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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 20, 1993
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Fire codes won't cut back capacity at Allen Field House
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Allen Field House can continue to operate at full capacity this basketball season, officials said, while a newly selected Lawrence architecture firm works on the $1.9 million project to bring the building into compliance with state fire codes.
Ross Boelling, chief of fire prevention at the state fire marshal's office, said his house had no plans to require a reduction in the field house's advertised capacity of 15,800.
He cited the University's good faith effort to improve the availability of exits and to widen stairwells in response to the 1991 state fire marshal's report.
"We will be monitoring the building, but at this point, we do not plan on limiting capacity," Boelling said. "The University has given us an acceptable response. They've taken some additional steps, and they are after compliance."
Boelling said that the design and construction of the recommended improvements would take time.
Planned construction for the field house includes fire towers in three corners of the building. Boelling said.
towers in three corners of the building, Boelling said. Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the fire marshal's recommendations for the field house would ease the flow of crowds leaving the building after games
"We hope to start meetings very shortly with the architects to discuss the details," Wlechert said. "We hope to have the project ready to bld by the end of basketball season."
and during emergencies.
Gould Evans Associates, the Lawrence architecture firm selected to design the field house renovations, only recently had received the recommendations for fire code compliance. Doug Kester, associate with the firm, said no detailed plans had been made yet.
Kester said Gould Evans would work with FPC Consultants, Inc., a fire protection and code consultant in Kansas City, Mo., to devise the best method for the field house to reach compliance. He said that he expected the FPC report to be done by the end of October and that construction would begin after this basketball season.
"We've been under similar time schedules, so that's not a problem," Kester said.
Theresa Klinkenberg, associate director of business affairs, said that although the state legislature had allocated $924,000 for the project, the University would have to find other sources for the almost $1 million balance.
"I think we'll do our best to find the funding that's needed," Klinkenberg said. "By the time of taking construction bids in February, we'll have the financing in place."
Holidays' obligations create dilemmas
Jewish students may miss classes
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
For most students, classes and exams during September are merely nuisances.
But for Jewish students at the University of Kansas, September can mean missed classes, inconvenience and possibly worse — identifying one's religion to an anti-Semitic instructor.
The High Holidays can be a stressful time for Jewish students, said David Greenbaum, Overland Park law student. The High Holidays — which consist of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and the days that fall in between — require certain religious observances that may interfere with classes.
"It's degrees of observation," Greenbaum said. "Some people won't write, some people don't drive, and you've got to decide for yourself within reason."
Rosh Hashana, which means "head of the year" in Hebrew, is the Jewish new year, Greenbaum said. Yom Kippur is a day of atonement for Jews. The days between require spiritual reflection, he said.
Because the holidays follow the Jewish calendar, Greenbaum said, the High Holidays fall at different times during September. This year, Rosh Hashana fell on Thursday and Yom Kippur will fall on Saturday.
Greenbaum said he missed his first class on Thursday because he had to attend a ceremony for Rosh Hashana. He said he attended his afternoon class, but he could not take notes because his own beliefs forbade him to write.
The University Code requires professors to allow students who miss class because of religious holidays to make up their work. But Greenbaum said such actions required identifying oneself as Jewish, which could make both the student and the professor feel uncomfortable.
"By going up to a professor, you're singling yourself out of a class," he
David Katzman, head of the American Studies department at the University, said responsibility for scheduling tests and events fell upon the University.
"Our goal at the University is to make it hospitable in a multicultural and multiracial society," he said. "We ought to be sensitive."
Katzman said he was familiar with the feeling. He said he was invited to Friday's presentation of KU's Higuchi Awards, which recognize excellence in research. Katzman, who has won the award in the past, could not attend because it was held on the High Holidays.
Although the majority of the student body is not Jewish, faculty and staff should be aware of the Jewish holidays. Katzman said.
"Major things at the University shouldn't be scheduled so that there is asse of exclusion," he said.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Teenagers arrested for carjacking murder
Four Topeka teenagers have been arrested for the shooting death of a Lawrence man during an attempted carjacking Saturday, Lawrence police reported.
