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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 103, NO.45
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1993
(USPS 650-640)
After an exodus from University residence halls, officials have an ambitious plan that they hope will make students think
"there's no place like home"
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By Brian James
Today's college students want more living space. They want more privacy.
Susan McSpadden / KANSAN
What a growing number do not want is to share a bedroom with someone else or to share a bathroom with 30 other people.
The housing needs and expectations of students across the country have changed since the 1950s and '60s, the time when most residence halls were built.
"When you take a kid who's had their own room at home, who had cable TV and a phone hooked up in it, along with a stereo and computer, and then move them into a small, concrete room the size of their walk-in closet at home, that's an insult — especially when they find out they have to share it," said Roger
A TIME FOR CHANGE
The KU department of student housing plans to begin renovating regular-size residence hall rooms into apartment-style suites by the summer of 1995. The suites, housing officials said, will look similar to those in Amini Scholarship Hall, which opened in the fall of 1992.
Phillies still in race
Dan Drake, Atlanta, Kan., senior, watches a Chiefs game in the living area of his suite in Amini Scholarship Hall while suitemate Chris Hane, Lawrence junior, studies in his bedroom. The suites at Amini consist of a shared living area and bathroom with a bedroom on each side.
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Phillies still in race Philadelphia pitcher Curt Schilling shut out Toronto 2-0 last night, keeping his team alive in the 1993 World Series.
The floor plan of the renovated rooms would likely be modeled after a design implemented at Western Carolina University in 1980. In this floor plan, two residents would share a living room, study area and bathroom. In other floor plans, four residents would share two adjoining rooms, each like this one.
Fisher, director of residential life at the University of Missouri in Columbia. "Back in my college days, we would have been extremely happy, but now it's a shock to students."
Students' expectations are changing, and that is one of the big reasons many of today's college students have left the community atmosphere of a residence hall and gone to more modern, spacious places off campus — typically apartments.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing at KU, hopes to satisfy these new expectations and keep students on campus by renovating KU's eight residence halls.
The proposed $25 million renovation would convert most of the existing residence hall rooms into four-person, apartment-style suites with two bedrooms and one full bathroom.
The department of student housing hopes to begin the renovation by the summer of 1995.
Again, in 1987, about 150 students lived in the extra rooms in the halls, including storage rooms, typing rooms and just about any other room that could fit a few beds.
Feast and famine
Until 1988, all of KU's residence halls had been full or near capacity every year. The halls were even overcrowded for short periods early in the 1986 and '87 school years.
"During that time, it was a real crunch," Stoner said.
More than 200 students lived in temporary rooms in the fall of 1986 until they were assigned a regular room or found a place off campus.
But the crunch soon became a glut of rooms without residents.
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Proposed tuition increases If the Legislature passes the Board of Regents tuition increase plan during the spring session, resident and nonresident tuition could be raised.
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning Micah Laaker/KANBAN
Budig says rise in tuition needed to keep faculty
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
The Legislature needs to pass the Board of Regents tuition increase plan if the University of Kansas is to compete with its peer institutions, said Chancellor Gene Budig during yesterday's University Senate meeting.
Budig said if the plan, "Partnership for Kansas," was not passed during the Legislature's spring session, KU could lose faculty members to other universities.
With KU's recent ranking as one of the best buys among national public universities in Money magazine, Budig said that the University must stay affordable to students but also have enough money to compete nationally with other universities.
"The University of Kansas is and will remain a general bargain for students here," he said. "We do not want to exclude deserving students because of spiraling fees and tuition."
The University's peer institutions are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Oklahoma and Oregon.
Tenure faculty, tenure-track faculty, graduate teaching assistants and other instructional personnel would have higher salaries if the plan is passed by the Legislature.
According to the office of institutional research and planning, professors at KU are paid about $54,000, while the average salary for professors among KU's peers is $60,764.
The tuition increase would be nine percent for residents and 13 percent for nonresidents at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. Pittsburg State University, Fort Hays State University and Emporia State University would have a five percent increase for residents and a 13 percent increase for nonresidents.
For Regents institutions to raise faculty salaries, the state and each university would increase its portion of the university's base general use budget by three percent. That three percent, which would fund general maintenance for each university, would be part of the nine and 13 percent increases for KU, K-State and Wichita State or the five and 13 percent increases for Pittsburgh State, Fort Hays State and Emporia State.
All the money generated after the three percent has been reached for general maintenance use would be used to fund higher faculty salaries.
KU's general budget is about $160 million, of which $100 million comes from the state and $60 million comes from the University. The increases from KU and the state would provide about $4.8 million for general maintenance at the University. After the $4.8 million has been reached, the rest of the money would go directly to raising faculty salaries.
KU alumni to open concert music season at Lied
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
Tomorrow night, the Lied Center stage will mark the reunion of some KU's finest former musical talent.
Four KU alumni, three singers and a pianist with established opera and music careers, will collaborate for the first time in 30 years to open a new season of concert music at KU.
Nancy Kaiser-Caplan, director of development and public relations at the Lied Center, said they had planned for about a year to get the three singers back together at KU.
"We thought it would be great to open up the concert series at the Lied Center with KU alumni," Kaiser-Caplan said. "We've been planning on this for a long time and we finally brought them all together."
The alumni, who started their careers in Kansas, are now spread out across the world — New York, Germany, Austria and Chicago.
Only two of the musicians, Patricia Wise, soprano, and Robert Hiller, pianist, had arrived in Lawrence yesterday. The other two performers will arrive in Lawrence today so the foursome can begin rehearsing.
Wise earned a degree in music education from KU in 1966. Two years later, she made her debut with the New
David Hollowav
York City Opera.
Since then she has sung internationally for the world's leading opera companies and orchestras.
Her claim to fame at KU came in the fall of 1965 when she portrayed Eliza Dolittle in her first musical, "My Fair Lady."
She said she had met with Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano, and David Holloway, bartone, in New York yesterday,
"This is what I dreamed of in college and it's all come true," Wise said. "I feel very fortunate to be traveling and performing wonderful roles on the major stages of the world."
"We're all very tickled to open this concert series at KU." Wise said. "We hope the audience will enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed putting it together."
where the three of them had practiced together.
Hiller graduated from KU in 1972 with a master's of music in piano. A Fulbright scholar, Hiller studied in Germany at the State Music Conservatory at Stuttgart. He has accompanied renowned singers in the United States, Germany, France, Austria, Holland and Switzerland.
Hiller flew in from Tokyo yesterday where he was working with concert students. He is a voice coach and pianist at Stuttgart.
Hiller said he was most pleased with his teaching career because he could see the results of his teaching in the work of his students.
"My teaching job and the performance combination of work has been very worthwhile," Hiller said.
Both Hiller and Wise said they were impressed with the Lied Center and excited to perform in the theater. The acoustics, they said, compared to some of the best opera houses they had performed in.
The four alumni each have a home base in Kansas, so the weekend of music will serve as a family reunion as well as a musical reunion.