40 years ago: Compromise saves part of KU’s ‘Hawklet’

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 18, 1975:

As the result of a compromise reached this week, tables, chairs, and vending machines from the Hawklet, the student snack bar in the basement of Summerfield Hall at Kansas University, were to be moved to a nearby wooden annex. The military science offices in the annex were to be moved into remodeled quarters in the main ROTC building, according to Col. W. M. Wondrack, Air Force ROTC commandant. The agreement preserved some study space for business and computer science students. The Hawklet’s snack bar was to be sacrificed. “It would be quite unproductive to maintain a snack bar in such a small space — I think it’s only about 800 square feet, not including the study areas,” said Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union. The present snack bar employees would probably be transferred to other campus food services, Burge said. Students were not pleased with the decision. “It’s called a compromise, but we’re really getting nothing,” said Bruce Woner, Hutchinson senior and student senate president. “We didn’t come out good — we lost the Hawklet. Nothing can replace it…. The unfortunate thing is that students were left out of the decisions. We might have been able to work something out if we’d been involved sooner,” Woner added.