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ANSAN
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1997
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First lady makes rounds at KC hospital, luncheon
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First lady Hillary Clinton read to children at a hospital and praised a private agency that provides employment services to low-income women during a whirlwind visit yesterday.
Speaking to the annual luncheon of the Women's Employment Network, Clinton called the program a model of what needs to happen in the rest of the country with changing welfare programs.
Hillary Clinton
The agency, which provides various job services for
many women on welfare, is funded largely by grants from foundations and individuals.
Clinton later visited a children's hospital to promote a reading program. She went into the occupational and physical therapy room and read the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin ... to about a dozen children ages 3 to 6. The children, outpatients at the hospital, laughed as she read.
The children gave Clinton a book of their drawings to take home with her.
She also was to deliver a keynote address at a rally for children and planned to attend a performance by comedian Bill Cosby as a benefit for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City.
Nonemergency callers can dial 311,not 911
WASHINGTON — The government is setting aside 311 as the telephone number for people to call police or other local agencies for nonemergency help.
Millions of people call 911 each year, but the Justice Department said most of the calls in many communities were for situations that were not emergencies, such as noisy neighbors or lost pets.
Yesterday's 311 allocation by the Federal Communications Commission responded to a request from President Clinton last July to help combat crime. Clinton asked the agency to designate a number for community policing and other nonemergency calls. That number, he said, would take pressure off the 911 emergency calling system
Available for use nationwide, the 311 code could improve the effectiveness of 911 service by cutting down the number of calls made to it, the FCC said. In Los Angeles alone, 325,000 callers to 911 hung up two years ago because the jammed lines denied them immediate help.
The FCC's action does not require local governments to use 311 but ensures the number would be available if they choose to.
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Spring Break Guide .5A
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Horoscopes .5B
Classifieds .7B
At the game .8B
CHANCE OF RAIN
Windows fall out of Bailey
By Mark McMaster
Kansan staff writer
Strong winds cause problem
Students walking along Jayhawk Boulevard on windy days may face an unexpected danger: falling glass.
On Monday, a gust of wind blew a storm window from the second floor of Bailey Hall from its fixture, causing it to shatter on the ground below.
It was not the first time this has
happened.
Bob Porter, associate director of remodeling and renovation for facilities operations, said he remembered fixing three or four other windows from Bailey for the same reason.
Many of these windows, including the one which broke Monday, are situated above the sidewalk in front of the building. Many people walk along this path, which is near a bus stop.
"I think it's a dangerous situation," said Edna Galle, assistant to the dean of the School of Education, who works in Bailey Hall. "Someone could have been walking underneath it and been cut by the glass."
Gale Garber, Overland Park junior, said the window fell frenzily close to people on the sidewalk.
"It fell in slow motion as if it was just hanging in the air," she said. "Once it hit the ground, it just shattered. Luckily, it shattered away from the people."
Porter said that the windows could cause serious injury if they struck a person from that height.
The windows' propensity to fall could be due to poor workmanship, he said.
"This is pure speculation, but I'd guess it was just a low-bid contract," he said.
installation was commissioned by design and construction management.
The contract for the windows'
Mark Reiske, production manager at design and construction management, said his office was not responsible for the windows' maintenance and was not working on the problem. Instead, he said facilities operations should deal with the problem.
The director of facilities operations, Mike Richardson, said that he had been unaware of the situation until yesterday. The other windows have been checked for installation and fit problems, he said, but he was not sure whether any further work was needed.
"This is pure speculation,but I'd guess it was just a low-bid contract."
Bob Porter facilities operations
Repairs cause headaches
Floor repaired in Union store
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
As the noise continued to get louder, the headaches of employees at the Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union grew more painful. Then the odor came.
"All you could smell was melting metal and you kept hearing the drilling," said Nathan Booth, an employee at the book store.
The smell and noise resulted from construction work to replace a concrete floor in a store room of the book store. Despite the foul odor, the fumes were not harmful and no one got sick.
"When you have construction work, you're bound to have days when the air is thick," he said.
Pat Beard, building services manager at the Union, said that this type of problem came along with construction work.
