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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
DEVELOPMENT
Historic Indiana Street house faces demolition
BY ANDY GREENHAW agreenhaw@kansan.com
It's been known as the Rugby House, the Sex House and the G-Dub house. Now the 83-year-old house at 1142 Indiana St. will be known as the construction site for the Oread Inn, which Lawrence city commissioners approved last Tuesday.
The house that sits at 1142 indiana St. is scheduled for demolition. The house has had its share of unique residents over the years. Its visitors have included students, but also bats, raccoons and possums. The house will be torn down this spring to pave the way for the construction of the Oread Inn.
The historic house has had many tenants over the years.
1142 Indiana, along with five other houses in the area, are now scheduled for demolition. Lynn Zollner, administrator to the historic resources commission, expects the demolition will begin sometime this spring.
Ed Kenney, KU alumnus, lived in the house during the summer of 1972 - back when it was an apartment building.
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"It was a really nice apartment,
"It was a real but it was never really a place to party," Kenney said.
Kenney's son, Brendon Kenney, and seven other students changed all that 32 years later when they moved in and turned it into the Sigma Epsilon Chi-CSE House
"The bat went apeshit and started swooping around all over the place knocking into everything."
with the Greek letters hanging from the front balcony. No, they were not a real fraternity.
Sam Carners, one of the eight students who lived in the house from 2004 to 2005, said the decision to name it the SEX house was a unanimous household decision.
JENNA MCMILLEN Wichita junior
described the house as the perfect place to party.
"We changed the name because the guys before us - the rugby team - called it the Rugby House and we didn't want to be the guys that lived in the Rugby House; we wanted to be the guys that owned the Sex House," Carnes said.
Andrew Kadel, one of other former SEX House roommates.
"Our first party got so big we saw a cop pull someone over and asked him to come help us kick people out," Kadel said. "At one of our biggest parties, we had six kegs and a dodge ball tournament in our driveway."
The owners before Kadel and his friends may have had the same idea, he said, because when they moved in, the basement was filled with sand left from over from when the KU Rugby Team owned the house.
Kadel said football tailgating was what gave the house its popularity. At the 2004 rivalry game between KU and KSU alone, Kadel said his household raised more than $500 from parking.
"Our landlord was pissed because the guys before us had a beach party or something they never cleaned up,"
Kadel said.
Other than the sand in the basement and a faulty balcony, Kadel described the house as a pretty nice place to live.
"We couldn't go out on our balcony or else the roof would cave in, but overall it was in good shape," Kadel said. "I was really disappointed when I found out it was getting torn down."
In 2005, the Sex house guys moved out and the G-Dib girls moved in.
Katie Feeley, Chicago senior, said she came up with the house's new name when she bought a large coin with George Washington's logo on it for 50 cents at a sidewalk sale and hung it up on the front of the house.
"At first I hung it up as kind of a joke because the Sex House guys used to have their Greek letters up," Feeley said. "After our first party, everyone started calling it the George Washington House so it just
sort of became the G-Dub House."
Feeyel said she and her roommates threw 10 parties, each with six kegs and a DJ, her sophomore year.
In the first year she lived there, she and her roommates received seven citations for disturbing the peace, which Feeley said added up to about $800 to $1,000 in fines.
"We sacrificed ourselves for the good cause of college students," Feeley said. "It was above and beyond the definition of a fun, college party-house."
Tierney Ross, Chanute junior,
and Jenna McMillen, Wichita junior.
were among Feeley's roommates during the fall semester of 2006, but moved out because of the house's poor living conditions.
"I don't want to be mean or anything, but that house was falling apart," Ross said.
A family of raccoons lived in the attic and the chimney, Ross said.
Once an upstairs toilet overflowed and leaked through the ceiling into the kitchen. Two different types of mold spawned from the spillage, Ross said, which later spread to the kitchen cupboards and ruined some of the roommates' food.
and a possum lived in the trashcan outside.
"We named it George." Ross said. "He wasn't mean or anything. He just popped out of the trashcan from time to time to look at us and go back in."
McMillen's main complaint was about a family of bats that she said lived in the basement.
McMillen experienced a first-person encounter with one of the bats when it snuck up into her room through a furnace in the basement.
"None of the property owners could ever find them," she said.
"The bat went apeshit and started
swooping around all over the place knocking into everything," she said. "I started screaming until it perched on my ceiling and one of my roommates helped me get it out."
McMillen and Ross both moved out at the end of the fall semester of 2006.
The rest of the G-Dub crew moved out in May of 2007, ending the house's occupancy forever.
"I living in that house was the best year of my life," Carres said.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
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WASHINGTON Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages.
The twin triumphs made 10 straight for Obama, and left the former first lady in desperate need of a comeback in a race she long commanded as front-runner.
"The change we seek is still months and miles away," Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston in a speech in which he also pledged to end the war in Iraq in his first year in office.
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Sen. John McCain, the Republican front-runner, won a pair of primaries, in Wisconsin and Washington, to continue his march toward certain nomination.
In a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cut deeply into Clinton's political bedrock in Wisconsin, splitting the support of white women almost evenly with her. According to polling place interviews, he also ran well among working class voters in the blue collar battleground that was prelude to primaries in the larger industrial states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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"Both Senator Obama and I would make history," the New York senator said. "But only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice."
In a clear sign of their relative standing in the race, most cable television networks abruptly cut away from coverage of Clinton's rally when Obama began to speak in Texas.
McCain won the Republican primary with ease, dispatching former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and edging closer to the 1,191 delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination at the party convention in St. Paul, Minn. next summer. The Arizona senator also won the primary in Washington, with 19 delegates at stake.
In scarcely veiled criticism of Obama, the Republican nominee-in-waiting said, "I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure that Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change."
McCain's nomination has been assured since Super Tuesday three weeks ago, as first one, then another of his former rivals has dropped out and the party establishment has closed ranks behind him.
Not so in the Democratic race, where Obama and Clinton campaign seven days a week, he the strongest black presidential candidate in history, she bidding to become the first woman to sit in the White House.
Ohio and Texas vote next on March 4 — 370 convention delegates in all — and even some of Clinton's supporters concede she must win one, and possibly both, to remain competitive. Two smaller states, Vermont and Rhode Island, also have primaries that day.
With the votes counted in more than 80 percent of Wisconsin's precincts, Obama was winning 58 percent of the vote to 41 percent for Clinton.
Wisconsin offered 74 national convention delegates. There were 20 delegates at stake in Hawaii, where Obama spent much of his youth.
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