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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Sports: Tonight's Jayhawk baseball game against Missouri won't count toward the Big 12 Conference standings.
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Inside: The Nasdaq and Dow begin to bounce back after big dips in the market Monday.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2000
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The award-winning design for the new bus shelter that will be built south of Learned Hall on 15th Street is pictured here. The design was submitted by Joshua Palmer, St. Charles, Mo., junior. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Learned Hall to get bus shelter
KU student wins $1.000 for design
By Erin R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
KU on Wheels passengers will see a silver and glass-panel structure with a curved roof at the Learned Hall stop — possibly as soon as next spring.
The bus shelter design for the stop was announced as part of an architecture conference at the University of Kansas last week.
Joshua Palmer, St. Charles Mo., junior, submitted the winning design, earning him a $1,000 award. Palmer's design, along with the other top three, are on display at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union, said Holly Krebs, transportation coordinator.
The second place design was submitted by Mark G. La Mair, Lawrence graduate student. The designs that tied for third place were submitted by Dirk
Henke, St. Peters, Mo., sophomore, and Joe Lee, Overland Park graduate student.
Palmer said the real structure would be constructed with steel, concrete and glass. The contestants were given a budget of $1,200 for materials, which Palmer said was a decent amount for a structure that was only 100 square feet.
"When I designed it, I was thinking more of something that would blend, but that would be a little bit different." Palmer said. "It was kind of difficult because I didn't know there was going to be an addition put on Learned."
A $15 million addition to the east end of the hall that will go south toward 15th street is about two years from completion, said Warren Corman, University architect. The three- or four-story high addition will fit the style of the building, but it will be more modern. Corman said.
Palmer said the sizable reward money and the possibility of actually having some
"When I designed it, I was thinking more of something that would blend but that would be a little bit different," Joshua Palmer
St. Charles, Mo., junior
thing built motivated him to submit a design.
Although supporters wante to include designs from other universities in the contest, all 18 entries were from KU students, said Alison Beck, architecture senator.
"There was concern about the money leaving the University," Beck said. "It was mandatory that they attend the conference and contribute to our University function."
Lawrence, 1520 Haskell Ave.
Beck said the conference still was a success. Students at the conference attended lectures and built a playground for the Boys' and Girls' Club of
Krebs and Beck said that they hoped the shelter could be built by KU students either as part of an architecture class or as an extracurricular activity for architecture students, but that the details needed to be worked out with administrators in the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
"It shouldn't take too long to construct as soon as we have everything together," Beck said. He estimated that the shelter would be built next spring.
"If that's successful, we'd like to continue with another contest in the spring," Beck said.
She said she was not sure which bus stop would be completed next.
The Learned Hall stop was picked because it is located far from the building, which made it uncomfortable in inclement weather, supporters said.
The competition was sponsored by KU On Wheels and the KU Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
Men at work
Chris Calderwood digs behind Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday. Doug Kramer and Jerry Bowman, far right, survey the excavation that will clear the way for a new high-voltage switch and cable. Photo Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Group housing census forms due at later date
By John Audlehelm
writer@kanson.com
Kansas stoff writer
Census forms are due today for most of the country, but some students who live in group housing may wonder why they will have to request their forms.
Sherman Parks Jr., district manager of the Topeka census office, said residence halls, fraternities, sororities, scholarship halls, jails and nursing homes were exceptions to the normal census rule.
"We treat them as special places," he said.
So instead of the Census Bureau mailing forms directly to those residents, Parks said, local contact people act as a go-between, either filling out the forms for the entire place or distributing them to residents.
"I was wondering how they were going to take care of it," Kolllhoff said. "Someone should have said something to us sooner."
Parks said his goal was to have about 60 percent of the group housing in his region receive forms by the end of the week.
"We're doing the five major dorms on the Hill," she said, referring to Templin, Hashinger, McCollum, Lewis and Ellsworth halls.
Margretta de Vries, census enumerator and cashier at the parking department, is one of the local people who helps to distribute forms to students.
