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Lawrence in good shape compared with similar communities

Tour offers look at food sources During this weekend’s Kaw Valley Farm Tour, the public can get an upclose look at area farms, flora and fauna and where their food comes from. The tour continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Page 3A

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Stewart, O’Reilly tussle in debate Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart bantered aggressively but good-naturedly over birth control, President George W. Bush and the so-called “War on Christmas” during a mock debate Saturday. Page 8A

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It’s sort of like a bedtime story: As long as you don’t go too far away from the original, the child is happy. The audience gets what it’s expecting: beautiful girls, actions, gadgets — there’s a formula.” — Actor Roger Moore, talking about how the James Bond movie franchise, which turns 50 this month, has survived for so long. Page 10A

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A PARTICIPANT IN THE COLOR RUN LAWRENCE COMES OUT OF THE ORANGE COLOR ZONE during the 5K run Saturday in East Lawrence. The event, held for the first time in Lawrence, drew more than 7,000 people. TOP: Volunteers spray runners with yellow at the first color station outside Van Go Inc., 715 N.J., Saturday during the Color Run.

Thousands flock downtown for ‘happiest 5K on the planet’ By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com

Yellow haze. Tara Gregg says that’s about the best way to describe the half-block of New Jersey Street in front of Van Go Inc., 715 N.J., on Saturday afternoon. Gregg was there, spraying the yellow. “Some people were a little freaked out, but others wanted as much color as possible,” she said. Gregg is an AmeriCorps volunteer at Van Go and signed up to be one of the color applicators in Color Zone 1 during Lawrence’s first Color Run, a 5K race started last year by a company in Colorado. What made this run different? The sprays of colored cornstarch and the boast that it’s “the happiest 5K on the planet.” Des Moines, Iowa, Cincinnati and Tuscaloosa, Ala., all had color runs Saturday, too. But before Lawrence’s race started, it was the best — at least in terms of participating. National organizer Chiara

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COLOR RUN PARTICIPANTS WEARING TUTUS EMERGE from the orange zone near 11th and Pennsylvania streets Saturday. The race dubs itself “the happiest 5K on the planet.” Fronce said that nearly 7,000 people had shown up by 3 p.m. Amy Shannon came from Iola to participate, by way of Humboldt, where she’d already done one 5K earlier in the day. But that one didn’t involve a white, pigtailed wig and frilly tutu.

“We wanted to do this to dress up — we’re crazy like that,” she said. Sam and Karen Sutton, of Topeka, were a little more excited about the running than the color. It was Sam’s first 5K and Karen’s attempt Please see COLOR, page 6A

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It’s time to get out the tongue depressor and poke and prod the city of Lawrence’s checkbook. Once a year, Lawrence City Auditor Michael Eglinski puts the city’s finances through a series of tests and examinations. It is not the city’s official certified-public-accountant type of audit, which generally produces a mass of technical jargon and figures. Instead, Eglinski’s report compares Lawrence’s finances with a host of other similarly sized university communities across the country. “I view this report a little bit like the checkup you get at the doctor’s office,” Eglinski said. “You get some advice to exercise a little more and watch what you eat.” But Eglinski said that all in all, his review of the city’s 2011 finances indicates the patient is in pretty decent health. “When I talk to my colleagues, I think they are envious of the situation we have here,” Eglinski said. “Nationwide, there are some communities that are doing terrible. They’re talking about bankruptcy and large layoffs. We’re not having those type of discussions.” But, hey, no doctor ever lets you off that easy. So, yes, there are some signs that Lawrence could stand to eat a few more vegetables and little less candy in a few areas. Here’s a look at some of the major findings of the city’s 2011 Financial Indicators Audit: !" Lawrence is in a stronger position to maintain its government services than many other communities. Eglinski creates a ratio of Lawrence’s revenue and assets versus its expenses Please see CHECKUP, page 2A

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KU relying more on revenue from tuition, fees Per-student “ state funding fell 30% from 2002-2010 By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com

The National Science Board sounded the alarm late last month about declining state funding of public research universities across the country. A report from the NSB noted that state funding

per student, adjusted for inflation, had fallen by an average of 20 percent across the country between 2002 and 2010. But at Kansas University, the problem has been even bigger. According to a KU presentation to the Kansas Board of Regents this spring, per-student state funding fell by more than 30 percent at KU over the same period of time. Between the 2003-04 and 2011-12 academic years, state appropriations declined from 27.3

Our great concern is ensuring that young people who are prepared to be successful can afford to come to the University of Kansas.” — Tim Caboni, KU’s vice chancellor for public affairs percent of the university’s revenue to 21 percent, according to data from the university’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning. Rising to fill that gap were revenues from tuition and fees, which rose from 14.6 percent to 19.8 percent of revenues, and

grants and contracts, which went from 21.4 percent to 26.2 percent. By pure dollar amounts, revenue from tuition and fees grew by about 90 percent during that span, from about $124.5 million to $236.8 million. The gap between state money and tuition and fee money

shrank from $109 million in 2003 to $14.4 million in 2011. Annual tuition rates more than doubled for in-state undergraduates during that time, while the increase for out-ofstate undergrads was about 76 percent. (For comparison’s sake, those figures are based on standard rates, not the rates for the four-year tuition pact that has applied to new freshmen since fall 2007.) Please see KU, page 6A


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