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The Shawnee County Coroner's Office confirmed Monday afternoon noonthe death of Eric Bittlingmayer, a junior from Lawrence.
Coroner confirms death
No more details were available from the coroner's office. Services will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., on Friday morning. There will be a visitation at 9:30 and the service is at 11. Follow Kansan.com for updates.
Friends of Bittlingmayer said he died sometime late Saturday or early Sunday, and was discovered Sunday morning at his Lawrence apartment.
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Steven Pauwels, brewnmaster for Boulevard Brewing Company, introduced a new Belgium-style beer called Collaboration No. 1 at The Oread Hotel Monday night. Pauwels was born in Eekol, Belgium.
Q&A with Boulevard brewmaster
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
Steven Pauwels, brewmaster for Boulevard Brewing Company, unveiled his new beer, Collaboration No. 1, at The Oread on Monday. Pauwels worked with Jean-Marie Rock, brewmaster at the Belgian brewery Orval, to bring about the new brew, which is a Belgian-style beer.
Pauwels worked with Rock for several days in Oct. 2009 to create the Collaboration No. 1. at Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, Mo. Rock flew back to the U.S. this week to celebrate the unveiling of their colaboration. Pauwels, who is also from Belgium, has been living in the Midwest for the past 10 years and is working to bring traditional Belgian-style beer to the area.
Pauwels visited with The University Daily Kansan to share his thoughts about brewing and drinking in the Midwest.
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HOME FROM HAITI
Photos by Adam Buhler/KANSAN
Earthquake damage on Rue Liberte in Jacmel, Haiti minutes after the Jan. 12 earthquake Hundreds of lives have been lost in the city of Jacmel and thousands are projected to have been lost in Port-au-Prince, the car
Trip cut short by quake
The devastating earthquake in Haiti left two students scrambling to come home
L'Eglise de la tabernacle (The Church of the Tabernacle) seen from Rue Liberte in Jacmel, Haiti, Jan. 12, just minutes before a devastating earthquake.
BY NANCY WOLENS nwolens@kansan.com
Minutes after the quake, Eglise de la Tabernacle (The Church of the Taber-
nacle) stands crippled with its roof collapsed on Rue Liberte in Harijati. Hari
Adam and Karen Buhler did not expect their trip to Haiti to end so abruptly.
Adam Buhler, a Lawrence sophomore and staff photographer for the University Daily Kansan and his wife Karen, a Topeka graduate student, went to Haiti for a new experience volunteering with the Pazapa Center for Handicapped Children in Jacmel.
Their time was cut short by the earthquake that occurred in the country on Jan. 12, the morning after the Buhlers visited the Pazapa Center.
"Being from Kansas, we had no idea what to do in an earthquake," Karen said. The Buhlers said the earthquake initially started out soft with a little bit of rumbling. Karen was sitting in the hotel room and Adam was outside taking pictures.
Though they had never experienced an earthquake, they
SEE HAITI ON PAGE 6A
did they best they could to respond. Adam returned to the hotel room and they waited until they were evacuated.
After spending about an hour in the street outside their hotel, everyone in the town began heading toward the beach for safety. As the Buhlers headed to the beach, a Haitian with the U.S. Embassy happened to drive by. After showing
CANCER CENTER
Gift brings cancer center closer to designation
BY ROBERT ALTMAN
raltman@kansan.com
The gift will go toward funding a Phase I Clinical Trials facility in Fairway, giving patients access to the newest treatments, and to recruiting top physicians and cancer researchers.
The KU Cancer Center received an $18 million boost last week from the Hall Family Foundation in its quest to become designated by the National Cancer Institute.
"Kansas City deserves to be one of the 65 places where
A study conducted by the Dartmouth Medical School and published in Medical Care Research and Review in 2009 found the mortality rate is 25
With the donation, the Center now has $37 million of the projected $92 million needed to earn NCI designation, which will bring prestige and better cancer care to the entire region, Hall said.
patients can receive the most advanced cancer treatment," said Bill Hall, president of the Hall Family Foundation, a philanthropic group based in Kansas City, Mo.
percent less for patients at NCI-designated cancer centers than non-designed centers.
"I think that point alone illustrates the importance of what we're trying to do here," said Roy Jensen, director of the KU Cancer Center.
receive the most advanced cancer treatments available, Jensen said. The NCI designation will allow
The NCI designation will allow
"Kansas City deserves to be one of the 65 places where patients can receive the most advanced cancer treatment."
BILL HALL President, Hall Family Foundation
Currently Kansans must travel to centers in Omaha, Denver, Houston or St. Louis to
patients to receivein-state treatment by bringing cancer research findings from state universities to local cancer centers.
and Kansas City, creating many new jobs in each location and providing Kansas the opportunity to add the biosciences to its repertoire of scientific enterprises.
"Cancer centers are very significant engines for economic development and growth." Jensen said. "What we're trying to do is really help the Kansas economy grow into a new sector."
The gift will also enable the
Edited by Sarah Bluvas
also enable Center to expand the KU medical facilities in Wichita, Lawrence
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