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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006
CITY OF LAWRENCE
City commission receives advice on development
BY MARK VIERTHALER
Concerns raised at a public meeting with development advisers ranged from environmental concerns to the relationship between the University and the city.
The Lawrence City Commission met Wednesday with a six-person
team from the American Institute of Architects to analyze Lawrence's ability to meet environmental, economic and social equity
"The medical definition of unrestrained growth is cancer."
needs without reducing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The meetings will continue today.
The Sustainable Design Assessment Team focuses on improving the development of downtown businesses, housing, government, culture, recreation and historic preservation. Advisers came from various areas of the country, including Washington, D.C., Birmingham, Ala, and Phoenix, Ariz.
The team met with the public to field suggestions for its survey during the next several days.
Celeste Fish, Pittsburg senior, said hoped the team would include more opportunities for multiple disciplinary research at the University.
William Gilchrist, sustainability team leader, described sustainability as implementing policies that would not work to the detriment of the city in the long term.
Lawrence resident Tom Harper said the city, the University and the public schools needed to work together more. He said they were the three largest entities within the town and the relationships among them needed to be strengthened for the city to operate smoothly.
Several people in attendance argued for the team to look at the connection between water quality and public health. Other attendees raised the issue of energy sources
Several people echoed Douglas' sentiments.
JOE DOUGLAS Lawrence resident
"The medical definition of unrestrained growth is cancer," Douglas said. "I'm afraid that's what we're looking at."
Joe Douglas, Lawrence resident and doctor, said he was mainly worried about too much growth in Lawrence.
Richard Heckler, Lawrence resident, raised worries about urban sprawl and economic growth.
Others worried about the state of homelessness in Lawrence.
and suggested the team focus less on fossil fuel and more on wind energy.
Heckler said the team should study the city's ability to fit businesses into the existing downtown area to avoid stretching the city limits.
Loring Henderson, director of the Lawrence Community Shelter, said the biggest thing the team should study before anything else was the state of the poor and the homeless.
"When are you going to start with the basics," Henderson asked. "When are we going to get people into simple housing for the mentally ill and the addicted?"
Marllyn Roy, who was formerly homeless agreed. Roy said if Lawrence was looking to be a sustained community it had to support its homeless. She said she thought a large portion of the problem was elitism within the city.
Roy has lived in Lawrence since 1974, and she tearfully said Lawrence had been divided by growth downtown had become a center for tourists and bar patrons. She also told the team it should challenge the city's developers to use their money to build a homeless center and a drug rehabilitation center.
Commissioner Dennis "Boog" Highberger said the public meeting was an excellent opportunity for the city's elected officials to determine what direction the city should head during the next several years.
Lawrence is one of eight communities across the nation chosen to participate in the SDAT program.
The final set of recommendations will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Kansan staff writer Mark Vierthaler can be contacted at myvierthaler@kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Tutors enjoy athletes' successes on, off court
BY C.J. MOORE
When Brandon Rush or Julian Wright hits a game-winning shot, Bill Nolan is happy for them.
Rachel Sanner, Lawrence senior, tutors women's basketball forward Porscha Weddington, freshman, on rational equations and problem solving for Weddington's Math 002 class. Sanner, who tutors four students, five nights per week, specializes in geography, English, and math. Weddington, who came to the University of Kansas from Temple, Texas, attends study hall five nights a week, as is required of all freshman in the KU athletics program.
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But when one of the basketball players gets an A on a test, Nolan, a tutor in the Kansas Athletics Department, gets excited.
"I just like to see guys doing well; coming in, working hard and doing well," said Nolan, a recent Communication Studies graduate from the University. "That's the best part of the job. The sense of accomplishment, to see them have that sense of accomplishment always feels good."
Nolan is one of 15 tutors in the strategic tutoring program that helps the men's and women's basketball teams.
Nolan said he took the job last January because he always liked helping other students in his classes. Justin Mackey, assistant director of the Athletics Department's Strategic Tutoring Program, said Nolan fit the criteria that the program searched for in tutors.
"We look for people with teacher qualities that have maybe taught in a classroom, even elementary school, junior high," Mackey said. "Because somebody like that can
Mackey said the tutors provided direction to help students learn good study habits.
really come in and work with organization and keeping a kid on task."
an athletic thing and after teaching and being a grad student, I figured out this is a problem in general, kids coming under-prepared to school."
