KU OPENS REGULAR SEASON AGAINST NO. 11 INDIANA TONIGHT. 1D OBAMA, TRUMP MEET IN OVAL OFFICE, PLAN FOR TRANSITION.
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ABOVE: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CHANCELLOR BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE SIGNALS TO A CRANE OPERATOR to hoist a special signed beam to the top of KUs new Integrated Science Building at a topping-out ceremony Thursday.
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ore than 300 construction workers, University of Kansas VIPs and other guests gathered for lunch in a partially completed building Thursday, surrounded by massive cranes, gravel and bright orange temporary fences. KU planned the event to celebrate a construction milestone — the “topping out” ceremony, in which the final beam is hoisted — for its new $117 million Integrated Science Building, considered the keystone of the university’s $350 million Central District redevelopment project. “It’s not every day you get to celebrate the university’s largest
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expansion project in almost 100 years,” KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little told the crowd. Just a year ago, the Kansas Board of Regents approved KU’s construction and funding plan for the Central District project. It relies on a novel funding model called a publicprivate partnership, or P-3 for short, that raised concern among state legislators but that the university says will enable it to complete the project with little state funding.
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Young women who attended a pair of recent Lawrence forums in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday often expressed a shared thought: It wasn’t supposed to end like this. Young Clinton supporter Meredith Shaheed expected
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TOP: SENIOR LAURA FURNEY, OF WAMEGO, signs the ceremonial beam. BOTTOM: KU Dining Services employees grill hamburgers outside the underconstruction Integrated Science Building.
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to a group of some 20 students — mostly girls — who had gathered that afternoon in Free State’s choir room. — Meredith Shaheed, co-president of Free State High School’s Young Feminists Club Shaheed, a Free State senior and co-president of the school’s Young Feminists to celebrate a Clinton win As election returns began Club, knows that’s not comwith friends and classmates at to trickle in that night, “I just pletely true. Sexism — and Wednesday afternoon’s meet- kept thinking to myself, ‘Why how it plays into politics ing of the Young Feminists does America hate women so > WOMEN, 2A Club at Free State High School. much?’” Shaheed later recalled
I just kept thinking to myself (while watching the election returns come in), ‘Why does America hate women so much?’”
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City plans $11.4M of energy efficiency projects By Rochelle Valverde
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It’s not every day you get to celebrate the university’s largest expansion project in almost 100 years.”
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Topeka — New state revenue forecasts were released Thursday showing the state of Kansas will face a revenue shortfall of nearly $350 million in the current fiscal year, and another $583 million in the next fiscal year I’m sure that begins July there will be 1. more of the A n d same (cuts).” that does not take — Sen. Laura Kelly, into ac- D-Topeka c o u n t any additional spending the Kansas Supreme Court may order to resolve the ongoing school finance lawsuit.
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The City of Lawrence is preparing to make millions of dollars worth of facility upgrades — including solar panels, LED lights We hardly and smart t h e r m o - ever get the stats — chance to do in order to make a wholesale its op- energye r a t i o n s efficiency m o r e e n e r g y - improvement.” efficient. — Eileen Horn, sustain“ T h e ability coordinator for s a v i n g s Lawrence and Douglas each year County would be the same as taking over 750 cars off the road and planting over 3,000 tress, in terms of an environmental benefit,” said Eileen Horn, sustainability coordinator for Lawrence and Douglas County.
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