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VANDALISM PROVES A ROYAL PAIN State tax
revenue $11M short in October
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS WORKERS REPLACE THE GOAL POST in the south end zone at Kivisto Field on Monday after fans broke into Memorial Stadium and tore the goal post down while celebrating the Kansas City Royals’ World Series win the night before.
KU goal posts, signs damaged after World Series victory By Caitlin Doornbos
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he goal posts came down Sunday night and thousands took to the streets of downtown Lawrence, but it wasn’t for a KU victory. After the Royals’ World Series victory, several Royals fans broke the lock on the south gate to Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium took down a football goal post and tossed it into Potter Lake. KU officials said athletic department officials were disappointed that the celebration included vandalism. “I thought the slogan was ‘Take the Crown’ not ‘Take the Goal Post,’” KU associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said. “We’re all thrilled about how the Royals have played all year and we’re excited that
School still on Despite the parade today in Kansas City to celebrate the Royals’ victory, Lawrence schools will be in session as scheduled, spokeswoman Julie Boyle said. The district does encourage students and staff to wear blue to school in celebration, Boyle said.
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— Rochelle Valverde
they won the World Series. I just wish that some folks had chosen to celebrate in a different way. Please see VANDALISM, page 5A l KC holding victory parade
this afternoon. Page 5A
Topeka — State tax revenues came up short of expectations again in October, pushing the state’s general fund to the brink of a projected negative ending balance, a point at which Republican Gov. Sam Brownback may be forced to make midyear spending cuts, state officials said Monday. The Kansas Department of Revenue said total taxes in October were $10.9 million short of official estimates. That brings the cumulative total shortfall for the fiscal year to $77.9 million. That’s almost exactly the same amount as budget officials had expected the state to have as an ending balance at the end of the fiscal year. Furthermore, budget officials are scheduled to meet Friday and release new, updated revenue estimates, and it is widely expected that those will show a downward revision from the last estimates, which were released in August. Brownback’s press secretary, Eileen Hawley, would not comment on the possibility of another round of “allotment” cuts. But Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, said he is already bracing for the likelihood that lawmakers will have to make major adjustments when the 2016 session begins in January. “Those results are disappointing but not surprising,” Highberger said of the
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FANS CLIMB TRAFFIC LIGHT POLES while celebrating the Kansas City Royals’ World Series win Sunday night.
Incumbents win in East Lawrence elections By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling
KU Endowment sets record with $184M in support Endowment President Dale Seuferling said the organization’s annual supKansas University En- port to KU will continue to dowment supplied increase, although KU with $184.6 milthe current fundlion in fiscal year raising campaign 2015 — 48 percent and some big conmore than the prestruction projects vious year and “by did contribute to far” the most ever, this year’s extraKANSAS KANSAS endowment leaders UNIVERSITY large jump. UNIVERSITY said recently. “We annually The large amount strive to increase does not appear to be a flash that support, so the supin the pan. port that we can provide
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the university is dependable and it’s growing,” Seuferling said. “When we have major campaigns such as Far Above, they do provide a ‘dunk,’ so to speak, in that level of support.” Such direct financial support to the university comes via two paths, said Rosita Elizalde-McCoy, senior vice president of communications and marketing for KU Endowment. Some is from expendable
gifts, one-time donations that fund things like construction projects. Several major privately funded construction projects contributed to the spike in financial support in 2015, Elizalde-McCoy said. She said although 100 percent of each project’s funding didn’t necessarily flow to KU during fiscal year 2015, large portions did. Please see SUPPORT, page 5A
All of the 2014-15 East Lawrence Neighborhood Association board members who filed as candidates were reelected Monday in what was one of the most contested and attended elections in the group’s history. Twenty-one candidates ran for 13 spots on the association’s board, and 238 people voted, said Lane Eisenbart, coordinator for the association. Ten of the 21 candidates had been board members this past year. New members elected are John Sebelius, Joshua Davis and Matt Pryor. All of those elected are, in order of number of votes: Christine Kosirog, Jacki Becker, Eric Jay, Josh Davis (of Pennsylvania Street), Sebelius, KT Walsh, Dave Loewenstein, Phil Collison, KH Harris, Pam Blackburn, Joshua Davis (of New Please see ELECTIONS, page 2A
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