Lawrence Journal-World 06-21-13

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The ‘love’ garage on Mississippi Street, a favorite backdrop for photos, has been painted over with a whole new sentiment

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Increase to be funded with privately raised money By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved a nearly 14 percent pay increase for Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. The $60,000 increase will bring her annual salary to $492,650. Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz also received a $60,000 raise as the regents handed out pay hikes to leaders of all the state universities. The pay raises will be funded through private dollars at the foundations of the individual schools, the re- Gray-Little gents said. “We have six of the finest chief executive officers that we could ever ask for,” said Regent Chairman Tim Emert, of Independence. “We are doing everything we can to keep them in those positions,” he said. Regent Dan Lykins, of Topeka, said the uniPlease see RAISE, page 2A

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Planned Parenthood sues over state’s new abortion law By John Hanna

THROUGH THE YEARS Lawrencians have celebrated romantic moments in front of the ‘love’ garage at 1200 Mississippi St., including, clockwise from bottom left, Liz Coleman and her husband, Kyle; Jobetta Hedelman and Ty Beaver; Jaime and Matt Dupy; Kelly Heavey and Adam Collins; Chris and Rachel Vague; and, center, Lacey Hunsinger and Daniel Simonson. At bottom right is the painted-over garage. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com.

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Some deplore, some welcome mysterious end of ‘love’ By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

As many of us know, love doesn’t always last forever. So it goes, as well, with Lawrence’s “love” garage. The garage door on Mississippi Street across from Memorial Stadium that has acted as a background for

numerous engagement and wedding photos has been painted over. The how, why, when and who parts, however, are still unknown. Lawrence residents took to social media to express their displeasure with the new (technically illegal) work of public art. Some even talked of restoring it

of random tagging for decades. Even the “love” message itself was an act of vandalism. One day about six years ago, owner Deb Spencer decided she had had enough of the defacement. She painted the garage red. Please see LOVE, page 2A

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to the way it was before. “Boo! Who would do that!?” Gina DeBacker reacted after seeing a photo of the new paint job on Facebook. She and her husband, A.J., took their anniversary photos in front of it last year. In truth, however, the garage has been the site

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More than 100 students in the Lawrence school district’s Adult Learning Center and Diploma Completion program capped their academic achievements with a graduation ceremony Thursday. Page 3A

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TOPEKA — Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Thursday over a new Kansas law requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions that they’re ending the life of a “whole, separate, unique, living human being.” Planned Parenthood’s clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park and its director, Dr. Orrin Moore, contend in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court that the law violates doctors’ free speech rights guaranCOURTS teed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They say the statement that an abortion terminates the life of a separate human being requires them to make “a misleading statement of philosophical and/or religious belief.” The new Kansas requirements take effect

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