New KU law school dean brings a clean slate
Michael Hoeflich will become dean of the Kansas University law school on July 1, bringing a fresh start after controversy. The school faced a high profile sexual harassment case and a leaked memo stirring debates about Washburn University. Hoeflich, currently dean at Syracuse, aims to unite the faculty and expand services across the state, with support from the search committee and positive campus sentiment.
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Kansas University Law School
Michael Hoeflich
Law School
KU Law School
Bob Jerry
Washburn University
Washburn
Kansas Board of Regents
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KU Law
Hoeflich
Syracuse University Law School
On This Day in History Highlights From April 11
Key events across centuries include the 1945 liberation of Buchenwald by American troops. William II and Mary II crowned in 1689. Napoleon's 1814 abdication to Elba. 1898 McKinley asking for war with Spain. 1899 Spanish-American War treaty takes effect. 1921 Iowa's cigarette tax first. 1947 Jackie Robinson major league debut. 1951 MacArthur relieved. 1953 Hobby becomes first HEW secretary. 1970 Apollo 13 mission crisis. 1979 Idi Amin deposed. 1980 EEOC bans sexual harassment rules. 1981 Reagan returns after shooting. 1985 Bitburg cemetery controversy. 198? Chernenko named USSR president. 199? Kilroy case near Matamoros.
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Mary II
Britain
Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Elba
McKinley
Congress
Spain
Iowa
Jackie Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Oveta Culp Hobby
Health, Education and Welfare
Idi Amin
Uganda
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Reagan
White House
Bitburg
West Germany
Soviet Communist Party
Konstantin A. Chernenko
Soviet Union
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Matamoros
University of Texas
Mark Kilroy
USPS Publicity Text Audit Association Note
Postal and press affiliations listed for the Lawrence Kansas publication indicating circulation verification and AP membership. standard masthead credit line appears in the newspaper card.
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Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
U S stance shifts as air strikes target Gorazde in Bosnia
The piece argues the United States and NATO finally showed resolve against Serb aggression in Bosnia. It criticizes past waffling by the Clinton administration and Defense Secretary Perry, urges stronger action and credible threats, and notes the Gorazde siege as a test of NATO and U N credibility.
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United States
Gorazde
Sarajevo
U.S
NATO
Bosnia
Clinton
Defense
William Perry
Maglaj
John Shalikashvili
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ratko Mladic
Pale
Perry
NBC
Meet the Press
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
Anthony Lake
America
Europe
Lake
Serbia
Mladic
Vlado Spremo
U.N
George Bush
False promises of democracy in Haiti spark peasant protests
Haitian peasants, representing 80 percent of the population, denounce U S policy and Clinton administration support for elites. Aristide supporters recall December 1990 votes, while paramilitary forces, wage suppression, and land reforms are attacked, with thousands hiding or dead.
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Clinton
Chavannes Jean- Baptiste
Peasant Movement of
Papay
Aristide
U.S
United States
Marc Bazin
Bazin
Titid
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Baptiste
Duvalier
NRA shoots blanks on the Second Amendment debate
The piece argues the NRA backs a Tenth Amendment challenge to Brady background checks rather than a direct Second Amendment case. It notes past NRA failures in court, cites Supreme Court history, cites opinions of former officials supporting gun control, and highlights gun violence costs while urging scrutiny of the NRA’s true stance.
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NRA
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Congress
Supreme Court
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Brady
Fats Waller
California
National Guard
Warren Burger
Lewis Powell
U.S
Erwin Griswold
Richard Nixon
Griffin Bell
Benjamin Civiletti
Elliot Richardson
Brackett School Displays Centennial Flag Near Lawrence
Brackett School three miles west of Lawrence becomes the first in the area to display a Kansas Centennial flag for the territorial centennial. Pupils earned twenty dollars to buy the flag and then hoisted it themselves.
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Lawrence
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