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Arts Center signs big names to board By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
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As the Lawrence Arts Center looks to expand its reach in terms of audience and financial support, leaders hope a team of big names from the region and beyond can help. The Arts Center on Friday ann o u n c e d members of its first National Advi- Tate sory Board. The five members are people whom Arts Center staff and board of directors members have consulted in recent years in an informal capacity, executive director Susan Tate said. “We are very interested in seeking the advice of exPlease see ARTS, page 2A
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Friction between Legislature, higher ed officials is of a new kind By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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A NEW GENERATION EMBARKED ON ITS ACADEMIC CAREER Friday with the first day of kindergarten. Clockwise from top: Annie Pilakowski kisses her dog Bobby goodbye before heading off to Langston Hughes School; Murphy Nowak walks home with his mother, Courtney Nowak, after his first day at Prairie Park School; Mitzi Robinson greets her son, Simn (pronounced Simon), after his first day at Broken Arrow School; and Summer Smetak walks to Langston Hughes School with her sister, Sydney, a fifth-grader. Read their stories on page 7A. And see the photo galleries at LJWorld.com.
DUI crash survivor hopes to become agent for change By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Becky Chapman says it’s the little details that often have the biggest effect on people: how she didn’t get to wash her hair or shower for two months; how dead skin accumulated on her feet and
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BECKY CHAPMAN, of Lawrence, stands near the spot where she was a victim of a DUI accident. The Kansas Department of Transportation and law enforcement agencies statewide are cooperating this Labor Day in “You drink. You drive. You lose,” a statewide initiative to raise public awareness of the hazards of impaired driving.
legs until her daughter started peeling layers of it off; how she pulled two scabs off the back of her head covered with hair that didn’t grow back. Six years ago, Chapman was driving south of Lawrence when an intoxicated
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The relationship between higher education officials and Republican legislative leaders can be described in two words: It’s complicated. After a budget-cutting 2013 legislative session, the Kansas Board of Regents spent much of its annual retreat this week discussing how to deal with those leaders in preparation for the 2014 legislative session, which starts in January. Regents Chairman Fred Logan, of Leawood, said he sees no reason for universities to apologize. “There needs to be a fullthroated defense about what we are doing,” Logan said. But Republicans in charge of the Legislature, in word and deed, show they have problems with Kansas’ public higher education system. Please see ANALYSIS, page 2A
Budget director resigns Kansas Budget Director Steve Anderson is resigning after more than three years as an architect of conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s fiscal policies. Page 3A
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