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By STEPHEN HESSE
Staff Reporter
Some University of Kansas faculty and staff members think some buildings are too old to be used.
Buildings and grounds personnel, who are responsible for the raising or lowering of water supply equipment to maintain an overall building temperature of 68 degrees, Rodger Oreke, director of buildings, Rockefeller University.
For the temperature to be raised or lowered, a letter must be submitted to Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, or Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, he said.
William Blue, associate chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, be said thought no person could do much to change building temperatures.
"There's little that anyone can do," he said. "It's a hassle to get the buildings and grounds people over to Wescoe simply for a temperature change."
Carol Leffler, language translator clerk for the department of Spanish and Portuguese, said she thought different offices' resources needed to be heated differently.
"There is one thermostat controlling four or five offices, and offices with more than three offices."
Leffler said the office door to her
Wesco office was 10 degrees nother than
the room.
The "rooms downstairs are especially cool" she said. The temperature ranges and humidity vary.
"I think they ought to fix the temperature
Thermostats to stay at 68 for research
Campus thermostats won't be turned down to 65 degrees, as requested by President Jimmy Carter, because the lower temperatures might interfere with scientific research. Max Lucas, University of Kansas facilities planning director, said this week.
According to the KU energy policy, KU thermostats are set at 68 degrees from Oct. 15 to April 15. Carter, in connection with his proposed emergency energy legislation, has asked the nation to conserve fuel by learning to live with 65-degree temperatures
But Carter's request won't be a reality at KU, Lucas said, "unless there is a national mandate to go to 65 degrees. The change would be difficult and could affect our academic research."
Temperature reductions couldn't be made only in selected buildings, because according to Lucas, buildings and grounds require them and balance the entire KU heating system.
THE REDUCED temperatures, he said, could kill animals used in scientific experiments.
Lucas said he had discussed the effects of Carter's energy proposal on KU with Del Meyer. Mr. Oroke, director of facilities operations for the department of buildings
"We decided going to 65 would be a major undertaking," Lucas said. "Coot isn't a woman."
Oroke said that some colleges had converted their heating and cooling systems to electric.
"THE ULTIMATE system, of course, would be if we were equipped with central control," he said, "so that we could make momentary in buildings in building temperatures from a central, environmental location.
"That would require improvement in our building controls, monitoring system and related equipment. Also, this would allow us to move the buildings even within building location from a single point."
Carter's propasal calls for deregulation of natural gas shipped interstate and probably would increase prices on gas sold only in Kansas. Lucas said that because the gas is intrastate, the price increase could significantly affect this year's fuel budget.
"WE ALREADY have an inflation factor programmed into the fuel budget," he said. "But if gas prices would rise rapidly, we would not." He understands and understand and give us more money."
KU's energy shortage contingency plan wouldn't be affected by the Carter legislation, Lucas said. The contingency plan outlines procedures that would be taken if a severe energy shortage arose at the University.
control system at Wesco. But even though
they were heavily beaten overall, our
office is well-held.
KU has prepared for natural gas shortages by relying on fuel oil as a reserve fuel source. The reason is that you get a 40- to 90-percent supply of oil and that the emergency) plan is just if the worst happens."
George Byers, professor of entomology,
said the temperature in his office in Snow
Hall fell to 54 degrees and rose to 88
degrees.
The contingency plan is divided into three stages. If prolonged sub-zero temperatures should occur, one stage calls for temporarily closing the University.
"Carter's deregulation, as I understand him," said oil it wouldn't affect the plan." Legacy.
"Snow Hall has a more antique heating system than most KU buildings," he said. "The problem here is that the heating and cooling are no relationship to outside temperatures.
He said, however, that KU's intersession program might have to be modified during an energy shortage. An intersession month and a second month to discuss possible modifications.
KU was heated by steam heat before 1960, when it converted to forced-air heat. Temperatures tend to be more uniform in a system than under a steam system. Orose said.
"The heating is arbitrarily turned on and off at various times. Therefore, we may get heat on hot days and air conditioning on cold days."
"Generally, I have no complaints," Byers said. "I think the system we have now is pretty good, and I hope the buildings and grounds people will continue to be prompt aware of ridiculously high or low temperatures.
Dan Richardson, associate dean of the School of Education, said Bailey Hall's heating problems were because of construction work last summer.
"When I'm not happy, I complain and somebody does something."
"As of early spring, the pipes for the "heating and air-conditioning systems had been completed," Richardson explained. "There was accurate regulating of the water cooling of Halley, although there were inconveniences during construction."
"Then an elevator shaft was put in, and the construction company had to cut through the wall. We've had a lot of cold air coming into the building since then."
"When the ceilings were ripped out this summer, some of the instructors suffered intolerable temperatures," Richardson said.
Richardson said he thought heating problems were because of construction, not insulation.
