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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 17, 1993
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Building projects open for bids
Regents approve $27 million plans
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents opened the door yesterday for the University of Kansas to begin accepting bids for two projects that have an estimated total cost of $27.2 million.
The Regents approved final plans for the $18.2 million renovation of Hoch Auditorium and the $9 million construction of the new Dolph Simons Sr. Biosciences Center.
The biosciences center, set for completion in 1996, will be built on West Campus.
Allen Wiechert, University architect, said KU would have construction bids for Hoch by mid-November and for the biosciences center by early December.
Construction companies generally do not bid simultaneously for contracts,he said.
Wiechert said the bids would be awarded one or two weeks after they were collected.
He said that Warren Corman, Regents interim executive director, already had reviewed the plans. The
"Once we recommend the plans, they're usually accepted by the Regents," he said.
approval is just a formality, Wiechert said.
In other action, the Regents:
- approved KU's request to convert Joseph R. Pearson Hall for use by the School of Education. The $204,493 renovation will be included in KU's 1995 budget.
"It will be a beautiful renovation," he said.
Corman said he was looking forward to Hoch's completion in Fall 1995.
During the renovation period, the
basement and the first two floors of JRP will be used for the Clinical Child Psychology program, graduate teaching assistant offices, research suites, administrative conference and training rooms, and storage areas.
approved KU's request to add five projects to the list of repair and rehabilitation projects.
For one project, four concrete beams and loose handrails on overhead walkways will be repaired in Memorial Stadium. The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation will pay the $30,000 cost.
The Student Housing Department will finance these four renovations
- $460,000 for new roofs and stair repairs in buildings No. 8, 10, 12 and 22 of Stouffer Place Apartments.
from its repairs, equipment and improvements fund;
-$370,000 for renovation of building No. 12 of Stouffer Place Apartments in compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
— $500,000 for reconstruction of the first two floors of Sellards Scholarship Hall in compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
— Renovation of apartments No. 1 and 2, building A, of Jayhawker Towers in compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Car fire near Oliver does little damage
Lawrence firefighters put out a fire in a student's car in parking lot No.127, northwest of Oliver Hall, on Wednesday afternoon.
Two fire trucks were sent to the lot at 4:06 p.m. Wednesday. Capt. Don Knight said the report was a car on fire. When firefighters arrived they found only a little bit of smoke showing. The fire was extinguished.
Knight said a mechanical failure started the fire, which burned the car's carpet. The damage was estimated at $50.
KU graduates in Miss America
Two familiar KU faces will compete in this year's Miss America pageant.
Saturday night in Atlantic City, KU graduate Lori Minnix will represent Kansas in the pageant, and graduate Angela Casey will represent South Dakota. NBC will televise the pageant at 9 p.m.
Minnix, Lawrence resident, won the Miss KU pageant last fall, and this summer she won the Miss Kansas title in Pratt.
In December, Minnix completed her master's degree in Spanish literature at KU.
During her reign as Miss Kansas, Minnix traveled the country and spoke about education.
Business conference planned
Casey, who lives in Rapid City, S.D., works as a pharmaceutical representative for the Upjohn Company.
Looking for a way to become involved in her state, Casey entered the Miss South Dakota pageant. After singing a solo from the musical "Yenil" in the talent competition, she won the pageant in Hot Springs, S.D.
Casey graduated in the spring
The forum is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Marriott Downtown Allis Plaza Hotel, 200 West 12th St. The cost is $5.
KU students interested in master's of business administration programs may attend the Graduate Management Admission Council's MBA Forum tomorrow in Kansas City.
Representatives from more than 70 MBA programs will be available. Schools include Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University-Kellogg School, as well as KU. Workshops on topics such as MBA careers will be presented by employees of area businesses, such as Sprint and Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Haskell receives more funding
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved $1.3 million to build a new residence hall at Haskell Indian Nations University.
The money was part of the interior appropriations bill for fiscal year 1994, said Mike Horak, press secretary for Sen. Nancy Kassebaum. The bill also included $7.2 million for total campus operations, the same amount it approved for fiscal year 1993.
The appropriations bill now must go through a joint House-Senate committee. It will appear again on the Senate floor in a revised version on Oct 1.
An amendment, sponsored by Kassebaum and Sen. Bob Dole, also shifts $200,000 of the bill to assist an education program for Haskell.
