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BOARDWALK REMEMBERED
Almost a year ago, in the early hours of a Friday morning,a fire erupted at the apartment complex, killing three. In 361 days, though, no steps have been taken to rebuild and there is no permanent memorial.
TIME STANDS STILL
Part 1: An insurance dispute prevents reconstruction
Photo Illustration by Jared Gab/KANSAN
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
Boardwalk resident Matt Showalter remembers that night one year ago. He lived in a different building in the complex, next to the one that caught fire in the early morning hours of Oct. 7, 2005. Showalter remembered thinking it sounded like it was raining hard that night, but it wasn't. He didn't realize it was the crackling of a large fire very close to where he and his girlfriend slept The police banged on his door to evacuate them. Very little remains of what was once an apartment building at Boardwalk, destroyed by fire last October. There are only a few reminders of the building where as many as 100 people once lived. A few charred pieces of wood lie in the grass near a tree on the south side of the lot while others litter the brown grass and weeds that surround the hole in the ground where the building once sat. Some roof shingles remain on what once was the driveway to the parking lot of the building. Jason A. Rose, 21, of Lawrence was charged with starting the fire that killed three people and badly injured eight others at the 500 block of Fireside Drive. The building, which had 76 units and was located on the east side of the apartment complex, was completely destroyed by the fire. Surrounded by a temporary chain-link fence, a rectangular hole lined with gravel, six-feet deep, 40-feet wide and about the length of a football field is all that remains. It is the intention of the owners to rebuild," said Mike Thompson, an attorney
with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas City, Mo.
Part 2: WEDNESDAY For those who survived the fire, lives had to be rebuilt and memories had to be remade.
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Part 3: THURSDAY The family of Jose Gonzalez, one of three to die in the fire, has had a year to grieve.
Part 4: FRIDAY
A year after the fire nothing has changed to make Lawrence apartments safer from fire.
Part 4: FRIDAY Nicole Bingham, a KU student who died in the fire, is remembered for what she contributed.
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>> ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
No progress on rowing project
Construction has not yet begun on student-funded boathouse
BY NATE MCGINNIS
Construction is at a standstill nearly six months after students passed a referendum to increase their campus fees by $20 to build a new boathouse for the rowing team.
No architect has been chosen, no time frame has been given for completion and the city has yet to approve the site.
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Sean Lester, associate athletics director, said the athletics department was currently facing several challenges with building the boathouse at Burcham Park, 200 Indiana St. He is confident the boathouse will be completed despite these challenges.
DeVictor said other concerns included the conservation of large cottonwood trees adjacent to the site and a bald eagle sanctuary located downriver.
Fred DeVictor, director of Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said construction would need to be reviewed by a historical commission before any work could be done because the site is within 500 feet of
a historical site. The athletics department would also have to apply for a flood plain permit from the city.
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ADMINISTRATION
Graduate students no longer have vote Provost Lariviere revokes 37-year-old policy for finding, choosing faculty
BY KIM LYNCH
Provest Richard Lariviere has reversed an at least 37-year-old policy that gave graduate students a vote during new faculty hires.
The decision came after several KU deans sought clarification about the University's hiring policies. The University General Counsel advised that students should not be allowed to vote on personnel issues, like the hiring of faculty. Students can only vote on policy issues, like dropping and
adding classes, said Lynn Bretz director of University communications.
The policy change has upset many graduate students. Andrew Ledbetter, a graduate teaching assistant in the communications department, said discussing the matter would have been helpful instead of learning the decision had already been made.
Provost Richard Lariviere's office directed questions about the matter to Bretz.
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Poll shows candidates don't relate issues to young adults
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
Editor's note: This is the first in a series that will run periodically in the days and weeks leading up to the November election.
A recent telephone poll found students were politically engaged by several key issues and want to vote in the upcoming elections, but they weren't hearing candidates address their concerns.
Job creation, the situation in Iraq and energy independence are the top issues for the 650 18- to 30-year-olds polled Sept. 10 to 17
The study also showed that 80 percent of respondents were registered to vote and that 63 percent had been paying "a lot" or "some" attention to the upcoming November elections.
Rebekah Romm, Bennington junior and treasurer for the KU College Republicans, said votes from the 18-to-30 age group definitely had an impact.
by George Washington University's Young Voter Strategies in collaboration with GW-Battleground Poll.
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