But the annoyance caused by the construction work is just a taste of things to come as more and more buildings undergo repair work, said Wayne Pearse, building engineer for the Kansas and Burge Unions.
But Bill Getz, assistant manager for books, said the dust drift
Pearse said that book store employees had complained about the odor about five times and that every time he or one of the construction workers would immediately shut the intake vent and move the compressor.
"Once the Crumbling Classrooms work gets going, this type of thing is going to happen a lot more," he said. "We always have people sensitive to odors and dust."
Contractors are working on Murphy Hall and had worked on Fraser Hall during winter break.
Contractors from McPherson Construction started working in the Kansas Union before the semester began. The workers had to tear down a damaged cement ceiling above the Jaybowl on the first floor of the Union.
A water chiller sitting above the bowling lanes and behind the bookshop on the second floor caused hairline fractures in the concrete during a 12-year period because of constant vibration, Pearse said.
As workers tore down the old ceiling they had to place an air compressor outside of the Union to use the jackhammer. Pearse said that when the wind changed direction and blew at just the right speed, exhaust from the compressor could drift into an air-intake vent and float into the bookstore.
Routine water leaks from pipes and fittings of the heating and cooling system then seeped through the cracks causing chips of concrete and water to drop onto the bowling lanes.
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ing into the store and noise from the work had also been problems.
But Beard said employees could expect one more bout with foul odor. When the concrete floor in the storeroom completely dries in about 60 days, a smelly, yet harmless sealant will be placed on the floor.
"I know from the noise that they have been going through solid concrete," he said.
Pearse said the workers would finish the job in about 10 days. The ceiling above lanes five through 12 of Jaybowl has been completed and the area above lanes one through four is almost finished.
John Head / KANSAN
Despite the disturbances to the book store, employees said the construction workers addressed the problem as soon as it arose.
Pearse said that he hoped workers would continue to address problems as Crumbling Classroom construction continues on campus.
"We know there's going to be problems and we'll take care of them when they happen," Pearse said "Dust, fumes and noise are the nature of the beast."
Mike Todd of WILKO construction, based in Grain Valley, Mo., Instalis support brackets for a new ceiling in the Jaybowl.
New garage to be built on north side of the Union
Museums, attractions influence decision
By Kevin Bates Kansan staff writer
Tom Waechter, planning coordinator for design and construction management, said between 400 and 500 people visit the University each day.
The adage about the most important points to real estate holds true — a proposed 1,000-space parking garage north of the Kansas Union is all about location, location, location.
These people come from outside Lawrence, and Waechter said that many spent their day on the north end of campus.
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Diagram to outline administration
n's plans for help. See Friday's Kansan
"We looked at alternate garage
The proposed garage would eliminate the metered parking spaces in the lot next to Memorial Stadium, Waechter said. Those spaces would then be open, and the metered spaces would be relocated in the garage by the year 2000.
sites," Waechner said. "One was adjacent to Carruth-O'Leary, and it overlooked Potter Lake. Another was along Sunnyside Avenue, but we decided on the Union site because of the large number of people that area of campus serves."
"Right here we have a mini-Smithsonian," Krishtakla said. "The Natural History Museum, the Anthropology Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art all create a kind of cultural mall. It makes a terrific amount of sense for attracting visitors to the University."
Doug Tighman, assistant director of the Spencer Museum of Art, said the art museum attracted about 40,000 visitors each year, but he said he would like to see 100,000.
Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum, said that the University could make an impression by improving access to the north end of Javawk Boulevard.
"If even half of the garage would be given to visitors, then it would definitely help." Tilghman said.
Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said the stretch of Jayhawk Boulevard from 13th to 14th streets was a window to the University.
"This is where we have our museums, University Relations, the Union, the daycare center, the scholarship halls, the Alumni Association," Long said. "We have a real opportunity here to capture that aspect of the University."
Long said he thought the north end of campus was the best site to build a new garage.
"By going north of the Union you get the greatest potential to subsidize the garage," Long said. "Because of its location and because of the traffic in this area, it will begin to pay for itself."
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