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Congress to decide center's fate
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By BARRY MASSEY
The fate of a proposed statewide center for extension and continuing education at the University of Kansas will be decided by Congress.
Development of the center, which would be just north of the Kansas Union, depends on whether Congress will appropriate funds for its construction, Max Lucas, director of facilities planning said Saturday. Construction estimates are estimated at $25 million to $10 million.
Lucas said that a decision about funding the center's construction probably would be made in February, and that approval was likely.
The center would be a comprehensive open-learning facility for the entire state and would have space for offices, multimedia presentations and meeting rooms.
The 110,000-square-foot building would help centralize the Division of Continuing Education, which is now in several buildings on and off campus.
To help support the center's planning, the University received an $88,400 federal grant in July 1975. The planning grant was one of three grants awarded to Health, Education and Welfare.
APPROVAL OF preliminary architectural drawings for the center was given by the Kansas Board of Regents last month.
"We didn't have a home for continuing education or a specific program," Lucas said, "so when federal funds became available, the program, we decided we would apply."
The Regents have also given KU officials permission to negotiate with the architectural firm of Ekdahl, Dave, Depew and Persion of Topeka to prepare final
drawings for the center. Lucas said these drawings wouldn't be commissioned until after Congress appropriated construction funds.
WHEN COMPLETE, Lucas said, the center would be a national model for other colleges.
KU was selected as a federally funded demonstration site for continuing education because of its reputation in the field, Lucas said.
"They were looking for demonstration sites all across the country," Lucas said, "but we've always been known for our in-depth research in the field of continuing education."
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Although a denial of construction funds by Congress "would stop the project cold," Lucas said, it's still possible to use state funds for the center. Use of state funds would come only after careful consideration. Lucas said.
"IF WE START competing with other
staff facilities for funds," he said, "we would have to weigh our priorities very carefully." "The continuing education center provides additional addition to the University, Lucas said.
"We're convinced more than ever that we need this facility," he said. "The University and the people of Kansas would benefit greatly by its construction."
CONSTRUCTION OF a new clinical facility at the KU Medical Center also was involved in the design.
ander also was awarded by a recent action by the Regents. By awarding a $398,000 grant, Warner Health Products of St. Louis for patient care headwall units, the Regents moved construction of the new clinical facility to its schedule completion in October 1995.
The clinical facility, on the east side of the Med Center campus, has been under construction since 1975. When completed, it will provide a full-service center from its current 540 beds to about 800.
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Reactions of KU veterans varied on issuance of evaders' pardons
BY BOBERT MACKEY
Staff Reporter
President Jimmy Carter's pardon of thousands of Vietnam draft evaders last week gave him the opportunity to negative, reaction from University of Kansas veterans. Their response ranged from tolerance to complete opposition to the program, which was announced on Carter's website.
Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, called the pardon "full, complete and unconditional," but Bill Evans, president of the KU Campus Veterans Organization (UVO), said yesterday that the program seemed to ignore draft resisters who stayed in the United States and served jail terms, rather than flee to Canada or elsewhere.
"THEY STUCK around and took their
purses. Evans said, "They should get
first choice."
Instead, the pardon covers evaders who left the country rather than serve in the armed forces or in civil service jobs approved for people seeking conscientious objector status. The pardon doesn't cover people who deserted while in the military service or used "force or violence" when resisting the draft.
The Carter administration intends to study cases of deserters and resisters who received less-than-honorable discharges from the military.
Ted Cloon, CVO secretary, said he was against the pardon because it wasn't appalled.
Under Carter's system, draft evaders who qualify, but have taken citizenship in other countries, may re-apply for U.S. citizenship without legal barriers, and those who wish to remain outside the United States may visit without fear of arrest.
"If it's done for some, it should be done for everybody," he said. Work on upgrading less-than-honorable discharges has been made several years, he said, but not quite enough.
Veterans' groups across the country reacted bitterly to the pardon, but veteran Barry Fowler, Overland Park senior, said it was good news. He helped the country forget the Vietnam war.
"The war's been over so long now," he said. "I'd like to forget it." Fowler is a Vietnam veteran and was a cadet at West Point.
MIKE DIXON, a veteran who was ambivalence about the mission expressed ambivalence about the mission.
"I was inflamed with rage, but I wasn't extremely pleased," he said. "A pardon for what I had done."
Dixon said pardons had been issued after every major U.S. war. His main worry, he said, was that the returning evaders would compete for jobs with veterans.
Evans said he couldn't speak for the estimated 1,100 veterans on campus, about
80 of whom are active in the CVO, but said he pardonrt irritated most of his friends.
CLOON SAID everyone he talked to opposed the parion because it might encourage others to evade the draft in the future.
"It shows no consideration for those who did serve and changed their minds," he said.
"What happens when there is a war and no one wants to go?" he asked.
Theater schedule offers diversity and originality
Cloon and Evans thought the pardon would harm Carter.
But Dixon said, "It was a real eye-opener. The man really stands by his guns."
Carter promised while campaigning to pardon draft evaders in his first week in office.
Something for everyone could be the theme of the University of Kansas theater schedule this semester. Productions range from a 1970s drama to a classical era opera;
The William Inge Theatre Series will begin the spring semester with Harold Pinter's "Old Times." The 1971 production of *A View from a Parisian* is 3-12, in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Tickets for "Old Times" are on sale at the University Theatre box office for $1.75. KU students can obtain free tickets by showing a paid fee receipt for the current seperator.
The plot of "Old Times" centers on the reunion of Kate and an old friend, Anna. The relationships among them become increasingly complex as their reminiscences take them into the past. Their relationships explode in a struggle between Anna and Desley for
The second Inge Theatre production, "An Evening of Dance Dramas," will be from Feb. 28 to March 6 and from March 9 to March 11.
The Inge Theatre will conclude its season with "Sterile Lullaby and Other Plays by KU Playwrights," from April 4 to April 9. "Sterile Lullaby," by Donna Young, Lawrence graduate student, highlights the presentation.
Three other plays written by KU students are featured in the production: "The Fencers" by Stan Haenh, Lawrence senior; "River King" by Daniel Woolley; and Overland Park sophomore; and "Lede and
the swan," by J. L. McClure, Lawrence graduate student.
Like the Inge Theatre Series, the Langer Series has three more productions scheduled.
"Ioot," by Joe Orton, will be Feb. 18, 19.
"Chick," by Joe Orton, will be March 4,
Anchkov, will be March 14, April 3
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