Volume 126 Issue 70
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Monday, February 3, 2014
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These lots located on the west side of Lewis and Hashinger halls will be closed beginning March 16 for the construction of two new dorms that will replace McCollum Hall on Daisy Hill.
With two new dorms being built on Daisy Hill this spring, students can expect difficul-ty finding a parking spot. On April 18, Daisy Hill will under-go construction. For staff and students, this means parking lots 102 and 103 will be closed beginning March 16. Tese lots are located on the west side o Lewis and Hashinger halls. Student Housing encourages students living on Daisy Hill to leave their cars at home a-ter spring break. I that is not an option, they suggest looking into other parking permit op-tions. Diana Robertson, director o Student Housing, said the two dorms will undergo construc-tion at the same time along with the construction o an ad- joining commons building.Te first sign o construction began on Jan. 22 with core drill-ing in parking lots 102 and 103. Student Housing said these drilling samples allowed archi-tects and engineers to set the depth o ooting or the build-ings.Te new dorms will each be in an “L” shape with the com-mons building connecting the two dorms. Engel Road, cur-rently in the ront o Lewis and Hashinger halls, will be moved to wrap around the west side o the new dorms. Te current Engel Road and the two park-ing lots to the west o Lewis and Hashinger halls will become a grassy quad area.“We had a consultant that we hired in the spring o ‘11 when the study was conducted to help us analyze the current conditions o McCollum Hall, whether to renovate or build new,” Robertson said.Constructing new would be less expensive than renovating McCollum Hall, Robertson said. She also added that the consultants spoke to students, and they decided to build two new dorms instead o one be-cause students want smaller liv-ing environments to give them a better sense o community within their dorms.Te two dorms, costing $47.8 million, are expected to be done July 2015. Afer the dorms are built, McCollum Hall will be
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This map shows future designs of the two L-shaped dorms that will replace McCollum Hall on Daisy Hill.
STATE
Bill provides convenience, challenges locally owned liquor stores
TOM DEHART
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A bill that was recently intro-duced into the Kansas legisla-ture may give grocery stores the ability to sell wine, spirits and other alcoholic beverages beyond just 3.2 percent beer. Te bill was introduced on Jan. 29, and was sponsored by Uncork Kansas, a movement that wants to allow Kansans the opportunity to buy their groceries and liquor all in one place, instead o making sep-arate trips to both locations. According to the movement’s website, Uncork Kansas in-tends to promote convenience or consumers and to also provide a boost to the Kansas economy. Similar legislation was also recently adopted in the state o ennessee that will allow them to incorporate wine in grocery stores. According to Uncork Kansas’ website, “lifing government restrictions on retail liquor sales” will attract new business and “stimulate ree enterprise and competition.” It will also stop money going to border states and will cut back on extraneous government regu-lations.Aside rom providing con- venience and stimulating the economy, ara Jo Brown, the Store Director o the Hy-Vee located at 3504 Clinton Park-way said it will also enhance the grocery shopping expe-rience or those who want to pair their oods with their al-cohol.“It’s nice or us as well because Hy-Vee is pretty big into culi-nary experience and a portion o that has to do with the al-cohol and beverage industry,” Brown said. He also said that the bill would provide a signi-icant level o convenience or grocery shoppers. Te bill would prevent new liquor licenses rom being pur-chased between the summer o 2015 to the summer o 2024. During that time, however, it would also allow grocery re-tailers like Brown to attempt to buy a liquor license rom an independently owned liquor store. More loosely restricted licenses will be available to purchase rom the state Alco-hol Beverage Control division or grocery stores to gradual-ly incorporate beer, wine and spirits into retailer’s grocery store locations up until July 2024. Jason Schmidtberger, the
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Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, discusses his bill to allow supermarket wine sales in Tennessee on Thursday, Jan 30. A similiar bill has been proposed in Kansas that will allow wine and liquor sales inside supermarkets.
Construction of two new dorms begins on Daisy Hill
In April, the 2014 student elections will be held and students should be expecting things to be a little different than in the past. New amend-ments were added to the elec-tions code during this last school year, bringing about a few changes.Student Body President Mar-cus etwiler has announced Ad Astra’s plan for the upcom-ing election.“Ad Astra will not be run-ning. We said from the be-ginning that the last thing we wanted was Ad Astra to be-come KUnited,” etwiler said. “So we won’t be participating in the election, we have no skin in the game, and the name will not be used.”Jessie Pringle, a former mem-ber of the KUnited coalition, has also declared that KUnit-ed will not be running in this years election. “KUnited is no longer a func-tioning coalition on campus,” Pringle said. “Tere will be no party that is affiliated with the name or the ideals of KUnit-ed.” One big change that will be put into effect this election season is the addition of cau-cuses. For those who don’t know, a caucus is the gathering of members of a party in which they choose the candidate that they wish to nominate for the election. Students can create a coalition or they can caucus for any additional coalitions that come forward.Te Ad Astra coalition cam-paigned that they were going to abolish coalitions. When they couldn’t get a two-thirds vote in the Stu-dent Senate, the caucuses were added into the elections.“It is going to be a completely transparent process,” etwiler said.Also in the new elections code, the Elections Committee will hold informational meet-ings so that any student who is interested can come and find out what the elections are all about and how they can get involved. Once the Union fi-nalizes the rooms, the dates for these will be released.etwiler said that these new changes give any student the opportunity to participate and be a part of student govern-ment.“I urge as many students that are interested in doing it to stick their foot in the race and to play the game,” etwiler said.A “kill switch” was also writ-ten into the new elections code. If the Elections Commit-tee sees a need to amend any-thing new that was written in, they have the power to do so.“We think we have a quality product at the end but there are a few things that as we change, we kind of forgot that something that we had passed earlier would be affected by this new change,” Executive Chief of Staff yler Childress said. Minor changes that were also added include things like when, where and how students can chalk on campus to pro-mote their collations or cau-cus. “We had limited chalking to just right before the election but the caucusing happens outside of that timeframe with chalking,” Childress said. “So the Elections Commission came forward with the full senate and wanted to allow 48 hours of chalking before a caucus event but it can only be about the caucus. Tat passed, so that was something that was added.”For any more information about these changes or how to get involved with Student Senate, feel free to stop by the Student Senate offices in the Kansas Union or email sen-ate@ku.edu.
