Lawrence Journal-World 05-16-12

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Commission promises to discuss more details about project with public By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

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ARCHITECT FRANK GEHRY’S MODEL of the Eisenhower Memorial attracts viewers Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., before a meeting of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. Gehry proposed changes Tuesday to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial planned for a site near the National Mall after complaints from Eisenhower’s family, who had said the design focuses too much on Eisenhower’s humble Kansas roots, rather than his accomplishments. Gehry has proposed a memorial park that would be framed with large metal tapestries showing a Kansas landscape to evoke Eisenhower’s boyhood home in Abilene. At the center of the park, Gehry is replacing large images in stone reliefs with statues standing about 9 feet tall, showing Ike as a World War II hero and as president.

Lawrence city commissioners unanimously approved a major annexation request Tuesday that is expected to be a key cog in a plan to build a regional recreation sports complex in northwest Lawrence. But commissioners also said they understand the public wants more details about a possible public-private partnership for a recreation center, and said that such details would be coming soon. “If this project happens, it will be because Please see REC CENTER, page 5A

Plan would increase KU tuition by 4.9% By Andy Hyland

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Under the proposals, tuition and fees for resident undergraduates would increase at:

Emporia State, 6.5 percent.

Pittsburg State, 6.4 percent.

Kansas State University, 5.1 percent.

Fort Hays State, 3.7 percent.

Wichita State, 3.5 percent. Tuition and fees at KU Medical Center are proposed to increase by 7 percent, to $4,158, for a Kansas resident.

The cost of attending Kansas University and the other regents universities would increase next fall, according to proposals submitted to the Kansas Board of Regents. Incoming KU freshmen who are Kansas residents would pay an additional 4.9 percent in tuition and fees, taking the cost of a 15 credit hour semester at the university to $4,839. Tuition and fees for nonresident freshmen would increase by 5 percent, to $11,874. Most KU students pay tuition under a compact that guarantees their rate for four years. Transfer students

and students who stay longer than four years pay a different standard tuition rate. That rate, combined with required Vitter campus fees, is also proposed to increase by 4.9 percent for residents, to $4,443.75, and 6.7 percent for nonresidents, to $10,865. Jeff Vitter, KU provost and executive vice chancellor, said KU’s tuition proposal represented its lowest percentage increase since 1999-2000 (last year, it proposed a 5.5 percent increase). And KU was also trying to balance the impor-

Baker triple major is Oxford bound By Meagan Thomas

Baker University senior Will Duncan learned so much during his time as an undergraduate student. He learned to be a leader through the many organizations he joined. He learned to be an athlete while on the tennis team, and he learned that late nights studying in the library or practicing in

Owens Music Hall could have a big payoff. Duncan’s most important lesson, though, was the value of friendship with the people he comes in contact with every day. “I have learned that making friends is more important than competition,” Duncan said. Duncan, a triple major in math, music and internation-

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tance of moving forward with REDISTRICTING efforts to improve the university and keeping tuition as low as possible. Among KU’s AAU public university peers, Vitter said KU’s combination of revenue from tuition and the state placed it third from the bottom. “As a result, we don’t have the resources we need to do the things we want to do, especially as we try to raise the profile of the university,” he said. Susie LeGault of Emporia By Scott Rothschild is a parent of an incoming srothschild@ljworld.com freshman at KU. Her daughter, Emma, will enroll at KU TOPEKA — A Senate Republican caucus in the fall. “Being a part of what we meeting on Tuesday exploded into a war of words between conservatives and moderPlease see TUITION, page 2A ates over redistricting. At one point, state Sen. Tim Owens, a moderate Republican from Overland Park, who is chairman I don’t of the Senate redistricting committee, stormed out of need to sit the meeting, saying, “I don’t here and need to sit here and listen to listen to this this garbage.” garbage.” Meanwhile, conservatives demanded that Senate President Steve Morris, R- — State Sen. Tim Hugoton, and Senate Ma- Owens, R-Overland jority Leader Jay Emler, R- Park Meagan Thomas/Special to the Journal-World Lindsborg, be summoned WILL DUNCAN, who majored in to the meeting. “We’re in a political war,” said state Sen. math, music and international Susan Wagle, a conservative Republican from studies at Baker University, is headed to Oxford University for Wichita. She accused Morris and Emler of graduate studies Please see REPUBLICAN, page 2A

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al studies, has a competitive spark that is hard to snuff out. “I always had to be the best at whatever class I was taking or the best musician in the department,” Duncan said. “That’s fine, but the competition should happen within yourself. Just do the best that you can do and compete with yourself to be better.”

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