Wednesday, January 24, 2001
Section A · Page 3
Legal service hires new attorney
By Brooke Healer
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
After months of searching for a new staff attorney for Legal Services for Students, a selection committee has filled the position.
Lauren Reinhold is scheduled to start Thursday, Feb. 1, said Jo Hardesty, director and managing attorney for the service.
Reinhold was not the first person offered the job. Legal services originally offered it to Marlon Williams, former Douglas County assistant district attorney, last late semester. Student Senate approved his appointment.
At the time, Senate didn't know the identity of Williams because he was still working for the county and hadn't resigned yet.
Hardesty said Williams originally accepted the job, but then backed out to take a job in Texas.
"I don't know if I'd say he was our first choice," Hardesty said. "He was the first person we offered the job to, though."
Holly Krebs, Student Rights committee chairwoman, also sat on the selections committee that interviewed and hired Reinhold. Krebs, McLouth senior, said Legal Services for Students had to hire Reinhold before getting Senate's approval.
"LSS is in desperate need of another lawyer," Krebs said. "With tax season coming up, they needed to hire someone."
Marlon Marshall, student body vice president and St. Louis, Mo., senior, said Senate would approve Reinhold at its meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Krebs said Reinhold's approval was just a formality.
Krebs said she was happy with the choice of Reinhold.
"I thought she was an excellent candidate when we were interviewing her," Krebs said. "And I thought her experience on student government when she was in school will be really good."
Reinhold received her undergraduate degree from Northeast Missouri State University in 1992, where she worked in student government. She received her law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1996. Reinhold is also a former Legal Services for Students legal intern.
The search for a new staff attorney began in September when the position was vacated by Braxton Copley. Hardesty said the committee had between 30 and 40 applicants. She said Reinhold was the best choice.
"She's working at Kansas Legal Services in Kansas City, Kan. right now." Hardesty said. "I think that background will help a lot when she gets here."
— Edited by Mott Dougherty
Students celebrate Chinese New Year
Bv Dannv Phillios
By Danny Phillips writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
New Year's celebrations in Lawrence don't often include sword demonstrations and children running around, but then, not many people are familiar with the Chinese version.
The Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association drew 200 people to its annual New Year's party last night at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Their new year is based on the Chinese lunar calendar, not the Western solar calendar, which is why it falls on a different date every year between late January and mid-February.
For many Chinese students attending the University of Kansas, the Chinese New Year is a celebration intended for families and socializing
"So many Chinese can get together," said Jingfeng Jiang, Lawrence graduate student. "We have so few chances."
CSSFA vice-president Heng Ng, Lawrence graduate student, said the Chinese New Year was the most important holiday in her culture," just like your Christmas."
Afterward, the partygoers watched a taped broadcast of the Chinese Central Television's New Year's coverage, which had to be recorded this morning because of the time difference between China and Lawrence.
Because many KU Chinese students are married, the organization's president, Bei Li, Shanghai graduate student, said it was important to organize celebrations that fit into their schedules.
The New Year's party began with a 12-performance culture show that included singers, a poem recital, a traditional Chinese opera excerpt and a Taiji sword performance.
"That's why I put it last," joked Bei, who organized the event.
"They have families, so they don't have much time." Bel said.
The CCTV New Year's broadcast began in the 1980s, Bei said, and it's become a huge tradition in China for which more than 50 percent of the
Bei's favorite act was the folk dance finale. Admittedly, she's a bit biased — she was one of the dancers.
country tunes in.
Renee Bergene, study abroad coordinator, attended the party because she wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the Chinese culture. She coordinates student exchanges between the University and the University of Hong Kong, and said she hoped that by learning more about Chinese culture, she'd be able to promote the exchange program better.
Many of the Chinese students at the University are graduates, said Bel, because it's very expensive for undergraduates to study at an American university. She also many of the graduate students either received scholarships or became teaching assistants.
