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Thursday, February 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Chris MndrowKANSAN
Facilities Operations workers Kelvin Helmert, left, and Allen Schwartz replace water-damaged ceiling tiles in the office of student records, 112 Strong Hall. The tiles were damaged yesterday by a water leak from a stopped-up sink on the second floor.
Strong Hall leak soaks room tiles
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
The sky was falling Tuesday night in the office of students records. 112 Strong Hall.
Twenty-eight ceiling panels caved in from the weight of an overflowing second-floor sink. Water seeped through the ceiling throughout the night, until the mess was found yesterday morning. But no records were damaged by the water.
By 2 p.m., all the panels were replaced and desks were returned. The only reminder of the flooding was ceiling pulp that had sloshed on the file cabinets and desks, and reports set out to dry.
Water was vacuumed and barrels of saturated ceiling were removed by noon, said Don Tribble, who discovered the flooding Tribble, who works for Data Center Systems, said he was surprised to find the soggy ceiling lying in a quarter of an inch of water.
Bob Porter, associate director of the physical plant facilities operations, said water would continue to seep through the ceiling for a few
days, although they are using powerful vacuums to suck the water out.
"I would imagine they'll have some soggy carpet for a day or two." Porter said.
Electrical repairs were still under way. Porter said.
"It tripped breakers in electrical panels, but in terms of permanent damage, we don't believe there will be any," he said.
B. Kay Hamm works as a clerk in the office of research support and grants administration, home of the leaky sink. She said she was certain nothing was on when she left the office at 5 p.m. Tuesday. She said no one knew who turned on the water and oluged the sink
“It’s hard to believe that it could have been an accident. I can’t be sure that somebody did it maliciously, but somebody had to turn it on and put the plug in,” Hamm said.
Porter said he wouldn't know the extent of damages for a few days but the cost would include pay for workers and installation of the new tiles.
Trio devoted to early jazz styles
Blues, ragtime and swing to be featured at Liberty Hall
By CAROLINE REDDICK Staff writer
Staff writer
The versatile Butch Thompson Trio, of National Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion," will perform at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Liberty Hall.
Blues, ragtime, swing, New Orleans jazz and stride piano are some of the styles that will be played. The program is sponsored by KANU, but the show will not be broadcast live.
General admission tickets are still available for the show for $9 and $7, and may be purchased at the Liberty Hall box office. 642 Massachusetts St
Butch Thompson became known as a pianist on Garrison Keiller's popular national broadcast. He also did the voices of talking cats, tour bus driver Bud Turner and spokesman in some mystical businesses on the show.
The Trio performed as the house
Thompson said yesterday that he had not done a new show since August because of a busy touring schedule.
band. The Trio now consists of Thompson on piano, Bill Evans on bass and Hal Smith on drums.
"I really enjoy touring because it's fun to play for different audiences." Thompson said. "My favorite person to play for isn't necessarily a jazz fan or devoted to one kind of music. I'd rather play for someone who doesn't have any particular musical ax to grind."
Thompson said he didn't have set programs for his shows.
"We kind of wing it," he said. "We usually decide what the first song will be before we on stage, but what we play then depends on how the audience is reacting. We have a collection of 350 pieces of music to draw from."
The group performs works by
musicians such as Scott Joplin, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Earl "Fat" Hines, Hines Yancy, Eubie Blake, Johnson and "Jelly Roll" Morton.
Thomson also writes some of his own material.
Thompson said his group was not grave digging or presenting antique items.
Alan Berman, KANU development director, said, "There are very few individuals around today who are accurately keeping the ragtime and early jazz styles alive. Although most people know Butch Thompson from the radio show, he's a scholar and virtuoso practitioner of those early jazz styles."
"It's current music, not dead, if anyone enjoys it," he said. "A lot of people hear the word 'ragtime' and expect guys in funny clothes and sleeve garters. What we do is not commercialized honky-tonny."
Berman said that Thompson was taking a leave of absence from the show but would still appear periodically.
"I came out on the stage during broadcast to play a piano solo and found that the piano lid was locked. Garrison gave me a big build-up and asked what I was going to play. 'Nothing,' said, 'the piano locked.'
