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KU fans to mix with living dead as events overlap By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
All right, college sports oddsmakers, here’s one for you: the Kansas University football team versus a slow-moving horde of the undead. Bets? Anyone? Just kidding. Gambling on college sports is technically illegal, of course,
and zombies much prefer brains to pigskins. But this fall will see the Jayhawks and zombies on the same turf for the first time in NCAA history. This year’s KU homecoming parade is scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 3 on Massachusetts Street, just one hour before the Lawrence Zombie Walk, a yearly stroll down the sidewalks of Mass. by people dressed as the living dead who are out to raise money for the Law-
rence Humane Society. Depending on how you figure it, the zombies were here first. The homecoming parade left downtown decades ago, while the Zombie Walk is in its seventh year downtown. You also have to give Please see EVENTS, page 5A
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‘1863 is still in Lawrence today’
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STEVE NOWAK, DIRECTOR OF THE WATKINS MUSEUM OF HISTORY, at 1047 Massachusetts St., talks Thursday about the new permanent installation focusing on Quantrill’s Raid. The exhibit will be unveiled this evening at an invitation-only gala, then opened to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Read about a new take on the border war on Page 3A.
Commemoration of city raid a solemn and proud occasion By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
From an explosion of tweets to a solemn reading of the names of those violently slain, area residents will spend the next several days remembering the watershed event in Lawrence’s history. William Quantrill and a band of Missouri ruffians
killed more than 180 men and boys and left much of Lawrence burned to the ground in a massacre that took place 150 years ago this Wednesday. “I hope everybody comes away from these next few days with a real pride for the Lawrence community,” said Fred Please see RAID, page 2A
on Saturday, highlights Quantrill’s Raid survival stories both small and A new $300,000 per- large. manent exhibit at the Take, for example, Watkins Museum of an antique chair that is History, which will be Please see EXHIBIT, page 2A unveiled to the public By Chad Lawhorn
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The U.S. Department of Education is warning Kansas that it is in danger of losing its waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law because teachers in Kansas still are not being evaluated on the basis of how well their students score on standardized reading and math tests. State education officials, however, insist they are on schedule in developing that new system, and they will have it in place for use by most districts in the 2014-15 school year. Assistant U.S. Education Secretary Deborah Delisle said in a letter Wednesday that she placed Kansas on “high risk status,” but that the waiver would be extended through the end of this school year provided that the state responds SCHOOLS within 30 days with detailed plans explaining how it intends to implement new evaluations. “At this time, Kansas has not demonstrated that the method it has selected actually results in including student growth as a significant factor and that the system as proposed meaningfully differentiates among teachers,” the letter states. “We don’t believe we’re high risk, but we do believe we’re on track as a state to move forward,” Brad Neuenswander, the state’s deputy education commissioner for learning services, said in response.
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The Kansas Board of Regents says its top priorities are restoring public universities’ funds cut by the Legislature and pushing for help to build a health education building. Page 3A
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