Name flap rocks festival
A Lawrence group calling itself the legitimate Committee for the Preservation of Wild Life denies tie to the Omega Festival planned April 24 and 25 near Lawrence. Omega founder Chuck Baker and Michael O'Brien defend the revival aims to raise money for charities with at least 20 bands and 18 vendors on a farm northeast of Lawrence.
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Committee For the Preservation of Wild Life
Lawrence
Leavenworth County
Chuck Baker
Omega Music Foundation
Baker
Keily Furst
Furst
Omega Festival Committee
Michael O’brien
Committee For the Preservation of
Pelathe Indian Resource Center
Diversity course requirement may spread at KU
The University of Kansas votes to add a diversity requirement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. If approved, fall 1999 would start the policy, with courses ranging from American ethnic relations to feminism history counting toward the degree. Faculty say the move diversifies general education and is not disruptive.
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Committee On
College Assembly
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rochelle Votan
Anna Neill
Yale
Harvard
University of Maryland
Wotan
Neill
Defense floats blackout theory in Riley shooting trial
Dr. Donald Goodwin testified that witnesses indicate Bobby Riley likely experienced a alcohol and drug induced blackout after drinking heavily and using cocaine before and the morning of the November 7 shootings of ex girlfriend Margaret Kimball and her father Maurice. Riley denies memory of the incident as closing arguments end and jurors prepare to deliberate in Douglas County.
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Bobby Riley
Donald Goodwin
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kane
Riley
Margaret Kimball
Maurice
Goodwin
LMH approves renovations and audit at Lawrence Memorial
Lawrence Memorial Health trustees approved a 520000 renovation of the ICUs 12 beds and a 1026 million second floor patient room overhaul to begin this June. Universal Construction will manage phased work eight beds active at once with ICU closed areas. An audit firm issued a clean opinion noting LMH net worth rose to 48.02 million in 1997.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Universal Construction of
Lawrence
Robert Trepinski
LMH
Trepinski
ICU
Bob Black
Universal Construction
Baird, Kurtz
Trustees to plan around decision on hospital ruling
Lawrence Memorial Hospital trustees meet this weekend to discuss the district judge ruling that city leaders acted unreasonably in denying Columbia/HCA’s permit to build a hospital in Lawrence. CEO Gene Meyer notes the organization’s disagreement but pledges commitment to patient care while planning six to seven near term objectives for the next two years. The Saturday 8 a.m. to noon meeting in the hospital conference room will consider implications and priorities.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Columbia
HCA Healthcare
Lawrence
Gene Meyer
LMH
Meyer
Hospital reports increases in revenues and expenditures
The report notes a 10 percent rise in revenues and a 9 percent rise in expenditures from 1996. Larry Fogel of the accounting firm commends the hospital for creating a corporate compliance committee last year. Chris Koger’s phone message number is coger at ijworld dot com.
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Ian Biles
Ifbiles
Hworld.com
Matt Gowen
Yen
Lworld.com
Larry Fogel
Chris Koger
Coger
Ijworld.com
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