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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009
NEWS
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The trailhead's support columns stand outside a warehouse on West Campus, where the studio has been working on the structure since March. The columns are each different heights because the wooden roof is designed to be sloped.
PROJECT
Architecture studio closes in on completion
Shading structure complements last semester's prairie overlook deck
BY AMANDA THOMPSON
athompson@kansan.com
A third-year design studio in the School of Architecture is only a few days away from completing its semester-long project.
The studio will complete and show its Rockefeller trailhead structure, which marks the beginning of a trail, at the University of Kansas Field Station and Ecological Reserves, or KSR, on Thursday, May 14. The critique and showing will be open to the public.
John Myers, St. Louis junior, was one of 17 people in the studio who helped put the project together. Myers said the trailhead would provide a shading structure at the beginning of the trail at KSR, which is located at 350
Wild Horse Road, northeast of Lawrence.
Myers said that last semester's design studio built an overlook deck in the same area, and that now the two student-constructed
architecture projects will be connected to make the area more visitor-friendly.
"The overlook deck looks south over the river valley on a bluff, and there's going to be a nature trail connecting that deck
Myers said the trailhead would also allow for a place to display information about the reserve and a place to sit and look out over the prairie.
Richard and Sue Himes donated
"These students have a lot to be proud of. Students have a way of kind of rising to the occasion."
to our project," Myers said. "The idea is that you have some place to start before you get on the trail, to put on hiking shoes or have some place to rest."
and uses donated money to KSR for the funding of the trailhead project as well as last semester's overlook project. Himes was a professor in molecular biosciences at the University.
Myers said the best part of working on a project like this
NILS GORE
Associate professor
was its permanence. He said he looked forward to coming back in five to 10 years to see it still standing.
"It's going to be awesome,"
Myers said. "We've worked really, really hard on this. We put in a lot of hours and ruined a lot of pairs of clothes."
Though the class is six credit hours, Sam Avery, St. Louis junior, said that at times he would spend 50 hours a week working on the project.
Avery said students in the studio got along well and worked early and late shifts to complete the project.
CELEBRITY
Nils Gore, associate professor of the design studio, said he was pleased with the way the project had turned out so far.
"These students have a lot to be proud of," Gore said. "Students have a way of kind of rising to the occasion."
Taylor Swift surprises students, attends lecture
Edited by Casey Miles
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
Students get word of singer's visit through text messages and Twitter
Megan Townsley, Wichita freshman, glanced to her left and saw her.
Mike Mahon, New Braunfels, Texas, sophomore, received a text message that said she was sitting across the aisle from him.
The Media and Society class didn't act too obvious, but within 15 minutes, everyone knew that one blonde-haired, blue-eyed songstress was in Budig 110.
Cue Taylor Swift mania.
The class started at 2:15 p.m.
By 2:30, a crowd of more than
20 people gathered in the back
row of the auditorium.
torium hoping to catch a glimpse of the starlet. Swift was on campus visiting her friend, Abigail Anderson, Hendersonville, Tenn., freshman, who is on the swim team.
Anderson said it
Haley Oneal, Hutchinson senior, and Leigh Ann Morales, Lee Summit senior, followed Swift to Budig from Anschutz Library, where she had been shortly before.
While Swift was in the lecture hall, approximately 50 people, notified through texts, Facebook statuses and Twitter, waited for her in the lobby outside Budig 110.
Go to Kansan.com/videos to see a video of Swift's campus visit.
Oneal and Morales heard Swift was sitting in the top left row of seats in the classroom. For more than 30 minutes, they stood on the second floor landing, hoping, and eventually succeeding, to get a
DANNY WOODS
Overland Park freshman
"I'll slip her my number. I wouldn't expect anything today, but there's a three-day grace period."
was obvious Swift had a lot of fans on campus.
"It's like a snowball effect. One person hears it and spreads it all over the place," Anderson said.
Chuck Marsh, professor of journalism and the Media and Society instructor, said he didn't know Swift would attend the class, but he was thrilled and impressed when he heard that she sat patiently through the entire lecture.
picture with Swift.
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The group members said they were willing to wait as long as it
Kelsie Froebe, Independence, Kan., freshman, and seven of her friends met in Budig after receiving a text message that informed them Swift was in the auditorium.
took for Swift to exit the class.
After the whistle blew, Swift, accompanied by a man who appeared to be a bodyguard, signed autographs and took pictures with the throng of fans who followed her from the classroom to
the budig exit. One girl yelled,
"Taylor, thank you so much."
"You look pretty," came from a male fan. Another girl walked away with her camera after taking a picture with Swift, giggling as she pushed her way through the crowd of fans.
Danny Woods, Overland Park freshman, had a different plan.
"I'll slip her my number. I wouldn't expect anything today, but there's a three-day grace period," he said.
Woods said he succeeded in handing Swift his number, but her bodyguard ripped it up before she could read it.
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"She gave me a wink though," Woods said. "Obviously there's a connection there."
— Edited by Carly Halvorson
Country singer Taylor Swift, center, in black, poses with fans after attending a Media and Society class with a friend in Budig Hall on Monday afternoon. Within 15 minutes, more than 20 students gathered in the back of the auditorium to catch a glimpse of Swift.
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