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Campus tensions escalate Call for student leaders to resign, hunger strike among signs of frustration By Rochelle Valverde and Conrad Swanson Twitter: @LJWorld
Kansas University sophomore Davina Shogbamimu, of Overland Park, prepares to fill her car up with gas at a Lawrence gas station Friday. Lawrence gas prices, on average, were more than 10 cents higher per gallon than Topeka's at the end of last week. Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
Number, type of retailers drive prices, analysts say said gas prices, and any Twitter: @nikkiwentling discrepancy between how much people pay in asoline prices are Lawrence versus Topeka, low — about 30 depend mainly on one facpercent lower than tor: the competitiveness of this time last year the market. — but Lawrence Jim Hanni, executive residents have consisvice president of public and tently paid slightly more government affairs at AAA at the pump, at least over Allied Group, said of prices the past two years, than in Lawrence and Topeka: consumers just 20 miles “There definitely is a differto the west in Topeka, ence.” according to AAA data. “For awhile, there was a A Kansas AAA official pretty good gap between and a petroleum marketer Topeka and Lawrence. By Nikki Wentling
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Gosh, at one time, it was 15 to 20 cents,” Hanni said. “Aggressiveness, competitiveness is probably the biggest factor.”
‘Competition dictates the price’ Hanni and Tom Palace, executive director of the
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The fallout from last week’s Kansas University town hall forum on race — which brought overflow crowds and high emotions — continued into the weekend, with a call for KU Student Senate’s top three officers to resign and the initiation by one alumnus of a hunger strike on campus. Wednesday’s forum KANSAS drew a crowd of UNIVERSITY 1,000 to take part in a wide-ranging racial discussion — moderated by KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little — that included faculty, staff, students and community members. During the forum, a student-led group calling itself Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk took the stage to read a list of 15 demands related to diversity and
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JOHN COWAN, a 2014 graduate of Kansas University, began a hunger strike on campus Friday morning in solidarity with KU student group movements.
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