KU schools recognize fall semester graduates

The pomp and circumstance already has begun for some fall semester graduates at Kansas University, even before final examinations have started.

Saturday, engineering school graduates were honored with a recognition ceremony at Woodruff Auditorium while business school graduates had their ceremony at the Lied Center.

Events today begin at 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union for journalism school fall graduates. The College of Liberal Arts and Science begins at 2 p.m. in the Lied Center.

The law school will have hooding ceremonies for fall graduates at 7 p.m. Friday at Woodruff Auditorium.

Other schools will honor fall graduates during the spring semester.

Finals at KU begin Monday.

Franklin County

Pedestrian hit on I-35

Erin Nichols, right, helps fix longtime friend Karen Schwarzer's cap before the business school graduation recognition.

A pedestrian was injured early Saturday morning when he was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 35 near Ottawa.

The victim, T.J. Evans, 20, suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to a Kansas City-area hospital by ambulance, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. The driver of the vehicle, Treva Lamb Hissanbotham, 20, was not injured, officers said.

The hometowns of Evans and Hissanbotham were not available.

Sheriff’s officers released no other information about the accident Saturday.

Politics

State senator to honor self-imposed term limit

Ottawa — Sen. Robert Tyson has announced that he won’t seek re-election.

Tyson, R-Parker, who represents the 12th District, made term limits an issue when he ran for office in 1996.

“I promised you that I would not serve over two terms,” Tyson said in a written statement Friday night. “You have honored me by electing me for those two terms. In keeping with my promise to you, I will not seek re-election to a third term.”

Tyson said most politicians who stay in office too long “develop friendships with government bureaucrats and lobbyists and tend to do their bidding rather than look out for the interests of those who elected them.”

Tyson introduced a bill to limit the terms of legislators, but it received little support.