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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Thursday. November 18. 1993
New outlet mall may benefit downtown
Bv Tracl Carl
Kansan staff writer
The Tanger Outlet Mall is opening more than its doors tomorrow.
The outlet mall, which is scheduled to open three stores, also may open up development along North Second Street and bring more business to the downtown area.
And as those shoppers travel from I-70 to North Second Street and across the bridge into downtown Lawrence, they will add to the economic health and development of the downtown area and North Second Street, Lawrence business leaders said.
David Longhurst, manager of Lawrence's first outlet mall, the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza, 6th and New Hampshire streets, said the Tanger Outlet Mall would increase the number of the out-of-town shoppers the
Riverfront Plaza already attracts to Lawrence.
Tanger and the Riverfront Plaza have similar stores, Longhurst said. But he said he did not think that would hurt the Riverfront Plaza.
It has done well since it opened on April 6, 1990. he said.
Three additional stores, Villeroy & Boch, a fine china and gift store; Lily of France, a women's lingerie and sleepwear store; and Big Dog Sportswear recently opened in the Riverfront Plaza. Three more stores, Famous Footwear, Rocky Mountain Chocolate and Jones New York Executive Suite, which sells men's and women's suits, are scheduled to open between Thanksgiving and Dec. 4, he said.
Lisa Blair, downtown administrator, said that the Riverfront Plaza added to downtown business and that Tanger probably
"We're not expecting to see a great enhancement to the people coming into the downtown area," she said. "But people thought the Riverfront Plaza would hurt downtown and it became complementary."
would do the same.
The outlet malls do not compete directly with most of the businesses on Massachusetts Street, she said, because many of the businesses downtown are specialty shops.
Plan 95, the city's comprehensive development plan, states that the downtown should be the central business district of the city. The Riverfront Plaza worked to become part of the downtown area, Blair said. Tanger also is trying to extend business to Massachusetts Street.
But Leslie Johnson, owner of The Loft,
742 Massachusetts St., said the Riverfront
and Tanger outlet malls may not compete directly with a downtown store's market, but they do compete for a customer's paycheck.
Few customers from the Riverfront Plaza visit her women's clothing store, she said.
"It is a competition for dollars and people only have so much money to spend," she said.
She said she was skeptical that Tanger customer's would add to the downtown area's business.
The downtown area is not the only area that will benefit from Tanger.
Commissioner Bob Moody said he thought Tanger would change the business climate of North Second Street.
He said he thought the street would become more commercial and less industrial.
KU archivist retires after 43-year career
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
University Archives is losing its keeper. John Nugent, University Archivist, retires today after 43 years at the University. Nugent has been KU's chief archivist since the archives were created in 1969.
"He's going to be replaced, but he's irrepareable," said Ned Kehde, librarian at the archives. "This is his baby. It's all his baby. It's nobody else's."
The archives now house a wide variety of historical University documents most of which are open to the public dating back to the founding of the University in 1866.
A native of Kansas City, Kan., Nugent worked in Watson Library for 19 years before he was offered the job as archivist in 1969, when the archives opened with the Spencer Museum of Art.
Nugent said that he started the archives with several old yearbooks, newspapers, magazines and scrapbooks but that he quickly realized that the archives would need another full-time librarian. Kehde joined him the following year.
The archives also began acquiring correspondence and records from various offices. Nugent and Kehde had to organize it all.
"We just started from scratch," Nugent said. "Ned and I had to sit here and figure out what the hell we were doing. Everything we have now, we started out from the very beginning."
The archives now have newspapers, yearbooks and other University publications, building floor plans, scrapbooks, photographs and thousands of boxes of records from other campus offices.
Kehde credited Nugent with building up one of the best university archives in the
country
"He's the last of the self-educated archivists," Kehde said. "Anyone else who would come in here would have a seminar mentality. They'd talk everything to death instead of working it out."
Nugent enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served in Europe during World War II.
Kehde said, "John's a workhorse, and that comes from being a veteran from World War II. In the war, you never thought you'd get out of it alive, and John just kept going one step after another. We don't have anybody left like that."
Kehde said that Nugent also had an innate ability to remember things he saw or read.
Barry Bunch, a full-time archivist at the archives, said that Nugent was an expert on the University because of his exposure to many documents and his incredible reservoir of knowledge.
Bunch said, "We were looking through some sports photos recently and found an old basketball shot, and John said, 'Hmm, I think that was in the 1932 Jayhawk, 'and he went over, opened up the yearbook, and there it was."
"That just blew me away. If shows how John knows not just the facts but very specific knowledge."
Although Nugent no longer will be a University employee, he said, he still plans to spend time at the archives to work on research projects. He is planning a history of the KU Libraries and a history of student activities and events at the University.
"There will be no more staff evaluations or reports, no more sick-leave cards or committee assignments," Nugent said. "So, I can just wander in here, sit down and do my thing."
Doug Hesse/KANSAN
John Nugent, University Archives employee for 24 years, flips through some of the materials he has archived. Nugent celebrated his last day of work yesterday with cake from his co-workers.