"We probably have a larger percentage of group homes than the majority of local census offices."
Sherman Parks Jr.
Topeka census office district manager
Mick Schaefer, St. Louis senior and Hashinger resident assistant, said he had received the forms and began handing them out late last week. He said students seemed to know the census was coming.
"They were glad to see it just so they could get it over with," he said. "I think I had one person ask, 'Can I get out of this?'
Lisa Montoya, Austin, Texas, junior and one of Lawrence's five crew leaders for the census, said she took the job for the extra cash.
"I wanted a part-time job, and it pays good, and I can work from home," she said.
Montoya said her team was supposed to have the residence hall residents counted by the end of April.
Parks said the deadline to have his 26 county region counted was May 6, so he wanted the forms back by April 28.
He said his region contained the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Baker University and Washburn University, as well as, two jails.
"We probably have a larger percentage of group homes than the majority of local census offices," he said.
By Jim O Malley
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Jim O'Malley
Former professor awarded; University to consider appeal
A jury awarded Marie Aquilino, a former assistant professor of art history, $35,000 in her lawsuit against the University of Kansas last week, but the case hasn't ended yet.
Aquilino said she was seeking attorney fees and lost income in addition to the money awarded by the jury.
Stephen Lanterman, one of Aquilino's attorneys, said attorney fees could be awarded to prevailing parties in civil rights cases. Attorney fees and damages for lost income are decided by the judge, not the iurv, he said.
And the University is considering an appeal, said Lynn Bretz, interim director of University Relations.
Meanwhile, Aquilino said she planned to move to San Diego in May. She has friends and family there and said she hoped to get a fresh start. She said she thought it would be nearly impossible for her to find an academic job, but that she didn't have any firm plans vet.
Aquilino's immediate reaction to her victory last week in her civil rights lawsuit against the University was relief.
The former assistant professor of art history said it had been hard to go forward with her case after the University's victory last month in another civil rights case. A jury ruled against Cynthia Annett, former assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Ray Pierotti, associate professor in that department, in their lawsuit.
Aquilino said she thought the University's attitude was to win at any cost.
"You begin to think you can't win against a large institution." she said.
in a statement issued after the verdict. Aquillino said the University had relied on personal attacks against her in defending the lawsuit.
Her decision to sue the University was not an easy one for her and the plaintiffs in other civil rights lawsuits against the University, she said.
hard to work within the system."
"The lawsuit was an absolute last resort," she said. "We all tried really
She said she hoped the verdict would send the University the message that retaliation is a violation of civil rights law and must not be tolerated.
Marie Aquilino
"You begin to think you can't win against a large institution,"
Annett and Pierotti said they had been vindicated by Aquilino's verdict.
former assistant professor of art history
In a statement issued the day of the verdict, Bretz said that the court had dismissed Aquilino's sex discrimination claim and that the University believed it didn't retaliate against her for complaining about discrimination.
It is the policy of the general counsel's office not to comment about ongoing litigation.
"It took Marie a tremendous amount of courage to go forward." Annett said. "It's very difficult to sit there and hear people talk about you. We are very, very pleased. It made us feel wonderful even though we lost our case. It's really a matter of justice being done. The workplace has rules. Retaliation violates fundamental standards. Everybody, up to the chancellor, benefits when the rules are followed."
Annett and Pierotti were not inclined to appeal in their case, said Lanterman, who also was one of their attorneys.
Pierotti said other civil rights cases were brewing against the University, but it had not yet faced the strongest discrimination cases.
One discrimination case has hit a snag.
Mike Cuenca, assistant professor journalism, sued the University in federal court for discrimination and retaliation against his application for tenure. His attorney, Jim Wisler, withdrew from the case last month because of disagreements about how to handle the litigation. Cuenca said. U.S. District Judge Sam Crow gave Cuenca until Thursday to find a new attorney. Cuenca said he intended to pursue his case and was looking for another lawyer.
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