Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Repair work for the out-of-service elevator in Snow Hall began yesterday. The elevator had stopped working August 18.
While the elevator was out of service, Gloria Prothe, office supervisor in Snow Hall, said many people were inconvenienced.
“I know of at least one student who is in a wheelchair and couldn’t get to his class,” Prothe said. “We haven’t seen him around, and no one’s contacted us.”
Melissa Manning, associate director for disability resources at the University of Kansas, said the student did not contact the office.
“If they had just called the math department or our office, the class could have very easily been moved,” Manning said.
Some faculty members and housekeeping service also encountered difficulties because of the broken elevator. Prothe said faculty who needed to move furniture from their offices could not do so. Housekeeping staff had to drag supplies and trash up and down the stairs.
Some students had not noticed the problem.
“I did not even know Snow Hall had an elevator,” said Molly Wells, Austin, Texas, senior.
Atanas Stefanov, assistant professor of mathematics, has an office on the top floor. He said he had taken the elevator daily.
“It is an inconvenience, but then again, maybe it’s not such a bad thing for me,” Stefanov said.
The University’s Facilities and Operations department has a contract set up with Otis Elevators for maintenance and repairs. Prothe said she had tried to contact the company several times in the past few weeks. All she had heard was that a supervisor would contact her.
“I don’t know why it takes so long to replace a motor,” Prothe said.
Mark Sindors works for Otis Elevators and helped repair the broken elevator. He said the motor had burned out because the building was over heated and a brown-out occurred, meaning the voltage was too low, which strained the motor.
Sindors said the repair delay was due to the size of the motor.
“Usually when ordering a new motor, you can get one overnight,” Sindors said. “But we had to order a 50 horse-power motor, and that took some time to find one.”
The repairs began yesterday morning, and Sindors said the elevator should be working by the end of the day.
- Edited by Theresa Montaño
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