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KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND FANS UNVEIL A LARGE KU BANNER and cheer on the Jayhawks before the start of the football game against TCU on Sept. 15 at Memorial Stadium. KU has no plans to begin selling alcohol at its games, unlike new Big 12 addition West Virginia University.
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When today’s Big 12 football game between Iowa State and Kansas University reaches halftime, some in attendance will leave their seats and head back to the site of their pregame tailgate for a taste of what they had consumed a couple of hours earlier. Some will even try to hide an alcoholic beverage in a flask upon re-entry, when security isn’t as tight
the suggestion of the university police chief and the Morgantown police chief, he looked into changing what was known as the “pass-out” policy. (It was so named not because of what excessive drinking can make someone do; rather because spectators leaving the stadium were given a pass that gave them the right to re-enter.) The more Luck looked into making a change, the
TOPEKA — A research attorney for a Kansas Court of Appeals judge was temporarily suspended from her job Friday pending an investigation about tweets she posted during a hearing in former Attorney General Phill Kline’s ethics case. Sarah Peterson Herr works for Judge Christel Marquardt. She’s on suspension while an internal investigation is conducted, judicial branch spokesman Ron Keefover said. The tweets were posted Thursday during a Kansas Supreme Court hearing deciding whether Kline’s law license should be indefinitely sus- Kline pended for his conduct during investigations of abortion providers. The comments appeared around 10 a.m. Thursday when Kline was standing before the seven-member court answering questions related to his conduct while attorney general and Johnson County district attorney. One tweet used offensive language to comment about Kline’s facial expression. Another predicted that Kline would be disbarred by the court for seven years for his conduct. Herr issued a statement to The Associated Press apologizing for how the public may perceive the judicial system based on her comments. She said that in her duties she had nothing to do with the Kline case nor has she discussed the case with those who do in the judicial branch. “I didn’t stop to think that in addition to communicating with a few of my friends on Twitter I was also communicating with the public at large, which was not appropriate for someone who works for the court system,”
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Twinkies no more? Hostess demise fuels fears Israel and Hamas were exchanging artillery fire over the Gaza Strip, the Jayhawks had pulled out a squeaker the night before over Chattanooga, and Free State was battling for the state football championship. But the big item of conversation in Lawrence on Friday, as it was around the country: the possible demise of Twinkies.
The iconic cream-filled golden yellow snack cakes were endangered by the sudden closing of its hedge fund-owned corporate parent, Hostess Brands, following a labor dispute with its biggest union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. The company said it would liquidate, immediately lay off its 18,500
workers and close its 33 plants and 565 distribution centers, including facilities in Lenexa (200 workers) and Emporia (500 workers). The reaction to this news was near-panic among Twinkie lovers. Junk food junkies rushed to clean out store inventories of their beloved golden cakes. The Massachusetts Street Dil-
lons, for instance, only had the inferior chocolate version of Twinkies left at noontime. Also threatened: related brands such as Hostess Cup Cakes, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and another famous American bakery brand name, Wonder Bread. Truth be told, this probably isn’t really the end of Twinkies and its snack food siblings. Odds are that
the brands and their recipes will be purchased in bankruptcy court and quickly revived by another manufacturer. But that didn’t stop the chatter about the death of Twinkies, and the JournalWorld went out on the streets in Lawrence to listen to what people were saying. — Staff Reports
If you couldn’t get a Twinkie, what would you reach for?
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Ashley Ferguson, barista, Overland Park “An oatmeal creme pie, duh.”
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Zachary Graham, doctoral student, Columbus, Ohio “I would reach for a beer.”
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Nancy O’Connor, nutrition educator at the Merc, Lawrence “A locally grown carrot.”
Rocio Gonzalez-Blas Perez, exchange student, Madrid, Spain “What’s a Twinkie?”
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