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KK Amini burglarized A weekend burglary at KK Amini scholarship hall may result in changes at the hall. An escort policy and a locked door are changes being considered. PAGE 3A
Middle East lecturer An Afghan woman will share her experiences as a journalist and film maker and discuss the situation in the Middle East tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. PAGE 4A
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the team its second conference loss. With the win, the Cowboys are now tied for first place in the Big 12 and control their own destiny. Kansas must hope other teams lose to claim its third straight Big 12 title. PAGE 1B
Big-time bucks A $12 million donation means renovations to Allen Fieldhouse and the construction of the KU Hall of Athletics but not until the basketball season ends. PAGE 1B
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KANSAN
IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.89
Replay may lose license
Decision tonight on whether local bar can still sell alcohol
Jeff Brandsted/Kansan
Rob Gillaspie, Lawrence resident, sipped his drink yesterday evening at The Replay Lounge. The Lawrence City Commission will decide tonight if it will renew the Replay Lounge's expired license.
By Dave Nobles
dnobles@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The drinking license of the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., expired more than 60 days ago. In the past, the city issued license renewal reminders to bars 60 days before a license would expire. The Replay did not receive a notice this time and was unaware that its license had expired.
The Lawrence City Commission will decide tonight whether the Replay Lounge will be able to keep its liquor license.
Frank Reeb, director of administrative services at the city clerk's office, said that sending out notices was not required, and that the reason why the letters were not sent to the Replay Lounge was a heavy workload.
"It was more of a courtesy than anything else," Reeb said. "We were focusing on some other things and we just stopped sending out the letters."
The city clerk's office began sending out similar notices again Jan. 1.
It won't be so easy for Replay Lounge to get its license back because the Salvation Army Methodist Church is right around the corner.
In accordance with Lawrence City code, a waiver must be granted to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages within 400 feet of a church. The Salvation Army Methodist Church is close enough to the Replay Lounge for a waiver to be needed.
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Student receives cold shoulder Landlord delays heater repairs
By Ron Knox
rknox@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
During one of the coldest weeks of the year, Penny Beesley's house wouldn't heat up.
She turned the thermostat up and waited. She checked all the rooms in the house at 1817 Illinois St., but only the basement warmed.
The Kansas City, Miss. senior called her landlord, Ashley Funderburk, on Jan. 29 to ask what she should do. Funderburk said she would send someone out to look at the furnace that day, Beesley said.
Beesley waited. The temperature in the house fell. The next day, she called Funderburk back to tell her no one came to fix the furnace.
"She told me that it was too bad no one came out," Beesley said.
The next day, Beesley called Berry Walthal, Lawrence codes enforcement manager, to see if something could be done. The codes inspector came out the next day, and Walthal said that Funderburk's house violated several Lawrence uniform housing codes.
It was not the first time for Funderburk, either. According to Codes Enforcement records, of the five Lawrence homes Funderburk owns, all have violated code at one time during her ownership.
Funderburk did not return phone calls for this story.
In August 2002, tenant Seth Hoffman called Codes Enforcement about Funderburk's house at 1812 Illinois St., across the street from the house Beesley rents.
Inspectors found 18 code violations in the house, including plastic shoved in holes in the walls in place of insulation, according to Codes Enforcement records.
SEE SHOULDER ON PAGE 8A
Sean Smith/Kansas
Penny Beesley, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Julia Masaneek, Free State High School junior from Eutin, Germany, sat in the comfort of Beesley's living room soon after the landlord fixed the furnace. "It was really cold. Some mornings the temperature was as low as 50 degrees," Beesley
Iranian student fights for women
By Samia Khan
skhan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Woman says different perspective important to break female stereotypes
Roksana Alavi never studied for a test the first semester of her 10th-grade year. The problem was that she never knew when any of her tests were.
"My teacher wrote the word quiz on a piece of paper, and I had to go home and look it up in the dictionary to know what was going on," Alavi said.
Alavl, Oklahoma City graduate student and co-chairwoman of the February Sisters Association, moved to the United States from Tehran, Iran, when she was 15 not knowing any English. She had to adjust to a radically different culture in the middle of high school.
Since the early 1970s and before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, 200 of Alavi's
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Roksana Alavi, graduate teaching assistant in women's studies, came to the United States from Iran when she was 15. She joined the February Sisters Association to raise awareness of international abuse of women.
By Paige Worthy editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
February celebrates feminist activities
February is no longer a month reserved for chocoholics and hopeless romantics. The February Sisters Association has planned a month'of programming designed to celebrate feminism and encourage the fight against violence toward women.
During the month of February, the organization is sponsoring a series of events to highlight contemporary women's issues. The series is based on the theme "Women in a Global Context."
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