KU Task Force Recommends Expanded Financial Aid Programs
A KU task force completed a three subcommittee review of student financial aid and proposed broad changes. It backs National Merit Scholarships, Freshman Honors Scholarships, and a new Employment Center to expand work opportunities while improving loan counseling and minority funding with Olympic Davis estate support.
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Kansas University
Student Financial Aids Task Force
Laurence Chalmers
Student Financial Aids Office
Chalmers
Kansas
James Davis Jr
Ble
Summerfield
Watkins-Berger
Jcther
University Senate
Davis
Kansas House endorses two day jail for drunk driving
Kansas lawmakers back a two day jail sentence for driving while intoxicated and plan final action Monday. MRI researchers in Kansas City tested blood alcohol levels from 1000 drivers over 22 nights, finding one third had used alcohol before driving and about one in twenty reached the 0.10 drunk level.
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Kansas House of Representatives
House
Midwest Research Institute of
Kansas City
U.S
Plete
MRI
Historical Highlights for February 12
On this date in history several events stand out including Abraham Lincoln's birth in 1809 in Kentucky and the beheading of Lady Jane Grey in 1554. Also noted are the 1788 Savannah landing led by James Oglethorpe, Darwin's birth in 1809, the 1912 republic of China, 1914 Lincoln Memorial ground breaking, 1953 Israel-Soviet diplomacy break, and recent related Cold War notes.
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Abraham Lincoln
Hardin County
Kentucky
Jane Grey
England
James Edward Oglethorpe
Savannah
Charles Darwin
Shrewsbury
China
Sun Yat-sen
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Israel
Tel Aviv
Soviet Union
Berlin
Alexei Kosygin
Britain
U.S
Laos
Black Students Arrested For Warrensburg Protest
ABC president Mark Bryant was the fourth Central Missouri State College student arrested after a protest at the student union. Bryant posted 250 dollars bond for destroying property. 30 others faced disturbing the peace charges. The group, about 100 black students, briefly occupied the union to press for action on dorm harassment and call for a full school investigation.
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Warrensburg
Association of Black Collegians
ABC
Central Missouri State College
Mark Bryant
Shiloh Baptist Church
Bryant
Fake checks and counterfeit tens hit Lawrence weekend
Local business leaders are urged to stay vigilant as counterfeit checks printed under Lawrence Paper Co and signed by Harley Yoder circulate. Five checks have cleared through businesses to First National Bank, which says Yoder does not sign checks. Counterfeit ten dollar bills have also appeared, according to Warren Rhodes, president of First National.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Paper Co
Harley Yoder
First National Bank
FNB
Yoder
First National
Warren Rhodes
Union Scene of Games at Regional Union Tournament
The American College Unions International Region XI event closes its final day in Kansas Union ballroom with ping pong, chess, bridge, bowling, and billiards. About 250 competitors from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma compete, with winners in most events advancing to national tournaments in April.
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Kansas Union
Kansas University
Journal- World Photo
American College Unions
POW wives alter pace of antiwar assembly in Versailles
A trio of American POW and MIA wives visited the World Assembly of Paris for Peace and Independence of Indochinese Peoples in Versailles seeking info about their husbands. Two applied for delegate status but were rejected for not backing communist war policy. The gathering included 800 delegates from 75 countries and heard talks on alleged war crimes and ending the war on communist terms.
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Versailles
France
World Assembly of Paris
Paul E. Galani
Richmond
James Blair White
St. Petersburg
Fla
Laos
Bruce G. Johnson
Salina
Kan
South Vietnam
Washburn University President Henderson Hospitalized
Dr John W Henderson president of Washburn University 49 was listed in satisfactory but serious condition after a heart attack Friday afternoon. Hospital spokesmen said he rests comfortably and will stay in the coronary unit for several days. He was stricken at his home and brought to Stormont Vail Hospital by ambulance. He has led Washburn since October 1965 and was at the university office until midafternoon Friday.
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Topeka
Kan
Washburn University
John W. Henderson
Stormont Vail’ Hospital
Henderson
Coro
Nary
Washburn
University
Heavy Friday crash toll as Lawrence police log 27 reports
Law rence police recorded 27 vehicle collision reports on Friday. A two car wreck injured 32 year old John D Theodore who remains hospitalized with neck injuries after a 12 55 p m crash in front of 1529 Kentucky Avenue. Fire department snorkel truck took minor damage at about 1 p m after responding to a false alarm at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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Lawrence
John D. Theodore
Stouffer Pl
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Paegelow
Theodore
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawren D. Pringle Jr
Tennesee
Eighth
Pringle
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Union Scene of Games
Washington, D.C
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Johnson
Nixon
Watkins
Alan G. Paegelow
Shawnee Mission
National
R Umsey Funeral Home
Fred Rumsey
Oscar Rumsey
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