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Thursday
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
Sunny. SE winds at 13 mph.
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Friday
Fifty-five, go for a drive!
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50 percent chance of rain.
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Here comes the sun.
At least it's not snow.
Wednesday, March 6
WHAT: Faith Forum: An Attempt at Spirit
Spirit
WHERE: ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Join this discussion on the
Christian faith, presented by Rev. Hal
LeMert. All religions are welcome.
**WHAT:** Murs at the Granada
**WHERE:** Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St.
**WHEN:** 8 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Catch rapper Murs at the Granada. Advance tickets are $15 for this all-ages show.
Thursday, March 7
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union, Level 4 Lobby
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Hit up the union for your weekly free tea and pastries. Cheerio!
WHAT: Myths and Mayhem Film Series:
"Bats"
WHERE: Dyche Hall, Panorama
WHEN: 6:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Check out this free film featuring genetically modified bats. Who says science has to be boring?
Friday, March 8
WHAT: MUMMENSCHANZ 40 Years
WHERE: Lied Center
WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Without dialogue, performers entertain their audience with a wide array of props and body language to tell a story. MUMMENSCHANZ is known for its unique and artistic style.
Tickets start at $15.
CAMPUS
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: Flight
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: See this Oscar-nominated
film, staring Denzel Washington.
Tickets are $2 with a student ID.
Saturday, March 9
**WHAT:** Tea and Talk; May Tweit
**WHERE:** Art and Design Building,
Room 315
**WHEN:** 4 to 5 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Artist May Tweit will discuss
her ongoing series of site-responsive
artworks, Product Placement.
WHAT: Shamrock Shuffle 5K
WHERE: Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St.
ABOUT: Interested in raising money for the Lawrence St. Patrick's Day parade? Participate in the Shamrock Shuffle 5K and get your grub on at the Ballard Center pancake feed afterward.
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Local universities compete in urban design
EMMA LEGAULT
elegault@kansan.com
Coming together from different schools, different fields of study and different backgrounds, a team of five area graduate students has shown that it can go to toe to toe in competition with Ivy League universities
The team, made up of students from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, has
Baudoin
been recognized as one of four finalists in the Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Contest, hosted through the Urban Land Institute.
The competition asked 149 multidisciplinary teams to bring together aspects of real estate, landscape and architecture to create a development solution for several blocks in an urban area and ultimately present it to a panel of judges. This year's location is the Downtown East neighborhood in Minneapolis.
After evaluating the initial entries, four finalists were chosen to move forward in planning and
were given the chance to compete for the $50,000 first prize. The other finalists and teams are from Harvard University, Yale University, Ball State University and Purdue University.
Genevieve Baudoin, assistant professor in the M.Arch program, was approached by a faculty advisor from K-State who wanted to add other regional components to the team.
After looking within her Competition Studio, a tight knit group of 11, Baudoin felt that Lauren Brown, a graduate student from Hermitage, Mo., would be that perfect component to add to the mix.
"She's always been a very good team player, she's always very col-
always giving good feedback to people, so I thought she'd be a very good fit in a team project with different disciplines" Baudouin said.
Brown was
Brown
interviewed by the members, invited aboard and taken to an intensive designing session at K-State for two and a half weeks, working each day from 8 a.m. to as late as 2 or 3 a.m. the next morning. The team then had a formal critique of their first draft of their project, "The Armory" in front of a group of students.
Before the final presentation in April, the team will have the opportunity to come up with new solutions, develop new graphics and rework their proposal. Later
"I think it's very prestigious for KU to be included in the ranks of Yale and Harvard."
GENEVIEVE BAUDOIN
Assistant Professor
this month, one team member will visit the site in Minneapolis to gain a better perspective for their design.
Baudio visited the team at K-State during the preliminary stages of ideas and sketches to help with the review of the project and a trial run of the presentation.
"I saw a huge transformation from what I witnessed in January to what they actually ended up submitting," she said. "I think it will be interesting to see their development over the course of the next month, given they have
more time to really rework their boards, tweak their presentation and refine some aspects of the desiun."