Thompson recounted an episode from a 1976 broadcast, before the show had become a national phenomenon.
"It got a big laugh from the audience and was probably better than what we had planned on doing.
"That's part of the fascination of a live show. The audience is always wondering. 'Are they going to make it?'
"I've gotten a lot out of the show besides the PR value," Thompson said.
Prof says Kansas needs technology
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
Kansas needs high-paying jobs, innovative businesses and universities on the vanguard of technology to help move the state. Plans to tell state legislators today
Charles Krider, research associate for the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, will discuss a national report that says states should seek high-technology businesses.
Smokestacks on Kansas' horizon
could cloud the state's future. Krider said yesterday, but education could burn through the haze.
"Universities have a very impor-
tance in role in economic development," he sai-
The report is by The Ameritrust and the Stanford Research Institute. Krider will talk to the Senate Ecology Committee about the report.
"This is a national ranking of the state's capacity for economic growth," he said.
State Sen Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, and chairman of the economic development committee, said, "I think it will act as a grade card on how we have been done."
States' economic development hinges on three critical factors, the report says. States need:
- access to high technology. States must have research centers for science and technology and practical ways to incorporate this research into businesses.
education of workers is necessary to be competitive, and companies should help train and retrain workers.
- money available for new business endeavors. States' economic development may depend on whether lenders are willing to risk money on investments or on other investments. State tax incentives for new businesses also may be important.
skilled, flexible labor. Advanced
Protest of salary cut draws angry reaction
United Press International
TOPEKA — A Board of Regents protest of a proposed salary cut for state employees sparked an angry response yesterday from a Senate committee chairman.
Regents Executive Director Stanley Koplik, who represented the board before the Senate Ways and Means Committee, protested a bill that would reduce by 3.8 percent the salaries of all state officials and employees making more than $50,000 a year.
The bill, which would be effective only until June 30, would affect an estimated 1,800 people and would save an estimated $25,000 for the state general fund. It also would cut the salaries of officials paid from other sources, such as fee funds and the highway fund, even though the $259,000 that would be saved would have no impact on the general fund.
Hayden's lapse legislation that required the state's judges to take a 3.8 percent salary cut so that the judicial branch spending cuts would come closer to the 3.8 percent Hayden had required.
On behalf of the Board of Regents, Koplik protested the proposal. He said the institutions under the Regents already had complied with Hayden's request for 3.8 percent in spending cuts.
The main sponsor of the bill, Sen Robert Frey, R-Liberal, said he proposed it in response to Gov. Mike
He also said the institutions had submitted to a House amendment to the lapse bill requiring Regents central office employees making more than $50,000, including Koplik, to take a 3.8 percent cut.
"Passage of Senate Bill 82 would provide a substantial boost toward the collective organization of faculty at the Regents campuses." Konikli said.
"If this is a desired outcome or deemed to be in the best public policy interests of the state of Kansas, then we should move the vehicle to drive us to that end."
College and kids not child's play
Staff writer
By KJERSTI MOEN
Carol Rutledge, Overland Park junior, is expecting a baby in May. She will be raising the child alone while going to school full time and working part time.
"You can do all of these things," Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said at a single parent workshop last night. Three women attended a workshop in the Kansas Union.
"It's a matter of saying, 'I will do certain things, but I not going to feel guilty about it.'" *Ballard* stop you from doing anything.
Getting good child care is essential for single parents, she said. "You really have to be willing to pay your money on child care." she said.
She advised single parents to
arrange for child care early and to sign up at many different child care centers because of the long waiting lists.
"Be creative. Read classified ads in the papers, and write your own ads," she said.
Juggling school, work and child-rearing is possible. Ballard said, only if the single parent can make out of time and make sacrifices.
"First you have to get your priorities straight. Your social life may have to suffer a little bit," she said.
Ballard said she had been alone with her 6-year-old son while working toward a doctorate degree and maintaining a job.
When her son was younger, she studied as he played beside her. She used a kitchen timer to separate the time he could not disturb her from the time she would play with him, she said.
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