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Voting rights groups sue Kansas

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — A pair of nonprofit organizations working to encourage voting by mail Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of a new Kansas law banning out-ofstate entities from sending advance mail ballot applications to voters in the state.

VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center, which are represented in U.S. District Court by the Campaign Legal Center, asserted the reforms in Kansas restricted political speech and activity in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and conflicted with the commerce clause.

Kansas lawmakers crimi-

Three die in boating accident BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A mother and two young children died Saturday in a boating accident that also hospitalized the father, Kansas state game wardens said.

The accident happened on the Neosho River in the area of the Burlington City Dam around 6:30 p.m., according to the Kansas City Star.

The family of two adults and two children were boating on the river when their vessel stalled in rapid, aerated water near the low-head dam. The operator lost control and everyone was thrown out of the boat.

Rescue crews saved a man from Shawnee and took him to Burlington Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

One woman, identified as Maribel Moran, and the couple’s 3-year-old and 5-year-old children, were found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the hospital.

State officials are investigating.

A pair of nonprofit organizations supportive of advance mail voting filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Kansas’ new restrictions on the process of acquiring an advance ballot.

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nalized mailing of advance mail ballot applications that were personalized with the

voter’s name, address and other information — even if the prospective voter provid-

ed the information and requested an application.

Changes at the root of the case were part of House Bill 2332, which was vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly but upheld when the Republican-led 2021 Legislature voted to override the Democratic governor. Defendants in the suit are Secretary of State Scott Schwab, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Johnson County District Attorney Stephen Howe.

Debra Cleaver, VoteAmerica founder and chief executive officer, said record turnout in the 2020 elections, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrated the public’s desire to make use of advance balloting. The Kansas See LAWSUIT | Page A4

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Searching for the ghost of ‘big tree’

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

A single tree was standing.

Tall grass was swaying in the wind as Isaac Reeve led his rented horse across the expanse of southern Anderson County.

He’d set out from Colony around 1873, searching for a place to settle, and would go on to buy much of the land where Lone Elm sits today.

The price was only about $2 per acre.

Having established himself, around 1879 Reeve then fetched his new wife Hannah Winters from Pennsylvania, and soon after established a post office in a cabin on their farm just southwest of the future townsite.

IN 1885-86, when the St. Louis and Emporia railroad was slated to cross their land, the Reeves made a plot for a town that they, naturally enough, named “Reeve.”

Reeve also absorbed folks and their houses from a small settlement nearby called Equity, to the northeast, which spurred additional growth.

The name of “Reeve” was not to last, however, for when the post office was moved in

Westin Holloway stands by the remnants of a wall on what was originally the farm of Isaac Reeve, founder of Lone Elm. (REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG) town from the cabin on the Reeve farm in ‘86, the town’s name was changed to Lone Elm. As for the name itself, according to resident Gary Holloway, “how it got that name, I really can’t verify any of it. But I was always under

the impression that south of Lone Elm, [where] there was a big bridge and some timber there on the east side … I was under the impression there was an elm tree off by itself in there.”

“Supposedly the tree was never in town.”

“Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know,” he added, but I must admit that the story of this legendary ghost tree still strangely fascinates.

Perhaps that’s because the See LONE ELM | Page A4

Kansas universities asked to report race theory courses

By J. SHORMAN and KATIE BERNARD Kansas City Star (TNS)

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents, in response to a question from a state senator, is asking its universities to produce a list of courses that include critical race theory, an academic concept that has become a target of Republicans across the country.

The request went to all six universities — including the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University — but became public after screenshots of an email seeking the information at Pittsburg State Uni-

versity were posted online.

The request was made by Sen. Brenda Dietrich, a Topeka Republican, said Matt Keith, a spokesman for the regents. Dietrich told The Star she isn’t concerned about CRT in Kansas schools but wanted more information for constituents.

Dietrich said she contacted KBOR President and CEO Blake Flanders, who lives in her district, seeking general information on critical race theory in colleges because she was unable to fully answer constituent emails on the topic.

“I think that’s really one of the most important things

we do as legislators: we find out information and we pass it on to our constituents. I think we have an obligation to make sure it’s accurate,” Dietrich said.

Dietrich, a former superintendent of Auburn Washburn USD 437, is one of the more moderate GOP senators. In 2020, she defeated hard-right Sen. Eric Rucker in the primary.

Prior to receiving constituent emails last month, Dietrich said, she wasn’t aware that critical race theory had become a political discussion. She said she reached out See COURSES | Page A4

Fraser Hall at the University of Kansas. The Kansas Board of Regents is asking its universities to produce a list of courses that include critical race theory.

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Obituary Marjorie Klimek Marjorie L. Klimek, age 101, passed away Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at Moran Manor in Moran.

