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KU sends its final wish list to regents
‘People have crises, like any other population’
By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild
As Kansas University submits its budget requests for additional spending, higher education officials also are watching the state’s bottom line. “We certainly have to have it in mind because we don’t know what the l $5 million: Per collections and receipts will be year appropriain the next few tion for a Drug and months,” said Vaccine Discovery KU Chancelinstitute. lor Bernadette Gray-Little. State revenue l $3.4 million: Per forecasts show year, for the next significant revtwo years, to proenue problems vide merit-based down the road. salary increases And while the at the KU Medical reason for the fiscal drop has Center. become hotly debated, the l $7 million: Kansas Board Recurring funding of Regents on starting in 2016 to Tuesday will start the annual help build new sciprocess of recence buildings. ommending a budget for all of public higher education in the state. “We are not going to sit and speculate on whether we are going to get a recision or not,” said Kenny Wilk, the new regents
KU requests
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SALLY SANKO, A CASE MANAGER AT CENTRO HISPANO , 204 W. 13TH ST., talks about the nonprofit organization that serves Hispanics with anything from mental health services to applying for visas. BELOW: The organization’s headquarters.
Nonprofit helps alleviate the burdens of immigrants in Douglas County By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
Inside a small blue house near downtown Lawrence, the art of making sure people don’t fall through cracks is practiced daily. Latino immigrants — both documented and undocumented, Spanish speakers and those whose primary tongue is indigenous — have gone to Centro Hispano since 2006 for bilingual mental health services, case
“There’s still a lot of discrimination here,” said Sally Sanko, whose case management position was made possible by an AmeriCorps grant. “Many people are not willing to work with Spanish speakers. I have had apartments and daycares hang up on me when I say where I’m from.” Centro Hispano may have been management or help trying to parse founded in 2006, but its origins bureaucratic language in legal docu- trace to 2000, when Douglas ments or applications.
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Children of sperm donors search for their fathers, siblings through the web, DNA By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
David Brown was 8 or 9 when his mother told him his dad wasn’t his biological father. Because her husband was unable to have kids, she had used a sperm donor, she said. It never really bothered David, a lifelong Lawren-
cian who is as cool and collected as they come. After all, his dad was his dad, regardless of whether they were related by blood. But then David met his wife, Lauren, Doran who is decidedly less laid-back. Knowing David’s parents got the donor
sperm from Kansas University Medical Center, she started digging around online. That’s where she ran into Matt Doran, who’s been avidly searching for blood relatives
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT DAVID BROWN IS PICTURED WITH HIS WIFE, LAUREN, in their Lawrence home. Brown was conceived using a sperm donor from KU Medical Center. Recently, Brown was able to locate his half brother through a DNA matching site.
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