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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 2005
VOL.116 ISSUE 29
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
One step closer
Former Jayhawk athlete pledges $10 million for football practice facility
Texas Tech
Cost: $84 million
Includes: Stadium upgrade, weight room, rehab center, locker room
BY RVAN COLIANNI rcolianni@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Oklahoma
Cost: $70 million
Includes: Stadium upgrade, locker
room, weight room, training facility
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino's goal to have a new practice facility built next to Memorial Stadium received a significant boost yesterday.
Former Kansas basketball player Tom Kivisto donated $2 million to the athletics department and pledged another $8 million. The money is scheduled to go toward paying for the facility.
The facility would be a one- or two-story structure and include meeting rooms, a weight facility and locker rooms near the stadium as well as practice fields.
"I believe a successful football program helps a university at every level," Kivisto said. "By making the football program
stronger, the entire University and all of its sports programs are the beneficiaries. I am happy to do what I can to support the University, especially its athletics programs."
Construction plans have previously been a source of controversy. Faculty and students were concerned with the facility blocking the view of the Campanile and disrupting the tradition of graduates walking down the hill into the stadium.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the donation put the total pledges for the facility at about $18 million. The cost of the facility is now being envisioned at $40 million.
Marchiony said that construction on the facility would not begin until all of the money was collected.
SEE DONATION ON PAGE 8A
Nebraska
Cost: $50 million
Includes: Stadium capacity to 80K+,
second indoor training facility
Missouri
Cost $16 million
Includes: Two-level weight room,
dining hall, larger coach offices
Kristen Driskell/KANSAN
Kansas Cost: $40 million Includes: New locker rooms, indoor practice space, offices for coaches
VOLUNTEERING
Contributed Photo
Clark Koffer, Jubilee Cafe manager and co-founder, cooks breakfast for the homeless.
Katrina washes out funding for other aid
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Volunteer programs and United Way donations are feeling the competition from the efforts to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief, but KU coordinators and United Way leaders say they still hope to meet the needs of the community.
Tim Van Leer, KU United Way campaign chairman and executive director of the Lied Center, said the hurricane relief
Collections at KU football games that would have gone to the University's United Way campaign instead went to the American Red Cross's Hurricane Katrina relief.
was affecting the KU campaign.
Even though the three games' donations totaled about $3,000 dollars of the $230,000 goal, Van Leer said it was important for the students to be aware of local needs.
SEE FUNDS ON PAGE 8A
Jubilee Café diverts funding allocation
JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Changes made to the Jubilee Café at the beginning of the year have forced the café to divert funding from food to administrative costs.
The café used Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana, as a home for interns, offices and for food storage.
But on Jan. 10, the Episcopalian Diocese decided to quit holding services there and remove it as part of the campus ministry of the diocese.
The chaplain of the house and founder of the Jubilee Café, Rev. Ioe Alford. Lost his job.
Alford said he would continue to work at the café until he found another position. The café is searching for a replacement for the director of Jubilee Café.
The cafe continues to operate, but volunteers are raising money now to cover new costs.
Alford said money from grants the cafe received that would have gone toward food would now be used to rent offices, pay for phone service, acquire office supplies and fund a housing stipend for the cafe's intern.
Now the café is selling concessions at home football and basketball games to make up for lost revenue. Carolyn Tharp, who is the co-coordinator for the café, said doing the extra fundraising was a "wake-up call."
"We want to get very financially secure," Tharp, Lawrence senior, said. "If something like this happens again, we'll be prepared."
Alford said the losses equalled about $700 a month.
She said the diocese was trying to reach more students through campus ministry by hiring a campus 'missioner' to travel between the five regent schools in the diocese. Previously, there was only a chaplain at the University and at Kansas State University, with no chaplain at Washburn, Wichita State or Emporia.
position was part of a reorganization of how campus ministry works for the diocese.
Melodie Woerman, spokeswoman for the Kansas Episcopalian Diocese, said closing the house and eliminating Alford's
"We're not holding back on this diocese." Woerman said.