Marjorie was born to LaMoyne and Bessie (Smith) Knapp on Jan. 5, 1920, in Allen County.

She was one of seven children.

Marjorie married Lloyd DeWain Klimek on Aug. 29, 1937 in Garnett. Their union was blessed with three children. Lloyd and Marjorie spent many years to- Marjorie gether before his passing. After Klimek Lloyd’s passing, Majorie later found companionship in Dan Arbuckle. Marjorie worked various jobs throughout the years, finishing her career as a cook in the cafeteria at Moran High School.

Marjorie loved cooking, dancing, and traveling. She took great pride in preparing and hosting holiday meals for her entire family.

Marjorie was known for her sassy, fun, and determined personality. She always told her family she was going to live to be 100 and she sure kept her word.She is already greatly missed by her family and friends.

Marjorie is preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Klimek; parents, LaMoyne and Bessie Knapp; daughter, Linda Lorene Cross; granddaughter, Colleen Ziesler; grandsons, Brian McDermed and Mike Troxell; four sisters; one brother; and companion, Dan Arbuckle.

Marjorie is survived by daughters, Mary Ann Troxell, and Norma Jean McDermed (Robert); sister, Lorene Likely; son-in-law, Isaac Cross; grandchildren, Bobby Ray McDermed (Carolyn), Darren McDermed (Patty), Troy McDermed (Dominique), Ronald Dale Troxell (Theresa), Sharon Troxell, Gregory Lee Scharff (Teresa), Teresa Kaye Benard (Chris), and Taylor Scharff; many great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren; and numerous other family members and friends.

Family will greet friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday in The Venue at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. A graveside service is at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Moran Cemetery in Moran.

Memorials are suggested to A.C.A.R.F. of LaHarpe, and may be left with the funeral home or mailed to 1883 U.S. Highway 54, Iola, KS 66749.

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Assistant county attorney facing disbarment

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Allen County will need to find a new assistant county attorney, after a three-attorney panel unanimously recommended the Kansas Supreme Court disbar Jacqie Spradling for knowingly making false statements to juries during two high-profile trials and for misleading claims about her prosecutorial misconduct to justices of the state’s highest court.

Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway said Friday evening that Spradling no longer works for the county.

Spradling, who also worked as an attorney for Bourbon County, landed before the disciplinary panel after the Supreme Court overturned the 2012 double-homicide conviction of Dana Chandler in Shawnee County and the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned a 2017 guilty verdict against Jacob Ewing in a sexcrime case in Jackson County. Spradling was lead prosecutor in both cases.

Chandler is awaiting retrial for first-degree murder, while Ewing accepted a plea deal in May to avoid another trial.

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In addition, the panel determined Spradling’s handling of the two criminal cases “undermines the confidence in the judicial system and caused serious injury to the administration of justice.”

Members of the Supreme Court, which hold final authority in disciplinary cases in-

Jacqie Spradling rious misconduct and the serious injury that followed, the hearing panel unanimously recommends that the respondent be disbarred,” the report submitted to the Supreme Court said.

“From all the evidence presented, it appears that the respondent concluded that Chandler and Ewing were guilty of the crimes charged and she adopted a ‘winat-all-costs’ approach.”

The report obtained Friday by the Kansas Reflector was submitted by panelists John Larson, Darcy Williamson and William Jeter for consideration by the Supreme Court. The panel said the issue wasn’t that Spradling engaged in an isolated incident or made an inconsequential mistake in the heat of trial. The panel said Spradling “knowingly and intentionally” engaged in a “deliberative pattern of serious misconduct.”

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volving attorneys, will issue a decision based on the panel’s 78-page report.

The state disciplinary administrator’s office in Kansas that investigated complaints about Spradling’s behavior as a prosecutor proposed that her license to practice law be indefinitely suspended.

Around Town Community Calendar

Events may be canceled, postponed or modified because of the coronavirus crisis. Check with organizers.

MONDAY — Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

— Iola Public Library board meeting, 5:30 p.m., Iola Public Library.

TUESDAY — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Townhouse West.

— Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m., ACC student center.

— Gas City Council meeting, 6 p.m., City Hall.

— American Legion Post No. 15, 7:30 p.m., 215 W. Garfield.

WEDNESDAY — Moran Public Library meeting, 6 p.m., Moran Public Library — Jones Hardy American Legion Post No. 385, 7 p.m., Post Home, Moran.

— LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

— Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

THURSDAY — Rotary Club, noon.

— TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

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FRIDAY — Bingo, early bird games, 6:30 p.m., regular bingo, 7 p.m., Willis J. Ross VFW Post, 205 E. U.S. 54, LaHarpe.

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Letter to the editor Dear editor,

We are supposed to learn from history. It is a shame so many important aspects of our history have been omitted because someone might get “upset” or “offended” by some aspect of history.

