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Get the facts on build sites, tax increases By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ATTEND A CLASS FRIDAY inside the School of Architecture’s recently completed lecture hall, the Forum. The auditorium, designed and constructed by the school’s Studio 804 architecture class, features exterior walls made of glass, a naturally ventilated facade using cedar louvers and a green wall of live plants.
KU School of Architecture holds first class in hall students designed By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
After years of architecture lecture classes all across Kansas University’s campus, Stephen McEnery was happy to sit in an inspiring space Friday, when the Forum at Marvin Hall
hosted its first lecing architecture.” ture. The Forum, an ad“We’ve had lecdition to Marvin Hall, tures in other, dunwas designed and geon-like spaces,” constructed by KU’s said McEnery, an ar2013-2014 Studio 804 KANSAS chitecture student. UNIVERSITY class, with help from “It’s exciting to be in this year’s class on fina lecture somewhere that ishing touches. Previously, reminds me why I’m study- Marvin Hall — home to the
school of Architecture, Design and Planning — did not have an auditorium. Lecture classes took place everywhere from the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium to Malott Hall, school spokesman Charles Linn
As the debate heats up over whether Lawrence residents should approve a new 0.2 percent sales tax to fund an approximately $28 million police headquarters, facts and figures and lots of things in between are starting to fly. Here’s our effort to do a little fact-checking on some of the more recent statements that have come from opponents and supporters of the project. l Some opponents have claimed the city is proposing to build the police headquarters on valuable farmland that should be protected. The specific assertion made at Tuesday’s police headquarters forum was that the 47-acre site near the Kansas Turnpike interchange on McDonald Drive was “100 percent” Class I and Class II soils. Those two soil types are specifically mentioned in city planning documents as being soils that should be protected from development, when feasible. After looking at U.S. Department of Agriculture soil maps at the USDA’s online Web Soil Survey site, it appears that statement is only partially true. There are no Class I soils on the site, according to the USDA data, but there is a small amount of Class II soils on the site. The detail of the online map makes it difficult to determine how much Class II soil is present on the site, but it appears to be less than 10 percent of
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30K expected to attend 57th Maple Leaf Festival By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @LJWorld
Only a few final details remained Friday in the yearly process of transforming Baldwin City from a quiet university town of about 5,000 to the host of an annual fall festival that draws crowds numbering from 30,000 to 40,000. Temporary no-parking signs lined streets in the old-town area, craft booth
sites had been marked, tents for entertainment and vendors pitched and rides of Toby’s Carnival assembled in the southern Douglas County city 4 miles east of the intersection of U.S. Highways 56 and 59. All that preparation pays off today and Sunday with the 57th annual
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Maple Leaf Festival. Although the carnival officially opened the festival Friday evening, the real action starts at 9 a.m. today when the arts and crafts booths and food vendors open for business. In past years, the festival’s peak
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has always followed the end of the Maple Leaf Festival Parade, with the theme this year of “Follow the Maple Leaf Road.” The parade, which starts at 11 a.m. at Second and High streets, travels east to Sixth Street, then north to Chapel Street, is expected to be about 45 minutes long. Those who want to enjoy the festival but want to avoid the peak crunch Please see MAPLE, page 2A
Medicare fight At forum, insurance commissioner candidates clash over compact that would put health care program’s funds under state’s control. Page 3A
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