Planning Board hearings held
KU departments discuss needs for space
By JOHN GOODRICK Kansan staff writer
The departments of physics and chemistry and the School of Pharmacy met Saturday to discuss with a subcommittee of the University Planning Board their needs for space.
It was the second of several hearings planned by the board.
The groups involved stressed the idea that all available space was being utilized and any growth would require additional space.
Previously both departments had met and decided their space problems could best be solved by constructing a new physical science building as close to Malott Hall as possible to house the department of physics, building a major wing on to the south side of Malott to house the School of Pharmacy and letting the department of chemistry take over a remodeled, air conditioned Malott Hall.
The department of physics was represented by Robert Friauf, David Beard and Ralph Krone, professors; the department of chemistry by John Landgrebe, associate professor; and the School of Pharmacy by Howard Mossberg, dean of the school.
Krone said the physics department would need 126,000 square feet of space, 35 faculty members and 140 graduate students by 1980. The department now has
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TOPEKA (UPI) — Kansas teachers and school boards were urged Sunday to observe March 2 as "save our schools day" in an effort to alert the public to the "seriousness of the threat to their schools."
Melvin E. Neely, executive secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA), made the announcement on a 30-minute television special, directed to school personnel.
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Two KU professors have received a $30,000 two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate a hormone's effect on living cells.
Paul A. Kitos and Robert T. Hersh, both KU professors of biochemistry, were awarded the grant to study a particular hormone from the adrenal gland to find out how it regulates some of the actions of living cells.
18,000 square feet in Malott. 23 faculty members and 64 graduate students.
Beard said if the department added any faculty it would need additional space.
"We have refrained from hiring people who are needed simply because there is no place to put them," Beard said. Beard said there were three times more students now in physics than there were three years ago.
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The teaching laboratories are operating close to capacity, Friauf said. They now have 2-hour labs and Friauf said they would like to have 3-hour labs but it was impossible with the present facilities.
Friau said that the department needed room for developing programs. He said nuclear physics is operating at capacity and they have no area to which they can expand.
"We need to schedule twice as many labs as we have space to," Friauf said. He said in Physics I the department had given up the laboratories, and elimination of other labs might be necessary.
The department of chemistry is "pressed against the wall," said Landgrebe in describing his department's needs for space. "Every nook and cranny is being used," he said.
Landgrebe predicted the department's needs to include 41,000 additional square feet of space, six more senior staff members and 17 more teaching assistants by 1980. The department of chemistry presently has approximately 50- 000 square feet in Malott and 24 senior staff members.
space with several desks and locker space, he said.
A first year teaching assistant has no desk and has no space to talk to his students outside of class unless he talks with them in the halls, Landgrebe said. This problem could be solved by a room with 1,000 square feet of
At present, there is one full time electronics technician. Landgrebe said the department had an immediate need for one more and would need three technicians by 1980.
Landgrebe said there was an overall increasing need for more shop facilities and storage space and that the reading room in the library is "very inadequate."
The laboratories are in constant use from 7:30 a.m. until 5:20 p.m. and on Saturday mornings, he said. By 1976 they will not only be forced into night time operations but this will also cause a need for more faculty.
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He said that the 20-man labs now in use allowed only 3.3 linear feet of bench space for students, which didn't even allow them to lay their notebooks on the bench, and he said that these labs would be more efficient as 16-man labs.
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Mossberg said the School of Pharmacy has "more than doubled in all categories in the past ten years," and, "basically, our backs are against the wall."
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The School of Pharmacy has written to the Health Science Advancement Award committee for four more needed senior staff members, but Mossberg said, "We don't have four office spaces or four more files."
In 1960 the school had four full time faculty members; now they have 17, and by 1975 are expected to have about 34 members.
The anticipated space needed by 1980 is 120,000 square feet for a school of about 325 students. Presently the school has 200 students and about 20,000 square feet.
Mossberg said the school did
With an increasing awareness of our environment the Environmental Toxicology program newly developing has a good possibility of developing if there were adequate space, Mossberg said.