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Goodbye, hello
KU to tear down booth for new gateway
BY MELINDA RICKETTS
mricketts@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Demolition of the traffic control booth in front of the Kansas Union at 13th Street and O read Avenue begins today to make way for
a new gateway for the University.
Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University, said construction on the Docking Family Gateway at the intersection wouldn't start until the end of the week and should be completed by the time classes resume next fall.
The gateway will be an island
in the street with a raised fountain area and a column, approximately 16 or 17 feet tall, that will have "University of Kansas" on it. It will be lighted at night.
The plan is that the materials in the gateway will blend with the buildings in the surrounding area.
"It's a mix of native limestone and brick, so it seems appropriate for that part of campus," Wade said.
The gateway has an estimated budget of about $500,000, which was donated by the Docking family. The gateway will be important because it will let people know when they enter campus, said Warren Corman, University architect.
"It's a sense of place," Corman said. "Psychologically in architecture you don't feel comfortable unless you know where you are."
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PROFILE
CITIZEN DOLPH
Dolph Simons Jr., editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World and chairman of The World Company, types on his 1930s Royal typewriter.
A rare glimpse at the media mogul who dominates the local information business
Don Ipock/THE NEW YORK TIMES
BY STEVE LYNN
SLYNN@KANSAN.COM ■ KANSAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A framed piece of paper hangs on the wall above a television broadcasting CNN in the office of Dolph Simons
people in Lawrence known largely by his first name.
In 1891, Dolphin's grandfather W.C. Simons scrawled in black ink on a small
note a record of his first day's business "Sold Papers," it reads.
Dolph, twiddling his glasses with stout fingers, dark hair neatly combed straight back, explains, "I keep it up there as a reminder — that shows that anybody can come to town and get into the business and you better be careful because if they work hard and you don't, you're in trouble."
"You can't ever be in the hip pocket of a city manager, or a mayor, or a chamber of commerce, or a football coach, or an athletic director or a chancellor. You need to be supportive and helpful, but you just can't be in their hip pockets. That's just not our business."
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Dolph Simons Jr.
Chairman of The World Company
Newspaper program to expand
STUDENT SENATE
BY NICOLE KELLEY
nkelley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The KU newspaper readership program will expand to offer newspapers to students during the summer school session.
newspapers on campus during the summer including The Kansas City Star, The Lawrence Journal-World, USA Today and The New York Times.
"I think students always have a curiosity and need to know what's going on in the world," said Molly Kocour, Lawrence senior and chairwoman of the
The program will put 800
Kocour said that over the years there had been an excess amount in the readership program's account that continued to accumulate.
newspaper leadership advisory board. "It's a matter of convenience and a matter of educating students."
Last year, part of that amount
was used to bring The Wall Street journal into the program. The remaining funds will cover the summer program.
Each semester, students pay a $5 newspaper readership fee as part of their required campus fees.
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Sterner, student body president, said that the summer newspapers would become a permanent part of the readership program.
STORM RECOVERY
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A pile of trees accumulated in the parking lot of Memorial Stadium after cleanup for the March 12 storm and will remain until a way of disposing them is devised. Trees and roofs were damaged across campus during the storm.
Cleanup generates business Local companies benefit from storm
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mphillips@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Surveying the damage after the March 12 microburst, Ross Dessert found plenty to deal with.
Dessert, who is in charge of facilities at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road, said two of the Center's four homes sustained roof damage, the church's roof was damaged directly above the organ, and he found pieces of Templin Hall that blew across the street.
But he didn't have to look hard to find a roofing company. Earlier in the year the Center had new
Most cleanup work has not yet begun, because businesses have to fill out paperwork with their insurance companies and collect bids on the work.
roofs put on a couple of the church properties.
"Those held up pretty well," Dessert said, adding that the company, Alpha Roofing, came back out soon after the storm and made the necessary fixes.
For businesses, the hardest-hit area was along 23rd Street, especially east of campus and on Massachusetts Street.
Alpha Roofing's Darin Lutz said that his company, like others around Lawrence, had seen an increase in customers since the storm as businesses and homeowners begin cleaning up.
Most cleanup work has not yet begun, because businesses have to fill out paperwork with their insurer.
companies and collect bids on the work.
companies and collect bits on the work. Sign companies have also been cashing in on the storm.
Kim Van Dame, Star Signs project assistant, said that in the first week after the storm the company made about 30 bids on jobs created by the storm, and work is still coming in as businesses continue to communicate with their insurance companies.
In the first days after the storm, the company held off on some of its current jobs and had employees devoted exclusively to the cleanup process.
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