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Regents suggest flat tuition in exchange for restored cuts
Welcome to high school
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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AN ORIENTATION CREW MEMBER gets incoming freshmen into the spirit during a welcoming event Wednesday at Lawrence High School. Today is the first day of regular classes for the new high schoolers.
Special police unit to be deployed as KU students return to Lawrence By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Lawrence always gets a little wilder around this time of year as a new population of college students arrives and starts partying. But police here have organized a welcoming party of their own. The Lawrence Police Department is deploying a spe-
cial unit this week to greet Police aren’t saying the the influx of Kansas Univer- problem is unique to college sity students just arrivstudents. But anyone ing in town. The unit who has been downis tasked with curbing town, or near a busy risky behavior such bar elsewhere in the as drunken driving, city, on a Thursday or public intoxication Friday night during the and jaywalking, said school year will be faSgt. Trent McKinley, miliar with the sight of a Lawrence Police Depart- sidewalk melees or drunken ment spokesman. people walking in front of
cars. In one wild weekend in April, police arrested dozens of people for alcohol-related offenses, including 29 for drunken driving, three people for battery, six for open containers and two intoxicated pedestrians. The department hasn’t made public the number of
VALLEY FALLS —The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday discussed the possibility of keeping tuition flat next year if the Legislature restores $36 million in higher education funding that was cut during the 2013 session. Republican legislative leaders quickly responded that the regents are looking for scapegoats, and Gov. Sam Brownback, who opposed the deep cuts but signed them into law, suggested more conversation on the entire higher education funding issue. “It’s disappointing that the Regents are openly using students as hostages to unnecessarily extract money from taxpayers,” said Merrick House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell. Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, agreed. “Positioning Kansas students and families as bargaining chips in a budget debate is the wrong tactic,” Wagle said. “During an economic downturn that has slaughtered family budgets, they (regents schools) have dramatically expanded administration and salaries with little justification.” Earlier, several regents members said they thought it was a fair proposal. “I think it would be a powerful message,”
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Owners of pre-eminent K-State bookstore buy Jayhawk Bookstore By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
If that new crimson and blue Jayhawk shirt bleeds just a little bit of purple on you, you’ll know why. The ownership group of Varney’s — the self-proclaimed world’s largest retailer of Kansas State merchandise — has purchased the Jayhawk Bookstore at 1420 Crescent Road. But the store’s new owners said diehard KU fans don’t have to worry about Kansas State merchandise or sentiments infiltrating the longtime Jayhawk Bookstore at the top of the hill. “Think of it like a marriage but
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Inc., said with a laugh. “That first day I got to the Lawrence store, I put on a beautiful blue shirt with a Jayhawk on it. But when I wore it back to the store in Manhattan, you would have thought I was a leper.” The Varney’s brand name certainly won’t be making an appearance in Lawrence, Levin said. The new owners are keeping the Jayhawk Bookstore brand, and plan to turn around — Steve Levin, general manager some struggles at the store — of Varney’s which previously was owned by Nebraska Book Co., a Lincolnwith separate bank accounts,” based company that has been Steve Levin, general manager shedding a few properties since of Varney’s and the corporate Please see BOOKSTORE, page 2A entity University Book Store
That first day I got to the Lawrence store, I put on a beautiful blue shirt with a Jayhawk on it. But when I wore it back to the store in Manhattan, you would have thought I was a leper.”
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