Wednesday, June 14, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Go west: new door in store for Union
By BriAnne Hess
By BriAnne Hess editor@kansan.com Kansan co-editor
University officials met with architects yesterday to continue work on the planned $5.6 million renovation of the Kansas Union.
David Mucci, director of the Kansas and Burge unions, said he and the Union board were working with architects to redesign the west entrance to the Union on Mississippi Street.
The Union lacks a good institutional entrance, Mucci said. It gets lost because of the trees and the bend in the sidewalk.
Mucci said the board also had to consider the entrance's relationship to Mississippi Street and the Spencer Museum of Art.
Another central proposal is to redesign the Union staircase, he said.
"Ultimately, we're going to get a staircase that allows a lot of light and movement in the building," Mucci said. "We'll have openings and viewpoints in and outside the building that will play on panoramas looking out of the building and looking through and down the building."
Ben Walker, student body president, said that first floor of the Union also may be renovated to include a coffee bar or a non-alcoholic sports bar along with pool tables and televisions.
"The general idea is to create an atmosphere that is conducive both to late-night studying and coffee but also for small performances that SUA can set up," Walker said. "I am leaning more toward the cafe idea, because I don't think a bar that doesn't serve alcohol will attract much traffic."
Mucci agreed that the sports bar concept didn't go very far without the bar. He said his main concern with the first floor was to find a way to move the arcade, bowling alley and pool tables to the other side where the stairs to the Union's upper floors are now located — leaving the rest of the
"The space should feel voluminous, bright and active, but we still have questions on how to fill it in." Mucci said.
The main change affecting the second floor
would be a covered walkway from the new parking garage. Architects are considering opening up the cafeteria on the third floor to create more open seating. The organizations and leadership section of the fourth floor also might also be enlarged for more student organization cubicles and more staff offices.
Walker has solicited feedback from students and faculty and forwarded it to the architects.
"We've gotten over 20 messages and suggestions on things that haven't been discussed yet," Walker said. "All of the responses have been very valuable."
Mucci said that student feedback had been positive and that he thought the Union would lend itself to what students said they wanted.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas and Burge unions, said student fees would pay for the renovation.
Construction for the Union renovation is scheduled for May 2001.
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Bradshaw said the traffic issue sparked his interest in the wetlands, which are south of Lawrence.
In addition to learning a lot about the history of the wetlands, the Walnut senior received one of this year's 38 summer Undergraduate Research Awards to support his interest in the
Mark Bradshaw's interest in the planned South Lawrence Trafficway and the Haskell-Baker Wetlands has paid off.
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"I've been involved with KU Environs, which was one of the parties to the lawsuit
Mark Bradshaw
interest in the subject.
In May, Bradshaw examined the efforts of E. Raymond Hall, who worked to preserve the wetlands in the 1950s and 1960s while working on a paper for an American studies course taught by Bill Tuttle, professor of history and American studies.
that stalled the trafficway" he said.
The course required students to do research with primary source documents. Bradshaw said he spent a lot of time in the Natural History Museum's mammal vault reading Hall's journals and in the University Archives researching the university's relationship with the wetlands.
Hall was chairman of the zoology department, director of the Natural History Museum, and director of the Kansas Biological Survey from 1944 until the 1980s. He was a prolific scholar and a pioneer in ecology.
Hall also tried unsuccessfully to get the University to take over the wetlands.
On the other hand, Bradshaw said, "It could be argued that the wetlands wouldn't exist if he hadn't done what he did."
Bradshaw's interest in the wetlands produced another paper. For a political science course, he examined Lawrence's Native-American community's opposition to the pro-
"He was a very charismatic man." Bradshaw said.
He said he learned Hall had questionable racial views and had arranged for the transfer of the wetlands from the Bureau of Indian Affairs so that the biological survey could control the land. He said he found the transfer of land from the Native American people disturbing.
"It could be argued that the wetlands wouldn't exist if he hadn't done what he did."
Mark Bradshaw
research award recipient
posed trafficway through the wetlands. He wrote that Haskell Indian Nations University saw the issue as one of environmental justice and cultural survival. The Haskell community considered the trafficway a project designed to benefit well-off commuters at the expense of Native-American interests, Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw has taken courses at Haskell. He fulfilled his Western Civilization requirements there, learning about the Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy and the philosophy of John Locke, a 17th-century English political philosopher.
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Bradshaw has spent an alternative Spring Break at the Moapa River Reservation in Nevada and has received Truman and Udall fellowships.
"Mark is one of our really excellent students." Turtle said.
E. Raymond Hall was chairman of the zoology department, director of the Natural History Museum, and director of the Kansas Biological Survey at the University of Kansas from 1944 until the 1960s. Mark Bradshaw researched Hall's role in preserving the Haskell-Baker wetlands south of Lawrence and his unsuccessful efforts to get the University to acquire them. File photos.
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