Edited by Patrick Ross
SCIENCE
Butterfly film takes flight
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Orley Taylor and Francisco Gutierrez answer questions about Papelotzin, the monarch helicopter. The helicopter is traveling over Lawrence following the migration of monarch butterflies and raising awareness for monarch habitats.
Crew follows monarchs migration
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Francisco Gutierrez and his crew of the Papalotzin project decided to stop in Lawrence for a few days on their way to Mexico, following the annual monarch butterfly migration.
Gutierrez is filming a documentary to raise awareness about the monarchs' decreasing habitat as he and his crew fly an ultralight plane — painted like a monarch — from Canada to Mexico.
The crew displayed the plane to the public yesterday at Foley Hall, 2021 Constant Ave. Gutierrez also answered questions from the crowd.
The project came to Lawrence to film a monarch-tagging demonstration and an interview with Orley Taylor, director of Monarch Watch and professor of ecology, for the documentary. Monarch Watch has been tagging monarchs since 1992 and has tagged about half a billion since it started, Taylor said.
Gutierrez started the trip to make the documentary in an attempt to raise awareness about illegal logging decreasing the monarchs' habitat.
Diane Sanders, Lawrence resident, went to see the project because of her interest in monarchs. She said she thought everyone in Lawrence should have been there.
"The plane is just marvelous," she said.
Gutierrez, the pilot and director of the project, has been flying since he was 14 years old. He said it took him five years to save enough money to pay for the plane, which was made in England.
The plane has 80 horse power, can travel at speeds up to 100 kilometers per hour, weighs 190 kilograms and costs about $35,000.
Gutierrez said he flew the plane from Virginia to Kansas in two days.
Taylor welcomed the five-person crew to Lawrence, and Monarch Watch played host to the visit. The crew saw Foley Hall, the butterfly garden behind Foley and the Baker Wetlands.
"By yesterday evening they were ready to crash," Taylor said.
Taylor said that last year the monarch butterfly population was at an all-time low.
He said the sanctuary areas in Mexico were difficult to protect because each tree was worth approximately $300.
Loggers come from outside corporations, and local law enforcement can't do much to enforce the law because the loggers are armed, Taylor said. He said there was a conflict between the local citizens of
Gutierrez Project director
"Every form of life has the right to live."
the area and the loggers, who are referred to as "mafioso" by the locals.
Gutierrez said the forests in Mexico where monarchs live during winter must be healthy. The trees act as a
canopy, he said. If trees are cut down, a hole in the forest is created. Then when a cold front comes, the wind travels inside and kills the butterflies.
"Every form of life has the right to live," Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez said he wanted to raise awareness because he lived 10 kilometers from the sanctuaries in Mexico and saw the monarchs when he drove past.
He said he wanted his kids to see the butterflies when they grow up, and if illegal logging wasn't stopped, they might not be able to.
Gregory Allen, director of the documentary, said the film would contain three chapters: the scientific study, the adventure and the awareness process.
"This trip in itself creates awareness and knowledge of the documentary." Allen said.
Gutierrez said he and his crew planned to rest in Lawrence for another day, then head south to their next stop in Oklahoma City, Okla.
"There is a relationship between the monarchs and our trip," Gutierrez said. "Monarchs need a habitat and food to pass the night, and so do we."
Edited by Alison Peterson
Douglas County lauded as youth-friendly America's Promise included Douglas County in its top 100 communities in the nation list, based on youth-friendly community aspects. PAGE 3B
North division looks for a big start Three conference contests this weekend will match schools and their playmakers.The results could help determine who will do well the rest of the season. PAGE 1B
On the Boulevard
On the Boulevard Kansan reporter Frank Tankard profiles Nancy Hawkins, a Music and Dance Library Supervisor who has faced three separate bouts with cancer and survived to tell her story. PAGE 2A
Index
Comics. 5A
Classifieds. 6A
Crossword. 5A
Horoscopes. 5A
Opinion. 7A
Sports. 1B
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