No matter how ugly or shameful an aspect of history might be, it is important that every aspect be taught so we can learn and understand. It wasn’t until I was in college history classes that I began to learn about some of the atrocities committed in the past: the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans whose only crime was their ethnicity, the senseless destruction of prosperous black American communities by vicious mobs, the genocide of Native Americans, the harassment and mistreatment of German and Italian-Americans because of their ethnicity during both World Wars because many still spoke their own language. The teaching of German in some states was even out-lawed. These idiotic acts of violence and cruelty are very much akin to the seeds that gave roots to the Holocaust.

It was only a few years back I learned of the vicious, cruel destruction and murder in Tulsa. As any sane person would be, I was sickened by

this wanton act of mob violence. Even in the college courses, this particular tragedy was not covered. We were led to believe these types of vile, nasty acts only occurred in the Deep South or the acts elsewhere in the U.S. were largely marginalized.

As unpleasant as it is, these acts of hatred need to be taught so we don’t allow the seeds of this hatred to take root again. When people speak of the Holocaust, they say, “Never again.” That’s why the Holocaust can never be erased from history books.

Students must learn about it and similar acts in our own country so that we can say, “Never again.”

While students must learn about these vile acts of the past, there is no call for trying to shame individuals for being the ethnicity or color they are because of something done by people of their ethnicity or color in the past. Educating students about all U.S. history is the key to preventing future destructive acts. If only people would listen to what the great leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., said about the future in his “I Have a Dream” speech: Judge people by who they are, by their character — and not their color or ethnicity.

R.W. Lamb, Iola, Kan.

Manufacturing a crisis

By PATRICK MILLER Insight Kansas

From DC to Kansas, culture war issues are topping the conservative agenda. Many conservatives are advocating restricting speech in schools to ban something called “critical race theory” (CRT).

CRT isn’t a theory like, say, the theory of gravity that has clear rules and equations.

Rather, it’s more like a perspective. Oversimplified, it means thinking about how race matters in law, society, and institutions, often in ways that promote racial inequality.

For example, Black families generally have less inherited wealth than White families. CRT might encourage considering how slavery and segregation limited economic opportunities for Blacks over generations, contributing to a racial wealth gap today.

That’s it. You don’t need a fancy academic label like “CRT” to think about how race matters in America.

CRT is not diversity or racial sensitivity training. It doesn’t regulate speech, require supporting reparations, or say that racism explains everything. Of course, like any idea, some people use CRT to voice controversial opinions, and that gets cherry picked for dramatic political arguments.

Conservatives are using coordinated language to attack CRT as some big boogeyman, calling it anti-American, anti-White, socialist, unpatriotic, anti-individualism, divisive, etcetera.

But conservatives have largely manufactured this CRT controversy as “outrage of the day” political fodder.

Yes, schools teach and talk about race. But overwhelmingly, schools don’t teach CRT. THE REAL IMPACT of this controversy is on freedom of speech in schools — whether and how students are exposed to discussions of race. In some states, conservatives have outlawed or attempted to outlaw CRT in schools. The Kansas Attorney General has also joined a letter that some inter-

pret as anti-CRT. It’s harder for conservatives to ban CRT than you’d think.

Since CRT is just a perspective, it’s often difficult to identify and censor.

For example, under these proposed speech codes, schools can teach that slavery happened. But you can’t control reactions to that. Maybe a parent or politician feels that a lesson about slavery implied something imperfect about America. Or maybe that lesson included the opinion of a Black person about what slavery means to them, and that upset some folks. Under the varied regulations that conservatives are promoting in states to ban CRT, that lesson can be interpreted as breaking the law because of how it made someone feel. Hello, lawsuit.

Critical thinking about race also gets dangerous. Under these new regulations, discussing race and criminal justice in a social studies class gets borderline criminal depending upon who expressed what opinion and how that conversation was interpreted.

Teachers in some states are telling reporters they would rather avoid discussing race than risk breaking new speech laws. Thus, in censoring how race gets discussed, conservatives are pressuring educators to just ignore the topic.

If you’re wondering why the mass conniption about something that overwhelmingly isn’t in school curricula, politics is the answer. Some consultant probably distributed a memo on how to blow this issue up and agitate some chunk of voters.

Especially with conservatives attacking how social media companies regulate speech on privately-owned platforms, it’s ironic that many of them advocate using government power to censor discussions about race in schools. If this manufactured crisis comes to Kansas and our 2022 elections, it will be to the detriment of not just free speech and schools, but the many issues that politicians will be neglecting.

