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University Daily Kansan
Second Section
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Legal service to move soon
By Grant W. Butler
Staff writer
Student Legal Services soon will be able to move into their expanded office space on the first floor of the Burge Union, a Kansas Union official said Monday.
The enlargement of Student Legal Services' offices and the creation of offices for the University Placement Center in the Burge Union is the first stage of a long-term project to renovate the Kansas and Burge unions, James Long, Union director, said.
The increased work space will improve the quality of service of both Student, Legal Services and the University Placement Center, which is now in Carruth-O'Leary Hall, Long said.
Long said the $155,000 renovation of Burge Union was scheduled to be completed by March.
The University Placement Center's new location will be more accessible to students, he said.
Long said the renovation of the Kansas Union, estimated to cost $$
million to $6 million wouldn't begin until early 1987 because of the complexity of the project.
"Anytime you look at a renovation of a facility this old, you run into a lot of challenges because you are proposing unique renovations to the structure," he said. "The Kansas Union is one of the oldest facilities west of the Mississippi, and it's definitely the oldest facility in the Big Eight."
The final budget for the project is subject to the approval of the Board
Many aspects of the Kansas Union renovation still need to be approved, Long said, but the main goal of renovation is to consolidate the organization and activities centers, improve the Union food services and the bookstores, and improve the layout of the Union's administrative offices.
Phil McKnight, associate professor of education and member of the Union Renovation Committee, said the renovation projects would increase the effectiveness of the Union by improving its services and by adding new services. He said the service to the students would be enhanced by renovations such as placing all the bookstores on one level and all the food services on another level.
"As a former student and a faculty member who has been using the Union for years, I see no disadvantages to improvements." McKnight said.
Long said, "We want the Kansas Union to be more convenient, more inviting to the University community, with higher quality services and a more efficient delivery of those services.
Long said another goal of the Union renovation was the improvement of communications systems, safety and utilities.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that he thought the services of both unions would be enhanced by the work that had already been completed and by other planned renovations.
"I'm very excited about the progress," he said. "I'm especially pleased with the increase in the amount of space available for student organizations, both in office and activity space. This space in the past has been minimal."
Ambler said the improvement in the bookstores and in the food services would make the Kansas Union more attractive and useful for people in the community.
Planning for the renovation projects began in 1983 with a survey of students; faculty and staff members who use the unions to define the areas that needed renovation. Of the 2,600 forms sent out, 55 percent were completed and returned.
The survey's findings were presented to the Union Renovation Committee, which was appointed by Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, to study the needs of the Unions.
Members on the committee are Long; Amber; McKnight; Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Unions; James C. Canole, campus director of facilities planning; William Easley, former student body president; and Margaret Palmer, president of Student Union Activities.
KU reactor fuel rods ready to be shipped
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Eighteen fuel rods from the University of Kansas' nuclear reactor still await transportation to a South Carolina reprocessing plant and a Tennessee research plant, but University officials refuse to say when the fuel will be transported.
Robin Eversole, director of university relations, said the fuel would be removed during the first quarter of this semester but the exact date will remain confidential.
Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc., of Columbia, S.C., has been hired to supervise the removal of 16 fuel rods from the reactor and to transport it to the Savannah River Nuclear Power Plant in Savannah Falls, S.C.
The 16 rods going to South Carolina contain irradiated or used fuel, she said. The fuel is being transported in shielded lead shipping cask that are 8 feet tall, 5 feet wide and weight 20,000 tons each. Two trucks will
Eversole said the company would use formal procedures in removing the fuel.
transport the fuel.
Two other rods containing unused fuel are being shipped to a federal research plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Eversole said.
The Department of Energy will transport the fuel as well as supply the cost of shipping, she said. The University will pay Chem-Nuclear to handle the paperwork and develop the plans for the shipping.
The fuel, which belongs to the U.S. government, has been on loan to the University since 1961, and was used in research and training by the engineering and basic research labs as well as the radiation biophysics program.
The reactor has not been in use for the past year. Training of these students and the demand for the reactor has declined enough to justify the removal of the reactor.
"There has been less interest in a radiation biophysics degree." Eversole said. "Also, the department of radiophysics disbanded last year. The fuel has just outlived its use."
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