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VOLUME 118 ISSUE 70
》 OREAD INN
Decision postponed until January
BY MARK DENT.mdent@kansan.com
The community will have to wait even longer to learn the City Commission's decision about Oread Inn, a seven-story hotel that would be built at 12th and Oread Streets.
City Commission members postponed their decision to approve or disapprove the plan and use public tax money to fund the developers. The Commission moved to make the developers propose Oread Inn's design before the Historic Resources Commission again because the design had changed drastically since the Historic Resources Commission voted unanimously to deny it in September.
City Commissioners said they could not make a proper judgment on whether its design was as feas-
sible as it could be and if the new design, which featured a smaller mass and different aesthetics, would be approved by the Historic Resources Commission
The Historic Resources Commission will discuss Oread Inn during its next meeting in December. The City Commission will discuss it again in January after it has reviewed the HRC's decision and the feasibility of the building design.
The Historic Resources Commission voted against the development plan of the Oread Inn in September mainly because of its height. Oread Inn's developers argued that seven-floor height of the building is the only feasible way to build it. They said the hotel's profit after three years would be $1 million if it was
"This project is too good and is too valuable to the community," Mayor Sue Hack said. "We can't have the process color it in any way."
seven stories tall. If it were only six stories tall, the hotel would lose $900,000 because of the hotel would contain fewer rooms.
Oread Inn is a seven-story structure that would feature condos, restaurants, 74 hotel rooms and an underground parking garage. It would be 94 feet tall, which is about 50 feet shorter than Fraser Hall. The Oread Inn plan also calls for reconstruction of the intersection of 12th and Oread Streets.
If it is built, the Crossing, the Yello Sub building, Big Burrito and Beat the Bookstore would be demolished. Management of the Crossing said two weeks ago that the bar would close Dec. 6 and would be demolished sometime during Winter Break.
Edited by Amelia Freidline
CENTRIFIED ILLUSTRATION
The above illustration is a revised image of the proposed Oread Inn. This other mock-ups were presented to the City Commission Tuesday night.
SOUTH ELEVATION
TOY DRIVE
Toy collection needs 1,000 for party
The Center will host a toy drive Thursday to try to make up the difference.
The Center for Community Outreach is about 1,000 toys short of the 1,200 it needs for next week's annual holiday party for the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
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Candace Hogue, co-coordinator or Mentors in the Lives of Kids, a Center program that is largely involved with the party, said that the Center will be in the 4th floor of the Kansas Union from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday seeking unwrapped toys and books or monetary donations.
HOPE AWARD
McBride's work earns recognition
Edward McBride was one of this year's recipients of the HOPE Award. And it's easy to see why he received the honor.
McBride, civil, environmental and architectural engineering lecturer, was nominated the last three years and has held weekly review sessions for engineering students.
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Since McBride retired from his consultant business, many students at the University have attended his review sessions to better understand the aspects of whatever engineering classes they are in.
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'Ornery'art
White Owl and Anson Stanclife, a Lawrence senior who goes by "Anson the Ornery," perform a performance art piece on Wecoce Beach Tuesday afternoon. Anson said he did the piece for his public art works class. Passers-by participated by trying to throw pieces of tac into a bowl of water before Anson tagged them. Anson said his performance represented the interference of government bureaucracy in people's lives.
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》 SUA
Winter Wishes program promotes giving
The snowman ornaments that hang on the Kansas Union's Christmas tree are not for just decoration. Each snowman contains one child's Christmas list and gives University of Kansas students the opportunity to play Santa.
Each year, The Winter Wishes program.
which is administered by the SUA and the Salvation Army, sets up trees like the one in the Kansas Union in various locations around campus. After students buy their gifts, they are to bring the gifts unwrapped to the SUAs office.
SUA, said the organization had only received a few gifts, but she said it is still early in the program and that students do not usually start bringing in gifts until after Thanksgiving Break. She said Winter Wishes usually has a large turnout and that in the past, SUA has had to ask the Salvation Army
Lisa Sullivan, box office assistant for the
for more names. Last year, she said the program donated truck loads of presents to the salvation army.
The Winter Wishes program began Nov 12 and will end next Thursday, Dec. 6.
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