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Lawrence Community Shelter looks to relocate
Pending a finalized date, Lawrence Community Shelter will move from its downtown location to 23rd Street. It will have twice the square footage.
BY AMANDA KISTNER AND DAVID ELLIOTT editor@kansan.com
The Lawrence Community Shelter is moving away from downtown, which means a big change for its occupants. The shelter will move from its current location in the downtown area to a new and bigger building near Harper and 23rd streets. The date of the move is not known yet.
Indecision on the location and slow increase in funding led to a slow development of the project. Loring Henderson, executive director of the Lawrence Community Shelter, said raising the money has taken so long because of the question of location
But after the Lawrence City
Commission's 3 to 2 vote two weeks ago to continue financial support for the downtown Lawrence Community Shelter at Kentucky and 10th streets, the search for a new location could continue.
"We're excited about the funding and support that's come from the community," Henderson said.
While the current shelter has just more than 7,000 square feet, the new, more spacious building will have almost 15,000 square feet.
The downtown shelter can currently hold 76 people. The new shelter will only allow a maximum of 75 occupants, but they will have more space. Henderson said workers want to be able to take in as many people as possible, but they don't want it to get too crowded
and become unsafe.
Instead of the current free-forall floor mats that are rearranged every night, the new shelter will have new beds that can be assigned according to gender.
The new shelter will also provide three full meals a day. The current shelter only provides cereal and coffee in the morning and an evening meal, but no lunch. Also, the new shelter will be located farther away from the Salvation Army and Jubilee Café.
The move won't drastically change the number of homeless people downtown because some may not want to make the move or will not qualify to reside in the new shelter, Henderson said.
CRIME
Campus quiet over break
— Edited by Caroline Bledowski
BY CHELSEY DERKS cderks@kansan.com
cderks@kansan.com
Students came back from spring break to a campus that quietly waited for their return.
Only two campus crimes were reported while classes were not in session: a stolen bicycle from Stouffer Place apartments and graffiti on the wall of Oliver Hall, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
The low number of reported crimes was nothing out of the ordinary, said Bailey. In previous years, spring break rarely generated significant campus crimes, with only one reported crime during the spring breaks of both 2009 and 2010.
With the drop in crime, the KU Public Safety Office used the slow week to focus on monitoring campus buildings, keeping in mind that there were still faculty and staff on campus.
"It gives the officers a little bit more time in the buildings, walking the buildings, which is important because there's not as many people."
For tips from Bailey on how to avoid falling victim to a crime while away on break, tune into KUJH-TV News today at 4 p.m.
Bailey said the significant lack of disturbances could be attributed to the smaller amount of people on campus.
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Rodney Dale Jones, former
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Two more former employees, Brandon Simmons and Jason Jeffries, have been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay several thousand dollars in restitution for failing to report the felonies of the other code defendants.
Former employees will pay fines and serve prison time
Week before spring break
Jones' co-defendant, Kassie Liebsch, a former systems analyst for the department, was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months for her involvement in the scheme. Others in the case, Charlette Blubaugh and her husband, Tom Blubaugh, are set for sentencing April 14 and Kirtland May 12.
head of the Williams Fund fundraising arm of the department, was sentenced on Thursday to serve 46 months in
A federal judge in Wichita sentenced another of the seven former Athletics Department employees charged with conspiring to illegally sell tickets.
Jones will also have to pay at least $1 million in restitution to Kansas Athletics and about $100,000 to the IRS.
On March 28, a pair of jeans was stolen from Ambler Recreation Center at a loss of $150.
On March 29, food burning in an oven caused smoke in the Jayhawker Towers, but there was no fire and no damage was reported.
federal prison.
— By Jonathan Shorman
On March 29, two suitcases,
50 CD's and a GPS were stolen
from a vehicle on the 1200
block of Louisiana, valued at
$589.
On March 28, someone entered an unlocked office in the KU Visitor Center and took $11 from a purse.
Spring break
On March 16, someone reported the theft of a wallet from the Anderson Strength Center, valued at $400.
On March 18, someone took exit signs from Oliver Hall, valued at $180.
Week after spring break
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On March 23, someone spray-painted a brick wall at Oliver Hall. Damage is estimated at $150.
On March 25, someone reported the theft of a bicycle and lock Stouffer Place Apartments, valued at $106.
