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Maintenance Supervisor Marc Bouton works to repair the Jayhawk that was vandalized during the last home football game. After already working on it for a little over a week, Bouton hopes to have it repaired and back in its place in front of the Kansas Union before the home game this Saturday.
'Classic Jayhawk' statue in repairs after being damaged
BY KELLY MORGAN kmorgan@kansan.com
For nearly two weeks, the "Classic Jayhawk" statue has been absent from its usual spot outside of the Kansas Union. University officials removed the statue for repairs during the KU vs. Georgia Tech football game after it was damaged by two 7- to 10-year-old boys.
"They did do a number on it," said Wayne Pearse, director of Building Services. "Apparently, they were rocking it back and forth as hard as they could and broke a foot loose and split a wing out."
To fix the $1,200 worth of damages, the statue was moved to a workshop located on the second floor of the Kansas Union where a team of five men has been sanding, shaping and painting out the statue's dings and splits.
"It's pretty labor intensive," said Marc Bouton, a maintenance supervisor. "The worst part was
Workers also filled the statue with 50 cans of expanding foam to make it more stable.
the wing, and for that we just want to make sure that we match all the angles and everything up."
"Many of the Jayhawk statues you see are hollow," said Pearse. "So now this bird is going to weigh a lot more."
This is not the first time that the "Classic Jayhawk" statue has been vandalized. Two years after the statue had made its debut in the 2003 Jayhawks on Parade fundraiser along with 50 other statues, two visiting sailors ripped "Classic Jayhawk" from its stand and rolled it down Jayhawk Boulevard.
"One of the guys dropped his wallet while they were rolling it," Pearse said. They were caught when they approached a police officer who had the sailor's wallet in his hand and asked him to give it back.
While a police report was filed on the sailors in 2005, the University has no plans to charge
the two boys in the recent event..
"These are just boys," said Pearse. "I like to think they were too young to realize what they were doing and that they had no intention of doing damage." In general, KU workers and organizers of Jayhawks on Parade said they feel fortunate that nothing worse has happened to the stat-
"Actually I'm pleasantly surprised, particularly that the Jayhawks have had relatively little vandalism," said Susan Henderson, the marketing director for the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Of course we're always disappointed when it happens, but for the most part we were pleased that nothing too bad happened."
Workers plan to have the "Classic Jayhawk" statue back in its usual spot early Saturday morning.
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posal's guidelines on the hiring of faculty and staff using course fees had not been followed. Under the proposal, course fees could be allocated to pay new professors, but not to pay existing employees. The students said their research indicated that some existing professors were paid with course fees instead state funds, which is forbidden by the proposal.
The students said they were upset that there was no student oversight of the course fees, which the proposal had provided for. They claim a student advisory committee had been disbanded. Fuerst had announced in July that he planned to restart the committee this fall but so far this had not occurred.
frustrated by the response they received from both the School of Business and the University. On June 17, invoking the Kansas Open Records Act, Metz requested documents relating to the use of course fees and student oversight of the fees as well as salary and overall budget information.
As time passed on into the summer, the students continued to be
In response, the University said that assembling the documents would cost $61,000.
On July 24, in a memo circulated among the Kansas Board of Regents, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little responded to questions about the use of course fees, specifically those made by Cantrell.
Gray-Little wrote that members of the provost's office were looking into the issues. The Chancellor defended course fees, listing enhancements made possible through the fees such as a 21 percent increase in undergraduate enrollment, new majors within the school and a "significant"
Gray-Little did acknowledge that a shortcoming had occurred in the lapse of the advisory committee.
number of additional faculty and career counselors as well as more than 890,000 in scholarships and student salaries in 2010.
Fuerst requested an external review of the school in late July. The audit firm BRD is conducting the review and results of the review have not yet been released.
"Unfortunately, the record in this area is not as strong." Gray-Little wrote.
"At the end of the day, it's the direction they needed to go and hopefully they can restore some transparency." Metz said.
Metz said he was pleased with the announcement that the dean would step down.
He said once future plans for the project are decided, athletics will talk to all of the donors and then the donors will have the option to either participate or get their money back.
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Dan Weber, a junior from Atlanta, said he is not surprised in the delay, especially considering Mangino's absence, crediting him
Warren Corman, university architect, said it's not just the finances causing the delay.
sion to leave also hurt the project's future.
Corman saud Ellerbe Becket, the architectural firm in Kansas City responsible for the renderings
"As long as football is doing well and we can do stuff like we did two years ago, it will go well."
WARKEN CORMAN University architect
and drawings of the expansion were working on those last summer and fall.
"The football program got into a funk last fall and lost the last seven games which didn't help donors much," Corman said.
"Now the donors are going to need a little coddling to prove that this season will go well and that their money will go to good use," Weber said.
doing well and we can do stuff like we did two years ago, it will go well" Corman said.
Corman said that former football coach Mark Mangino's deci-
Corman said
he thinks if football coach Turner Gill can get the program going, donors will become interested in the project again. He said the Orange Bowl win in 2008 made a huge difference.
"I've been around here 60 some years and I think it is an exciting project, and as long as football is
Marchiony said he is disappointed that the project did not become a reality yet.
Currently, the athletics department is unsure specifically what aspects of the project will be changed, but despite the setbacks, those involved in the project are hopeful for the future.
"But on the other hand, I am very encouraged, and that encouragement makes me believe that we will come up with something to make us achieve our goals."
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These high school kids work Monday through Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and earn minimum wage. The students have opportunities for raises as they spend more time in Van Go.
Jefferson said Van Go keeps him out of trouble, and if he wasn't doing this he'd be sitting at home playing video games.
High school students from around the area are referred to Van Go by school counselors and social workers as well as by word of mouth from friends. Bertrand said the number of applications the organization receives is double or triple the
number of spaces actuary available.
This week, the students are working on glass magnets and nightlights that will be sold at the annual "Adornment" event that will be held the Saturday after Thanksgiving. KU student Cait Bubna, a senior from Colony, sat at a table on Tuesday with Jefferson and other kids from different high schools sifting through different brightly colored glass pieces.
"This is a great way to help kids out and be part of the community," Bubna said. "Plus, I get to make art. It's great."
Bubna has worked with students in Van Go once before and said she could see the difference the program made in kids - not just in art, but in everyday life.
"This requires responsibility
and consistency," Bubna said. "Each week has a different lesson not related to art that the kids learn."
When asked as a group who would be interested in attending a career fair this Saturday for the arts, three of the students besides Jefferson raised their hands. Bertrand said these kids were not hired based on their art skills but because of financial need. Many of these kids are just absorbing the useful training they receive through a normal work schedule and the lessons Van Go offers them.
"If a career comes in art, I won't deny it — that's for sure," jefferson said with a smile.
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Jake Lero, Topeka sophmore, and Nick Tillman, Linwood sophmore, compete against each other Tuesday night at KU's Dance Dance Revolution club in the Jaybowl at the Kansas Union. DDR Club is new to KU this year. It meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m.
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