University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 30, 1987
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Soviet poet to give reading at KU banquet
Oleg Chukhontsev, a poet from the Soviet Union, will read Russian poetry Saturday at the KU Slavic department's annual awards banquet. Chukhontsev is one of the Soviet Union's most talented poets, said Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
The banquet will begin with a Slavic potluck dinner at 5:30 p.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Awards will be given to the most outstanding Slavic students of 1986-47. Slavic entertainment, including music and dance, will be presented.
Tri-service review planned tomorrow
For the first time since 1969, the tri-service review of the three ROTC services will be in Memorial Stadium, at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The review, which recognizes selected cadets from each service and honors graduating seniors, is the culmination of the year’s activism. Victor Goodpasture, Jayhawk Battalion public affairs officer
Goodpasture said that anti-war sentiment prevalent during the late '60s and early '70s caused the war to be canceled for several years.
Lt. Gen. Robert H. Forman,
deputy commander of training for TRADOC; Maj. Gen. Ralph Tcee,
adjudicial general of the Kansas National Guard; and Chancellor Gene A. Budg will attend.
Gradating ROTC seniors will receive their commissions at 11 a.m. May 18 at the Kansas Union.
Study abroad picnic planned for today
The office of study abroad will sponsor a picnic at 5:30 p.m. today at Potter Lake. All foreign exchange students at the University of Kansas, students planning to study abroad and students who have participated in KU's study abroad program are invited to attend.
Campus and Area
Tax returns need security number
Taxpayers need to show a social security number for each dependent age 5 and older on tax returns filed after Dec. 31, 1987 because of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
All students who do not have a number will need to apply for one this year.
Anyone needing a number or replacement for a lost card should contact a social security office to complete the necessary application.
From staff and wire reports.
KU libraries will get $175,000 from fee release
By JENNIFER WYRICK
The University of Kansas libraries will receive $175,000 because of the Kansas legislative conference committee's agreement to a 75 percent fee release, Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced yesterday.
Staff writer
The Legislature took final action yesterday on the release of the fees, which were generated by unexpected enrollment increases in the fall. The conference committee made its recommendation April 17.
“This is a needed and deserved
Buddic said in a prepared statement!”
"The special allotment more than makes up for the budget recrescion that the libraries suffered this academic year."
In November, the library budget was reduced by $166,000. The reduction was a result of the 3.8 percent budget cuts that Gov. Mike Hayden ordered because of declining state revenues.
James Ranz, dean of KU libraries, said his staff worked earlier in the year with departmental faculty representatives, trimming about $300,000 from periodicals acquisitions.
The library budget is divided between periodicals and books, Ranz said, and the reduction made it impossible for the library to purchase books that it normally would have purchased.
Ranz said yesterday that he had
not received official word from the administration about the allocation, but that he thought the money would be used to repair damage to books that was incurred after the budget cut.
"We have not canceled any period-
ity, but failed to buy
thousands of books."
Ron Francisco, chairman of the University Senate Library Committee, said he was glad that the central administration could make the allotment in light of its own budget problems.
"They recognized the importance of the situation and the extent of potential damage to the libraries," Francisco said.
But the allocation isn't enough to cure the libraries' problems he said, because domestic inflation and the rising prices have reduced the libraries' buying power.
acquire cataloging equipment for the collections that will move to the new science library, he said.
Budig said that $150,000 of the libraries' special assistance allocation would be used for acquisitions. The other $25,000 will be used to
Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said in a prepared statement yesterday that the $25,000 allowance or the science library was overdue.
"We are already way behind on cataloging acquisitions to be housed in the science library." Shankel said. "We were scheduled to begin preparing the cataloging system at the beginning of last year.
The $13.9 million science library building is scheduled to be completed in 1990.
New street lights brighten campus
By KJERSTI MOEN Staff writer
Planning becomes a reality
When the lights finally went on,
campus looked brighter than ever.
After more than 10 years of talking and three years of planning, the bulk of 24 new street lights on main campus were switched on for the first time Monday.
Workers have been installing the lights on Jayhawk Boulevard. Naismith Drive and Crescent Drive since March 6, said Don Montgomery, project manager for Huxtable and Associates, 815 E. 12th St.
