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End of an annex
Fifty-six years after its construction in 1947, the "temporary" Lindley Hall Annex is set to be demolished. PAGE3A
Late-night food fix
Night owls have about 20 options for late-night dining in, drive-thru or food
delivery in Lawrence. PAGE12A
Second time around
Mark Mangino's 'Hawks are gearing up for his second season as
coach. The team will first take on Northwestern. PAGE1B
Going out in the wash
Students at the University's scholarship halls will be met with higher prices when they go to do their first load of laundry. PAGE1C
Busing around
Students with KU on Wheels bus passes will be able to hop on board a city bus because of the new ride-sharing program with the Lawrence T. PAGE1D
Drinking — 7 days a week
Lawrence City Commission has taken the first steps to allow liquor sales on Sundays. PAGE1C
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KANSAN
Vol.114 Issue No.1
Monday, August 18, 2003
The Student Newspaper of The University of Kansas
Daisy Hill madness
Photos by Brandon Baker/Kannan
Mark Eisenbarth, Topeka sophomore, lifts a refrigerator for Patrick Paynter, St. Louis freshman. Eisenbarth loaded and unloaded cars and trucks for students moving into Ellsworth and McCallum halls yesterday. Students are now occupying Ellsworth Hall for the first time in more than a year after construction crews renovated the building. Photos by Brandon Baker/Kauai
Revamped Ellsworth Hall gets its first occupants
By Brandon Baker bbaker@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students moved their furniture and belongings back into Ellsworth Hall yesterday after the building was vacant since May 2002.
At 9:30 a.m. the front doors of Ellsworth were packed with students and parents moving in. Mark Brehm, Overland Park freshman, said his new room was smaller than his former room at his parents' house but that didn't keep him from bringing his favorite love seat — black leather with the back legs removed — his black light and posters. Nate Stafford, Overland Park freshman, is Brehm's roommate and friend from Shawnee Mission South High School. He said they planned to decorate their room in a more artistic way than most students, with a wooden head from Jamaica and their black-light posters.
"Communal bathrooms kind of sucked. If you had to pee,you had to put shoes on and walk all the way down the hall."
Megan Persinger
Hiawatha sophomore
"The room is small but quaint," Stafford said. "It's home."
The interior design of Ellsworth Hall no longer looks like it did when Jimmy ingraham, Lenexa senior, lived there in 1999 and 2000.
"It was pretty filthy in there," Ingraham said. "It needed to be remodeled before I got there."
The new design departs from the original design in mostly aesthetic
Nate Stafford, Overland Park freshman, unleashes his personal belongings from a box to decorate the room he shares with Mark Brehm, Overland Park freshman. Stafford and Brehm decided to live together at Ellsworth Hall because they were friends in high school and are looking forward to meeting new people at the University of Kansas
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Center offers options
New facility to provide brand-new equipment,
no more excuses
By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
K kansan staff writer
Instead of using Robinson Center to work out, some students have used it as an excuse not to. The new Student Fitness Recreation Center opening in September may force them to think of another reason.
Becca Evanhoe, Derby junior, knows that working out is important for her health. She just doesn't like doing it, especially at Robinson.
"It smelled bad and seemed kind of dark and crowded all the time." Evanhoe said. "It wasn't fun, so I didn't workout much."
work out much. The new recreation center will open on Sept. 15, providing students with
nearly 100,000 square feet of workout and meeting space, filled with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities.
A 42-foot-high rock climbing wall, a suspended running track and a martial arts room in the recreation center offers a wide variety of workout options.
Students can work up a sweat on two racquetball and squash courts, four full-sized basketball courts or in the aerobics studio.
A 10,000 square-foot cardiovascular area housing more than 100 machines will be available for students looking to raise their heart rates.
And for those interested in pumping iron, a large selection of free weights and weight machines will be on hand.
But the recreation center is not just for the rock-hard bodies of seasoned gum rats, said Mary Chappell, director of Recreation Services.
"We want this to be a place where everyone can rest, relax and even
study," Chappell said. "There are lots of little spaces here for everyone."
Those spaces include a juice bar and lounge, complete with a flat-screen television; two meeting rooms; and more than 24 Internet-capable computers scattered throughout the building for student use.
for things like "Everything we have in here is state-of-the-art." Chappell said. "We were able to add some really nice things."
pell said.
"When we started the bidding process, the economy was so bad everybody underbid just to get work," Chappell said. "We were able to add some amenities with the money we saved."
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Those nice things, such as more than 23 televisions, glass walls and padded floors, were possible after the original building design came in $1.8 million dollars under budget. Chappell said.
Downtown parking fees to increase
Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
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It faced a burning by Quantrill in 1865. It withstood floods in the 1950s.
Now downtown Lawrence is facing another formidable foe: rising parking costs.
This means drivers could pay higher parking meter fees and violation fines in 2004.
Last month, the Lawrence City Commission proposed reducing the amount of parking time a quarter could buy from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. The commission also recom-
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