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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009
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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 122
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The Olympic Village, a combination of soccer, softball and track facilities, will cost approximately $25 million dollars according to a report issued by the University. It would meet NCAA requirements for championship competitions, an include concessions, restroom, grandstand seating and press boxes. It would also increase seating capacities for all events.
New sports facilities proposed
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
Kansas Athletics has another big project in the works after completing the $33 million Anderson Family Football Complex in July 2008.
An initial report issued Wednesday by the University of Kansas featured a proposal for the Kansas Olympic Village, a $24.6 million project.
The Olympic Village would focus on combining the fields and facilities for soccer, softball and track into one location and would also
increase the spectator capacity for those sports.
According to the master plan, all of the facilities would meet the requirements for NCAA championship competition. The proposed facilities would include a new soccer competition field with a press box, a new soccer practice field, and a new track and field facility with a press box. The plan would also add grandstand seating and a press box to Arrocha Ballpark, as well as a centralized plaza area with a ticket
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facilities
SOCCER COMPETITION FIELD
Cost: $4.5 million
Includes: Natural sand-based turf soccer field, grandstand seating for 2,500, press.box, scoreboard, sound and sports lighting
SOCCER PRACTICE
FIELD
Cost: $2 million
Includes: Natural sand-based
turf soccer field
SOFTBALL IMPROVEMENTS
Cost: 51.1 million
Includes: New grandstand seating for 1,200 (400 seat backs and 800 bleacher seats)
and press box
TRACK & FIELD
Cost: $6.5 million
Includes: New 400-mete
Includes: New 400-meter
track and field, grandstand seating for 5,000, press box, scoreboard, sound and sports lighting
AUXILIARY BUILDINGS & FACILITIES
**Cost:** $5.5 million
**Includes:** Concessions, restrooms, visiting team locker rooms, KU Store area, ticket booth and entry, and landscaped plaza area
SUA
Crews to compete tonight at dance off
BY MICHELLE SPREHE msprehe@kansan.com
Five student dance groups will be surrounded by audience members on all four sides of the stage at 7 tonight as they compete to be KU's Best Dance Crew.
Grace Sha. Student Union Activites cultural arts coordinator, organized the event. Audience members will decide which group will win the grand prize of $500.
"The groups have to have a minimum of four people and there's no maximum," Sha, Derby junior, said. "The only challenge they have is to put on a show that will be performed toward all four edges of the stage so all the audience is included."
The event is aimed at giving cultural groups on campus an opportunity to showcase the different types of dances from their culture. Groups will perform hip-hop, break dancing, classical Indian and Asian styles of dances.
"We wanted the cultural groups to come do their dances all together and show them to different audiences who may not see them usually," Sha said.
HOUSING
Roya Ibrahimi, Shawnee freshman, is a member of leeva, an Indian dance group on campus that will perform tonight.
"We'll be doing classical Indian dancing, hip-hop and a kind of a step dance where we have bells on our feet so when we stomp the floor we make a rhythm," Ibrahimi said.
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Increased rainfall could cause flooding
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
April showers bring May flowers, and possibly more flooding.
According to the National Weather Service, increased rainfall, along with melting snow packed into the ground, makes the chance of flooding across the midwest higher than normal.
For students like Brandon Worley, Wichita junior, heavy rainfall can cause flooding outside and inside their homes.
Brian Jimenez, city code enforcer,
said landlords could take steps to help prevent home flooding, but sometimes it was something tenants would have to deal with Jimenez said students renting homes that
"The last time the basement flooded it ended up being a quarter inch of water," Worley said. "Everything on the ground was soaking wet."
flood could still be proactive to lessen any damage to their property. He said older houses were more susceptible to flooding because of aging foundations, but all homes were at risk.
"Any time a tenant has a problem with a dwelling unit that is leaking or flooding they can call us," Jimenez said. "There may not be much we can do, but we can make sure the dwelling gets appropriately cleaned."
Because he and his roommates didn't know what to do when their house flooded, Worley said the water sat in their basement and eventually dried up. Jimenez said students shouldn't wait until standing water evaporated to solve any flooding issues, and instead should call their landlord to dry out the home.
"Water gets stagnant," Jimenez said. "You never know what's in the
"Water gets stagnant. You never know what's in the basement. It's just not sanitary."
BRIAN JIMENEZ City code enforcer
Jimenez said landlords should make sure their property's downspouts were directed away from the house to keep water from the gutters away from reaching the foundation. Proper draining around a home isn't
foolproof protection from flooding though, Jimenez said. Worley said heavy rainfall found other ways of getting into his home.
"I could see where the water had been leaking in at cracks in the side of the house." Worley said, "If
basement. It's just not sanitary."
it does it again we will probably tell the landlord."
Jimenez said the best way for students to prevent home flooding from damaging property was to purchase renter's insurance and use common sense. Students shouldn't store valuable items in unfinished basements, for example, without taking steps to make sure water can't reach them, Jimenez said.
Mitch Jones, Burlington junior, said he practiced with his band in a friend's unfinished basement. After a heavy rainfall, Jones said their practice space flooded and the standing water in the basement could have cost him as much as $1,000 to replace his amp and bass guitar. Jones said he was lucky his equipment was not damaged, but he and his band made sure they didn't leave their gear where water could get to it.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
Mitch Jones, Burlington junior, dries out the basement where his band practices on Tuesday afternoon. None of the band's equipment was damaged because of the flooding.
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