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Thursday, February 21, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Let there be cheaper light
KU considers replacing incandescent bulbs with fluorescent
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Of the $80,000 that KU spends every year to light the Lawrence campus, $30,000 is spent on light bulbs that are inefficient and run for about 1,000 hours, said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations.
Richardson said the University of Kansas was working to find a light bulb that was energy-efficient and had a longer service life.
"We are looking for a bulb with suitable lumina," he said. "We have to maintain the same output of light so that classrooms are not dark."
Sue Ask, Great Bend senior, works
in the environmental ambudsman's and evaluates energy use on campus.
Ask said the office was reviewing a compact fluorescent light bulb that used a quarter of the energy that an alarm clock used and lasted 9,000 hours longer.
She said the new light bulbs were expensive. They cost from $15 to $25 a bulb. Incandescent light bulbs cost an average of 50 cents.
"They are cheaper than incandesces in the long run if you count the energy that is used and the number of light bulbs bought," she said.
versity can buy the bulbs for $3 each.
"The University could save $15,000 in energy by using the compact fluorescent bulb," she said. "Because they are so energy conservative you don't have to throw away so many. So they're important in conserving landfill space."
Ask said the compact bulbs also cut down on pollution.
"The energy that we get in Lawrence is from coal burning," she said. "Since the compact bulbs use less energy to burn, less coal would be needed and coal emissions would be reduced."
Senate to weigh finance committee's budget proposal, media board plan
By Michael Christie
The Student Senate Finance Committee will send its budget recommendations to Senate on Wednesday for approval.
Kansan staff writer
More than $60,000 remains unallocated in the recommendations.
craig Fulton, finance committee co-chairperson, said that although the unallocated amount was more than originally expected, some money had to go to the board Senate vote to establish in its last meeting.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said at the last Senate meeting that he wanted Senate to allocate at least $20,000 to the board.
The University Daily Kansan and KJIHK would be removed from the Senate budget process if a bill for it was approved.
The bill calls for $3 to be removed from the Senate student activity fee to go to a media fee.
The bill was approved by both the finance committee and the student rights committee last night.
The bill's approval would remove about $138,000 from the amount Senate allocates but also would remove the the KJHK and the Kansan from the Senate budget.
Carl Damon, Senate treasurer, said the amount allocated to KJIK and the Kanans would be about $3,000 less than they would get from Senate if they had to go through the budget process.
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