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PARKING
Football facility work to begin in October
The University parking commission met Tuesday in an emergency meeting to discuss the Athletics Department's preliminary proposal for the facility.
The first steps toward completion of the football-only facility near Memorial Stadium could get underway in October with construction of parking lots to replace student spaces that will be lost to the new buildings, a university official said.
In order to build the facility, some student parking spaces need to be removed.
The new football facility will include a new locker room, weight training area, meeting space and offices for coaches and will be near new practice fields. The project, funded by private donations to the Athletics Department, is an effort to centralize football operations at Memorial Stadium.
BY MARK VIERTHALER
A portion of the lot near Potter Lake, lot 59, would be replaced with offices, the plans show. More than half of the lot east and south of Memorial Stadium, north of the Spencer Museum of Art, lot 91,
would be converted into practice fields for the football team. What would remain of the lot would no longer be connected to the lot directly east of the stadium, lot 94.
Jim Modig, director of Design and Construction Management, explained these changes to members of the parking commission, who had concerns about how the construction would affect traffic patterns and parking.
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Committee members raised concerns with the traffic flow of the current parking situation. Lots 55 and 59 have access only to 11th Street and only from the road between the stadium and the Tau Kappa Epsilon house. The chance of accidents is increased if hundreds of spaces are added to that area, committee members said.
The current proposal would eliminate 419 spaces, virtually all of which are yellow, student spaces. Replacement spaces would be built along the hill between JRP Hall and the Stadium.
The new parking spots would replace the 419 spaces, space for space, the plan says.
SOURCE: Kansas Athletics Department and the University of Kansas
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Where were you on September 11?
From managing editor, Erick R. Schmidt:
Like most of the current Kansan staff, I was in high school when 9/11 happened. I remember going from class to class, watching the coverage on CNN. I waited in line for 45 minutes to fill my car with gas, and a woman with a Bible told me Jesus was coming. MTV played Bob Marley videos, and I couldn't stop watching in between the news coverage. I kept waiting for a sense of calm to take over and for years later, I guess I'm still waiting. Go to Kansan.com/Sept11 to share your story.
BUSINESS
Hazem (left) and his brother Bassem Chahine, Lebanon seniors, smoke flavored tobacco from a hookah and converse at the Hookah House, a new Lebanese Hookah bar opening Sept. 8 at 7th and Massachusetts streets.Their mother, Leila, opened the store because of her love for the Lebanese culture.
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Ordinance makes exception for hookah
Despite smoking ban, new tobacco shop's users allowed to smoke indoors
BY MARK VIERTHALER
Sitting above the hustle of Massachusetts Street, next to Vermont Street BBQ, Leila Chaine, a Lebanese immigrant, sits at a table decorated with intricate designs.
Lined up on shelves behind her stand hookahs, water pipes used to smoke flavored tobacco. The smoker inhales through a mouthpiece and
the water helps take the bite off the tobacco. Every home in Lebanon has its own hookah, Leila said. By the time a child turned 16, he would have had his first smoke.
The Lebanese Hookah House, 730 Massachusetts St., opening Sept. 6, will be one of the first businesses in Lawrence to find a loophole in the citywide smoking ban.
Along with her sons, Hazem and Bassam, Leila will offer customers the chance to rent a hookah and smoke it in their business.
The path to opening a smoke-specific establishment has taken a year from start to finish.
Interested in creating an opportunity for Lawrence residents to experience Lebanese culture, Leila and her family bought the loft on
Leila said they spent a year talking to various governmental bodies in Lawrence to get a special injunction, including the city commission, the mayor and the health department.
Massachusetts Street. However, the citywide smoking ban put a stop to the business right away.
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HEALTH
AIDS vaccination works in monkeys
BY DANNY LUPPINO
A University of Kansas researcher has successfully developed a DNA vaccine for the AIDS virus in monkeys. The study was published in the August issue of the medical journal "Virology."
Opendra Narayan, chairman of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said having the successful tests published would help to allow him to move forward in producing a vaccine for humans.
"It worked pretty well," Narayan said. "It worked so well in preventing AIDS in monkeys; it should work the same in humans."
Narayan said that if a human vaccine was successful, it would be a big step in replacing current daily treatments for AIDS patients.
The next step for Narayan is to obtain investigational new drug status for the vaccine so human tests can begin at the Med Center. In addition, ImmunoGenetix Therapeutics, Inc., the Lenexa company with the license to produce the vaccine, will scale up pilot manufacturing.
"It would enable people to get off their drugs," Naravan said.
Jim Laufenberg, president and CEO of ImmunoGenetx, said he was excited about the results of
"It certainly would bring a lot of recognition to what we're doing here," Laufenberg said. "It would, in my opinion, put KU Med on a level playing field with some of the other things being done around the country."
the study and the possibilities it created.
"I think this most recent finding is quite interesting in that, from what I can tell, no one today has demonstrated those kind of results," Laufenberg said. "When you consider 12 out of 12 monkeys had positive results, that's quite impressive."
Narayan said the biggest obstacle to human tests would be obtaining the large amounts of funding he would require. He said the National Institutes of Health would be the primary target for funding, but the publication of the study could provide alternatives.
Laufenberg said he was also excited for the attention the study and possible human tests could bring to the Med Center.
"It will be helpful," Narayan said. "It increases the chances to get private funding."
Kansan staff writer Danny Luppino can be contacted at dluppino@kansan.com.
Edited by Mindy Ricketts
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Changes at The Market attract new patrons
Brandon Jones, Kansas Union dishwasher, watches David Ranney, assistant manager, prepare spinach fettucine pasta at Fresco Cuisine at The Market in the Kansas Union while Andrea Spanier, Fresco Cuisine employee, observes between other tasks at the pasta bar. During the summer, The Market changed the restaurant lineup, adding Fresco Cuisine, Quesarito and Boulevard Grill, and expanded to ease lunchtime congestion.
BY KIM LYNCH
Alex Babst and Layne Alexander sat at a table Tuesday afternoon reading and relaxing in the Kansas Union near The Market, which was recently renovated.
Babst, Wichita junior, said he preferred The Market to The Underground because it was less crowded.
Alexander, Wichita freshman, said The Market was more relaxing than The Underground and she liked the new open and clean atmosphere.
Babst and Alexander are just two of the students who are now enjoying the face-lift the Market received over the summer.
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The new eateries in the Market include: Boulevard Grill, which serves burgs, chicken fingers and sandwiches; Corner Bakery, which serves desserts and bagels; Fresco! Cuisine, a pasta bar; Garden Gourmet, which is a full salad bar; and Quesarito, which serves quesadillas and burritos.
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