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Social services access mired in digital change ‘Cost-saving’ computer system $46M over budget, two years late By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
‘Ugly’ for the win Fans break Guinness sweater record for KU game against Montana, the word certainly applied. Snowmen, Santa Claus uch has been said and reindeer all made apabout the atmopearances in fans’ stitched sphere game apparel, Online: at tallying points Allen FieldSee the complete for a contest of house when the their own. ugly sweater Jayhawks play, Fans wore photo gallery at the sweaters but “festive” LJWorld.com/ as part of an isn’t a descriptor that usually sweaterrecord effort led by comes to mind. Kansas AthletOn Saturday, though, as ics to break the current thousands of fans wore holi- Guinness World Record day sweaters to the Kansas Germaine Joseph-Hays and Quentin Hays, of Ruidoso, Please see UGLY, page 10A N.M., show off their sweaters. Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo University men’s basketball
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Topeka — A new computer system that was supposed to make it easier for people to apply for Medicaid It just looks and other social like a way to services for the poor and disabled make it more is more than two difficult for years past due and people to at least $46 mil- access benefits lion over budget, according to a re- they are cent Legislative entitled to.” Post Audit report. In addition, the — State Sen. Laura Kelly, report said, even D-Topeka when the new system comes fully online, the Kansas Eligibility Enforcement System, or KEES, still won’t perform as originally intended, and it is no longer expected to produce the savings in operational costs that were originally projected.
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Two frats on probation over hazing By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
Right: A familiar phrase is stitched on the back of a Kansas University “ugly” Christmas sweater as a member of the cheer squad takes a seat on the sideline Saturday during the second half of the Jayhawks’ game vs. Montana at Allen Fieldhouse. Top: A sea of ugly-sweatered fans root for KU.
Two Kansas University fraternities are on probation for hazing and will remain that way until 2017. Delta Tau Delta, with a house located at 1111 W. 11th St., and Phi Beta Sigma, a small African-American greek letter fraternity, were placed on probation by the university this spring, according to KU’s Organizational Conduct Status Report. KANSAS Hazing at Delta Tau Del- UNIVERSITY ta occurred in fall 2014, and hazing by Phi Beta Sigma occurred in spring 2015. KU won’t share any information about what happened or whether any students were hurt. Documents from KU’s investigations of both fraternities, obtained through a Kansas Open Records Act request by the Journal-World, are heavily redacted to hide that information.
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