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Friday, April 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Aging smokestack to come down in fall
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
KU will lose a longtime landmark next semester when its 257-foot concrete smokestack is torn down.
The smokestack, which facilities operations officials say is aging and
obsolete, probably will be torn down in September, said James Modig, director of construction administration.
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the stack had gradually deteriorated since its
installation in the early 1920s. It may become dangerous if it doesn't come down soon, Anderson said.
"It is falling down. It's of no value," he said.
Facilities planning originally scheduled the demolition for this spring.
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Members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, 1621 Edgehill Road, load 15 tons of sand into bags. The members were working yesterday to prepare for their formal party April 25. The sand will be used to make decorative ponds at the party.
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Before they can begin, two smaller steel stacks will be constructed to replace the old stack.
Modig said that tearing down the stack would cost $87,450.
Facilities operations had to insure that demolition of the stack would not ruin the building.
Workers collected samples of the mortar for asbestos testing at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment laboratories, Anderson said.
Howard Saiger, environmental engineer at KDHE said yesterday that the two samples of the smoketack's mortar had shown no asbestos.
However, the dust poses a problem, he said. To avoid dust clouds from spreading when the stack is destroyed, workers will hose the stack with water. They will hammer the bricks from the top into the stack's inside one piece at a time. No explosives will be used, he said.
The smokestack originally let it out smoke from burning coal. It was built high enough to prevent the coal dust from being a hazard.
When the University switched to natural gas and oil as heating sources in 1952, the two boilers connected to the smokestack were converted to handle oil and natural gas. There was a need for steam boilers occasionally have been used since then as a back-up to the plant's two main boilers, Anderson said.
He said the project was part of an upgrading of the University's power plant. Since December 1986, facilities operations has spent about $300,000 making the plant more modern and efficient.
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Tim Folds, pastor of Faith Southern Baptist Church, 1000 New York St., said yesterday afternoon that homosexuality was not a normal way of life. He said it was something people chose to do.
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"I believe homosexuality is a sin and that God wants them to repent." Folds said. "That doesn't mean that I don't love them. They're still human."
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Bremer said that because God created some homosexually oriented people, churches should nurture, be compassionate and help gay people express their love in responsible ways.
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Chris Hrabe, treasurer of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said he didn't think the Bible could be used to condemn homosexuality because it contained many ambiguous statements.
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Bremer said all sexual orientations were gifts from God and should be valued.
"Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice or subject to change," he said. "If it's not genetic, then orientation happens early in life."
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