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CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING
Latest map splits county, puts Lawrence in ‘Big 1st’ The ‘Deep Purple’ map would give each of Kansas’ congressional TOPEKA — In the protracted congressional redistrict- districts a population of ing war, House Republican approximately 713,280. By Scott Rothschild
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leaders have tried splitting the Democratic enclave in Kansas City, Kan., and they’ve tried splitting Democrats in Topeka. Both of those plans seem to have been defeated. What to try next? Lawrence, the most liberal city in Kansas, is already
split between the 2nd and 3rd congressional districts, but Democrats believe there may be a move to place Lawrence in the vast 1st District, one of the most conservative districts in the country. “That’s what we’re hear-
ing,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, DTopeka. He said the goal of House Republican leaders has been to place Democratic areas of Topeka, Kansas City, Kan., and Lawrence in separate congressional districts in order to dilute Democratic voting strength. Hensley said the latest version reflecting this strategy is a congressional redistricting map called Please see MAP, page 2A
Scam involves computer viruses By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
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GEORGE FREDERICKSON RETIRED LAST WEEK as a distinguished professor of public administration at Kansas University. Frederickson has used his own experience as an administrator to teach students and train them for roles in government.
16 THINGS I’VE DONE
Lessons for civic leaders of tomorrow ————
Retiring professor values importance of order but doesn’t discount luck By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com
Editor’s note: This is another in an occasional series of stories by reporter Andy Hyland, asking Kansas University staff to share “16 Things I’ve Done.” This week, he talked with H. George Frederickson, a KU distinguished professor of public administration.
1. Worked in the family ice cream and candy business in Idaho growing up as the second of nine children, and decided to become an academic while in graduate school in California. “That decision all by itself tells you something,” he said, noting the life of scholarly writing and research isn’t for everyone.
2. “Got lucky,” by having a former student alert him to a faculty opening in his specialization at Syracuse University, one of the top schools in his field. He got the job. “After about three or four years of teaching administration, as the years went on, it became clear to me that I
needed to do it to understand it better,” he said. 3. Watched the ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens settle on Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash., where he became university president at the age of 42. 4. Closed the university for Please see 16 THINGS, page 2A
ROTC cadets top field in Ranger Buddy competition By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com
When John Bergman’s friends asked him how his “Army thing” went, he found it a little difficult to answer.
Bergman is a senior from Lawrence in Kansas University’s Army ROTC program. His “Army thing” was the ROTC program’s 18th annual Ranger Buddy competition.
For starters, he and his partner, Stuart McConnell, a sophomore from Newton, had won the male division of the competition. And fellow cadets Madeline Wilcox,
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The phone call came out of the blue. But Lawrence resident Martha Town, 69, was ready to listen because she had been having problems with her computer at home. The caller claimed to be a technical support analyst either for Microsoft or Cisco Systems Inc. — she can’t remember which one — and he later turned her over to a woman he said was his female supervisor. Over the phone they had walked her through several steps on her computer before telling Town that her computer’s software license had expired. She was eventually taken to another screen the woman claimed would examine her computer for viruses. Then a screen popped up that asked her to pay $107. “I said, ‘oh no, I’m not paying anything until I have someone else check this out,’” said Town, who retired in 1998 as superintendent of the Rainbow Mental Health Facility in Kansas City, Kan. She eventually terminated the call without giving a credit card or bank account number. Days later, after having conversations with her nephew, who works with computers, and a tech at Geeks on Wheels in Lawrence, who fixed her computer for much less than $107, Town learned she avoided a likely scam that others in Lawrence were not as fortunate to avoid. Jennifer Ludlow, the Geeks on Wheels coordinator, said she’d noticed the support company had received about 20 calls in the past six weeks about similar circumstances. In recent years, she’s heard of a similar scam involving pop-up windows that won’t
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