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KU law school courting Missourians

KU drops request for fieldhouse apartments By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

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ANNA KIMBRELL, OF LAWRENCE, a third-year KU law student, studies Tuesday in the law school library. Kansas University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City are in a border war of sorts as they vie for law students.

Topeka — Kansas University on Tuesday dropped its legislative request for bonding authority to build a $17.5 million apartment building for KU athletes. Tim Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs, said the decision to with- Caboni draw the bonding proposal was because of last week’s “disappointing” decision by the House Education Budget Committee to reject it. “I hope our legislators will now return to discussing the University of Kansas’ Please see KU, page 2A

Scholarships dangled over border to quell ‘weird quirk of history’ Measure aims l More legislative news. Page 4A

By Ben Unglesbee Twitter: @LJW_KU

The Kansas University law school is trying to reel in Missourians from the Kansas City area using new scholarships that reduce tuition to in-state rates. The scholarships come at

a time when the university is trying to expand its footprint in the Kansas City area and when fewer people are applying to law school. KU law dean Stephen Mazza said the program has been in the pipeline for a couple of years. “For lawyers, the Missouri-Kansas divide doesn’t

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mean much,” Mazza said. “This is our way of eliminating that divide.” But the Kansas-Missouri divide might not have been eliminated completely. A line in a KU press release about the scholarships from Steven Please see LAW, page 2A Mazza

By John Hanna Associated Press

Westerhouse building a wheelchair ramp in April 2013.

People magazine recognizes Eudora ‘hero’

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udora resident Eugene “Westie” Westerhouse, 87, is getting national recognition for his efforts over the past 35 years to build wheelchair ramps for folks in need: People magazine chose him as one of its “Heroes Among Us.” The article, available at People.com, also features Lawrence residents Deb and Gary Jennings, who recently received a wheelchair ramp from Westerhouse and the Kingdom Builders group he belongs to as part of the Eudora United Methodist Church. The Jennings unexpectedly needed a ramp after Gary

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suffered a stroke, People reported. “We call our ramp ‘The Freedom Ramp,’” Deb said in the People article. “And I can’t say enough good about Westie. He started the ball rolling on how we were going to enter into this new world.” Since building his first ramp in 1978, Westie has built more than 300 of them. Often a ramp would cost upward of $3,000 if a contractor were hired to build it. Westie and the church group donate their labor, and often they raise donations for the $700 or so in materials needed to build a ramp.

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Topeka — Kansas Republicans who loathe the federal health care overhaul have embraced a national movement aimed at helping states opt out of its requirements, but backers conceded Tuesday that the effort depends on a power shift in Congress. Kobach Secretary of State Kris Kobach and two GOP legislators urged the House Federal and State Affairs Committee to pass a bill bringing Kansas into a compact among states to assert control over health care policy within their borders. The committee could vote on the measure later

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Convention consideration City commissioners decide to seek proposals from consultants on the feasibility of a convention or conference center in Lawrence. Page 3A

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