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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 24, 1986
Campus/Area
Campus hooks up new phone system
By Peggy Kramer
Staff writer
Southwestern Bell is helping the University of Kansas plan for the future.
Today Southwestern Bell will begin rewiring the phone system in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. The new wiring will eventually allow students to transmit voice and computer data simultaneously through the phone line.
"This will be the way of studying in the future," said Dick Mann, University director of institutional research, information systems and personnel service.
Dewey Allaire, director of KU telecommunications, said rewiring KU residence halls was only part of Southwestern Bell's initial project.
The project began when the phone company rewired the state capitol complex about two weeks ago, Alaire said. The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Fort Hays State University also are in the project.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said, "This is a project whose time has come."
When the new University-wide line installation is complete, the lines will be computer accessible, he said. Hall residents still will have the same phones, just different lines.
Allaire is KU's primary contact
The new system will have access to KU's main computer frame, but it hasn't been determined exactly what method will be used, he said.
with Southwestern Bell and is assisted by facilities operations planning and maintenance.
Allaire said the current wiring was being replaced because it was becoming costly to maintain, some equipment was harder to get and it wasn't as flexible as the new system.
Mann said, "KU is in an archaic phone system and no longer economical."
The new system is a support for new technology. It is an investment many universities are making, he said.
Allaire said Southwestern Bell would be paid $2.4 million for the rewiring and approximately $600,000 for the equipment. The contract is for the main campus, but doesn't include Sunflower Housing, Stouffer Place, Jayhawker Towers or some buildings on West Campus.
Mann said the residence halls were being done first because they had single line phones and the process would be less disruptive to the students than to offices with multiline phones.
Allaire estimated that one residence hall floor would be rewired a day. Each room would be out of phone service for a maximum of 30 minutes.
A new bill that would place Kansas community colleges under the state Board of Regents wing has evoked mixed emotions from community college presidents, a state senator said yesterday.
By Leslie Hirschbach Staff writer
The 19 community colleges now are controlled by the State Board of Education, and the six state schools and the Kansas Technical Institute, are controlled by the Regents.
At the monthly Regents meeting Friday, members gave the bill their support by a vote of 7-0.2. Norman Brandeberry and Patricia Caruthers abstained from the vote.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, who spoke to the assembly Thursday, said he introduced the bill because he thought placing all of the institutions of higher education under one governing body would make higher education more efficient.
Regents bill gets mixed reaction
Winter said the Regents would perform the same job as the Board of Education. State statutes pertaining to community colleges would contain the words, "Board of Regents," instead of "Board of Education."
Some community college presidents are concerned that Regents control of curriculum will take away some of the schools' flexibility, Winter said.
"The bulk aren't sure yet and think the state will take over authority," he said.
The Regents would be responsible for each college's budget recommendations to the governor and the Legislature and coordination of each college's curriculum, he said.
Many colleges, he said, had a curriculum they didn't want changed and feared the Regents would make changes.
Donald Wilson, president at Pittsburg State University, said he supported the proposal, but some college
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Wilson said the bill wouldn't create any economic advantages for his college, but would force colleges statewide to work together more closely.
Robert Glennen, president at Emory State University, said he supported the proposal because it worked in another state.
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Glennen was vice-president of a community college in Nevada, where the colleges are controlled by one
He also said the comfortable relationship that community colleges had with the Board of Education would have to be developed anew with the Regents.
presidents feared that the Regents would be stricter than the Board of Education.
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Glennen said one system created better curriculum and a better recruiting system.
He said it also would make transferring from a community college to a university much easier.
Arno Knapper, chairman of the University Council, said he wasn't sure how well the proposed system would work.
Keith Nichter, University director of business and fiscal affairs, said he didn't have an opinion about the bill. He said he could see the advantages of having one governing body for higher education.
Winter said he also saw a need for the bill because people were concerned about an overabundance of community colleges in small areas.
In southeast Kansas, he said, there are five schools within 40 miles.
Food service meeting yields results
By a Kansan reporter
Surveys conducted and monitored by Hashinger Hall residents was one recommendation introduced at a meeting last Friday between students and the director of KU food services.
Lenor Ekdahl, the director, said yesterday that the meeting was positive and some of the resident's requests already had been met.
The suggestions were made by residents at the meeting after they complained about the hall cafeteria meals. Some residents peacefully demonstrated Tuesday and Wednesday by not eating the cafeteria meals.
A radio in the dishroom also was installed upon students' request, but there are some guidelines for use, she said.
Liz Walz, Topeka sophomore and Hashinger resident, said a petition with 250 signatures advocating music in the dishroom was presented to Ekdahl and Ken Stoner, director of student housing, Friday.
discussed at the meeting included suggestion boxes in the hall and establishing a food committee to meet regularly with anyone who had concerns or suggestions.
Students requested a wider variety of breakfast cereal, Ekdahl said. The new cereals were available Friday, all except one — Cap'n Crunch.
Eric Young, Columbia, III., junior and Hashinger resident, said the main purpose of the meeting was to get more students' opinions on possible improvements for the cafeteria.
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