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TUESDAY • JUNE 3 • 2014
Bus hub might move to 21st and Iowa
Songs of summer
By Chad Lawhorn
clawhorn@ljworld.com
It doesn’t have all the bars, restaurants and shopping that downtown Lawrence has, but the intersection of 21st and Iowa streets might soon be the center of the universe CITY COMMISSION for the city’s bus riders. Lawrence city commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will be asked to move forward on a project that would move the city’s public transit hub out of downtown and place it on university property near Please see BUS, page 2A
Meeting gives way to tentative teacher contracts By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Negotiators for the Lawrence school district and its roughly 900 licensed teachers reached a tentative agreement M o n d a y night on a new conMasten tract that provides an average 2 percent pay increase for
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AMERICANA MUSIC ACADEMY STARTED ITS KIDS’ SUMMER MUSIC CAMP MONDAY. The weeklong camp features singing, dance, storytelling and music making. TOP PHOTO: PARTICIPANTS PRACTICE percussion instruments. ABOVE: ERIN RODGERS, BACKGROUND center, leads a dance. LEFT: WILLIE DOBSON, 6, PLAYS A DRUM during percussion practice.
Gift makes WWI art collection at KU one of the largest By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
The Kansas University Spencer Museum of Art is now home to one of the largest collections of World War I art in the country after a major gift from longtime art dealer Eric Carlson. Stephen Goddard, associate director and sePlease see TEACHERS, page 5A nior curator of the Spen-
University of New York at Purchase. Carlson told Goddard, “‘If you’re interested in World War I material, you should pay me a visit,’” Goddard said. “I don’t think any of us knew he had a secret passion for World War TWO OF THE SIX WOODCUTS FROM THE PORTFOLIO “C’EST LA I,” Goddard added GUERRE!” (“This is War!” or “Such is War!”) by the artist But it turns out art from World War I had Félix Vallotton, first published in 1917. The pieces are part of a collection donated by Eric Carlson. Images courtesy of Please see WWI, page 2A Spencer Museum of Art.
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cer, has known Carlson for about 30 years from Carlson’s regular summer art-dealing trips for the International Fine Print Dealers Association. Not long ago Goddard had mentioned in conversation the World War I-era artist Henry de Groux to Carlson, who studied at Yale University and taught at Harvard University and the State
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Jenkins gets opponent
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U.S. Rep Lynn Jenkins gained an opponent in the GOP primary on Monday, the filing deadline for this year’s elections. Page 3A
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