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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 | VOLUME 133 ISSUE 28
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Election results certified by Elections Commission
DARBY VANHOUTAN
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in the final act of a particularly long and contentious Student. Sen
answered yes and 10.71 percent of students abstained.
Student Senate campaign season officially
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"We get to introduce people to things they haven't tried before. People are generally open to trying new things."
These are the words of Mass Street Soda manager Maren Ludwig. The things she's
referring to? Soda - over 1,300 kinds of soda when the shop is at maximum capacity. This includes root beers, colas, Harry Potter-inspired butterbeer, fruity sodas, tart sodas and hundreds more.
"It's a lot of fun because it's an environment that entire generations can enjoy, like young kids obviously like seeing all the
different varieties and trying something different," Ludwig said. "We also have grandparents that bring their grandsons or granddaughters in once a week and introduce them to the soda that they drank as a child, which is cool."
One generation that enjoys soda from the three-year-old Mass Street Soda shop are those who attend the University, including employee CJ Stuever, a senior from Lawrence.
"My job is fun because I'm required to try everything and I get paid to drink soda, so that's not a terrible thing either," Stuever said.
Stuever, who will celebrate one year of employment at the shop in May, said one of the best parts of Mass Street Soda, in his opinion, is the alternative space it provides students.
"Not everybody is necessarily attracted to the bar scene," Stuever said. "So having a place for people who want to come and sit down at a 'bar' and watch a game or something and not necessarily be in a place
where music is blaring and you can't hear the person next to you, I think makes it a fun place."
The shop offers a special on Wednesday to college students who present a student ID. This special allows them to upgrade any very un-boring soda to something even better by adding ice cream for no additional cost and making it a float.
Ice cream upgrades and a "chiller" that will cool any soda in under a minute are only a few of the surprises waiting behind the doors of the 1103 Mass St. location
"The most surprising part, it's either a person seeing a soda they haven't seen in years," Ludwig said. "Or maybe just the sheer number of sodas we have."
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"We had heard from a few different faculty that they really wanted to be able to support their students, and they weren't really sure how they should do that," said Amber Roberts Graham, graduate studies policy coordinator for the University. "So we thought we should provide some guidelines that really encourage them to work directly with their students."
graduate students because of the layout of curriculum and classes.
"Graduate school is so individualized that any given student could need something different, and we wanted to build that into the policy, that flexibility," Graham said.
The Dean of Graduate Studies, Michael Roberts, who got the idea from an initiative put in place by the University's medical
"I'm always grateful when the University acknowledges parents who are trying to further their education," McGuinness said. "The reality is, getting an education certainly leads to better opportunities long term to support yourself and your family."
have to ability to continue through school, even while juggling raising a family.
McGuinness agrees that accommodations should
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As the University prepares for the upcoming implementation of concealed carry on campus, only some of its buildings - athletics facilities - will be able to keep guns out due to practicality and budget constraints.
Starting this fall, the University will implement armed guards and metal detectors at entrances to Allen
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Fieldhouse, Memorial Stadium and Rock Chalk Park during events with more than 5,000 spectators. Additionally, spectators will no longer be allowed to bring bags or purses into athletic venues and instead must use clear plastic bags.
These new policies are a reaction to the concealed carry law that will allow guns in campus buildings starting July 1. However, the law states that guns can be restricted from buildings if the buildings have adequate security measures (ASMs), such as armed guards and metal detectors.
In theory, every building on campus could restrict guns if ASMs were put in place. In 2015, the University investigated securing the more than 200 buildings on campus, but the investigation revealed that doing so would cost upwards of $20 million and congest the flow of student foot traffic.
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