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Revenue shortfall prompts hopes of no cuts By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
GAMMA PHI BETA SORORITY MEMBERS at Kansas University rehearse a song in preparation for recruitment activities that begin today. The formal recruitment period, often called “rush week,” is for incoming freshmen to learn about campus organizations.
Davis keeping relatively low profile By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen any Paul Davis ads on television, it’s not because you’ve missed them. There aren’t any. Nor are there any radio ads. Nor is he trying to win free media by staging large public events in front of news cameras and reporters. And while a third-party political action committee, the Kansas Values Institute, has mailed out mate-
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the race, 51-41 percent. That has led some analysts to wonder if Davis really has that big of a lead, or if some people being polled are siding with anybody but Brownback, who is currently suffering from low approval ratings of around 42 percent. “In re-election campaigns, voters are almost always voting retrospectively,” said Bob Beatty, a political science professor at
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rial on Davis’ behalf, most of that has been negative material aimed at Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, rather than positive messages defining Davis.
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Please see FUNDING, page 2A
COOL CLUBS AT OUR SCHOOLS By Sara Shepherd
Editor’s note: As school gets underway, the Journal-World is highlighting five great things about the Lawrence school district on the first five days of the school year. This is the fourth in the series.
Twitter: @saramarieshep
Growing tomatoes, painting murals or running miles on end. When it comes to the Lawrence school district’s many clubs, it matters less what students are doing than that they’re doing it as a group. Club sponsors say that whatever the activity, club participation helps students learn teamwork while doing something they enjoy. Here are five active clubs, from elementary to high school, gardening to art.
Free State High School Art Club Need a work of art to beautify something at
Free State High School? There’s a club for that. The Free State High School Art Club meets weekly or every other week in the evening, and averages about 20 students, Free State art teacher and club sponsor Rachel Downs-Blair said. Please see CLUBS, page 6A
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ALEX HURT, 15, LEFT, AND ELLIOT HERROD, 13, help weed the garden at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. The garden club is comprised of students who meet twice weekly after school in spring and fall, plus throughout the summer to care of the school’s 4,200-square-foot garden.
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It may be no surprise, then, that when an independent polling firm asked voters recently if they have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him, nearly one in five voters, 19 percent, said they’ve never heard of Davis, the minority leader of the Kansas House and the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor. What is surprising, though, is that despite his low name recognition, the Rasmussen Reports poll showed Davis leading
With a state revenue shortfall on the horizon, higher education officials are hoping they can maintain the current level of state funding and avoid getting cut. “Flat is the new up,” said Kansas University spokesman Tim Caboni. The downward trend in state tax dol- Caboni lars going to higher education has been happening nationwide. In Kansas, state funding makes up approximately 20 percent of the total operating expenditures of Kansas’ public universities. That is down from 28 percent in
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Barbecue brawl Dickey’s restaurant is setting up shop in West Lawrence and will be up against two other barbecue joints in the area. Page 7A
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