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LAWRENCE FORECAST
Tyler Wieland and Nathan Wendt KU Atmospheric Science students
Thursday
HI: 88
Sunny, cooler but warm.
LO: 65
Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011
Don't sweat it.
Friday
HI: 93 A Beautiful Sunny day, warm.
LO: 68 Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
HI: 88
LO: 67
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
It's a little toasty out there.
Saturday 09972JJ300
Partly cloudy skies.
Grab some shade.
HI: 84
L0: 64
Sunday
Mostly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunder storms Sunday night.
Take an umbrella.
The first class of students at KU was in 1866, and consisted of 29 men and 26 women. In more recent history we've been at about 51% women and 49% men.
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
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SANTIAGO, CHILE
Protesters supporting a 48-hour strike called by student groups, unions and opposition politicians threw up burning barricades and clashed with police Wednesday to demand fundamental changes in Chile. At least 11 people were injured and 35 arrested, police said. The day began with a pot-banging protest known as a "caceroleo," conducted by students who have been boycotting classes for three months to demand improvements in public education. Treasury Secretary Felipe Lar-
Treasury Secretary Felipe Larrain said the strike would cost Chile $200 million a day in loss production.
NAIROBI, KENYA
A U.S. monitoring group said Wednesday that satellite imagery had revealed the existence of two more mass graves in a contested region of Sudan, bringing the total number of mass graves sited there to eight. The Satellite Sentinel Project, a group backed by actor and Sudan activist George Clooney, said that witnesses told the group that a backhoe was used to dig some of the graves at sites in Kadugli, South Kordofan. Workers with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society were present during some of the burials, the group said.
The U.S. group has not made any estimates of the number of bodies buried in the graves.
MOSCOW
An unmanned Russian supply ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach its planned orbit Wednesday, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous explosion, officials said.
A brief statement from Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, did not specify whether the Progress supply ship that was launched from the Bakauron cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had been lost. But the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Alexander Borisov, head of a the Choiksy region in Russia's Altai province, as saying pieces of the craft fell in his area some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) northeast of the launch site.
NEW DELHI
Four Indian lawmakers were charged Wednesday for their role in an alleged cash-for-votes scandal during a crucial confidence vote the ruling Congress party faced in 2008, a police official said.
The four men charged were Amar Singh, Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora, said a senior police official who declined to be named because he wasn't allowed to speak to reporters.
Socialist Party lawmaker Amar Singh has been accused of bribing three legislators from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party to vote in favor of the government. The police official didn't give more detail about the charges each man faced.
CONSTRUCTION
JESSICA JANASZ/KANSAN
Engineering students and faculty await the completion of the engineering research building. Once opened, the new building will create a space for students to gain hands on experience, which will prepare them for their future careers.
New lab closer to completion
JESSIE BLAKEBOROUGH
jblakeborough@kansan.com
Construction of the new engineering research laboratory in front of Learned Hall is moving along faster than scheduled.
"My office looks directly out on the construction site so I get to see it all," Marotz said. "Sometimes I'll have my back to the window for a while and when I turn around there is something new already up."
According to Glen Marotz, associate dean of the engineering department and principle investigator of the grant, the building will be ready to open before the previously scheduled date in June 2012.
Nahal Niakan, a first year graduate student from Tehran, Iran, believes the new research labs will be important in obtaining real life experience and, with hope, a job.
The research laboratory is the first phase in a two-part process of construction and reorganization of the engineering department. The structure of a 100,000 square foot facility has been approved through state legislature and is in the early stages of planning. Construction will begin in June 2012 when the research building is completed.
"It's extremely important for us to actually be able to work with something". Niakan said. "An engineering company is going to want you to actually be able to do something, not just theorize."
The new building is a part of the
"The BEI building will have a combination of teaching and lab spaces, student services, research opportunities and it will allow us to expand upon the government grant and will allow us to house the new thirty faculty members we will be hiring." Marotz said.
"Building of Excellence Initiative", which was developed by the dean of the engineering school, Stuart Bell, in conjunction with Wichita State University and Kansas State University. Gov. Sam Brownback approved of BEI proposal.
During the summer months construction on a utility tunnel shut down traffic on 15th Street, but Marotz said it was nothing out of the ordinary.
"There are typical inconveniences when you are building things, but I don't anticipate any problems in the future." Marotz said.
Everyone from lab instructors and engineers to students sitting in on the process will have to go through extensive laboratory training before they may enter the labs. Marotz said the building's key card scanners will prevent uncertified peoples from entering the labs.
For students worried about receiving more KU text message alerts similar to the frequent chemical spill warnings in Mallot Hall, Marotz assures there will be no problems despite the inherent dangerous materials engineers will be working with.
— Edited by Alexandra Esposito
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