The owners of Lawrence’s RPG, from left, Meghan Morsches, Nate Morsches, Matt Pool and Betsy Pool. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Pub forced to find new business model CJ Janovy

Here’s a story of some programs helped them keep Kansans who opened a paying $15 an hour. The four restaurant six months beoriginal partners also sold fore the pandemic, lost the some of their equity and majority of their revenue brought on more investors. and still decided to pay work- Kansas They also let customers ers $15 an hour. know they were doing away Reflector Like so many real-life panwith tips and going instead demic survival stories, it’s with a flat, 15% “hospitality more complicated than all get paid. At first, they paid fee.” At first that didn’t make the recent political rhetoric their 25 employees “nor- up for the losses, but over mal restaurant wages,” the last couple of months, as about workforce and wages.

In fact, the story of Law- Morsches says. business came back quickly, Then came the shutdown it’s made $15 an hour susrence’s RPG (Restaurant, Pub & Games) goes all the of March 2020. Like restau- tainable, Morsches says. rants everywhere, they startway back to the 1940s.

“It’s a livable wage,” Nate Morsches, one of ed back up with carryout.

Morsches says. “We want to “When we opened up for take care of our people.” four co-owners, was inspired by his grandfather, Patricio curbside, we realized: No But there was another reaPascua, who grew up in the one’s tipping,” Morsches re- son for the raise. members.

Philippines.

“We were beginning to Morsches “He was about 16, around think about 1940, before the U.S. entered was proud of what the labor they’d World War II,” he says. “A how If these benefits market would a Japanese squadron came in assembled be like after and raided his fishing vil- staff that was are so great, we really the pandemin needed to have a rea- ic,” he says. lage, murdered his father diverse terms of eth- son why people will and brother.”

Morsches Pascua fled into nearby nicity and gen- come to work instead wants to be identity. mountains with his fiancee, der clear: They Morsches’ grandmother. A They’d had to of not coming to work. were nervous few weeks later they stowed lay people off, about those — Nate Morsches, away on a boat to Hawaii. but the ones u n e m p loyco-owner of RPG Pascua joined the Navy, who remained ment benefits. fought against the Japanese had been there “If these in the Pacific and then en- from day one. benefits are They were committed and so great, we really needed listed in the Air Force.

“Once the war was over courageous. And they were to have a reason why people and his family was safe, he making minimum wage. will come to work instead “It was hard to go to sleep of not coming to work,” he was dedicated to building community,” Morsches says, at night because of that,” he says. recalling “massive parties” says. “I read a post one of There’s also the restauwith food, drinks, singing my employees put out — she rant industry’s reputation and dancing at their tiny didn’t know I read it, but she for low-paying jobs and toxic home every Sunday evening wrote: ‘I just made a yogurt work environments. last two meals.’ I thought, in Hawaii.

“I pride myself on our Morsches’ parents later OK, something’s got to culture and that we pay moved to Michigan. Fif- change here.” well,” Morsches says. “We That same week, The just hired three people this teen years ago, he and his Burger Stand, another pop- week.” wife, Meghan ular MassaMorsches, Morsches says they’re chusetts Street back up to about 80% of ended up in Kansas, where When we opened r e s t a u r a n t , pre-pandemic revenues and began growing every week. And Meghan at- up for curbside, we also paying $15 an this is how the labor martended nursing school. realized: No one’s tip- hour. ket’s going to be for the foreBy the time seeable future.

They both still ping. lockdown endwork full-time Now, he says, he doesn’t — Nate Morsches, ed and RPG think it’s the unemployment as nurses. But co-owner of RPG re-opened with benefits that are driving Nate Morsches limited capac- workforce shortages. always had “a ity last June, side hustle.”

“It has to do with inthey were 70% creased demand,” he says.

One of his partners in those hustles is below revenue. Like so many “Labor will cost more. If you Matt Pool, now the opera- other restaurants, they had want to hire people right tions director at RPG. Before to get creative. Pool built an now, you need to pay them getting into the restaurant online system so they could well.” business, they’d spent a year rent out the board games.

All of this is likely a hard and a half hosting pop-up And they started selling food sell for business owners in events and building a large for the night-shift nurses at Kansas towns that aren’t as and enthusiastic following the hospital where Morsches progressive as Lawrence, for their concept: food, cock- was a frontline worker, treat- or where the talent pool is tails and board games. When ing COVID-19 patients in the smaller. But it’s not just the they opened on Massachu- ER and the ICU. responsibility of business Morsches got COVID-19 in owners. setts Street in September 2019, Meghan Morsches de- December, so sick he couldn’t “Customers also need to signed the space and built get out of bed. Meghan and understand that there will its structures. Pool’s wife, their four kids got it too. But be higher prices in order to Betsy Pool, runs the library Morsches says his experi- pay people a living wage,” ence in health care helped Morsches says. “The responof 1,000 games.

