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Friday, January 16, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Board to OK renovation of Snow Hall
By a Kansan reporter
The state Board of Regents is expected to approve final plans for the first phase of the renovation of Snow Hall at a meeting today in Topeka.
The first part of the project will cost more than $1 million and should be completed in 20 months, said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning. The northeast wing of Snow Hall will be renovated to accommodate the computer science and mathematics departments.
"As a laboratory building, it doesn't fit the needs of computers and mathematics," he said.
The second part of the project is scheduled to be completed by the summer of 1990. The projects will need about $7.2 million. Wiechert
The Regents also will consider a name for the Moore Hall addition on West Campus. Moore, which was completed in 1983, is the home of the Kansas Geological Survey.
Rex Buchanan, assistant director of public affairs for the geological survey, said that now was an appropriate time to name the addition, but he would not comment on what the name would be.
The Regents will discuss Gov. Mike Hayden's new budget proposals. The Regents also will consider allowing the University to sell computer services to Schools of Banking Inc., a banking organization.
Scrub-a-dub-dub
Jim Simon, Deerfield, Ill., freshman, scrubs a brass awning at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St. The members cleaned the house Wednesday afternoon.
Fee payment proposal hits snag
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
A plan that would enable KU students to pay their tuition, residence hall rents, parking fees and most other school expenses with one check through the mail has fallen behind schedule.
The plan, under way since March 1985, was originally to have been completed by spring 1989, said Gary Thompson, the director of student records and registration. But he said it would probably take longer because of the amount of work involved, the budget cutbacks the University now is facing and the need to fully test the system before starting it.
"Before you start using it (the new system), you have to be absolutely sure that everything is working correctly, because you can't have a
glitch when 20,000 students are waiting to pick up their schedules," Thompson said.
Thompson would not estimate how much later than 1889 it would be before the system was in use but said he hoped it wouldn't be more than a year.
Under the planned system, a statement that would include all of a student's expenses and financial aid for the fall semester would be mailed to the student in July. Spring semester fees would be sent out in December.
The fee payment system now used at KU was designed in 1955 and is in great need of upgrading. Thompson said.
Students whose fees exceed their financial aid would have until Aug. 1 to send in the remainder of that statement to save their enrollments. For the spring semester, the deadline
would be Jan. 1.
If a student's financial aid were more than tuition, the student's fees would be paid automatically. The student would then pick up the remainder of the aid at registration.
Another feature of the system would be a waiting list for selected required courses that had been closed, Thompson said.
A student could sign up on the list during enrollment, and if spaces were created by people failing to mail in their checks on time, the student automatically would be enrolled in the course.
Thompson said that after studying fee payment systems at other universities, the University had decided to have all the necessary computer programs written by personnel at the KU office of information systems.
Staff writer
Liberty combines movie, dance
The owners of the recently renovated Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., are offering an opportunity to dance and enjoy a concert atmosphere this weekend at two showings of the movie "Stop Making Sense."
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
"It is the kind of movie where you can't sit still," said Tim Griffith, one of the staff's managers. "People are always tapping their heels and moving around, so we came up with the idea that people could dance to it."
Gary Mackender, the hall's programs and promotion coordinator, said people could sit in the hall's balcony or go down to the main floor and dance during the film, a concert movie by the rock group Talking Heads.
Mackender said the movie would start at midnight today and Saturday. Doors will open at 11:30 p.m., and admission is $3. Smoking and alcoholic beverages will be prohibited during the film.
Griffith said the movie was shown at the theater on Halloween and was back by popular demand.
"We had around 200 people show up each of the two nights and about 70 percent of them were on the dance floor," he said. "But we had some problems with kids trying to sneak in drugs and booze."
A film series is one of the hall's new events since its reopening last October.
Next weekend, Liberty Hall will open its new film series with "Polyester," a film in "Odorama," which gives audiences a chance to
scratch and sniff pieces of cardboard during the film. The film's slogan is "smelling is believing."
