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ful of people — withhold information that a family member was a victim of a sexual assault, the case could become a mistrial or be overturned on appeal, creating the need for a new trial if the information is discovered or disclosed later. It can defeat
Kansas University Medical Center is looking for ways to build a $75 million medical education building, which administrators say is key for its future, on its Kansas City, Kan., campus. The buildWe need ing, as described in it as soon the campus’ long-range fa- as we can cilities master get it.” plan, would be 200,000 — Steffani Webb, square feet vice chancellor and six floors. for administraIt would be tion at KUMC placed on an existing parking lot in front of the Hemenway Life Sciences building on the northwest corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard intersection. “We need it as soon as we can get it,” said Steffani Webb, vice chancellor for administration at KUMC. The need for the building has been cited in previous accreditation reviews, Webb said. The plan, which does not address funding mechanisms for the building, also has two other main goals, Webb said: to provide space for future growth and to target moderate research program growth over the next year. Steven Stites, the acting executive vice chancellor for KUMC, discussed the plan, developed by Cannon Design, in a message to campus. “Some of what you see won’t surprise anyone who works here,” Stites wrote. “Cannon concluded that
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FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES TEACHER NOLAN HENDERSON laughs with his students, from left, Latesha Robertson, freshman, Mackinzie Urich, freshman, and Michaela Smith, senior, in class on Thursday. Henderson and his class spend time discussing teenage-related health issues, among other topics. Henderson is a rare male teacher in the class long known as home economics.
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Teacher reverses gender roles in traditionally female domain By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com
As a 29-year-old football coach, former car salesman and one-time stand-up comic, Nolan Henderson is about the last person you would expect teaching a class that has roots in home economics. But there he was in a Free State High School classroom late last week teaching Human Growth and Development II to a roomful of giggling high
school girls. He was leading a class discussion that ranged from declining teen pregnancy rates to the dangerous new trend of teens using hand sanitizer to get buzzed. “Is this happening here?” he asked the girls about hand sanitizer. They said it wasn’t. Henderson knows how to cook and sew, although he admits to not being particularly talented at either one of them. But those domestic skills are no longer the heart and soul
of family and consumer sciences, a field that has come a long way from its home economic origins. “It’s not just sewing anymore, or making crafts,” Henderson said. “We are teaching life skills, how to prepare kids for life.” Since the 1980s, home economics has evolved from courses that taught women how to become homemakers to one that prepared students for careers in child care,
restaurant, event and hotel management, fashion, interior design and human services. It also teaches the basic life skills of budgeting personal finances, communicating and time management. “The needs of the family have always been the same; how we address them is what changes,” said Sally Yahnke, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in Please see TEACHER, page 2A
KU law professor makes case for juror privacy By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
A Kansas University law professor says personal questions asked in the jury selection process have led potential jurors to lie or withhold important information, undercutting an attempt to give the accused a fair trial.
“To date, the history tends to be it’s an unfortunate fact of life that we have Wilson to expose these people,” said Melanie Wilson, who is a former federal prosecutor in
Georgia. “That’s just part of your civic duty. The focus tends to be that we need to do more to protect jurors, but we really can’t because the defendant’s rights are paramount.” Wilson, who is also the KU School of Law’s associate dean for academic affairs, argues for changes to the jury selection
process in an article that will appear in the Utah Law Review later this year. Less protection of jurors’ privacy does affect the rights of the accused as well, she said. For example, if potential jurors for a rape trial — out of embarrassment for mentioning it during questioning in front of a room-
KanCare delay on developmental disabilities still touchy subject By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Last week, Gov. Sam Brownback agreed to delay putting long-term care services for those with developmental disabilities into his Medicaid privatization plan. But the way Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee want to implement that delay
has raised concerns from Democrats. The committee approved a budget proviso brought by state Rep. Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, that excludes until Jan. 1, 2014, the long-term services from Brownback’s overall plan, known as KanCare, which will turn over Medicaid to managed care companies. But Denning’s proviso
also would allow service providers, called community developmental disability organizations, or CDDOs, the option of entering pilot or demonstration programs under KanCare. That raised alarms among several legislators who have heard from CDDOs and families of those with developmental disabilities since Brown-
back first proposed KanCare that they want to be “carved out” of the plan. “If developmental disability wants to be carved out, why do we have this provision?” asked Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence. Denning said: “We have had a few CDDOs say are interested in being in managed care.” He said some “want to test drive the KanCare model and see if it has
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value to their system.” But when pressed by committee members which CDDOs had said they wanted to do this, Denning said he didn’t know. Appropriations Chairman Marc Rhoades, R-Newton, refused to name which ones. “They asked to be kept private,” he said. Rep. Jerry Henry, DCummings, said he didn’t
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think Denning’s amendment had been “vetted enough.” But Republicans on the committee pushed the proviso through, adding it to the committee’s budget plan. Denning said he was comfortable with the measure, saying it gave the CDDOs flexibility.
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