A GREAT BURGER DREILING CAUGHT FIRE Learn how to make one at home Food 10B
Local player carved a spot on KU team Sports 1B
L A W R E NC E
JOURNAL-WORLD ÂŽ
75 CENTS
7%$.%3$!9 s -!9 s
LJWorld.com
Higher LHS Class of ’13 bids fond farewell City ed cut accepts of 3% rec bid, sought
with condition
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Budgets for the state’s public universities, including Kansas University, would be cut 1.5 percent for each of the next two fiscal years under a deal approved by Republican budget leaders on Tuesday. The proposal represented the first perceptible movement toward ending the wrap-up legislative session that started May 8 after a monthlong break following the regular session. N e g o tiations also began on Brownback proposed tax changes, although not much headway was made on that issue. Gov. Sam Brownback met early Tuesday with GOP leaders. Speaking briefly to reporters, Brownback said it was time for the Legislature to finish its business. “Everybody has to compromise,� Brownback said. A House-Senate budget conference committee pushed forward a spending plan that may be voted on by the full House today. Under the plan, universities would face a 1.5 percent cut for the fiscal year starting July 1, and another 1.5 percent cut for the fiscal year after that. Before the agreement, the House had proposed a 4 percent cut, while the Senate offered a 1 percent cut. Tim Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs at KU, said he was glad the size of Please see LEGISLATURE, page 4A
By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos
LAWRENCE HIGH GRADUATE SYDNEY WATSON excitedly runs to her friend Keeli Billings, a sophomore at LHS, following the 2013 commencement ceremony on Tuesday at Lawrence High School.
No matter where graduates go, they will always be Lions By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Surrounded by a stadium full of family, friends and other wellwishers, the 344 graduates of Lawrence High School stood together one last time Tuesday night, walking one by one across the field to be handed their diplomas. From there, members of the 139th graduating class of Lawrence High will go their separate ways, but most said they will always keep a part of Lawrence High with them.
“I like all the teachers here and have so many friends here that I’m going to miss,� said Kendra Vantuyl, who will soon be off to Utah to study nursing. Keyty Ashcraft Galve said she hasn’t nailed down her plans yet, although she wants to become a teacher. She plans to spend a couple of years at Johnson County Community College, and then perhaps move to California. “I don’t know what kind, and I don’t know LHS GRADUATE MONTANA LOCKE and his aunt, Traci McWaters, show a little leg for a photo with friends Please see LHS, page 8A following the commencement ceremony.
It is still a mystery how much a company led by Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel intends to charge the city for infrastructure improvements related to Rock Chalk Park and the city’s northwest Lawrence recreation center. But city commissioners on Tuesday began sending their own message about how much they expect to pay for the entire project: $21.6 million. City commissioners at their weekly meeting approved a preliminary debt resolution that anticipates the city will not spend Schumm more than $21.6 million for the entire construction project — including the cost of the 181,000-square-foot building, its parking lot, utilities, all management fees and soft costs that Fritzel’s company would receive. Commissioners expressed disappointment that neither Fritzel nor Kansas University Endowment — which controls the project site near Sixth Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway — had produced firm numbers on the infrastructure costs for Please see CITY, page 2A
Local residents eager to contribute to Oklahoma tornado relief By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Lawrence residents can empathize with the citizens of Moore, Okla.: Both live in Tornado Alley and are thus particularly sus-
ceptible to the whims of Mother Nature. That’s why many local people spent time Tuesday figuring out how they could help those in the Oklahoma City suburb, which was leveled by an EF5 tor-
Business Classified Comics Deaths
Low: 50
Today’s forecast, page 10A
who have been devastated by the tornado,� said the Rev. Peter Luckey, senior pastor at Lawrence’s Plymouth Congregational Church. “I think the feeling is the tornado could just as well have happened
INSIDE
Less humid
High: 73
nado Monday that left two dozen people dead and many more injured and homeless. “We are definitely taking up an offering this Sunday at service for the people of Oklahoma City
2A 1C-8C 7B 2A
Events listings Food Horoscope Movies
10A, 2B 8B-10B 7C 4A
Opinion Puzzles Sports Television
9A 7C 1B-6B 10A, 2B, 7C
Join us at Facebook.com/LJWorld and Twitter.com/LJWorld
in Lawrence, Kansas, as opposed to Moore, Oklahoma. We feel we need to step up and be generous and respond to their terrible pain.� Jane Blocher, executive director of American Red
Cross of Douglas County, said Tuesday that she had heard from local residents either wanting to donate their time or money to the people of Moore. Please see TORNADO, page 2A
Preschool to close
Vol.155/No.142 28 pages
The Head Start preschool that serves children in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Lawrence will close at the end of this school year, officials said. Page 3A
/BUJPOBM 4FOJPS )FBMUI BOE 'JUOFTT %BZ 8FEOFTEBZ .BZ B N " ! ! "
#
t XXX MNI PSH