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NEWS / THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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Stimulus grant funds green building
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER
This artistic rendering of the engineering building shows the structure that will cost $18.8 million and may be finished in 2012
sfoster@kansan.com
The University of Kansas School of Engineering will construct a new sustainable engineering research building with $12.3 million in federal stimulus money.
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The building will be between Learned and Eaton halls and the Spahr Engineering Library and is expected to be completed in spring 2012. It will provide space for laboratories for engineering research projects.
"This is going to be an exciting project not only for students but for alumni," said Stuart Bell, dean of the school. "It's going to be a great building."
The building will incorporate solar shades, green roof technology and other sustainable features. These features will give the building a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification through the Green Building Rating System.
Jill Hummels, spokeswoman for the school, said the building's sustainability makes it a symbolic project.
"This demonstrates ability as well as commitment to energy efficiency and environmental practices, which are increasingly important factors in creating buildings." Hummels said.
Bell said the decision to make the building energy efficient was made to help students see the importance of sustainability in relationship to today's environmental technology.
"We're promoting science and engineering with what we're doing," he said. "We're showing
that we can blend technology that makes sense with the type of setting this is."
A r o n Mandelbaum, a senior from Overland Park in the School
other universities, and it advances the students' ability to do research," Mandelbaum said.
Bell said the school needed
"We're promoting science and engineering with what we're doing."
STUART BELL Dean of the School of Engineering
moor needed more space because its enrollment has increased rapidly in the past few years.
of Engineering, said he supported the building's construction.
"I think it's a good model for
" The building will allow us to do the work we
struggle to do now in our current space" Bell said.
$18.8 million. The School of Engineering is expected to raise the $6.5 million not covered by the grant. The school will be looking to donors for funding. Hummels said.
Bell said the school sent in its proposal for the building last August when the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced its competition for research facility construction grants. Only 12 of the 160 proposals that applied received the grant money, he said.
The building project will cost
—Edited by Allyson Shaw
A KU professor was appointed by President Barack Obama as an Environmental Protection Agency director.
Karl Brooks, associate professor of history and environmental studies, was named the director of the EPA's region 7, which has headquarters in Kansas City, Kan. The region covers Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
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Brooks has degrees from KU, Harvard, the London School of Economics and Yale. He spent 2001 and 2002 in Washington, D.C., as a Supreme Court fellow.
Professor to direct government agency
Brooks has also published several articles and books about environmental history and law.
INTERNATIONAL
Poland rejects swine flu vaccines
Kevin Hardv
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland - The decision seemed fraught with risk: a government refusing to import swine flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic.
But Poland did just that, becoming the only country worldwide known to reject the vaccines over safety fears and distrust in the drug companies producing them
- concerns international health experts reject as unfounded.
All along, the decision by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Health Minister Ewa Kopacz met with broad support.
"I had the impression that the information about swine flu was
manipulated in order to create a panic," said Barbara Lazniewska, a 38-year-old architect who was among the many Poles to applaud the government's stance.
The anti-vaccine movement argues it is untested or contains risky ingredients, like the preservative thimerosal. However, there is little difference in the swine flu vaccine's formulation from the regular flu vaccine, which is available in Poland, and all evidence so far suggests it is safe and effective.
"The saving grace fo, Ioand is that this swine flu pandemic is so far very mild. It would be a big scandal if this were a virus that would cause many deaths," said Andrew McMichael, an immu-
World Health Organization spokeswoman Karen Mah said the organization has no reports of other countries rejecting the vaccine outright.
nologist and the director of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford.
In Poland, doctors are deeply divided on the matter, but some are clearly critical of the government.
"It should be the patient's rights to choose — that would be democracy in health care," said Maria Ciesielska, a family doctor whose disapproval only intensified when her 7-year-old son was laid up for a week with swine flu in November.
HOUSING
Lainey Padgett and Kristina Rotunno, Wichita freshmen, haul their belongings up the ramp to the main doors of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. GSP is connected to Corbin Hall by a tunnel, and both have only had female residents, but GSP could potentially be home to male students in the future after the hall is renovated.
GSP could house coeds in future
BY JENNY TERRELL jterrell@kansan.com
One of two female-only residence halls at the University of Kansas might begin to accept men after an upcoming renovation.
Gertrude Sellards Pearson residence hall, which, along with Corbin residence hall, has housed only females since its opening. Diana Robertson, director of the Department of Student Housing, said the plans are in the very early stages.
Over the past few years, the Department of Student Housing has experienced a decrease in the amount of requests for female-only residence halls, leading the department to rethink GSP's use.
This spring, Diana Robertson said she hoped to hire an architect and form focus groups with housing officials and students to provide input on the building's prospective changes.
She said the group will discuss everything from the renovated dorm's rules to the setup of bathrooms.
currently connects GSP to Corbin Hall. Robertson said security would need to be instated in the tunnel because the rules for male visitors would be different in the two buildings.
"Our No. 1 goal is to attract and retain students." Robertson said.
GSP could be coed by wing, floor or room. Those plans will be discussed within the focus groups. Robertson said the department receives a lot of requests for private baths. If those requests were honored, then housing males and females side-by-side would be an option.
Currently male guests are not allowed in GSP-Corbin after 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
However, if men and women were housed in GSP, the visitation rule would be the same as the other coed residence halls: either gender may visit anytime with the escort of a resident.
Officials are still questioning what to do with the tunnel that
The idea of GSP housing male and female students has stirred up conversation among current residents.
"I live here because I am uncomfortable living in the same building as men," Gretchen Meyer, a sophomore from Lenexa, said. "I think I'd have to move off-campus if GFSP were coed."
Dave Erhart, a freshman from Winchester who currently lives at Oliver Hall, said if GSP begins to allow men, he would consider living there, regardless of its proximity to female-only Corbin or its distance from the other coed KU residence halls.
Options for gender-specific living on campus currently includes GSP-Corbin and the scholarship halls. Robertson said that Corbin would always remain all-female because of its rich history and tradition.
The Department of Student Housing plans to renovate all residence halls. Recent renovations completed include Lewis, Templin, Ellsworth and Hashinger halls.
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The most recent opening was Tower A of Jayhawker Towers in August 2009. Tower D of the Towers is closed for renovations this year and set to re-open in August 2010.
Pending the results of the focus groups this spring, officials plan to close GSP after finals in May 2011 and re-open in the fall of 2012.
edited by Kate Larrabee
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