The team is made up of Kevin Cunningham, Derek Hoetmer and Kylie Harper of the K-State Masters of Landscape Architecture program, Tyler Knott, an MBA student from UMKC, and Brown. Although the group makeup is unusual, it has turned into Brown's best team experience she had. She believes the group dynamic gives them the capabilities to succeed.
"Everyone on this team is very intentional and very driven, so everyone on this team is willing to work incredibly hard, but were not willing to waste time," she said. "We're very efficient and focused."
Brown believes she brings architectural knowledge as well as strong design and graphic presentation skills to the interdisciplinary team.
Although the winning project won't move further than this stage of planning. Brown believes the unique angle of the competition could have future benefits.
"These competitions allow students to push the limits of what people conventionally consider for these type of sites," she said. "I think it's going to help open up eyes to what this could become,
rather than just the standard development from where money might come into it. We're coming from a design standpoint. We're not just thinking of numbers, we're thinking of people."
Adding to the competitions' challenge, the majority of the work is done outside of a studio class.
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"They have to really take the initiative on the competition, it can't really be funneled into a studio easily," Baudoin said. "I think that speaks well to the students that participate in the competition, they need to show a level of commitment."
The team is vying for a firstplace victory, but Brown and Baudoin feel that finalist recognition is an accomplishment in itself.
"I think it's very prestigious for KU to be included in the ranks of Yale and Harvard," Baudoin said. "It speaks very well to the school itself."
"I'm just a student, but there are professionals out there who submit to competitions all the time and never win anything." Brown said. "For us to be recognized is a huge accomplishment."
Edited by Heather Nelson
Former DEA chiefs warns Obama to nullify laws
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CHICAGO — Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties.
The former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs criticized Barack Obama's administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. Marijuana is illegal under federal law.
"My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing." former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. "If they don't act now, these laws will be fully implemented in a matter of months."
Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said if the federal government doesn't immediately sue the states it'll risk creating "a domino effect" in which other states legalize marijuana too.
The statement from the DEA chiefs came the same day the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, made its appeal in an annual drug report, calling on federal officials to act to "ensure full compliance with the international drug control treaties
on its entire territory."
"You have two states revolting and they're saying it doesn't work in their state and their community and it sends a strong message globally," he said.
But Brian Vicente, co-author of the Colorado pot legalization law, said a handful of North American countries have expressed support for legalization.
A lawyer who led Washington's legalization campaign said the focus should be on reconciling the Colorado and Washington votes with federal law and treaty obligations.
U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a meeting of state attorneys general last week that he is still reviewing the laws but that his review is winding down. Asked Monday for a comment on the criticism from the former DEA administrators, Holder spokeswoman Allison Price would only say, "The Department of Justice is in the process of reviewing those initiatives."
"Ultimately, we do need to see these laws and treaties change," said Alison Holcomb, drug policy director for the ACLU of Washington state, on Tuesday. "We're not going to get resolution overnight."
The department's review has been under way since shortly after last fall's elections. It could sue to block the states from issuing licenses to marijuana growers, processors and retail stores,
on the grounds that doing so conflicts with federal drug law. Alternatively, Holder could decide not to mount a court challenge.
The former DEA administrators are Bensinger, John Bartels, Robert Bonner, Thomas Constantine, Asa Hutchinson, John Lawn, Donnie Marshall and Francis Mullen. They served for both Republican and Democratic administrations.
The ex-DEA heads are issuing the statements through the Florida-based Save Our Society from Drugs. One of its spokesmen is based in Chicago.
Holder is scheduled to appear Wednesday before a U.S. Senate judiciary committee hearing. The former DEA chiefs want senators to question Holden on the legalization issue.
Advocates of legalization have welcomed Colorado and Washington's new laws, arguing that criminalizing drugs creates serious though unintended social problems. The ex-DEA heads say they disagree with that view.
Washington state officials responsible for creating a regulated marijuana system have said they are moving forward with a timetable of issuing producer licenses by August.
After votes last fall, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana's recreational use — putting federal authorities in a quandary over how, or whether, to respond.
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In this file photo, a bar code is attached to a marijuana plant at a grow house in Denver. The bar codes are assigned to each plant and follow it through the growing and distribution process. Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.