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Federal judges issue redistricting map By John Hanna Associated Press
Three federal judges set new political boundaries for Kansas in a ruling late Thursday night, putting Lawrence completely in the 2nd District represented by Rep. Lynn Jenkins but moving Manhattan to the 1st District. The panel released the order in a federal lawsuit that was filed
last month. The judges drew new boundaries for congressional, state House, state Senate and State Board of Education districts because the Republican-dominated Legislature failed to do so. The maps needed to be adjusted to account for population shifts over the past decade,
though a bitter feud among Republicans prevented passage of any political maps. “As a result, the court has regretfully resorted to the painstaking task of drawing its own plans,” the judges said in the unsigned order, which was more than 200 pages long.
A key change in the state’s congressional map will expand the 1st District of western and central Kansas so that it takes in Manhattan, home to Kansas State University. Many Republicans wanted the city to stay in the 2nd District of eastern Kansas.
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INSIDE KU women in 2nd at championships Francine Simpson, ranked fourth in the nation in long jump, placed fourth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships on Thursday. The KU women are tied for second place after six completed events out of 21. Page 1B
Teens admit to distracted driving More than half of high school seniors admitted in a government survey that they’ve texted while driving, and about 43 percent of high school juniors admit the same. The U.S. Transportation secretary on Thursday called texting and cellphone use behind the wheel “a national epidemic.” Page 7A
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He was so afraid of how people would view him once he went for help.” — Kim Ruocco, widow of Marine Maj. John Ruocco, an Iraq veteran who committed suicide rather than seek treatment for mental health issues. Suicide numbers are rising among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan; suicides of active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan during the same time. Page 7A
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FIVE STUDENTS FROM LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL will be heading to the National Forensic League’s Speech and Debate Tournament that runs Sunday through June 15 in Indianapolis. Gathered recently at LHS were, from left, Lauren Pauls, a junior, Eddie Loupe, a junior, debate coach Jeff Plinsky, and seniors Alex Glanzman and Megan Tunget. Not pictured is J’Qui Audena, a senior.
LHS students cram for prestigious speech and debate tournament By Christine Metz
School might be out, but five Lawrence High School students expect to face one of their biggest academic challenges of the year as they head to the National Speech and Debate Tournament this weekend. On Saturday, the debate team and their coaches will load up plastic boxes full of research and make the eight-hour drive to Indianapolis. LHS traditionally sends a few students each year to the national tournament. But coach Jeff Plinsky said the number of entries qualifying this year is more than any on re-
cord (which goes back could help him form an to the mid-1980s). argument. “I am as excited “Last year, nationabout this group as I als was the highlight have been about any I of my summer, seeing have ever taken,” Plin- all the different people sky said. “I’d like to see competing in all the difif we can get to ferent events,” the elimination Glanzman said. round.” Eddie Loupe, For senior a junior, and Alex Glanzman Megan Tunget, this will be the a senior, will second time at be competing nationals. Glanin the LincolnSCHOOLS zman will be Douglas Decompeting in interna- bate. They will be artional extemporaneous guing for and against a speaking and given 30 government’s obligaminutes to prepare an tion to lessen the ecoimpromptu speech con- nomic gap between its cerning foreign politics. rich and poor citizens. To prepare, GlanFor practice, the two zman has filled five have been debating plastic boxes full of ar- each other, which can ticles (arranged by re- have its pitfalls when gion of the world) that you have to argue both
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Arts funding won’t be matched quickly TOPEKA (AP) — Even though next fiscal year’s budget restores $700,000 in arts funding, it will be at least a year before federal and regional matching funds will return to Kansas, the executive director of a regional arts foundation said. Kansas won’t get any matching funds in fiscal 2013, said Mary Kennedy, executive director of the MidAmerica Arts Alliance. The regional arts group, along with the National Endowment for the Arts, supplied matching grants, programs and services un- Kansas became til Gov. Sam the first state B r o w n b a c k in the nation deleted arts to stop funding funding from the arts last the state bud- year when Gov. get a year ago. Sam Brown“This is back vetoed sort of an in- $700,000 for terim year the former arts for them to commission. basically get ramped up and back in the mix,” Kennedy said. The budget for fiscal year 2013 includes $700,000 for the new Creative Arts Industries Commission, which will combine the Kansas Arts Commission and the Kansas Film Commission within the Department of Commerce. The money comes from gambling revenues. The commission won’t exist until the new fiscal year starts July 1, said Dan Lara, spokesman for the commerce department. After an Please see ARTS, page 2A
D-Day memories still vivid for local veteran, 94 By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com
Just after midnight on the morning of June 7, 1944, from a precariously secured point in Normandy, Capt. Roy Creek breathed a sigh of relief. “Ah,” he said about the experience, which was 68 years ago this week, during a talk at the Dole Institute of Politics on Kansas University’s West Campus on Thursday. “At least now DDay is over.”
At least, the initial invasion by Allied troops was over and on its way into the history books, but, of course, the mission was far from complete. Creek and Creek the 82nd Airborne Division had parachuted onto Utah Beach and into one of the most famous battles of World War II. Shortly after,
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sides of the issue. “He used my argument against me,” Tunget said of a recent practice round. “You should take that as a compliment,” Loupe replied. Loupe, who was so nervous about making it to nationals that his teammates thought he would pass out, is looking forward to more than just the competition. “This is the most intelligent, witty group of people I know. And I’m going to be in a van with them for eight hours,” Loupe said. Lauren Pauls, a junior, qualified for nationals in congressional
Manhattan-area officials also wanted to stay in the 2nd District, arguing that their community had more in common with eastern Kansas. That prompted legislators to consider proposals that split major eastern Kansas communities — Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence — so that part of each would have been lumped into the 1st District with
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Creek and fellow soldiers in the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment successfully captured and held a bridge near Chef-du-Pont, France. He survived and continued a military career long after the war, eventually retiring as a colonel. A resident of Lawrence, he’s now 94 years old. Creek spoke to about 100 people, several of whom were veterans of some kind themselves, at the Dole Institute with Robin Reed, president of the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va.
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Events like this one are important to continue to remember D-Day and bring it to life to new generations of people, especially as the number of surviving World War II veterans decreases, Reed said. The national memorial is in Bedford because it was determined to represent the highest per-capita death rate from the invasion — 19 soldiers from the town were killed in the first day. Please see D-DAY, page 2A