Friday, April 10. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Burning bush window broken
A rock shattered a portion of Smith Hall's burning bush stained glass window on Wednesday night, said the KU Public Safety Office.
"It's so pointless," said Tim Miller, chairman of the religious studies department.
Miller said the rock penetrated the outer storm window as well as the stained glass, bending the lead framework. The rock landed in the William J. Moore Reading Room.
Marian O'Dwyer of the Phoenix Gallery, 919 Massachusetts St., said the hole was 15 inches across, but a 3 foot by 3 foot area was damaged about 10 feet above the ground. The gallery will make the repairs.
"Obviously, it's going to take time," she said. "It's amazing how much damage was done."
O'Dwyer said the gallery was working on replacing the outer glass. To fix the stained
glass window, workers will have to construct scaffolding and remove the damaged portion.
Miller said stained glass needed to be resealed periodically and the department already had been in contact with the gallery before the vandalism.
"We were going to do some maintenance on it anyway," he said.
The window was installed by a St. Louis company when Smith was built, in 1966 and 1967. The statue of the kneeling Moses, which faces the burning bush window, was not added until 1982. The burning bush scene depicts the University of Kansas seal, Miller said.
—Laura Roddy
Apartment seekers create housing fray
By Carl Kaminski
ckaminski@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
As the semester comes to a close,
students who plan to live off campus
in the fall scramble to find new
homes.
"I know a lot of landlords are busy working to secure clients," said James Dunn, president of the Lawrence Landlords Association.
Dunn said students hoping to rent a house off campus should begin searching.
Nhan Nguyen, Wichita junior, rents
a house on Ohio Street with four friends.
"A lot of the groups are forming about this time of year," he said. "It's important to secure that property now rather than late. If someone is in a group, they need to be solidifying things now."
He said they started looking just after the winter break last year and they signed their lease in the first week of March.
He said the best way to secure a house was to find someone who planned to move out and contact the individual before the house went on the market.
Nguyen said people who wanted his house started knocking on his door as early as February.
Waiting too long to start looking could lead to bidding wars, Nguyen said. He said a friend of his missed out on a house last year after another group outbid him.
Dunn said apartment hunters did not face the same problems as house hunters.
"For just a single person looking for an apartment, they will have choices up until the day school starts," he said.
Waiting for an apartment may even be beneficial, Dunn said.
"Some of the most unique properties I have come open at the last moment," he said. "People don't want to give them up until they absolutely have to."
Marilyn Lynch, a Lawrence landlord, said she still had properties that would be open in July and August, but many leases already had been signed.
Lynch agreed with Dunn's assessment of the apartment situation.
"It seems like we have a lot of apartments," she said. "I have noticed more competition among the land-lords."
She said she had not noticed whether competition had lowered prices.
Dunn said now was the best time to find a good deal.
"The prices can be all over the board anytime, but I suspect that the least expensive apartments are going to rent now." Dunn said.
Students planning to live off campus need to make sure they look for something within their budget. Lynch said.
Dunn said students often run into problems because they expect to live as well as they did at home.
"Many students come from suburban- type homes where they were practically living in a suite," he said. "They expect this, but they won't get it."
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