Of the four partners, Matt keep the restaurant staff sibility is on the entire comPool is the only one who safe: they’d written hospi- munity.” takes a salary. The restau- tal-grade protocols, and only After all, Morsches knows rant’s mission, Morsches one of their employees got about building and sustainsays, is to create community. sick. ing community. He learned The government’s relief from his grandfather.

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Lone Elm: Bank robbed

Lawsuit: Protects voting

Continued from A1 only evidence for its existence is a name, and memory, and imagination.

Where even today, one can dream the sight of a majestic arboreal being stretching out its wooden capillaries beneath an expansive Kansas sky.

Continued from A1 statute at heart of the suit is “suppressive” and “undemocratic,” she said.

Paul Smith, vice president for litigation and strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, said Kansas’ attack on advance mail voting was unconstitutional.

EVEN AFTER Lone Elm became established, Reeve continued staying busy.

He had a number of buildings in town, and became one of the original stockholders of the bank there (and in Kincaid as well).

He also had to deal with hired hands drinking copiously on the job, with clever workers hiding alcohol in farm wells to keep it cool.

Of note as well was the difficulty in hauling lumber, as prior to the rail line, building materials had to be hauled overland from Colony.

Westin Holloway wanders through the remnants of the Reeve farm. (REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG) Civil War vet in particular, by the last name of McDowell, had escaped a Confederate prison by rolling up in a blanket and playing dead, making his way out with a wagonload full of corpses.

LIFE MAY have been simpler in those days, even if much harder physically, but Lone Elm also saw its share of excitement.

An ATV carrying Westin Holloway and a Register reporter plows through multiple feet of water on the way to the historic Reeve farm. (REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG) Eventually a hardware and furniture store sprung up, though, as did a merchandise dealer, livery barn, grocery store, lumber yard, drug store, physicians/veterinary offices and more.

The freight train was coming through town every day from both directions, east and west, and soon Lone Elm earned repute as a shipping station for grain, hay and livestock.

By 1933, however, like many local communities (e.g., Elsmore), the Great Depression would deal Lone Elm and its bank/ rail economy a blow from which it never recovered.

BEFORE THE bottom fell out, however, as Holloway explained, “Lone Elm was a thriving community for 30 or 40 years.”

Townsfolk worked exceptionally hard yearround, but still found time for leisure on weekends.

In his book “Lone Elm Days,” by Olin Church, he notes how “one of the early sports was to borrow a railroad handcar and take the girls for a ride on Sunday afternoon. They had good sport in pumping the handcar up the grade west of town and coasting back like a roller coaster.”

People also loved throwing horseshoes, racing nags, sledding, buggy rides and attending shows at the local hall where the Odd Fellows, Masons and Eastern Star met.

Church recalled in particular how, “one of my earliest memories was of attending a Memorial Day service at the hall.

The Civil War veterans were seated on the stage, some in uniform.”

Afterwards, everyone would form a line and march to the cemetery behind them to pay homage, a wide-spread “Decoration Day” practice.

It was said that one

In the 1920s, when outlaws like Bonnie and Clyde were making their rounds, the Lone Elm State Bank also got a visit.

After studying the habits of the townspeople, two men who were railroad vagrants broke into the bank on a Sunday night after stealing tools from the local hardware.

They shattered the lock on the vault door, grabbed what they could

ditions.”

The sandy local farm ground soon took to the air, as did red Oklahoma soil and dust from Nebraska to the Dakotas.

As Church recalled, “this was a terrible experience and one I shall never soon forget. … The dust drifted across the roads like drifts of snow. … Many days, the sky was filled with dust so that visibility was limited to a quarter of a mile or less.”

“One storm rolled in and it was pitch dark at three o’clock in the afternoon.”

AND ALONG with said darkness, around the same time came the strange and bloody ritual of rabbit roundups.

According to Church, “hundreds of Jackrabbits would eat wheat fields like a herd of sheep.”

And although his memories of the rabbit hunts specifically took place around the ghost town of Manter, Kansas, Church intimates that the conditions were more widespread, occurring around Lone Elm as well.

He recalled driving around fields and shooting more than 50 rabbits in an hour, and likewise remembered a New Year’s Day hunt in 1934, where more than 3,500 rabbits were killed after being herded into a giant trap.

“Beyond just targeting voters, however, laws like HB 2332 specifically take aim at the ability of nonpartisan, public interest organizations to help people navigate confusing systems and encourage them to exercise their ability to vote by mail,”

Smith said.

On Tuesday, a group of Kansas organizations filed suit in state court to challenge provisions of the same bill as well as a second package of election law adjustments that emerged from the Capitol this session.

Courses: Oversight wanted Continued from A1 to Flanders in an innocent effort to answer constituent questions on its use in Kansas colleges and did not intend to create a chilling effect on classrooms.

“I don’t see that we’ve got an issue here in our state.

