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MONDAY • SEPTEMBER 28 • 2015
Middle schools adopt LGBT clubs
A MOON TO MAKE YOU SWOON
By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
Groups offer education, camaraderie
City commissioners will decide at their Tuesday meeting whether to finalize a sales tax break for materials used on the Eldridge Hotel expansion — a type CITY of incentive some commissioners campaigned COMMISSION against during elections this spring. The resolution up for consideration finalizes a transaction started in February, when then-city commissioners approved a measure that signaled their intent to issue $12.5 million in industrial
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When Arla Jones was a teacher-sponsor of the Gay-Straight Alliance club at Lawrence High School — before there were such clubs at the middle schools — many students came with bleak descriptions of their years there. “During that time, most of the students told awful stories about their experiences in middle school,” SCHOOLS said Jones, who sponsored the LHS GSA club from 2004 to 2012, “including stories of bullying and alienation, feeling that they were alone or even that they were the only person experiencing what they were going through.” But things are beginning to change. After two recent additions, all four of the middle schools in Lawrence now have a teachersponsored club for LGBT students and allies, and the school board is looking at additional ways to support LGBT students districtwide. Jones, now a teacher at South Middle School and sponsor of its GSA Club, said that having a sense of belonging is a basic human need, and support for LGBT students is affirming not only to GSA members, but also to students who may not feel able to come to the club. “GSAs are important because LGBT students need to feel safe and supported in school, in order to be
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ONLY IN LAWRENCE
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PEOPLE GATHER IN THE EAGLES NEST atop the Oread Hotel to watch a harvest moon, a full moon nearest the September equinox, come up Sunday night. The moon later transitioned into a blood moon.
‘Super blood moon’ dazzles over campus
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THE BLOOD MOON moves behind the lit stones of the Campanile on the Kansas University campus.
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Low: 62
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Ann Evans: She did it for the arts By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
In the winter of 2007, Ann Evans stepped down from her position as executive director of the Lawrence Arts Center, an organization she started in 1975. Once retired, Evans said she found herself with too much down time. She began growing ill. “During the time I was retired, which was about six years, I had major health
upermoons occur when the moon reaches its full phase at or near the satellite's closest approach to Earth, and appears abnormally large and bright as a result. Sunday’s event was special: The last supermoon eclipse occurred in 1982, and the next won't take place until 2033.
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Retired Judge Deanell Tach, left, and longtime friend Ann Evans give peace signs together at a block party celebrating 40 years of the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., on Friday.
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Twenty Kansas University students and Lawrence residents competed over the weekend to get new business ideas bubbling. Page 3A
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