Departments want more space
By JOHN GOODRICK
Kenan Staff Writer
The departments of mathematics and computer science, the University Libraries and the Computation Center asked the University Planning Board Tuesday night for more space and to be centrally located.
Bailey Price, KU mathematics professor presented the space problems of the department of mathematics emphasizing three main points. They were: 1) "The offices of the senior staff are separated from the junior staff by at least a third of a mile," 2) the library space is too small, especially the reading room and 3) the department of mathematics is rapidly increasing and has no room to expand to in Strong Hall.
Estimated space needs for the department by 1980 are 25,525 square feet including 5,000 square feet for the mathematics library, said Price. The department now has a total of 13,488 square feet.
Price said he predicted a 50 per cent increase in growth and space needs in the next ten years. The department now has the fourth largest enrollment of student hours on campus, 16,150, surpassed only by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the department of English. By 1980 the department expects an enrollment of 25,000 student hours, Price said.
The staff of the department now consists of 30 senior staff members and 36 "equivalent full time assistant instructors. By 1980 Price said he expects to 50 to 55 senior staff members and 50 to 55 assistant instructors. By this fall Price said there will be three more senior staff members.
Price said site requirements would be to be "centrally located in the classroom area of the campus."
Director of University Libraries, David Heron, said that library space was directly related to student enrollment and emphasized the library's need for growth.
Heron said there was a need for a Science and Technology Library with between 80 and 900
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square feet and some area for expansion. He said that Watson Library needs an addition or replacement and that the stacks were crowded.
When a member of the hearing board asked Heron what would most facilitate the libraries needs, consolidation or branch libraries, Heron answered, the major disadvantage to branch libraries was simply the distance factor and not administration.
Paul Wolfe, Computation Center Director, said "Nearly every administrative office depends on the output of the computation center."
He said the Center operates on a 24 hour basis and through customer consulting and services "1,000 people walk through on a daily basis."
In the Green Book put out by a sub-committee of the Board of Regents Wolfe said the committee gave "high priority to adequate facilities to computers."
Wolfe said that use of the computers was rapidly increasing and that many departments were using machine readable tapes for much material, including the works of Shakespeare to analyze his writing.
Development in the Computation Center include the possibility of "low cost input output devices," and network computer development including a large computer facility with smaller outlets all over the campus. Also
The center needs to be centrally located, Wolfe said, because many campus administrators are directly connected with the center and need to be at its home site.
mentioned was the possibility of drive in windows similar to several banks where one could drive in, drop off their programs and return for the results later.
Earl Schweppe, KU computer science professor, said the department of Computer science, though only in existence a little over one year officially, has onetenth the space now that they will need in five years.
The department now has 2,608 square feet and Schwepppe said for a useful plan in ten years they will need 30,000 square feet
Schwepep said that they now have 25 graduate students and in five years they expect 100. He said the faculty growth is about three persons a year, and compared the growth of his department to that of the mathematics department.
The department needs are similar to the computation centers Schweppe said. "The same material we need for students, administration and faculty is the same needed by the computation center," he said.
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