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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 13, 1989
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KU A&D building is lacking
Students complain of ventilation woes
In the Art and Design Building, Brett Allen, Lenexa senior, spray paints the finishing touches on his art work.
by Merceda Ares
Kansan staff writer
Paula D. Hotaker/KANSAN
School can be a real headache — especially for fine arts students.
"Sometimes we work with glue," Protzmann, Houston senior, said. After working on a project for a collection, he and all have headaches and dizziness."
Brooks Protzmann, an industrial design student, said most people who worked in the Art and Design Building suffered headaches because of a shortage of properly ventilated spray areas.
Emily White, Kansas City, Kan. junior, summarized the problem in two words.
“It’s terrible!” she said. “People get bloody noses. You’ll blow your nose for the next three days, and you bloody.”
Protzmann said the problem was compounded by students who did spraying in hallways and classrooms of a shortage of spray booths.
A spray booth is a cubicle with a filtering system and exhaust fan to draw fumes out of the booth. Exhaust systems draw the fumes to the outside so they are not recirculated through the building.
Two spray booths are available to the 600 students in the school.
Jerry Moore, associate de fine of arts, said poor ventilation had been a problem in the building since it was built in 1977.
"Slowly but surely we're working on it." he said.
Jim Modig, campus director for facilities planning, said his department would hire a firm to modify the ventilation system in the building.
"Everybody's making a cooperative effort to resolve the problem," Modig said.
He said the ventilation problem was threefold.
The first part of the problem was old, failing equipment and the second
part was thermostats and other equipment that had been tampered with.
He said the third part of the problem was keeping up with changing requirements for rooms, such as furniture that were conformed into spray painting rooms.
This problem is the most difficult to address because exhaust systems must be installed in the spray painting rooms. The existing ventilation system must be modified to accommodate the added exhaust, Modig said.
*Major spray booths should have outside air pumped into them and stored there. If necessary, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities operations. "The old ones would just take in room air and exhaust it. If they're up to speed, they'll get state-of-the-art ones."
Modig said students who did not use spray booths had added to the ventilation problem.
"If there isn't enough spray boots in the building to accommodate students and they start going out in the hallways, it will end up recirculating volatiles given off by the spray system." Modu said.
Joe Zeller, chairman of design,
said two spray boots for 600 art and
design students were not enough.
"The issue of spraying and spray booths has reached a critical point," Zeller said.
However, he said the problem of students spraying in halls and classrooms was not entirely because of the
spray booth shortage
"They spray everywhere they want to," he said. "Even if the spray booths are opened, they are too lazy to open." He is a kind of like picking up your socks.
He said an all-night spray booth would be installed if the department had sufficient funds to buy one. Spray booths cost from $1,500 to $4,000.
The present spray booths are open only from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Zeller said spray booths were not open at night because they were located in a part of the building that was kept locked at night.
He said it was hard for the administration to prevent students from spraying where they were not supposed to.
"There's no mechanism other than to scold them," he said. "We rely on
their adult maturity."
Nancy Bessemer, Lawrence senior, agreed that a spray booth was needed at night.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff of Watkins Memorial Health Center, said not all people would get a breathalyzer and chemicals in a poorly ventilated room.
"The problem is mostly one of discomfort from odors in the form of headaches; scratchy, irritated throats; and watery eyes," he said. "The nosebleed is caused from the same irritant that causes the headache and irritated throat. A nosebleed is not common among everyone."
He said the only danger was when a person had asthma.
"for anybody that has pre-existing asthma, it can get very serious and the person is at risk of developing an acute attack."
Law dean interviews near end
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
A final candidate for dean of law will be interviewed at the School of Law today and tomorrow. He is the second candidate from the University of Kansas to interview for the position.
Sidney A. Shapiro, the candidate, is a John Roundts distinguished professor of law at KU. He has been a professor of law at KU since 1976 and has also taught at the University of Texas and Georgetown University. He served as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1975.
Shapiro also served as chairman of the Senate Executive Committee and Faculty Executive Committee from 1985 to 1986 and was chairman of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Executive Committee from 1986 to 1987.
Other candidates, who were interviewed earlier this week and last week for the position, are Bob Jerry, professor of law and University Senate Executive Committee chairman.
Leonard P. Strickman, professor and dean of law at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
■ Judith Wegner, professor of law at North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Mark L. Ascher, professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.
Elinor Schroeder, professor of law and chairman for the dean of law search committee, said that the committee would send a list of three finalists to Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs. Brinkman, Chancellor Gene A. Budi and Judith Ramay, executive vice chancellor, will then select the new dean.
Schroeder said that the committee's goal was to choose a new dean by the end of April.
