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Volume 126 Issue 67
kansan.com
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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LAWRENCE
City to undergo significant construction in 2014
KATF MILLER
news@kansan.com
In 2014, Lawrence will undergo four construction projects that will directly affect students. Not even one full month into 2014, the Public Works Department of Lawrence has begun to reconstruct and improve the city's infrastructure.
Currently, construction is underway at the intersection of Iowa and Naismith streets. Expected to be completed in one month, the waterline replacement has closed the outside lane for westbound traffic. Public Works director Dave Cronin said drivers can expect delays during peak hours of the day, but none too lengthy.
"I drive through there like most people do," Cronin said.
"I drove through east on 23rd Street just after lunch and there was really no significant backups at all."
Cronin also said the city will undergo a large infrastructure project along the South Lawrence Trafficway. The project will add a new road connecting Interstate 70 northwest of town with Kansas Highway 10 east of town. It will also create new interchanges along Iowa and Haskell streets for K-10. It will also add a new road between Haskell and OConnell streets. The project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2016.
The University will also undergo its own major construction projects.
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According to Paul Graves, deputy director of the University Office of Design and Construction Management, the
construction around Eaton and Learned Hall is an expansion that will provide two additional multifunctioning buildings.
One will connect Learned Hall and the Measurement, Materials and Sustainable
scehduled to be completed in the fall of 2014.
The University is also undergoing electrical improvements around Ellsworth Hall. This project will install new air conditioning
"I drove through east on 23rd Street just after lunch and there was really no significant backups at all."
DAVE CRONIN
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
Environment Center and is slated to open in the fall of 2015. The other is an Engineering Bay, which is an industrial-type building with the dimensions and structural resilience for testing full-scale building components. It is
and electrical equipment for the building. Completion is scheduled for February 2014.
Here are the projects for 2014, according to Dave Cronin, Lawrence Public Works engineer:
SUMMER: 2100 Block of Vermont
SUMMER: 2100 Block of Vermont
-This residential street is composed of bricks. The city Public Works will tear them up to lay a new foundation and a new layer of bricks.
-Expected to last two to three
-Expected to last two to three months.
- Delays will be minimal.
SUMMER AND FALL: Bob Billings
Parkway, west of Wakarusa -This project will reconstruct old pavement, as well as convert the second lane into a left turn lane. Bike lanes will be constructed with extra width. -Expected to last two to three months.
-Slight delays expected. Traffic will remain open during construction.
SPRING: 9th and Kentucky - Traffic signals will be replaced, sidewalks and ramps will be
improved.
CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
-Expected to last for one month.
-Delays will be minimal; traffic will remain open.
- Traffic signals will be replaced, and a center turn lane will be added at Michigan and Emery streets. One lane will remain open, and bike lanes will be added.
-Expected to take place this summer.
SUMMER: 9th and Emery
-Delays may be slight; traffic will remain open.
SPRING: South Lawrence Trafficway This project, one of the bigges
SEE CONSTRUCTION
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Learned Engineering Expansion Phase 2
-An $80 million, 135,000-gross-square-foot expansion.
-Will provide additional classroom,
laboratory and office space.
Two new buildings.
-New buildings-
-Building connecting Learned Hall and the Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center, stated to open fall 2015.
-An Engineering High Bay, as industrial-type building with the dimensions and structural resilience for testing full-scale building components, scheduled for completion fall 2014.
Bioscience and Technology Business Center Incubator Lab
-Elsworth houses "mission-critical telecommunications equipment." $4.6 million dollar project will install new HVAC and electrical equipment to replace the old equipment.
-AT&T has partnered to cost-share as a part of its project to deploy an expanded distributed antenna system. AT&T's project will improve wireless service on campus. Scheduled for completion in February 2014.
Ellsworth Annex HVAC & Electrical Improvements
$10 million, 30,000-gross- square-foot facility. -Expansion provides new wet and dry-lab space, conference rooms and offices for the NT Center for Technology Commercialization. -The building will accommodate 18 to 24 companies. Project is expected to be completed in summer 2014.
