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HAYDEN SLOUGH, 8, AND SUSAN OSBORN VOLUNTEER at the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, or LINK, Thursday at 10th and Kentucky streets. The two are part of a corps of volunteers who help keep the community kitchen running and the hungry fed.
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t’s been a good year for homegrown tomatoes. In some circles, you can’t avoid having paper sacks of them thrust upon you. Not that I often complain about being given homegrown tomatoes. And the people in the long line in front of me on this particular Thursday weren’t complaining, either. In fact, I don’t think I have ever been thanked so much for such a simple task. My job on this particular day at LINK, the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, was to hand out homegrown tomato slices and other veggies for diners to put on their hamburgers. I passed out more than 150 of those tomato slices, and it was the easiest “job” I’ve had in months, mainly because a group from Lawrence’s Plymouth Congregational
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Church did the real work. They organized the volunteers, cooked the food and, most importantly, did the dishes. A group from the church volunteers at LINK once a month. There are groups all over the community just like them. LINK, in the basement of the First Christian Church at 10th and Kentucky, serves a free midday meal for anyone who
VOLUNTEERS JIM MCDONALD, LEFT, AND TYLER RICE help prepare fresh corn Thursday for the lunch to be served at LINK. wants to eat it four days a week — Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays — and all holidays. Church groups are the most frequent volunteers, but you’ll also find Boy Scout troops, employees of private businesses and others. The Kansas University’s women’s basketball team is even
scheduled to participate in the coming weeks. From a distance, though, you have to wonder how this ever works. Volunteers show up to serve more than 200 meals a year, and they do so year after year after year?
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The advent of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have raised new questions about the separation between a person’s personal and professional life. But experts in employment law say the case of a Kansas University professor who was suspended this week after posting what some considered to be offensive remarks on Twitter raises a whole host of new legal questions about how
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governing political expressions by faculty and unclassified staff which says, in part, “Faculty and staff should therefore endeavor to be accurate, restrained, and respectful of other opinions, and should indicate that they are not speaking for the University.” But Selmi said the issue may not be as simple as that, especially regarding public employees who, he said, typically enjoy stronger First Amendment protection than Please see LAW, page 2A
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Report: Kansans face challenges in attaining education goals
Kansas higher education officials have received a sobering look into the future. A new report shows that if Kansas pursues its current strategy to increase the percentage of adults with a post-secondary degree or credential, it may actually fall further behind. “This is one of This is one of the most important public-policy is- the most imporsues we are going tant public-policy to tackle this year,” said Kansas Board issues we are goof Regents Chair- ing to tackle this man Fred Logan, of year.” Leawood. “There is not an easy an— Fred Logan, Kansas Board swer.” One of the re- of Regents chairman gents’ major goals is to increase to 60 percent the number of Kansas adults who have a certificate, credential, associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree by 2020. The number now is about 53 percent. But a report by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems shows that Kansas faces challenges in reach-
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Lawrence school district officials are now formally recommending that the new technical education center being funded with the recent bond issue be built at 31st and Haskell streets in conjunction with an adult job-training center to be developed by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. But the final decision will be up to the Lawrence school board, which will be asked to decide the issue when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday at the administration building, at 100 McDonald Drive. “Locating the center at this location provides advantages for USD 497,” Superintendent Rick Doll said in a memo to the board. Doll “Students would have access to more career and technical education programs and the collaborative planning among the school district, area colleges and business and economic development interests will be positive for the district and the community.” The facility, which the district is now calling the “College and Career Center,” was
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