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Number of rapes reported at KU declined last year according to the school’s latest Clery report. The newly released report — which tallies rapes and other crimes reported during the 2015 calendar year — was shared with

By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

The number of rapes reported at the University of Kansas went down from 19 in 2014 to 13 in 2015,

KU students and employees late Friday. Rape includes sodomy and sexual assault with an object, according to the Clery report definition. Of the 13 rapes reported at

KU in 2015, five occurred in campus housing and five occurred elsewhere on campus, according to the report. One occurred at a “non-campus” location, and two occurred on

public property. Reports of fondling also went down, from 14 in 2014 to four in 2015, according to the report. All four 2015 cases occurred in campus housing.

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No cases of incest or statutory rape, the other sex crimes tallied in the report, were reported in 2014 or 2015.

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Haskell board floats idea of renovating stadium —

Regents request $170M to fund facilities master plan By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

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ABOVE: VICTOR SILVA, OF TOPEKA, BECOMES EMOTIONAL during the Lawrence Stands with Standing Rock Sioux protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Friday. Several hundred protesters marched from Constant Park down Massachusetts Street and into East Lawrence. In addition to the march, blankets, clothing and food were collected for those continuing to protest in North Dakota. FAR LEFT: Chris Lempa, of Lawrence, works to assemble signs prior to the protest. LEFT: Ceanna Horned Eagle, of Atchison, raises her fist. See more photos from Friday’s protest at ljworld. com/standingrock93016

Gov. Brownback highlights positive news at press conference

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hen you’re enclosed in the Statehouse on a full-time basis, it’s easy to get consumed by it all, and it’s often hard to see a world beyond the partisanship, the budget shortfalls and whatever else that may constitute the Scandal of the Day. So in fairness, Gov. Sam Brownback may have done the Statehouse press corps a service Friday morning by opening and closing a press conference by redirecting

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reporters’ attention to a few things going on outside the building that many people might find positive and interesting. That doesn’t mean there weren’t plenty of questions about the current budget situation, the prospect of a costly Supreme Court order on school finance, or the true condition of Kansas highways. But this reporter is willing to admit it was kind of refreshing to hear that despite

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After approving a comprehensive facilities master plan, Haskell Indian Nations University will now take the next step of asking the federal government for money to fund it. However, money needed to renovate and reopen historic Haskell Memorial Stadium is not on the askHaskell list, even though Haskell University leaders like the idea of it. Discussion of the 90-year-old stadium’s future came up Friday during the annual fall meeting of the Haskell Board of Regents. “If we don’t use it, it’s just going to go into disarray,” Regent Clarena Brockie said. “It’s going to come to a point where it’s not fixable.” The school — lacking a football program indefinitely, if not permanently

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COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF It is time to get ready for basketball season. The opening Late Night in the Phog scrimmage happens tonight at Allen Fieldhouse, and Sunday’s Journal-World will include a copy of KUsports.com’s preseason basketball magazine. This year’s magazine includes 48 pages of player profiles, stats, photos, and a special look at coach Bill Self and the stamp he has left on the Jayhawk program. Additional copies of the magazine will be available for purchase at the Journal-World offices at 645 New Hampshire St. or online at ljworldstore.com.

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