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THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAS
TUESDAY,OCTOBER 3,2006
Thompson represents Terrace Management Services in Kansas City, Mo., the company that owns Boardwalk.
But there are no immediate plans to rebuild at the site because Boardwalk is currently involved in a lawsuit with its insurance carrier. State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Company filed a suit against Boardwalk, disputing the amount of money the insurance policy is worth, Thompson said.
According to the complaint, submitted by the insurance company against Boardwalk, the policy is worth $2.2 million.
In a counterclaim filed by Boardwalk's attorneys, the owners argue that pursuant to the Kansas valued policy statute, Boardwalk is entitled to the total amount of coverage its policy is worth. That amount is $7.2 million plus a four percent inflation guard under Boardwalk's blanket
policy over the entire complex, a difference of more than $5 million.
In addition to the loss of the building, Boardwalk is seeking payment for repairs to another building that was damaged in the fire, payment for the loss of the building's contents, the loss of rental income and the loss of additional operating expenses as a result of the fire.
Thompson said the insurance company could be accused of "bad faith," because it failed to act in a timely manner. The insurance company sent a letter to Boardwalk five months after the fire, explaining the policy was worth $2.2 million.
The attorney for State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Co., did not return phone calls requesting comment.
For now, the only change to the site is a makeshift memorial that rests along the fence.
Plastic roses and poinsettias sit in
the ground in front of the empty lot as a reminder never to forget what happened there.
Until the matter is settled in court, nothing will happen at the site. Thompson said the process, which began in May, could take up to two years to settle.
"You walk around the corner and see nothing," he said. "There's just a big void there."
Showalter said it was weird because the complex used to be enclosed with buildings all around.
Some Boardwalk residents referred to the empty lot as an "eyesore," but were still getting used to the fact that there wasn't a building there anymore.
Kansan staff writer Jack Weinstein can be contacted at jwelinstein@ kansan.com.
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He said without a vote there were few incentives for graduate students to participate in a job search. Even though their input would be sought, it would be severely undervalued because it would carry no weight, he said.
The counsel said that the change would protect students. For instance, if an individual were not to be hired and were to pursue a lawsuit alleging bias or some other mistake in the process, graduate students could be open to lawsuits, Bretz said. She said the University would not protect students because only KU employees are eligible for legal protection by general counsel or the state Attorney General's office.
Mary Lee Hummert, vice provost for faculty support, said although
student voting was no longer allowed for new faculty hires, the provost was clear that students should have input in new faculty hires.
Steve Himes, executive director of the graduate and professional association, said in an e-mail that he understood the need for separation between the responsibilities of faculty and students. But he said the matter could have been discussed before a decision was made.
"Considering that the Provost is upsetting a long-standing policy of many departments at KU, some explanation would go a long way," he said.
Bretz said the issue was brought up in a meeting of University deans, vice provests and the provost. Some deans did not know if students were
allowed to vote on new faculty hires and it was discovered that some departments allowed it but most did not.
The decision comes on the heels of other recent controversial actions, including canceling the subscription to turnitin.com and introducing a proposal for holistic admissions.
Hummert said she would be available to discuss the policy change at the 3 p.m. Senate Executive meeting at the Regents Rooms in Strong Hall. The meeting is open to the public.
Kansan staff writer Kim Lynch can be contacted at klynch@kansan. com.
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"Local candidates, as well as nation-wide campaigns, are beginning to realize that ignoring the 18-to-30 age group is a mistake and are doing a better job of reaching out to us," she said.
Congressman Dennis Moore, D-Kan., who represents the 3rd District, said he had heard this age group was disenchanted with the voting system but hoped it would make its views known by voting.
Moore's opponent, Chuck Ahner, said a lot of young adults were looking to the future and so was he. One of his focuses is making the domestic economy more competitive and keeping jobs in the United States. He said he was
Moore said his top priority was education. He said increased tuition and decreased financial aid was not only hurting America's children and their future but also hurting the economy because fewer people were getting an adequate education and entering the job market.
Kathleen Barr, national media coordinator for Young Voter Strategies, said the 18-to-30-year-old age group made up one-quarter of the electorate and was worth focusing on. U.S. Census Bureau data shows that the quarter of young adults will become a third of the electorate in 2015.
She said the organization had studied other polls and found that Iraq, health care, education and the economy were key issues but weren't being geared to young adults. Barr said students wanted candidates to make these topics relevant to them. She said candidates discussed health care for older adults but not health issues that were important to students, such as how to obtain health care when they graduate.
"It is too soon to say what will happen with voter turnout, but what we do know is that not only in Kansas but all around the country there are a significant number of campaign drives," Barr said.
She said Young Voter Strategies was leading one of the largest national efforts to register young citizens. They are on track to register 350,000 young adults by each state's voter registration deadline, she said.
