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look into the Koch brothers' donations to the School of Business.
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The students received some of the records last fall, including documents surrounding the hiring of Hall, Bittlingmayer and Strumpf. The three teach economics in the business school.
LAST FALL - Students for a Sustainable Future began looking into the Koch's influence at the University, filing a Kansas Open Records request for documents concerning donations, associated restrictions and communications involving
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the Koch brothers and Hall. The student group fund- raised for the records, which cost $1,800.
NOV. 25 — Group receives documents about the hiring of three business school professors: George Bittling-mayer, Art Hall and Koleman Strumpf. The University did
not release the rest of the requested records, including correspondence between professors and the Koch brothers.
DEC. 5 - The request for records was blocked when Hall filed a petition against the University.
FEB.18 Students for a Sustainable Future is recognized as a third party in the lawsuit between Hall and the University.
AUG.27 The University announced the settlement between it, Students for a Sustainable Future and Hall
Spotlight on Center for Sustainability How can campus be more eco-friendly?
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The KU Center for Sustainability is located inside Carruth and O'Leary Hall. JAMES HOYT/KANSAN
What does the Center for Sustainability do?
A few of the initiatives through the Center for Sustainability include promoting energy efficiency, biking and landscaping, said Kim Criner, the Education & Outreach Coordinator for the center. There are options the center provides to improve the wellness of the University and the individuals within it.
"While the energy offices are working on energy conservation of the infrastructure, we work with the behavior specialists on building users," Criner said. "So, the people of the building, and what their particular behaviors are, whether they're leaving things on or whether they're opening windows while the air conditioning is on."
JAMES HOYT/KANSAN ary Hall
What are a few of its initiatives?
They include techniques to become more aware of surroundings while keeping campus clean.
Biking:
Biking on campus minimizes pollution and toxins released into the air, according to the center. The center added efforts to increase convenience for students and other bikers. It heads a bicycle advisory committee with people from
across campus, like construction management, housing and other bike enthusiasts.
"We have efforts from that for improving infrastructure for bikers, more safety for bikers — whether that's through bikers' own habits or road conditions, things like that," Criner said. "Then it's just encouraging people to think about biking as their mode of transportation."
Preserving land:
Preserving land. A group of students reserved a spot of land over a century ago at the bottom of Sunflower Road on campus, and since then it has remained an unaffected part of pure land, according to Criner.
"We are working on a long-term restoration plan with grounds keeping, with biology professors, [and] environmental studies, so you kind of see the pattern." Criner said. "We don't operate in isolation. We try to pull in as many experts on the physical campus — employees — to spread our efforts."
Although the intention of the land is to remain only affected by nature itself, there are issues keeping the structure around it from deteriorating.
Students have the chance to take part in environmental preservation, too.
What else is the University doing?
tion manager for the Center for Sustainability and KU Recycling, said the center sponsors events giving students, faculty and staff the ability to better understand the role of the campus in the environment.
Eric Nelson, the waste reduc-
"Every year the Center for Sustainability sponsors numerous events — the Re-Plant Mount Oread project, work in the campus rain garden and a variety of environmentally themed presentations on campus are a few examples," he said.
What can everyone do?
Whether it is picking up gar-
Gulf coast remembers Katrina after 10 years
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"Some people said that we shouldn't come back. Some people said that we couldn't come back," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu "Yet 10 years later here we are. Still standing."
NEW ORLEANS - The Gulf Coast and New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of deadliest storms in American history, in ways both devout and festive. Church bells rang and brass bands played as people across the storm-ravaged coast remembered the past and looked to the future.
The storm killed more than 1,800 people and caused $151 billion in damage, in one of the country's deadliest and most costly natural disasters. Many of the dead come in New Orleans when fires protecting the city burst, emerging 80 percent of the Crescent City in water.
The dead and those who still struggle to rebuild were not far from anyone's thoughts Saturday, from Mississippi where church bells rang out to mark when the storm made landfall to a commoration at the New Orleans memorial containing bodies of people never claimed or never identified.
As the church bells rang, 80-year-old Eloise Allen wept softly into a tissue as she leaned against her rusting
vidual creates," he said. "This includes carrying reusable water bottles and coffee cups, taking reusable bags on shopping trips and eliminating single use cutlery and plates from events or gatherings."
- Edited by Dani Malakoff
"I feel guilty," said Allen, whose house in Bay St. Louis was damaged but inhabitable after the storm. "I didn't go through what all the other people did."
Oldsmobile.
Saturday was a day to remember what "all the other people" went through. Those who were lifted from rooftops by helicopters, those who came home to find only concrete steps as evidence of where their house used to be.
those bodies were neved after the storm. mourning Saturday balanced by a celebration of how far the region has come.
At the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, thousands of people gathered to take part in an evening of prayer, music and speeches including by former President Bill Clinton. He had helped raise money for Katrina victims.
bage outside or reusing a dish, the smallest contributions can make a big difference on campus and the community, Nelson said.
"Specific to waste, the best thing you can do for the environment is to minimize the amount of waste that an indi-
He weighed into a debate that has bubbled up during the Katrina anniversary about whether New Orleans' post-Katrina story is one of a city resurrected or of people left behind. Tourism in the Crescent City is booming, real estate prices have skyrocketed and the city's population continues to grow after Katrina. But the recovery has been uneven with many neighborhoods — especially African-American ones — still struggling. Clinton said the city should be happy and
"Have a good time New Orleans. You earned it," Clinton said. "And tomorrow wake up and say 'Look at what we did. I bet we can do the rest too.'"
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