— Edited by Callan Reilly
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Caucuses are being introduced.Elections Committee to hold informational meetings for students interested in running for positions.Tetwiler announces thatAd Astra will be dissolved after term is over.Election Changes
torn down making room for a parking lot. “We’ll probably still be finishing parking as the school year begins in the fall of ’15,” Robertson said. “But, I would guess by mid-fall for sure that all the parking would be com-pleted.”While the new dorms will provide students with more housing options, not everyone is excited about the construction that will take place over the course of the next few months."[Te new dorm con-struction] is due to make parking for residents of Hashinger and Lewis a total inconvenience by removing both of their designated parking lots," said freshman Riley Brown from Olathe. "I am curious to what the University will do in regards to refunding their parking permits,since Hashinger and Lewis res-idents will not be able to park in their original lots."For any questions about parking, please contact the KU Parking Department at (785) 864-PARK or online at parking.ku.edu
— Edited by Sarah Kramer
HOUSING FROM PAGE 1
Te University received a $775,000 grant from the De-partment of Defense for for-eign language instruction for military personnel.With the grant, the Univer-sity will now provide language instruction for the U.S. Army at Te Command and General Staff College at Fort Leaven-worth and the Marines at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.Te grant will pay for the de-velopment of the foreign lan-guage curricula, the instruc-tors and the tuition costs for military personnel.“We have a role that the men and women who are out de-fending the country are the best educated, are the most culturally-astute they can be, and we take a lot of pride in that role,” said Mike Denning, director of graduate military programs. Denning also said the Uni-versity is one of nine public institutions that currently have DoD-funded language instruction.“In the future, DoD will con-tinue to look at the University of Kansas as one of the leading institutes that provide foreign language to the military,” Den-ning said. “As far as civilian universities, we are definitely on the leading edge.”Te University already has a tradition of educating military personnel from Fort Leaven-worth in Lawrence. But now with this program, on-site learning will include online in-struction and in-class instruc-tors at the military bases.Tis relationship has been growing stronger over recent years as military holds high value on the University’s ed-ucation, said Megan Greene, director of the Center for East Asian Studies. She was one of the principal investigators who helped create the curricula for the military. Te close partnership and the quality of education Kansas of-fers as a public university were key reasons the University re-ceived the grant, Greene said. “Because we are a public in-stitution, it’s a good value from the dollars in the defense per-spective,” Denning said. “But it really comes down to the quality of the program and the quality of instruction we are providing here at KU. We could be the cheapest univer-sity in the nation and we could have the best relationship with the military, but if the edu-cational quality wasn’t there, they would never look at us.”Te University offers cours-es on 40 different foreign lan-guages, more than any other university in Kansas.“Most institutions teach many fewer than we do and that’s one of the things that makes KU more special,” Greene said. “I think increas-ingly people outside of Kan-sas and inside of Kansas are becoming aware of this great strength the University has. It makes sense KU would be a language training site.”Te University’s foreign lan-guage program is precisely what drew future Marine Nick Morrison, a freshman from Austin, exas, to the Univer-sity. Morrison, who wanted to get a college degree before service, had only two require-ments in looking for college: a naval ROC, which offers a Marine option, and a Kiswahili language course. “Tat definitely narrowed down my options to four schools, so that was definitely a big part of why I applied to KU,” Morrison said.Kiswahili is the most-spoken African language. With this language skill, Morrison has the potential to work in many different places.“Te military has different commands over different parts of the world,” Morrison said. “In 2009 the government cre-ated Africom, which monitors situation and does human-itarian assistance in Africa. Perhaps I’ll be assigned to an embassy in Kenya or anza-nia and my language skills can come into use there. At this point, I’m only a freshman, I don’t know where I’ll end up, but having the language skill is very useful.”With military bases and embassies all over the world, language skills and cultural awareness is critical for the U.S. Armed Forces. “Most of the time, much of their roles have nothing to do with fighting the nation’s battle,” Denning said. “A lot of what they do is trying to prevent that from occurring and they do that by day-to-day engagement with the local populace. So it’s really critical to the success of the mission that they understand the cul-tural norms in the country as well as the language to be able to communicate.”
— Edited by Chelsea Mies
Kansas played its first men’s basketball game ever 115 years ago today. It was against the KC YMCA and Kansas lost 16-5.
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Grant provides military language instruction
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YU KYUNG LEE
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KU instructors provide Arabic, French, Japanese, German, Spanish and Russian courses at the military bases.$775,000 grant pays for the development of the curricula, lan-guage instructors and the tuition costs for military personnel.Special Operations Officers are required to maintain at least an intermediate level of language skills throughout their career.Grant Breakdown
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The University received national funding as a military language training center. The funding will provide military personnel with a variety of foreign language options.
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“In the future, DoD will continue to look at the University of Kansas as one of the leading institutes that provide foreign language to the military.”MIKE DENNINGDirector of graduatemilitary programs
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