¢ Lawrence resident Sarah Smarsh is quoted in a USA Today story about the rising debt loads of college graduates._”I took on a New York level of student debt and went back to a place where there are only Kansas levels of income,” says Smarsh, who’s working two jobs, as a freelance journalist and as a non-profit fundraiser, to keep up with her loan payments._¢ Lawrence filmmaker Patrick Rea’s latest movie, The Empty Acre, is featured on the horror film site Fangoria.com. It’s scheduled for release on DVD in August._”The film was shot on a shoestring budget in Lawrence, KS between 2004 and 2005,” Rea tells us. “It’s along the lines of The Twilight Zone. “I didn’t want to make something gory, but rather a film that has eerie atmosphere and is disturbing psychologically.”_