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September 24,1997
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Vol. 108 - No. 25
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Despite the rain, the Kansas men's golf team won the Kansas Invitational by 17 strokes, with a team score of 859.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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By Matthew Friedrichs
Kanson staff writer
mattf@ukans.edu
The University will release a document on Friday to help plan the next generation of campus improvements.
The 95-page document, "A Framework for Campus Renewal and Physical Development," will set a loose 20-year blueprint for decision making at the University. The document is also known as the campus master plan.
"Probably, this will be one of the greatest things that will ever happen to the campus," said Warren Corman, university architect.
Since 1886, the University of Kansas has grown from a lone building on a prairie hilltop to more than 120 buildings.
Although some of the University's development during the years may appear haphazard, periodic plans have guided University development.
At faculty convocation on Sept. 9, Cancellor Robert Hemenway said two guidelines would influence all future planning decisions; preserving the beauty of Mount Oread and creating an environment that shows respect for learning.
The plan will not predict exactly how the campus will appear in 20 years. Instead, Corman said, the master plan will act as a guideline for future University development.
The master plan calls the area along Javahawk Boulevard the core campus.
The core campus is now the area most heavily used by students for classes and labs and is defined by the distance students can walk in 10 minute breaks between classes.
Plans, like the proposed undergraduate science teaching building, are limited because only a few building spots are left in the core campus.
Tom Waechter, planning coordinator of the office of design and construction management, said continued building in the core had led to a more urban
environment, which implied a need for more urban-type landscaping like patios and paved benches.
Access to the core campus also is an issue because of parking shortages of up to 1,000 spots per day for people wishing to use core buildings.
Parking concerns in the core should be addressed in the future by adding a new parking garage north of the Kansas Union, adding about 1,000 spaces, and renovations to surface lots, which would add about 1,000 spaces.
When developers look beyond the core campus, such as the renovation of Joseph R. Pearson Hall for the School of Education, they also face challenges.
Students and faculty would have difficulty walking between classroom buildings without a bus route that circles the campus core. Waechter said.
Also, development away from the core campus, such as the proposed library depository or the Dole Institute of Public Service and Public Policy, create other challenges.
Waechter said planning research indicated transportation difficulties for faculty and staff who have responsibilities on the main and West campuses.
The University has a history of development planning.
The first long-range planning for the main campus was done in 1904. The plan called for a main academic building where Wescoe Hall now sits and a football stadium and gymnasium on the site now occupied by Memorial Stadium.
The second plan, in 1928, focused on Strong Hall as a main academic building and Jayhawk Boulevard as the center of a pedestrian-oriented campus
Planning in 1952 directed the Univer
sity's expansion after World War II. The University developed its most recent long-term plan in 1973 in response to a mandate financed by the Board of Regents.
Police investigate missing deposits
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas police are investigating a former employee of the Office of New Student Orientation in connection with missing bank deposits valued at more than $4,000.
A 1997 internal audit of the office showed a $4,437 discrepancy in its bank deposits.
KU police received the first of 18 reports involving the missing money on July 21, police said. The first report shows the office missing a $787 deposit.
Police have contacted and interviewed the former employee. No arrests have been made, and police still are investigating.
KU police and the University's Internal Audit Office began investigating after receiving the report, which came from the Comptroller's Office. The auditor's investigation led to the discovery of the missing deposits.
Police began investigating the former employee after receiving information about who controlled money inside the Office of New Student Orientation.
Mary Ryan, director of the office, has been on vacation and could not comment on the matter. Kristin Adkinson, assistant director, did not comment.
Most of the money the University receives goes through the Comptroller's Office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. The deposits go into a University bank account.
On July 15, the Comptroller's office realized that some of the deposits made by the Office of New Student Orientation had not made it to the bank, police said.
Police said situations involving missing deposits were rare at the University.
By August, police and the internal auditors had discovered missing deposits dating from May 29, 1996, to July 15, 1997. Each missing deposit ranged from $10 to $800, police said.