The program's
"I just like to see guys doing well; coming in, working hard and doing well."
tutors work 15
"You get some students in that are just under-prepared for college," he said. "There was a time where I kind of thought that was
BILL NOLAN Athletics Department tutor
to be a teacher. Along with her duties as a tutor, Harvey is a graduate teaching assistant in health, sport and exercise science at the
University. She said she faced similar challenges in tutoring as she faced in teaching.
Susan Harvey, a graduate student and tutor for Mackey, aspires
"They are on their routine schedules and sometimes just coming here and trying to get motivated to study after having a long day, that's probably the biggest challenge," she said.
Harvey said when athletes had a tough day on the field or in the classroom, she liked to warm them up with a conversation and not dive straight into their studies. Nolan said he found that a similar approach worked well for him.
"I think that we've done a good job of being like a friend but making sure we're not crossing that line, make sure that we're still maintaining a position where we can help them and they can respect
Mackey said he had to find the right combination in tutors so they weren't getting too excited about a game-winning shot.
that we're trying to do a job here" Nolan said.
"You definitely don't want to hire a fan," Mackey said. "Every student athlete that walks in here, they like to hear 'good job this weekend' and that sort of thing, but they don't like to come up here and talk about sports. This is a place where they're coming to sit down with people they trust and respect, as people who are here to help them."
Kansan staff writer C.J. Moore can be contacted at cjmoore@ kansan.com.
- Edited by Derek Korte
CAMPUS
Foundation's donation provides new scholarship
A $200,000 per year scholarship program was announced by the University of Kansas on Tuesday.
The Christina M. Hixson
Opportunity Awards will be given to
financially needy students who
want to attend the University. The
program will give ten renewable
$5,000 scholarships to freshmen in the 2007-08 academic year. The program will add 10 scholarships a year until a maximum of 40 are given.
Jen Humphrey, senior editor at the University of Kansas Endowment Association, said the scholarship would be available to
current high school seniors the first year. She said the money could be given to students with obstacles other than financial restraints.
The awards were created through a $5 million gift from The Ernst F. Lied Foundation of Las Vegas to help students with financial hardships attend the University.
Participants will have to be Kansas high school graduates and meet the University's academic qualifications.
In addition to The Christina M Hixson Opportunity Awards, the endowment Association gives more than $20 million in scholarships to more than 5,000 students a year.
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Tamara Daniels, left, and Kim Pallen run in Central Park in New York, Wednesday. After watching her mother finish her first half marathon shortly after undergoing radiation for breast cancer, Daniels is one of many who are bringing back the popularity of long-distance running.
TRENDS
Marathon running makes a fashionable comeback
This past summer, Daniels, an avid runner of smaller distances, signed up for a running class sponsored by the New York Road Runners Club Inc. with fellow jogger Kim Pallen, 23. The two met while running a 5K corporate challenge — Pallen was an intern at Daniels' office.
"I've never thought of myself as a long distance runner. But she inspired me to do it," said the 26-year-old assistant district attorney after a 10-mile run in New York's Central Park.
It wasn't until her mother finished her first half marathon shortly after undergoing radiation for breast cancer that Tamara Daniels found the motivation to run a marathon.
BY J.W. ELPHINSTONE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Runners like Daniels, her mother and Pallen are fauling a second major running boom. The first boom occurred in the 1970s after American Frank Shorter's gold medal in the 1972 Olympic marathon inspired Americans off their feet to attempt the 26.2-mile race.
They are now almost halfway into training for the ING Miami Marathon in January, the first marathon for both. After the event, the two want to celebrate with a cruise out of Miami.
Now, more runners are lacing up their sneakers at the starting lines of longer races. Cities and
Well-known races like the Chicago and New York City Marathons have capped their registrations to avoid overflow. The New York City Marathon expects 37,000 runners to participate in this year's race Nov. 5.
The Road Running Information Center reported that half marathon finishers rose 7 percent in 2004 from the previous year and marathon finishers followed with a 6 percent gain.
retailers hope to benefit from the renewed interest by turning local marathons into running festivals to attract tourist dollars and show off their communities.
Participants in second tier races in Miami, Portland and Detroit have also skyrocketed as more runners are shut out of big time races and new faces enter the field.
More cities are jumping in the race. The number of marathons nationwide has grown steadily in the last five years, according to MarathonGuide.com., from 272 events in 2001 to 359 scheduled marathons for 2006.
Most marathons are started by local running clubs with the economic and logistical support from the host cities. But in some cases, cities initiate the formation of their own marathons and bring in outside event management companies to organize the event and find sponsors.