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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 18, 2000
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Church's 'new doors' welcome KU students
By Mike Hoffman
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The building at 1629 W. 19th St. is being renovated into the new home for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion for the KU campus.
Formerly the American Baptist Campus Ministry Center, the building was sold to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about a year and a half ago, said Brent Staples, institute director.
The building at 1629 W.19th st. was recently renovated to house the Institute of Religion for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is used for classes, Sunday services and as a hung out for KU students. Photo by Jamie Roper/ KANSAN
He said the Church bought the building because it was close to campus and it could serve the needs of students by giving them a balance between the secular classes and spiritual needs.
"We hope this will help further the mission of the Church in general," he said.
The building is used for classes and for Sunday worship services, which mostly are attended by students.
Fellowship and former tenant of the American Baptist Campus Ministry center for 17 years, said the building had not been well taken care of.
"We also want it to be a place where students can come and just hang out and do homework," he said. "We already have some computers here."
Patrick Cantrell, Lansing junior, has gone to worship at the institute and said he was impressed with the renovations.
"They've totally redone the inside of it," he said. "They've made it a comfortable place and one that's very conducive to worship."
"There were just general maintenance problems," he said. "It was in total disrepair."
"We moved in pretty quickly after we bought it." Staples said. He said it was
Rick Clock, director of the Southern Baptist-sponsored University Christian
Then the Mormons stepped in.
easy to acquire the money to purchase the building because the local Latter-day Saint branch received money from the Church's headquarters in Salt Lake City.
"One of the first things we did was get new doors," he said. "With the old ones, you could just kick them in," he said.
In addition to the doors, Staples said the institute added carpet and got new windows because they were leaking
water. The roof also was repaired.
However, more work needs to be done.
"We need to tear out the interior walls and ceiling and clean up the asbestos over the fireplaces and under the office windows," Staples said. "The Church likes to keep their buildings up to at least an 80 percent maintenance; right now we're up to 60 or 70 percent."
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Nasdaq composite and the Dow industrials rose more than 200 points in a late-session rally yesterday, giving the Nasdaq a record one-day point gain just one trading session after its biggest single-day loss.
However, the overall market fell as investors remained highly cautious following last week's devastating sell off.
The technology-dominated Nasdaq rose 217.41 to 3,538.70, according to preliminary calculations. The Dow gained 276.74 to 10,582.51.
The advance in both indexes was welcome news after last week's losses that slashed nearly $2 trillion from the stock market's rally. But with five stocks
falling for every three that rose yesterday, it was too early to tell if Wall Street was squarely on the way to recovery.
Both barometers changed directions throughout yesterday's trading, which followed declines in overseas trading including a nearly 7 percent drop in Tokyo.
Wall Street had been expected to decline yesterday as investors were extremely wary after last week's debacle. Still, the fact that investors were interested in buying at all was a positive sign, although they were focusing on big-name stocks — those believed to be the most stable.
The Nasdaq, home to technology stocks whose popularity has evaporated, tumbled 355.49 Friday, or by 9.7 percent, to 3,321.29. The point drop was its worst ever, surpassing a fall of 349.15 on March 3, and it was the second worst in percentage terms. Its 25 percent plunge for all of last week also was a record.
The Dow fell 617.78 points, or by 5.7 percent, Friday, its biggest one-day point drop ever. It closed at 10,305.77.
Yesterday in London, Europe's largest stock market, the FTSE 100 index of Britain's largest companies fell nearly 3 percent on the London Stock Exchange.
Germany's DAX blue-chip index fell nearly 0.4 percent. In Paris, the CAC 40 index of leading shares was down 0.09 percent from Friday's close. Both indexes recovered from earlier heavy losses.
In Asia, Japan's benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell nearly 9 percent before closing with a loss of 1,426.04 points, or 6.98 percent, at 19,008.64. It was the fifth-largest percentage drop in the Nikkei's history.
After the Tokyo close yesterday, ruling coalition policy chiefs agreed to recommend pumping up to 1 trillion yen, or $9.7 billion, in public funds into the stock market if it continues to plunge.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index finished with its second-worst one-day point loss in history, falling 8.55 percent, to 14,762.37. In Singapore, the Straits Times Index closed 8.69 percent lower at 1,999.39.
Compared to their Asian counterparts, investors in Europe appeared to be somewhat less fearful that Wall Street's bull market might finally have expired.
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From 1866-1889, Kansas State University, as it was known in the nineteenth century, struggled to become a college to say nothing of university because of scarce state funding and ill prepared young men and women. The $100,000 voted by Lawrence residents in February of 1870 along with other formative developments in Kansas higher education will be justified.
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