Friday, Feb. 28, 1986
University Daily Kansan
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Hearing scheduled on downtown study
Milton Allen Sr., city attorney, said yesterday that he expected a hearing to be scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday regarding the controversy over a study of downtown properties.
City commissioners were served with restraining orders on Tuesday to prevent them from hiring a consultant to do a study to determine whether the "footprint" of the downtown mall was slum and blight.
E. R. Zook, a retired Lawrence businessman, sought the restraining order. He and his attorney, Ernest Riling, would not comment yesterday on the case. Zook did say, however, that he did not own property downtown.
The city could condemn and buy the land needed for a proposed downtown mall if the property was designated slum and blight.
A deputy of the clerk of the Douglas County District Court could not confirm the hearing date late yesterday afternoon.
The order said the city "did illegally organize, structure and create the Urban Renewal Agency." The agency has recommended that the city hire Herrick, Feinstein of Overland Park to conduct the study for $16,000.
Fans to dress in Blue
the KU band has organized a Blues Brothers day for tomorrow's Jayhawk basketball game against Iowa State University.
Ron McCurdy, assistant professor of music-jazz and band instructor, said yesterday that the band was asking all students to dress like the Blues Brothers, a band made famous by comedians John Behsuhi and Dan Aykroyd. The game starts at 3:05 p.m.
ASK officer to resign
An award will be given by the music department to the two students with the best costumes, he said.
The Associated Students of Kansas director of legislative affairs, John Allen, will resign his position tomorrow.
Allen is leaving ASK in order to take the position of executive director for the National Student Roundtable.
The NSR represents more than 6 million college students across the country on issues of higher education.
Allen's duties with the NSR will include the financial management and general operations of the association.
Professor to speak
Ivan Szeleny, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, will speak about the history of the class system at 3:30 p.m. today in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
The speech is titled "Theories of the New Class - A Critique," and will combine a history of the idea of the new class with the idea of knowledge as the basis of domination in Western capitalist societies. Szeleny is the author of "The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power," which studies the class structure of Eastern European countries.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high around 40 and northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear and cold with a low in the low- to mid-20s. Tomorrow will be almost sunny and warmer with a high in the low- to mid-50s.
Artists sing about joys of creation
Tonight, Lawrence's small community theatre will harbor its talent. its treasures and its hopes of showing the community what women can create.
By Monique O'Donnell
From staff and wire reports.
Staff writer
About 10 women artists will read their poems, display artwork, dance and sing in "She Creates." The performance will begin at 8 tonight at the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St. Tickets are $4 at the door.
Aplysia Snyder, Colorado Springs, Colo., graduate student and coordinator of the event, said she hoped the performance would be the first step in bringing women artists in Lawrence together.
During yesterday's rehearsal, Full Circle, a quartet, played some folk songs while other women leafed through poetry they had written. Tunes from the dulcimer, autoharp, viola, mandolin and flute echoed softly in the background. The atmosphere was very warm and soothing, Snyder said as she glanced at the program.
"It's a collage of various works by all the people here," she said.
Lorraine Millbern, an Olathe senior who will read some of her poetry at the performance, said it was a showcase for some of the talent found among women in the area.
"The experience is best described as rejoicing rather than militant feminism," Millbern said. "By no means are we trying to exclude men from attending this."
She said the group didn't want to give the impression that it didn't like men by putting on an all-woman performance. But the main concern was to portray women's feelings about birth, love and economic independence.
Some poetry written and read by Jane Hoskinson of McLouth describes what giving birth is like from a midwife's perspective. Hoskinson said she tried to relate how intelligent women's and babies' bodies were.
Murphy roof repair to resume
By Hiram Williams Special to the Kansan
Almost two years after the scheduled completion of Murphy Hall roof repairs, stacks of building material remain on the roof and in a nearby fenced area.
Stacks of building materials remain on the roof of Murphy Hall more than a year after the retiring project was to be completed. The company contracted to do the work, Vincent Roofing, went bankrupt two years ago.
Fair Roofing Co., a Wichita company hired to repair and retile Murphy's roof, went bankrupt two years ago and left behind the unused materials. Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, said recently.
The project, which should have been completed by Oct. 1984, now is handled locally, Porter said.
Weather permitting, Everly Roofing and Heating Inc., 2200 E. 23rd St., and R.D. Anderson of Topeka should start repairs in early March, said Jim Modig, associate director of facilities planning. The repairs should be completed in early summer.
Vincent Roofing of Topeka retailed the entire roof in October 1983. But company representatives recommended brick and seal repairs to protect the roof, Modig said.
Fair Roofing was hired in May 1984 to do the brick repairs and
partial reroofing. Everything was completed but the stage loft and the cooling tower roof.
After further inspection of the cooling tower roof, facilities operations decided the roof needed to be
replaced. And facilities planning decided the deteriorated steel around the tower had made it dangerous.
The decision was made to replace both and Fair Roofing
received the contract. After replacing the tower and steel, Fair Roofing ceased work without warning.
KU gets more funds from militarv
By Lori Polson
Staff writer
The University of Kansas is just one of many schools receiving increasing amounts of military financing for research projects, according to a recently released report.
