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Wayne Selden Jr. has Team USA/Kansas on the brink of a world title. Can they win?
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Valerie Campos’ wild adaptations are taking shape at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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Sexual violence issues still haunt KU
Rembrandt of the undead Nothing gets out of Don McDermott’s shop alive
Year since university was added to federal list, probe remains open By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
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At Don McDermott’s Big Game Taxidermy, 1001 Elm St. in Eudora, the dead rise again. Above, McDermott works on a white-tailed deer. Top: Two wild hogs await customer pickup. See the video at LJWorld.com/taxidermy
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Of course, it doesn’t “ come in alive, either
I Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
f you talk about the color of Picasso or the realism of Rembrandt at a cocktail party, many will find you so sophisticated. If you talk about ear butts, they’re likely to cut
Please see UNDEAD, page 5A
— Don McDermott, who’s owned Big Game Taxidermy in Eudora since 1974
Please see VIOLENCE, page 6A
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you off from the bar. I guess some people still don’t appreciate the art of taxidermy. But Don McDermott does, which stands to
I have quite a few customers who go to Africa, and they usually drag something back here.”
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It’s been one year since Kansas University was added to a widely publicized and often negatively viewed list: the list of colleges being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for their handling KANSAS of sexual violence cases. UNIVERSITY When KU will get off that list — and when the public Legal will learn whether the uni- battle: versity did anything wrong 2013 Lewis — is anybody’s guess. KU Hall case and a host of other univer- won’t be sities are caught up in a na- criminally tional backlog of cases as prosecuted. investigators with the De- 6A partment of Education are failing to keep up with the By the rising caseload of sexual vi- numbers: olence complaints coming How KU from university campuses. compares KU’s case stems from a with others complaint filed by a student on the federal who said she was raped by list. 6A an acquaintance in Lewis Hall in 2013. Dissatisfied with KU’s response to the allegations, the student filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and also took her story national by talking to the Huffington Post.
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A nationally watched trademark case against Washington’s NFL franchise has its roots in Lawrence. Page 3A
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