The attempted carjacking occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday at Riverfront Park in North Lawrence, according to police reports. The driver, Edward Lees, 29, was shot in the face with a large-caliber handgun as he tried to drive away from the teenagers. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman and two children who were in the car were uninjured.
The four teenagers were arrested at the East Lawrence entrance of the Kansas Tumpike, the report said. The weapon was recovered near the scene of the shooting.
One of the four teens was charged with felony murder. Two were charged with first-degree murder, and one was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police and the Douglas County Sheriffs Department continue to investigate.
Three KU scientists were featured on CBS"Sunday Morning" this weekend for their discovery of a crater in central Nebraska that is thought to be the largest and most recent impact crater in the United States.
Wakefield Dort, Larry Martin and Edward Zeller discovered the crater earlier this year while searching for mammoth tusks near North Platte. Neb.
Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Natural History, estimated the 500-foot meteor released as much energy as a hydrogen bomb when it impacted.
The crater is one mile wide and 70 feet deep. The scientists think it fell to the earth about 1,000 years ago.
Since the discovery, the scientists have continued to study the bedrock under the crater to gain additional evidence to back their find.
Dort is a retired professor of geology and Zeller is codirector of the radiation physics lab.
Compiled by Kansan staff writers.
IN HONOR OF MRS. E
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Carolyn Helmer congratulates Lenior Ekdahl at the dedication of the new dining commons at Lewis Hall, called Mrs. E's.
Lewis dining hall named after former director
By Brian James
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Lenoir Ekdahl leaned back in her chair and laughed during a reception in her honor.
"This is overwhelming," she said.
"I imagine having a building named after you — it's almost embarrassing."
The new dining hall at Lewis Hall was officially dedicated and recognized as the Lenoir D. Ekdahl Dining Commons in a ceremony Saturday morning. About 150 people attended the event held at the dining hall.
The event honored Ekdahl, who retired in 1989 after serving as director of food services in KU residence halls for 35 years. Ekdahl is a graduate of Kansas State University and a member of the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Chancellor Gene Budig, Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Ken Stoner, director of student housing, each spoke briefly during the ceremony
Ekdahl said after the ceremony that student workers in the dining halls made her career enjoyable.
"They were always so great to work with," she said. "They brought such a different insight into the job."
Ekdahl arrived at the University in 1955 from Purdue University, where she supervised two kitchens and four dining halls. She planned
to stay at the University for only three years.
"My husband worked in Topela and told me he would only commute there for that long," she said. "Well, he ended up commuting for 25 years.
She said she estimated that during her career at the University, she oversaw nearly 200 different dining hall supervisors.
"I guess I was just enjoying myself."
In a speech during the ceremony,
Stoner told a story he had heard
about Ekdahl's first day on the job.
Ekdahl told cooks to double the amount of rice for dinner that night, Stoner said. The cooks questioned the decision.
"To that she replied, 'On my first day of work here at KU we will not run out of food, and the students will not leave here hungry—not on my shift,'" Stoner said.
"I'm told that on the days that followed they also introduced a number of new rice recipes," he said.
Ekdahl said she learned from that incident to not second-guess her cooks.
Louisa Davis, who worked in the dining halles for 38 years and was one of Ekdahl's cooks, spoke with Ekdahl after the ceremony.
"I'm glad you didn't blame us," Davis said, grinning. "We just did what you told us."
Edkahl said she was pleased with the nickname given to the dining
"I imagine having a building named after you—it's
embarrassing.
Former KU food services director
hall.
"I'm awfully happy they are just calling it Mrs. E's," she said. "Students can do some interesting things with names of halls, but I don't think they will with this."
Stoner said that naming the dining hall after Ekdahl seemed obvious.
"I suggested it to David Amber, but everyone thought it was the logical name to use anyway," he said.
The new dining hall's food court was part of a new trend in dining services, Ekdahl said.
"I think this place is great," she said. "They've gotten away from the stereotype of the typical college dining hall experience."
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