The report by the American Friends Service Committee,"Uncle Sam Goes to School",indicates that more than 230 state and private colleges and universities have military-sponsored contracts.
The American Friends Service Committee is a branch of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
The report stated that military spending on academic research projects reached more than $1 billion in 1984.
Carolyn Cross, director of KU's office of research support and grants administration, said yesterday that the University received about $2 million in research funds from U.S. military sources in fiscal year 1985.
"We're not asking for more money," she said. "The government determines how much money they put in certain funds for research.
Although the University has received grants from the military for several years, the amount of research money has increased in the past few years, she said.
then the researcher applies for a grant from that department.
"In the past few years, they have increased the amount of military research money."
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration invested the largest amount in KU research projects during 1985. NASA spent over $1 million on 24 different projects. These projects included some work for the space shuttle program.
The U.S. Army spent about $500,000 on nine research projects, the U.S. Navy spent a little more than $200,000 on two projects, the U.S. Air Force spent about $100,000 on four projects and the U.S. Department of Defense spent almost $200,000 on a single project.
The faculty members who do research determine which fund the grant money comes from, Cross said. If a researcher is interested in an area that the military will finance,
In December, Congress allocated $2 million to the University to conduct neurotoxin research. The money will be funneled through the Army, which will supervise the research on
the Lawrence campus and at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, is working on a research project sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He and Ronald Bass, associate professor of physics and astronomy, received a $60,000 grant for their research, he said.
Armstrong said he could not tell whether the military was increasing the amount of grant money it gave to colleges.
Staff writer
Shankel to switch jobs again
"We work through the research support office," he said. "I really don't have much in the way of direct contact with the people who give the grants. But our contract is new, and that represents an increase."
Bv Lori Polson
On July 1, Del Shankel will once again be a professor of microbiology.
But he always goes back.
He has been the executive vice chancellor. He was once the associate dean and then acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He even sat behind the chancellor's desk in Strong Hall for a year.
Since 1989, Shankel has been the man the University of Kansas seems to turn to when it needs someone to fill in for a while. He now is the acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, replacing Deanell Tacha, who became a judge for the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Shankel's wife, Carol, managing editor of publicity for the Spencer Museum of Art, said it was hard for him to choose between the different jobs he had at the University.
"He always likes whatever he's doing." she said.
Shankel agrees that he has a hard time deciding between administration and teaching.
"Part of my problem is that I enjoy everything," Shankel said. "I've enjoyed everything I've done in the University."
Davis said he enjoyed working with Shankel because of Shankel's enthusiasm for teaching.
In addition to filling in for Tacha, Shankel is teaching an honors course in Western Civilization and a Biology 104 class.
Michael Davis, dean of the School of Law, has taught Western Civilization with Shankel for about 11 years.
And he does a lot.
"Teaching is one of the things he does that he enjoys the very most," Davis said. "There is no question that if he wanted a major administrative position, he could have one.
"But after serving in so many important capacities, he always seems ready to return to the quiet life of teaching and research."
But Shankel's life at the University has been anything but quiet.
During 1980-81, Shankel served as the chancellor of the University after Archie Dykes resigned. He took the job knowing the acting chancellor would not be considered for the permanent position.
"There were times when I wondered if that might not have been a mistake on my part," Shankel said. "But I am happy where I am."
He said he was offered a chancellor's position soon after that at another university, but he turned it down to remain in Kansas.
At the time, Paretsky was chairman of the microbiology department. He had been authorized to look for a new microbiology professor when he attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiologists.
David Paretsky, professor of microbiology, helped bring Shankel to Kansas in 1959.
"I asked around at the convention and met this young man who was just gettin his Ph.D.," he said.
But Paretsky had other motives
Paretsky said he thought teaching came naturally to Shankel.
when he convinced the University to hire Shankel.
"Del is committed intellectually," he said. "He simply is one of those guys who likes teaching students.
"Teaching undergraduates is a visible expression of his commitment to teaching."
Students seem to agree. Shankel is one of five candidates for the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award this year.
Simon Kuo, Lawrence graduate student, works with Shankel in his laboratory and is one of Shankel's former students.
"I think he is an excellent teacher," Kuo said. "He's probably busier than anyone else on campus, but he always makes time for his students."
When he is not teaching or working in Strong Hall, Shankel can probably be found in a research lab.
Terry Burkart/KANSAN
Last spring he was involved in a controversial research project with James Akagi, professor of microbiology.
Del Shankel, acting chancellor for student affairs.
Akagi and Shankel received a grant from Culture Farms, Inc. in January 1985. They did quality control work and research on homegrown cultures bought by the company from consumers.
In fact, in 1980 Shankel resigned from the position of executive vice chancellor, a position he had held since 1974, so he could continue his research work, he said.
The company received a cease-and-desist order issued by the state securities commission. The commission accused the company of operating a "pyramid scheme." The firm was later dissolved.
"We were approached with the idea by a member of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce." Shankel
said. "We talked to a representative of Culture Farms, and it sounded like it would work.
"I still think the idea is an interesting idea."
two one knows what's in the future for Shankel, whether it be administration or teaching. Shankel said he didn't even know.
"I don't have any plans, although I would like to continue my research."
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