Reagan thought Lawrence movie was ‘propaganda’

¢ Ronald Reagan was critical of “The Day After,” the nuclear fallout movie filmed in 1983 in Lawrence, according to a story in the Los Angeles Daily News. A new book details Reagan’s thoughts on a variety of films. Unfortunately, the Daily News story didn’t get the name of the movie correct._He slammed the 1983 made-for-television movie “The Morning After” – about the terrifying effects of a nuclear strike on Lawrence, Kan. – as “anti-nuke propaganda.”_¢ The KU student crowned Miss Kansas over the weekend wasn’t the only Jayhawk who did well in a pageant. Lizzy Pajl, a KU graduate, was named first runner up in the Miss South Dakota pageant, KMEG-TV reports.¢ A KU researcher is quoted in a Washington Post article about ice melting in Greenland._”Greenland has the potential to put a lot of water, a lot of ice, into the sea,” said (George) Tsoflias, a researcher from the University of Kansas._