Lawrence Journal-World 09-27-2015

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KAPPA SIGMA

One year after turmoil, frat is still paying Four separate entities investigated accusations of sexual assault By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Over homecoming weekend 2014, an informal party thrown by freshmen at Kansas University’s Kappa Sigma fraternity house got out of control. There was “excessive” To the underage drinking by frabest of our ternity pledges as well as by female guests, the fra- knowledge, ternity has acknowledged. they are Within days, allegations surfaced that one or more continuing women had been sexually to comply.” assaulted in the midst of it, maybe even drugged. — Erinn BarcombA year later, Kappa Sigma Peterson, KU is paying as an organization. spokeswoman It’s still unclear whether anyone is paying as an individual — at least to the public and fraternity leaders.

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Lawrence School Board member Kristie Adair, left, gets a firsthand look at some robotics Saturday during an open house at the Lawrence College and Career Center, 2910 Haskell Ave.

SCHOOL PROJECTS I REACH HALFWAY MARK

Project costs

and the results are good,” Lawrence schools Superintendent Rick Doll told t may have been Satattendees of the ribbonurday, but the doors to cutting ceremony at the several schools across LCCC, the bond project’s Lawrence were only new building. open. A ribbon cutOf the 21 total ting and “Parade of school projects, 11 Schools” celebrated are substantially what marks the complete, Doll said. halfway point in the Projects at four bond construction schools — Kennedy, SCHOOLS projects to improve Woodlawn and all of the district’s faciliSunset Hill elementaries, ties, as well as build the and Lawrence High — are Lawrence College and set to wrap up in early Career Center. Please see PROJECTS, page 2A “We made it through,

By Rochelle Valverde

Twitter: @RochelleVerde

Cordley: $8.9 million Hillcrest: $8.4 million LCCC: $6.9 million New York: $5.4 million Quail Run: $4.9 million Langston Hughes: $3.2 million

Please see FRAT, page 5A

Public tries policing without racial bias

— Source: Lawrence School District

Inside: School board will vote Monday on new inspection plan with city. 3A

At Cowboy Church, faith and fury mingle

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randon Milam has been riding bulls since he was about 4 years old, and he’s been riding big bulls for the past five years. “It’s all I want to do,” he said.

— Scott Mendes, professional bull riding champion KEATON YOUNGER TAKES A SPILL OFF A BULL Saturday at the Crossroads Cowboy Church in Williamstown. Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

myself. I found myself going out the last couple of weekends, and you drink and all that,” he said. “You can’t get away from it in the rodeo world.” You can’t get away

from the nightlife culture, he said, unless you’re at a place like the Crossroads Cowboy Church in Williamstown, north of Lawrence, a place where Western culture and wor-

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ship intertwine. “We started out in a circus tent five years ago, and it has grown,” organizer James Hathaway Please see CHURCH, page 8A

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About 25 Lawrence residents Saturday learned from Lawrence Police Department officers about “Fair and Impartial Policing” training officers are given to address the topics of racial and other bias-based policing. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., participants learned about recognizing their natural biases, how to address them and how those biases can have dire consequences. The first of its kind for the public, the training was by invitation only, and members of the Citizen’s Advisory Board of Fair and Impartial Policing asked many city officials, including Vice Mayor Leslie Soden, Lawrence schools faculty and religious leaders to attend. Throughout the morning, participants learned about the “implicit

Bull riding is a crazy sport, but it can be used for positive things.”

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By Conrad Swanson

Since he was a child, Milam, 19, said he’s come to notice a pattern in the bull-riding culture. It’s full of temptation. “I’ve got to control

By Caitlin Doornbos

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Stepping out in Society Please find last week’s engagements and wedding announcements on page 6A.

Please see POLICING, page 8A

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