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KU calls to suspend social media policy governance bodies at other Kansas universities, urging the regents to nix the policy More Kansas University while a work group created faculty and staff have called by the regents reviews it. on the Kansas The resolution, which Board of Restates that the social megents to susdia policy “infringes on pend a controthe right to freedom of versial social expression� and “conflicts media policy with essential principles of passed last De- BOARD OF academic freedom,� passed REGENTS cember. unanimously. The UniverAt the Senate meeting, sity Senate approved a resoPlease see POLICY, page 6A lution, already adopted by By Ben Unglesbee
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LAWRENCE POLICE OFFICER BRETT HORNER PICKS HIS WAY THROUGH the damaged interior of Big G’s Antiques, 547 Indiana St., Thursday afternoon after a car crashed through the front of the building at Sixth and Indiana streets. The extent of the damage is not yet known.
School funding link to performance debated
Medical problem causes man to crash car into antique store By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
Art Gfeller peered out a window of his home Thursday afternoon to see if the large snowbank that had blocked the entrance of his Big G’s Antiques store at 547 Indiana St. had been cleared. Upon first look, he said, he thought his store was fit for reopening after several days of inclement weather. A closer look, however, revealed smoke billowing out of the gaping hole that was once a double-door entrance, a Cadillac stuck inside and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews and po-
lice pulling up to the scene. Fire Medical Division Chief Eve Tolefree said that the Cadillac’s driver had a medical problem while driving westbound on West Sixth Street, causing him to hit a snowbank and careen through the store’s entrance just before 12:40 p.m. The driver, a 65-year-old Lawrence man whose name was not released on Thursday, was first taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, Tolefree said. The extent of the man’s injuries and what condition caused him to crash was not released Thursday, but Sgt. Trent
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McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said the man was transported to a Kansas City-area hospital later Thursday afternoon. Heavy smoke was initially seen after the crash, but Tolefree said no fire was present. Instead, she said, the smoke was caused by the driver “burning rubber� as his foot remained on the accelerator after crashing into the store. Traffic in both directions on Sixth Street near the store was reduced to one lane as crews worked the scene. The Cadillac was eventually towed away by Please see CRASH, page 6A
that, overall, Kansas ranks high compared with other states in student performance in reading and math. Last year, for example, she noted that Kansas ranked 11th in the nation in fourthgrade math SCHOOLS scores and 12th in the nation in eighth-grade math. And since 2003, she noted, Kansas has reduced the percentage of students scoring “below basic� on those tests while increasing the
Topeka — The state’s top education official and the leader of a conservative think tank gave opposing views Thursday about how well Kansas schools are performing and whether there is any connection between performance and the funding schools receive. Kansas Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker and Kansas Policy Institute president Dave Trabert testified side by side before a joint meeting of the Kansas House and Senate education committees. Please see LINK, page 7A DeBacker pointed to scores from the National Assessment of Educational l More legislative Progress, or NAEP, to show coverage on page 7A.
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