WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15,2006 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOL.117 ISSUE 63
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CITY COMMISSION
Report advises merger
Changes helpful for developers
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
Lawrence took a step forward Tuesday night in making the development-approval process easier for local businesses.
The City Commission received a report from Alan Pennington of Matrix Consultants, in which the firm recommended a number of ways the city could improve its development approval processes.
Among the proposed recommendations, Mayor Mike Amyx urged City Manager Dave Corliss to begin looking for office space to house a one-stop shop, called the Department of Community Development, that would combine the services of both the Planning Commission and the Neighborhood Resources Commission. Amyx also urged Corliss to begin searching for a department head to manage the entire development review process at the merged department.
Commissioner David Schauner said there was a "sense of urgency" to improve the approval process and if the city could have started yesterday, it would have.
Corliss said he had already been exploring options for the person to lead the Department of Community Development and hiring that person and finding the space for the new department were his "top priorities."
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In all, Matrix Consultants recommended nearly $1 million in suggested improvements to help ease the development-approval process. That includes: the implementation of a new software package for the development review process that would be used by all city departments at an estimated cost of $250,000 to $700,000; the addition of two more plans examiner positions at a cost of $108,000; the addition of two more current planners at a cost of $110,000; an estimated cost of $25,000 to merge the departments of Planning and Neighborhood Resources; and an upgrade of two planner positions to senior plan-
A process steering committee composed of members of the city commission, planning commission, neighborhood resources, utilities, fire/medical and public works assisted in the report by providing their expertise and participating in surveys to complete the report.
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MEN'S HEALTH
Many men experience early baldness; some suffer from it,some embrace it
BY DREW DAVISON
Chris Towell recalls looking into the mirror his sophomore year in high school and seeing a strange glare coming off his head. He took a second, closer look, wondering what was shining so brightly. That was the moment he realized he was starting to go bald.
"My grandpa is bald, my dad is bald, so I knew it was coming," Towell, Overland Park freshman, said. But it was hard to start losing his hair when most guys were just starting to shave.
Towell is one of many college-aged males who is losing his hair to male-pattern baldness when looks matter most. These guys are bound for the horseshoe, or culde-sac look. That means no hair on the top, but some on the sides and back of their heads. Rather than fighting nature with comb-overs, Rogaine or toupees, stylists, doctors and women have one suggestion for these men: Embrace it.
Towell was originally in denial about his baldness, claiming he had a "widow's peak." His friends were always quick to remind him that he was bald.
"Oh well, it's just like having a small penis — I'm used to it," Towell quipped. "I've always had it."
"I look older, more sexy," he said. "I could buy alcohol in high school without getting carded."
rowen found some advantages to having his hairline recede early in life.
Ashley Leylink and Teal Mareska, stylists at Salon Hawk in the Kansas Union, don't recommend the combover.
Before accepting his fate, he tried a "fat" comb-over to cover the bald spot.
The best advantage for Towell?
"Girls like to lick my bald spot."
They said men with male pattern baldness should learn to love the dome
"I like to touch it because it's smooth." Leylink said. "I like it because it's soft." Mareska added
They mentioned Hollywood hunks Vin Diesel, Bruce Willis, Kevin Kline and George Clooney as attractive men with receding hairlines.
While Towell has accepted it, other balding KU males struggle more with their hair-loss gene.
Myths About Balding
"Girls like to lick my bald spot."
Trauma — going through a traumatic experience doesn't make hair fall out.
Source: AskMen.com
Playing with your hair — this doesn't explain premature baldness.
Wearing hats — wearing hats does not make you go bald.
CHRIS TOWELL Overland Park freshman
Sun Bathing — the sun has no affect on
wearable technology at your site.
Tommy Hollingsworth, Wichita freshman, said he got "screwed" genetically because both of his grandfathers have full heads of hair. He said his family has good hair genes, but he didn't inherit them.
Shaving hair makes hair grow back stronger
— sorry, this doesn't work either.
"Pretty much, it sucks," Hollingsworth said. "I'll be sitting in class, and people will be sitting behind me saying, 'Dude, look at that bald spot.'"
Hollingsworth said he has tried the prescription drug
Roralean, but hasn't used it consistently.
"It only makes hair grow on the top of your head, and it feels so greasy when you use it," he said. "You have to use it consistently, or else the hair will fall out."
