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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,2011
GAME DAY| 10A
VOLUME 123 ISSUE 92
Jayhawks take on Cyclones
Iowa States comes to Lawrence Saturday.
Self varies starting line up
BASKETBALL | 12A
In light of recent injuries among teammates, coach Bill Self utilizes different stong players.
HISTORY | 6A
$18 million library expanison approved
The expansion will include the construction of a new parking lot and the addition of 100 public computers.
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Opinion. . 5A
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AT YOUR DOOR
Bakery delivers desserts for late-night munchies
BY SABRINA AHMED editor@kansan.com
Check out Kansan.com for more information about Lucky You Bakery and all of the treats the bakers offer as late-night snacks.
editor@kansan.com
From a small rented kitchen on Mount Oread, two University of Kansas students and one alumnus are now delivering six kinds of homemade cookies to customers' doorsteps.
Will McCallough, 25, Bailey Olsen, a senior from Olathe, and Jack Rafferty, a senior from Shawnee, opened the late-night dessert delivery service, Lucky You Bakery, on Jan. 28. The owners said they hoped to fulfill students' and residents' desires for late night sweets after a late night on the town, while staying up to study or while staying in with friends. They said their goal was to have the cookies at their customers' doorsteps as fast as Jimmy John's does.
A VISIONARY,
A BUSINESSMAN AND
A BAKER
Rafferty, McCallough and Olsen said they put a lot of time and effort into making the company run smoothly.
Rafferty is the visionary. He came up with the idea for the bakery after seeing something similar succeed while he was at school in Colorado. He said he thought one in Lawrence could make money, too.
He said he was the one who kept everyone grounded, handled the money and took care of the little things.
McCallough is the businessman.
Olsen, meanwhile, is the baker. She makes what the owners call "the best cookies ever."
"I decided to go ahead and make the recipes myself just because it would be better for our ingredients and our storage purposes," Olsen said. "This doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense unless you know exactly what is in our cookies, which is a secret."
While Lucky You Bakery has not been open long enough to determine how much it makes on an average night, business has tripled since opening weekend, said McCollough. So far, the owners have handed out a few flyers and have mainly relied on word of mouth, Facebook and Twitter to generate business.
"I ordered their cookies last Thursdaywith myfriendsandIhave never had a better chocolate chip cookie," said Shannon Spurlock, a junior from Burlingame, Calif. "All of the cookies they serve are great. I would know because I ordered one of every kind to be sure I ate
the best one."
While Rafferty, McCallough and Olsen said they were very excited about their growing business and the positive feedback they had received, they said they were especially excited about what they had learned.
"It has been a cool lesson of interdependence to see how we all click together," McCollough said.
As for where they are headed, none of them really know. With brownies to join their menu soon, Rafferty hopes for expansion. He said some day they may even like to have a store front.
"We want it to grow," Rafferty said. "We want to continue perfecting what we do, but we don't know how large the market is. It's going to be a journey."
The cookies cost $6 for six or $12 for 13. Lucky You Bakery is open for delivery Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Customers can order online at luckyyoubakery.com or by calling (785) 865-1466.
— Edited by Helen Mubarak
Aaron Harris/KANSAN
Above: Bailey Olsen, a senior from Overland Park, measures ingredients for a cookie mix. Olsen, Jack Rafferty, a senior from Shawnee, and Will McCullough, a 2008 alumus, opened Lucky You Bakery, a cookie delivery service, two weeks ago.
Top: Bailey Olsen, a senior from Overland Park, Will McCullough, a 2008 alumus, opened Lucky You Bakery, a cookie delivery service, two weeks ago.
Top: Bailen Olley, a senior from Overland Park, Will McCullough, a 2008 KU alum, and Jack Rafferty, a senior from Shawnee, own a local cookie business called Lucky You Bakery.
The Suarez sisters work to uncover bones from an unknown dinosaur species found at a dig site in Utah. The twin sisters named this species Geminiraptor suarezarum.
DINOSAUR
Species named after graduates
BY LISA ANDERSEN landersen@kansan.com
In 2004, twin KU graduates Celina and Marina Suarez discovered a new dinosaur species; now the species is officially named after them: geminiraptor suarez
The 29-year-old geochem-
Antonio
ists from San made the discovery while doing research at a separate site in Utah. The two began following a layer of rock that strayed from the site. Marina wandered into a gully
where they saw bones sticking out from the rock.
"I remember my sister saying 'Wow! Jackpot!' Celina said. "We were pretty excited and knew we had found a significant site."
After spotting limb and toe bones, the sisters came back the next morning with a group of
paleontologists. The dinosaur was identified as a troodontid, a small two-legged carnivore
SEE DINO ON PAGE 5A
GOVERNMENT
School of Social Welfare faces cuts
BY CLAYTON ASHLEY cashley@kansan.com
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence is facing a state funding cut for the fifth year in a row, creating a potentially negative effect on the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
Dave Johnson, CEO of Bert Nash, was candid about his plans for the potential $372,000 cut.
"This particular cut we're going to fight as hard as we can," he said.
Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed 2011 budget calls for $15 million in
SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 5A