Seats still available for presidential lecture

Tickets are still available for tonight’s installment of the Presidential Lecture Series.

Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, will speak at 8 p.m. at the Lied Center. His address is titled “Presidential Leadership.”

A familiar face on “ABC News” and “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer,” Beschloss recently published “The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany 1941-1945.”

The lecture is sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics and is free and open to the public, but ticket vouchers are required. Vouchers are available through all KU ticket outlets, Student Union Activities and the Lied Center box office. Seating is limited.

Historian David McCullough will complete the series with an address at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Lied Center.

County to consider lease for Baldwin office

Douglas County commissioners are considering extending the county’s lease for a satellite Treasurer’s Office in Baldwin.

The lease for space at 813 Eighth St. will be up for approval at 9 a.m. Monday at the county courthouse, 1100 Mass. The lease would run through April 2005.

Commissioners also are scheduled to:

• Consider posting a temporary speed limit for a construction zone along County Road 1061.
• Discuss potential floodplain regulations with Jane Bateman, representing a floodplain-regulation subcommittee of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
• Consider approving the planning commission’s proposed definition for “undue hardship” in the joint city-county subdivision regulations.
• Agree to buy fuel from Capital City Oil.
• Agree to have staffers negotiate a contract with Tallgrass Technologies for providing a storage area network for data.
• Discuss the county’s capital improvement budget.

KU sets final exams

Kansas University has announced the following final examinations:

• Christopher Andrew Sheil, ecology and evolutionary biology, “Skeletal Development in Turtles: Patterns of Ossification through Ontogeny in Apalone spinifera, Chelydra serpentina, Macroclemys temminckii and Eretmochelys imbricata (Reptilia: Testudinata),” 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, 1005 Haworth.
• Steven Lindauer, human development and family life, “The Relationship Between Preferences Identified During Single-stimulus, Paired-stimulus and Multiple-stimulus Without Replacement Preference Assessment Procedures and Reinforcer Potency,” 11:30 a.m. Nov. 21, 4070 Dole.
• Brian Lobo, pharmaceutical chemistry, “Biocalorimetry of Nonviral Gene Delivery Vectors,” 1 p.m. Nov. 25, Simons Auditorium.

Kansas Water Authority plans meeting in Fort Scott

The Kansas Water Authority will have its quarterly meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Fort Scott.

Committee meetings will be at 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Winfield, Fort Scott and Trails End rooms of the Best Western, 101 State St., Fort Scott. The full authority will convene at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Winfield Scott Room of the hotel, where it will receive reports from the Kansas Water Office and from the committee meetings that took place the day before and conduct other business.

An agenda and other details of the meeting are available from the Kansas Water Office, (785) 296-3185 or 1 (888) KAN-WATER.