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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2013
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that has a good base in that city because they really help us with volunteers and promotions as well," said Caitlin Patrick, event director for the Glow Run 5k. For Lawrence, the Glow Run is partnering with The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.
While these commercial races offer many entertaining opportunities to participants, they also have the potential to gain a huge bottom line. The Alaska Dispatch last year reported that The Color Run made upwards of $750,000 from registration alone.
Besides providing opportunities for racers to run and organizations to obtain profits, these races also offer health benefits.
According to the Peer Health Educators, a volunteer student group that provides health education, and Active.com, running has many benefits such as reducing stress and depression.
It's for those reasons, along with a feeling of accomplishment, that Schneider enjoys the sport and continues making race-oriented goals. "I ran my first half-marathon this past summer and running a marathon is definitely on my bucket list," Schneider said.
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out the city. The Lawrence Police Department has a group of officers who begin routine checks for alcohol violations near popular drinking areas when school begins. They do these checks on what Sgt. Trent McKinley refers to as "peak times," which are typically Wednesday through Saturday nights.
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"The officers go out and target certain types of behaviors," McKinley said. "They're looking for things like people being aggressive with their behavior at bars and people who are openly and excessively intoxicated, like a person who can't seem to walk down the sidewalk without falling down."
The LPD also works in conjunction with Alcoholic Beverage Control and Lawrence businesses who provide alcohol. For the past seven years, they've given training and provided information to servers regarding fake IDs, bar checks and the consequences for both underage drinkers and the employee who provides the alcohol.
"We have a very good relationship with the ABC," said Matt Easley, manager of liquor store On the Rocks. "There are certain times when they will come in with local law enforcement and hang out in the store and check IDs themselves, and I've seen them checking the IDs of people in the parking lot, too."
In addition to help from local law enforcement, Easley said businesses use other strategies to scope out fake IDs as well, including having a binder with pictures of all U.S. IDs on hand, and using a black light and scanners to verify them.
Even with all these preventative measures in place, Easley said underage students continue to try to purchase alcohol illegally.
"There's not a single weekend that goes by that we don't have somebody coming in here, trying to use a fake ID and getting turned away. It always happens," Easley said.
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Kansas defensive over school funding before court
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Kansas Supreme Court Justice Eric Rosenthal questioned whether the Kansas Legislature violated pledges to increase appropriations to school districts, Tuesday, Oct. 8.
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through the course, students are able to determine what career path is best for them and whether that includes working abroad.
"It's not for everybody," Hamel said. "I think some students think it sounds really exciting to work abroad, but we try to stress that it's very different from going for a week or two as a tourist."
Bret Koch, a junior from Tonganoxie, participated in the course last spring. He said he found that although the class had discussions about being able to go abroad and become comfortable in a different setting, he had trouble actually visualizing what it would be like.
He adds that his short stay in London over spring break provided just a glimpse into what his life would be like if he were to work abroad.
"I don't think I got a well-rounded idea of what it's like to have an international career because I
wasn't there long enough" Koch said.
However, Koch said he felt more prepared about entering the international job market from the skills he learned from the course, including how to build an international resume, connect with international companies and begin identifying possible positions and the steps necessary to become a competitive applicant.
Whether a student seeks to start their international career by going to another country or by working with a global company in the United States, Gaston said they need to have the initiative, persistence and self-confidence necessary to get to where they want.
"It's not easy, especially as a young recent graduate," Gaston said. "You have to have the courage to go out and do something that you might not be comfortable with."
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TOPEKA — Several Kansas Supreme Court justices said Tuesday that the state has broken its funding promises to public schools, but they acknowledged that the current funding guidelines might not be feasible for the state, long-term.
At issue is whether the Supreme Court will uphold a lower-court's January ruling ordering the state to increase school funding by at least $440 million a year. The justices are considering a lawsuit filed in 2010 by attorneys for students and several school districts, including Dodge City, Hutchinson, Kansas City and Wichita.
They contend that the state has failed to comply with a 2006 Supreme Court order to increase funding, violating a provision of the Kansas Constitution requiring the Legislature to make "suitable provision" for financing public schools. The court has previously ruled that the state is required to give schools enough money to provide every child with a suitable education.
Justice Dan Biles, who represented the State Board of Education before his appointment to the court, said legislators have described education as the state's top priority.
Justices Eric Rosen and Lee Johnson said the court signed off on the 2006 law — and ended the previous lawsuit — based on promises that funding would increase.
"Why don't we just hold the Legislature to what they said?" Biles said.
Steven McAllister, State Solicitor General, argued that legislators have latitude under the Kansas Constitution over spending decisions, though they did the best they could during and after the Great Recession, including using federal stimulus dollars given to states to blunt the financial impact.
But in a ruling issued in January, a three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court noted that
as the state's economy improved, the Republican-controlled Legislature approved massive personal income tax cuts. Gov. Sam Brownback pushed for the tax reductions to stimulate the economy, but critics have said theyll starve state government of funds.
"They took all the resources out of the system and then stand here and plead that they can't afford to increase funding to schools," said Alan Rupe, a Wichita attorney representing the students and school districts. "That's the problem that we're dealing with here."
anticipated by early January 2014. McAllister argued that the Supreme Court would be overstepping its constitutional authority to step in again and tell lawmakers how much must be spent on public schools. And, he argued, such increases in funding aren't sustainable.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Eric Rosen asked the plaintiff's attorney when, if ever, the state's 40-year cycle of school funding lawsuits would end especially with ever-changing demands on schools to meet new education standards, from the federal No Child Left Behind Act to new Common Core standards adopted by the state in 2010.
"The Legislature has to deal with the real world," McAllister said. "The constitution shouldn't be a suicide pact."
"Is there an end in sight?" Rosen said.
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However, Rupe conceded after the hearing that the justices could reverse the lower court's ruling and send it back for retrial to compel the plaintiffs to prove individual students were harmed by the funding decisions.
Biles also questioned whether there was enough evidence about how individual students were harmed specifically. Rupe said Kansas courts haven't required such detailed evidenced in the past.
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