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Scott Girard (Staff writer)
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- New legislation should streamline purchasing procedures
- August 11, 2007
- A new three-year set of regulations should make purchasing procedures at Kansas University quicker and more cost-effective.
- Kansan editor considering design, Web changes
- August 11, 2007
- Many college students try to take their last semester easy — take a few classes and relax after nearly four years of college. Not Erick Schmidt.
- Collaborative learning inspires Spooner project
- August 11, 2007
- Kansas University is revamping one of its oldest buildings to make room for a place for the exchange of ideas and worldly knowledge.
- Coyote sightings, pet disappearances coincide
- July 25, 2007
- Susie Dillon usually let her cat, Johnny, wander the neighborhood during the night. Johnny would visit neighbors and tromp through the nearby Alvamar golf course, bringing home mice and other prey. In the morning, Johnny would be at Dillon’s back door, ready to come inside.
- Girls discover joys of engineering at KU camp
- July 11, 2007
- Women are traditionally underrepresented in the field of engineering. At the Kansas University School of Engineering, only 19 percent of the students are women. But a summer KU camp is trying to change that.
- Store owners hope construction won’t keep shoppers at bay
- July 10, 2007
- At last year’s Downtown Sidewalk Sale, a person could almost fry an egg on the sidewalk and much of the 800 block of Massachusetts Street was torn up. Still, shoppers still came in droves.
- Kids knee-deep in learning at museum’s aquatic science camp
- July 7, 2007
- Youngsters got down and dirty to learn about water habitats around Lawrence.
- CASA kicking off fundraiser with chance to win cottage
- July 6, 2007
- Not often will a dollar possibly buy a child’s dream playhouse. But as part of the Casa4CASA annual fundraiser, Lawrence and area residents will have a chance to win a playhouse valued at several thousand dollars.
- Tae kwon do skills among world best
- Practice pays off for 5 Lawrence martial arts students
- July 4, 2007
- Five Lawrence residents can now call themselves martial arts world champions. Jimmy Golden, Fe Brinkley, Dru Forrester and Bill and Ginger Vermooten recently won gold medals at the American Taekwondo Association World Championships in Little Rock, Ark. The five winners are black belts, the highest level of skill, at the ATA Black Belt and Leadership Academy, 5150 Clinton Parkway.
- Rocket science: Museum camp draws kids to learn about space
- June 28, 2007
- Shooting off rockets, making to-scale comets and examining stars were just some of the activities children participated in Wednesday at the Kansas University Natural History Museum.
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