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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007
Elif Andac, associate professor of sociology, and Bridgei Biggs, associate professor of clinical child psychology, eat their lunch at impromptu, a new restaurant in the Kansas Union. It opens for business on Monday, is located on the third floor.
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Its menu includes beer-battered fish, butternut squash ravioli and grilled margarite pizza.
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Impromptu's seven sandwich choices include a grilled reuben topped with Traver's grandmother's Bavarian saurkraut.
"When I put together the club sandwich, I said 'oh my god, no one can eat this.'
Kim Nixon. Impromptu's dining room manager, said she hoped to serve KU students, staff, administrators and other
Lawrencians.
Her staff of
nine includes a
souschef,cooks
and wait staff.
Improptuic
currently
employs two
KU students.
"Our first meeting, where we decided this was a go, was the first week in January. It was an impromptu decision."
" Traver said with her thumb and index finger spread several inches apart.
Thirteen menu items, such as house-made hummus and the quiche of the day, are meat-free or can be served meat free.
Students can use Beak 'Em Bucks at the restaurant.
"I'd like to see this be along the lines of any other restaurant in Lawrence," Traver said. "The only difference is hours are set by the Union's foot traffic."
JANNA TRAVER Executive Chef
"I think our prices are very reasonable."
Nixon said, "I think it's going to be a big draw"
Maintenance for wireless Internet will cost an estimated $825,000 a year. The University has agreed to foot the bill for the yearly operational costs, Lopez said.
"We expect to announce more details of the wireless scope and plan soon," Lopez said.
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Traver said affordability was one of the restaurant's priorities.
"I wanted simple food done well at a value that's great," Traver said. "I want to make sure that we are very student friendly."
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan. com.
Kansan staff writer Ashlee Kieler can be contacted at akieler@kansan.com.
Edited by Will McCullouah
WIRELESS
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Phase one will upgrade the existing wireless infrastructure, and phase two will expand wireless coverage to classrooms, laboratories and common places on campus.
installation will be completed in two phases, according to Boots and Horen's proposal.
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"We focus so much on our differences, we don't see the similariities," said Ryan Rowan, BSU board member.
Another board member shared Rowan's views about celebrating Black History Month as a way to inform and educate people about Americas diverse population.
outside of the University. Open discussion that discourages racial issues as being taboo was one outlet that BSU felt would foster better relationships. The BSU encourages people to get to know one another and ignore pre-conceptions or stereotypes.
"If we did black history right, we wouldn't need Black History Month, because it would be incorporated into what we learn."
RYAN ROWAN
Black Student Union member
"It's something that I treasure. It's a significant time." Ebony Howard, Ft. Worth, Texas, senior, said. "I feel like I'm obligated to recognize and what was done before me."
The BSU panel continued by offering suggestions on how to get more people involved in breaking down racial tension within and
"If we really did black history right, we wouldn't need Black History Month, because it would be incorporated into what we learn." Rowan said.
Edited by Kelly Laniqan
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan. com.
MEXICO
Tortilla prices cause protests
BY IOAN GRILLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Some 75,000 unionists, farmers and leftists marched to protest price increases in basic foodstuffs like tortillas, a direct challenge to the new president's market-oriented economic policies blamed by some for widening the gulf between rich and poor.
Since taking office Dec. 1 after a disputed election, President Felipe Calderon has drawn his greatest criticism for failing to control the largest price spike in tortillas in decades.
Tortillas are a staple of poor Mexicans diet.
him in an uncomfortable position between the poor and some agribusiness industries hoping to profit from the surge in international corn prices, driven mostly by the sudden explosion of the U.S. ethanol industry.
The national uproar has put
A free market advocate, Calderon has said he does not want to return to direct price controls enforced by many former Mexican presidents.
During Wednesday's march, protesters carried one banner that read "Calderon stole the elections, and now he's stealing the tortillas!"
Others waved handfuls of the flat corn disks and chanted "Tortillas si, Pan no!" a play on the initial of
Calderon's National Action Party, the PAN, which also means "bread" in Spanish.
In a press statement, Calderonis office said the president shares the protesters' concerns and pledged to "continue taking all necessary actions to maintain price stability for basic goods and services. (and) punish all types of hoarding and speculation in the markets."
But it was also a setback for his archivral, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, who protest organizers prevented from speaking at the demonstration in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza.
He held his own rally afterward, and most of the crowd stayed to hear him.