The lights have been switched on and off since Monday in a testing period. The new and old lights will burn simultaneously for a few weeks until the old ones are taken down, he said.
Four new lights had defective bulbs and won't work for a few days until new bulbs are shipped, he said.
The $100,655 project was financed through the office of facilities planning. Student Senate and the chancellor's office.
David Epstein, who was student body president in 1985 when the Senate allocated its share of the financing, said he thought the new lights were terrific.
Epstein, Prairie Village senior, said the lighting project was important to him because the Senate's long-term efforts to add lighting to campus culled in his term.
The lighting project got under way in 1965, after Ron Helms, professor of architectural engineering, studied the crime rate and lighting on campus. Helm's studies concluded that the campus needed more lighting to improve the safety of motorists and pedestrians.
"They're an excellent design. They have great light. Overall, I'm very happy that the lights are up," he said.
"Things can get done, and I think the lighting shows that," Epstein said. "It's almost like a triumph because of the odds that were against us."
Helms said that he was pleased with the new lights but that he couldn't clearly determine the difference until the old lights were taken down, and the new lights burned alone. He said he had to take pictures of campus in the old and the new light to be able to compare.
Greg Wade, the landscape architect who was responsible for the contracting on the lighting project, said he had not seen the new lights but had received many positive reactions.
"I think it's going to turn out pretty good," he said, adding that some branches needed to be cut from trees to allow the light to distribute better.
"I hope that the lights will be up to the caliber that people expected," Wade said.
Wade was aware that completion of the the lighting project had taken a long time.
"It does take a bit of time to get these things done," he said. "I just hope that once the lights are on, and we get the old ones out, it will be a clear improvement, and that people will see that we've made an effort to upgrade the lighting on campus."
Campus lighting will be further upgraded this summer, Wade said. On May 5, Architectural Services will open bidding on a project that will add lights to the area between Haworth and Summerfield halls.
Also, residence and scholarship halls may receive additional outdoor lighting this summer. he said.
"We've always been trying to upgrade lighting with other projects. That's been an ongoing concern," he said.
Later, lights will be added to areas around Snow Hall, the planned science library and the planned human development center. Wade said.
Darcv Chang/KANSAN
High winds make for rough windsurfing at Clinton Lake. Winds gusted from the southwest up to 30 mph yesterday
Watkins is limited in trauma care
Surf's up
Staff writer
3y JOSEPH REBELLO
Recently, Glenn Hardesty, an employee at University Printing Services learned a painful lesson about where to go for emergency medical care.
Hardesty's left hand was trapped in a printing press he was operating. His index finger was flattened, like a crushed grape, he said.
Hardesty's instinct was to get into his car and drive over to Watkins Hospital. Watkins, he said, was the campus hospital, and that was where he always went for emergency care
This time, all Hardesty got was first aid. His wound was cleaned, his finger X-rayed. Then he was referred to an orthopedist at another hospital.
But the last time Hardesty had a serious wound was 17 years ago, and he found that Watkins had changed considerably since then.
often that people with traumatic injuries actually came to the hospital thinking they could be treated there. But cases such as Hardesty's illustrate a common perception among students and staff that Watkins's emergency capabilities are greater than they really are.
Watkins officials said it wasn't
"What we need to educate the student population about is that if they have a major, catastrophic injury, they ought to go directly to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and not waste any time here," said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins.
Until 1970, the hospital was equipped to deal with most traumatic injuries and was capable of performing surgery, said James Strobi, director of student health services. But since then, it has served primarily as a first aid center.
Yockey said Watkins stopped providing care for serious injuries because of a broken jaw.
unsound to maintain the equipment needed for that purpose.
Yockey said, "The hospital as a whole needs to meet as many needs for as many people as possible."
That realization has caused some KU departments to advise their staff not to use Watkins for serious injuries.
A safety committee for classified A team has recommended that serious cases be taken directly to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said Phillip Rankin, assistant director of personnel services and a member of the committee.
And last month, after Hardesty's accident, John Sayler, director of University Printing Services, told his employees to do the same.
Brian Lawrence, the director of operations, said that the Douglas County Ambulance Service took serious cases to Lawrence Memorial anyway.
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