UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 25, 1993
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Haskell receives arts award
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
Stan Herd, local artist and Lawrence arts commissioner, has attended Haskell's Spring Pow Wow for four years.
And each year it is a new experience, he said.
Yesterday at the City Commission meeting, Haskell Indian Nations University received the Lawrence Arts Commission City Enhancement and Cultural Exchange Award for its 1993 Sring Pow Wow.
The commission has the opportunity to give out the award each month.
The Pow Wow, which features a parade and fireworks, is held during Haskell's graduation weekend. Last spring it drew a crowd of 7,000 to 9,000, said Barbara Stumblingbear, Haskell Food Service Director. She heads the Pow Wow with her husband, Henry Collins.
Herd said the Pow Wow, which lasts three days, attracts American Indians
from many different tribes. The first
Pow Wow was on May 21 and 22, 1922
"It's kind of a cultural homecoming." he said. "There's a lot of good cuisine, art and exchange of information about what's going on in the Indian community."
Each academic year, Haskell has three Pow Wows: one to welcome students back to school, another in November to recognize veterans and a final Pow Wow during graduation.
Stumblingbear said the community had become more involved in the Pow Wow in recent years.
Last spring, KU student housing rented 100 to 150 rooms in Ellsworth Hall and Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall to people who wanted to attend the Pow Wow, said Jon Long, an assistant director for student housing. KU's graduation weekend created a demand for lodging, Long said,
But the Spring Pow Wow is the biggest event
and the department had to find more rooms to meet that demand.
"That is the grand finale of them all," Stumblingbear said.
The Lawrence Jaycees, a local public organization that works to benefit Lawrence, also contributed to the Pow Wow by sponsoring the fireworks.
"This took a great effort from many people, not just Haskell." Stumbling
She said moving the Pow Wow from Haskell's west campus to Haskell's football stadium increased seating space. The move also made the community more willing to go to the event because other community events, like high school football games, are held at the stadium, she said.
"When we changed it to the stadium, I think it encouraged people to come out." Stumblingbear said.
Herd said he thought the community was becoming more interested in the Pow Wow.
"Alot of Lawrence people are seeing it as a community activity," he said.
KPL power line upgrade rerouted
By Traci Carl
By Traci Carl Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Pinckney Neighborhood Association did not want 115 kilovolts of power in its front yards.
But the front vardes were the quickest and cheapest route for Kansas Power and Light to upgrade its line capacity from 69 kilovolts to 115 kilovolts and connect the Lawrence Energy Center with a substation at the corner of Sixth and Kentucky streets, said Jim Haines, executive vice president of Western Resources, Inc.
Last night, the City Commission decided on a siting permit for KPL that satisfied both groups.
The commission rejected KPL's original, preferred site, which would have run along Iowa and Fifth streets, through Pinckney neighborhood.
Instead, it approved a different siting researched and proposed by the association.
The approved siting follows the south side of the Kansas River, and it costs an estimated $355,441 more than the siting along Iowa and Fifth streets.
The commission voted to pay the surcharge by charging each KPL customer $3.33 a month for five years. It rejected charging customers per kilowatt hour, which would have cost industrial customers almost a thousand times more than a residential customer.
Steve Hamburg, president of the neighborhood association and associate professor and director of environmental studies at the University of Kansas, said the association did not support the original siting because it
was intrusive. The siting also would reduce property values in the neighborhood by 12 percent to 24 percent. Hamburg also said the association was concerned that living near power transmission lines could have negative health problems.
Haines said KPL wanted to move and upgrade the line because the existing 69 kilovolts was a weak link during peak usage times, putting the city at risk for brown or black outs.
a city blackout is a total loss of power and a brownout is a partial loss.
After a year and a half of debate, Hamburg said the association had come a long way in finding a solution with KPL.
"We were initially told it was virtually impossible to do," Hamburg said.
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