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Architecture students reviving student space
▶ PEYTON KRAUS
@evetonkraus12
Walking through the architecture school's newest hang-out space doesn't look like much yet, with the concrete poured to outline the area and the beginning stages of a table in the corner. But the view from the dirt pile and the potential of this new relaxing space for students keeps architecture majors busy inside of Marvin Hall studios, working to finish all its components before the semester runs out.
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Savanna Smith/KANSAN Junior urban planning student Grace Bridges and junior architecture student Sarah Wages work to design RITA, which stands for Relaxing, Interactive, Therapeutic Atmosphere. RITA will be located outside Marvin Studios.
Professor Paola Sanguinetti created the plan last semester and also teaches the Studio 509 class this spring that has designed and created each component. The area, which used to host a satellite dish, has now sat vacant for a while.
Project RITA, which stands for Relaxing, Interactive and Therapeutic Atmosphere, will be an area for students to study, hang out with peers or just take a break from their classes. Created entirely by a class of architecture students, the site will open to all students starting this summer.
"We use this area quite a lot, and this area had just kind of been growing weeds and nothing was happening
here," Sanguinetti said. "It just seemed like it had so much potential."
After Sanguinetti was granted permission for the construction site by the University, the students have taken charge this semester in bringing the project to life. The class spent the first half of the semester designing each component and are now building it themselves.
"Last fall, I set up that this would be the site, but the whole design process has been this semester with the students," Sanguineti said. "Designed by students, built by students, driven by the students."
The area, which is located behind Marvin Studios beside Chalmers Hall, needs 600 concrete pavers to be laid in the next two weeks, which are being mixed and poured by the students themselves. They have finished half of the
The site is small at only 528 square feet, but it will consist of a sitting area on one end for students to relax while enjoying the view and a social area with a table for people to eat or study with friends. The students have considered every little detail, even planning to add in a custom-designed string of lights hanging above for students to feel safe at night and a sculptural backdrop.
pavers already and plan to add blue pigment as a finishing touch.
"That's definitely one of the biggest takeaways, biggest learning experiences, learning how to fight through even when it hurts," said Sekou Hayes, a junior in the five-year architecture program.
Learning to create this space over the last few months has taught students to look realistically at the project in front of them. Some creative elements were not able to happen because of restrictions with time, as well as experience.
With rain pouring down over the last week, the class has experienced setbacks in time, causing them to rethink some of their design
plans in order to get everything done before their deadline on May 10.
"We had to come up with a plan B right on the fly," Hayes said. "It was a big hit to us, but we're still remaining positive on the outlook."
Each student in the class sat down at the beginning and volunteered for positions based on their personal strengths to make sure each part of the process got done. Some took on projects, such as construction, that they had experience in, while others took advantage of learning something brand new. Hayes, for example, took charge of creating several components of the project on the class' computer software, called Grasshopper, which he had
no experience with. However, he was excited for the new challenge.
"Definitely was once again just another learning experience I wanted to get, so I'm glad that I did it," Hayes said. "I feel like my palette is a lot more wide and a lot stronger because of it."
Many of them will be able to use the space in the upcoming years, along with other architecture students, many design students and anyone else at the University who stops by.
"It goes back to realizing that this is of course bigger than 15 people in a studio, it's going to be an entire school that's going to be occupying this space," Hayes said.
Harford: A journalism education is more than just classes, experience
MCKENNA HARFORD
@McKennaHarford
It was only a few weeks into my first semester as a reporter for the Kansan that the Huffington Post broke a story about the University's response to an alleged rape, including the decision that community service was too punitive a punishment for
the perpetrator. The very next morning, I was in the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, where students report sexual assault, hoping to learn more about how the University handled sexual assault.
This story, its fall-out and the University's continuing conversations surrounding sexual assault on campus consumed the rest of my semester - but the desire to uncover information, tell stories, and hold people and institutions accountable have driven me for the rest of my University journalism career.
In my five semesters at
the Kansan, my news coverage has taken me to every building on campus, and I've spoken to sources ranging from bus drivers to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. As a student reporter, the unique opportunity to cover campus stories from an inside perspective meant my favorite stories were always the ones no one else was telling.
Through my experience, I've learned a lot about how to be a journalist, but mostly, I've learned what kind of journalist I want to be. More than any class or assignment, my co-workers and professors taught me how to
tell fair, accurate and important stories. I feel very lucky to have so many great role models to turn to. They will be what I remember most about my education.
Going forward in my career, I will remember that speed is important but never more so than accuracy. I'll remember to report the whole truth and only the truth. I'll remember to take pride and responsibility in my work. And I'll never forget the people who took the time to teach me these lessons. So thanks to KU and thanks to the Kansan for an unforgettable four years.
RENOVATIONS FROM
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provements to Memorial Stadium will be positive for the University.
Starting this fall, KU Athletics will block concealed weapons from athletic venues with more than 5,000 spectators. However, Marchiony said these renovations will not include campus-carry or gun-security-related projects.
Successful athletic programs bring in trademark licensing revenue that the athletics department splits with the University."
ony said. "Successful athletic programs raise the stature, and it brings positive publicity for the University."
"The general student body benefits from a successful athletics program," Marchi-
make security the quickest is for fans to adhere to the clear-bag policy that is being implemented for the fall of 2017," Marchiony said. "That will make bags easier to search and speed up access to the venue quicker than just about anything."
"The one thing that will
important things for future MSG leadership to handle. MSG member junior Frank Angel will likely be one of the individuals, and possibly executives, during the upcoming year.
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"The continued backlash is a problem MSG is going to
face in the future," Angel said. "Even with everything that we've given up, everything that Trinity is giving up especially, there's still people who don't believe MSG should exist in any capacity whatsoever."
As senior and MSG member Keenan Gregory said, the discussion surrounding marginalized students at a predominantly-white institution and the fight for MSG doesn't
be focusing on obtaining the original $2 requested fee and coming out of the umbrella of Student Senate to function as their own government.
More than handling interest, Carpenter said, MSG's main goals for next year will
stop at the steps forward made this year.
"Most people tend to disbelieve the stories, especially of students of color," Gregory said. "One great thing that MSG is sort of doing to fight that resistance is to educate through outreach and participation and not giving up at it."
CORRECTION
have closed. The application is still open through May 15, but the priority deadline has passed.
The Kansan sincerly regrets this error.
A story about a new program for multicultural, first-generation students in Monday's paper incorrectly stated that the applications for the program
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