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KU seeks modest budget increases
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3-lane plan for Kasold met with skepticism
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Funds requested for KU Med residencies, at-risk student service By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Wichita — After taking deep budget cuts for the current academic year, the University of Kansas and most other state universities are seeking only modest enhancements for the 2017-2018 academic year. Universities offered their initial requests during a Board of OF Regents bud- BOARD REGENTS get workshop in Wichita on Tuesday. “My most basic wish would be not to be cut,” KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said. “One of the most difficult things is to plan what you’re doing when you don’t know what your resources are.” KU included only two items in its list of proposed budget enhancements for next year: $1.3 million for enhanced education services that target at-risk, nontraditional students to help them succeed in their freshman year; and $5 million over two years to expand the KU Medical Center’s residency program in Wichita. Gray-Little said KU hopes to launch a program that has already been dubbed the “Jayhawk Success Academy,” which would mainly target incoming students with a combination of factors that may put them at risk of failing or dropping out. Those include first-generation college students who may come from lowerincome families and have less-than-stellar scores on college admission tests, and military veterans who have been away from an academic environment for some years and may need extra help making the transition back to school. “Those categories of students have a lower success rate,” she said. “We want to focus on those students.”
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VEHICLES PASS THROUGH THE INTERSECTION OF HARVARD ROAD, LEFT TO RIGHT, AND KASOLD DRIVE ON TUESDAY. The majority of the Lawrence City Commission’s members were skeptical at Tuesday night’s meeting of a reconstruction plan that would reduce Kasold Drive to three lanes.
Majority of commission opposes lane reduction
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It’s our job to represent the people who put us here, and with a 94 percent vote (in an informal poll) saying that they want that street kept as a four-lane road, that’s going to be where I tend to lend my vote.”
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The majority of the Lawrence City Commission’s members indicated they were not in favor of a reconstruction plan for a portion of Kasold Drive that could reduce the number of lanes when the street is rebuilt next year.
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VEHICLES EXIT AND PROCEED TOWARD THE INTERSECTION OF HARVARD ROAD AND WAKARUSA DRIVE ON TUESDAY. At Tuesday’s meeting, the City Commission also considered adding a roundabout at this intersection.
West Lawrence Dillons rolls out online ordering program
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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
he two most dangerous words on the internet: Buy now. When Amazon was created, my house ended up with a library, complete with lobby furniture. And one thing I can assure you is that my household likes food a lot better than we
like books, so I wonder what will happen now that a Lawrence Dillons store has become one of the few in the state that take online orders. Dillons has announced that its store at Sixth and Wakarusa has become the second in the state that is using
a new online ordering system called ClickList. Shoppers log onto dillons. com/clicklist and start perusing the approximately 40,000 grocery items on the website’s list. Shoppers then
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS RAPE LAWSUIT
Plaintiff’s attorney: Female athletes were ‘asked to be subservient’ By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
Before female athletes at the University of Kansas begin their academic careers they’re taught to submit to the school’s male athletes, according to a lawsuit
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filed against KU by Daisy Tackett, a former rower for KU. On Tuesday, Tackett’s attorney, Dan Curry, filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit claiming that KU failed to follow Title IX requirements forbidding gender-based
discrimination in education. Title IX also requires universities to work to prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence. The amended complaint was filed as a response to KU’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, said Curry, who represents Tackett.
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Tackett said her assault by a KU football player took place in fall 2014, and Sarah McClure, another rower, said she was attacked in August 2015 by the same man, who was expelled from KU last spring. “This is our client’s way of
saying there are more facts out there that support what they’re saying and want to make sure they’re on paper so everybody can see what they’re talking about,” Curry said.
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