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Wabash developer causes uneasiness

By Erica Sagon
Asst. City Editor

The developer of the multimillion dollar Wabash Landing project is making a few local legislators uneasy with his delayed progress in getting leases signed and a recent bounced check.

West Lafayette city councilors Barbara Sparby, R-At Large, and Gerry Keen, R-5th District, are expressing concern over Wabash Landing's progress and Indianapolis-based developer Herman Renfro's recent financial mistake.

"If I was working on a multimillion dollar project and I didn't have enough money in my account to cover $2,400 … yes, I'd be concerned," Sparby said. "But the burden is now on the redevelopment department to make sure that Mr. Renfro is what he said he will be."

Renfro said the bounced check wasn't a big deal, and he hasn't received any criticism for what he said he feels is a small amount of money. Renfro issued the construction manager of Wabash Landing a blank check to pay for a building permit. He said that at the time, he did not know how much the building permit would cost.

The check, which was written for $2,400, bounced.

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Toni Morrison to visit Purdue

A Nobel Prize winner will visit Purdue in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Purdue libraries.

Toni Morrison, winner of a Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, will speak at 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 in the Elliott Hall of Music as the guest of Emily Mobley, dean of libraries. The lecture will be funded by an anonymous donation to the Purdue libraries.

"I am bubbling over with joy that a literary light of the stature of Toni Morrison is coming to Purdue and that a very generous anonymous donor shared my vision for this program," said Mobley. "We were looking for a contemporary writer who was a big name, who would be of interest not only to the University but the community at large."

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PSG clears ticket of 15 counts

In a less-than-brief trial, the Purdue Student Government court ruled that Jim Vaca and Patrick Mondi were cleared of 15 of the 18 counts of illegal campaigning filed against them.

Vaca, a junior in the School of Management, and Mondi, a junior in the School of Technology, will have 3 percent of their total vote subtracted from the final count adding to a 1 percent deduction from a previous trial, making the final percentage deduction 4.

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Loft Boys by Joel Lugar