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SEVENTH-GRADER TED CARTTAR GIVES A FINAL KARATE KICK after high-stepping across the gym floor, while Evan Stewart, left, Rowan Laufer and Tom Richardson observe and measure the attempt during the Smart Strength workout Thursday at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. About 50 students regularly participate in the after-school workout, which employs a plyometric training regimen.
awrence city officials haven’t forgotten about the idea of a curbside recycling program. A state law still is in place that stops the city from starting a new program before June 2014, but city officials have been spending a lot of time on the idea recently. Sources tell me that a committee of city officials and a couple of members of the city’s Solid Waste
‘Jump training’ used in after-school program to help keep students fit FORMER KU physical education instructor Bob Lockwood, a pioneer of plyometric training, watches the workout with Liberty Memorial Central teacher Michel Loomis.
By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Bob Lockwood spent many years at Kansas University, first as a student in the late 1950s, then as a coach, physical education instructor and researcher from the 1960s through the 1990s. Over the years, he pushed hundreds of students through his class called “Jump Training,� a rigorous training regimen that used a scientifically designed method called “plyometrics.�
That refers to training muscles to produce fast, powerful bursts of motion to maximize an athlete’s ability to jump and sprint.
So it was a poignant moment last week when Lockwood, now 74, came and watched one of his former students, Chad Richards, lead
an after-school fitness program at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School where two of the participants in class were Lockwood’s own grandchildren: eighthgrader Zach Lockwood and his sixth-grade sister, Lexie. But Lockwood said he wasn’t terribly surprised to see the training program that he helped pioneer in the United States be passed down to a third generation. “Really, my biggest
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Lawrence school board members began questioning the need for some items on a list of proposed bond-funded projects Monday as they began trying to pare down the
list they want votnology upgrades ers to approve in the and an expansion of spring. career and technical The board plans education programs to ask district voters for high school stuto approve a bond dents. issue on the April 2 SCHOOLS But board memballot to fund a disbers will need to trictwide package of build- hold the total package to ing improvements, tech- about $93 million or less,
By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
About two months after launching a $125,000 new online job-application system, Kansas University is preparing to scrap it and find a new solution. In his biweekly electronic newsletter to faculty and staff last week, KU Provost Jeff Vitter wrote that KANSAS the new sys- UNIVERSITY tem, which the university licensed from Oracle Corp., had fallen short of expectations and led to a “frustrating� situation. “It is clear that the Ora-
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the maximum amount of new debt the district can issue without having to seek permission from the state of Kansas. Because the district is also retiring some old bonds this year, officials Please see PROJECTS, page 2A
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Task Force spent seven hours last week listening to proposals from four companies or entities wanting to be involved in a proposed curbside recycling program in Lawrence. Please see RECYCLING, page 2A
KU looks to replace ‘frustrating’ system for job applications
School board begins to whittle down list of proposed bond-funded projects By Peter Hancock
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cle talent acquisition management module (TAM) is not how we want to present KU to prospective faculty and staff,� Vitter wrote. A bit more than 10 percent of people who’d tried to apply for faculty or staff jobs during the system’s first few weeks were unable to finish their applications, Vitter wrote. Diane Goddard, KU’s vice provost for administration and finance, said the system had proven confusing for people not familiar with the university. Applicants have had trouble locating the specific job listings they were interested in, she said, and some have also struggled to upload Please see KU, page 5A
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