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INSIDE: Study Abroad reacts to murder in Costa Rica. See page 3A SPORTS: Outlook for Jayhawk football. See page 1B
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1 CENTIMETER = 0.3937 INCHES
1 METER = 39.37 INCHES
1 FEET = 109.4 DFS
1 INCH = 2.54 CENTIMETERS
1 DECIMETER = 3.937 IN OR 0.328 FOOT
1 FOOT = 3.048 DECIMETERS
1 YARD = 0.9144 METER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY AUG.20,2001
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Tours held to kick off Hawk Week activities
By J. R. Mendoza Kansan staff writer
New students meet, learn way around campus in first week
Tours of Watson and Anschutz libraries and Watkins Health Center are going on today as part of Hawk Week 2001.
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The Office of New Student Orientation, in conjunction with campus organizations and schools, is sponsoring Hawk Week 2001, which started yesterday and runs through Tuesday, Aug. 28. Organizers have planned daytime and evening activities for incoming freshmen and transfer students.
Events are divided into two parts
- Hawk Days and Hawk Nights.
"The purpose is to help new students get acclimated to the campus and introduce them to life on the hill," said Kristin Trendel, interim director of the office. "It's to help with the transition to campus."
"Hawk Days is more designed to help students navigate the University." Trendel said.
The Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center and Watson Library will have open houses, tours or information sessions.
Trendel said Hawk Nights emphasized social activities.
The HAWK Link program will also sponsor events as part of Hawk Week. HAWK Link is geared toward to minority students and is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Ailts:
Teresa Lynn Clounch, associate director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said "This is an opportunity to get information to the campus community about the program. It lets students know about organizations and services on campus."
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Jamie Jones, St. Louis senior and a HAWK Link link, said as a freshman she didn't know about programs such as HAWK Link.
She said she got involved with HAWK Link and Hawk Week to help new students adjust to life at KU.
"This helps them feel comfortable on campus," she said.
Trendel said a Hawk Week Committee comprised of representatives from several organizations organized the events.
in the events
"It's certainly a collaborative effort with help and support of other offices," she said.
Trendel said she hoped the events would help students feel welcome in their new home.
"I hope they get a feel for what the University is and get a feel for the layout of the campus;" she said. "And that they get an idea of the many resources to help students."
- "Sexuality and the College Student" lecture by Dennis Dailey, 1:30 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Traditions Night at 8 p.m. at Memorial Stadium
Some of today's Hawk Week events include:
ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. at the Alumni Center
<<visit www.hewkweek.ku.edu >>
Embezzlement investigated
Irregularities uncoveredin KUAC internal audit concerning vouchers
By Laurie Harrison Kansan staff writer
Police are investigating a possible embezzlement of University money after irregularities were discovered during a routine internal audit.
The University of Kansas Athletic
Corporation filed a police report on Aug.
10, with the KU Public Safety Office.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey said police are investigating the irregularities as theft and the investigation "may take a while" since officers are combing through two years worth of documents.
The amount stolen has not been determined, Bailey said. The theft concerned falsified entertainment vouchers made between Aug. 1999 and Aug. 2001.
Between Aug. 15, 1992 and
The University Daily Kansan submitted a request for the audit to Theresa Klinkenberg, director of administration, on Friday.
Scott McMichael, director of KUAC's Williams Educational Fund for athletic scholarships, resigned the day KUAC filed the police report. He cited "personal and family reasons."
soma and family really
A woman who answered the door of McMichael's Lawrence home on Friday told two Kansan reporters that he couldn't talk at the time.
it takes the role
The KU Public Safety Office has not named McMichael nor anyone else as a suspect.
suspect. Allen Bohl, athletics director, had no comment and referred inquiries to University Relations.
Susan Wachter, KUAC's chief financial officer, and Doug Vance, assistant athletics director in charge of media relations, said that they would cooperate with the investigation but would not comment on the matter.
KUAC is the same as the Athletics Department but is a non profit organization, said Susan Wachter, chief financial officer of KUAC. Its $23 million dollar budget is partially funded by student fees, ticket sales and contributions.
Blurry boundaries
KUAC pays for KU's 18 sports programs, coaches' salaries and athletic scholarships, she said.
As campus creeps downhill, Oread neighborhood calls foul and fights to preserve history
BY LAURIE SISK
In an ongoing tug of war with the University of Kansas, the Oread Neighborhood Association has taken its concerns to the Lawrence City Commission
In February, the University purchased seven vacant houses in the 1300 block of Ohio Street in the Oread neighborhood and planned to demolish three of those to make room to build two new scholarship halls.
to make room to usher in new students
On July 24, the ONA and officials from the University met to set up dialogue between the University, the city and neighborhood organizations.
Although the ONA does not dispute the need for scholarship halls, members are concerned that construction of multilevel buildings in their neighborhood would present parking, storm water drainage and noise problems. In addition, members of ONA contend constructing the buildings would seriously alter the "fabric" of their neighborhood and harm the historical nature of the area.
That's a fabric that Bill Mitchell, resident of a west campus neighborhood, said was "already considerably moth-eaten, and the moths must somehow be controlled." The 1997 Campus Plan
Brian Pedrotti discusses the possibility of overlay zoning around the perimeter of the KU campus during his graduate-level project presentation which focused on the University encroachment issue.
The 1997 Campus Plan The ONA also contends that purchasing and demolishing these properties was done in direct violation of the 1997 Campus Plan, a joint venture between the University and neighborhood organizations.
ng plans enter into further. The plan was formulated with input from KU, the community and the city spanning a period of five years. There were 25 public meetings from 1992 to 1996 to
the plan states an implied boundary for University expansion that lies in the alley between Louisiana and Ohio streets. It also states that the University should consult with neighborhood organizations when building plans encroach into their neighborhoods.
in the community.
ONA member Candy Davis told commissioners that
fine-tune the document. It was intended to be a guidepost for KU goals, planning and working relationships with the community.
in April, university architect Warren Corman told the ONA the plan was not a legal document and that it could be ignored if it conflicted with the University's mission.
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No injuries in accidental morning blaze
$5,000 in damages result from stove fire in the Towers, officials say
By Laurie Harrison Kansan staff writer
An early morning fire in Tower A of Jayhawker Towers has been ruled an accident, the KU Public Safety Office said.
No one was hurt in the blaze that caused the evacuation of Tower A around 8 a.m. Sunday, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
The fire originated on the stove in room 211A and caused an estimated $5,000
in damages, Bailey said.
Someone called 911 at 7:58 a.m., and Lawrence firefighters had the fire under control by 8:42 a.m., Bailey said.
The residents of 211A could not be reached for comment.
John Emenyu, Kabera-maido-Soipu, Uganda, graduate student, lives down the hall from 211A.
Emenyu has lived in the towers a year and thought it was just another false alarm until a woman burst in his room and said that the fire was real.
Emenyu said the second floor hallway was full of smoke that smelled like burning plastic.
Libbey Bowen, Remington, Va., graduate student,
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lives on the battlefield.
"I thought somebody had just burn their toast and then we'd be able to go back in." Bowen said as she waited outside the towers after being evacuated.
Residents had to wait two and a half hours before being permitted back inside.
lives on the sixth floor.
permitted back inside. Firefighters opened windows in the building in order to decrease the level of carbon dioxide in the building. Chris Keary of the KU Public Safety Office said.
Harrison can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
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Lawrence firefighter Sean Humphrey takes a breath after battling a fire at Jayhawker Towers, Tower A. Damage was limited to one apartment in the building.
WORLD NEWS ... 2A
SPORTS ... 1B
ON THE HILL ... 1C
OFF THE HILL ... 1D
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