Lawrence Journal-World 02-25-2016

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City delays storm shelter toughening requirements

Sally Ride, beyond the public eye

Safety changes would impact public school construction projects By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

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DOLE INSTITUTE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR BARBARA BALLARD, left, listens as Lynn Sherr discusses astronaut Sally Ride as part of the Lawrence Public Library's annual "Read Across Lawrence" program Wednesday evening at the Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive. Sherr was a longtime "20/20" correspondent and the author of "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space."

Journalist digs into astronaut’s inner life By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

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ally Ride was worldfamous for being the first American woman in space. But for all her publicity in that arena, Ride was a private person whose personal life was not widely known until after her death in 2012, said Lynn Sherr, the former ABC

News journalist who covered and befriended Ride before her first space flight and recently published the astronaut’s definitive biography, “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space.” Sherr spoke Wednesday evening at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. Her visit was in conjunction with the Lawrence Public Library’s

Read Across Lawrence program, which has a space theme this year. The biography reveals much about Ride that America never saw in previous decades of news reports. For one, while Ride once told a high school friend she wanted to be a famous scientist, she was never

She cared deeply about making sure that door was open to other women.” — Lynn Sherr, former ABC News journalist

Please see RIDE, page 2A

After officials with the Lawrence school district raised concerns, the city is holding off on requirements that would make school storm shelters safer. City staff emailed district representatives “several weeks ago” about new storm shelter requirements that would make shelters safer in the event of a tornado, according to a city memo. In response, Superintendent Rick Doll asked to discuss a possible city code amendment owing to “the potential high cost of designing and building storm shelters and/or safe rooms to meet the new (standards).” While renovations at all 20 Lawrence schools as part of SCHOOLS the $92.5 million bond issue include “hardened space” shelters with steel reinforcements and concrete ceilings, those spaces do not meet international or national FEMA-approved codes for storm shelters. Doll declined an interview with the Journal-World on Wednesday to discuss the topic, via district spokeswoman Julie Boyle. “Dr. Doll said that since we have just learned that the city would be discussing this issue, we will need some time to review the new standards and their application to schools,” Boyle wrote in an email. “The district has included structurally enhanced storm sheltering areas in all of the schools receiving additions as part of the bond issue.” Please see SHELTER, page 2A

‘We had to do something about it’ By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

Speaking Wednesday under a projected quote from Martin Luther King Jr., one of three founders of the national Black Lives Matter movement issued a call to action to the crowd filling Kansas University’s Lied Center. “You have the choice of

doing the work or not,” Opal Tometi said. “You don’t get to be neutral.” The message was directed at all in attendance as Tometi pleaded with white students at the lecture to set aside privilege and hesitation and become allies of

the movement. Black Lives Matter was a love note to African-Americans and an invitation to others, she said. “What we need is courageous people to become engaged,” she said. “Embrace

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Please see LIVES, page 2A

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OPAL TOMETI, co-founder of #blacklivesmatter, speaks to a packed house Wednesday night at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

At Lied Center, Black Lives Matter co-founder chronicles a movement

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Ethics decision

Vol.158/No.56 24 pages

A state ethics commission has rejected a complaint filed by a top Democrat against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s reelection campaign. Page 3A

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