KU recruitment overhaul yields record freshman class
An editorial argues KU shifted from complacency to proactive recruiting, citing a 4000 student freshman class for 2017 with higher average ACT scores. It credits improved efforts across the nation and honors program expansion, led by Matt Melvin, and urges continual improvement to attract top students and faculty.
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Boehner’s leadership crumbles amid GOP brinkmanship
Washington columnist David Ignatius argues House Speaker John Boehner has lost control as his party’s extremists block pragmatic legislation. Cantor’s alliance with tea party members deepens dysfunction, risking another government shutdown while Obama’s leadership is unfairly blamed. The piece recalls Tip O’Neill’s era of disciplined governance and laments Boehner’s ineffective tenure.
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Old Home Town In Lawrence Daily Journal World 1913
A motion picture machine in a church will greet First Christian church members tomorrow evening. The machine is permanently installed and will be used each Sunday for Sunday lessons and evening sermon topics.
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Memories of a bygone Mideast era and opera love
George Gurley recalls teaching in Beirut in 1963 and hearing Puccini’s La Boheme. He links the era’s cultural vitality to a life in Syria, Aleppo, and Lebanon, then notes the 1967 war, rising terrorism, and modern ruin, ending with Tom Weaver’s death in 2008.
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