MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
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Architecture and architectural engineering students examine building models at the architectural firm Perkins & Will in Chicago. Students visited architecture firms and toured famous buildings in Chicago over the weekend.
Students explore style of Chicago's architecture
By Erin Beatty
ebattey@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Architecture and architectural engineering students from the University of Kansas observed the rich architecture of the Windy City this weekend.
Bob Coffeen, lecturer in architecture, said the school had organized a trip to Chicago almost every fall since 1988 so students could see the many famous structures in the city and meet with practicing architects and engineers.
Forty-one students, one architecture staff member and four faculty members - Coffeeen Stephen Grabow, Kent Spreckelmeyer and Muhsin Hidirov, a visiting professor from Uzbekistan—left for Chicago Thursday morning and returned to Lawrence Saturday.
Students were responsible for paying for the cost of the trip. Coffeen said the cost was approximately $300, including round-trip airfare, hotel, breakfast and a tour bus in Chicago.
Steve Doyel, Rolla, Mo., senior, said he thought the trip was a good learning experience because architecture in most New England cities was based on
European cities, but Chicago had its own architectural style.
"I wanted to go to immerse myself in the architecture of the first true American city," he said.
During the trip, the group toured architecture firms and acoustical consulting firms including Kirkgeaard & Associates, Perkins & Will and Riverbank Acoustic Laboratories, where the students learned about each company's projects and methods.
"The students met with architects to learn more about their field of study." Coffeen said. "It gave them the opportunity to see what they might be going into."
The group went on a walking tour in Oak Park, Ill., to see works by the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The students saw a number of homes Wright designed and his own home and studio, which he built in the 1890s.
The students also visited Wright's Unity Temple, an operating church with detail typical of Wright's work.
The itinerary also included a tour of Chicago Orchestra Hall, where the students learned about acoustics.
—Edited by Lauren Beatty
Gift will help Dole Institute gather oral history from Kansas politicians
By Louise Stauffer
lstauffer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A $300,000 gift will allow Gov. Bill Graves to become the first Kansas governor to participate in an oral history interview while still in office.
The money from Dwayne Andreas, longtime friend of former Sen. Bob Dole, and the Andreas Family Foundation of Mankato, Minn., will allow the staff of the Robert J. Dole Institute for Politics at the University of Kansas to launch a comprehensive oral history project
The project will focus on memories and insights from political and governmental figures of Kansas in the 20th century, such as former Sen. Bob Dole and Gov. Bill Graves.
Richard Norton Smith, of the
Dole Institute of Politics, said the interviews would focus on anecdotes that had shaped the politicians' lives.
"For Gov. Graves, we're planning on sitting down with him and interviewing about what influenced him growing up," Norton Smith said. "It's an opportunity for him to tell stories and reflect a little bit."
Erik Nelson, associate director for the Dole Institute, said the interviews would help reveal the real world of politics.
"The way things really get done in politics is behind the scenes," he said.
Nelson said the conversations with Graves will focus on important current issues, such as the state of Kansas' economy.
Norton Smith said veteran journalists from across Kansas would report for the project
because of their experience with Kansas politics. He intends to find the straight stories from the figures.
"There is no value in oral history if people don't level with you," he said. "The best journalists are historians as well, they bring a richness to this process, and also to be very blunt, they don't take bull," he said.
The interviews will begin next week. Norton Smith envisions the project taking about five years, but said funding would determine the length of the project.
The age of the interviewees requires that researchers begin work soon, he said.
"This project is time sensitive because they're in their 80s or 90s and if we don't get them soon,we might never get them," he said.
"The best journalists are historians as well, they bring a richness to this process,and also, to be very blunt,they don't take bull."
Richard Norton Smith
Dole Institute of Politics
Norton Smith said the goal of the project was to take scholarly information and make it available to the public.
"We're not a mausoleum for paper," he said.
"This is one more way to keep the Dole institute a dynamic unit."
New satellite uplink will bring views from Lawrence to worldwide audience
Edited by Sarah Hill
By Kyle Ramsey
kramsey@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Officials at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics plan to introduce a technology next year that will open both the University of Kansas and Lawrence communities to the world.
A satellite uplink will be part of the institute's new building, located on West Campus, and will allow statewide,nationwide and worldwide broadcasts from Lawrence.
The nearest uplinks now are in Topeka and Kansas City.
Use of the uplink will be open to anyone, said Erik Nelson, associate director of the institute
Access will be as close as the nearest network plug-in.
Although the satellite dish will be located a few hundred feet from the Lied Center, it will be connected to the University's fiber-optic network.
Mike Lickert, video production coordinator for the Athletics Department, said sports fans could see more press conferences and game highlights once the uplink went online.
The uplink will be an asset to the Athletics Department, who has had to travel to Kansas City or rent expensive broadcast trucks to gain satellite access.
"We don't do it a lot now because of the cost prohibitiveness," he said.
In addition to the press conferences, the department might begin televising more sporting events because of the uplink, he
said.
Satellite access would also benefit students in the School of Journalism.
Instructors there are already planning to use the uplink to increase the school's broadcast range.
Gary Hawke, general manager of KUJH, the University's student television station, said he wanted to send reports that appear on the station's news programs to other media outlets with the satellite access. The station now sends video by mail, which is often too slow for breaking news, he said.
"It's a way to ship additional information across the U.S.A." Hawke said.
The institute will use money from private donations to purchase the satellite dish, but Nelson said he could not quote exact figures. He said the institute would keep costs low and charge users for the cost of air time only.
A satellite uplink will be part of the Dole Institute's new building, located on West Campus, and will allow statewide, nationwide and worldwide broadcasts from Lawrence.
The uplink will be ready in June 2003.
— Edited by Chris Wintering.
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