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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,2009
STUDENT SENATE
Committee fails to change policy
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
A proposed change to Student Housing policy would have allowed senior staff members in Student Housing to have easier access to private rooms if they had suspected policy violation.
A proposed policy change that would allow easier access to rooms in student housing failed to pass in the student rights standing committee.
Members opposed to the policy had concerns with its effectiveness in combating alcohol abuse. One major concern was that this policy would infringe upon a student's right to privacy. Devon Cantwell, executive secretary of Student Senate, said another
The alcohol subcommittee of the student rights standing committee, designated to discuss and analyze current alcohol policy at the University, submitted arguments for this policy last night. The alcohol subcommittee was charged to examine all policy related to alcohol, which inherently included Student Housing code.
issue with the policy was its lack of effectiveness in combating alcohol abuse.
"I don't think we, as responsible student senators, can endorse this policy as something that's going to lower drinking or lower the toxic levels of drinking," she said.
Leaders from student housing attended the meeting to defend the proposal. Mathew Shepard, All Scholarship Hall Council president and Norton junior, said the proposed policy would address alcohol abuse by ensuring education on responsible drinking and resources on campus for students who violate the policy.
"It's about community rights where all of the residents have a right to have a safe, productive community where they can feel at home," he said. "And if there's a party going on, the ability to address who's in that room more quickly and efficiently betters that community as a whole."
Kyle Luckett, president of the Association of University Residence Halls and Garden
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COMMUNITY
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Pedro Dos Santos, Rio de Janio doctoral student, Scott Montana, Leawood junior, and Clarice Amorim, Racife, Brazil senior, from left share information Wednesday on Wesco beach with Ann Putrah, Jackson, Wyo. junio, about upcoming events this Friday. Friday is Brazil's National Day of Racial Concciousness.
Events to support children in Brazil
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrechtkansan.com
Ann Putrah, Jackson, Wyo. junior, isn't a stranger to the dance floor. In her hometown, she grew up on it, and from her first salsa lesson, she made Latin dancing a monthly ritual. But since Putrah came to the University, she said her dancing days have disappeared. This Friday, she hopes to revive her rhythm by learning a new Latin舞 — the Samba — while supporting underprivileged children in Brazil through KU Two Brothers Foundation.
The foundation is a student organization that works to strengthen culture at the University and to raise funds for students at Instituto dois Irmãos located in the slums of
WHAT:"A Talk with Matilde Ribeiro, former minister of the Brazilian Government"
WHERE: 3:30 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 20
STUDENT EVENTS
**WHAT:** "Samba Night"
**WHEN:** 10:30 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 20 to 2 a.m. Saturday,
Nov. 21
WHERE: Multicultural Resource Center Classroom, 1299 Oread Ave.
COST: Free
**COST:** $5 All proceeds will benefit the Two Brothers Foundation inner-city school in Rio de Janeiro.
WHERE: Cielito Lindo, 8th and New Hampshire streets
SEE COMMUNITY ON PAGE 3A
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke@kansan.com
On the northern slope of Mount Oread, near the Campanile, sits more than a hundred 40-foot tall, sturdy walnut trees; their black trunks are a stark contrast to the green grass that envelopes them during the summer.
Rushing to class, students often miss this forest rooted in the heart of campus. But Marvin Grove has stood timeless amidst the rapid changes around it for more than 100 years.
It has seen the turn of two centuries and the veterans of both world wars. It witnessed the civil rights rallies that threatened to tear the University in two. And on the sidelines of graduation hill, the grove stood by as more than 1 million students leave the University behind in pursuit of their futures.
The roots of these trees go almost as deep as the University itself, anchoring the grove in the institution's past and its present.
But weather, age and development are endangering the existence of the grove and other natural space on campus.
Despite the cost incurred from preserving natural areas on campus, students, staff and others say it's something worth saving.
"There's an ongoing tension between the need for additional program space on campus and trying to protect open spaces," said Peg Livingood, project manager for the Office of Design and Construction Management. "Every university faces that."
Last year, Livingood and several others affiliated with the University and its history compiled The University of Kansas Campus Heritage Plan using a $130,000 grant from the Getty Foundation. The plan provides a history of the University's development and outlines plans of action looking forward to both preserve the historic campus as well as facilitate its expansion.
DEVELOPMENT
expected to go up from there.
Enrollment at the University has increased nearly every year since its inception, but never as rapidly as within the last half century. Fifty years ago, the student population was about 10,000 Today, it's more than 30,000. And some
Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor, has seen the campus change since he arrived as an undergraduate in 1962. He said the problem with development and green space, or natural areas, is that, decades ago, those who developed the initial plans for campus had no way of knowing how the University would need the space today.
"It would be nice to think that every time you plant a tree, it stays forever or until it dies naturally, but on a dynamic campus, that's not possible," he said.
Although most of the 1,000 acres on the main campus have been used for development, several areas of green space have been preserved, leaving room for about 10,000 trees, according to 2007 University statistics.
The acquisition of West Campus in 1970 has allowed for additional University expansion. However, it hasn't completely stopped development on the main campus.
One of the most recent intrusions
MARVIN GROVE
SEE CAMPUS ON PAGE 3A
Beginning: March 29,
1878 by former Chancellor James Marvin
Location: north of Jayhawk Boulevard, south of Memorial Stadium
Significance: According
to the Heritage Plan, this is the "most historically significant landscape on the campus."
**Fun Fact:** This grove is "one of the earliest planted hardwood groves on a Midwestern campus."
**Threat:** age and storm damage
Beginning: early 1920s
Location: along Jayhawk Boulevard, stretching from Snow Hall to the Memorial Union
JAYHAWK
BOULEVARD
ELM CANOPY
Fun Fact: Ken Armitage said he could stay dry when walking the length of Jayhawk Boulevard in the rain without an umbrella because of the elms.
Threat: Most of the elms died from Dutch Elm Disease by the late 1980s.
Significance: It is one of the most important corridors on campus and among one of the first landscaping plans from Hare and Hare.
POTTER LAKE
Beginning: 1910
Location: southwest of Memorial Stadium, west of Marvin Grove Significance: It was constructed as a fire suppressant and became a significant social spot on campu
came a significant social spot on campus.
Fun Fact: Jim Merrill said he remembered taking trays from the cafeterias and using them as sleds down the slope and onto the frozen lake.
Threat: accumulation of sediments, water run-off and age
PRAIRIE ACRE
**Beginning:** 1932
**Location:** Intersection of Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue
**Significance:**
According to the Heritage Plan, Prairie
Acre was "one of the first intentional prairie restorations on an American campus."
Fun Fact: Photographs of wagon ruts on the south side of the plot are thought to have belonged to covered wagons making their way West on the Oregon Trail. Threat: Invasive species
Source: Campus Heritage Plan
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