Wednesday, June 18, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Epstein hails new Senate VP
By Brenda Flory
Staff writer
It's difficult to fill someone else's shoes, but Kris Krurtenberg, new Student Senate vice president, seems to have the right size feet, David Epstein, student body president, said Monday.
Kurtenbach, former Associated Students of Kansas campus director and off-campus senator, was chosen to replace Amy Brown in an emergency session of the Student Executive Committee on May 18.
Brown resigned when she decided to accept a position as a copy editor with the Argus Leader, a Sioux Falls, Mo. school of going before law at KU.
"At first I was nervous about taking the position." Kurtenbach said. "I didn't know how people would look
at it "
"I've gotten a lot of good support," she said.
But Kurtenbach said she was getting used to her new position.
Epstein said that because he was not living in Lawrence this summer, Kurtenbach had an opportunity to learn the lrops.
Epstein is attending classes this summer at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He said this was the best time for Kurtenbach to because it would give her time to get adjusted to some of the pressures.
"I'm letting her be in charge of the office," Epstein said.
"She is going to be bombarded with information," Epstein said. "I know it will be difficult for her, but I'm not expecting that many problems."
Epstein said Kurtenbach was a
"She does not beat around the bush," he said. "In the long run, she is the best type of person to have in an argument because she tells it like it is."
hardworking, honest and straightforward person.
Kurttenbach will be a senior next year. In addition to an English degree, she is working toward a journalism in public relations and marketing.
"My ultimate goal is to get into book publishing," she said. The majority of the people that get involved with student government are studying law or political science. Kuritani had also recently motivated but that she saw her new responsibility as part of the college experience.
Kurtenbach said she was working on the programs that already had
been implemented by the Student
Senate. She said she was still going
through a transition period and prob-
ably would not bring in any new
ideas to the Senate until meeting
began in the fall.
The guide is basically an expanded syllabus, she said. The Senate hopes to have it available during enrollment for next spring.
She is now concentrating on compiling the "Course Source," in/depth courses to courses and their assignments, and down on the number of add/drops.
Other programs keeping Kurten-bach busy include campus lighting to be installed this summer, the hotline for students to give their opinions of Senate matters and the "tipsy taxi" service, which provides free taxi rides from Lawrence bars on weekends, Kurtenbach said.
Mall may give job market a lift
By Rachelle Worrall
Staff writer
Although Lawrence's job rate has been projected by some to slow from its current pace, David Longhurst, city commissioner, said last week that he would help put Lawrence on a positive economic spiral.
Longhurst said the mall's construction costs would be $20 million to $30 million. Although the boost in construction jobs would be temporary, the increase to 400 permanent, lower-paying jobs created.
playing jobs created. The jobs generated by the mall would not necessarily expand the job market, Longhurst said.
"There would be some trade-off if you created 400 jobs," he said. "Some jobs would be taken from the busier areas."
"But it would certainly have an economic benefit. It would also have a psychological benefit."
It lends to the impression that Lawrence is healthy, growing and viable. "
Although the Lawrence job market appears healthy, Rehelio Samuel, executive director of the Lawrence Human Relations Commission, said, Lawrence's unemployment rate, as determined by the Kansas Department of Human Resources, is too low.
Ed Mills, manager of the Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said the April unemployment rate in Lawrence was 3.2 percent, about 1,200 unemployed.
When the May and June statistics are out, the unemployment rate increases to about 4 or 4.5 percent. Mills said. The increase is typical when there is flux of graduating students into the job market.
Samuel said, "I think it's ridiculous, but they can only report the figures they have. That figure is low, very low.
"I know for a fact that many of these people don't go to the employment office and haven't for me."
The final decision to build the mall rests on the acceptance of a slum-and-bight study that was ordered by the city. The study will be discussed at a meeting June 23.
The study qualifies the 600 block between Kentucky and Massachusetts streets as blighted. If the city accepts the study, it will have the opportunity to ademn the buildings and buy the land in the area.
Gary Toebben, vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said, "I think the construction of a downtown shopping mall would have a positive impact on the entire downtown area."
The Downtown Lawrence Association board of directors issued a statement in support of a mail development and said it would favor efforts by the commission to accelerate economic development.
Kick 'em
Shauna Norfleet/KANSAN
Ed Brunt, a third-degree black belt, demonstrates a sidekick to top-ranking student James Frink. Brunt and Frink are part of the Law Enforcement Tae Kwon Do Association that meets weekly at South Park.
Engineering dean settles into Lawrence
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
By Evan Walter
Carl E. Locke, dean of engineering
Staff writer
After four and $\frac{1}{2}$ months of commuting weekly between jobs at the University of Kansas and the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oka, the new dean of engineering has settled into Lawrence.
Carl Locke, the new dean, began working half-time at KU in January and became a full-time dean in the middle of May.
finished things to do at Norman."
"He was the dean from January to May, but he was only part-time at KU and part-time at OU." said Don Green. Conger Gates distinguished himself as a professor of engineering and chairman. "When we selected him, he still had some un-
At the University of Oklahoma, Locke was the director of the School of Chemical Engineering and the College of Medicine in the College of Engineering.
"I didn't know / for sure if I wanted to be dean," Locke said. "I didn't even know if I wanted to come to KU. But I was impressed with the faculty and the students, even with the city of Lawrence.
"I hope to be here the rest of my working life," Looke said, "but in a job like this, you never know how long or what opportunities will come up."
"Ten months ago I would have been stunned if someone told me I'd
be dean in Lawrence."
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Locke is from Fort Worth, Texas. He earned all of his degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1958, his master's degree in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1972.
Locke began his teaching career at the University of Oklahoma in 1973. For the past six years, he has worked as director of chemical engineering
Locke said that last August, some KU engineering faculty members asked him to apply for the open position of professor, and he was reviewed in November, he was selected.
During his first few months here, Locke worked at OU with graduate students and finished other projects there.
"I didn't pick KU. They in a sense picked me," he said "Deaneil Tacha (then the vice chancellor of
academic affairs) convinced me to come here half-time, so I went back and forth."
"I feel great," Green said. "I've known him a long time. I was on an advisory board at OU, and I was familiar with his work there."
Selecting a new dean from more than 50 applicants took about 15 months. Green said.
He has known Locke since 1962, when both he worked for the Continental Oil Co. in Ponca City, Okla.
Although Lawrence hasn't always been on his agenda, Locke said, after
being here and meeting the people he was satisfied.
"I've been very pleased with what I've seen," he said. "I've been impressed with the faculty and their accomplishments. I'm impressed with their attitudes and approaches to things."
"My plans are to try to lead the school by deciding with the faculty what our goals are going to be," he says, "and then they decide where we want to go."
Although Locke didn't have any major changes planned for the school, he said, he would try to find ways to make goals he and the faculty had in mind.
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