University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 17, 1987
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Late night
Left: Jeff Cleveland, St. Louis sophomore, refines his hockey skills nightly on Wescoe beach. Below: Cars and bicycles are always present along Jayhawk Boulevard. A timed exposure records streaks from passing cars lights and a ghost image of a biker riding in front of Lippincott Hall.
... on the hill
When most people go to bed, some go to work. They are the night people who make it through the day.
At 11 p.m. most people put on their pyjamas, Jeff Cleveland, St. Louis sophomore, puts on his hockey skates with roller blades. With a hockey stick and a ball or puck, he rolls along Jayhawk Boulevard sidewalks, practicing his motions ...
Cleveland likes the night because he has lots of free room. And it's cooler, which suits a hockey player well. he savs.
He spends about 45 minutes on each workout.
"This is my study break." he says.
Studying is a night activity for many students. Some stay in Watson Library until midnight, when the lights go out and the janitor locks up the building.
Haley Cohen, Chicago freshman, says at 11:30 p.m. "It's very social during the day. Too much commotion. But it's not bad now."
Midnight is still early for some. In Marvin Hall, students of architecture and urban design droop over their drawing boards and cardboard models until early
morning.
At the Computer Center, people sacrifice sleep for work all night trying to debug a computer program or writing a paper on a word processor.
Also, in the residence halls, some people are studying, not sleeping. Adeeb Radwan, Doha, Qatar senior, stands in the lobby of Hashinger Hall at 21:0 a.m., waiting for the pizza he ordered for his study break. Radwan says he is preparing for an anthropology test and needs food for his body as well as his brain.
"Somebody's got to take these people their pizzas," says Brian Barech, Wichita县人 who works at Pizza Shuttle. 1601. W. 23rd St., it's job. He doesn't mind working a 2 a.m.
As he delivers his second pizza, this one to Templin Hall, the security guard and the desk assistants' faces light up. Some nights the only visitor is the newspaper man at 4 a.m., says the desk assistant, John Hayes, Austin, Texas, junior.
But other nights, more serious things happen. At 1:45 a.m., the Templin security monitor helps a resident who suddenly
A timed exposure taken from Fraser Hall records the intricate patterns of car lights on Jayhawk Boulevard.
became ill get to Watkins Hospital.
At Watkins, two nurses are on duty every night from 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. They take care of minor injuries suffered by students, police or maintenance workers, says Kay Farmer, the clinic nurse who takes care of nightly emergencies.
The floor nurse, Mable Durrant, takes care of the hospital's overnight patients.
"Nights are usually when they're restless," she says. "They like for me to come in and kind of mother them. We're their mothers away from home."
Not all the nightly activities on campus are peaceful or legal. That's why three to five KU police officers patrol campus all night.
At 12:45 a.m., the police dispatcher calls patrol cars to Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall. A fire alarm has gone off. Hasinger to stop a fight in a parking lot.
Officer Steve Hoyt, who supervises the night shift, patrols main campus streets and parking lots looking for anything unusual or suspicious.
He likes the night shift, but not because
he has less work to do
"There's a real diversity in the things that go on. On the midnight shift you see anything and everything," he says.
"It's a much faster, harder pace. You re-
quire and heavily until three or four in the morgue."
From his patrol car radio, messages
from auto accidents and soft music overlaid.
Sometimes the music comes from KJHK-FM 91, the University's radio station. Disc jockeys play records there all night long.
Jocelyn Kitchen, Manhattan senior,
works Monday nights from 11:30 a.m. to
3 a.m. she has lots of listeners, she says,
and many of them phones she receives
more than 30 phone calls.
Other nights, especially during summer vacation, she gets no responses.
"Sometimes you think, 'I'm playing for your space.'" she says
Sometimes you think, I'm playing empty space," she says.
During the semester, campus at night is not an empty space. It's full of people like Kitchen, involved in working, studying or working out while others sleep.
Templin Hall employee Todd Mason, Wichita freshman,
comforts an ill resident while employees Doug Neiger,
center, St. Louis senior and Laird MacGregor, Medicine
Lodge junior assist.
Many students, including those in Stauffer-Flint Hall, often work on campus into the early morning hours.
Photos by Darcy Chang, Diane Dultmeier and Danny Ray
Story by Kjersti Moen