KPR dedicates building

About 175 people were on hand Monday as Kansas Public Radio officially dedicated its new building at 1120 W. 11th St.

The event at the $2.2 million, 9,500-square-foot facility featured live music, food and tours. The building was constructed with private funds.

The new building, adjacent to the Baehr Audio-Reader Center, includes offices, an on-air studio, a live performance studio, two new production studios and a music library.

KPR has been broadcasting from the new studios since Aug. 14. It can be heard in Lawrence at 91.5 FM.

Accident

Crash victim was recent Baldwin High graduate

An Overbrook man killed Sunday night in a crash in southwest Douglas County had dreamed of owning a bicycle repair shop, a family member said.

“He was hoping to go on to school and get into construction management,” said Sally Gronniger, Baldwin, stepmother of Clifford R. Sudja.

Kansas Public Radio morning edition host Laura Lorson, left, explains the new features in the news studio to KU Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations Janet Murguia.

Sudja, 18, was killed when the 1992 Plymouth he was driving west on U.S. Highway 56 crossed the centerline and struck a trailer being pulled by an eastbound 1999 GMC pickup truck, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

The driver of the truck, Robert I. Finley, 43, Eudora, was not injured, according to the patrol report.

Sudja, who graduated in May from Baldwin High School, also liked doing jumping tricks on bicycles and building ramps for those tricks, Gronniger said. Sudja lived with his mother, Nancy Sanders, in Overbrook, and was on his way home at the time of the crash, Gronniger said.

Police

Naked KU student cited at Chi Omega fountain

A Lawrence man is upset about his encounter on the Kansas University campus with a naked student who was grabbing his own genitals.

Randy Farr said he was driving past the Chi Omega fountain about 7:30 p.m. Saturday when he saw the man near the fountain, soaking wet and nude. He said the man appeared to be “hamming it up” for a group of people getting ready to board a bus across the street at a sorority house.

“I don’t have a huge beef against public nudity, but the guy was obviously making obscene gestures, and I had a 10-year-old daughter in the car,” Farr said. “That was what upset me.”

Farr said his wife and daughter didn’t see the man, but he flagged down a KU police officer and reported the incident.

Police cited one student for indecent exposure and another for public consumption of alcohol, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey, a KU police spokesman. He said he couldn’t release more information about the students’ identities.

6Productions

6News to air early

Sunflower Broadband’s 6News will be on at 5:30 tonight due to the start time of the Kansas City Royals game. Royals Sports Television Network coverage of the Royals-Indians game begins at 6 p.m. on Channel 6.