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Universities take steps to absorb funding cut By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
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THE NIGHT AWAY Photos by Mike Yoder ABOVE: A COUPLE DANCES TO AARON KAMM & THE ONE DROPS, from St. Louis, during the Lawrence Reggae Fest Friday night at the Granada. The event featured the legendary Wailers but was moved indoors because of the weather. RIGHT: Averie Shaw, 3, looks over a display of jewelry at the Lawrence Reggae Fest.
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magine the best part of the Renaissance Festival — turkey legs the size of a VW bus — coming to downtown Lawrence. Now imagine them being Jamaican jerk turkey legs, and that they are available late at night after partaking at a new reggae hangout. What am I talking about? Downtown
Topeka — As college students in Kansas get ready to start a new academic year next week, university administrators across the state are still figuring out how to absorb a $23.6 million cut to state universities that Gov. Sam Brownback ordered in May in order to balance the state budget. Although the This is a University of Kansas is taking continuation the largest hit of a process — a combined that’s been $10.7 million to going on for the Lawrence and KU Medical (the) last Center campus- couple of es — officials years. Anyone there still have not announced who’s watched how those cuts what’s will be allocat- happened ed, although an with the state announcement had been ex- budget the last pected by Fri- couple of years day. knows how At Kansas State University, things are. however, ad- — Lou Heldman, Wichita ministrators said State University spokesthey plan to cut man 3.85 percent of their spending across the board, even after raising tuition and fees this year. Jeff Morris, vice president of communications and marketing at K-State, said the decision about how to apply those cuts is being left to each individual school and department.
Lawrence is set to get a new Caribbean-themed restaurant and bar. Mike Logan, owner of the popular downtown concert venue The Granada, has told me he’s taken over the spot next door that previously housed the bar Fatso’s. Logan closed Fatso’s a couple of weeks ago
and is in the process of remaking the facility into Lucia Beer Garden plus Grill. Before we get too far, I don’t want you sounding like a landlubber: Lucia is pronounced Loo-sha, like the beautiful St. Lucia island in the Caribbean.
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Tenants begin moving into HERE apartments By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
After more than two days of waiting, some tenants of the HERE apartment complex have been allowed to move in, according to a statement
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from the developer of HERE Kansas. Ninety tenants are still waiting for their units to be approved for occupancy. The complex has now been issued a temporary occupancy permit for the building that excludes 90 bedrooms on floors seven and eight of the north
tower. City spokeswoman Megan Gilliland said those units were excluded because they are not yet complete. HERE hopes that the remaining units will be approved to be occupied by Tuesday or Wednesday, according to information pro-
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vided by JJ Smith, chief operating officer at CA Ventures, the developer for the project. The complex is located just north of the University of Kansas campus, where classes resume Monday.
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