Campers Learn Environment Habits At Art Center Camp
Lawrence Art Center hosts a week long Art and Nature Camp for 7 to 10 year olds where Rebecca Clayton leads lessons on nature and human impact. Students discuss pollution and the ozone while planning practical steps like carpooling and litter pickup setting the stage for trash sculptures made from collected debris.
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Joe Stogsdill
Joe
Lawrence Art Center
Rebecca Clayton
Clayton
Ottawa schools to install new board and leader
Ottawa The superintendent Har vey Ludwick plans retirement effective June 30 after three years in service. Five new board members join July 1 following a decisive election as the district faces a major facelift and an interim and then permanent superintendent search. The exiting leader cited district improvements and the old middle school issue as his key challenges. Cheryl Sylvester praised Ludwick for progress while noting the board’s impending changes.
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Ottawa
Harvey Ludwick
Ludwick
Cheryl Sylvester
Sylvester
KU dorm rape trial starts with accuser taking stand
An 18-year-old Kansas University freshman testifies she did not consent to any sexual contact on Oct 17 in Ellsworth Hall. Prosecutors depict a late night encounter as rape after a dorm resident followed her to her room and assaulted her, while the defense claims consent and mutual activity occurred. The trial resumes today.
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Kansas University
Douglas County
Dave Zabel
Zabel
Ellsworth Hall
Roy Williams
Don Smith
Spotty recollections common says rape victims counselor
Executive director Sarah Jane Russell of Rape Victim Survivor Service notes victims recall details in fragments after trauma. She cites examples like a blue car remembered weeks later and urges not to doubt memory. Russell says shock and fear influence reactions and that misperceptions about responses persist. contact details for Deb Gruver included.
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Rape Victim-Survivor Service
Sarah Jane Russell
Russell
Acquaintance Rape Highlighted By Local Officials
Nationally 98 percent of rapes involve people who know each other, says Sarah Jane Russell of Rape Victim Survivor Service. In Douglas County the pattern mirrors this, with 15 to 24 the most vulnerable. The county contains KU, Haskell, INU and Baker University.
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Sarah Jane Russell
Rape Victim Survivor Service
Douglas County
Russell
Haskell
Indian Nations University
Baker University
UMKC asks vice provost to step down in restructuring
UMKC interim Chancellor Gordon Lamb announced a school restructuring plan creating a new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs post. The current vice provost and executive dean for academic affairs, Marvin Querry, 63, was asked to vacate his role, with Lamb suggesting a likely outside candidate for the new position. Querry said he was surprised and Lamb offered him a director of science and technology role, which Querry had not yet decided to accept, while remaining at UMKC in some capacity.
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Kansas City, Mo
Marvin Querry
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Gordon Lamb
Querry
Lamb
Science and Technology
UMKC
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