What we’re doing now makes sense,” Dietrich said.

“I’m pretty much a limited government person. I don’t like to craft or draft statutes or bills just for the sake of doing so.”

Keith said the board frequently receives requests for information from legislators on a broad range of topics.

“In this case, Senator Brenda Dietrich requested information that we did not have at the Board office, so we reached out to the six state universities to gather the information,” Keith wrote in an email.

Gwendolyn Bradley, director of external communications for the American Association of University Professors, called the request to faculty uncommon and “entirely inappropriate.”

“This type of request has a chilling effect on academic freedom. Administrators and faculty may fear repercussions, and even where there is no bill or law prohibiting the teaching of race theory, they may censor themselves,” Bradley said.

Even if the chilling effect was unintended Mark Desetti, a lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Association, said that is the likely result as other states have restricted curriculum.

“It’s gonna make administrators tell professors ‘slow it down,’” Desetti said.

CRITICAL race theory, or CRT, is an academic concept dating to the 1970s that scholars say offers a lens for examining how race and inequality impact criminal justice, law, health care, housing and other essential American institutions. It has been described as a way to illuminate the role of racism in a society.

But it has attracted fierce attacks from Republicans and conservatives in recent

weeks as candidates and elected officials rush to the frontlines of what has become a new battle in the culture war.

Kansas and Missouri attorneys general Derek Schmidt and Eric Schmitt recently wrote that CRT would lead to “racial and ethnic division and indeed more discrimination.” The two men are running for governor and U.S. Senate, respectively.

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Olin Church even recalled seeing a wheel of cheese at Ellington’s Store that one of the thieves took a bite out of, leaving teeth marks behind in their quest to also steal food before leaving town.

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Winston Chapman, left, occupies his spare time by scaling the chain link fence in front of his dugout while teammate Max Stinnett watches.

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EVANS, Ga. — Allen Community College’s dream season has come to an end.

The Red Devil women’s soccer team gave fans one last thrill Saturday, topping the nation’s eighth-ranked team in St. Louis Community College in the final round of pool play in the NJCAA-Division II National Tournament.

After the teams battled to a scoreless standstill through regulation, and a pair of 10-minute overtime periods, the game went into a penalty kick shootout.

St. Louis made its first two penalty kicks, before Allen made its first off the foot of Mia Evans. Autumn Wyatt was denied, but Samatha Burks knocked in a shot to tie the score at 2-2.

When Allen goalkeeper Phoenix Michaelis saved St. Louis’s final shot, the game rested on the foot of Nicole Cortez.

She delivered, scoring the goal and giving ACC the dramatic 3-2 win.

Alas, the thrill of victory didn’t relate to a trip to the national semifinals. Holmes Community College, which defeated Allen, 2-1, in the opening round Friday, clinched the pool victory with a 4-0 win over St. Louis Sunday.

And even before that, Allen’s players learned they would not advance out of their pool because shootout victories are scored differently from a traditional soccer win, so they knew regardless of how the Holmes-St. Louis match went, the Red Devils’ soccer season was over.

So after playing two exhausting matches in the span of a little more than 24 hours, the weary Red Devils departed from Georgia Sunday morning, headed back to Kansas.

Nevertheless, Allen head coach Jeremy McGinnis is confident The Red Devils made an impression on oth-

er teams for their gutty play at the national level.

“We wanted to show them we’ve got something here,” Jeremy he continued. McGinnis “I think we did that. We competed. We showed the nation what we could do.”

Despite steamrolling their way through the season up to that point — winning their first 11 matches by a combined 49-2 — the Red Devils were seeded 11th of the 12 teams in the national tournament.

The low seeding meant Allen had an uphill climb from the start, opening against the No. 2-ranked Holmes club.

“Oh my gosh, that team was fast,” McGinnis said. “Those girls up top had speed we just haven’t seen this year.”

To counter Holmes’s relentless offensive attack, the Red Devils stayed in their base 4-51 and 4-3-3 formation, but had to remain more disciplined with the ball, McGinnis said.

“We knew it was going to be difficult,” he said. “We watched videos, did match analysis. We had to get out of our formation quicker than we ever had, and had to be quicker and faster than we’ve ever had to do this season.”

The strategy almost worked, but Holmes pounced midway through the first period.

Cariel Ellis, who has signed to play collegiately next season at the University of Arizona, broke loose for a goal to put Holmes on top, 1-0.

Still reeling from the goal, Allen reacted slowly when Ellis got open again, feeding teammate Laney Smith 39 seconds later for another shot past Michaelis for a 2-0 lead.

But Allen clamped down on its defense from there.

