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Man shot to death at Mother’s Day cookout By Elliot Hughes Twitter: @elliothughes12
A 26-year-old Lawrence man died Sunday after a shooting erupted in east Lawrence, according to Lawrence police. Authorities responded to an apartment complex on the corner of East 13th Street and Maple Lane around 6 p.m. in regard to a shooting. There they determined a victim had been transported by family members to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he later died from a gunshot wound, according to a news release by Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman. Officers then learned the description of Please see SHOOTING, page 2A
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY CLASSICS PROFESSOR STANLEY LOMBARDO is pictured next to a cast of the Greek god Apollo and casts of friezes from the Parthenon April 24 in the Wilcox Classical Museum at KU’s Lippincott Hall. Lombardo, who is internationally known for translating ancient classics and other works, is retiring from KU.
Renowned translator of world LITERATURE retiring from KU after 37 years Professor Lombardo In the world of classics — in the world, period — Lombardo is an extreme rarity: a scholar who not hen classics professor Stanonly translates ancient epics but also ley Lombardo retires from a poet who performs them. The dual Kansas University in a few role bridges the chasm between Andays, finding a successor will tiquity and the present in a way that be practically impossible. tends to elicit responses like “extraor“He is irreplaceable,” says professor dinary,” as Welch reacted the first Tara Welch, chairwoman of the KU time she heard Lombardo perform a classics department. “He is one of a work from Homer, and “just amazkind.” ing,” as Erik Mortensen, a graduate This is not merely something nice student in classics, reacted. to say, although Welch has plenty of “People respond to his work, from nice things to say about her colleague Please see RETIRING, page 2A of 16 years. It’s simply the truth. By Kim Callahan
l is originally from New Orleans. l has two children. l plays a drum during poetic performances in the manner of ancient Greek poets who used instrumental accompaniment. l enjoys Odysseus the most of Homer’s characters. l performs women’s voices in lower, not higher, registers to convey their “power and dignity.” l counts among his favorite contemporary writers Judy Roitman, Gary Snyder, Anne Carson, Ken Irby and the late Peter Matthiessen. l says his favorite film about the ancient world is “Phaedra” with Melina Mercouri and Tony Perkins; also “a sucker for ‘Ben-Hur.’”
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“People respond to his work, from 10-year-olds to all walks of life.” — Professor Tara Welch, chairwoman of the KU classics department
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When the Lawrence Community Shelter in late 2012 moved from downtown to a location in far eastern Lawrence, there were some concerns about whether the people in need would follow. There are no such questions now, outgoing shelter Henderson director Loring Henderson said. The shelter has filed a request with Lawrence City Hall to increase the occupancy limit of the shelter to 160 people. The new occupancy limit would be up from 125 currently and would be in place only when the weather is 32 degrees or below. “Years ago, when I picked the number of 125 for this building, I thought that would be Please see SHELTER, page 2A
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The reimagining of Greensburg after the devastating tornado has failed to provide what it needs most: people. The storm sent half the town packing. Page 7A
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