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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 27, 1990
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Wescoe to lose leaky roof
Work won't disturb finals
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Students no longer will have to dodge leaking water in Wescoe Hall when construction of a new roof for the building is
completed in about three months Repairs to Wescoe's
Construction material for the roof was delivered to the building site yesterday. Installation should begin Tuesday, said Doug Riat, assistant director of facilities planning. Measure- wescoe's roof will be scheduled around finals to avoid disturbing students taking tests.
$350,000 roof were taken during the past week.
Riat said construction would be scheduled so that noise would not bother students taking finals in third and fourth-floor Wesco rooms.
"There will be a little noise, some scraping and pounding." Riat said. "We know what tests are scheduled, and we will work around them."
Wescoe had severe leaking problems in February when extreme changes in the weather caused the roof to buckle. Ceiling tiles were damaged, and buckets were set up on the floor, and the floor to catch the dripping water.
Doug Gifford, background, and Bill Szuwalski, of Vincent Roofing, lift materials onto Wescoe Hall's roof.
Riał said the project's first step would involve removing the roof's felt and asphalt surface and installing insulation. The new roof will have a longer-lasting rubber surface, which will be less susceptible to damage from ultra-violet rays.
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping, said he had not received any complaints about leaking since February. The roof has leaked sporadically for at least a year, prompting occasional patchwork.
Donald Whipple, assistant director of facilities planning, said the roof also would be angled. Wescoe's roof is now level, making drainage dittier.
Riat said construction was delayed slightly because of recent rainy weather.
Senior tricks staff, gets seven faces in annual
By Ines Shuk
Kansan staff writer
Like many other graduating seniors at the University of Kansas, Carol Jong her class.
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mates to remember her forever
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It took only $27, some free time and late photography sessions in the summer. Rotunda to become unforgettable.
Jong, Wichita senior, was the first KU graduate whose picture appeared in seven school sections in the 102-year history of the Jayhawker Yearbook, said Jennine Kreker, Jayhawker assistant editor.
Jong and her roommate, Loretta Bass, Columbus senior, went to nine sessions during the six weeks that seniors had yearbook pictures taken.
However, Jong is majoring only in biochemistry and human biology, which would allow her picture only in the liberal arts and sciences section.
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Each time the two dressed according to a typical outfit of a certain major, and they made up names that matched each field. Bass said.
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"ILOretta and I wanted to make an impression upon leaving KU." Jong was notoriously unwritten, but student president Hillyer was a good way to be remembered."
For example, Jong's name for fine arts was Violet Couleur and Bass' name was Mick Jagger, Bass said.
Jong said that she was scared the first day, but that she had fun after that.
Bass said that she also got scared during their sixth photography session.
"The photographer was always the
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same, and that day he asked me if I had a cousin or a relative at KU because my face looked familiar." Bass said.
However, Kreker, who knew Bass, was laying out the yearbook's senior pages when she recognized Bass's pictures and pulled the falsified ones
Thereafter, the two were more cautious. Sometimes they would talk with foreign accents to avoid being caught, Bass said.
She said the yearbook staff later discovered two pictures of Jong with obviously fictitious names, which also were pulled out. They could not pull out the seven because they were already late in the production
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process, and to stop it would have cost a significant amount of money.
Kreker said it was difficult to control the senior pictures published in the yearbook because some people were in a hurry while others really were gradualive.
Katherine Glaser, Jawahyer coeditor, said she was amazed that somebody would be so bored on them and willing to pay $8 for each picture.
Katie Stader, co-editor, said the yearbook's staff lacked a roster to check the names of seniors.
In addition, Stader said, the photography company sent in the senior pictures late, and the layout was done hurriedly.
Minority group helps in search for replacement
By Jonathan Plummer
Kanean staff writer
When Arda Tippet heard that the University of Kansas would be looking for a new executive vice chancellor, she instantly thought of a professor she knew at the University of Oklahoma.
Tippett said the professor was trained in the field of business; was a dynamic speaker and was instrumental in the creation of many educational programs for minorities for minors at OU. She knew he would be good for the job.
Tippett送 his name to University of Colorado delegates to the Big Eight Council on Black Student Government. The delegates, in turn, are joined by other qualified minorities at conference schools about the vacant KU position, as they do for other conference vacancies.
Tippet, chairman of the council, said the program was meant to aid Big Eight universities' searches for administrators and to help enlarge the pool of available minority candidates.
The CU delegates send notification about the openings to administrative offices, minority offices and other groups in communities with Big Eight institutions, Tippett said.
At KU, the Office of Minority Affairs, the placement center and the counseling center receive notice from the council, Tippett said. Minority student support groups such as UCLA's Women in American Leadership Organization also are contacted.
"We want to make sure that KU gets the cream of the crop," she said. "We want them to get the best in the country."
The council does not endorse candidates, Tippet said, but tries to inform qualified minorities of the positions.
Kelley Hayden, KU assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said he thought that many candidates heard about positions through such networking. However, he said the University sought quite a few ways, such as placing advertisements in education publications.
Hayden said the value of such programs would not be known until the search committee was formed.
Tippett said the program had many successes, including helping place the director of minority student services at Oklahoma.
"Why wouldn't it work?" she said. "It's just something we can do to help. We can't always rely on us to help us. It just us doing our part."
Black Men of Today also plans to start a notification campaign for the positions of executive vice chancellor and director of minority affairs, said Darren Fulcher of Black Men of Today. Marshall Jackson has been interim director of minority affairs for nine months and the search for a permanent director will begin this summer.
The organization will inform predominantly Black colleges like Morehue College in Atlanta and Howard University in Washington, D.C., of the positions. It also will send notification to schools with large numbers of Black faculty members and doctoral candidates.
But Fulcher said the most important qualities for the positions need not include the color of the applicant's skin.
"We would like to have someone who is sympathetic to our needs." Fulcher said. "Color is important, but there are different qualities that are important as well."
Such qualifications include the ability to recruit minorities and to enhance minority scholarship programs, he said.
Kansas Union cans new recycling bins
Special to the Kansan
By Bonnie M. Ficek Special to the Kansan
Twenty-five bright-yellow recycling bins will be added to campus next fall, but Kansas Union officials need to participate in the expansion.
Jim Long, director of the Kansas Union, said the Union already had two of the campus' 23 recycling huts, the Jaybowl and one in the TV room.
Long said that the bins were not hidden and that they were in places where aluminum was used. He said there was no reason to have additives inside the bins. The bookstore do not need bins because no aluminum is used there.
But Octavia O'Dea, Union custodian, said she picked up about 100 empty cans a day.
She said students did not use the bins because they did not know where the bins were and they were in inconvenient places.
O'Des said if the Union bins were in the open and there were more of them, then the students would use them.
Mary Jane McCool, Environs member, said Union officials thought the bins were ugly and did not want them out in the open.
"They are supposed to be large and bright," McCool said. "That's how they catch people's attention."
sean morris, former student body vice president, said that the Union was trying to look like a professional. He also recalled a cycling dug did not look professional.
"The Union is really into aesthetics," Morris said. "And the bins just don't fit in."
Long said that the bins needed to be more creative to be effective, and that they needed a theme to attract and promote recycling.
McCool said another problem with the recycling effort in the Union was that there were no signs telling students where the bins were.
Long said there were no signs advertising the recycling bins because the highly-visible cans identified themselves.
Brandy Sherman, St. Louis senior, said she did not know there were recycling bins in the Union.