Allen’s Dot Usher, who entered the tournament having See DEVILS | Page B4

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Iola A Legion squad wins tourney

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Minnesota first baseman Miguel Sanó swooped in to catch a popped-up bunt and start a triple play, highlighting the Twins’ 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

Sanó hit an RBI double in the third inning, then made the key defensive play in the bottom half.

With Jarrod Dyson on second and Cam Gallagher on first, Nicky Lopez bunted to the right side. Sanó charged in to make the catch and threw to shortstop Andrelton Simmons to double off Dys-

OTTAWA — Bob Johnson has a message for his Iola A American Legion squad.

If the Indians’ pitchers can throw strikes, and the squad plays the defense they’re capable of, they should win pretty much every baseball game they play this summer — even against some all-star teams from across the state.

Message delivered.

Iola went 3-1 over the weekend to bring home a wood bat championship in Ottawa.

The Indians finished with a flourish, scoring 11 runs

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Simmons then trotted toward Gallagher and tossed to second baseman Nick Gordon, who was covering first, to complete the Twins’ first triple play since 2019. The previous time Kansas City hit into a triple play was 2012.

Twins starter Bailey Ober gave up one run and five hits in four innings, striking out four in his second career start. The lone run came in the fourth when Andrew Benintendi singled home a run, his sixth RBI of the fourgame series.

Iola A American Legion players are, from left, Korbin Cloud, Ashton Hesse, Briggs Michael, Rogan Weir, Trevor Church, Sam Hull, Trey Sommer, Brandon McKarnin, Carter Hutton, Holden Barker and Gavin Page. COURTESY in the sixth inning to defeat Hays, 11-2, in the championship game.

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scored 21 goals on the season, saved her most spectacular for her last.

Trailing 2-0 with 5 minutes left in the half, Usher was just beyond the 18-yard box when she kicked the ball skyward, then kicked it again before it fell to the ground.

Her arcing shot landed just beyond the Holmes goalkeeper for the goal, cutting the gap to 2-1.

The rest of the match followed the same pattern. Holmes remained aggressive, Allen patient.

The Red Devils had a pair of scoring opportunities late in the match.

Usher blasted a shot from midfield that was destined for just below the crossbar, but Holmes goalkeeper Layken Stockstill was able to push the ball above the goal.

Maci Beachler then pushed forward and narrowly missed on a diagonal pass to Autumn Wyatt, negating Allen’s final scoring opportunity.

“We definitely had some opportunities,” McGinnis said.

ALLEN didn’t have much time to recover from its first loss of the season. Less than 24 hours later, the Red Devils were back on the pitch against Holmes.

McGinnis could tell early on the Red Devils didn’t have much left in the tank.

“We were really tired,” McGinnis said.

“We didn’t get into the combination play that we liked to play.”

The Arches made defending Usher their focal point.

“They were dropping off, putting a player in front of Dot and another behind her. Then, if she turned, it never took long for the girl to get up to her.”

Warm temperatures and the early start time also played havoc.

The temps cooled once a blanket of clouds settled above the Blanchard Woods Park, but that also meant rain and a 30-minute lightning delay midway

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“Anytime you can make a couple of saves in a shootout, it means you’re probably going to win,” McGinnis said.

“That’s what we did.”

Mia Evans, shown in a game earlier this season, was among the key performers for Allen Community College Saturday in a penalty kick shootout win over St. Louis in the NJCAA-Division II National Tournament.

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through the match.

Nevertheless, the Red Devils persisted, even after Usher had to sit for a spell in the second half because of exhaustion-related illness.

Yasmin Evans was hobbled, but remained

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coming up twice with the bases loaded, and twice driving in all three runners with a double.

Meanwhile, Trey Sommer shut down Hays’s offensive attack, allowing no earned runs and striking out five in four-plus innings of work.

But he was hardly alone with his solid pitching.

Iola also received key mound performances through the weekend

by Trevor Church, McKarnin, Korbin Cloud and Gavin Page.

Church pitched a complete game earlier Sunday, a 6-2 win over Overbrook.

On Saturday, Church was able to put in two scoreless innings of work before Cloud came on and tossed four more shutout innings in an 8-0 romp over the Topeka Senators. McKarnin, meanwhile, went 3-for-4 with two doubles on offense, and Page went 2-for3 with a double and three RBIs. Iola 11, Hays 2

Hays took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the title game, and it looked to be enough until Iola’s 11-run explosion.

McKarnin started and pitched into the second inning, before being lifted after reaching his pitch count limit. He allowed two hits with a strikeout.

On top of McKarnin’s six RBIs, Barker went 2-for-4 with a double and RBI. Church, Page, Sam Hull and Rogan Weir added singles.

Iola 6, Overbrook 2

Overbrook pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the third against Church, but the lefty kept things in check from there. He allowed six hits over seven innings with 10 strikeouts.

Sommer opened the bottom of the fourth with a walk. He moved to third on Hull’s single and scored on a line

drive single by cloud.

