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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 9
TOPPING THE CHARTS
Two Lawrence bars featured in top 50
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
Two Lawrence late night institutions have been recognized by Complex.com as two of the best college bars in the country.
Complex.com, Marc Ecko's self-proclaimed "premiere online destination for the most influential 20-something male consumers" ranked Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts Street, at 31st and The Wheel, 507 W 14th St., at 41st on their list of top 50 college bars.
The Wheel opened in 1955 after being converted from an old book store. Over the past 55 years the bar has had only three owners, the current one being Rob Farha.
"In most businesses you need to stay up with the times and change things." Farha said about his time as the owner of The Wheel. "This is a pretty unique thing where people would be pretty upset if you changed anything."
SEE BARS ON PAGE 3A
TOP 10 COLLEGE BARS IN THE COUNTRY
10. Dain's Place
Duke University, Durham, N.C
9. The Keg
Northwestern University Evanston III
8. Albatross Pub
University of California, Berkeley. Calif.
7. Down the Hatch
5. Down the Hatch
New York University, New
York, N.Y.
6. Houndstooth Sports Bar
6. Houndstooth Sports Bar University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
3. Beacon Hill Pub
4. Smokey Joe's University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Penn.
5. Kilroy's on Kirkwood University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind.
Boston College, Boston University, Harvard/MIT, Boston 2 Catacombs
2. Catacombs
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
1. Duffy's Tavern
1. Duny's lavern
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
- Complex.com
Molly Clark, a senior from Overland Park, Emily Pike, a senior from Enid, Okla., Katherine Krause, a senior from Overland Park, Kristin Thomsen, a junior from Overland Park, and Melissa Keith, a junior from El Dorado (left to right) have a drink at the Wheel,507 W. 14th St. They collectively agreed that they choose the Wheel because of its "good food, nood romany, and nood beer." Chris Bronson/KANSAN
CAMPUS
Chris Neal/KANSAN
"Life is Deception" is painted on the newspaper vendor outside of Budig Hall. Several instances of graffiti this weekend can been seen from Budig Hall to Potter Lake.
Spray-paint vandalism found on campus early Saturday
Multiple locations, including both public and University property, were vandalized with spray paint over the weekend. The vandalism consisted of an assortment of symbols and sentences.
BY NICOLAS ROESLER nroesler@kansan.com
"There was a letter 'A' and
Celsey Richardson/KANSAN
Vice President Megan Ritter, a junior from Overland Park, and President Michael Wade Smith, a senior from Goodland, discuss their proposed plans for the 2010-2011 academic year.
something that looked like a jellyfish with a smiley face," Sgt. Troy Mailen said of the symbols.
Mailen said the office is investigating the incidents and compiling a list of damages and expenses. It is up to the entity that owns the property involved to cover
Mailen said many of the objects vandalized had references about the University including expletive language. The targeted property included newspaper boxes, sidewalks, cars and University buildings.
The KU Public Safety Office was notified of the vandalism at 1:45 a.m. Saturday,
the damage costs, Mailen said.
Edited by Clark Goble
STUDENT SENATE
KUnited to focus on established platforms
mholtz@kansan.com
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ mholtz@kansan.com
The University Daily Kansan sat down with student body president Michael Wade Smith and student body vice president Megan Ritter of KUnited to discuss what students should expect from Student Senate this year.
How will you improve the accountability of Student Senate?
MEGAN RITTER: The first and foremost thing that we've done is just putting up a big checklist of all of our platforms that we ran on out in the main office. We've already checked off five out of the 20 up there. That's the first step is that having that transparency. Any student could come in and say 'this is what we what we said we're going to get done and this is how far along we've actually come.'
What were some of the problems you saw with Student Senate accountability in the past? What have you done to fix these specific problems?
MICHAEL WADE SMITH: A lot of the accountability problems happen because planning doesn't happen early enough. Something that we are very cognizant of is that we need to have plans etched out on how we can accomplish things. Because if you don't have that plan, that's what you spend August through October doing. If that
plan isn't set in place by the time you walk in at the beginning of the school year, the nine months that you're in office during the school year are gone before you look up.
KUnited plans to work through its nearly 20 platform issues, which include increasing sustainability by working with KU administration to adopt green purchasing policies, according to its website.
How confident are you in accomplishing all the platforms you laid out during the election?
M. R.: We are very confident that at least the foundations will be done for all of these when we leave.
Have any platforms or campaign promises been dismissed or postponed?
M. R.: I think that some might take longer than we expected. Our goal is always going to be to get at least the frameworks set by the time we leave our office. That may mean that we won't see the Wescoe Underground [expansion] this year, which maybe we would've liked. But hopefully next we'll see it. So perhaps things might take a little bit longer
... but we don't see anything immediately that we don't think is going to be able to be accomplished.
Your campaign website says
SEE KUNITED ON PAGE 3A
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