Since its renovation, Liberty Hall has opened a store renting VCRs and movies and a Capital Automated Ticket Service (CATS) outlet, a computerized ticket distribution store. Mackenard said the CATS service allowed ticket buyers to choose seats from a floor plan diagram displayed on a computer screen.
"Once they start scratching, it all gets pretty crazy," the Mackender said.
Along with a film series, the hall is offering concerts and will offer dinner shows starting in March. The hall also may be rented for private parties, weddings and catered dinners, Mackender said.
Art materials stolen from Art & Design
By a Kansan reporter
Students have lockers, but large projects won't always fit in them. Blackhurst said. Students may take their projects home if they are afraid the projects might be stolen.
"The classrooms are open when the building is open so people can come in and paint," he said. "We need security, 'That's all we can offer.'"
Charles Munson, a Leawood senior in the school of fine arts, said that some projects were too big to take home and that many students spent the night in the building working on their projects.
The art piece, a 51- by 36-inch Plexiglas painting, was valued at $200, and the chair was valued at $150. Also taken was a $12 cable lock.
Phillip Blackhurst, art department chairman, was not aware of the thefts when contacted yesterday. But he said the art department couldn't guarantee that art projects wouldn't be stolen if left in classrooms.
hall-to-hall transfers may do so three weeks into the semester. McElhenie said most of these students were accommodated under normal circumstances.
McElhennie said that only a few students who had requested a hall-to-hall transfer last semester had not been moved.
"It depends on space available," he said.
Residence hall overcrowding not a problem this semester
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
The fall semester's overcrowded residence halls have become a thing of the past this term, as students forced into temporary housing have been given the chance to move into regular rooms.
Shari Klippenstein, residence hall director at Ellsworth Hall, said Ellsworth was full but not overfull.
Staff writer
He said he didn't know the exact number of hall-to-hall or transfers within halls that were made at the semester break but that they were minimal this year compared to previous years.
Fred McElhene, director of the office of residential programs, said vacancies in residence halls this semester had occurred for several reasons, "which were fermenting during the fall."
"That's really sad."
Students who left the University for personal reasons, such as unsatisfactory grades, those who ran out of money, those who chose to live in apartments, and students who joined fraternities or sororites all are responsible for the openings.
"Some of these factors are intertwined," McElhennie said, referring to students whose bad grades disqualified them for financial aid.
Students who were forced into temporary housing have all been moved to regular rooms, he said. The temporary housing ranged from storage closets to renovated conference rooms.
"Those people were given the option to move by early November," he said.
McEllenie said he had noticed an interesting phenomenon during the past seven or eight years that resulted in more crowded residence halls during spring semesters than during fall semesters. Dwindling funds in years of heavy inflation prompted some students to move into the residence halls at the second semester.
"Some find the inflationary pressure too great to keep an apartment," he said, although this has not occurred this year.
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K.C. mayor still awaiting heart donor Reardon planning for next campaign
The office of residential programs offers a roommate listing service for students in documents whose roommates have graduated or left school for other reasons.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY — Mayor Jack Reardon said yesterday that he was keeping up with main issues in Kansas City, Kan., while awaiting a heart transplant at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Reardon, 43, remained in critical condition at the medical center yesterday, a week after his most recent hospitalization.
In a conversation with Mary Harrison, the hospital's public relations director, and Mark Morelli, a hospital spokesman, Reardon described the anxiety of waiting. "It's boring in the hospital," he said, "but there is nothing any human being can do about that."
Reardon, who suffers from a weakening of the heart muscles, said he still planned to seek a fourth term as mayor this year.
"I think it is like any other campaign. You come out with a game plan. During the course of a campaign, the game plan changes. It radically changes how I will conduct the campaign. So we have plans, not that I care to share them with any of my opponents." he said.
Steve Gollub, a cardiologist who has been treating Reardon, said yesterday that the mayor's progress would be monitored on a day-to-day basis. He said Reardon could become stable enough at some point to wait at home for his new heart.
Reardon, a Democrat, was his party's unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1984 against Republican Jan Meyers, who is serving her second term.
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