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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VANDALISM
Five-foot section missing on historic fence
RACHEL SALYER rsalyer@kansan.com
A historic cast-iron fence at Sprague Apartments near the intersection of West 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard was vandalized last weekend. The land was once owned by a founder of Lawrence and Kansas' first governor Charles Robinson.
A five-foot section of the more than century-old fence was torn off sometime between 6:00 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Several ornamental iron pillars are missing.
According to the KU Public Safety Office report, the damage was reported at $10,000.
Monte Soukup, senior vice-president of property management for
the Kansas University Endowment Association, hopes the pieces will be returned to ease the fence's repair.
"Short of having custom castings made, the pieces are irreplaceable," Soukup said in an email. "Wed just like pieces back to maintain the historic integrity of the fence."
Lisa Scheller, senior editor of media relations for the Endowment Association, said the history of the fence is significant to both the Lawrence and University community.
Anyone with information about the missing fence pieces is asked to call Soukup at (785) 832-7435. No questions will be asked.
- Edited by Pat Strathman
FENCE FACTS
A 24-room mansion was built on the land the fence surrounds. The first two owners, H.W. Baker and Brinton Woodward, were survivors of William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence in August 1863.
After World War I, the Acacia Fraternity lived in the home.
The University acquired the property in 1940, turning it into the first Templin Hall, a scholarship hall for men at the time.
It eventually housed women, and during World War II it housed Navy officer trainees.
The house was demolished in 1959 for the construction of Sprague Apartments.
This historic fence stands damaged at 1400 Lilac Lane. The section of fence was vandalized sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning during the first weekend of spring break.
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY THE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
Debt-slashing budget plan heats up presidential campaign
GOVERNMENT
In this photo provided by CBS News, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks during CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday. March 25, in Washington. The debt-slashing GOP budget plan is heating up as a presidential campaign issue.
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WASHINGTON — The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and downplayed the possibility he could be tapped as a vice presidential candidate.
Senior White House adviser David Plouffe dismissed the GOP plan Sunday as "a lot of candy, not a lot of vegetables," and charged that it would be "rubber-stamped" as law if leading Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is elected.
"This is really the Romney-Ryan plan," Plouffe said, adding that its mix of across-the-board tax cuts and stiff budget cuts "showers huge tax cuts on millionaires and billionaires paid for by senior and veterans."
Ryan tried to tamp down speculation that he could be tapped for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket, although who will be the nominee is far from settled.
I would have to consider it, but it's not something I'm even thinking about right now because right — I think our job in Congress is pretty important," Ryan said. "And what we believe we owe the country is, if we don't like the direction the president is taking us, which we don't, we owe them a specific sharp contrast and a different path that they can select in November. And doing this in Congress is really important."
The House GOP debt-reduction plan, unveiled last week with minimal Democratic congressional support, is quickly sharpening as a line of division for the fall campaign, pitting GOP and tea party pressure for a reined-in budget against White House and Democratic party alarms about a weakened
Medicare system and tax relief for the wealthy.
"This is a sharp, clear difference with two different futures," Ryan said. Despite growing signs that the U.S economy is struggling back to life, Ryan threw down a market for the fall national election, saying that the GOP plan is the only alternative to a looming debt crisis versus Obama's "path of debt and decline."
The GOP proposal — endorsed by Romney last week during a meeting with GOP congressional leaders — would slice $5.3 trillion from President Barack Obama's budget over the coming decade through tax reforms and sweeping program cuts. The plan aims to shrink U.S. deficits by $3.1 trillion over the next decade, reducing tax burdens while cutting Medicaid payments and shifting oversight to states and sharply cutting other domestic programs.
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