Editorial on KU campus holiday displays and tolerances
A columnist urges Kansas University to soften its holiday decor stance. The piece argues for nonreligious, inclusive lights that reflect community spirit while balancing cost and political correctness. It calls for visible festive displays to reduce foreboding campus atmosphere and foster shared seasonal cheer.
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Lawrence
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Six bids exceed KU Stadium expansion estimate in 1962
The Kansas University Memorial Stadium expansion drew six bids with the lowest still $103,000 above the $600,000 estimate. Athletic officials planned to recheck figures to fit the project within existing funding. Also from 1902 Lawrence Daily World a boy named James Haney, crippled at 1105 Tenna Street, sought money to try hypnotism, hoping it would cure him.
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Kansas University Memorial Stadium
Lawrence Daily World
James Haney
Tenna Street
Beginning of a big fat food fight in fast food
Ellen Goodman argues a McDonalds class action over child health shows the push toward corporate responsibility for marketing. She notes high calorie meals and hidden nutrition data, recalls tobacco lawsuits, and warns of ongoing legal battles as obesity rises among youth.
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Joe Camel
Dick Daynard
Northeastern University
Tobacco Products Liability Project
Tobacco Companies
Daynard
Mickey D’s
France
New York
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Remarks on Thurmond event threaten Lott’s political future
Stanley Crouch argues that Trent Lott’s past ties to racist groups and public remarks linking to segregation imply a political fallout as Thurmond’s retirement scene heightens scrutiny. He recalls Lott’s 1992 Citizens Informer cover, 1984 Confederate praise, and 1984 Northern aggression remark, claiming media bias debate over race ends here.
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Council of
Conservative Citizens
Frank Rich
Bob Herbert
New York Times
Mississippi
Council
Citizens Informer
Lott
Country Club
Greenwood
Miss
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Biloxi
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Southern Partisan
Sen
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Thurmond
Senate
North Carolina
Jesse Helms
Strom
True Equality Brotherhood
Brother Lott
Stanley Crouch
New York Daily News
Nydailynews.com
Public Forum criticizes freeway alignment near U.S. 59
Steve and Lori Krysztof of Baldwin urge action against a new four lane freeway 300 feet east of the existing U.S. 59, arguing the plan costs 11 million dollars, consumes 1 360 acres, and would destroy 33 homes while raising taxes and cutting services. They call on KDOT and state officials to oppose the alignment.
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McDonald’s
New York
Ronald McDonald's
Mom’s
KDOT
Steve
Lori Krysztof
Baldwin
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