This map shows the distance from Douglas County to Wyandotte County. Student volunteers are working with the Enroll Wyandotte campaign to register eligible residents for health insurance.
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Campaign registers residents for health insurance
GOOGLE MAPS
YU KYUNG LEE
news@kansan.com
To help the uninsured of Wyandotte County get health insurance with the Affordable Care Act, KU students have been called on to help. Wyandotte County is one of the poorest communities in Kansas with 23 percent of its population living below the poverty level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Before the March 31 deadline, the county is trying to get 3,000 residents enrolled in the marketplace. To do so, the Enroll Wyandotte campaign needs help
"There is quite a bit of need in Wyandotte County to be enrolled in health insurance before the deadline, and KU, as a public university here to assist the state of Kansas, we thought that KU students would both benefit from getting a better understanding of the marketplace and how health insurance works and how important access to health insurance is and also be able to help people get before enrolled the deadline," said Amanda Schwegler, the assistant director of the Center for Civic and Social Responsibility.
educating the residents on the new options they have for health care.
"Many of these individuals don't have the access to Internet so they don't have the information to form informed decisions," said Lucia Jones, program coordinator of Enroll Wyandotte.
"A lot of people want health insurance but many don't know how to go about doing it, so I just want to be there to help them to make it a less intimidating process," Soap said. "I think it's important that we contribute to the surrounding community, and the Med Center is
This is where volunteers come in, Jones said. Volunteers who undergo training become certified application counselors who can educate and provide one-on-one assistance to residents.
"Students aren't going to make health insurance choices for people, they are just going to help navigate the website and understand how to see what the options are for health insurance," Schwegler said.
Julia Soap, a third-year student at KU Medical Center from Lawrence, is one of the students who has signed up to help.
Students who sign up to help will have five hours of training during which they will learn about the health insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act. After training, student volunteers will complete 15 hours of service between February and
located right there in one of the poorest communities in Kansas."
the end of March.
Schwegler is trying to gather 80 students for the campaign. While many students have shown interest, more Spanish-speaking students are needed, Schwegler said. With 30 percent of residents being Latinos, the demand for Spanish-speaking volunteers is very high.
Kayla Jacques, a senior from
Ellis, and a Spanish major, is one of the dozen student volunteers who speak Spanish. By volunteering, Jacques can also get a certification in service learning because she is enrolled in a service learning course in applied behavioral science.
"I thought the program
SEE WYANDOTTE PAGE 3
CRYPTOQUIPS 5
OPINION 4
The Florida authorities released their charges on Monday. McLinn is now being held on the Lawrence police warrant. If McLinn chooses to waive her extradition hearing in Florida, the Lawrence police anticipate she will return to Kansas within the week. If she has an extradition hearing in Florida, it could take up to several months for her to return to Kansas.
The District Attorney's office requested, and was served, an arrest warrant for intentional premeditated first-degree murder against McLinn in the case of Sasko, whose body was found inside a residence at 2905 W. 26 Street. on Jan. 17.
Lawrence police have not released information about McLinn and Sasko's relationship besides that the two shared a residency.
CLASSIFIEDS 7
CROSSWORD 5
Park rangers contacted Lawrence police about McLinn and the vehicle she was found in. Lawrence police confirmed McLinn and the vehicle were wanted in connection to the Sasko homicide case.
SPORTS 8
SUDOKU 5
CRIME LPD Press Conference; Homicide suspect found
Police detained McLinn on a federal charge of possession of a controlled substance.
Lawrence Police Chief Tarik Khatib announced Monday that Sarah Brooke Gonzales McLinn was detained by authorities in Florida on Saturday. McLinn was camping illegally in Everglades National Park with a 2008 Nissan Altima registered to Harold Sasko.
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— Edited by Jack Feigh
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