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KU stands to lose $127 million Academic By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback told Republican leaders in the Kansas House and Senate Thursday that massive spending cuts will be in store if they don’t come up with a tax
Brownback could defund higher education if no tax deal is reached plan to balance next year’s budget before Monday. And among the options on the table, his budget director Shawn Sullivan said,
“I’m telling you, I don’t want to be the appropriations committee for the House and Senate,” Brownback said during a rare joint caucus meetwould be eliminating all ing of House and Senate state operating funds for Republicans. “It says in the the state’s six Regents uni- Constitution, if you pass versities, including Kansas Please see LOSE, page 5A University.
Accreditation penalty reverberates in Lawrence
A ‘JURASSIC WORLD’ NOT FAR OFF?
‘De-extinction is tantalizingly close’ By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
fraud nets UNC year’s probation
By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon
The University of North Carolina has been slapped with a year’s probation by its accreditation agency for one of the worst cases of academic fraud in U.S. history. The fraud continued over an 18-year-period. The board of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges stopped short of imposing the harshest penalty, which would have blocked the country’s oldest public university from receiving federal funds, including student loan proceeds. Kansas University has many ties to UNC
KU professor explains science behind science fiction premise
If saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths seem like animals lost to the from Harvard de-extinction method, past, think again. The Law School, said requires that the species revival of extinct spescience fiction became extinct within cies, the idea behind the has a role to play the last 1,000 years and movie “Jurassic World,” when considerthat it has closely related which opens today, is ing de-extinction descendants that are still closer to reality than laws. living. some realize, said Kansas “It allows us to “The more recently exKANSAS UNIVERSITY tinct the organism, the easier University law professor play out what we Andrew Torrance, who is Torrance don’t want to do it is to revive,” he said. researching de-extinction in the real world,” he said. For now, the idea of “Jurassic regulation. But don’t expect to see species World,” the fourth in the series “De-extinction is tantalizingly that have been extinct millions of films that began with “Jurassic close,” he said. of years, such as dinosaurs, to Park,” released in 1993, remains Torrance, who received his be revived anytime soon. Torone of science fiction. doctorate in biology from Harrance explained that CRISPRPlease see JURASSIC, page 2A vard University and graduated Cas9, a recently discovered
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New 31st Street has unique feel
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erhaps you are like me and you vaguely remember a street — I think it was called 31st Street — that would take you between Haskell and Louisiana. Perhaps you are like me and have had your vehicles filled with a Inside: metric ton of concrete by conA look at struction crews as you “check” the new to see if that street has reopened. roadway. Well, that portion of 31st Street 4A is not yet open, but a brand new, multimillion dollar stretch is indeed open. And it may be the most unique stretch of street in the city right now. The portion of 31st Street between Haskell and O’Connell is open to traffic.
THIS PHOTO PROVIDED BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES shows Nick Robinson, left, as Zach and Ty Simpkins as Gray in a scene from the upcoming film “Jurassic World,” the next installment of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking “Jurassic Park” series.
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