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KU takes on the 13-12 Texas Tech Red Raiders on the road in Lubbock. Sports, Page 1C.
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Students take aim at sex ed proposal
Rock Chalk Park to open by Sept. 2
Facing the facts
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Legislation would require districts to receive parental consent
By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The city’s 181,000-square foot recreation center at Rock Chalk Park now has a date you can circle on the calendar. City officials are saying the eight-gym rec$830K cost reation center in northwest LawFrom basketballs rence will open to bleachers, it is no later than going to cost about Sept. 2. $830,000 to equip “That’s when the city’s newest our fall class recreation center, schedule starts, according to new so that really is estimates from our drop-dead City Hall. See how date,” said Ernie the money will be Shaw, the city’s spent, page 6A. interim director of parks and recreation. City officials have a construction contract with Lawrence-based Bliss Sports that calls for the center to be completed by July
The Associated Press
College students lobbied Kansas legislators on Monday to reject bills that would change the way parents approve student access to sex education courses and materials. The bills would require school districts to receive parental or guardian consent before students would receive sex education instruction or access to materials. Currently, consent requirements are left to local disLEGISLATURE tricts. Students from Kansas University, Emporia State University and Wichita State University encourage legislators to reject the changes, arguing they would ignore the wishes of local communities. The students are members of campus Choice USA, a national abortion-rights organization that speaks out on reproductive rights issues. Please see SEX, page 6A
Please see PARK, page 6A
Know your heart Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND 50-DEGREE TEMPERATURES on Monday melt ice into the profile of a face, as a woman and a child walk through downtown. Temperatures in the mid-to-high 50s are expected to stick around through the week.
Federal research funding at KU hits record “
By Ben Unglesbee
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eart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, but a new push by Lawrence Memorial Hospital is aiming to change that. Cardiologists Elizabeth Guastello and Christina Salazar share the signs and symptoms and discuss how Douglas County women can change their outcomes. Page 1B
in March 2013. “We sure didn’t expect that we’d be up this year,” said Steve Warren, vice chancellor for KU’s Office of Research. “Even being up a little bit is wonderful given the environment we’re operating in.” Projects at KU getting federal money span numercrease in federal research ous fields and include ambifunding for KU, and it tious, large-scale research comes in an era of federal projects that have landed austerity and the sequester Please see KU, page 2A cuts that went into effect
We sure didn’t expect that we’d be up this year. Even being up a Last year federal research little bit is wonderful given the envidollars at Kansas University ronment we’re operating in.” hit a record high. Twitter: @LJW_KU
The university announced Monday that combined federal research funding for the Lawrence and Kansas University Medical Center campuses reached $174 million for the 2013 fiscal year, up from $171 million in 2012, and a new high for KU.
— Steve Warren, vice chancellor for KU’s Office of Research The figures are a measure of university expenditures of federal sponsorship dollars in a given year. It’s the fifth straight in-
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The city of Lawrence begins researching changes to the city code that would limit how and when residents can park recreational vehicles. Page 3A
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