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Campus projects to save energy
By Steve Vockrodt svockrodt@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
After spending more than $600,000 on renovations at the Kansas Union this month, an energy-savings project is expect to pay for itself.
"The expense of the project is the beauty of it," Pat Beard, building services manager, said. "Every penny over a 20-year period will recuperate the expense of the project."
Traffic along Jayhawk Boulevard was either slowed or blocked entirely during the week of Jan. 12, before most students' return from winter break. Workers operating a large crane also blocked access to the west entrance of the Union.
Beard estimated the cost of the project was $628,000 for the Union. Modifications to the Union included replacing cooling towers and also installing efficient lighting systems to save utility bills. The University hopes to lower utility costs of each square foot from $1.40 to $1.
College students unite in March for Life
The Kansas Union construction comes among the first of several projects designed to save energy and utility costs on most buildings on campus.
More than 100 students travel to Washington, D.C.
The project comes in the wake of energy costs, both heating and cooling, that should continue to rise.
As with the Union project, the campus-wide effort should pay for itself with the savings in utilities.
The project will conserve energy for 5.9 million square feet of facility space on campus, not including student housing that will be contracted separately.
- Edited by Cindy Yeo
Amy Sack, Seneca freshman, and Katie Burnside, Independence, Mo., sophomore, returned home from an anti-abortion march in Washington, D.C., Friday afternoon. A group of students from the St. Lawrence Catholic Center joined thousands in the march.
By Patrick Cady pcady@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The crowd moved with them. Voices followed them with every step, chanting and praying. Everywhere the words and prayers of the Catholic rosary resounded.
As they walked toward the Capitol more people joined until they became like a sea.
"In front of me and in back of me all I could see was people," Brett Gaughan, Leawood senior, said.
L a s t week, 130 students took three buses to gather in Washington D.C. as part of the 31st annual March for Life.
"It's really amazing for me. I've been there and been in the experience of standing for what I believe in." Aubrey Logsdon Wichita senior
The march moved from the Washington Monument to the Supreme Court, and coincides the 31st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
For the students who left Monday morning from the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, this journey became a pilgrimage.
"It's really amazing for me," said Aubrey Logsdon, Wichita senior and leader of the trip. "I've been there and been in the experience of standing for what I believe in."
The students, who were from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Ottawa University and Washburn University focused on community building as they weathered the 22-hour bus ride to the district.
Once the group arrived in the district they decided to split up. Some went sightseeing and others decided to volunteer around the area.
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the area. The day before the march, the group attended Mass at the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, at the Catholic
"It was pretty overwhelming, attending the mass at the Basilica." Gaughan said.
More than 7,000 gathered for the service,including priests, bishops, archbishops and cardinals.
On Thursday morning, the students gathered in front of the Washington Monument and heard singers and keynote speakers. Logsdon said. They also
received a phone call from President Bush.
When they began marching more and more people joined them as they marched toward the Supreme Court.
Though Logsdon had been there before, this time was different.
ent.
"This time it was powerful because I got to witness 50 of my peers, who I led there, have the same spiritual experience," Logs-
don said.
After the march, they returned to the buses and embarked on the 22-hour drive back.
When they arrived back at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center they celebrated one last Mass and bid each other a fond farewell, still wearing the light blue shirts that commemorated the event.
—Edited by Cindy You
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