will be "studied to see if there is any possible course of action" that it may take.
Hickel has opposed the canal project for the past year, but Wednesday marked the first time he has resorted to legal action to stop it. Biscayne Bay is a national monument and the Nixon Florida vacation home fronts on a section of it.
Voting rights bill nearing passage
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Southerners skirted a possible setback in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday and moved the administration's controversial voting rights bill to the Senate floor for debate scheduled Monday.
The action set the stage for a series of critical Senate debates and votes on issues involving civil rights and conflicts between President Nixon and Congress' Democratic majority.
Starting today Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said, the Senate will take up a controversial Labor-Health-Education appropriations bill carrying Southern anti-busing amendments, then the voting rights measure, and the nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
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to the earth science library and the computation center.
Smith said he anticipated between 80 and 90 per cent growth by 1980. The department's present growth gives "no indication of it tapering off yet. This is true at the graduate and undergraduate levels," he said.
A good map library should be close to the general area of Lindley Hall for easy access, he said. When asked if an addition to Lindley would be suitable Smith said it would depend on "how much we can get and what quality."
Lindley does not have indoor plumbing, and the geology department has an abnormal space need for the operation which they have, said Louis Dellwig, KU geology professor.
Dellwigh said, "no graduate student has office space in Lindley, and that is certainly a disadvantage." He added, "It is most undesirable to have the staff move out of the building."
All the department's laboratories double as lecture rooms, he said. Dellwig said the laboratories are presently being used all the hours of the day, part of the night and Saturday mornings. "In the point of view of storage space we have nothing," he said.
Dellwig said the departments over-all goals included to draw the Paleontological Institute back
into the department, enlarge the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology to meet future needs, return the working map library to the department and provide teaching and research space. He said for these goals the department will need between 60 and 70,000 square feet of space which could not be housed in Lindley.
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture, said there was a need for the combining of the interests of the fine arts departments with the school to raise the standards of the present libraries. He said of the 65 other Architecture schools around the nation our library falls in the lower 25 per cent, but would be raised to the upper 10 per cent under his plan.
The present library space is 700 square feet although with the 6,000 volumes the school has, it needs 2,606 square feet to be adequate.
He said the studios in Marvin Hall are operated on a "hot desk" principle for freshmen and sophomores which means that the desks are being shared. Kahn said this was a definite disadvantage since it created competition for tables in the evenings.
The research area space now is zero. The department could now use 3,620 square feet and by 1975 7,260 square feet.
Other space needs of the department include Achievement Space, the enlargement of the student store, photography graphics and jury rooms, and more sculpture studios.
New pre-trial formula unveiled to keep order
Researcher found leak may lead to cancer cure
BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI)—A University of California researcher Thursday reported detection of a chemical substance which leaks from cancerous cells and causes normal living cells to "grow wild" as though they were malignant.
But when some of the defendants entered the courtroom Wednesday shaking their fists and shouting, "power to the people." Murtagh said "the continued misconduct persuades me to use the formula without further delay."
NEW YORK (UPI)—State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh unveiled a new "formula" Wednesday to maintain order in the pretrial hearings for 13 Black Panthers charged with a bombing conspiracy.
Three weeks of continued disruption prompted the judge's action and the devising of his "formula" to deal with it. He warned the six defense lawyers Tuesday he had developed a formula which he said he would implement in about two weeks.
He recessed the proceedings "indefinitely" and said he would consider a written motion to resume the hearings only if it was accompanied by "an unequivocal assurance that the defendants are now prepared to participate in a trial under the American system of criminal justice."
After Murtagh recessed the hearings indefinitely Wednesday, four of the defense lawyers held a news conference and said they had frequently admonished their clients "to conform to the standard courtroom behavior." They said they warned the Panthers to speak only when asked questions.
"The court declares the proceededions recessed indefinitely," he said. "The hearings are proceeding at a snail's pace and are continually being interrupted. The defendants are unwilling to proceed . . . the court !'as no alternative."
Dr. Harry Rubin, professor of molecular biology, said the discovery may provide clues to the biological changes in cancer that allow runaway growth in and around malignant cells.
The lawyers said the Panthers refused to be silent, however.
"This recess is probably a milestone in judicial history," said defense lawyer Charles T. Kinney. "We intend to be careful in framing our response as Murtagh was in forming his little formula."
The Panthers are charged in an alleged plot to kill policemen and bomb public facilities including department stores, subways and the Bronx Botanical Garden.
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