Mike Davis, professor and outgoing dean of law, will spend a year on sabbatical when he leaves his position July 1. He announced Friday that he will head to Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Stinson, Mug and Fizzell in July.
Davis plans to return to KU in Summer 1990 to teach real-estate and land-use law.
Higher assessed real estate values may shortly result in higher rents
Students who reside in older properties are likely to see biggest jump in price
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
A doubling of the assessed value for Douglas County real estate could mean higher rents for some Universe tenants, a county official said yesterday.
According to information released by the county apprasier's office on Tuesday, the county's 1989 total assessed real estate valuation was $288,963.457. The 1988 valuation total was $144,031.370.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said that the figures doubled in one year but that did not mean that Mr. McKenzie's selfless selves had doubled during that time.
"We've played twenty years of catch-up in the past year," McKenzie said. "Most of the property on our books had market values that were not current. That's why the Legislature ordered reappraisal."
He said that an older property was
he newer the property, the more likely it is that it was taxed correctly before reappraisal.'
- Chris McKenzie
county administrator
more likely to be value incorrectly and would experience the biggest jump because it was taxed using the same argument on it by the last appraisal in 1964.
"The newer the property, the more it is that it was taxed correctly before reapraisal." McKenzie said.
Students renting apartments in older houses and complexes could face higher rents, depending on the condition of the property.
"Taxes have traditionally beer pass-through costs," McKenzie said. According to the state constitu
tional amendment on reappraisal approved in 1988, all residential property is assessed at 12 percent of its property and the remaining property is assessed at 30 percent.
August Dettbarn, field supervisor for the county appraiser's office, said that all apartments, from large company units to rented homes, were taxed at the 12 percent residential rate.
"The valuations have increased in some cases because they used to be based on the 1964 value," Dettarn said. "Others have dropped because of the drop in the residential rate from 30 to 12 percent."
He said that it also depended on the condition of the property.
If it had deteriorated since the last appraisal in 1964, the valuation could decrease. Dettborn said. But if improvements had been made to the property, the valuation could increase.
McKenzie said that the 1989 valuation figure was still being adjusted as some people appealed their valuations and would not be finalized until after May 1, when the appraisal process was completed.
Study session addresses use of KU plastic
by Angela Clark Kansan staff writer
Faced with growing campus concern about health hazards posed by plastic foam, a Kansas and Burge unions board discussed the issues with a product manufacturer last in the first of two study sessions.
Environs will present its side of the issue today.
Representatives of Dart Container Corp., of Michigan, one producer of the cups and containers used at KU, spoke last night to representatives of the Merchandising Policies and Practices Committee of the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation to discuss how a student environmental group
The session was prompted by Enviros' effort this semester to ban plastic foam cups from campus. The two study sessions were planned to allow the makers of the cups and the protesters to present their views.
At the first session, three issues were addressed: health hazards posed by the plastics' use, its disposal and alternative products.
Phillip Scholerler, sales representative for Dart, could not answer questions raised by Environs members about the health hazards of chemicals used in the production of the product. Phillip Scholerler, carbon tetrachloride and benzene
"I am no chemist." he said. "I would have to say my first thought was that we haven't been sued. We are well below any safety margins."
A. L. Muehe, from Earl Dusenbery Company Inc., a food-packaging broker, agreed.
"We have enough government bulldogs and investigative reporters to find this kind of stuff." Muehe said.
Besides discussing the problem of chemical health hazards, the representatives considered disposal of the plastic foam cups and containers.
"We need to find an alternative method of disposal to keep our solid waste stream from choking us to death," Schooler said. "But it's important that we stream our product accounts for, which is one quarter one percent."
However, a video Schoeller presented said plastic packaging amounts to four percent of the United States of about 183 tons of waste each year.
Options presented for reducing the approximately 6.4 tons of plastic waste in the United States were: incineration, biodegradation and recycling. The session focused on recycling as the best option.
"All plastics, including foam, can be recycled," Schoeller said.
The problem is organizing the recycling, said Roger Templin, president of the University of Kansas and executive corporation and Overland Park senior.
"It's profitable for the people who have the recycling plants," Tempin said. "That's not the problem. The problem is getting the people to do
The need for the public recycling initiative extends to a need for alternatives, and Schoeller stressed the increased cost of the alternatives.
"China, glass and software decrease the safety of the operation and there is the increased cost involved.
"What with the year we had last year, there are a lot better ways to use water than in washing dishes," he said.
Devin Scherbel, St. Joseph, Mo,
senior, said, "My point is that there
are a lot of questions that need to be
answered, and the industry know
nothing about it."
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