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Calendar
What: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Panel
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Centennial Room
About: Returned Peace Corps volunteers will talk about their personal experiences in the Peace Corps.
What: Jewish Studies Spring Gathering
When: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Traditions
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Thursday, May 8
About: An open event for anyone to socialize with students and professors in the Jewish Studies program. Light refreshments will be served.
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What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus Minis-
tries
"It's a cool thing; it's entirely different. You've got this existing thing with its own needs and presence," said Gore. "It's a classroom on wheels, it's a conference room on wheels, it's a meeting space on wheels. You can use it as a dining space, a celebratory space, a gallery space. It was important that it be multifunctional."
About: A free vegetarian meal every Thursday at the ECM across from The Oread.
What: Pussy Riot Panel Discussion When: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Jayhawk Room About: Three University professors will address a number of topics related to the Pussy Riot phenomenon in Putin's Russia.
What: Grad Grill
When: Noon to 4 p.m.
Where: Adams Alumni Center
About: Celebrate graduation with the KU Alumni Association. There will be free food, music, a photo booth and more.
Saturday, May 10
What: Monarch Watch Open House and Plant Fundraiser
When: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Foley Hall, 2021 Constant Ave.
Friday, May 9
About: An annual fundraiser featuring refreshments, activities and a number of plants ideal for starting butterfly gardens. Visit http:// monarchwatch/org/openhouse for more information.
What: Nature and Culture Seminar
When: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room 1
About: A seminar with Josh Nygren of the History department: "The Democratization of Conservation: Soil, Water, and Environment in an Age of Limits, 1970-1985." Open to faculty, staff and graduate students.
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ble." Rombold said with a laugh. "I spent about fifty hours scrubbing with a toothbrush and acetone."
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the University.
According to Sgt. Trent McKinley, the second vehicle, which was crashed into a stair-railing behind JRP on May 5, was reported stolen around 1 p.m. Monday. The police then spotted the vehicle near 9th and Emery, where the brief 30-second chase began near West Hills Apt. Complex.
After Rayton crashed the vehicle, he was arrested at 1130 W. 11th St. after a short-on-foot chase. Rayton's set for a "no go" preliminary hearing on May 13, and his bond has been set at $25,000.
The Lawrence Fire Dept. arrived to the scene of the crash Monday to remove the vehicle from the staircase. They worked to stop a gas-leak caused by the vehicle's positioning on the stair-case. The vehicle was removed from the staircase around 4:30 p.m., and classes inside JRP were not affected by the incident.
Lon Dehnert, the Assistant Dean of the School of Education, issued a statement about the incident yesterday commenting on the damage to the property, and applauding the LPD and LFD for their handling of the situation.
"They quickly and effectively controlled the situation while maintaining the safety of those in the area," Dehnert said.
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a new home somewhere in Lawrence.
She wants to live somewhere with air conditioning
— somewhere with plumbing that doesn't mess up every six months. She wants a basement. She wants an attached garage to park her 1989 Pontiac Sunbird, which has been parked outdoors every day since she bought it in 1990.
She's looking forward leaving her old bed behind and buying a brand new one.
"I've had it too long," she said. "If I could keep it, I would. But, you know, everything wears out."
When her story hit the local news media in March, Bell had not yet accepted an offer, though she said she was intending to sell. Lawrence City Commissioner Bob Schumm didn't want Georgia Bell to be uprooted.
"At her age, I can understand," Schumm said. "It's not the money as much as it is the feeling of security and what you're used to."
Schumm said Here's planned development is exciting. The high-end apartment complex will help raise Lawrence's population density, create economies of scale and
on this," Schumm said. "That's a happy outcome for us at City Hall that it's all going to work out."
Here developer Jim Heffernan said 1115 Indiana St. is better use of property if the one-bedroom house is torn down than if someone is living in it.
"It's a win for Ms. Bell, it's a win for the city and it's a win for us and our project."
JIM HEFFERNAN Here, LLC developer
Schumm said he's glad Bell decided to sell and move to a new house instead of trying to live in a house surrounded on three sides by construction with only steep concrete steps to get in and out.
support green transportation and street network efficiency.
"Everybody is going to win
"It's a win for Ms. Bell, it's a win for the city and it's a win for us and our project," Heffern said.
Although Here was prepared to build around Bell's property, purchasing it allows the company to expand the project, now with 624 beds instead of 592.
Heffernan said Bell's land, once rezoned for multiple use, is more valuable than it was when zoned as a single-family home. Adding it to the planned apartment complex's property also makes construction more efficient. Here plans to build a fully-automated underground parking garage into the Indiana and 11th Street hill.
Bell said she was happy to have sold her house. She declined to make public how much money she had accepted.
"Ms. Bell gets a new, fresh start, hopefully in a home that will be more conducive for her needs," Heffernan said.
In March, Bell got an anonymous letter postmarked from Topeka saying that money wouldn't make her happy.
Bell said she thought, "How come I can't have money and be happy?"
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CLIMATE
Great Plains to see harsh summer weather
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.
— Climate change will bring more drought, fierce storms and searing heat to the Great Plains, causing hardships that will test the region's legendry capacity to cope with severe weather, says a report by the National Climate Assessment.
Despite its sharply contrasting landscapes, the eight-state region extending from Texas to Montana will share one transcendent challenge: water.
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TRIPLE DIGITS. The southern Plains region averages seven days a year with 100-digit temperatures. That number should quadruple by mid-century, while the northern Plains should get twice as many. The hotter conditions will bring greater evaporation of surface waters, inflict heat stress on people and animals and raise demand for air conditioning. As young people head to cities, rural areas will have increasing numbers of elderly who are vulnerable to heat.
Other extreme weather will
In this Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across a cracked lake bed in Texas. Global warming is expected to bring more high temperatures and drought this year.
include heavy rainfall and more intense tropical storms and hurricanes along the Gulf coast.
WATER WOES: Water scarcity will hamper the region's energy production. Competition for water to cool electric plants and to drill for oil and natural gas using hydraulic fracturing will intensify. Marginal lands will become deserts, while the rain that does fall will often come during storms that will increase flooding, degrade stream quality and erode topsoil. Dwindling municipal supplies will cause problems in fast-growing cities.
AGRICULTURE: In the northern Plains, expected increases in winter snowfall and spring rain may help crops during the early growing season, although some fields may be too wet to plant. Longer growing seasons may allow cultivation of second annual crops, but pest insects that previously died off in winter will increasingly survive, and winter crops that leave dor-
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Farming will be hit hard in the central and southern Plains, as rainfall declines and evaporation increases. Demand for irrigation will rise, and the Ogallala and High Plains aquifers will be further depleted. Livestock will suffer from heat and feed grain production may slump.
mancy too soon will be vulnerable to spring freezes.
FLORA AND FAUNA:
Birds, fish and mammals will be affected by changes in seasonal lakes and wildfires. Changing temperatures will affect mating and predator-prey relationships, while increasing carbon dioxide levels could make the grasses and leaves that animals eat less nutritious. Clashes may increase between those favoring development and land fragmentation against advocates of conserving prairie and other habitat for troubled species such as the sage grouse.
In an article published Monday about the Holi Festival, the Kansan credited the Center for Global and International Studies for co-sponsoring the event. The SUA co-sponsored the event.
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