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Comp center opens in October,'78
By JANET WARD
Staff Writer
To students who have spent hours waiting in the cramped quarters of Summerfield Hall for their computer programs to be run they are given a window where programs could be drawn picked up later, a large work area and a consultation room with computation center staff members who are available to help problems probably seem too much to ask for.
But this and much more will be available to students when the new University of Kansas computer facilities building, at Illinois Street and Sumside Avenue is completed in 1978, according to John Seitz, director of the computer center.
The $4 million building, scheduled to be completed in October 1978, will be a showcase for computer facilities in the United States, Seitz said.
In addition to areas that cater to students, the building will feature an elaborate security system, an energy conservation system, raised flooring that allows greater flexibility in the design of the building in the staff and machine areas, full handicap access, a retractable roof blind and a large customer viewing window showing the computer system at work.
Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said the computer facilities now
were widely scattered, from Summerfield Hall and its annexes to a warehouse in north Lawrence. Staff members are located in various locations and are regularly shored in Oliver Lake and Allen Field House.
"The new facilities will bring together for the first tune equipment, people and supplies."
Planning for the facilities began in the summer of 1974, Wolfe said. A computer facilities committee comprising members of the computation center staff, administration and faculty was appointed. With members of the archival services department, she drew from academic and commercial computer centers in the United States and Canada.
Seitz said the present facilities were used by the administration, particularly the Office of Information and Fees and the business office, and some public sectors such as the state of Kansas. No private enterprises use KU's system.
However, the new building will offer the greatest improvement in services for the 12,000 students who use it each year, Seitz said.
In addition to the drive-up window and work area, the first floor of the building will house a reference library, which contains the consultation room and video, training materials for the classroom and terminal room, he said. A graphics room will have plotting equipment and graphics
terminals that can draw charts and graphs. There also will be an auditorium with seating for 90 people that can be used for workshops, workshops and special classes.
A warehouse for storage of supplies such as paper, cards and special forms and office materials.
The building will be extremely complex, Seitz said, because of all the security systems, electrical systems and engines. It would be necessary to maintain the computer systems.
'A professor could have years of research on the tapes. If the tapes get damaged, the tapes get destroyed.'
Security for the facilities will be tightly controlled, he said. Although there will be several million dollars worth of computer hardware and software in the artificial area of security in the tap library.
to enter the areas where the machine and tapes are kept, he said, a person must have a specially coded badge that will open the door when inserted.
"It takes only one individual to a lot of damage," she said, "and a price can't print on the page."
Seitz said that if an employee loses his badge, it will be possible to deactivate the single badge. Now, if one badge is lost, all security is lost.
Steve snorts cocaine regularly and likes it. He also spends most of his money on it, and he doesn't mind.
By DAN McGINLEY
'Status drug' offers highs, lows
"I wish I had no way of getting it and never heard about it in songs so I wouldn't have to," he said.
Staff Writer
the former KU student is one of eight million Americans that have tried cocaine at least once, according to a study by the National Institute of Drug Abuse released last week. The study also indicated that people have used cocaine in the past month.
The report said cocaine was considered a "status" drug because of its high cost, limited availability and the fact that it's not physically addictive.
Steve said he could usually find cocaine in Lawrence at a cost of about $500 a gram. He said Lawrence was probably the best place in Kansas to obtain cocaine.
"I've been trying to find some all day," he said, "but I've got a friend I can usually get some from. He does me a favor because he rather sell an ounce or at least a half."
An ounce is usually about $1,800.
Steve said that he usually bought a gram on paydays but that it didn't very long ago.
"It must be worth it to me if I keep doing it."
Steve said that he thought he could stop snorting "coke" if he wasn't always hearing about it. With cocaine's growing popularity, the media began to mention about it or hearers mentioned in songs.
"Two weeks ago I had gone six weeks
He said he usually used cocaine at least once or twice a week.
without it and I was really proud of myself," Steve said.
