d win be it."
NEWS
Ten lucky children will win bicycles at the Stouffer Place winter party raffle on Saturday at the Burge Union. PAGE 3A
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Alaskan recruit Mario Chalmers will play with Kansas men's basketball team and faced future rivals in a high school match-up. PAGE 1B
KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 78
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2005
Ice causes messy pile-up
Cars parked in Alumni Place lot collide after ice forms on pavement
Seven cars were discovered compacted in the Alumni Place parking lot behind The Wheel Pizza Company, 507 W. 14th St. The KU Parking Department blocked off an area of spaces on the south side of the parking lot. Ice had formed on the pavement after water dripped from pipes at a nearby apartment complex.
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BY NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The Alumni Place parking lot looked like a miniature demolition derby arena yesterday morning.
Seven cars were found compacted into each other on an icy incline on the south side of the lot, which is located south of The Wheel Pizza Company, 507 W.14th St.
The pipe was connected to drainage pipes from the apartments and a device in the ground.
Water was trickling into the parking lot yesterday morning from a pipe behind Kinney Coach apartments, 1430 Louisiana St., which was west of the collision.
Warren Zimmerman, owner of Kinney Coach apartments, was unavailable for comment.
David Gage, owner of Gage Management Services and Emery Place Apartments, said that water had flowed downhill from the University of Kansas campus. Emery Place Apartments is directly east of Kinney Coach apartments.
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Gage said that eight years ago, water flowed from the University into the parking lot of Emery Place apartments
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KU service to lay off employees
BY NATE KARLIN
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KANKSAN STAFF WRITER
University of Kansas officials will close KU Printing Services this spring after several years of dwindling business. An exact closing date has not been determined.
Changes in printing technology, primarily through the wide use of electronic printing, have affected the service's profits, said Marilu Goodyear, vice provost for information services.
KU Printing Services prints forms and documents for the University's Lawrence campus. The business made $2.5 million in printing jobs last year, a decrease of $500 thousand from three years ago, Goodyear said.
Unfortunately the decision means University employees will lose their jobs. The University has downsized the printing services from 40 employees three years ago to 20.
"My staff is pretty disappointed," Dennis Smith, print shop manager, said. "They feel like they've been let down by the University. They feel like they did all this for nothing."
Smith said the department of human resources had worked with his employees, but it could be difficult for
Legislature reviews funds
State money would go toward damaged structures across campus
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BY DANIEL BERK
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Now that the Legislature is in session,it's reviewing the presentation and researching further.
The Board of Regents presented these deferred maintenance problems to the Legislative last October.
The six Kansas state universities have $584 million of maintenance problems, ranging from cracked sidewalks to collapsed ceilings.
STUDENT SENATE
Though deferred maintenance sounds small, it's not, said Jim Modig, director of Design and Construction Management.
At Blake Hall, located southeast of Watson Library, air handling units are over 30 years-old. Modig said if a part broke and was not replaced in time, the
Modig pointed out a few different areas on campus where deferred maintenance could be identified.
building could lose heating and cooling.
Murphy Hall, located north of Allen Fieldhouse, has gaps between the windows and the brick on the building's exterior. He said if those problems weren't fixed, brick could start falling from the building.
"I relate the problems we have to having a 20-year-old furnace in your basement at home," Modig said. "It might look fine from the outside, but on the inside there could be bad pipes causing it to fail."
The Student Legislative Awareness Board and Kevin Boatright, associate executive vice chancellor for external affairs, will now work together raise awareness of the problem.
have on campus," Boatright said. "It's important the public understands what we have to do to take care of the buildings on campus, and it should be a concern to all students because it affects safety and quality of education."
"Part of what makes our University so special are the older buildings we
Members of Student Senate will travel to Topeka to meet with the Kansas Board of Regents this semester to try to help correct the current situation.
Deferred maintenance is the number one priority when Student Senate begins going to Topeka, said Katie Wolff, Student Senate legislative director.
At the University of Kansas, including the University of Kansas Medical
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Campaign to aid tsunami victims
BY ADAM LAND
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Students will collaborate to raise money for the disaster relief effort
Several University of Kansas organizations are working together to raise money for tsunami relief.
Members of Delta Force, Panhellenic, International Students and Scholars Organization and the University chapter of the United Nations Children's Fund pledged raising time to help victims
The collective fund raising will be called the KU Tsunami Relief Campaign. Each group will donate time for fund raising in upcoming events.
of the tsunami.
The first event occurred Wednesday at the Kansas men's basketball game against Nebraska. A table at Allen Fieldhouse collected donations for the Red Cross. The campaign will hold a similar event at the women's game
Such a collaboration has not happened since Sept. 11, 2001, said Rashida Banerjee, president of KU UNICEF
WANT TO DONATE?
The following are times and locations where you can donate to the KU Tsunami Relief Campaign:
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Jan. 24 to Feb. 4 in front of Wescoe Hall and on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Candlelight vigil at 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 28 at the Campanile.
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First Management employee Lance Hoover smokes a cigarette while clearing cement from behind Quinton's Bar & Deli, 615 Massachusetts St., to make room for new smoking decks. First Management's Derk Ogten said the work began two weeks ago and that the deck would be finished within a month.
Businesses get smoking decks
Quinton's, Louise's spend thousands
BY ADAM LAND
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The wooden deck behind Quinton's Bar & Deli is gone. It has been a popular Lawrence hangout for more than ten years, owner Steve Gaudreau said.
Because of the smoking ban, Gaudreau said, thins needed to change.
A two-level, enclosed concrete smoking deck will be built behind the bar to accommodate smoking customers.
The renovations at Quinton's, 615 Massachusetts St., are part of a common trend among local businesses to attract clientele.
The smoking ban has forced other bars to come up with creative ideas for patios and decks.
Kaspar's Bar and Grill, 5115 W. 6th St., roped off a segment in front of the establishment to create a patio. The space is not as expansive as some of the bars downtown, but Kaspar's strip mall location leaves few alternatives.
Louise's Bar Downtown, 1009 Massachusetts St., erected a new deck last summer.
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John Davis, manager of Louise's, said the new patio cost several thousand dollars. The new deck helped
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Spencer Museum of Art
The Spencer Museum of Art has a new director. After 18 years at the Salina Art Center, Saralyn Reece Hardy is ready to come to Lawrence. PAGE 5A
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Football
Three Jayhawk senior football players head for Maui, Hawaii, to play in the Hula Bowl tonight. The players were chosen for their excellent leadership and records. PAGE 3A
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