Church’s ground ball sent Hull home, and Carter Hutton’s RBI single pushed the Indians on top, 3-2. A fielding error allowed Church to score, and McKarnin capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly.

Sommer led off the fifth with a single. Walks to Hull and Cloud loaded the bases before Church hit an RBI grounder to cap the scoring.

Hutton had a single and double. McKarnin, Sommer, Hull and Cloud all had singles.

Fike 5, Iola 3

Fike scored an unearned run in the first, then plated three more on a pair of infield singles, a walk and a hit batter in the second.

The lead was 5-0 when Hull knocked an RBI single for Iola in the bottom of the fourth.

Church singled and Ashton Hesse reached on an error to start Iola’s fifth. Page hit into a fielder’s choice to send Church home, and Page scored on Barker’s ground ball to pull Iola to within three.

Hutton and Sommer singled to lead off the sixth, and were bunted

into scoring position by Hesse, but the rally ended with a fly ball. The Indians also failed to score after Page’s one-out single in the seventh.

Sommer, Cloud, McKarnin and Page all saw time on the mound, and limited Pike to six hits with five strikeouts. Sommer singled twice, while Page, Hutton, Hull and Church all singled once.

Iola 8, Topeka 0

Church tossed two perfect innings to start before ceding the mound to Cloud, who tossed four innings, allowing one hit and no runs, with a pair of strikeouts.

Meanwhile, Iola’s offense was clicking from the start. Page walked and scored on McKarnin’s double. Hull’s double drove in McKarnin for a 2-0 lead. Weir followed with a two-run single to make it 4-0.

Page’s RBI double in the fourth made it 5-0.

The Indians then slammed the door in the bottom of the sixth.

Page had a two-run single, and scored on McKarnin’s single.

On top of the aforementioned Page and McKarnin, Hull and Weir had singles.

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“We knew it was going to be very difficult playing the no. 2 team in the nation, and the no.

8 team in the nation on the next day,” McGinnis said. “We were 11-0, and had only given up two goals all season, and we were an 11 seed. They didn’t respect us.”

Part of that was because Allen was winless last season, before going from Division I to Division II this season.

McGinnis suspects the national perception of ACC soccer will change from here on out.

He was approached by several fellow coaches while in Georgia who said they were impressed with their style of play. “It was nice to hear that.”

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on the pitch after getting hit in the face, and Ava Cook broke her hand in the first half.

There were scoring chances, two of which resulted in McGinnis picking up his first and only yellow card of the season for arguing calls by the referees.

Ashtin Duerkson stole the ball for ACC and was moving into scoring position when a St. Louis player grabbed her by her jersey, McGinnis said, but was not called for it.

Then, minutes later, the St. Louis goalkeeper was not called for a hand ball after corralling a save outside the box.

“It definitely went back and forth,” McGinnis said. “They looked a lot fresher than we did.”

Allen’s defense met the challenge, and then some.

The game remained scoreless through the first, and then second, overtime, setting up the penalty kick drama.

The key was Michaelis’ ability to rebound after St. Louis scored on its first two penalty kicks.

She blocked two of the three, and the third hit the side

THE JUNIOR college soccer season, pushed back from last fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic, means the Red Devils will have a truncated offseason before this fall’s season begins at the cusp of the 2021-22 school year.

Allen will bid adieu to several key pieces of this year’s team.

Jessica Jones has signed with Kansas Wesleyan, Cortez will enroll at Mid-America Nazarene, Michaelis is enrolling at Houston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, and Duerkson will enroll at Bethel College.

Cook’s soccer days,

because of injury, are likely behind her, McGinnis said.

That leaves Usher, who is uncertain where she’ll be in the fall.

McGinnis remains in touch with four-year schools to see if any opportunities develop.

Because of the pandemic, college athletes will not lose a year of eligibility, so students are free to return for another year of competition.

McGinnis said that route is unlikely for Usher, who will probably return to her native Great Britain if no fouryear school opportunities arise.

“She kind of wants to be back with her family,” McGinnis said.

Playing in America means no opportunities for foreign students to go home for a weekend, or even a week, he noted.

“We’d love to have her back, but she’s so far from home,” he said.

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season brought about a sense of enthusiasm across campus and throughout the community.

“I love these girls,” McGinnis said. “These girls really get it. They let me be hard on them.

They want to improve, to get better. I’m really confident the team we have next year will be pretty good, too.”

Perhaps another shot at nationals is in the offing, even without some of the key performers from this year’s squad.

The schedule could be considerably more difficult, with Allen slated to play a number of NJCAA-Division I teams, including Cowley.

“This is definitely the best experience I’ve ever had as a coach,” McGinnis said. “I couldn’t be more impressed with the community.”

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