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City to use blue lights to catch red-light runners By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Red means stop, green means go, blue means — wait, what? Drivers on 23rd Street after Wednesday morning might be surprised to see blue traffic lights when they cross Loui-
siana and Iowa streets. The blue lights don’t signal some new traffic rule; they’re meant to help enforce an old standard: stopping at the red light. City workers and research-
ers from the Kansas University School of Engineering are partnering to install eight blue lights Wednesday at the intersections of 23rd and Louisiana and 23rd and Iowa streets as part of an experimental traffic safety effort. Drivers don’t need to do anything different when they
see the blue lights perched at the four points of each intersection, said Steven Schrock, one of the leaders of the research group and an assistant professor at KU’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.
Parking meters stolen Lawrence police are seeking the public’s help in finding a thief who has been cutting down and stealing parking meters in downtown Lawrence. Page 4A
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‘Someone loaned me a paddle, and I was hooked’
Commission delays signing of Rock Chalk Park contract By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
with a lowered net. Typically the game is played as a doubles set. Although the sport isn’t as known as tennis or badminton, Douglas County’s pickleball programs are gaining popularity through
A little last-minute math is in order before Lawrence city commissioners sign a key development agreement for the Rock Chalk Park recreation center and sports park. Commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting deferred action on the agreement that will formalize the public-private partnership among the city, a Kansas University Endowment entity and a private company led by Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel. Instead, commissioners said they wanted staff members to add new language to the agreement that will help the city track how much contractors are spending on infrastructure at the site. “I have been for this project the whole time, but we owe it to the public to get this (agreement) right,� said City Commissioner Jeremy Farmer, who argued that approval of the agreement Farmer should be delayed at least a week. “This is the one we can’t screw up.� Commissioners expect to bring the agreement up for approval at next week’s meeting.
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PLAYERS JANET DUNN, from left, Ray Lisher, Nancy Hodges and Charles Hart play pickleball recently at Lyons Park in North Lawrence. The game has been growing in popularity, especially among older residents.
Pickleball proves a hit with seniors By Meagan Thomas mthomas@ljworld.com
Ginny Honomichl played basketball for Kansas State University, then coached tennis for 38 years. So when a friend suggested that she try pickleball, she jumped at the chance to compete
in something new, even though she didn’t quite know what it was. “I went up (to Lawrence) with nothing other than wanting to know how to play the game,� said Honomichl, of Baldwin City. “Someone loaned me a paddle, and I was hooked.�
In Lawrence and across the nation, seniors are picking up a paddle to play pickleball. Pickleball is a combination of tennis, badminton and table tennis. It’s played with a hard paddle, a plastic ball similar to a Wiffle ball and on a badminton court
Officials say immigration bill would help KU recruit internationally The bill would give international graduate students in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — a direct, quick path The sweeping immigration bill approved by to permanent U.S. residency via a green card the U.S. Senate last week after graduation. By Matt Erickson
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might face difficulty in the House of Representatives, but among ing greeted with cheers. officials in Kansas UniThat’s because, alongversity’s International side a route to citizenship Programs office, it’s be- for 11 million unauthorized
And some of the bill’s provisions would help KU and other American universities keep a global focus, he said. The bill would give international graduate students in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — a direct, quick path to permanent U.S. residency via
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would help KU and other research universities compete for the most talented graduate students and researchers in the world. “For us to remain viable as a research university, we have to be an international research university,� said Chuck Olcese, KU’s director of international student services.
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a green card after graduation. And foreigners who earn Ph.D.s at American universities in any field would have an easier route to a green card than they have now. That means KU, and other U.S. universities, might have an easier time Please see KU, page 2A
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Douglas County commissioners will be asked to give the final goahead for a new public works facility to be built southeast of Lawrence on East 25th Street. Page 3A
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