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Photo editor
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Wednesday, Sept. 18
Calendar
What: LibArt Exhibit Opening and Awards
When: 3 to 4 p.m.
Where: Watson Library, Third Floor West
About: Reception celebrating the third year of student artwork shown in University libraries.
What: Sexual Assault Candlelit Vigil
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Campanile
About: Vigil where the campanile
will toll for every survivor helped by
GaDuGi this year.
Thursday, Sept. 19
What: Business Career Fair
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Fifth Floor
About: Career fair sponsored by the School of Business.
What: Kristin's Story
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
About: Lecture by Andrea Cooper on her daughter's experience with sexual assault and suicide.
Friday, Sept. 20
What: Ambassador John Limbert discusses U.S.-Iran relations
When: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Kansas Room
About: Free discussion by Ambassador Limbert, a veteran U.S. diplomat and former official at the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran, where he was held captive during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
What: SUA campus movie series:
"Monsters University"
When: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium
About: Rated G. Free with SUA student saver card, $2 with KU ID, $3 for the general public. Tickets available night of show in the Kansas Union Hawk Shop, located on level four.
Saturday, Sept. 21
What: Monarch Butterfly Tagging
When: 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Baker-Haskell Wetlands
About: Tagging of the thousands of monarch butterflies that stop on their way south.
what: Family Weekend Tailgate
When: 9 to 11 a.m.
Where: Memorial Campanile, The Hill
About: Food, games, giveaways and activities sponsored by SUA.
EDUCATION
State board to revise teacher licensing rules
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The 9-1 vote came during a follow-up to the board's discussion in August of how to strengthen a law requiring prosecutors to notify the state about criminal convictions of people seeking or renewing teaching licenses.
TOPEKA — The State Board of Education voted Tuesday to require certain Kansas educators renewing their teaching licenses to submit fingerprints for checks against a state criminal database in an effort to better screen classrooms for convicted elons.
"If it is our job to police it, perhaps we need to say this is the way it's going to be," said board member Deena Horst of Salina.
Kansas has been fingerprinting applicants for new teaching licenses since 2002. The new policy would extend the requirement to those teachers renewing licenses who had never been fingerprinted.
Teachers must renew their licenses every five years, but they would only be fingerprinted on the first renewal. Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis estimated the policy change would apply to about 35,000 teachers in Kansas, but said the number of actual renewals would be about 5,000 less because of retirements. State law bars the board from issuing licenses to anyone convicted of sex crimes, child abuse,
murder or certain other offenses. Scott Gordon, chief counsel for the Kansas Department of Education, said the reporting would help the agency do a more thorough job of deciding if action should be taken against a teacher who has been charged, but potentially convicted on a lesser charge that wasn't among the felony sex or drug crimes listed in statute. "I don't want to wait until a case is over before I find out how the case has been pled down," Gordon said.
The board will finalize the policy and hold a public hearing on the change later this ye-
The board will administer and hold a public hearing on the change later this year. Prosecutors are required to regularly report all felony convictions to the Department of Education so it can check them against employment rosters. But there are no penalties for not complying. "There's no teeth in the statute," board member Ken Willard of Hutchinson said. Willard said he has spoken with Attorney General Derek Schmidt about getting prosecutors to comply with the reporting statute. Don Brown, spokesman for Schmidt, said the attorney general had "repeatedly" encouraged prosecutors to comply with the law and was willing to continue to work with the board of education. The board also voted to develop a new monthly report that would be sent to county prosecutors and district attorneys for them
to return with updates on any new felony convictions involved licensed teachers. The state will also make outreach efforts to the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association to encourage more compliance with the law, as well as speaking with the judicial branch about increasing awareness. Board member Steve Roberts of Overland Park cast the lone vote against the new policy, questioning if fingerprinting would be the best way to enforce the policy. "I'd like a definition of what problem we're trying to solve," he said, adding that he supported efforts to prevent pedophiles from being in schools.
Teachers renewing their licenses will pay a one-time fee of $50 for the fingerprinting, which will be sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for background checks. Although applicants will not be required to submit to fingerprinting for subsequent renewals, a fee is charged to all teachers to run their name against criminal records annually to verify their status. Gordon said if a teacher renewing their license did have a prior conviction for a felony, they could always petition the courts to have the record expunged so that it wouldn't appear on a background check.
FREEBIES
Victoria's Secret PINK returns to campus
Attention Victoria's Secret PINK fans. Mark your calendars for this Friday because the PINK truck is stopping on campus as part of its annual campus tour.
The truck will make its second stop to the University campus on Sept. 20 at the Kansas Union from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Throughout the course of the day there will be several activities for students, including a PINK bouncy castle and several giveaways.
Some of the items featured in the giveaway are PINK drawstring bags that students voted for on Pinterest. KU PINK representative Julia Chase, a senior from Olathe, said the event not only shows students that they' re valued customers, but also promotes the Victoria's Secret brand.
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"Last year was the first time they came and it was because we beat Missouri in a contest and they were impressed with the student turnout." Chasen said. "It's really a way to connect with students."
CRIME
Biden's niece arrested in NYC police scuffle
NEW YORK - The niece of Vice President Joe Biden is being accused of striking a New York City police officer.
Police said Tuesday they took Caroline Biden into custody after responding to a report of a dispute at her Tribea apartment.
Police said the 26-year-old scuffed with officers as they tried to break up a fight between her and her roommate. They said she lunged
at an officer, struck another officer and resisted handcuffed. They didn't say what the fight was about.
Biden was arrested on charges of obstructing governmental administration, harassment and resisting arrest. She was given notice to appear in court Oct. 29, and was released. A phone listing for her couldn't be found, and it wasn't clear if she had a lawyer.
The vice president's office declined to comment.
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