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High school students to have free access to condoms

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRESHMAN GABRIELLA ROTH, OF JUNCTION CITY, RAISES HER HAND during a University 101 class discussion on academic and personal wellness on the lawn outside Stauffer-Flint Hall on Monday.

KU freshman enrollment up for 5th straight year By Sara Shepherd

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nrollment at the University of Kansas went up this year, boosted by the university’s fifth-straight year of freshman class growth, according to numbers released Monday by KU. KU leaders touted not only the freshman class’ size but also its academic achievement and diversity, especially in light of the university’s new — and tougher — automatic admission standards that went into effect this semester. KU is 1 of only 2 state universities where enrollment increased this year. Fort Hays State University enrollment went up 3.2 percent, according to numbers released Monday by the Kansas Board of Regents. Enrollment went down at Kansas State, Wichita State,

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Pittsburg State and Emporia State universities. Enrollment across all KU’s campuses grew from 28,091 in fall 2015 to 28,401 this fall, an increase of 1.1 percent, according to data provided by KU. It’s the third straight year KU’s overall enrollment has grown. KU’s 2016 freshman class numbers 4,233, an increase of 1.1 percent from last year,

according to KU. It’s KU’s fourth-largest class in history and the largest since 2008. “This is a banner freshman class for KU,” Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a Monday message to campus. “To increase in both size and quality is a tremendous accomplishment. And a fifth straight year of freshman class growth

— especially in the context of enrollment trends at other universities in the region — is a clear sign we’re doing a lot of things right in the minds of prospective students.” Gray-Little credited “purposeful, strategic decisions in how we identify, attract, fund and enroll students at KU.” Those include higher standards for automatic admission, increased national and international recruitment efforts, a revamp of KU’s financial aid to include four-year renewable scholarships and implementation of the KU Core Curriculum, which was designed specifically to include opportunities such as undergraduate research, internships and study abroad. The chancellor also highlighted the importance of

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Kobach accused of not complying with order Wichita (ap) — The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a judge to enforce her earlier order requiring Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to put on voter rolls people who registered at motor vehicle offices without providing citizenship documents. In a filing Friday, the group

also requested that U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson issue an order for Kobach to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. Kobach says the state “is in full compliance with the district court’s order.” The ACLU contends Kobach has not registered in

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Starting this fall, students at both Lawrence public high schools will be able to freely access condoms at their school’s health office. The initiative, presented at Monday’s school board meeting, is a continuation of the Lawrence district’s sexuality education program and partnership with the LawrenceDouglas County Health Department. “Although they have been widely utilized in other countries for decades, con- SCHOOLS dom education and availability programs … are quickly becoming common components of comprehensive sexuality education here in the United States as well,” Michael Showalter, the Health Department’s health promotion specialist, told the board Monday. In Kansas, 39 percent of high school students report having had sex, > CONDOMS, 2A

Plan for HERE complex parking moving forward By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

A plan to resolve the HERE apartment complex’s parking shortage is moving forward. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted Monday to recommend the plan, which calls for demolishing two houses to expand an existing parking lot. Commissioner Clay Britton said it may not have been a problem directly created by the city, but he thought it was one it needed to solve and the solution in front of the commission was likely the best option. “Other solutions are going to involve demolishing something else, building a parking garage somewhere or just surface parking,” Britton said at the meeting. “… I wish that the solution here didn’t involve that, but I just don’t think that there’s a better one. I’d be worried about what the next proposed solution would be if this one doesn’t go through.” The plan also called for the commission to waive a requirement that > HERE, 6A

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