University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 12, 1988
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Architecture students work to meet deadline
Anne Walker, Indianapolis senior, makes spaghetti using a hot pot and a microwave oven in Marvin Hall. Walker was making dinner last night while working on an architecture project.
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
Fourth-year architecture students put the finishing touches on their last project of the semester last night in Marvin Hall.
their project, to estimate the preliminary; floor space and cost of an internationa. Student Activity Center, has been assigned for three weeks and will be due at noon today.
for three weeks.
Jim Pooell, St. Louis senior, said although the students was their last, it was hardly the largest. Earlier this semester, he and the other 70 to 75 fourth-year architecture students spent six to eight weeks on a project to redesign St. Joseph, Mo.
However, their current project involves more of the contextual side of architecture, he said. In their designs, the students are responsible for dealing with topography, location of the site and its immediate surroundings, elevations, shapes and proportions.
Scott Stites, Dexter. Mo. senior, said the project involved researching designs that were developed by Renaissance architects such as Bermante and Palladio.
"What a design will look different than the old buildings," he said. "They'll have the same proportions but will have to look like they were built in the present."
"Architecture is precedent," he said. "No one has ever invented a completely novel design. Everything has an influence or a purpose. Our whole project is essentially how to generate a building from the designs of classical architects."
Sites said the Renaissance architects based their designs on scientific and mathematical facts. They believed that certain proportions satisfied human beings. By studying their designs, KU students could understand the whole system better.
they.
In *quality architecture*, certain things are consistent and parallel. By studying the classical architects, we will get in touch with these things and hopefully synthesize them."
Ed Scheer, St. Louis senior, said time management was an important factor in completing the projects.
"We don't have daily assignments," he said. "Our grade is based on our projects. Some people get off to a great start, but most of us are working on them until they're due." Powell agreed.
Powell agreed, "I'm always working to the end." Powell said "Even in the profession, people lose a lot of sleep if they're doing a good job. They're always struggling to get it right."
"Even in the juries, people still see things they wish they could have changed," Powell said.
It always struggling to get it right.
After turning in the project, the students
But Powell said he didn't mind the work or the time it took to complete his projects.
have to sit through a jury. During the juries, an instructor, who the students refer to as the "critic," evaluates the students' work.
"I don't mind working on these things because I love it," he said. "It's what I enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, you shouldn't be doing it."
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
Excessive caffeine results in problems, doctor says
A green-lettered sack, hung from a studio wall in Marvin Hall, proclaimed the goal: "Fall Not Asleep."
Ed Scheer, St. Louis senior, said many students stayed awake by drinking coffee and Coca-Cola or by taking Vivarin.
On the first floor of Marvin, bleary-eyed,
fourth-year architecture students leaned
over drafting tables yesterday, struggling
to complete their final project of the
semester. Some already had been there 24
hours. Most expected to be there all night
yesterday.
anb. But Charles Yockey, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the caffeine in those substances could be hazardous unless taken in moderation.
"There are several dangers involved in taking caffeine," he said. "The worst, of course, is caffeine overdose."
Caffeine also can cause high blood pressure and, occasionally, auditory and visual hallucinations, heartburn, ulcers or headaches.
Yockey said an overdose of caffeine could cause some people to develop cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat. If serious, hospitalization could be required to treat the malady.
"Caffeine and other amphetamines really don't improve your ability to function," he said. "They only improve your perception of how you perform. Actually
your performance deteriorates
"The key to the whole problem is moderation. In moderation, caffeine is no problem, but it's not designed to take the place of rest."
practice
"Do you say that there was no healthy way to stay awake for long periods of time, but that if staying awake was essential, naps of three to four hours could help."
naps of the human body requires a minimum amount of sleep to function normally," he said. "A four-hour nap is no substitute for a full night of sleep, but it is better than going without sleep for days."
Jim Powell, St. Louis senior and an architecture student, said many of his friends worked for days with nothing more than naps to keep them going.
that an hour or two of times you'll see people sleeping in the hallways," he said. "I know I'll be here all night, well, except when I leave to move my car so I won't get ticketed."
Yockey said architecture students sometimes come into problems. They tend to wear themselves out working on projects, and at the end of a six- to nine-day spell with little or no sleep, they can collapse or become physically ill.
"If you push your body to the limit, you're going to have problems," he said. "The sadstest point is when people are too exhausted to take the final they've been preparing so hard for. Then they've got a bigger problem."
Jail population grows 32 percent in 4 years
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The nation's local jail population rose 32 percent in four years, the government reported yesterday, because of an increase in police arrests and because facilities housing increasing numbers of inmates from overcrowded state and federal prisons.
