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Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will leave office to become the Health and Human Services secretary.
Sebelius' new job raises concerns
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BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
"You can't take someone out of the mix who has been as engaged and involved as Sebelius and not feel any effects," Lacy said.
After two weeks of guessing the governor's plans for the future, Kansans got their answer when President Barack Obama introduced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services yesterday afternoon.
Bill Lacy, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, said Kansas would be affected in a multitude of ways.
The nomination brings both excitement and concerns to Kansas, as the state is pushed into the spotlight and the future of some policies lie in question.
Andrew Toth, Colby sophomore and president of KU Young Democrats, said one of the current policies that would be in question would be the power of the Kansas secretary of health and environment.
She also passed Kansas' 2009 budget after disagreeing with Republicans over the amount of funding that should be cut from K-12 education in mid-February.
Sebelius said recently a bill limiting the secretary's power and allowing more coal plants to be built in southwestern Kansas would be dead on arrival if it reached her desk.
Although Sebelius was a Democratic governor in a Republican state. Alex Herman, Hays second-year law student, said Sebelius' ability to negotiate with both parties was a quality Kansans would miss.
"She really worked for Kansas instead of special interests," Herman said.
Toth said Sebelius' bipartisan abilities would help her in Washington, where she would oversee an organization that
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ADMINISTRATION
Lariviere may leave for Oregon
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
Richard Lariviere, the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University, has been named as the finalist for the position of president at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Officials representing the Oregon University System, which ran the selection committee for the position, confirmed Monday afternoon that Lariviere would be appointed to Oregon's highest position "pending a visit" to the university beginning March 10. If appointed, he would assume his
new role July 1
Lariwere said he had been contacted by Oregon's search committee several months ago and decided "it was the wise thing to take it" because "the opportunity to lead one of America's leading research and academic institutions doesn't come every day."
With Chancellor Robert Hemenway stepping down at the end of the school year, Monday's announcement means the University could be left with openings in its two highest-ranking administration positions until September, leaving the six vice provos to bear more of the
weight of running the University, officials said.
"The campus is going to con-
"The cann, tinue to run fine," Don Steeple, senior vice provost for scholarly support, said. "Obviously, once they do select someone, though, it'll take him or
her a while to get his or her feet on the ground."
Steepsle said Monday's announcement wasn't surprising
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to University officials.
"He didn't make any secret of the fact he wanted to be president of a university, either here or somewhere else." Steeples said. "Somewhere else got him first."
Susan Weeks, vice chancellor of the Oregon University System, said a search firm suggested Lariviere to the 25-member search committee. Weeks said the process began in July and that Lariviere satisfied the numerous qualifications the committee looked for in a candidate.
"If you were to put it all in a list, it would look like the person would have to be able to walk on
Lariwire has been vice chancellor and provost at Kansas since 2006. He would be replacing Dave Frohmayer, Oregon's president for the past 15 years.
Lariviere said he was looking forward to visiting Oregon and meeting with faculty and students there and that the University's "warm and welcoming" faculty would be what he missed the most about his current position.
Check tomorrow's Kansan and Kansan.com for continuing coverage.
- Edited by Casey Miles
OH, THE PLACES TRASH WILL GO
Managing campus waste
Follow the process trash, recyclables, hazardous wastes go through after being tossed out
BY AMANDA THOMPSON athompson@kansan.com
Ever stop to think about what happens to that Chick-fil-A box when you're done eating lunch at the Underground? Where does that plastic bottle go when you toss it in the recycling? What about
chemicals used in labs? When students throw things away on campus, they can forget one important thing: away is a place, too.
And student waste is never that far from home. The trash generated by about 600,000 people around northeast Kansas is shipped to a landfill in Lawrence.
Recycling is sorted in a facil.
ity on West Campus, and hazardous waste from University labs is picked up and packaged on campus. Here's a look at what goes on behind the scenes.
WHAT HAPPENSTO YOUR TRASH
Karl Brooks, associate professor of history who also teaches in the department of environmental studies, said students shouldn't think of waste as out of sight, out of mind.
"Just because somebody takes away that bag of trash from your view doesn't mean it stops existing." Brooks said.
The trash from Lawrence and
15 other communities in northeast Kansas ends up in Hamm Landfill, 16984 3rd St. Charlie Sedlock, division manager of Hamm Landfill, said Hamm receives 1,300 tons of trash per day.
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Sedlock said once the trash reached the landfill, each
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