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Menards decision put off for month By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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RAYMOND SCHELL, OF LAWRENCE WINDOW CLEANING, catches the gaze of a store mannequin dressed for the prom as he wipes away the cleaner Monday at Weaver’s, 901 Massachusetts St.
New law establishes stem cell center; measure unsought by KU, unfunded By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — In a mix of science and anti-abortion politics, Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday signed into law a bill that establishes the nation’s first adult stem cell research and treatment center at the Kansas University Medical Center. “I am honored to sign this
bill of hope and promise and current treatments,” Brownback said. Brownback des c r i b e d adult stem Brownback cell and umbilical cord blood research as an “exploding” area of
new discoveries to treat people with a wide range of diseases. “KU will be the leader, Kansas will be the leader, which is fabulous in this burgeoning field,” he said. But the bill carried political overtones. It was sponsored by vehement abortion opponents and pushed by the Family Research Council, a conser-
vative Christian lobbying group. In addition, KU never asked for the legislation establishing what will be known as the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, and the Legislature has yet to produce the estimated $1.1 million needed for the center’s startup. Please see CENTER, page 2A
Family donates $2.7M for humanities research By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
The Kansas University Endowment Association on Monday announced another gift from the Kansas City, Mo.-based Hall Family Foundation, which has donated tens of millions of dollars to KU over the years: $2.7 million to bolster research at KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities. The donation will allow the center to seek a leading humanities researcher to fill a new distinguished professorship and create two
new research fellowships. hand: the collaborative huThe gift continues de- manities, in which researchcades of support for the Hall ers from different fields or Center from the founda- different universities work tion bearing the same together, and the diginame. That support tal humanities, which is the envy of many makes use of computother centers in a field er tools to learn new where deep-pocketed things about subjects endowments are rare, such as history or litsaid Hall Center Direc- KANSAS erature. tor Victor Bailey. Out of the $2.7 milUNIVERSITY “It’s certainly a heck lion, $500,000 will of a lot by any standard of create a new distinguished the humanities,” Bailey said. professorship, which could With the gift, the Hall attract a leading researcher Center will work to build its from elsewhere. Another $1 research in two rising fields million will create a postdocthat sometimes go hand in toral fellowship for a bud-
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Construction at schools could start next April By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Construction could begin as early as April 2014 on school projects that will be funded with the recently approved $92.5 million bond issue, with completion of all the projects tentatively estimated by the end of summer 2016. That could mean disruptions for students and their families in the middle of the upcoming 2013-14 school year as students are either moved into temporary facilities or transferred to other Doll buildings during the construction phase — an issue that planners said they have not yet addressed. Dean Younger, the construction manager recently hired to supervise the projects, pre-
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A plan to build a Menards home improvement center near near 31st and Iowa streets remained alive Tuesday night, but only after planning commissioners made a last-minute decision to measure twice and cut once on the project. After more than five hours of discussion, Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioners voted to defer action on the project for a month. Just moments before, however, a majority of commissioners were ready to reject the proposal for an approximately 190,000-square-foot Menards store that would be just east of the Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets. Commissioners halted the vote after a pair of planning commission members both expressed concern that a negative vote on the project would reinforce a notion that Lawrence is unfriendly to new business. “I think if we vote this down, it will be viewed as the Planning Commission killing another opportunity in this town,” Commissioner Richard Hird said. “I want my frustrations noted because I think this project is a unique opportunity.” The project did create an unusual scenario
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