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Trust protects endangered monuments
This undated handout photo provided by the National Trust shows the Vesey Street Staircase in New York City, the only surviving above-ground remnant of the original World Trade Center, a vivid and haunting reminder of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Chabad and Hillel provide different atmospheres that suit different students. Tiechtel said Chabad is different in that it is more like a home and family because he, his wife and his daughter are there 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Jay Lewis, executive director of KU Hillel, said Hillel's job, as the most broad-based Jewish organization on campus, is to support anything Jewish at the University, ranging from the Jewish studies minor through the University and KU Chabad. He said he was happy that there were more options for Jewish students and thought few students would choose only one organization to attend. Lewis himself, plans to attend Chabad events.
"It's going to be kind of an overall partnership," Lewis said, adding that there was "no sense
of competition for students" between the organizations.
Tiechtel said Chabad had been well-received at the University and he has felt a "warm, welcoming, open-minded" feeling from everyone.
He said the center came to the University after Chabad headquarters received many requests from students, faculty and parents. When he heard it was looking to open a chapter, he wanted to get
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involved.
Tiechtel moved to Lawrence from Brooklyn, New York, where he taught at a Talmud seminary with his wife, to start the center. He said he had brothers all over the world who operate Chabad centers, including centers in Berlin and Tennessee,
WASHINGTON — Anyplace else, the scarred concrete steps would be an eyesore. At ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 they were a last chance for escape. Now they stand as the last surviving above-ground piece of the World Trade Center.
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"It's been in my blood,"
Tiechtel said, "I've always been
aspiring to it."
"The "Survivors Staircase" was named one of the nation's most endangered historic places Wednesday, along with whole swaths of New Orleans and Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
By singling out the staircase and sections of the South, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is seeking to preserve areas hit by the two biggest American disasters of recent memory. Katrina, noted Trust president Richard Moe, "damaged more historic homes than any event in the history of the country."
The Trust is a private nonprofit group founded in 1949.
To Sept. 11 survivor Patty Clark, the Trade Center staircase is "symbolic of all of us
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who were witnesses to that day. It's still strong, somewhat damaged, but that's kind of like we all are."
prin group. You're in New York, the rumbling of construction around ground zero has weakened the staircase, and it is not included in plans for a new tower.
Clark and other employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey used the staircase to escape Tower 1 after the terror attacks in New York.
She had already walked down 65 flights of stairs when she got to the World Trade Center plaza. Debris from Tower 2, which had just collapsed, filled the plaza, leaving the open-air air-circase as the only way out. She and other employees followed the stairs down to ground level at Vesey Street and raced north, escaping just minutes before their own tower collapsed.
"For people who got out of the building, it was by steps, so steps are very important to the people who lived," she said.
Supporters say they could live with seeing the staircase moved in order to preserve it, as long as it isn't placed far from its original site.
Moe said most people don't know the staircase remains, since it is closed to the public. "It's an enormously important artifact," he said.
In the South, historic Mississippi towns and New Orleans neighborhoods face demolition after the 2005 hurricane.
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He said Domino's delivery drivers even knew some students on a first name basis
Troy Green, owner of the Lawrence Domino's, will meet again with the winners to give them their cashier's checks, which are set up for them to use for books and tuition next year.
Green said that Domino's established a relationship with
Green said the buzz about the competition generated an increase in orders, as well as an increase in the usage of KUID payment options. He said Domino's would continue the competition next year during the spring semester.
the University this year by allowing KU Cuisine and Beak Em Bucks as payment options and wanted to give back to the students.
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