UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 13, 1997
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Renumbering Wescoe's rooms might be just as confusing
A point of reference in Wescoe Hall directs students to the unusual layout of the building. Renumbering rooms and posting more signs are being considered by a the Wescoe task force.
By Mark McMaster
Kansan staff writer
Wescoe Hall is a big, confusing place.
That is the response students gave on a survey about the building issued by a subcommittee of the Wescoe Task Force, said Erin Spiridigliozzi, assistant dean of liberal arts and sciences.
"We have people coming in asking for the lecture hall, the English department," she said. "No one ever knows their way around."
Maureen Brink, El Paso, Texas, junior, a receptionist in the history department, which is in Wescoe, agreed that the hall could be a perplexing place for those unfamiliar with its layout.
Part of the difficulty stems from the way the offices are numbered at Wescoe.
"The numbers aren't sequential," Soirdidilozzi said.
She discussed the problem with Marci Francisco, a space analyst with the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, who was working on a project to add Braille numbering to Wescoe.
"Why should we spend $10,000 putting Braille numbers on a system that doesn't work?" Spiridigliozzi asked.
Now Francisco and Spiridiglozzi are working together to find a solution to the problem, considering alternatives such as renumbering the building and adding floor locators and directional signs.
Richard Kay, professor of history, said the main problem was finding a department's location within the building. For example, the English department is divided into two offices on opposite sides of a corridor. Because of the complicated arrangement of
offices, Kay said attempts to renumber them would not help.
"Any number system that tried to fit the building would be confusing," he said. "I think more signs are what is needed."
Spiridigliozzi agreed.
"When you get off the elevators, you don't know which way to go," she said.
Wescoe between the elevators on each floor. However, many departments are not listed on these signs.
Sid Dobrin, assistant professor of English, said he didn't think the building's numbering system was a problem, though.
Department locator signs do exist at
"I honestly don't spend too much time thinking about the arrangement of the room numbers," he said.
Election code will sideline candidates
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
Afraid of a Student Senate candidate harassing you on election day? Stay off the grass.
The election campaigning code, released by the Student Senate elections commission yesterday, restricts campaigning on any street, sidewalk or paved pathway on campus during election days. Candidates must stay on the nonpaved areas and can only talk to students on the pavement if the students give their consent.
The code also restricts campaigning within a 100-foot radius of polling locations.
The commission made the change after hearing and discussing complaints from students last night.
Chad Perlov, elections commissioner, said that the commission amended the proposed code in an effort to reach a compromise among students who felt a wholesale ban would violate their right to free speech. Before the amendment, no campaigning would have been allowed on campus while the polls were open.
Ward Cook, Nunemaker senator.
said the new code favored students trying to walk on campus without being hassled.
"It provides students that aren't interested a little leeway," he said. "As a senator, it doesn't change the way I present myself to voters."
But another senator said the new code would not increase voter turnout, as the election commission claimed.
"Everything they're doing is the exact opposite of what they think it will do," said Ana Calderon, off-campus senator. "If you want to get students' attention, you have to talk to them on the street."
Graduate senator Dave Stras had filed a complaint with the commission because he said the ban violated the First Amendment. But last night he said the new code seemed acceptable.
"The new code falls within Constitutional lines and certainly isn't unlawful." he said.
But Stras said the problem of candidates harassing students could be solved much more simply.
"It's a matter of courtesy," he said. "I don't think we should make a blanket rule that is covered by courtesy."
Evaluation releases supported Senate advocates hold payment at enrollment
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
KU students may soon have access to faculty evaluations.
Student Senate last night discussed the status of a proposal to make faculty evaluations available for student review. But the proposal must be approved by the Board of Regents before it can be enacted.
Chris Hansen, Kansas State University student body president, is leading the statewide effort. He told Student Senate about the status of the proposal last night.
"We are focusing on providing information for students to use in making decisions about taking classes," he said. "I think we have a plan that will satisfy the students' need for information and the faculty's need to not come under attack."
The Senate also approved a petition by Jamie Johnson, student body vice president. The petition calls for the administration to implement a centralized location to pay enrollment holds.
The petition was passed by acclamation, which states that the Senate strongly agrees with the petition and that no vote is necessary.
Johnson pushed the petition through Senate after he did not receive telephone calls from the administration, specifically Lindy Eakin, associate provost. But Johnson said that Eakin did call him yesterday afternoon and will meet with Johnson to discuss the issue.
"With his cooperation at this point, I don't think the petition will be necessary," Johnson said.
But he said he would still send the petition to Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger to request that lines of communication between Senate and the administration remain open.
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