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Check out Kansan.com for more information about the crimes that took place during spring break.
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"I think the original concept was not safety-driven," Thiel said. "However, a lighted pathway would encourage more people to travel that way, and so by default, the more people that are on that sidewalk, the less likely crime will happen. The lighted pathway will act as a deterrent."
The KU Public Safety Office has also been involved with the project and thinks that it will be a great addition to increasing safety around the campus and in areas students travel.
"We've been aware of it and part of the discussion since the
first suggestion came up about two years ago," said police Chief Ralph V. Oliver of the KU Public Safety Office. "We support it. We support safety in general and those things that improve safety."
"The lighting project is another layer of safety added to the ones that are already in place, such as police patrols, Saferide program, and the new Jayhawk buddy system," said Oliver.
Oliver hopes that students will take notice of the lighted pathway and use it once it is completed.
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LEGISLATION
Marijuana-centered Compassionate Care Act not expected to get green light
BY PAT MUELLER
pmueller@kansan.com
The Kansas Cannabis Compassionate Care Act, a bill that would have made marijuana use legal for people with certain debilitating medical conditions, is not expected to make it out of the Health and Human Services Committee before tomorrow's deadline.
KU's chapter of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, NORML, campaigned on campus to get the bill passed.
"That bill is just sitting there. It's not going anywhere," Rep. Geraldine Flaharty, D-Wichita, said.
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Human Services Committee. The committee chose not to discuss the bill at its meetings, allowing the bill to expire.
"There is no possibility it will be heard or any action will be taken on it."
“It's disappointing. I would have loved to see it passed," said Jacob Fox, president of KU NORML. "However, I'm not that surprised."
The bill was introduced Feb. 11 by Rep. Gail Finney, D-Wichita, and was assigned to the Health and
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Committee members were not available to comment about why the bill was not added to their agenda. Although it is unlikely the bill will leave the committee, a senator or representative can choose to resurrect it during the next legislative session.
Also, the money will be focused on improvements to the crumbling
During the last few years, parking passes at the University have increased at a rather regular rate.
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They hope to agree upon a final plan within the next couple weeks.
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Hultine says they are not ready to state the exactly how much the increase would be, but that it is relatively small.
on parking and motor taxes.
Hultine also mentioned a plan that would have an increase only in revenue streams that would not affect faculty, staff and students.
If one of the proposals is agreed upon, the fees will be used in multiple ways, including salaries, snow removal, water run-off fees, as well as the $1.5 million parking and transit pays on bonding a year.
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If the parking fees stay as is, the University will have to cut back on capital projects, many of which have already begun.
"My hope is that the proposal to increase fees will pass so we have small incremental increases over the years and not a couple large ones," Hultine said.
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For instance, a gold parking pass in 2004 began at $180. Since then, it increased to $235 in 2005, to $255 in 2006, and in 2008, it increased to its current price of $285.
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Clayton was one of hundreds of student and fac
faculty volunteers at about 100 sites in Lawrence for The Big Event, a community service project that was part of the University's Into The Streets Week. The event was run by the Center for Community Outreach, Student Union Activities and the Student Senate.
"It shows the dedication of the KU students to the Lawrence community that they're out here today raking in freezing rain," said Hannan Bolton, a sophomore from St. Library, Neb., and codirector of the Big Event.
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After washing windows, raking leaves from a yard and pulling vines from bushes, student body
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Katie Kisner, a senior from Lawrence, said her class was canceled Thursday, and she spent her free time raking for two hours for a retired man and his wife, who is hooked to an oxygen tank.
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"Now they get to go do the fun part," Kisner said. "They can plant flowers."
Most services that volunteers performed included odd jobs around houses and apartments of the elderly. Several volunteer groups were assigned to paint outside, but this was prevented by the rain. Some people simply needed furniture rearranged or their toiletts scrubbed. One woman wanted a mattress flipped. Other people just wanted to talk.
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"That phone call right there gives you a new high for the rest of the day," Velasco said as he shivered under a tent.
One woman called co-director Kris Velasco, a sophomore from
"This is something that transcends the politics of campus," Smith said. "It's something that I think is going to become a part of the fabric of KU."
Wamego, requesting the names of the "attractive young boys" who helped her out. She wanted to write them a thank you card.
president, and brainchild of the event, Michael Wade Smith's face was covered in mud.
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