The deadline to register in Douglas County is Oct. 23. In Douglas County, early voting begins 20 days before Nov. 7, election day. There are 12 voter registration sites in the city including Dillons, 3000 W. Sixth St., and the Audio-Reader Network, 1120 W. 11th St.
Kansan staff writer Erin Castaneda can be contacted at eacasteneda@ kansan.com.
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"It's of the utmost priority to get this thing built," Lester said.
Lester said no completion date had been set because the structure had not yet been designed. He also said the athletics department planned to hire a local architect to execute the project.
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The rowing team has used a chainlink enclosure at Burcham Park to store its boats since rowing became an NCAA Division I varsity sport at the University of Kansas in 1995.
The crew team currently uses "the cage," at Burcham Park, 200 Indiana St., to store its equipment. Progress on the new facility, which students approved six months ago, is stalled until obstacles with the location can be resolved.
The athletics department currently pays no rental fee for use of the space at Burcham Park. DeVictor said he was not sure whether that would change when a new structure was built.
Of the $20 fee increase for women's and nonrevenue sports that students approved in last spring's elections, $15 is specifically designated to fund the boathouse project. Lester said that portion of the money collected from the referendum could only be spent on the boathouse and could not used for other projects within the athletics department.
The total cost of the boathouse has been estimated at $3 to $4 mil.
lion. The athletics department does not yet know how much money will be generated from students because it will be collected during the next three years. The boathouse must be built within this time frame to receive the funding from the referendum.
Rice was President Bush's national security adviser in 2001, when Bob Woodward's book "State of Denial" outlines the July 10 meeting in which Tenet said he warned Rice. Cofer Black, the CIA's top counterterror officer, was also present.
Lester said student fees would cover only a portion of the cost of the
Kansan staff writer Nate McGinnis can be contacted at nmcginnis@kansan.com.
"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond," Rice said.
project. He said the athletics department would consider the amount of money generated from student fees before soliciting donors.
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New book claims government knew about Sept. 11 attacks ahead of time Condoleezza Rice denies that she received warning
SHANNON, Ireland — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she could not recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
BY ANNE GEARAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
Speaking to reporters en route to Saudi Arabia and other stops in the Middle East, Rice said she met with Tenet daily at that point, and has no memory of the wake-up call from Tenet described in the book.
There was near constant discussion of possible attacks overseas, and high alarm, Rice said.
Meanwhile, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that he should have been
"It kind of doesn't ring true that you have to shock me into something I was very involved in," Rice said.
notified of any such report dealing with a pending attack on the United States. "It just occurred to me how disappointing it was that they didn't come to me with this type of information," Ashcroft said in an interview with The Associated Press.
According to the Sept. 11 Commission, Ashcroft was briefed on July 5, 2001, "warning that a significant terrorist attack was imminent." The report noted that the briefing addressed only threats outside the United States.
"The FBI is responsible for domestic terrorism," Ashcroft said. He said both Tenet and Cofer Black of the CIA should have been aware that he had pressed for a more aggressive policy in going after bin Laden and his followers in the United States and should have briefed him as well. Rice knew of this advocacy, he suggested.
Woodward wrote that the meeting among Tenet, Rice and Black stood out in the minds of Tenet and Black as the "starkest warning they had given the White House" on al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his network.
Tenet asked for the meeting after receiving a disturbing briefing from Black, according to the book.
A former intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Sept. 11 Commission and an earlier joint congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks were both informed of Tenet's and Black's meeting with Rice, when Tenet warned Rice that a significant attack was coming.
In a closed, classified session at CIA headquarters, Tenet took Sept. 11 Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, the commission's executive director Phil Zelikow and other commission staff about Rice's meeting with Tenet and Black, the official said.
The former intelligence official said the commission kept a transcript of that Jan. 28, 2004, session. A second official familiar with the document, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed its existence.
But though Tenet and Black warned Rice in the starkest terms of the prospects for attack, she brushed them off, Woodward reiterated Monday. He told NBC's "Today" show that Black told him the two men were so emphatic, it amounted to "holding a gun to her head" and doing everything except pulling the trigger.
Black reportedly laid out secret intercepts and other data "showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaida would soon attack the United States." Tenet was so worried that he called Rice from his car and asked to see her right away, the book said.
"Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice," Woodward wrote of the session. "She was polite, but they felt the brush-off"
Rice referred to the session as "the supposed meeting" and noted that it is not part of the independent Sept. 11 Commission's report.
"I remember that George was very worried and he expressed that," Rice told reporters. "We were all very worried because the threat reporting was quite intense. The problem was that it was also quite nebulous."
Woodward interviewed Rice for his new book.
Rice's latest Middle East trip is focused on strengthening support for moderate Arab leaders after a series of backups for democratic and moderate forces in the region.
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