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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Dancing banned and arcade games burned ———
A look at student life in mid-20th century Lawrence
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he student party scene in Lawrence was some type of crazy in the 1950s. You don’t believe me? They burned the pinball machines. No, not the students. The adults. You see, the pinball machines had to go because dancing was going to be allowed again. That’s right, it appears that from about 1946 to 1957, dancing was illegal in Douglas County. Well, more accurately, dancing was illegal in any establishment that served alcohol. But by 1957, it appears political leaders Please see DANCING, page 6A
See the exhibit
Courtesy of Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
A DETAIL FROM AN OSKAR KOKOSCHKA LITHOGRAPH titled “Happy Easter,” circa 1906-1908, at Kansas University’s Spencer Museum of Art.
“From Classroom to Cafe: A century of student hangouts” will open at 5:30 p.m. April 25 as part of downtown’s Final Fridays event. The exhibit will remain open into July and will be on the second floor of the Watkins Museum, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
City engineers want roundabout at 19th and Naismith By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Your future trips to Allen Fieldhouse may include a new twist: a roundabout. City engineers want to apply for state grants to build a roundabout at 19th Street and Naismith Drive, plus at two other high-profile intersections: Kasold Drive and Harvard Road, and Wakarusa Drive and Harvard Road.
Two other intersections also under consideration for grants City commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday evening will consider approving grant applications for $1.3 million in state funds to construct the roundabouts. If approved, construction work on the roundabouts likely wouldn’t begin until 2016. The city likely will learn this summer whether the state will provide funding for any of the projects.
Regardless of whether they are funded, the applications are the latest sign that city engineers are looking to add roundabouts to major city thoroughfares. “Roundabouts have fewer conflict points with other vehicles and pedestrians,” City Engineer David Cronin wrote in a memo to commissioners. “They reduce high severity
crashes such as right angle and left-turn/head-on crashes.” The city for several years had not approved roundabout projects on major city streets, but that ended in November when the city commission agreed to replace the four-way stop sign system at Wakarusa Drive and Inverness/Legends Drive with a roundabout. It is being designed as the city’s
first two-lane roundabout, meaning vehicles can travel through it sideby-side. CommisCITY sioners apCOMMISSION proved the roundabout despite objections from neighbors, and then last week Please see CITY, page 2A
Program checks more than 100 million voter registration records By Scott Rothschild
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I have taken it under my wing and want to build it as one of my personal A little-known program run missions.” srothschild@ljworld.com
by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach goes through more than 100 million voter records from states across the nation. Called Interstate Crosscheck, or “The Kansas Project,” the program compares voter registration records from one state with 27 other participating states to check for duplicate voter reg-
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— Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, speaking of the Interstate Crosscheck program he runs istrations and possible double Nearly all double registrations voting. The goal of the program are unintentional, resulting from is to clear up registration rolls, a person moving from one state to another and re-registering to Kobach said.
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vote, Kobach says. But the computer program drills down further to try to find voters who may have voted in two separate states, he said. It’s a program that Kobach’s office provides for free. “It’s a state-run program that Kansas has developed and it’s a service for the whole country,” Kobach said. The project has generated some controversy. Earlier this month, Republican officials in North Carolina,
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a key battleground state, said the Interstate Crosscheck uncovered proof of widespread voter fraud. But after those initial reports, officials have walked back those assertions and were focusing on investigating a much smaller number of potential cases. “They chose to make public the number of potential double voters,” Kobach said of North Carolina officials.
Tenure feedback Legislators say they have heard from many constituents who are critical of removing teacher tenure. Page 3A
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