The population of township and county jails was 296,873 on June 30,1987,compared to 223,551 for the same day four years earlier, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The mid-1987 level was up 8 percent from the previous year,when it was 274,444. Jails nationwide operated at 98 percent of their capacities in 1987 compared to 85 percent in 1983, according to the annual survey.
The increases in jail population were caused by larger numbers of arrests during the four-year period and by the transfer of federal and state prisoners into jail systems, said Susan Kline of the bureau's staff, who compiled a report based on the jail data.
Arrests of men rose 8 percent from 1983 to 1987 while arrests of women rose 17 percent during that time, according to information compiled by the FBI from police departments around the country. Correspondingly, the number of women in jails rose 33 percent in the four-year period, to 23,920 while the number of men in jails rose 31 percent to 285,873.
The number of federal and state prisoners being held in local jails was 26,000 in mid-1987, by more than 3,000 in 12 months. As of mid-1987, about 87 percent of large jail systems with at least 100 inmates were holding inmates for federal or state authorities.
following the procedures.
The study excluded temporary lockups, federal and state prisons, private correctional facilities and the combined jail-and prison systems in half-a-dozen states.
The government surveyed jails administered by city, township or county officials holding inmates usually for more than 48 hours following their arraignment.
Missouri school breaks tradition Purdy High School conducts dance for the first time in school's histo
The Associated Press
PURDY, Mo. — Footloose students at Purdy High School broke a 100-year tradition Saturday night when they held the first dance in the school's history.
Students began filing into the school's gymnasium about 10:15 p.m. for the dance after the Purdy basketball team lost to Billings High School. Most of the students were casually dressed, wearing jeans and sweaters. But they seemed excited about being the first students to dance in the school's gymnasium.
federal judge.
"It's great," said senior Rhonda Robberson, who was crowned homecoming queen Saturday night. "It's a wonderful feeling. It's going to be some-
their gymnasium a really good time,” said I “expect to have a really good time,” said sophomore Ryan Deaney, who moved to Purdive five months ago. “I thought it was going to be a dull town. Really, it’s not a dull town anymore. I just wish last year’s seniors had had a chance to go to this dance.”
The school's ban on dancing, which brought national attention in the wake of the hit movie "Fooloose" about a similar ban in a fictional town, was ruled unconstitutional this summer by a federal judge.
dance. The dance was limited to the 161 students in grades nine through 12 because school officials did not want anyone to disrupt. Journalists were allowed into the decorated gymnasium before the dance.
thing I'll always remember "
thing I'll always remember.
The gymnasium at Purdy High School was transformed into a tent from the Arabian Nights. Stars hung overhead.
This large woven wall throughout the day stringing blue streams and hanging the stars, while recreated the theme of the evening "Waiting for a Star to Fall," a popular ballad by the rock group Boy Meets Girl. Star-covered balloons were scattered over the gymnasium floor.
scattered over the gymnasium as he
the lead plaintiff in the suit, Jonathan Clayton,
could not attend the dance because he is now
attending business school in Kansas City.
He's still worth
He said he was disappointed, but "it's still worth it. The idea was to allow Purdy students to have a dance and we did that."
Superintendent Sheldon Buxton said alumni and other non-students were kept out of the dance. But Buxton feared outsiders bent on disruption would be attracted by publicity.
"This is in the coming of," he said. "The kids are excited about the dance."
U. S. District Judge Russell Clark ruled that the ban promoted the values of those who opposed dancing for religious reasons. The board appealed, but a federal appeals court allowed the dance to go on while it considered the issue.
on white it is barred from dancing at school, Purdy students have held dances at the community center or in neighboring towns. But they said that was inconvenient and unfair.
"I already live way outside of Purdy," said
Miss Sweatic decided to go to the dance even that her boyfriend, no longer a student, was not allowed to attend. She said she didn't want to miss history in the making.
junior Anna Svetliec. "My freshman year, I couldn't go to the homecoming dance because it was too far. If we have them at school, everybody can go."
history in Miss Svetlecic said she had been to only two dances—one held at the community center her freshman year, another staged in Kansas City as a benefit for the lawsuit that challenged the dance ban.
"A lot of people have never even been to a dance," she said. "They know how to dance, they just never got a chance."
Purdy residents say feelings ran high over the dance issue in the farming community of about 900, which is in the Ozarks of southern Missouri.
Supporters of the ban were known to cross the street to avoid meeting someone in favor of the dance. About 250 people turned out at a school board meeting in 1986. Most favored the dance ban.
board meeting for the students circulated petitions and conducted rallies in support of dancing. They invited the stars of "Footloose," a movie about a fictional town with a dance ban, to a rally in 1986. But actors Kevin Bacon and Christopher Penn did not attend.
Three teachers volunteered as chaperones for the dance.
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