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Public health advocates in Douglas County recently finished putting the final touches on a long-range plan to improve the overall health of area residents. Now, they say, one of their biggest concerns is making sure the Roadmap to a Healthier Douglas County doesn’t just sit on a bookshelf collecting dust. HEALTH “We need to have some leaders in the community to take this on,” Dan Partridge, director of the LawrenceDouglas County Health Department, told county commissioners last week. “This requires community mobilization and people willing to take that public step and say, ‘I’ll own this piece and take it forward.’” Please see HEALTH, page 2A
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ZANE SUTTON, FROM LEFT, CALEB FOUSE, LAWRENCE RESIDENT SHAUN WHISLER AND AARON WALKER, members of the BoomTown Quartet, perform during a Central States District Barbershop Quartet Convention. BoomTown has qualified for the 75th Annual International Barbershop Quartet Contest, which is the first week of July in Toronto. See a video of a BoomTown performance at LJWorld.com.
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Post-tenure Barbershop sound has new buzz review plans Lawhorn’s T See them perform taking shape Lawrence here’s nowhere these guys won’t sing. Lawrence resident Shaun Whisler can tell you that chords carry well in a walk-in cooler. He’s a beer delivery man, and he’s caused many a bartender to wonder why Sinatra is rearranging the Budweisers. Caleb Fouse is a high school basketball coach, and he can tell you a little bit of a cappella classic rock puts an extra bounce in the steps of his players running full-court sprints. Both Whisler and Fouse actually perform on a stage from time to time, too. They’re part of a musical group in which singing had better be second nature. A
The BoomTown Quartet will be in concert at 2 p.m. June 30 at Central United Methodist Church, at 1501 Massachusetts St. Admission is free, but the group will accept donations to help pay for a trip to Toronto for the International Barbershop Quartet Contest.
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short rehearsal will last at least four hours, but more common is the group getting together at someone’s home and singing for an entire weekend. Even when they’re supposed to be taking a break from singing, they can’t
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those traditional red and white candy-striped dandy suits, those must just be their golfing clothes because they try hard not to be that type of barbershop quartet. “One of the things we try to do is break down the stereotypes of barbershop quartets,” Fouse said. I don’t know about you, but the fact that there are Please see QUARTET, page 2A
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help themselves. “We have fun while we’re doing it,” Fouse says of the marathon practices. “We’ll take a break and go to the golf course, but we still sing a little bit while we’re playing.” A singing foursome? No, this group isn’t a foursome. It is a quartet — an actual honest-to-goodness barbershop quartet called BoomTown Quartet. But if you see them in
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As leaders try to make Kansas University more of a research power, professors who’ve already earned tenure will soon begin facing periodic reviews to make sure they’re still on track. But what if professors wind up spending so much time being reviewed, or reviewing each other, that there’s little time left for them to do research in the first place? That’s the fear some KU faculty have as the university works to meet a spring 2014 Kansas Board of Regents deadline to institute post-tenure review — a long-range look at each tenured faculty member’s productivity every five to seven years. At a Faculty Senate meeting last month,
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