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Wednesday, June 22, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
New Regents Center planned
KU administrators estimate new building will cost $5 million
By Michael Shunk
Kansan staff writer
For the students and faculty who have been putting up with the crowded, outdated Regents Center, relief is in sight. University of Kansas administrators are looking for land on which to build a new, improved center.
The estimated cost for the project is $5 million.
The proposal is mostly a response to the need for more space at the center, said Mary Gersh, assistant vice chancellor of the Regents Center. The new center will be able to accommodate the expanding needs of the graduate students, who compose most of the enrollment, and upper-level undergraduates.
The Regents Center, which is in an old elementary school building in Overland Park, provides classes for about 1.500 students during the fall
and spring semesters and about 900 in the summer, Gersh said. These numbers have remained stable in recent years because of insufficient classroom space.
Gersh said that when the new building opened, she would expect enrollment to increase by about one-third.
In addition to increased space, the building will be able to accommodate advanced telecommunications equipment.
The project also will enable the Regents Center and the Kansas City branch of the Division of Continuing Education, which are now several blocks apart, to be consolidated into one building.
"In the past few years, the financial condition of the state of Kansas has been dire, and if the whole state is in trouble, that is reflected in the funding provided to academic institutions." Gersh said
"However, recently there has been a recognition that, to keep the talented young people in the state, we must donate to our financial institutions. Programs such as the Margin of Excellence are good, not only for the educational institutions involved, but also for the whole state."
The money for the new Regents Center will be gathered from a combination of private and state funding, she said.
Ed Meyen, dean of education, said that the new center would be a benefit to everyone involved.
Meyen said the improved design of the building would enable it to accommodate advanced teaching methods as well as advanced technology.
"It will make teaching more exciting and learning more effective," he said.
Appeal likely on Wolf Creek ruling
The Associated Press
A member of a Lawrence anti-nuclear group said yesterday he probably would appeal a Shawnee County District judge's order that confidential files about problems at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant be returned to Kansas Gas and Electric and their contents be kept secret.
"The public has a right to see those files," said Bob Eye, lawyer for the president of the Nuclear Awareness Network.
Judge James M. Macish Jr. also granted a permanent restraining order preventing the NAN from disseminating the information in the Quality First files in its possession.
K&GE began the Quality First program in March 1984 as a way for workers to report confidentially any concerns they had about the plant's construction.
er's possession. Some of the contents of those files were revealed in the Capital-Journal on April 3.
"We held on to them for a reasonable amount of time and gave (KG&E) an opportunity to respond, then we disposed of them in a responsible manner," said Mike Ryan, the Capital-Journal reporter who wrote the story about the files.
Copies of other Quality First files mailed to the Topeka Campus Journal are no longer in that newspap-
The restraining order issued by Macnish is not binding on the Capital Journal, Ryan said.
binding on the capital building KG&E, managing partner in the construction of Wolf Creek near Burlington, sued eve and Stevi Stephens, president of NAN, seeking return of the files.
president. Stephens, a Democratic candidate for the 3rd District state senate seat in the Leavenworth area, apparently obtained the files from plant employees and intended to use their contents to spur investigations into workers' complaints.
Kansan reporter Lisa Sheikh contributed information to this story.
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Bear finds new home in tree as city waits
up there," said Jason La Flamme, who works in Town Hall. "It was resting comfortably."
LITTLETON, N.H. — A young adult bear found itself in an embarrassing spot yesterday morning — treed at a downtown intersection.
Someone on the way to work reported the bear, estimated to weigh about 300 pounds, about 500 feet from Town Hall in this North Country community of about 6,000 residents.
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Police and state Fish and Game Department officials said yesterday afternoon that they were "monitoring the situation" because they couldn't figure out what else to do.
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