Edited by Sydney Wallace
Above: Make-up artist and graduate student Ying Chen, Szechuan, China, helps Christine Xu, Beijing, doctoral student, get her hair just right with the encouragement of friends. This year's festivities ushered in the Year of the Snake. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Left: Cindy Yang, doctoral student,
Beijing, models a wedding dress during
a Qi Pao show. About 200 people
gathered at the Ecumenical
Christian Ministries to celebrate the
eve of Chinese New Year. Photo by
Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Local veggie joint closed during break
Kansan staff writer
By Erin Adamson
The Glass Onion has offered healthy, cheap food at the top of the hill for 11 years, but the campus fixture closed its doors forever during winter break.
Owner Bob Jones said he closed the restaurant, 624 W. 12th St., because it was no longer making money. The restaurant had reduced its hours during the fall semester.
"Parking has probably been the biggest problem in that location," Jones said. "Maybe because Yello Sub is so popular people are willing to work around the parking."
The Glass Onion was located above Yello Sub in the same building.
The restaurant also faced competition from the many coffee shops and restaurants offering vegetarian food that have opened in recent years, he said.
The restaurant was one of the first restaurants in Lawrence to serve vegetarian and vegan food. Jones said his restaurant always had focused on healthy fare.
"When I bought it in 1989 it was a hamburger joint," Jones said.
"I turned it into what it's been for the past 10 years or so — focused primarily on vegetarian food."
Jones also owns the two Yello Sub sandwich shop locations in town, and said the space formerly occupied by the Glass Onion would be converted into additional seating for Yello Sub's location near campus.
Ramona DeNies, Portland, Ore., senior, worked as a waitress at the restaurant during the fall semester until the restaurant closed.
DeNies said she thought that most regular customers did not realize the restaurant was in trouble and expressed shock at its closing.
"I was really upset that it closed," DeNies said. "It was an incredible work environment. I enjoyed my coworkers, and we had an interesting and amiable clientele."
"Everyone considered that it was the old standard that would never go," DeNies said. "But a business is not a monument like an old oak tree."
DeNies said the Glass Onion was known for its milkshakes, its Friday quaddaill special and tofu pups, a vegetarian hot dog
Edited by Joshua Richards
Guidelines to define downtown style
Frin Adamson
A developpe designed guidelines for the decoration of exterior of buildings downtown in order to keep
Erin Adamson writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A development task force has
the heart of Lawrence a thriving pedestrian thoroughfare.
Commissioner David Dunfield said the goal was to develop up and not out.
Whenever the surface of a building in downtown Lawrence is altered or a new building is designed, the city will review the building to make sure it fits the pattern of downtown development, he said.
The city is setting guidelines for responsible redevelopment and maintenance of the downtown as part of the Downtown 2000 project. The adoption of design guidelines is just one piece of the project.
Dennis Enslinger, historic resources administrator, said
the guidelines were intended, in part, to clear up confusion about what was an appropriate building style to add downtown. He said the need for guidelines became clear when Borders wanted to develop at 700 New Hampshire St.
The development was controversial, he said, because many members of the community felt the building would not maintain the historic style of downtown and would encourage irresponsible development and sprawl.
Commissioner Mike Rundle supported the new guidelines.
"Downtown has universal support and love across the community," Rundle said. "This is a way for us to take care of the community."
Commissioner Marty Kennedy also said that it was important to have the guidelines in order to maintain the quality and atmosphere of the downtown area.
The design guidelines would not determine what kind of business could occupy a building.
The guidelines would ask builders to conform to the overall pattern of downtown buildings — large ground level windows, a decorative pattern of second story windows, two- or three-story buildings on corners, and buildings built to the
edge of the sidewalk.
Ensinger said one example of a building that would not have been approved if there had been guidelines when it was constructed was the FirstStar bank building. 900 Massachusetts St. He said that according to the new guidelines, the building was much too tall to fit the scale of other buildings on the street and it was set back from the sidewalk, which discouraged pedestrian interaction with the building.
The guidelines would also recommend that parking lots facing Massachusetts Street be redeveloped so that open spaces wouldn't break the continuity of the buildings.
New buildings would not need to conform to the predominant nineteenth century style of the downtown. Rather, they would need to contribute to a style that was pedestrian-friendly and consistent, Enlinger said.
Other projects included in the Downtown 2000 project are the construction of a new lawrence Arts Center, a new 500-space parking garage, and loft apartments, all on the 900 block of New Hampshire Street.
The project is designed to bring people into the city center.
- Edited by Megan Phelps
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