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All semester, Kansas University freshman MacKenzie Oatman and her roommate had studied together for their introductory psychology classes. The two had enrolled in different sections of the same course for their first semester of college, and they were even using the same book. As far as they could tell, their tests were similar, too. But one thing was different. When their final grades came in, That one hurt a they told each other lot. I’m still a little how they’d done. bit bitter about it.� Oatman had scored a 92 percent for the course, and her — student MacKenzie roommate got a 90. Oatman, whose perfect A For Oatman’s average her first semester roommate, this was was ruined when she got great news. A 90 was all she needed an A-minus in a class. In the same course, Oatman’s for an A grade. But Oatman got a surroommate got a lower score but a straight A grade prise: Her 92 had because her teacher didn’t earned her an Aminus — the only uses pluses and minuses. blemish on an oth-
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erwise perfect first semester. She fell just short of a 4.0 gradepoint average. “That one hurt a lot,� said Oatman, who’s now a sophomore. “I’m still a little bit bitter about it.� This situation, where Oatman could earn a better percentage grade than her roommate but a lower letter grade, is possible because instructors in KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have the choice on whether to grade their students on the plain A-B-C-D-F scale or on a scale that includes plus or minus grades. That means that unless a department’s faculty votes to stick to one scale or Please see GRADES, page 2A
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AS A LONGTIME VICTIM’S ADVOCATE WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Dolores Moseley has seen many painful, sometimes horrifying, incidents of domestic violence. She helps guide crime victims through the court process and also tries to make sure they get the emotional support they need. Moseley is pictured at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center on Thursday.
Judicial advocate helps crime victims find strength, resources to carry on By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
If you’re ever robbed, beaten or defrauded, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself sitting across a desk from Dolores Moseley. Whatever has happened, you can tell her. After more than two decades as a victim/witness coordinator in the Douglas County
District Attorney’s Office, she’s seen almost every kind of tragedy. People who have been to her office say she will really listen to you, and then ask you, in a soft voice, if you are really OK, or if you might need some help. She’ll persuade you to testify against your attackers in court, and try not to let you think that your case is just one of hundreds that she deals with every day.
her with the Outstanding Victim Advocate award at the 16th annual Crime Victims’ Rights Conference. She’d been nominated by Sarah Jane Russell, executive director of GaDuGi SafeCenter, who often works with the same ‘Day in and day out’ domestic violence victims Moseley took a recent that Moseley sees. Moseley road trip to Wichita, where has won awards before, but Kansas Attorney General rarely mentions it. Derek Schmidt presented “I’ve done so many homicide cases, they blur together,� Moseley said Thursday, between court cases. “I never realized the horrific things people do to each other to until I worked here.�
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Incoming mayor to see ‘unprecedented’ growth on his watch By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
It may not be the most exciting goal a politician has ever come up with, but incoming Lawrence Mayor Mike Dever has one he wants the community to consider for the next year: Let’s catch our breath. Consider this: In 2013, the city will have three of the larger projects in its history under way all at once — the $19 million expansion of the Lawrence Public Library, a $25 mil-
lion regional recreation center, and a multiyear, multimillion dollar effort to convert the approximately 450-acre abandoned Farmland Industries fertilizer plant into a business park. “Any time you have a flurry of activity, I think it is probably wise to take a moment and stop and assess where you are at,� Dever said. If tradition holds, Dever, the city’s current vicemayor, will be selected by his fellow commissioners on Tuesday night to serve
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$64 million sewage treatment plant for the Wakarusa River. But these days, even a $64 million project can be topped. Although the city isn’t the main fund provider of the project, the completion of the eastern leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway will add about $200 million worth of construction activity into the community, beginning in Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo late 2013. Add it all up, and Dever LAWRENCE MAYOR-ELECT MIKE DEVER, FRONT, watches the believes the city is set to KU Spring Football game on Saturday with Jason Booker, general manager for Jayhawk Sports Marketing. Dever Please see DEVER, page 7A will be sworn in as mayor on Tuesday.
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a one-year term as mayor. It would be his second stint in the mayor’s seat. He also served as mayor during the 2008-2009 term. The timing, he said, is good. “People want to be where there is a lot of energy, and the energy in Lawrence is going to be palpable,� Dever said. Beyond the three big projects, the city also has approved a new citywide curbside recycling program, and design work is scheduled to begin on a
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KU students are working on interior redesign prototypes for the Ford Motor Co., and the public got a chance to see and test several of the new designs on Sunday. Page 3A
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