UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANU gets new station director
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Janet Campbell, Audio Reader director, replaces Howard Hill as director of KANU. Campbell will attempt to balance the station's budget.
James Grau / KANSAN
By Doug Weinstein Kansan staff writer
KANU was forced to stop broadcasting from midnight to 5 a.m. until April because of a projected budget deficit of almost $200,000.
Campbell replaced Howard Hill, director and general manager of KANU for 20 years.
Janet Campbell, 1979 KU graduate and director of the University of Kansas' radio network for the visually impaired, Audio-Reader, was named director of the public radio station on Tuesday because of the budget deficit.
Campbell said that in order to eliminate the projected deficit, several departments needed to be cut back. Seven staff members' positions already have been eliminated.
But Campbell doesn't think that the deficit will force the station to close.
Cordelia Brown, operations manager of KANU, said the purpose of the station was to try to serve the cultural and entertainment needs of its listeners.
"We've been on the air since 1952," Brown said. "It's a long tradition, and we will not stop."
Housing to restrict staff's master keys
By Harumi Kogarimai
Kansan staff writer
Thursday, January 23, 1997
After the recent vandalism and theft of master keys in McColum Hall, the department of student housing has decided to restrict the number of master keys issued to residence hall staff.
"There were too many people who did not need to have access to master keys," said Phil Garito, associate director of student housing.
In an attempt to stem potential problems, the department is limiting the number of master keys in each residence hall because custodial staffs had access to too many keys.
Garito said that the halls' custodial staffs were required to sign a form when master keys were needed to enter rooms, and it was the responsibility of the custodial supervisors to make sure the keys were returned.
But because there were too many master keys, supervisors often didn't realize that the master keys were lost or who had lost them.
While custodial supervisors were on vacation during the winter break, custodial staffs had not secured the keys after cleaning rooms.
Garito said, however, that he still would not prohibit supervisors from taking vacations during the next break to prevent thefts.
Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, said that housing officials would wait until the police investigation into the McCollum Hall vandalism and theft was completed before further addressing the security issue.
"Everything worked as it was supposed to," Stoner said. "We are struggling to find out if we should change some procedures. But what can you do to prevent a false fire alarm? I don't know."
Housing officials met after the McColum Hall incident to discuss ways to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Housing officials proposed that security monitors work in pairs so that one monitor could constantly watch the other, Stoner said.
"Maybe they could have prevented it, but maybe they could not have prevented it," he said. "What if one security monitor went downstairs for an emergency? The other can still get master keys."
Stoner said that such checks might reduce the possibility of similar incidents.
BSU's financial status may be improved
Housing officials also discussed whether to have police background checks done on residence hall staff.
The Student Senate finance committee voted last night to recommend that the full Senate grant the Black Student Union block-allocation status.
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
That status would give BSU a large sum of money to be used during the next two years. BSU lost its blockallocation status last year after the Senate discovered that BSU had overspent their account by $420
three years ago and had not included the Senate logo on some printed materials.
The bill must be voted on by the full Senate.
The finance committee first voted to recommend a bill giving BSU block-allocation status 8 to 5, two votes short of the two-thirds majority required by Senate for such a vote.
After heated discussion, the committee held a second vote. Sean Haley, a hold-over senator who had
originally voted against the bill,
abstained from the second vote.
Another committee member, who
was absent for the first vote, voted
for the bill the second time allowing
it to pass 9 to 4.
Julius Williams, faculty adviser to BSU and assistant director of minority affairs, and BSU president Andrea Lockett spoke to the committee before the vote.
"Having block-allocation status is an honored privilege," Williams said. "With that, the Black Student Union
has made considerable contributions to this campus."
Some members of the committee discussed keeping BSU on line-item allocation status. That would require that BSU ask Senate for funds for specific activities and events.
But Lockett said her group needed the block-allocation status so BSU could have flexibility and freedom in planning future events.
Some committee members were concerned with BSU's past handling of finances.
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