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Volume 128 Issue 75
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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Izzy Lee, a junior from Overland Park, is a rapper signed to Concore Entertainment. Lee's new EP will be out Feb. 28.
KELLY CORDINGLEY
@kellycordingley
Mac Miller and Cody Simpson are just some of the artists he has toured with. His first song was a hit on the radio station Hot 103 Jamz and he had already been offered a record deal in the U.K. before he had even graduated high school. For Izzy Lee, a junior from Overland Park, his impressive resume of accomplishments is only the beginning. There is a
plethora of new opportunities ahead he said he can't wait to dive in to.
One of the most recent opportunities arose when he began working on an anthem for the University. Fred Quartlebaum, director of student athlete development, has been discussing the possibility of Lee, along with a producer, creating a University theme song of sorts. Lee pitched the song to Quartlebaum on Monday and said he expects to know by the
end of the week if the project will move forward.
"It's themed around KU basketball and aims to keep up with the spirit of that," Lee said. "We think it'll reverberate well with the students. We really want it to be a whole new type thing, there hasn't been a KU-themed song or artist representing the team or the school in general."
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Police surround a house on 19th and Terrace after a shooting Sunday night. Two victims were identified as KU students.
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Two shooting victims confirmed as KU students
The victims were able to provide the police with limited information
Two of the three victims in Sunday's shooting near the University of Kansas campus are University students, according to Sgt. Trent McKinley with the Lawrence Police Department. While the department has not released the names of the victims, McKinley was able to confirm the victim who is not a University student was released from the hospital earlier today, and none of the victims have life-threatening injuries.
about the shooters, McKinley said. He said at least one of the shooters and at least one of the victims may have known each other; however, he could not say what may have been the reason behind the shooting.
At about 8:45 a.m. Monday, the University released another update
The shooting happened around 4:40 p.m. on Sunday afternoon about two blocks from the University on the 1600 block of 19th Terrace. The two suspects fled the scene and have been at large since. The suspects are believed to be armed.
McKinley said they're working on identifying the suspects and have no one in custody at this time.
on the alert page
"Lawrence police continue their investigation and have determined that the suspects are known to the victims," the alert said. "LPD officers will be in areas near campus collecting evidence, however, there is no indication that there is an ongoing risk to the broader campus community. Further information will be released by LPD as it is available."
Anyone with information on this crime should call Lawrence Police at 785-832-7509 or CrimeStoppers at 785-843-TIPS (8477).
— Kelly Cordingley
University student founds Jayhawk Health Initiative
BEN ALLEN
@BenAllenSports
Leigh Loving, a senior from McPherson, plays with young patients in Panama. Loving founded the Jayhawk Health Initiative at the University.
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This story is the first in a Kansan series on student activists at the University. Check tomorrow's Kansan for another story.
Leigh Loving was 20 meters from the finish line of her race at cross country regionals in high school when she felt her throat closing and found herself unable to breathe. She
fell to the ground, managing to use the last energy she had to crawl, hand over hand, to the finish line. As a result, her team went to the state finals.
Loving, a senior from McPherson, was diagnosed shortly thereafter with vocal cord dysfunction, a condition she still has today. Her own health problems sparked her interest in medicine and the need for health services in other parts of the world.
Today, Loving is the founder of Jayhawk Health Initiative, a University program that gives KU students experience providing health services to poor people in other countries. So far, more than 100 students have participated in trips to Panama and Guatemala and served more than 1,000 residents in the two countries, Loved said.
It was only four years ago when Loving walked into the office of Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, the former senior vice provost, and told her she wanted to take students on a medical mission to Guatemala.
"I thought it would never happen," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
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Loving spent hours working with the University to get visas and permission for 27 student volunteers to go on the mission. McCluskey-Fawcett said she realized she was not dealing with a typical freshman.
"I had never seen any students do anything like this," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
"Her leadership skills blew me away."
Six weeks after Loving stepped on campus as a freshman, she was leading a group of students from the Lawrence campus and KU's medical school to Panajachel, Guatemala, in collaboration with Heart to Heart, a relief and volunteer organization
"A smile is its own universal language."
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LEIGH LOVING Founder, Jayhawk Health Initiative
specializing in global help. There, she and the others acted as dental hygienists, nurses and caregivers.
trip to Panama, where about one in four people live in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook. Twenty-five student volunteers were chosen from a field of more than 70 applicants after a competitive application-process. Each raised $1,600 to cover personal expenses.
Despite living in poverty, many of the people she helped seemed positive and optimistic.
After the trip to Guatemala, she knew she wanted to do more, so she started Jayhawk Health Initiative, which is dedicated to providing health services for those in need and to creating opportunities for KU students who want to become doctors and nurses.
In 2013, Loving organized a
"I had always seen documentaries and you see what it is like, but you don't really realize it until you are there and you see people living in shacks on sides of mountains with tin for roofs and walls;" Loving said.
"I was a dental hygienist for the day and it was my job to teach her how to brush her teeth," Loving said. "It bogged my mind that she was 6 or 7 years old and I was
"They are happier than a lot of Americans I run into," Loving said.
In Guatemala, Loving met a young girl named Paola who put things in perspective for her.
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Student Senate travels to Topeka to propose laws
ALANA FLINN
@alana_flinn
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Members of Student Senate will travel to the Capitol in Topeka tomorrow to propose three policies to state legislatures for Higher Education Day.
One of the proposed laws is the "lifeline 911" amnesty policy. This policy would allow underage students who seek medical attention while drinking the ability to be exempt from legal ramifications.
Student Body President Morgan Said and Kansas State Student Body President Reagan Kays will be testifying on behalf of this proposed law.
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According to a press release from the Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee, students from Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, Washburn University
and Wichita State University are expected to speak with more than 100 legislators at the Kansas Statehouse on Feb. 10 as part of Higher Education Dav.
"Student Senate's job is to advocate on the local and national level." Said said. "This is our duty as student government to speak to the state about what we feel is most important in higher education."
For Said, testifying at Higher Education Day is incredibly important to her.
Another proposed law will be tax-exempt textbooks. Student Senate proposed this at Higher Education Day last year, where it passed in the house but failed in the senate. Said said Student Senate gained traction with the proposal last year and is hoping to finally push it through tomorrow.
Student Senate will also be advocating for general higher education funding.
MORGAN SAID Student body president
"Student Senate's job is to advocate on the local and national level."
"My biggest hope is the legislators would see our perspective," Admussen said. "So many times they make these decisions and don't see the cost to students. We're busy and we go to class, a lot of times our voice doesn't get heard and this is about making them understand these students at KU do matter."
For Government Relations Director Will Admussen, traveling to Higher Education Day is the most effective way to show legislators what University students need.
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Edited by Sarah Kramer
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