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Fraternity 1st sanctioned for sexual misconduct
‘No one has done more than Ann and Rud’
Alcohol, hazing are regular complaints for campus organizations By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
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ANN AND RUD TURNBULL, PHOTOGRAPHED AT THEIR HOME IN LAWRENCE ON FRIDAY. The Turnbulls have dedicated their careers to helping people with disabilities live “enviable lives” through their research and experiences with their late son, Jay.
Retiring professors used experience at home, research to help disabled By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
Ann and Rud Turnbull just wanted other people with disabilities to have the same type of “enviable life” their son had. When Jay Turnbull was born in the late 1960s, that didn’t seem possible. Children with disabilities were often withheld food and water in the hopes they would just die. They were given shock treatment to “fix” their bad behavior. They were institutionalized. Ann and Rud helped Jay, who died in 2009 at the age of 41, have a full, happy life. And the two longtime Kansas University professors did a lot to ensure that other people with disabilities would as well. The Turnbulls are retiring after careers that spanned more than three decades at KU and included the creation of the university’s Beach Center on Families and Disability. Their legacy will live on long after they’re gone
because of the impact they made on disability law, research and practice in America, their colleagues say. “The real beneficiaries of their contributions are the millions of families who have been helped by the more liberating and humane legislation, social policies and attitudes now in place for people with disabilities,” said Alice Lieberman, a professor of social welfare at KU. “No one has done more to usher in the possibility of an enviable life for children and adults with disabilities than Ann and Rud.” The Turnbulls met in North Carolina, where Rud was an attorney and law professor and Ann a special educator. But it was Jay, who had severe intellectual and emotional disabilities, who really opened their eyes to the struggles of people with disabilities and their families. At the time, KU was already a national leader in the field of special education, largely thanks to the
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Analysis: Gay marriage clouds governor race By John Hanna The Associated Press
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ANN TURNBULL GREETS ALAN ABESON, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES, during a retirement celebration for the Turnbulls. work of professor Dick Schiefelbusch, the founding director of the Institute for Life Span Studies that now bears his name. When the Turnbulls came to KU in the early 1980s, Schiefelbusch gave them the freedom to develop their own lines of study and research. “The wide open sky of the Kansas geography has
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The re-emergence of gay marriage as a hot legal issue nationally has complicated Democratic challenger Paul Davis’ bid in Kansas to unseat conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Davis has represented a safely Democratic seat as a Kansas House member and voted three times in 2004 and 2005 against proposals to ban gay marriage in the state constitution. Voters amended the constitution in 2005, with nearly 70 percent approving a measure that also denied same-sex couples any “rights and incidents” associated with marriage. The Kansas Democratic Party platform declares support for “marriage equality.” Davis hasn’t publicly followed suit and is avoiding a public declaration of support for gay
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been the wide open sky of possibilities at KU,” said Ann, whom one colleague described as a “warm, gracious Southerner with a great sense of humor” and whose husband the same colleague said was “very charming, in a Cary Grant sort of way.” “It started with some very strong leaders who believed not
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Kansas University disciplines several organizations a year for alcohol and hazing, but the recent sanction of a fraternity for sexual misconduct is a first. Although sexual assault has always been against KU’s rules, more specific language about sexual misconduct was added to KANSAS UNIVERSITY the KU Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities this spring and became effective in August, said Jane Tuttle, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Affairs. Allegations of sexual assault at the Kappa Sigma house over homecoming weekend mark
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