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Chancellor’s husband linked to UNC program Shade Little worked closely with people implicated in massive academic fraud case, declines to discuss By Karen Dillon
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former UNC employee and whistleblower. “He knew, I knew, we all knew,” said Willingham, who, with Shade Little, was a staff member in the athletics tutor— Mary Willingham, a former UNC ing program. “We talked about employee and whistleblower it openly in staff meetings, that these guys were taking these paper classes. I mean it wasn’t that with tutoring and advising stu- it was really a secret.” dents at UNC and worked close“Paper classes” refers to classly with people in the thick of the es that did not meet academic scandal, according to UNC docuPlease see UNC, page 6A ments and Mary Willingham, a
He knew, I knew, we all knew. We talked about it Kansas University Chancel- openly in staff meetings.” Twitter: @karensdillon
lor Bernadette Gray-Little has said that she was unaware that one of the worst academic fraud cases in U.S. history was occurring while she held top positions at the University of North Carolina. At the time, her husband, Shade Keys Little, held positions as assistant and interim associate dean in the department charged
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and her husband, Shade Little, attend a KU basketball game on Jan. 2, 2011, at Allen Fieldhouse. The couple worked at the University of North Carolina before coming to KU in 2009.
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ART KING, A MEMBER OF THE LAWRENCE MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB, leads a ride Thursday along the popular trail north of the Kansas River. King also helps to maintain the trail, a 10.5 mile path of woods and hills following the river bank. See the video at LJWorld.com/lawhornbike.
Mountain biking in Lawrence an unexpected confidence builder
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dam Trunnell at downtown Lawrence’s Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop tells me he’s confident I’m going to “shred the gnar” as I go on the popular Kansas River trails for my first-ever mountain bike ride. I tell him that I too am concerned about what’s going to happen to my gnar. No, no, he’s says. Shredding the gnar is a good thing. “It is like you are going to tear it up,” he says. “You’re really going to get after it.” I don’t know. I’m still concerned about the gnar, but admittedly, I have a lot to learn about
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mountain biking. Art King is going to be my guide for the day. Art is a member of the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club and one of the leaders who helps maintain the 10.5 mile trail
that snakes through the woods and hills along the north bank of the Kansas River. But I’ve also spent some time talking to folks at Sunflower and other locations around town where I thought I could get some savvy advice from mountain bikers. Indeed, I did. I heard “hang on” and “don’t fall in the poison ivy,” among other suggestions. But mainly I was told I would be fine because the river trails aren’t too “technical.” That is good because I had no idea where I was going to put my graphing calculator in my Spandex. What is even better is that my wife never did tell me where she put my
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Spandex. So, I meet Art at the Eighth and Oak streets trail entrance in North Lawrence wearing blue jeans, hiking boots and a long-sleeve flannel. The presence of ticks and poison ivy influenced my wardrobe. It did with Art as well because he’s wearing much the same, although he has some leather gloves too. No calculator, though. Come to find out, technical doesn’t mean what I think it does either. That’s a mountain biking term used to described the presence of jumps, large obstacles and other items that may test your skills on a ride.
Topeka — State employees could breathe a sigh of relief late Saturday when Kansas lawmakers passed a bill lifting, at least for now, the immediate threat of mass furloughs. But the stalemate at the Statehouse over how to balance the state’s budget for the next fiscal year remains far from resolved as the 2015 legToday is islative session goes Day 108, a new into its record-breakrecord ing 108th day today. Previous In fact, frustration record: 107 among lawmakers (set in 2002) grew so strong late Taxes: Saturday night that Estimated Sen. Les Donovan, to be $400 chairman of the Senmillion short ate Assessments and of expected Taxation Committee, revenues went into a burst of Budget: anger on the Senate Passed House; floor and threatened awaiting action to resign his chairin the Senate manship. “If we can’t get together and act as a level-headed, reasonable body of senators, what does the public think about us?” Donovan asked. “We know what they think about us. We ought to be ashamed. I am ashamed. I’m ashamed to be associated with a group that won’t act any better than this. “This is crazy,” he added. “Absolutely stupid.”
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