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WEDNESDAY • JULY 30 • 2014
Title IX office backs record
Plotting Lawrence’s retail landscape
KU coordinator: Sexual assault complaints were handled properly By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
John English/Special to the Journal-World
THIS AERIAL PHOTO SHOWS THE SITE OF A PROPOSED SHOPPING CENTER, located at the southeast corner of the South Lawrence Trafficway and Iowa Street interchange. In the photo, Iowa Street/U.S. Highway 59 angles from lower left to upper right, from the south, and intersects the SLT near the center of the frame. Crown Automotive is visible at upper right. Last week, the retail proposal was dealt a setback by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, which recommended that it be rejected. The proposal would add more than 500,000 square feet of commercial space at the intersection of two major highways. Developers have said Old Navy, Academy Sports, Ulta Beauty, Designer Shoe Warehouse and a specialty grocer are among the likely tenants for the center. The planning commission’s vote does not doom the project. Developers can still choose to have the request heard by the Lawrence City Commission.
Kansas University’s Title IX coordinator says she’s confident her office’s handling of sexual assault complaints will pass muster with a federal probe. KANSAS “I think our UNIVERSITY investigative work is really good,” said Jane McQueeny, executive director of KU’s office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. “I am not going to buy that our investigations Please see TITLE IX, page 2A
KU program helps science teachers engage students “
By Scott Rothschild
and funded through a $500,000,
Sixta’s research focused on
brings selected teachers to KU to work on research that they can then take back to their classrooms. “Ultimately, this program will encourage more students to become scientists and engineers,” said Claudia Bode, CEBC education director.
ers, Sixta will have her students make sunscreen, which includes nano particles that reflect ultraviolet rays. Brad Greenwood, who teaches physics, astronomy and geology at Free State High
A lot of kids assume they are bad at science. three-year grant, from the Na- nano particles in creating magYou have to show them how it connects to tional Science Foundation. nets. But to make the subject High school science teachers their life and how to think scientifically.” The six-week program more relevant to high schoolTwitter: @ljwrothschild
have been going back to school at Kansas University this summer in hopes of returning to their classrooms with a few more ways to engage students. The idea is to bring actual scientific research to high school students. “It shows students that sci-
— Laura Sixta, De Soto High School chemistry teacher ence does have practical apThe “Research Experience plication,” said Laura Sixta, a for Teachers” program is run chemistry teacher at De Soto by the KU Center for EnvironHigh School. mentally Beneficial Catalysis
Please see TEACHERS, page 2A
Independent ads address Brownback’s stance on education, coal The Kansas Values InJenkins and former distitute, a group with ties rector of Kansans for a to prominent Democrats Traditional Republican and Republicans, mailed Majority, made up mainly out a flier this week critiof moderate Republicans. cal of Brownback’s record KVI filed a campaign on education spending. finance report this week deThe group was founded in claring only $2,483.09 in avail2012 by Ryan Wright, a former able cash on hand as of July 24. aide to Republican Rep. Lynn Dan Watkins, a Lawrence at-
By Peter Hancock
ELECTION
Twitter: @ljwpqhancock
2014
Independent groups are getting active in this year’s gubernatorial race in Kansas, running television ads and mailing out material both for and against incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
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torney and prominent Democrat, is listed as the group’s chairman. Also on the board are former state Rep. Jill Quigley, R-Olathe, and former state Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood. Attempts to reach Watkins by phone Tuesday afternoon were not successful. The flier, received by a Jour-
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nal-World employee Monday, is a glossy, four-page, full-color document on heavy stock paper with photos and other graphics spelling out criticisms of Brownback’s budgets and their impact on public schools.
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Favorable weather conditions have many local gardeners and produce growers overflowing in fruits and vegetables this year. Page 3A
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