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KU leaders speak out against gun law By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
The Kansas University chancellor and 70 of the school’s distinguished professors have formally spoken out against the concealed carry of guns on campus. Chancellor Bernadette GrayLittle addressed the issue in her
Chancellor still stresses need for compliance chancellor’s message to KU faculty and staff on Monday. “I want to be clear that I am not in favor of allowing concealed carry on university campuses,” Gray-Little wrote. “I also realize that not everyone at KU or across the state will agree with my opinion. I appreciate
that, and as always, I encourage you to share your perspectives with state lawmakers.” The KU distinguished professors’ statement, dated Friday, followed a similar one from professors at Kansas State University. Please see KU, page 2A
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Shelter’s financial troubles examined ——
Slow fundraising, new facility blamed By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
The cost of moving to a new facility in 2012, coupled with a slow fundraising environment, caused the Lawrence Community Shelter’s drastic revenue shortfall this year that led to the nonprofit requesting emergency funding from the city and county to stay afloat. Findings about the shelter’s financial instability are outlined in a performance audit that will be presented to the Lawrence City Commission today. City Auditor Michael Eglinski was tasked with looking into the revenue shortfall in July after the shelter received more than $100,000 in emergency funds from Lawrence and Douglas County. Please see SHELTER, page 6A
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MATTHEW SURMACZEWICZ, A SEVENTH-GRADER AT RAINTREE MONTESSORI SCHOOL, sings with the Lawrence Civic Choir members Monday evening as they rehearse for their holiday concert at the Lawrence Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the church. See a video of the choir rehearsing at LJWorld.com/makewejoy.
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atthew Surmaczewicz loves to sing — whether it’s for a crowd of 20,000 at the International Choral Festival in Missoula, Mont., or at home in Eudora, singing, the 13-year-old soprano says, makes him “joyful.” He’ll share that joy Saturday evening at the Lawrence Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave., where the Lawrence Civic Choir is staging its 41st annual holiday concert, aptly titled “Make We Joy.” “That’s really what this is all about,” says David Ice, the choir’s president. “This is a joyous season, and
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If you go “Make We Joy” is slated for 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave. Tickets are $15, and can be purchased at the door or from a member of the Lawrence Civic Choir.
Initial designs coming soon for potential jail expansion By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
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we want to make joyous music to commemorate the season.” The theme takes its name from one of the pieces in this year’s program, which also features
favorites such as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” “Auld Lang Syne” and the night’s crown jewel, Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms.” Matthew, a seventh-grader at Lawrence’s Raintree Montessori School, will accompany the choir as a guest soloist during the notoriously difficult piece (it’s
sung entirely in Hebrew). “The work the individuals in the Civic Choir have put into this to master the Hebrew and also the notes, of course, is a real effort,” Ice says. “Most civic choirs like ours or nonprofessional choirs don’t touch this piece.”
Preliminary designs and cost estimates for the county’s potential jail expansion and mental health crisis intervention center projects may be ready early next year, it was revealed at a town hall meeting Monday evening. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, county officials and community partners held the meeting in the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.,
Please see CHOIR, page 2A
Please see JAIL, page 2A
Heard on KU the most Instagrammed place in the state, Time says the Hill K
Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
ansas University is the most Instagrammed place in the state of Kansas, according to Time magazine. “The most Instagrammed places in America,” posted this month on time.com, analyzed geo-tagging data from the popular photo-sharing app to determine the most-photographed place in each state. The feature notes that Instagram shared the data exclusively with Time.
Besides KU, campuses were the top locations in four other states: Mississippi State University in Mississippi, University of North Dakota in North Dakota, Brown University in Rhode Island and the University of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium in Alabama.
— This is an excerpt from Sara Shepherd’s Heard on the Hill column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.
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In Kansas, we have no Disneyland (most-Instagrammed spot in California) or Times Square (No. 1 in New York). Nor do we have any professional sports arenas (Fenway Park is the most Instagrammed place in Massachusetts, and Wrigley Field the most popular in Illinois). But KU does have Allen Fieldhouse, a beautiful campus and a whole lot of young people posting mirror-selfies and party pix and such.
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