Hollingsworth said he tried Rogaine hoping to have a "cool" hairdo.
of high school, sees no advantages to a receding hairline. Bars still card him, and he declares, "No girls like to see a bald guy."
"I'm curious to know what I would look like with a buzz cut or just a bald head, but I don't want to take that risk," Hollingsworth said.
Hollingsworth, who first noticed his hair thinning his sophomore year
Even as Hollingsworth was being interviewed for this story, one smirking friend suggested a new nickname, "Baldingsworth."
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ELECTION
Student turnout at polls lower than predicted
BY DAVID LINHARDT
Despite a steady push on campus for students to visit the polls, official election results showed that turnout in many student-dominated precincts was often a fraction of the average for Douglas County.
Keith Campbell, Douglas County deputy of elections, said the push to get out the vote by various parties especially Democrats — gave the county a solid overall turnout despite the unexpectedly low numbers from student areas of Lawrence.
In precincts near Iowa and Massachusetts streets and between 9th and 23rd streets, turnout dropped as low as 17.4 percent. Douglas County experienced a 44 percent turnout and Kansas' overall was at 51 percent.
Bridget Franklin and the Delta Force political coalition spent weeks registering voters in front of Wescoe Hall. Franklin, Topeka senior, said she kept hearing the same thing from KU students eager to vote anger about Republican politicians tied to lobbying scandals and the Iraq war and disgust toward Attorney General Phill Kline.
Campbell had hoped at least 50 percent of registered voters would hit the polls Nov. 7. But despite the nice weather, many voters stayed home. Those who did vote often asked Campbell's office if they could vote in the second district race for the U.S. House of Representatives that pitted Democrat Nancy Boyda against Rep. Jim Ryun, a five-term
incumbent Republican.
"People called and were mad that they couldn't vote in that race," Campbell said. The second district covers western Lawrence to Iowa street.
Despite the work of Franklin and other voter registration drives at the University, turnout in student-dominated areas in Lawrence continued to be poor, Campbell said.
Democrats seemed particularly motivated this year, as Boyda upset Ryun and Johnson County district attorney Paul Morrison scored a landslide victory against Kline. Morrison trounced Kline by an almost 3-to-1 margin in Douglas County, while Gov. Kathleen Sebelius beat challenger Jim Barnett by the same margin in the county.
Ryun had defeated Boyda by less than 300 votes in 2004 in Douglas County. But this time around, Boyda claimed more than 9,000 votes in Douglas County, while Ryun had nearly 6,000, barely half of the votes he had in 2004.
"Republicans' most strategic failure was focusing on immigration," Langston said. "That issue lost a lot of traction toward the end of the
Marc Langston, president of the KU Young Democrats, said Boyda and Morrison were the top vote-getters in their campus group. In 2004, the young Democrats didn't think their votes would influence much — but the stakes seemed much higher in 2006, Langton said.
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》 SUA
Nick Verreos, a veteran contestant of the television show Project Runway, critiques an outfit modeled by Lindsay White, Kansas City, Mo., junior, designed by Katie Hunt, Memphis sophomore, during the Student Activity Association's Project Runway on Tuesday night.
Designers create outfits battle for runway title
BY DANNY LUPPINO
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Student designers got a chance to show off their fashion sense Tuesday night as Student Union Activities sponsored its own version of "Project Runway."
SUA thrilled fashion fans further by bringing in one of the stars from the Bravo hit's second season, designer Nick Verreos, as one of the guest judges.
Verreos, also a fashion school teacher, said the event appealed to him because he liked seeing student's work and helping them improve. He also liked the structure of the show, which put eight contestants through three separate rounds to create outfits from scratch on budgets of less than $40.
"The whole challenge of it sounded really interesting to me." Verreos said.
Stephanie Altoro, cultural arts
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coordinator for SUA, said the show was meant to capitalize on "Project Runway's" success and bring a new opportunity to student designers.
"We've never really had a big fashion event at KU." Alta said.
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Altoro said the response from students was everything she had hoped for. SUAs 600 ticket vouchers sold out before the event.
The show included three rounds, each with it's own restrictions, including white-fabric designs, redesigned clothes from thrift stores and evening gowns.
The overall winner was Julee Kessinger, Overland Park senior. Kessinger was also named the "fan favorite." She won a $250 gift cer-
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