Lied Center Lineup The 2014-2015 season, announced Sunday, includes KU alumnus and Broadway star Mandy Patinkin in “Dress Casual”; ”The Midtown Men,” with stars from the original cast of “Jersey Boys!”; and “Million Dollar Quartet,” the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by rock ‘n’ roll legends. See the complete schedule on page 4A.
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Faculty, staff don’t mince words at meeting to discuss regents’ upcoming decision By Elliot Hughes ehughes@ljworld.com
It’s wait-and-see mode for faculty and staff members of state public universities, but about 50 of them gathered Sunday on the Kansas University campus for a forum on the soon-to-be determined social media policy by the Kansas Board of Regents. The forum, KANSAS in about three UNIVERSITY hours of dialogue, featured several lectures from university professors — most of them distinguished — on academic freedom, free speech rights and social media. Nearly a dozen others offered their input in discussion sessions open to the entire room. Most, if not all, of those who spoke criticized the policy announced by the Board of Regents in December. The Joint Council of Kansas Distinguished Professors sponsored Sunday’s event. The regents’ social media policy was made in response to an anti-NRA tweet in September 2013 by KU journalism professor David Guth, which had caused a national uproar.
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ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA FRANZ FERDINAND walks to a car with his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. This photo was taken minutes before his assassination. Below is a portrait of the archduke with his sons Maximilian and Ernst, circa 1914.
KU World War I project will retell assassination of archduke in tweets By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot dead in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, news of the event spread quickly by word of mouth. Newsies took to the street, as fast as their newspapers could get ink to paper, shouting out headlines about the archduke’s assassination, an event generally considered to have sparked World War I.
Word of Ferdinand’s murder spread more quickly than earlier generations could imagine. But the pace seems quaintly slow compared with today’s instantaneous digital communication. One hundred years later, a project out of Kansas University will recreate the event on Twitter, a medium that has in recent years communicated news of revolutions around the world as they Please see TWEETS, page 2A
Please see SOCIAL, page 2A
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