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MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2017 | VOLUME 134 ISSUE 04
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Guns blocked from health facilities including KUMC
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The University's Medical Center will be exempted from concealed carry, and the hospital's president, Bob Page, expressed his satisfaction with the decision on Friday.
Public hospitals, mental health centers and other health facilities in Kansas can ban concealed guns without expensive security upgrades after Gov. Sam Brownback allowed a bill to become law Thursday without his signature.
A 2013 law required public buildings to allow gun owners to bring concealed weapons unless those buildings have heightened security such as guards or metal detectors. Universities and public health facilities received a four-year exemption that was due to expire July 1.
tive officer of the University of Kansas Health System, said in a video that he was grateful for the bill becoming law and what it does for the healthcare industry.
At the University's Medical Center, Bob Page, the president and chief execu-
"By allowing this to become law, it will allow us to continue to do what we've been doing which is to keep weapons out of our organizations, and it will allow us to have the same playing field as all of the community hospitals that are not public facilities," he said.
The law not only applies to the University's hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, but also facilities like the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Watkins Memorial Health Center and Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
For David Johnson, Bert Nash Community Mental
Health Center chief executive officer, it was important that this bill became law for the center to continue with their work.
"It means [the center] would continue to be a safe environment not only for our patients, but for our staff as well," he said before the bill was officially finalized.
Johnson said the passage of this bill will save them from implementing the security measures the legislature requires for buildings to ban concealed carry.
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Page shared his satisfaction with continuing the work in health facilities.
"We're happy that this has now become law and we can move on to the next challenges that we have in healthcare," he said in the
video.
Watkins Health Center's director expressed his support for the law in an interview with the Kansan earlier this month, but could not be reached for comment Friday. Lawrence Memorial
Hospital also could not be reached for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
KU attempts to dismiss second
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The University is trying again to get a federal Title IX lawsuit dismissed on the grounds that the lawsuit is redundant with a state consumer protection case.
Sarah McClure is one of two former Kansas rowers suing the University for Title IX violations. In separate lawsuits, she and her former teammate Daisy Tackett allege that the University mishandled their reports of sexual assault, both of which allegedly occurred in
Jayhawker Towers by a member of the football team, and that the University discriminated against them afterwards.
The University filed a motion Friday to dismiss McClure's lawsuit, a move they took with Tackett's case in April. The motion says neither party should have to go through a trial on the lawsuit because a similar state case has already been dismissed.
McClure had joined a consumer protection case last June that says the University used misleading advertisements about Student Housing, which
allegedly gave the Tackett and McClure families a false sense of safety. The case was dismissed by a Kansas court in March.
Since both the federal lawsuit and consumer protection lawsuit are so similar, the motion argues, the federal one should be dismissed.
"The University should not have to defend multiple cases that involve the same claims, allegations, witnesses, evidence, legal issues, and critical events, and this Court should not have to repeat the work already done by the state court," the motion says.
The University
The University should not have to defend multiple cases that involve the same claims [...] and this Court should not have to repeat the work already done by the state court,"
Motion to dismiss Sarah McClure lawsuit
In fact, in the motion to dismiss McClure's claim, the University includes a
table comparing language, evidence and arguments used in the two cases.
McClure's lawyer, Dan Curry, will have an opportunity to respond to the University's motion.
Curry is Tackett's lawyer as well and has already responded to the motion filed in her case, arguing that she did not have full opportunity to argue her case in the state lawsuit and that the issues at play in the two lawsuits are fundamentally different, since one involves a purchasing decision that led to the alleged sexual assault and the other
involves the University's response to the alleged sexual assault.
"This situation is similar to a KCPA claim against a car salesman for making misrepresentations in the sale of a car and a personal injury claim for an automobile crash," the response said. "While both claims involve a car, and perhaps the same car, they are completely separate transactions, giving rise to separate and distinct claims."
The judge has not made a ruling on the motion in Tackett's case.
The work group, spear-
Robertson said, shows the need for a community like this one.
"We've talked about it over the years but never had a sense that there was a particular interest or need yet. When it began to percolate from the students, before it was mostly our staff wondering if we should do it," Robertson said. "Finally it was our students saying, 'Hello, we want this,' and that's when we're going to act on it."
"Having a single room was cool, but it did suck that I missed the opportunity to live with a roommate all because I couldn't find someone who was open-minded," Wantling said. "Especially because once I got to KU I met a lot of open-minded people that said, 'Oh, I would have lived with you had I
Student Housing was a good one spent in a single room at GSP, she said, but getting there wasn't easy.
lance.
The creation of the GIH wing, Robertson said, is one step toward removing hurdles like those faced by students
"I had a lot of people turn me down just because of my sexuality," Wantling said. "I had one girl who said, 'My mom doesn't want me to live with anyone that's gay,' and another one that was like, 'Well, my boyfriend might have a problem with that.'"
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Editor's Note: This story is the third in a series of stories looking at the way concealed carry on campus will look once it goes into effect July 1.
Each new semester brings a new round of syllabuses, but this semester professors will include a new added section of information that addresses concealed
In response to the arrival of concealed weapons on July 1 as a result of a 2013 state law, professors are taking steps to adjust their teaching style, class content, office hours or even seeking employment elsewhere.
carry on campus. As the University prepares to shift to an environment where students are legally allowed to bring concealed handguns to class, this will be just one of many preparations.
Aerospace engineering professor Ron Barrett Gonzalez, president of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said this is because many faculty members are concerned that concealed carry will have a chilling effect in classrooms.
"I know a nontrivial number of faculty members who are changing their syllabus.
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