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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 17, 1997
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Improved rec center reopens
New facilities open to public
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
KU students and Lawrence residents have an improved place to exercise for free, after the reopening of the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. 15th St., on Saturday.
Lawrence children enjoy the new facilities at the East Lawrence Rec Center, 1245 E. 15th St. The mayor and the city commissioners were present for the center's opening.
Among the improvements are handicapped-accessible facilities, a game room and a regulation-size gym with a wood floor.
There is a lack of gym space in Lawrence, which is why the gym was an important part of the project, said Kathy Fode, recreation superintendent and project manager for the center.
"We've needed a big, regulation gym like that for a long time," Fode said.
She said that the $2 million project had been delayed by bad weather.
"Any public facilities are open for anyone to use," DeVictor said.
Fred DeVictor, director of Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said that although the center had a youth and neighborhood emphasis, KU students could use it as well.
The center will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The gym will be used some evenings for events such as city league basketball and volleyball but generally will be open for free play during
the dav. Fode said.
Patrick Scaly, Lawrence sophomore, said that because Robinson Center didn't always have space for
open-court basketball games, he and other KU students would use the center's gym.
"The more basketball courts, the better," he said.
East Lawrence Recreation Center's facilities:
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Commons area with games, including pool, football and ping pong.
New regulation gym with wood floor.
New fitness and cardiovascular machines and a weight room.
Multipurpose room, the old gym, with SportCourt flooring for activities such as dance, aerobics, volleyball and youth basketball.
Expanded restrooms with showers and locker rooms.
A meeting room and kitchen that can be rented for group use.
Dean candidate has lot to offer
By Ryan Koerner
Special to the Kansan
The School of Journalism is a new step closer to naming a new dean.
John Maxwell Hamilton, the final dean candidate to visit the University of Kansas, arrived in Lawrence yesterday. The other finalist, James Gentry, visited the University last week.
"I understand John has a very high energy level," said Tim Bengtson, associate journalism professor and chairman of the dean search committee. "He has the ability to get the job done because he has a commit-
Hamilton has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University and a master's degree in journalism from Boston University. He received a doctorate degree in American civilization from George Washington University in 1983.
Hamilton has written four books and worked in all areas of the media. Bengtson said.
Hamilton has served in the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the staff of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and at the World Bank.
"He has had a rich career," Bengt-
son said. "I'm pleased to say that after visiting with him, his interest in this opportunity seems to keep growing."
Hamilton heads the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La., which offers five sequences of study to more than 600 students.
Hamilton's meeting with students will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Hamilton will be in Lawrence until Tuesday afternoon. During his visit he will meet with faculty and students of the school, members of the dean search committee and University administrators.
Tuesday in 303 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Gerry Cain, Kansas City, Mo., representative of the University's graduate program, and Carlyn Foster, University City, Mo., junior, and a representative of the undergraduate program, will host the meeting.
Foster said that she felt it was important for the candidates to meet with students because the students will be directly affected by the appointment of a new dean.
"It's important for the students to know they have a say in the selection process," she said. "More often than not decisions like this are made without students' input."
Those unaware of Student Senate soon could be
Kansan staff writer
By Dave Morantz Kansas staff writer
It's Student Senate Awareness Week, and from now until the elections on April 9 and 10, avoiding student senators and candidates will be like trying to tune out news of the men's basketball team.
At 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Gray Montgomery, student body president, will hold a town-hall meeting in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Hemenway and Montgomery will field questions from students in an open forum.
Today senators will sell limeades in front of Wescoe Hall in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Cups will cost 25 cents, and proceeds will be donated to the United Way of Douglas County.
Senators will hold a pie-throwing
contest from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday in front of Wescoe Hall.
Students and senators can throw
pies at members of the Student Senate
Executive Committee.
And from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Montgomery and Jamie Johnson, student body vice president, will take calls and questions about Student Senate on KJHK.
This is the second year of the awareness week. But Kevin Lafferty, StudEx chairman, said that this year's event would be much more extensive than last year's.
Although Student Senate Awareness Week is supposed to build interest in the elections, Montgomery said that its primary purpose was to show students what Student Senate had done this year.
STUDENT SENATE
awareness week
time to reflect on what we've done," he said. "It also allows coalitions to say what they'll do. It does make for a very nice transition."
Montgomery said that some of Senate's biggest accomplishments this year included a proposal to improve academic advising, the creation of the Student Environmental Advisory Board and the expansion of parking on Daisy Hill.
This year also has had some disappointments, he said. These include the failure to give students access to faculty evaluations and the Kansas Legislature's refusal to give the University enough money for maintaining and
purchasingtechnological equipment.
Some students think that Senate should do a better job of reaching out to the campus all year long rather than just this week and during elections.
"I don't think there's much of a connection between what students want and what Senate's doing," said Phil Cauthon, Lawrence junior. "I've never been asked by any student senator about what I want."
But one senator said that the awareness week gave students an opportunity to let senators know what they wanted.
"Any exposure students get to Student Senate will make them better aware of the issues when elections come around," said Kevin Yoder, Hutchinson junior and Interfraternity Council senator.
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KU civil engineers put their knowledge into practice while building a concrete canoe for the Midwest regional championship, April 25 and 26.
Engineers to sail in concrete canoe
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansas staff writer
When it comes to building a concrete canoe, a dedicated team of KU civil engineering students are hoping they won't get that sinking feeling.
The team's 12 members were hard at work Saturday morning in Learned Hall, prodding, kneading and smoothing concrete over the canoe's Styrofoam mold.
Team members said that they were confident the boat would float.
That's because it's made of no ordinary concrete, explained Chris Wilkens, St. Louis, Mo., senior. It's perilite, mined from volcanic rock, which blows up like popcorn when cured in an oven. At 47 pounds per cubic foot, it's lighter than water.
The team's success depends on the hull design and on how strong the paddlers are. This year's boat, at 19 feet, is longer and more streamlined than last year's, so team members expect it to go faster but at the expense of some maneuverability.
The canoe's Styrofoam mold is covered with a sheet of plastic to make it watertight. Concrete is applied over three layers of wire reinforcement to make the shell.
Now all the engineering students have to do is sand it, seal it and paint it.
The construction of the concrete canoe began six weeks ago, after an eight-week design phase. The project takes 1,000 hours from start to finish, Wilkens said.
The team likes to use previous years' canoes for practice. The 1995 concrete canoe sank in the wake of a speed boat on the Lake of the Ozarks.
"We got the bright idea to take the old canoe, a tie a rope to it, and pull people about in it," Wilkens said.
There's also an academic element, so it isn't all fun and games. The students have to write an academic paper, prepare an oral presentation, and construct a display that includes pictures and a small cross section of the boat, which will be set inside a trailer home that has been ripped apart by a tornado.
If they float past the competition at the Midwest regional event, the team will go to the national championships in Cleveland, Ohio.
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