"I like doing it, but I don't think it's good for me," he said. "I've got friends that do it a lot, and they've burned a hole in their septum."
Cocaine can be very irritating to the user's body. A spokesman for Headquarters, Inc., a crisis center in Lawrence that deals with drug-related ones, said cocaine had the consistency of powdered glass and could irritate tissues inside the nose. Cocaine is usually inhaled by or snorted up the nose or absorbed into the blood from mucous linings.
After long use, the spokesman said, it tended to break down the tissues in the nose. A hole in the septum and a perpetual rumpy nose could result. That and becoming psychologically addicted to cocaine were problems most long-term users face, she said.
"Usually a person like the drug a lot, then it gets too expensive," she said. "The person starts spending all of his money on the drug—it's a financial drain.
"He puts everything into the drug and can't deal with day-to-day relationships. When he spends so much time with cocaine, else has got to go by the wavies.
“It’s a very nice high, a wonderful high,
and it’s very hard to give up.”
She said cocaine usually was diluted with a white and powdery substance, often novocaine or "speed," but even laxatives have been used to dilute it.
"As unless you get it and test it yourself," she said, "there's no way to know what happened."
up physically, but if you're paying $100 a
gram, you want to know what you get.
Cocaine is the principal active ingredient of the cocap plant, a shrub found in the Andean mountains of South America. It was purified and isolated in the 19th century and used for anesthetic purposes in local and anesthetic for eye surgery. It is used more extensively in its illicit form.
According to Jack West, special agent of the KBI in charge of special services, including the nacromets unit, cocaine use is being prosecuted by arrests for possession and sale of cocaine.
'last year we sized more cocaine than all in the other years we've been in business,' she said.
The narcotics unit of the KBI was formed in 1971. West said the KBI made the largest seizure of cocaine in the state's history and was taken into custody, when three pounds were confiscated.
Although he said that although the KBI had no estimate of how much cocaine was entering the state, he said they did know it. He also reported reports received from undercover agents.
The penalty for possession of cocaine in Kansas is up to ten years in the state. The penalty for possession of cocaine in County has a drug counseling program that is administered by Headquarters for those who are found carrying small amounts. Those who are found dealing cocaine face
Steve said he very rarely bought more than a gram, but had on occasion.
"I've been in on deals where we bought a full-source for $50," he said, but it was too much. "It's pretty cheap."
Engraving used to prevent theft
He said that he didn't deal, but that if a friend wanted some cocaine, he usually would.
Staff Writer
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Based on the assumption that preventive measures can discourage thefts, the KU Police department has stepped up its efforts to provide an investment so that it can be readily identified.
According to Jeanne Longaker, detective at the KU Police department, the thieves take anything from purses and billfolds to phones, which as typewriters and camera equipment.
To discourage these theifs, a machine that engraves initials or names is available to those who request it. Longaker said. He has set up an office in campus, the KU Police are now contacting each department and will make either the engraver or someone to do the engraving.
It takes only about eight seconds to come in a room and take an unsecured object and move it.
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Longaker said that she talked to different living groups on campus and other organizations about crime prevention. She tells them how easy they sometimes make it for a theft to their belongings, by allowing doors unlocked and their belons. outs out.
She said that after one of her tails to the KU students from one wing had the tail, the student came out.
She recommended a hardened steel chain and lock. These are very difficult to cut with a knife, and she said they were one, she said. Thieves are unlikely to use these because they are very conspicuous,
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"It only takes about two minutes to do one writer," Longaker said, "and it's quite easy."
The engraving makes it difficult for the burglar to resell the item. This will often discourage those criminals who want to buy the item and those who want it for their own use, she said.
The engraver is small and lightweight, she said. The only problem is that, after a while, it gets hot. The engraver is made available at no cost, the engraver, and many people also engrave personal belongings that they keep on campus.
"Any item that has been marked," she said, "is illegal to buy, unless you know what it is."
"Many people spend $150 for a bicycle," she said, and spend only $2 on a lock."
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Longaker said many bicycles were stolen
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