Volume 126 Issue 40
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Monday, November 4, 2013
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FASHION
SENIOR ART STUDENTS SHOW OFF STYLE PAGE 3
FUTURISTIC FORUM
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Students in the University art department use their textile art talents to craft elaborate fashion statements as part of their senior projects.
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This rendering shows what the interior of the Marvin Hall Forum will look like when construction ends at the end of the school year.
DEDICATED DESIGN
Architecture students begin construction on Marvin Hall Forum
CODY KUIPER
ckuiper@kansan.com
Marvin Hall will have a sleek new addition by the end of the school year thanks to a group of dedicated students.
Studio 804, a year-long architecture class in which students design and construct a building themselves, is in the early stages of constructing the Forum, an addition to the second floor of Marvin Hall.
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The Forum will be a glass structure that will serve as a commons area for the building and has room for a 120-seat presentation, creating much-needed space for the School of Architecture.
"I think the biggest concern when deciding to build this was that you have a school of architecture that has to provide so many courses and Marvin Hall does not have the space to do it," said Dan Rockhill, the architecture professor who advises Studio 804. "Students have to leave studio for a class, so just
It will be the third project Studio 804 has constructed for the University. The others are the Center for Design Research and the Hill Engineering Research and Development Center on West Campus. The Forum will extend from the second floor of Marvin, supported by concrete columns, and it will feature a two-layered glass exterior that will allow the building to stay cool or warm when needed. The state-of-the-art exterior is being designed with the help of Transolar, a German-based façade consultant.
Dean of the School of Architecture John Gaunt said these features, in addition to the complexities of Marvin Hall's old structure, make the Forum a more difficult project than the classes have built in the past.
Construction on the $2 million project is expected to be finished in May or June of 2014, and the School of Architecture is working
To create space for the Forum, students in the class have begun demolishing the Builder's Yard, the steel and concrete structure behind Marvin Hall and one of the class's first projects nearly 20 years ago.
"I think at the scale and the sophistication of this is unique among schools of architecture," he said. "It's demanding, and it takes a mix of very dedicated students and faculty to do this kind of thing."
with KU Endowment to raise private funding. Gaunt expects the students, many of whom are taking 19 hours of classes, to be exhausted by the time the Forum is built, but he said the unique experience will be worth their effort.
"By commencement, these students will certainly be sleep deprived, and that's no joke." Gaunt said. "They're working 16- and 18-hour days, but that's irrelevant in
having the Forum as an anchor for students to stay in Marvin is a big positive."
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STATE
KAITLYN KLEIN
New tax cuts save students money
kklein@kansan.com
STATE SALES AND RETAIL TAXES
Comparing October 2012 to this year, Kansans saved $39 million in individual income taxes.
The Kansas Department of Revenue issued a press release Thursday announcing that Kansans are receiving "real tax relief for the first time in decades."
Jeannine Koranda, public information officer at the Kansas Department of Revenue, said in an email that this tax relief affects everyone in Kansas who pays taxes, including students.
If students are earning a paycheck where income tax is taken out, then they will be paying less in taxes and pocketing more of the money they have earned, Koranda said.
Compared with surrounding states, Kansas' personal income taxes are roughly in the middle and Kansas has the highest state sales taxes.
Koranda said students are also saving money through lower sales taxes, which affects even students who don't work in Kansas.
PERSONAL INCOME TAX BY STATE
KANSAS: 3.5% on first $15,000 of taxable income
Edited by Paige Lytle
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NEBRASKA: 2.56% on first $2,400; 3.57% on taxable income between $2,401 and $17,500
COLORADO: Flat 4.63% regardless of income level
OKLAHOMA: Between .5 and 5% for incomes between $1,000 and $8,700; 5.25% for incomes $8,701 and above.
MISSOURI: Between 1.5 and 5.5% for incomes $9,000 and below; 6% for incomes of $9,001 and above.
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