The money for the new residence hall could ease Haskell's housing shortage, said Hannes Combest, educational assistant to Haskell president Bob Martin
The program is Haskell's first four-year baccalaureate program.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
Brian Karney, left, Town and Country, Mo., freshman, talks about volunteering at a hospice with Mike Cattaneo, center, Lawrence hospice volunteer, and Harry Hunn, Lawrence volunteer. The volunteer fair was yesterday in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall and represented many possible volunteer opportunities in Lawrence.
Students enthusiastic about volunteer fair
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
Communication between potential student volunteers and Douglas county agencies, such as Special Olympics, was the purpose of the volunteer fair, said Julie Harris, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach. The community center, a student organization funded by Student Senate, coordinated the fair, which ended yesterday.
For the past two years, Matt Nielsen,
Lawrence freshman, has coached swimmers who were in the Kansas Special
Olympics.
"The fair generates interest in volunteer ing and exposes students to agencies who are looking for volunteers." Harris said. "Some students may not know where they want to volunteer, and this makes them aware of the opportunities."
Harris said 15 agencies attended the fair, which has been held at the University for the past three years.
Nielsen told Special Olympics representatives yesterday that he wanted to coach the swimmers again this year when he attended the Center for Community Outreach Volunteer Fair on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
She said student response to the fair was very good.
Kerry Morgan, Denver graduate student and a representative at the fair for Habitat for Humanity, said that more than 40 students had signed up to help with future projects.
"We've run out of fliers for our group," she said. "The response has been wonderful."
She said students liked to volunteer because they had extra time and energy.
"There is a lot of enthusiasm for volun
Colin McDonald, Kansas City, Kan., junior and a representative of the KU Homeless Coalition, said the group always needed more volunteers.
teering here at KU and we're finding more and more people through things like this." Morgan said. "You see all types of students who come to volunteer."
Nielsen said he volunteers because he liked doing positive things for himself and Lawrence community.
"We're trying to get more people involved so we can have a larger effort for projects that we do with other groups, like the Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity and battered women's shelters," he said.
"I get a lot out of it by helping the kids," he said. "It makes me feel good."
Students who wish to volunteer but did not sign up can call the community outreach center at 864-3710.
Speak-Out to bring out accounts of harassment
By Carlos Tejada
Kansas staff writer
The anonymous accounts are due Monday at the Women's Studies program office in 2120 Wescoe Hall.
On Oct. 5, the KU Women's Studies Program will try to change that. On that date, volunteers will read KU students' anonymous accounts of sexual harassment in the Sexual Harassment Speak-Out. The accounts will be read at noon in front of the Kansas Union.
Victims of sexual harassment often keep silent, said Betty Campbell, assistant professor of English.
Although accounts of sexual harassment are not often heard, they do exist, Campbell said.
Campbell, coordinator of the event, said the first Speak-Out last fall created a larger awareness of sexual harassment. She said 200 people attended the Speak-Out last year, and as a result of the event, she was invited to speak at the Kiwanis Club and KJHK, the University's student radio station, on the subject.
"A number of people, including students, staff and faculty told me they had stories and didn't want them in," she said.
Sexist comments, constant solicitations for sex and touching when inappropriate for a business relationship are considered sexual harassment by the program. Rape and attempted rape also are included in the definition.
Campbell said the Speak-Out gave victims of harassment, most of them women, the courage to confront their fears.
"It makes people more aware of what exactly sexual harassment is," she said. "It gives people who have been harassed the courage to speak out."
Shirley Harkess, associate professor of sociology, said events such as the Speak-Out helped people who would not otherwise identify themselves as victims come forward.
Harkess said that victims often blamed themselves for sexual harassment the way rape victims sometimes blamed themselves.
"There are a lot of similarities to rape in that it makes the victim feel worthless," she said.
But Maurice Bryan, director of KU's office of affirmative action, said that not every victim would benefit from the Speak-Out. Some might need therapy first, he said.
"People have different ways of addressing those kinds of issues," Bryan said. "It's an option that could be healthy for some people."
Bryan said that addressing the issue was the most important aspect of the Speak-Out. He said KU — and other academic institutions — were not ready to deal with issues of sexual harassment.
"It's important to address the aftermath, the healing process," he said. "Institutions aren't good at that. We're not good at that."
KU faculty, staff and students can report to the affirmative action office if they think they have been sexually harassed at the University.
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