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By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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NED KEHDE, A LONGTIME LAWRENCE RESIDENT, FISHES at Clinton Lake on a recent morning. Kehde spends up to four days a week fishing area lakes within 75 miles of the city and blogs most days for the website of In-Fisherman, a national publication.
Lawrence angler an advocate for state’s fisheries, healthy lifestyle By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com
Within the spiralbound pages of a blue book rest the inkscrawled details of nearly every fishing trip Ned Kehde has taken in the past decade. Number of fish caught, on what bait they were lured, the day’s weather — it’s all there, down to the minutes spent on one of the dozens of lakes into which Kehde, a 73-year-old retired Lawrence resident, dips his 2003 Yukon 165 Alumacraft. This notebook entry sums up 2010: 127 fishing trips, 509 total hours fishing, 557 bass caught. On the day Kehde ri-
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It’s like falling in love. There’s no way to describe it.” — Ned Kehde, talking about fishing fled through the book’s pages in front of a visitor at his kitchen table, out-of-town commitments had precluded him from fishing for almost a week. Kehde was getting ready for another trip to an area lake while continuing to file blog entries for the national website InFisherman. “It’s like falling in love,” he said about the fishing bug. “There’s no way to describe it.”
But Kehde worries that the story of angling in Kansas is going untold. From just how good fishermen have it at some of the state’s lakes to worrisome ecological changes, Kehde has sought to document this story for audiences both inside and outside the state. Kehde grew up not far from the Lake of the Ozarks in Sedalia, Mo., before coming to Kansas University to study history and, later, getting his master’s degree at the University of Missouri. He returned to Lawrence in 1970 and worked as KU’s archivist until his retirement in 2003. There, he met and later married Patty
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Kehde, who worked for KU’s library and eventually co-founded The Raven bookstore. By 15, Kehde was serving as a fishing guide for anglers in the Ozarks as well as up in Nisswa, Minn., where his family had long vacationed. Upon retirement, Kehde’s hobby became a full-time craft. That craft became a new subject that needed archiving. Kehde began taking more prolific notes after his 2003 retirement, his observations and experiences becoming fodder for Journal-World columns years before becoming the same for In-Fisherman. Please see ANGLER, page 2A
A leader with the Indian tribe that bought nearly 90 acres of prime North Lawrence property said he fully expects the tribe to have a public meeting with the Lawrence community once plans for the land become more refined. “For everyone who is anxious on specifics, we aren’t prepared to give them because we don’t
have them to give,” said Curtis Zunigha, tribal operations manager for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, based in Bartlesville, Okla. In the meantime, Zunigha is asking Lawrencearea residents to be patient and not let their imaginations run wild with ideas about an Indian casino. “Speculation and rumor are the biggest killers in the spirit of any organization or community,” Please see TRIBE, page 2A
Policy protected KU professor from being fired ———
Several state lawmakers calling for Guth’s termination By Scott Rothschild and Ben Unglesbee srothschild@ljworld.com; bunglesbee@ljworld.com
Several high-ranking legislators have called on Kansas University to fire journalism professor David Guth over his angry social media comment directed at the National Rifle Association. But as long as Guth separated his social media post from his position as a public employee, there
is little KU can do about it, according to state employee policy. “Under state policy, if you are Guth going to speak out on an issue, you have to make clear you are doing so as a private citizen and not in the capacity of a state employee,” said Please see GUTH, page 2A
KU students building long-awaited addition to Marvin Hall Studio 804 workshop designing lecture hall, commons area By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
An academic building without a lecture hall on a college campus is a little bit like a police station without a holding tank. It just doesn’t seem to fit the mold. But Kansas University’s Marvin Hall, which houses the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, has been without a central lecture hall and large social gathering space for its entire 100-plus-year life. Now, a team of KU students is at
work with shovels and hard hats to change that. The architecture school’s Studio 804, a yearlong workshop that puts KU students to work designing and building new structures, has begun work on an addition that will act as a 120-seat lecture hall and commons area. The students worked to design and plan the structure and will labor through the entire construction process, expected to last until next summer. Students started initial construction work during KU’s fall break earlier this month. The project be-
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gan with the demolition of Builder’s Yard, a steel and concrete structure behind Marvin used for research and fabrication until the school acquired a new 70,000-foot warehouse in the East Hills Business Park. Renee Brune, a KU architecture student in the Studio 804 class, said she and her cohorts were smashing the wall around Builder’s Yard with sledgehammers until they were able to push it over by hand. Day one of demolition was really fun, Brune said. The Photo Courtesy of Kansas University
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THE INTERIOR OF THE NEW STUDIO 804 PROJECT, dubbed “The Forum at Marvin,” will be Marvin Hall’s first commons area and lecture hall.
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