Police reports show that a total of $3,942 was missing -$495 less than the amount discovered by the auditor's office. Police said the reason for the discrepancy between the auditor's investigation and their own was that they probably had not yet received information involving all the missing money.
"This doesn't happen very often. But I'm sure it's not the first time either," said Sgt. Chris Keary of the KU police.
Commission faces unusual biker gang
By Ann Premer
apremer @kansan
Kansas staff writer
More than 100 bicyclists gathered at the Community Mercantile and rode to the Lawrence City Commission meeting last night to pay homage to Jon Hermes and to make the bicycle community visible.
Hermes, a Lawrence resident, died after colliding with a dump truck on Sept. 15 at the corner of Mississippi and Ninth streets. A police investigation concluded that the accident was Hermes' fault because he was on the right side of the dump truck.
"What happened last week was not an accident," Kip Curtis, New York graduate student, said. "This is the kind of thing that happens when the city doesn't plan for cyclists."
Curtis addressed the diverse group of cyclists, which ranged in age and type of bicycle, at Community Mercantile, 901 Mississippi, before the group rode to City
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Kip Curtis, New York graduate student, speaks at the bike rally. The rally started at the Community Mercantile and ended at City Hall. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
University one stop on Haitian politicians' U.S. tour
Jennifer A. Yeoman
jyeoman@Kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas stretched its international horizons yesterday as it played host to members of the Haitian Chamber of Deputies.
The group is in the United States as part of an international visitors program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. The agency sends professionals from other countries to regions of the United States to study their areas of interest.
The Haitian are in the United States to study the U.S. legislative process. They are visiting Kansas to study agriculture and education.
Five members of Haiti's parliament came to the University to visit the Institute of Haitian Studies, tour the campus and have lunch with Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
"I was struck by the presence of agriculture in the state," said Jean-Guy Marcelin, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Haiti's Permanent Committee on Agriculture. "The size of the farms in Kansas are striking, and it is surprising how few people work those farms. In Haiti that would never happen. Many more people would work those same farms."
They came to Lawrence specifically to look at the University's Institute of Haitian Studies, one of only two such institutes in the United States. Its director, Bryant Freeman, has held a variety of positions in Haiti with the United Nations and the U.S. government. He has spent nearly 40 years studying the people and politics of Haiti.
The officials visited Kansas State University on Monday to meet with faculty and staff of the university's agriculture programs. Yesterday morning they visited the Kansas Department of Agriculture in Topeka.
"I was very surprised to see that there is a Creole class at KU," said Edzer Desarmes, a member of Haiti's committees on agriculture and education.
The delegation visited a Haitian class taught by Marjorie Acsenvill, graduate
teaching assistant. They sat in the back of the classroom and listened as students spoke Creole. Occasionally, the dignitaries participated and laughed with the class.
The visitors also shared a friendly lunch with Hemenway in his dining room. Hemenway described the University and expressed his interest in their country.
"We have a great interest in your country," Hemenway said. "I hope you will always think of KU and allow us to work on some projects together."
Before the officials departed, they gave Hemenway a card and a book describing the Haitian parliament. They also exchanged business cards with the chancellor.
Yesterday was their last day of a five-day trip to Kansas. They will go to New Mexico to study that state's legislature.
"It's a way to expose them to the way things are done here," said Manning Hudson, an interpreter traveling with them. "The U.S. Information Agency brings foreign groups the opportunity to look at our processes here in the U.S."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway entertains a group of Haitian parliament members for lunch. The group was traveling across the United States with the focus of their trip on the legislative process in America. While on campus, the parliament members toured the Lied Center and various other buildings on campus before sitting in on a course that covered Haitian language. The University was recognized as one of the leaders in Haitian studies. The parliament members' next stop was to see how state government functioned in Santa Fe, N.M. Photo by Jay Sheperd/KANSAN
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