Thursday, February 19, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Burned bike shop back in building
By Tamara Miller
miller@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Satellite Shop is returning to its home location of 802 and 804 Massachusetts St. and has a hot grand opening scheduled for Feb. 26.
Well, hopefully not too hot.
The store is returning from its temporary satellite location at
844 Massachusetts St., the space it has occupied since a fire burned the old building Feb. 26, 1997.
The grand opening represents a year of hard work, said Scott Kelly, Lenene senior and Sunflower employee.
"We're going home," he said. "The new store looks great, and it's going to be a lot bigger than it ever was before."
The satellite shop opened two
days after the fire. Although the business has been open continually during the renovation of the old store, overall business has declined, said Lee Collard, assistant manager of the store. Collard said the decline was because the satellite shop was much smaller than the old store.
"We haven't been able to carry a lot the outdoor stuff because there's no room." he said.
Paul Davis and Dan Hughes, Lawrence residents, and Jason Shelman, Wichita junior, discuss plans for the rebuilt Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St. The new store should be finished on Feb. 26, one year after the original store burned. Photo by Corie Waters/KANSAN
The new store will be larger than the old store and a new entrance off of Eighth Street was built where Herbivore's Restaurant existed before the fire. Sunflower also will have more space upstairs because the apartments are no longer there.
Kelly said the store would be able to carry more tents and camping gear than it did before.
"We're excited to get out of this sardine can." Kelly said.
"I'm not saying the fire was positive, but we've made it as positive as possible." he said.
David Hennessy of KJHK's polka show is scheduled to teejay for the grand opening. The store also will be giving away prizes throughout the day.
An antique shop called the Topiary Tree, located at 15 E. Eighth St., will move to 844 Massachusetts St. after Sunflower moves out, said George Palley, owner of the building.
Jim McSwain, Lawrence Fire Department chief, said investigators of last year's fire thought it was caused by a water heater in an upstairs apartment. However, there was no indication that the water heater malfunctioned.
"Combustible materials in the water heater may have caught on fire,"he said.
McSwain said a sprinkler system had been installed in the refurnished store and the store had been updated to meet new fire codes.
"With the addition of those code items, we certainly believe the likelihood of that ever happening again is remote," he said.
Scott Sullivan, student body president, presents a proposal for technology upgrades to the House Appropriations Subcommittee. Sullivan was in Topeka yesterday as part of the University's lobby day. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSA
Officials seek state funds for technology
By Brandon Coplee bcopson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students and administrators from the University of Kansas canvassed the state Capitol yesterday seeking legislative support for University budget necessities.
A House subcommittee heard testimony on budget matters from Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Provost David Shulenburger and Student Body President Scott Sullivan.
Shulenburger said the University also must recruit world-class graduate teaching assistants, and he asked the committee to help pay for health insurance for graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants.
Hemenway briefed the subcommittee on three issues: faculty salary increases, funding for libraries and technology funding. Hemenway said the University needed state funding to keep its libraries at the level of a world-class research institution.
The University expects to contribute 70 percent of the premiums for GTA and GRA health insurance this fall, Shulenburger said. He
asked the subcommittee to allocate about $500,000 to help the University meet that obligation.
"These are adults who make low wages, and this is what they want more than higher wages," Shulen-burger said.
Sullivan's remarks focused on a technology fee proposed by the governor that would put two state dollars toward technology for every dollar from student tuition increases. That arrangement would bring in about $1.8 million to the University next year.
Subcommittee chairman Mike Farmer, R-Wichita, asked Sullivan if a survey had been taken to determine how many students supported the fee increase. Sullivan guessed that 90 percent of the student body would support the increase.
Matching funds for technology was the key issue for seven KU students making the rounds of legislative offices yesterday as part of a student lobby day sponsored by the Student Legislative Awareness Board. Sullivan said legislative reaction was positive.
"Our support of the matching really shows the students' commitment to improving technology," he
said.
At the subcommittee meeting, several members questioned Hemenway about letters they received urging passage of the bill reorganizing the University of Kansas Hospital. Rep. John Edmonds, R Great Bend, said he had received 19 letters. He said calls to the authors of the letters
revealed an organized campaign to influence the outcome of the bill. Edmonds said his concern was that public funds should not be used to support such a campaign.
Hemenway said the Alumni Association organized the campaign and he did not think public funds had been involved.
The training is administered by the Kansas State Department of Health and Environment, and certified operators are required to undergo periodic proficiency testing.
Keary said that with more officers trained, there were fewer chances that an officer would be taken off the street to administer a test.
In addition to the three officers who were trained yesterday, the KU police department has two sergeants and six officers certified to operate the Intoxilzer 5000.
KU police Sgt. Gayle Reece is a certified operator of the breathalizer. She said that once someone was arrested, he or she would be taken to the Law Enforcement Center. A certified operator then would observe the person for 20 minutes and explain the consenting procedures.
Refusing to submit to the Intoxilyzer 5000 test results in suspension of driving privileges for one year. If a person is unconscious or dead, police still can administer breath or urine tests.
KU police train to give sobriety test to drivers
"Once you sign the line to get a driver's license in the state of Kansas, you have given your consent to a law enforcement officer to ask you to submit to a test," Reece said.
KU police made 120 arrests for operating under the influence during 1997.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said officers were required to be certified to operate the Intoxilyzer
Reece spent the last six months on the 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift and said KU police probably had arrested two or three people a night for operating under the influence.
Three KU police officers spent eight hours yesterday at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., learning the ins and out of the Intoxilizer 5000.
Reece said that there were more arrests on Friday nights than on other nights. The number of arrests decreases during winter and summer breaks.
The machine is used to get a digital reading of a person's blood-alcool hot content by blowing into a tube. The legal limit in Kansas for operating a vehicle is .08% blood-alcool hot content.
Keary said that results of the Intoxilyzer test were admissible in Kansas courts, but preliminary breath tests administered at the scene were not admissible alone. He said the preliminary tests were admissible, though, combined with other factors such as field sobriety tests, statements and the officer's observations.
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