University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 23, 1988
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Preparation for advising should save hassles
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Enrollment advising starts next week, and students need to be prepared to make the most of their advising appointments, officials in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said.
Edwyna Gilbert, associate dean of liberal arts, listed three things that students should do to prepare for their advising appointments.
Students in liberal arts and sciences should pay close attention to the letter they should have received in the mail, she said. It has information about appointment times for
advising and basic requirements they still need to fulfill.
Gilbert said students should also make an advising appointment as early as possible and should have an idea of what they want to take.
"The student who gets things together this week will be way ahead of anyone else," she said.
Gilbert said that advising appointment sheets were posted already and that students who waited to sign up might not get appointments.
Students should also write down questions to take into their advising meetings to let
advisers know what concerns students have, she said.
Students who do not have advisers or who need information about the enrollment process should contact their department or school.
Enrollment-card pickup for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be today and tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Advising for students in the college begins Monday and runs through April 8. Those students can get a dean's stamp in the Strong Hall rotunda during the same period.
The advising support center will hold advising workshops in the residence halls
through Friday for freshmen and sophomores in liberal arts.
Seniors in liberal arts should schedule a graduation check in 108 Strong Hall to certify that they have met their department's major requirements.
Students in other schools should check with those schools for specific advising procedures. In some schools, such as the School of Business, meeting with an adviser is not required.
Sue Schumock, secretary in the advising support center, said that some departments insisted that students have some idea of the classes they want to take.
"It always helps the adviser if the student has some ideas," she said. "Advisers can fill in the blank spots."
Schumock distinguished between enrollment advising and academic advising.
then advising enrollment advising involves deciding what courses are needed and having the adviser sign the enrollment card, she said.
Schumock said that academic advising was what advisers didn't have time for in the two-week pre-enrollment period because everything was too rushed. During academic advising, students would talk with faculty members who knew the students well enough to be familiar with their career plans.
Historic buildings focus of ordinance
By Christine Martin Kansan staff writer
The Historic Preservation Task Force has completed a preliminary draft of an ordinance that would protect 22 registered historic buildings in Lawrence from demolition or from being significantly altered.
Ronald Schneider, chairman of the task force, said the committee would hold a public hearing at City Hall on March 31 to get comments and suggestions from Lawrence residents.
The task force will hold as many hearings as necessary before the ordinance goes before the Lawrence City Commission for final approval, Schneider said. The number of hearings will depend on the commission. The commission probably will go before the commission 30 days after the last public hearing.
Schneider said buildings registered as historic landmarks on the Lawrence Register, the National Register of Historic Places or the Kansas State Register would be protected under the ordinance.
But being on the national or state register doesn't mean that a property is protected from demolition or alteration. Schneider said.
The ordinance would require that an application be made to the city if an owner of a historic property requested demolition or significant alterations to the property. If the
owner demolished or altered the property without a permit, he could be issued a citation and possibly fined.
"I think it would benefit everyone I'm the community of Lawrence economically, socially and historically," Schneider said. "I'm pretty proud of it."
Schneider said that a public hearing would allow the task force to hear opposing and supporting sides. He said that some people were opposed to the ordinance because they thought it was an infringement on the rights of property owners.
Barbara Anderson, a preservation architect from the Historic Preservation Department of the Kansas Historical Society, said that buildings designated in the ordinance included houses in the Old West Lawrence Historic District, in the 600 to 800 blocks of Tennessee and Indiana streets. The Douglas County Courthouse, the Eldridge Hotel and buildings at Haskell Indian Junior College, which are all nationally registered landmarks, also would be included.
On campus, Dyche Hall and Spooner Hall would be included under the ordinance. Both are nationally registered landmarks. The Chi Omega sorority house, a state-registered landmark, also would be included.
Dental advice offered
Watkins helps out with professionals
Kansan staff writer
By James Buckman
Dental advice, for the first time, is available at Watkins Hospital.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said that dentists would examine students' teeth and advise them on whether they needed dental work. But he said that the new program did not include actual dental repairs.
