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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 5
'The Gift author to speak about latest work
BY DANIEL JOHNSON
djohnson@kansan.com
Author, scholar and poet Lewis Hyde will speak at 7:30 tonight in
Woodruf Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Hyde will be the first speaker in the 2009-2010 Humanities Lecture Series, sponsored by
Hyde
the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Victoria Bailley, director of the Hall Center, said that Hyde was a good fit for the center's annual series.
"He's been on our radar screen for quite a while," Bailey said. "He's one of the most interesting, creative writers that we have in this country."
Bailey said Hyde recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of his most famous book, "The Gift." He said the book was a cult classic among people doing creative work for a living.
NEW BREW
Bailey said he expected Hyde to speak about his current work tonight.
"We've learned what Hyde is working on at the present," Bailey said. "His talk will most likely cover how society can ensure that creativity continues to occur in a time of increasing laws and restrictions."
Hyde will answer questions from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Hall Center conference hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
Edited by Abby Olcese
STUDY ABROAD
Students adjust to foreign cultures
Both international students and KU students who have studied abroad can take advantage of services at the University to help transition into life abroad.
BY ANNA ARCHIBALD aarchibald@kansan.com
Cressler is one of about 1,300 students who participate in study abroad programs through the University each year. Almost 1,000 students travel to Kansas from 110 countries for their international experience each year.
Leaving home for college can be tough. Moving to a different country can be tougher.
Loren Cressler, Hoxie senior,
found this out when he left this
summer to attend British Summer
Institute and to travel around
Eurone.
"There were some very obvious differences," Cressler said, "like having to pay to use the bathroom and not having Chipotle for two months."
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john McDonald, founding owner of Boulevard Brewing Company, stands on the second floor of the company's factory overlooking the iconic smokestack. Boulevard Brewing Company has just released the Boulevard Pilsner, the seventh year-round beer. McDonald was also a 1976 graduate.
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Boulevard still keeping it fresh
the craft brewery is still going strong at almost 20 years
lhendrick@kansan.com
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
It will be 20 years ago this November when John McDonald, 1976 graduate and founder of Boulevard Brewing Company, put down his hammer and picked up a pint glass of Boulevard brew.
McDonald, Osbourne native and School of Fine Arts graduate, had been a carpenter for 15 years when he decided to share the beer he had been homebrewing in his woodshop with the rest of Kansas City. It was a career change that McDonald said he would never have anticipated, but it was one that changed beer in the Kansas City area for years to follow.
Boulevard Brewing is now the 8th largest craft brewer in the nation and caters to 17 U.S. states.
Its signature Unfiltered Wheat is the number one craft seller in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
"It's interesting because when I was at KU I really didn't drink a whole lot of beer," McDonald said. "I had already gotten that out of my system growing up in Western Kansas and I knew I was going to flunk out of school if I partied too much."
After being awarded the Lockwood scholarship for his promise in the visual arts in 1976, McDonald moved to South America and taught in Ecuador where his travels introduced him to a variety of beers.
"I kind of got away from drinking regular, American domestic beer. I started looking at successful brewers and thought, 'Wow, I can do that.'"
Though McDonald isn't hammering and sawing anymore, he said having a degree in Fine Arts was beneficial as a business owner.
"I'm a process kind of person and making beer isn't that different from painting and carpentry" he said.
NEW TO THE FAMILY
Just two weeks ago, McDonald hit a new mile marker in his career: He introduced Boulevard's first Pilsner, a traditional light-bodied German lager.
"In this town people are craft beer savvy and Boulevard Savvy," Jeff Jensen, owner of Jensen Retail Liquor, 620 W. 9th St., said.
Boulevard Pilsner, retired at $5.99, sits cozy next to other domestic six packs such as Miller Light and Budweiser at Lawrence liquor stores since its debut on August 10. The Lawrence community was second in line to taste Boulevard Pilsner after it was launched in Kansas City in July and more than 2,000 cases were sold.
Jensen said Boulevard Pilsner had been selling well since it arrived at his store. The only complaint Jensen said he had heard was that Pilsner wasn't sold in cans. The Pilsner is currently
sold only in long-neck bottles in packs of six.
"I like it," Jeff Herrera, Prairie Village senior, said. "It's a real beer with a dark taste but not nearly as heavy."
Collin Baba, Wichita senior, said he tried the pilsner on a whim two weekends ago at a Kansas City bar.
"It definitely had nice earthy flavors." Baba said.
A flavorful yet delicate lager was exactly what McDonald
at Boulevard Brewing were going for when they began experimenting with Pilsner recipes nearly 10 years ago. It was only last year that McDonald and his colleagues thought the
timing was right for the release of Boulevard Pilsner.
"Two or three years ago it didn't make sense because we were going to have to directly compete with Anheuser-Busch, but now they've sold out and are no longer an American company," McDonald said.
Anheuser-Busch, once based in St. Louis, was purchased by global giant InBev in July of 2008
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Students enter a Budig lecture auditorium Monday afternoon. The Campus Litter Reduction Campaign has designated recycling bins in high-traffic halls such as Budig, Wescoe and Snow to reduce waste.
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Pilot campaign tries to lessen litter
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke@kansan.com
Anyone who has left an afternoon lecture in Budig Hall with a wrapper stuck to the bottom of a shoe or a book bag that has absorbed a Coke stain from the floor can attest to the litter problem in some campus classrooms.
But this semester three departments, the Center for Sustainability; Facilities Operations, Housekeeping; and KU Recycling, have joined forces to run a pilot program called the
Campus Litter Reduction Campaign. The program's goal is to reduce the amount of litter on campus to ease these frustrations as well and save the housekeeping staff some time at night, Celeste Hoins, administrative manager of the Environmental Stewardship Program, said.
"We want to spread awareness that it's on us to keep these rooms clean during the day," Celestie Hoins, administrative manager for KU Recycling said. "It's littering. We shouldn't do it on the street; why would we want to dirty up our hallways and classrooms?"
Key to the campaign are the groups of three bins located outside almost every classroom in Budig, Wescoe and Snow Halls. One bin is for recycling newspapers, one is for recycling bottles and cans and one is for throwing away trash.
Hoins said the University didn't purchase any new bins for the campaign, but rather relocated other bins on campus to make recycling and throwing away waste more vis-
index
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