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SAFETY: Bill rushed to Student Senate
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The March 31 deadline was an exception because it was a building and construction fee. Now Faulconer and Bellare scrambling to bring a Campus Safety Fee bill to Senate before spring break.
"Right now we're kind of focusing on the campus safety fee because if we don't do anything it will go away, whereas some of the other fees just won't increase or change." Faulconer said.
The safety fee has been used to fund a number of lighting projects, emergency blue phones, crosswalks and other campus improvements. Bell said campus additions, such as the new Hall Center and Reger Scholarship Hall, would need lighting, in addition to the projects the board already has planned.
"There's been a lot of crime and safety issues this year, and it's not in the students' best interests to cut the fee when there's still things to be done." Bell said.
Reger Scholarship Hall will be located behind the Amini scholarship halls on Ohio Street between 13th and 14th streets. The new Hall Center will be across from its current location, adjacent to the Dole Human Development Center.
—Edited by Amanda Kim Stairrett
By Ruper Gor
rgor@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Professor, students designing Polish airport
By 2015, a major international airport in Warsaw, Poland will be built. And this European airport has strong ties to the University of Kansas.
Woijciech Lesnikowski, distinguished professor of architecture and urban design, is working with 14 fifth-year architecture students on a design of a high-tech airport named after the Polish composer and pianist Frederick Chopin. The airport will completely replace the current airport in Warsaw.
A Poland native, Lesnikowski was invited by the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure two years ago to be the principal architect in the design of the airport. HOK, an architecture firm in St. Louis, will assist Lesnikowski and his students with the project.
The firm asked the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $750,000 grant for the first phase of the airport design, which Lesnikowski expects to finish by Mav.
This project is an opportunity for an American company to get exposure abroad, he said.
"The airport is considered to be a hub for the Polish airline industry, but also a European gateway to Asia," Lesnikowski said.
This isn't the first airport Lesnikowski has designed: John Paul II International Airport in Krakow, Poland was finished two years ago.
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known other European cities with major airports Frankfurt and Amsterdam, he said.
With the new airport, the city of Warsaw would be as well-
The Department of Commerce granted $350,000 to the project, which brought in six million passengers annually.
Lesnikowski said the Frederick Chopin Airport would service 40 million passengers. The hightech design of the project includes futuristic features using glass and metal. And the airport will use solar energy — not electricity, he said.
Wojciech Lesnikowski, professor of architecture and urban design; Kayoung Yu, South Korea senior; Sean Mongey, St. Louis senior; Jason Kobylarak, St. Louis senior; and Nathan Freise, Union, Mo., senior, discussed design changes that could be made to their airport project yesterday in Marvin Hall. Lesnikowski is working with the students to design an airport that will be built in Warsaw, Poland.
"The technology applied to the airport is equal to that of airplanes," Lesnikowski said. "The forms and shapes remind us of the forms of aircraft."
The students in Lesnikowski's class will work on designs of components such as terminals, hotels and parking garages, which are based off his concepts and coordination.
"I know he's very passionate about it," he said. "He's trying to steer parts of the architecture program in a different direction."
Jason Kobylarek. St. Louis fifth-year student, said he took the class for the opportunity to
Sean Mongey, St. Louis fifth year student, said he had helped Lesnikowski with the project since the beginning.
actually be built.
The freedom of exploring Lesnikowski's design will be useful for him when he starts his own career, he said.
This is an exceptional opportunity to participate in real work, not just academic work, which helps my students use technol-
He said major projects like his were not typical at the university level. He has not seen a project like this at any other architecture school in the nation.
Both of Lesnikowski's airport projects have been published in architecture magazines in Poland.
Chopin airport project will be published in Architectural Records, a magazine in New York.
Lesnikowski's tentative plan is to work on a project with skyscrapers in China.
HOLIDAY: Students fight temptation
Edited by Stephanie Lovett
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Shaughnessy, who shares the responsibility for today's festivities with Steve Cummings, said he expected Massachusetts Street to be packed with people for the parade. These spectators will have no trouble finding places to go before and after the parade.
A slew of bars on Massachusetts Street and throughout Lawrence will be opening early to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, including It's Brothers at 1105 Massachusetts St., Johnny's Tavern at 401 N. Second St. and Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St.
Red Lyon, an Irish-style pub, will open at
10 a.m. today and offer traditional green beer all day, owner Jerry Neverve said.
Bagpipers will perform Irish music at 5 p.m. and an Irish band called Boys of the Prairie will close out the night at the bar.
Neverve said that St. Patrick's Day was the perfect time to celebrate America's Irish heritage and to get crazy.
"It's time to play," Neverve said.
But that might not be the case for students at the University of Kansas.
With midterm exams looming over the heads of many students, St. Patrick's Day might mean books instead of beer.
Ian Stark, Yates Center senior, said that the prospect of multiple tests would keep him from going on the town this year.
"I've got a test to study for, a show to do, and a ton of midterms." Stark said. "I don't think I'll be doing a whole lot of partying."
Stark said he thought some students might be lured out to the bars.
Tyler Herbster, Valley Falls junior, might be tempted tonight.
"I've got too many tests coming along," Herbster said.
Then, after a few seconds, Herbster came clean with his real intentions.
“OK, I might go out.” Herbster said. “Or at least sit at home, drink green beer and play beer pong.”
— Edited by Danielle Hillix
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ARSON: Many leads being pursued
The three fires in Lawrence were in Watson Library, Clinton Parkway Nursery and Garden, 4900 Clinton Parkway, and the dental office of Keith Jones, 647 Country Club Terrace.
"We're following several leads in conjunction with the Arson Task Force, but we haven't nailed anything down yet," Bailey said.
Larry Scott, senior special agent and public information officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said every lead phoned in to the Arson/Explosive Report Line is being followed.
If you have any information regarding these crimes, call the Olathe Fire Department's Arson/Explosive Report Line at (913) 971-5060.
There's been a lot of long hours that
people have put in," Scott said. "Day and night. We're not going to give up, we're going to stay with it until the end."
Many people have called the report line concerning the composite sketch released by authorities, Scott said. He said the man in the sketch had not been seen at any fires other than the one at Watson Library and that he was not a suspect but a person of interest.
— Edited by Stephanie Lovett
Happy St. Patrick's Day FROM LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS
JUST A FEW REMINDERS FOR YOU:
Drinking until you see leprechauns can get you a disorderly conduct charge with a fine up to $1,000 and 180 days in jail.
Using another Leprechaun's I.D. for alcohol could cost you up to $500 in fines and up to 100 hours community service.
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for the Leprechauns that break the law.
148 Burge Union ~ 864-5665 Jo Hardesty, Director
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