"This is a unique service in the form of advice from a specialist," he said. "It does not mean the student will receive definitive health care. We can't do X-rays, fillings or surgery."
The new service is included in student health fees and does not cost any additional money. Yockey said the program would help students who weren't sure whether they needed to see a dentist and were afraid of the cost of a dental checkup.
James Otten, one of four Lawrence dentists who have donated their time for the consultations, said the service would help students decide whether they should have their teeth worked on.
"If one has a particular problem or concern with oral health, then we will see the student to determine whether or not they should seek care in the private sector," he said. "It is purely diagnostic."
The service is offered one half day each week, with each dentist working once every four weeks on different days.
Otten said he donated his time partly because he was interested in the special dental needs that students have. He said students had more wisdom-tooth problems and tended to have a higher-than-normal tooth decay rate because they often neglected their teeth when they came to college.
"We wanted to provide an avenue for the patient who normally would not otherwise seek dental care," he said. "We want to be preventatively oriented so that students are aware they should be seeking regular care to ward off more potentially serious problems."
The service could help those who seldom see a dentist, Otten said.
Yockey said the program had been inexpensive to initiate at Watkins because both the dental chair and the examination light were donated. In addition, each dentist brings his own tools on the day he works.
After 24 years, Gerken still spends long hours caring for KU's carillon
By Jill M. John
Special to the Kansan
Dong . . . dong . . . dong. Three long, strong gongs interrupt the caretaker in mid-sentence. He yields, knowing that he'll never be heard over the deep bass of the seven-ton bell hanging directly overhead.
Albert Gerken, professor of music, is accustomed to the powerful ringing of the carillon. He has been responsible for playing and caring for the bells of the Campanile since he came to the University of Kansas in 1963.
"This is a part-time position, although it really should be a full-time one," Gerken said. "I spend every morning and afternoons here."
Gerken's time at the 100-foot war memorial is divided between practicing from one to four hours each day, transcribing music for the
instrument and doing general upkeep, like lubricating the playing mechanism.
Gerken sits on a wooden bench facing the carillon in a small enclosed room beneath the bells. The room is warm; its floor is covered by rose-colored carpeting. A small radiator sits along the far wall beneath a plain black and white clock. Its ticking is clearly audible when the bells are silent.
The clock is important because it is part of the automatic timing system that controls the hourly, quarter hourly and half hourly chimes that can be heard across campus.
In the middle of the small room stands the carillon, Gerken's instrument. It is one of only 180 carillons in the United States.
Long wooden parts give it a loom-like appearance. The 53 keys are wooden handles that are about six inches in length and spaced three
inches apart. The instrument is played by firmly striking the tops of the wooden keys with a clenched fist.
Connected to the keys are wires that extend up through the ceiling of the playing room to the bells. The wires activate the clappers, which move from an inch to an inch and a half to ring the bells. The bells remain stationary, Gerken said.
A row of foot pedals extends from the bottom of the instrument, much like the pedals of an organ. Gerken demonstrated that only one key could be played at a time because the keys were spaced so far apart. The pedals, which represent the same 53 notes, are needed to play chords.
Years of use have left the carillon in a state of direpair.
"The carillon was built in 1951; and unfortunately, the upkeep hasn't kept up with the wear and tear of those 37 years," he said.
"It it needs a $300,000 overhaul," he said. "The responsibility has been laid in the hands of the Endowment Association. They haven't done anything, but I think it's because they're looking for one donor instead of gathering nickels and dimes here and there."
Insulation, the playing mechanism and the bolts that hold the bells in place all need to be replaced, Gerken said. Rust on the frame holding the bells is a problem. Also, some moving parts and critical joints have never been cleaned.
As a professor of music theory, Gerken also teaches a class called Carillon, and his students eventually play the carillon themselves.
Ruth Jacobson/KANSAN
Gerken gives 45-minute recitals on Sundays at 3 p.m. and on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. when weather permits. The public is welcome, and tours of the tower are given at those times
A few of the larger bells in the Campanile bell tower.
Ruth Jacobson/KANSAN
Albert Gerken, professor of music, transcribes music to be played on the carillon.
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