Wednesday, February 16, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
City checks into Marriott
By John Audelheim
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
City commissioners were pleased by last night's proposal for a Marriott hotel in the Riverfront Plaza, but said they wanted to hear input from Lawrence citizens before making a final decision.
"It appears to be a very viable program." Mayor Vory Hodges said.
He joked that he was encouraged because the hotel, which would be called SpringHill Suites, would be the first ocean-view hotel in Kansas.
The proposed SpringHill Suites would occupy 40 percent of the Riverfront Plaza, at West Sixth and New Hampshire streets, and would
be completed late this year. Its 108 rooms would face the Kansas River.
Its developers wanted three things from the city: 138 parking spots, reduced ground lease payments and a portion of the guest tax the hotel would generate.
Of the three demands, commissioners were most concerned about the guest tax.
"I don't think we want to get into a stampede for the guest tax giveaway," commissioner Mike Rundle said.
Bill Newsome, owner of Southwind Capital Limited Liability Corporation, one of the members of Riverfront L.L.C., said developers asked to keep part of the
guest tax because the hotel would operate meeting space for about 300 people.
He said that hotel developers want
ed to have the meeting space because of its proximity to down town Lawrence, but the nominal revenue it would generate was not
enough to compensate hotel owners for building it.
Hodges said the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 734 Vermont St., would have a meeting March 1 to discuss the guest tax.
He said he also wanted to hear from downtown businesses on what they thought about the hotel.
In other news, the City Commission:
Committed about $75,000 to help pay architects to design the parking structure at the 900 block of New Hampshire Street. Jeff Shmalberg, one of the block's developers, said the money was necessary to keep the Downtown 2000 project on schedule.
Authorized city manager Mike Wildeng to spend about $26,000 to hire a parking consultant to work with the Downtown 2000 architects.
Set Feb. 29 as the opening bid date for the office space renovation at the Community Drop-In Center, 214 W. 10th St.
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Zach Schneiderman, Northridge, Calif., senior, interviews Joel Finne, Owatonna, Minn., senior, for his video of the 1999-2000 academic year. Schneiderman's video includes interviews with many students about their experiences as KU students. Photo by Ellie Haiek/KANSAN
By BriAnne Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Zach Schneiderman said he wanted to leave something nice for the University of Kansas when he graduated this May.
His farewell will take the shape of a black videocassette that captures student life for the 1999-2000 academic year. The project is a directed study under Matt Jacobson, assistant professor of theater and film.
Schneiderman, Northridge, Calif., senior, started the project last summer and said he hoped to finish filming by spring break so he had time to edit the footage and add music before the semester ended.
“It’s been a wild ride doing this, but now I'm in the bulk of editing and haven't interviewed all I want.” Schneiderman said.
Schneiderman said he would like to interview at least 30 KU students from a variety of backgrounds in order to illustrate the diversity on campus.
University Relations, the Athletics Department, Fox Sports and ESPN came to the rescue.
"The biggest thing at the University is sports, but how was I going to get access?" Schneiderman said.
One of the challenges Schneiderman said he faced was acquiring access to sports footage.
"ESPN was the best," he said. "They treated me like a king — I was amazed."
Schneiderman said that landing an interview with Dick Vitale, ESPN sportscaster, was a lot easier than he thought it would be. He left a message on the answering machine at ESPN, and the network called back two days later to tell him to meet Vitale at Allen Fieldhouse two hours before game time.
ESPN also gave Schneiderman access to its footage. Fox Sports let him use the rights to the football game against Nebraska, and the Athletics Department gave him access to the field for the Missouri football game.
Schneiderman said that he
could not sell the video yearbook because of the deals he had made to acquire the rights to networks' broadcasts but that he wasn't looking to make a profit from the video, either. He said his goal for the project was an all-campus screening in May.
Jacobson said that the scope of the project was too large to fit into the standard video-production class because of the amount of work required and the need for focus on one theme throughout the year.
"Zach needs to be focused as the director of a yearlong scrap
book of the experience of a student at KU." Jacobson said.
Jacobson said Schneiderman had recognized that this was a watershed year to record the lives of University students because of the year 2000.
"From the footage I've seen, it's looking like a good representation so far," Jacobson said.
Schneiderman said his idea for a video yearbook was sparked by a film made by members of the University of Kansas class of 1969 called Where is Yesterday?, which captured the music, clothes and issues of the year.
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