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Show t' Friday, February 15, The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Two 1991 Officials hope building will be pleasing, practical By Allan Rubenstein Chronicle Staff Writer The new communications building on campus. The Orson Spencer Hall parking lot will be occupied by an estimated $10 million structure. Funded by the state, the building will house the departments of communication, English, languages and literature, the Writing Program and linguistics department. Norman Council, College of Humanities said the dean, building provided for a 10 percent growth in faculty and students at the U. "Although we have already reached that capacity of 10 percent growth, the new building will provide for more growth in the future," he said. The building will primarily be faculty oriented. Although there will be various labs and media rooms, there will be no actual classrooms in the structure. V Norman Council, College of Humanities dean, said the new humanities building will provide expansion for department offices and media labs, although it will not contain any classrooms. Distinguished The departments of political science, history, philosophy and geography will stay in the OSH building and be allowed to expand their current office space. The Middle East Studies department will also move into the OSH building. The math department will professor dies U. The University of Utah biochemistry department and the School of Medicine have lost an important member of their faculties. Stephen A. Kuby, biochemistry professor and research professor in the School of Medicine died suddenly early Wednesday morning after a brief illness. Kuby joined the U. faculty in 1963 and was llllliiiiiililill head of the Biochemical Division of the Laboratory for the Study of Hereditary and Metabolic Disorders in the medicine department. d He was a expert on enzyme structures and kinetics. He collaborated with scientists in the United States and abroad. He world-renowne- recently completed work on a two-volum- e, enzyme kinetics treatise, A Study of Enzymes. Martin Rechsteiner, professor and of biochemistry, said Kuby was a "real inspiration" through his dedication to bench an hands-o- n science. "He was incredible in that he continued to do first-clas- s science all the way to the end of his said. Rechsteiner career," five-yereceived a Kuby grant three years ago. He was and had been receiving ar funding continually for the past 30 years, Rechsteiner said. A memorial service will be held Friday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. at the Evans and Early Mortuary, 574 E. 100 South. Susan Williams Stephen Kuby building will eliminate a majority of parking spaces in the OSH parking lot, leaving 60 of the original 240 spaces. Council said university officials have discussed building additional parking areas to make up the loss. "There is a long-tergoal of the benches and plants. The courtyards will be constructed with atrium ceilings to provide outside light. One level will contain on m university to buildof theparking Union a Parking Services director Alma Allred said the entire OSH parking fair amount of the building's construction budget will pay for landscaping of the building. It will enhance the campus beauty and agriculture with added trees and shrubbery, Council said. Recently, buildings funded by the state have been required to have a certain amount of budget equates with the closest parking of towards artistic enhancement. "There is a state directed many other universities," Allred said. provision called a 'percent for art.' Proposals for this will enhance the courtyards and lobby artistically," he said. The construction bid for the building will go out in the fall of '91. According to Richardson, crews will break ground in the summer of 1992. Students and faculty can expect to occupy the building by autumn quarter 1994. Council said the building is positioned directly in the center of campus and provides excellent walking traffic patterns. Brixon and Christopher architect Myron Richardson is in charge of the planning and design of the building. "The building is three levels, but will step up the hill so that you will only see two levels from the outside," he said. "We are planning a very large Police responded to a noise complaint at Medical Towers after neighbors- complained of a 7 and a shop stolen from - campus Building 533. The theft is classified as a felony. A mental patient, who has loud party going on in a nearby apartment. After chastising the partiers twice, police received been identified by police as no more complaints. February 10 prejudiced against minority members,a accosted passerby at the U. Health Sciences He from page one for the efforts of our community." One U. student watched out spit victim and then picked a The fight. victim did not. press charges. Police were called to inspect a suspicious package left in a covered the residents The smoking marijuana. occupants tried to hide the illegal substance, but police Carlson Hall dumpster. The reporters feared the package was a bomb. Detectives determined that the package was nothing more than a water bottle with a plastic plug. identified the drug before it was completely hidden. Police acquired 9 Two men were arrested, Police responded to a suspicious person report at Orson Spencer Hall. Officers observers in a HPER locker room discovered a female transient reported the two men "making had constructed a "home" for contact" while in the locker herself under the Southeast photographed and issued misdemeanor citations after property's serial numbers. If two or more of one type of item is recovered, the police have difficulty returning it to the rightful owner, he said. Of the property recovered in these instances, "maybe two percent of the victims have had their serial numbers." Most of the property recovered by police was taken from the U. stairway in the building. recently arrested were not distinguished the groups by identifying their different Another way people on campus can help with the burglary problem, Buckmiller said, is to keep track of their and areas for long periods of time, he said. Although the groups who were aided the police in apprehending five suspects. Some were suspects said, because of people reporting the suspects' activities. warrant a recovered stolen property after their search. February 13 burglars because it has high concentrations of vehicles in connected with each other, "they have their own network," or apprehended in the process of burglarizing vehicles, Shepherd home on 400 South as part of a followup The campus is a target for many his Residence Hall window for two nights in a row, called the police both nights and also followed one group. His tips Policea visited investigation of an earlier case. When they entered home the disthey apparently on the room. burglaries I IKilflapSgjISEO Center. February and A Center, which is never full, were viewing said. lot will be lost to staging and construction. "It will not make a big difference in the parking situation. It will only reshuffle the problem," he said. "The only real problem is there isn't parking where people want to park. The lot by the Eccles Tennis Two chairs open-ai- r relaxation. "There will be a lot of incidental places where people can sit, talk and study," Council Building." vacuum for deck terrace to the north February new building and the OSH building. It also is prospected to have a lot of natural light coming in to the building." Inside the building there will be open courtyards filled with Cowles Building. University of Utah students and faculty will soon be utilizing a new between the courtyard subsequently move into the LeRoy it about Police added. he somewhere," "they heard methods of operation. On average, five or six vehicle burglaries occur a day, Buckmiller said, but there have been fewer since the arrests. While three of the suspects are confirmed gang members, the connections of all other suspects aren't known. Ken Hansen, sergeant in the. Salt Lake Area Gang Project, said a rise in car burglaries and automobile thefts is occurring in connection with an increasing number of gang members in the Salt Lake area. Gang members . . . see vehicle theft and burglary as . ? a source of "easy money" and may find the U. to be a "fairly After the arrest of 13 vehicle burglary suspects over the past easy target." percent of the victims could identify their property with serial wm, vr? l nuXrs : n k : -.r;;-- i. Unive"ty of Utah, only two |
