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SATURDAY • MARCH 22 • 2014
Next up: No. 2 Kansas vs. No. 10 Stanford, 11:15 a.m. Sunday
‘Hawks pull away for win
Health care pact gains ground ——
Final House vote is next week; replacement of Obamacare can’t launch without Congress’ OK By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild
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KANSAS FORWARD TARIK BLACK, LEFT, AND INJURED CENTER JOEL EMBIID react to a dunk by teammate Jamari Traylor against Eastern Kentucky University during the second half Friday at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The Jayhawks defeated the Colonels 80-69 and advance to the next round.
Where is the plan for humanities? some ask By Ben Unglesbee Twitter: @LJW_KU
Earlier this month Kansas University administrators laid out an ambitious development strategy in a new 10-year master plan. Among other projects, the plan posits an $800 million science and technology extension winding through the western half of campus that administrators hope will generate patents and corporate partnerships and train students for jobs in scien-
As KU maps out its future, the focus is on science and technology tific and technical fields. same adminisWhat the plan didn’t include, trative dreamat least in its initial release, was ing that hatched new or modernized space for “Innovation KU’s humanities and liberal arts Way,” the sciprograms. That has some facence and techulty members feeling left out of nology project the university’s vision for the in the master future. plan. Randal Jelks, a KU associate Jelks “Our building professor of American studies, is as important points out that his building, Bai- on the global map as any buildley Hall, could benefit from the ing on campus,” Jelks said. The
various programs devoted to regional and language studies housed in Bailey are of great social value, he said. Jelks imagines a Bailey with more collaborative space, an extension stretching back into what is now a parking lot and other features to update it for modern research and teaching. It’s a hypothetical, but so are
Topeka — A bill aimed at taking Kansas out of the Affordable Care Act was advanced by the House on Friday, but opponents said the measure could j e o p a r dize health care for the nearly half million Kansans under Medicare. House Bill Hildabrand 2553 was approved on a voice vote and will be up for a final vote next week. The measure would put Kansas into a compact with other states under which the Kansas Legislature and governor would control all federal health care funding coming to the state. State Rep. Brett Hildabrand, R-Shawnee, said his bill provided a “pathway for Kansas and other member states to reject the Affordable Care Act.” It has the backing of the Kansas
Please see PLAN, page 2A
Please see HEALTH, page 2A
Prescription assistance program improves life for city’s homeless JONATHAN KRASICK gets his medication with Traci Goldsby, a health care coordinator. The Lawrence Community Shelter has a prescription assistance program that enables shelter guests to get prescriptions filled. The shelter has $16,200 budgeted for medications in 2014.
By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
After leaving her house because of a broken furnace and pipes she couldn’t afford to fix, Judy Saverda-Allen found it difficult to prioritize paying for maintenance medications even though she knew they were important. “There are meds that my health situation requires that I have to have,” she said. “I would have to tell the doctor, ‘No, unless it’s on the $4 list I can’t get it.’” Saverda-Allen, who moved into the Lawrence Community Shelter last month,
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The KU Natural History Museum presents:
Behind the Glass
A conversation about the Panorama’s history, condition, conservation and history with conservator Ronald Harvey and author Bill Sharp
March 26 – 7:30 pm The Commons | 1340 Jayhawk Blvd
said she was surprised to learn about the shelter’s prescription assistance program. She is one of many shelter guests the program enables to fill new or continue filling existing prescriptions. The program burgeoned in the shelter’s first year at its new, larger location at 3655 E. 25th St., with 847 prescriptions filled in 2013 compared to 543 in 2012, according to the shelter’s newly released annual report. More people mean more prescriptions, Executive Director Loring Henderson said, and the shelter has $16,200 Please see PROGRAM, page 2A
Limiting easements 5C 1B-8B 10A, 2B
A bill that would limit conservation easements, which have been used to preserve lands in the Flint Hills and elsewhere, was approved by a Senate committee Friday. Page 3A
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