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University considering appeal, leader says By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com
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LARRY KWAK, LEFT, AND HIS FORMER SEVENTH-GRADE TEACHER at West Junior High School, Barbara Thomas, reminisce about his 1971 school year in her class during Friday’s Lawrence Schools Foundation’s 11th annual Community Education Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Lawrence. Kwak, a distinguished researcher who helped develop a promising cancer vaccine, was back in Lawrence to give the keynote address at the event.
Eminent cancer researcher says success started in Lawrence schools By Karrey Britt kbritt@ljworld.com
Dr. Larry Kwak, worldrenowned cancer researcher, credits the opportunities he was given as a student in Lawrence public schools for some of his success. Those opportunities, he said on Friday, started at Sunset Hill School, where a teacher rewarded creativity, and continued through high school, where he could bounce ideas off his chemistry teacher. He recalled reading and watching on a reel-to-reel projector stage productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Del Fambrough’s English literature class, and he remembered how she challenged students to dig deeper and dissect each
brough had taught us how to write and realizing the true value of my Lawrence High School education,” he said. “I really like how Aristotle describes excellence: ‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit,’ and this is why I think the Lawrence Public School system has really excelled over the years.” Kwak was keynote speaker Friday at the Lawrence Schools Foundation’s annual Community EducaSTUDENTS FROM KENNEDY SCHOOL’S pre-kindergarten class tion Breakfast, which was perform “The Wheels on the Bus” Friday at the Lawrence attended by 550 community members. It raised about Schools Foundation’s 11th annual Community Education $65,000 for the foundation, Breakfast at Holiday Inn Lawrence. which supports Lawrence public schools. character. He said he ago- I recall writing at NorthKwak, a 1977 Lawrence nized over writing essay western University as a High School graduate was papers. freshman and being so Please see DOCTOR, page 7A “As painful as it all was, thankful that Mrs. Fam-
Haskell Indian Nations University President Chris Redman provided more specifics this week about academic violations that placed all of the school’s athletics programs on probation through 2014. Since May, after receiving anonymous tips that the school was under investigation, the Journal-World has sought more information about the violations. Although the school has issued two news releases during the past several months about the investigation, it’s been unclear what the violations were and how they had been discovered. Last week, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, or NAIA, placed Haskell on probation through 2014 because of the violations. According to Redman, the Redman initial investigation, conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, revealed:
Academic fraud involving one member of the 2009 men’s basketball team who had taken an online course through another community college and had received additional and fraudulent assistance in the course. Haskell was required to forfeit nine basketball games from the season in which the student had played. The player left Haskell that year and any credit he received from courses at Haskell was nullified.
A member of the 2010 football team submitted a fraudulent ACT score upon admission to the school. At the time, the school accepted ACT scores from students themselves. At some point, the score had been fraudulently altered to enable the player’s athletic eligibility. Redman said it was never determined who altered the score. The school was required to forfeit the one game the player had played in. Any credit the student received from Haskell was also nullified. Redman said the school has instituted a new policy and database system designed to Please see HASKELL, page 2A
Supreme Court orders new trial for man convicted of killing girlfriend By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com
The Kansas Supreme Court Friday ordered a new trial for a Lawrence man convicted in the 2006 death of his girlfriend. Christopher Belone, 41, was convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death in July 2006 of Linda Begay, Lawrence. Begay died of an abdominal infection days after Belone struck her in the stomach with a coffee-table leg during a beating at Gaslight Village mobilehome park.
The court ordered a new trial after finding a district court judge erred in allowing into evidence statements Begay made to police before she died. Belone Based on case law decided following Belone’s conviction, the admission of such evidence violated Belone’s Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses, the court stated in its opinion.
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verdict. Without that degree of certainty, we cannot declare the error to be harmless.” In 2007, Belone — who also was convicted of kidnapping, obstruction and violation of a protection order — was sentenced by Douglas County District Judge Jack Murphy to 48 years in prison. Murphy retired in January 2009. At some point, Belone will be transferred back to Douglas County Jail, and a decision will be made what to charge Belone with, said Douglas County Dis-
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A Kansas Court of Appeals previously ruled that Belone’s rights were violated when the statements were admitted, but found that “the error was harmless because of ‘overwhelming’ evidence,’” and denied a new trial. The Kansas Supreme Court disagreed with that assessment, stating: “Here, the state has simply failed to carry its burden of showing that there is no reasonable possibility that the violation of Belone’s confrontation rights contributed to the
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trict Attorney Charles Branson. “We are going to review the court’s decision and determine the best way to proceed. ... After the case was tried, new and significant interpretations were handed down by the United States Supreme Court with regard to the right to confrontation,” Branson said. “We will retry Mr. Belone but we will have to determine if this will affect what he is charged with.” — Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 8327173. Follow him at Twitter.com/shaunhittle.
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