Bailey Hall operates on a forced-air system that enables heat to flow through a register while hot water flows through the pipes, Richardson said.
"When they changed to air conditioning, we went on central temperature control, which we didn't need," she said. "Both systems are functional here." The temperature is more comfortable afterward.
"The temperature fluctuates throughout Bailey," he said, "but if office doors are closed, the people in these offices can be comfortable.
"I believe that the heating system here is more efficient than we've had in years."
Burdick named to head division
Robert Burdick, managing editor of the Coffeeville Journal, yesterday was named director of KU's Division of Information. He will begin his job March 1.
Burdick, 29, replaces Larry Knupp, who resigned Tuesday to become editor and head of the company.
Burdick received a B.S. in journalism from KU in 1969. Before he accepted the Coffeyville position in December 1974, he worked four years at the Kansas City Times and make-up editor and about two years as a make-up editor for the Detroit News.
University Daily Kansan
Sunlight, gas lights topics of proposed House bills
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Renorter
TOPEKA-A - House bill affirming property owners' rights to sunlight for solar energy and a bill prohibiting natural gas-powered yard lights were praised Wednesday.
The sunlight rights bill, written by State Rep. Jack Rodrock, D-Leo, set guidelines for property who apply for guarantees that unobstructed sunlight reach their solar collection panels. The panel would call on an easement, would mean that an attorney could wouldn't erect a building that kept sunlight from reaching a neighbor's solar panels.
STATE REP. Anita Niles, D-Lebo, researched by the Kansas Corporation Commission indicated that her proposal to ban decorative gas lamps in Kansas would save enough natural gas to heat 16,000 Kansas homes.
Moe Ryan, an assistant to Rodrock, based the solar easement proposal was based on the common-law right to air and light. Without an easement, he said, a property guard against sunlight interference caused by construction on adjoining property.
Owners of solar-powered buildings have received solar ewaters under common law, Ryan said, but Rodrick's bill would set up legal guidelines for owners and the courts.
THE SOLAR easement bill includes requirements that the person applying for the easement specify the angle at which
sunlight would reach his solar panels. Another section of the bill provides for compensation to the property owner if his solar eassert right is violated.
Ryan said Rodrock's bill would probably be debated on the House floor early next month, so we seem to be little controversy over the bill. Rodrick, who said "should飞 right through."
Niles wrote her bill to prohibit decorative gas lamps because, she said, "we're entering a period when we'll need to look at all wasteful uses of gas.
I DON'T expect people to take kindly to my bill. It will probably bring out the beast in me.
Most gas yard lights are used only for decoration, Niles said. Those who think they need the light for security, she said, should keep them on all day and usually aren't left on all day as gas lamps are.
William Salome, vice president and general manager of Kansas Public Service Corp., estimated that 120 lights used about 12,000 cubic feet of gas each year. Based upon these figures, more than 200,000 yard lights would have to be installed to meet the Niles projected would benefit from her efforts.
An average gas-heated home in Lawrence uses about 160,000 cubic feet of gas a year.
He said the Gas Service company quit selling gas yard lights two years ago as a business. However, he said customers who thought security at night still asked for the lights.
Notice to All Organizations
WISHING TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FROM THE STUDENT SENATE/STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE:
Budget Request forms for Fiscal 1978 are now available in the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union, Level 3.
These requests must be completed and returned to the Senate office NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 28,1976.
Paid for by the Student Activity Fee.
HATTON W. SUMNERS SCHOLARSHIPS IN LAW
Southern Methodist University School of Law
Stipend
A Summers Scholarship provides a stipend in excess of $5,000 a year. It covers full tuition and fees, room and board in Lawyers Inn, and an amount for books and personal expenses. The Summers Scholar is also reimbursed at not more than the jet coach rate for his actual travel expenses to Dallas in the fall and to his home at the end of the academic year. The Scholarship is awarded initially for one year and is renewable for the second and third years of study, provided the Scholar remains in the upper third of his class and meets the other requirements of the program.
Purpose
The Sumners Scholarships are designed to aid young men and women who exhibit promise of becoming lawyers in the great American tradition of public and community service.
In addition to the rigorous legal education which the Scholars pursue, they participate in special seminars intended to develop capacity for leadership and responsibility. They are afforded unusual opportunities to meet leading members of the legal profession and other persons active in public life. Each Scholar is assigned a sponsor who is either a practicing lawyer or a judge.
Qualifications
An applicant for a Sumners Scholarship must:
1. Be a permanent resident of, or attend a college or university in, one of the following states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma or Texas.
2. Rank in the upper twenty-five percent of his graduating class.
3. Be a citizen of the United States.
4. Take the Law School Admission Test administered by the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, not later than December preceding the expected date of entry into the Law School.
Applications due Feb. 7, 1977
Requests for additional information and application forms should be addressed to:
Summers Scholarship Committee
School of Law
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275