KU faculty exodus shows salaries drive provost moves
The editorial argues salary gaps push top KU professors to offers from nationally recognized universities like Purdue. It notes Mason's departure as proof KU attracts rising leaders yet cannot retain them, while Kansas lawmakers fail to address compensation, risking economic competitiveness and talent loss.
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Sally Frost Mason
Purdue University
Kansas University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Indiana University
Mason
Kansas
Kansas Board of Regents
Journal-World Stand For Truth In News Reporting
The Journal-World pledges accurate fair reporting without mixing opinion with news. It upholds citizens rights regardless of race creed or status and aims to expose dishonesty in public affairs while supporting community improving projects under Dolph Simons Sr.
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Journal-World
Public interest clashed with bankruptcy and ergonomics policy
Washington Post columnist David Broder argues that Bush’s stance on bankruptcy and ergonomics marks a sharp shift from Clinton and Gore, aided by a Republican Congress that reversed ergonomics rules and moved to pass a bankruptcy bill Bush favored. Business lobbyists profited while labor and consumer groupslost ground.
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WashingTon
George W. Bush
Bush
Bill Clinton
al Gore
White House
Clinton
Labor Department
Gore
Republican Congress
Bush White House
House
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Organized Labor
Edward M. Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
Hillary Rodham Clinton
David Broder
Washington Post Writers Group
Census trends reshape political map for 2002 elections
The Philadelphia Inquirer argues the 2000 census will drive decennial redistricting battles, with geography favoring Republicans in the Sun Belt and demographics boosting Democrats through rising minority populations. New Jersey's shift illustrates the broader change as non-Hispanic whites decline while Hispanics, Asians, and multiracial residents grow.
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Sun Belt
House of Representatives
Congress
George W. Bush
al Gore
Bush
Gore
New Jersey
Suburbia
National Republican Party
New
White House
Public Forum on Selling KU for Funding
Lawrence reader David Day proposes KU fund higher education by privatizing programs and restricting access. He suggests eliminating non revenue majors like education and social welfare, auctioning class spaces to highest bidders, restricting admissions to lucrative degrees, and selling advertising on chalkboards and doors.
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Kansas University
David Day
Lawrence
Letter condemns racially charged remark in March Journal-World
Lynette Petty objects to Bill Mayer's Sunday commentary calling Missouri's Wesley Stokes "brillo-haired" as racist and embarrassing. The Journal-World Letters Policy notes submissions must include name address and phone, be under 350 words, avoid insults, and may be edited for clarity.
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Missouri
Wesley Stokes
Bill Mayer
Lynette Petty
Lawrence
Journal-World
Liworld.com
Town Improvements and Drought Strains Hit Lawrence
The Lawrence World from March 14 1901 discusses Town Improvement efforts including paving curbing electric lines and street cleanup. It notes drought and a sharp rainfall event while reporting two Nebraska graduate students killed in a head on crash near Lawrence and a rising land cost for the Clinton Parkway project.
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Clinton Parkway
Nebraska University
Salvation Army
Lawrence
Wakarusa River
Lawrence World
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Joe Lewis
Ralph Simons III
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
H.R
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Dallas Dolan
Ed Clambrone
the World Company
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Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Philadelphia Inquirer
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