Scientists say human cloning may be a future reality
Kansan staff writer
Bv Cheslev Dohl
In 2025, five-year-old Christopher may be the perfect child — healthy, congenial, inquisitive and brilliant. His parents may see no need to settle for anything less.
Sometime in the future — sooner than some might think — the wonders of science may allow Christopher's parents to make an exact copy of their son.
As quickly as scientists at KU and across the country are working, the days of human cloning may not be far away.
In mid-October, scientists from the East Coast successfully duplicated human embryos, producing 48 clones in all.
But cloning is a word that is misinterpreted by many people, said Dean Steer, head
of the KU genetics program.
"When we consider cloning we usually consider an exact duplicate," he said. "For example, taking a cell from your arm and making an individual like yourself."
Stetler said this type of cloning was far beyond the reach of today's science.
"There are around 30 genetic clonists on campus," he said. "We've cloned disease antigens at the DNA level and we teach students how to clone."
"We don't anticipate human cloning from cells to human beings for a good number of years," Stetler said. "But it might happen next year. Always expect the unexpected."
Some kinds of DNA cloning happen all the time at KU. Stetler said.
When a cell is taken from a person, it develops and differentiates itself, creating
different cells, such as those that make up the skin, liver and brain, Stetler said.
"What we need to determine is what turns these cells off and on to create these various kinds of cells," he said. "That is a long way off."
"There's nobody who's going to jump in and start doing it without first doing a great deal of research," he said. "Human experimentation is far off at this point. There's a quantum leap between cloning a gene and a whole organism."
Rob Weaver, professor and head of biochemistry, said that human cloning raised sensitive moral issues.
Don Marquis, professor of philosophy, said that it was too early to call cloning a serious ethical dilemma.
cloning," he said. "So far they've been unable to clone mammals. But things will get interesting when they can clone dogs."
"At this time I don't see any problem with
Marquis said intense research was needed before animals and humans could be cloned.
"It's such an unusual type of thing so it's hard to put in a moral framework we're accustomed to," he said.
Cloning is a very different kind of technology with advantages and disadvantages, Marquis said. Genetics can result in healthy children, but he said many people were concerned about whether cloned people could live a healthy life.
"If you were cloned genetically like Michael Jordan but you couldn't play like Michael Jordan — people would wonder what was wrong with you," he said.
ON CAMPUS
Canterbury House will celebrate Holy Eucharist at noon today in Danforth Chapel.
Spencer Museum will sponsor a Tour de Jour at 12:15 p.m. today in Spencer Museum Auditorium. For information, call Lori Ecklund at 864-4710.
The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an informational meeting for students interested in studying in Great Britain at 4 p.m. today at Room 8 in Lippincott Hall. For information call Nancy Mitchell at 661-3742.
KU Judo Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in 207 Robinson Center. New members are welcome.
KU NOW will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. For information, call the WSU office at 864-7337.
International Studies, African Affairs Students Association and African and African-American Studies will sponsor a dinner for Ethiopia Week at 6 p.m. today in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For information, call Kathy McClure at 864-4141.
PRSSA will sponsor a Big Brothers/Big Sisters Awareness Week lecture at 7 tonight in 208 Smith Hall. For information, call Jim Welsh at 843-2639.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For info. call David Zimmerman at 864-7117.
Latin American Solidarity will sponsor a rice and beans dinner and video, "El Salvador: La Verdad Desenmoscarada," at 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For information, call Kenny Kincardy at 749-0789.
Spencer Museum of Art will sponsor a lecture, "Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts," at 7 tonight in Spencer Museum Auditorium. For information, call Lori Ecklund at 864-4710.
LesBiGayS OK will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. For information, call Scott Manning at 841-8887.
KU Young Democrats will meet at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union.
Jayhawker Campus Fellowship will meet at 8 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. For information, call John Dale at 864-1115.
KU Libertarians will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Allen Tiffany at 842-2411.
Iethus Christian Outreach will meet at 8:30 tonight at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. For information, call Mark Winton at 843-2260 or Noel Storey at 749-5848.
KU Fencing Club will meet at 9 tonight in 130 Robinson Center. For information, call Jen Snyder at 841-6445.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Two injured in car collision
A 77-year-old Lawrence resident and a KU student were injured in a two-car collision on Clinton Parkway on Tuesday.
Archie Wolcott was driving west on Clinton Parkway near Crestline Drive at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of his vehicle because of an undetermined medical problem. Wolcott crossed the median and struck a car driven by Stephanie Munger, Anchorage, Alaska, sophomore, who was going east. Wolcott's car then left the road, struck a pole, ran into a fence and stopped.
Wolcott and Munger were taken from the scene to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Munger was treated and released. Wolcott was transported by Life Star helicopter to St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Topeka, where he was in fair condition yesterday.
Business professors honored
The School of Business will honor four professors for being chosen as named and distinguished professors.
Those being recognized are: George E. Pinches, named the Wagon professor of finance; Allen Ford, named the Larry D. Horner/KPMG Peat Marwick distinguished teaching professor of professional accounting; Dennis F. Karney, named the Ned N. Fleming distinguished teaching professor; and Henry N. Butler, named the Koch distinguished teaching professor of law and economics.
The professors will be honored at a program and dinner at 6:30 p.m. today at the Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St.
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