UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, August 27, 1993
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Work on sewer interferes with parking near Robinson
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
Construction work in the parking lot south of Robinson Center is making life complex for KU students who park on campus, and it probably will not be completed any time soon.
Construction workers blocked off separate lanes of traffic two weeks ago on Naismith Drive, north of 18th Street, to improve sections of underground storm sewers.
Holly McQueen / KANSAN
Doug Riat, administrative manager of Design Construction Management, said he expected the project to last until the middle of October.
The construction cut off access to the parking lot at Schwegler Road and took over the lot's northwest
Workers moved across the street Tuesday to Schwegler Road and Parking Lot No. 90, south of Robinson, to continue work on the storm sewer.
"It's been a terrible disruption," he said. "A lot of people are unhappy about this."
The construction is an inconvenience to people who use the lot, said Wayne Osness, chair of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Robinson.
Osness said an old storm sewer, installed not long after an addition to Robinson was built in 1980, allowed drainage water to flow outside of the sewer ditch this summer, carrying soil with it down the hill. This process, Osness said, caused the southeast end of Robinson to sink into the ground and damaged a few tennis courts.
He said the major complaint students voiced about the construction was that it should have been completed in the summer.
The new sewer will safely carry all of the drainage water past Robinson and out to the storm sewer just completed on Naismith Drive, Osness said.
"They probably feel like, I've been gone all summer, and now they feel like tearing up everything?" Osness said.
Riat said construction had been scheduled to begin on June 21, but heavy rains delayed the work until Aug.9.
Roosevelt Palmer, left, and Terry Garringer, right, both of Garney Construction Company, install a 60-inch sewer-drainage pipe that leads to Naismith Drive.
NEWS BRIEFS
NEW YORK
A radical Muslim cleric was the guiding hand behind a terrorist organization that bombed the World Trade Center, plotted to blow up other New York landmarks and planned a host of other violent acts, prosecutors say.
Terrorism indictments handed down for sheik
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman was accused in a federal indictment Wednesday along with 14 followers of conspiring to wage a "war of urban
terrorism against the United States." Rather than being charged with any specific act, the 55-year-old blind Egyptian cleric was charged under a rarely used sedition law as the leader of a conspiracy who was "consulted in pursuing and planning bombings, murders and other acts of terrorism."
JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa
Teens arrested in killing
A mob of young blacks dragged the pleasing Amy Biehl, 26, from her car in Gugaluetu township Wednesday and stabbed her to death.
The Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif., who planned to return to the United States on Friday, was taking Black friends home to the township when they were ambushed.
to the Black majority
The two arrested youth, who are 17 and 18, were not identified.
Police arrested two Black teenagers yesterday in the killing of an American student, lauded by friends as a freedom fighter for her devotion
Bieleh graduated from Stanford University in 1899 and planned to begin a doctorate program at Rutgers University this fall.
Kansas lures businesses with football
New York and New Jersey businesses interested in relocating or expanding to Kansas will get a taste of what it is like to be a Jayhawk on Saturday.
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Department of Commerce decided to use Saturday's game against Florida State as a method for recruiting new businesses to Kansas, said Debi Moore, assistant director of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
"There's already enthusiasm around the game," Moore said. "We can attach to that enthusiasm."
Bill Martin, executive economic director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, thought of using the Kickoff Classic as a setting for their mission, Moore said.
Thirty prospects have been invited to Saturday's activities, she said, and the other prospects who were very interested. Their names could not be released.
The department holds several prospect missions a year, Moore said.
"He noticed we've got a lot of key prospects in New Jersey and New York," Moore said. "We're so used to bringing people here he said, 'Why don't we go there and take advantage of the national exposure?'"
Martin left Wednesday for New Jersey and could not be reached for comment.
Kansas Cavalry, a group of business and community leaders, is sponsoring the mission. Cavalry members have been contacting businesses this week. Moore said, and would meet with prospects and site selection consultants tomorrow at a pre-game breakfast. From there, they will go to the KU alumni pep rally and then on to the game. Moore said.
The breakfast, game and pep rally give the businesses a chance to ask questions and receive extra information. Moore said.
"It's just another personal contact that allows us to close the deal," Moore said.
Charles Krider, professor of business and co-director of the Institute for Public Policy and Research at the University of Kansas, said that the game was a good way to begin conversation with companies.
"It capitalizes on some very positive
pitility for the state," Krider said.
The game begins at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Rutherford, N.J.
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