LOVE IS IN THE AIR
ISAAAC GWIN/KANSAN
Friends of Joey Meyer and Alyssa Auld stand along Massachusetts Street to help with Meyer's proposal to Auld. The two were engaged Saturday night.
Proposal lights up Mass. Street
ISAAC GWIN
editor@kansan.com
Romance was alive and well in downtown Lawrence Saturday evening.
Nineteen of Joey Meyer and Allysa Auld's closest friends assembled the pieces of a long sign that read 'Allysa Will You Marry Me?' in bright, sequenced holiday lights across the street from the Signs of Life café bookstore and art gallery on northern Massachusetts Street.
Louis and have been together since their sophomore year of high school. Meyer is a senior architectural engineering major at the University and Auld is a University alumna teaching at Mill Valley High School in Shawnee.
Meyer and Auld are both from St.
"Joy wanted to have a wedding proposal that Alysa would never forget," said Ryan Moloney, Meyer's best friend who helped to coordinate the surprise. "This morning he woke up and just off the spur of the moment said to me, "today's the day."
Moloney said they made the signs
in the afternoon and later gathered their friends together to wait for the couple to finish eating.
Meyer was in contact with Maloney via text message as he and Auld finished their dinner at Free State Brewery. As the couple came walking along the opposite side of the street, the group of friends raised the lit sign, which was powered by the cigarette lighter of Moloney's truck. Meyer then dropped to one knee and proposed to Auld with a diamond ring.
Auld said "yes" as a crowd of onlookers cheered in approval.
"I had the idea in the back of my mind for a long time." Meyer said as everyone gathered to congratulate the couple. "We've been dating for six and a half years, so I've been thinking about this forever and I decided I wanted to do it tonight."
"I'm super surprised." Audd said as she showed the ring to her friends. "I noticed he didn't really eat anything, but I didn't put too much thought into it. I can tell that he was nervous now"
Edited by Rachel Schultz
One extra day of Halloween
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@hansan.com
Halloween falling on a Monday this year does more than put a damper on partying. It also provides an extra day for Halloween happenings.
Molten metal poured down, falling on the ground like lava. Sparks flew and people were kept
Saturday
Club members loaded baked coal and scrap iron chargers into a furnace. As the iron melted in the furnace, it filled a well, which started to shoot slag, or impure glass, when it was full. When the slag turned into iron, it was poured into a crucible, then used to fill molds.
from moving any closer. Although it may sound like a scene from a natural disaster, it was actually the KU Ministry of Sculpture's annual iron pour fundraiser.
"We sell these scratch block molds for about $10 and anybody can come in and carve their name or their address or something into it," said Scott Burr, a recent graduate from Topeka, and former member of the club. "We'll pour it for them and when its all done they'll get their own."
Setup et Ninth and Rhode Island streets, the iron drew an audience of about 30 people. Logan Smith, a graduate student from Lawrence, said he came to the event because it sounded like an interesting way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Plus, it held a certain appeal.
The complicated process was carried out by members of the sculpture club, but onlookers could also play a role.
"Who doesn't love fire?" Smith said.
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Taylor, Johnson out two games
MIKE LAVIERI
mlavieri@kansan.com
Kansas will be without guards Tyshawn Taylor and Elijah Johnson for the first two exhibition games because the two violated team
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CROSSWORD 4
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
SUPOUK 4
rules during the offseason,
coach Bill Self
announced
Sunday.
Taylor
Johnson
sponsible and
"Tyshawn and Elijah have both been terrific since school began in August," Self said in a release. "They've not only performed well, they have very re-
disciplined the first few months of the school year. But during the offseason they violated a rule that I told them, because of some past experiences, their punishment was going to be severe and I was going
Taylor, a senior, is the team's leading returning scorer with 9.3 points per game last season. Johnson, a junior, started in just six games last year, but is expected to help provide the foundation for this year's team with Taylor in the backcourt.
to hold them out of the two exhibition games. They have been aware of this for several months and also are disappointed, but have had very positive attitudes about it."
The suspension came after junior Thomas Robinson hyperextended his left knee in practice on Thursday, making him questionable for Tuesday night's game against Pittsburg State.
"Losing two players and Thomas being questionable for Tuesday's game probably changes the look of our team as much as anyone in the country," Self said. "This gives a chance for our young guys to play under the lights and see how they react."
Taylor and Johnson will be available for the season opener on Friday, Nov. 11 against Townson.
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Chancellor signs Berlin Declaration
Edited by Joel Petterson
CLAIRE MCINERNY
cmcinerny@kansan.com
The University is making international news - this time not for its discoveries, but rather for the availability of its research.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little recently signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities (Berlin 9), which affirms that Kansas researchers' findings are available to the public.
The University of Kansas is the first public university to have an open-access policy to information, and one of the first American universities to sign the Berlin 9. Other signatories include Harvard, Duke and Oregon.
Rebecca Smith, executive director of communications for KU libraries, said making research available to everyone is a priority for the University.
"We've seen a tremendous increase in the research that's been conducted by KU faculty and staff," Smith said. "What we're seeing is faculty research is having a much broader reach than it has before,
University researchers work with the journal to deposit the article in KU Scholar Works, the University's research database. KU Scholar Works is available to the public through Google, so students around the world can access the University's research online, rather than through expensive journal subscriptions.
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Under the University's current open access policy, which was established last year, articles written by faculty members and published in peer-reviewed journals must be available to the public. It was this policy that enabled the University to sign the Berlin 9 declaration.
To promote International Open Access Week this week, a panel discussion on Wednesday discussed the benefits of open access to information. Panel members included four of the foremost leaders in the open access movement in the U.S.
Don't trick-or-Treaters will be stopping by the resident forget halls and greek houses.
which is really important to raise the profile of what is going on here at KU"
The panel members spoke on
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