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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"A false ghost no more disproves the existence of ghosts than a forged banknote disproves the existence of the Bank of England."
Weather forecast
GK Chesterson
Mostly sunny with clouds moving in during the afternoon hours. Winds from the south between 20 and 30 mph. High of 79.
FRIDAY:
Partly cloudy and breezy with south winds remaining between 20 and 30 mph. Low of 58.
FRIDAY NIGHT:
FACT OF THE DAY
England is said to have more ghosts per square mile than any other country in the world.
— qi.com
Mostly cloudy. Winds from the north between 15 and 20 mph. High of 67.
SATURDAY:
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy with winds remaining from the north between 5 and 10 mph. Low of 42.
SUNDAY:
Partly sunny with cooler temperatures coming into the area. High of 58. Low of 37.
On this date in 1893, at the World's Fair in Chicago, the Kansas Pavilion featured a panorama of North American Mammals created by KU natural history professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche. That same panorama is now the feature of KU's Natural History Museum in Dyce Hall.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny becoming cloudy in the evening hours. High of 62. Low of 40.
- Information from forecaster Stephanie Settle, KU atmospheric science student
What's going on?
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
April 29
- The department of dance will host a University Dance Concert featuring choreographic fellowship winner Dusan Tynek at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are $15 for the public and $10 for students.
April 30
The School of Engineering will host Flapjacks for Philanthropy, an all-you-can-eat fundraiser for Just Food, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Eaton Hall. Tickets are $6.
SUNDAY
TUESDAY
Mav 3
May 1
The Douglas County Aids Project will provide free and confidential HIV testing in the Kansas Union Alcoves D and E. DCAP will also have a table in the lobby with information regarding HIV prevention.
The department of visual arts will host a visual arts scholarship show reception from 2 to 4 p.m. in room 302 of the Art and Design Building.
WEDNESDAY
The theatre department will host an interactive theatre experience dealing with office politics and personal management. The event will be held at the Edward Campus in the Regnier Hall auditorium from 8 to 9 a.m.
MONDAY
Mav 4
Mav 2
Adrian Finucane will give a seminar about the Anglo- Spanish slave trade from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Hall Center for the Humanities' seminar room
THURSDAY
May 5
■ KU Theatre will preform the opera "Hansel & Gretel" at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
LAWRENCE
Mayor wants guard cables to help prevent accidents
BY IAN CUMMINGS jcummings@kansan.com
The cost of a human fatality in a car accident is $3,599,500, according to a 2009 report by the Kansas Department of Transportation.
That figure, which is also used by the Federal Highway Administration, is part of the calculations that the department uses to determine where and when to make safety improvements on Kansas highways.
But some Douglas County residents ask that the numbers be looked at again.
K-10, a highway many commuters travel from Johnson County to KU Campus, is absent of crossover cables.
The April 16 accident killed two Eudora residents, including a 5-year-old boy, and injured three
Following the April 16 head-on collision on Kansas Highway 10 east of Eudora, Eudora Mayor Scott Hopson wants to install guard cables on the median along K-10. Guard cables prevent cars on the median from accidentally sliding over to the opposite lane.
others when a driver crossed the median and faced oncoming traffic. KDOT's study of Kansas highways did not select K-10 for guard cables, but identified locations in Topeka and Wichita, based on such factors as traffic volume and accident rates.
Accidents on K-10 between Lawrence and Interstate 435 killed 19 people between 2000 and 2010. Of those, seven were killed because a vehicle crossed the median.
the addition of guard cables. He said he had also reached out to law enforcement in both Douglas and Johnson counties.
Chris Bronson/KANSAN
Hopson said accidents caused by vehicles crossing the median were not just a problem for Eudora, but for every community along K-10.
KDOT estimated that installing guard cables would cost at least $100,000 per mile. More than 23 states, including Missouri, use them along at least 2,500 miles of highway nationwide. The Missouri Department of Transportation credited them with reducing accident fatalities because they can prevent even large vehicles from crossing medians.
Days after the accident, Hopson wrote to Gov. Sam Brownback and city governments along the state highway, asking them to support
"All of us are in this, regardless of zip code." Hopson said.
In a letter on April22, Brownback asked KDOT to review the question of guard cables on K-10. He also instructed the department to begin the process of widening the shoulders and adding rumble strips. The governor said that while those other measures may not prevent crossover accidents, they were important and already in place in Johnson County.
Mayor Aron Cromwell said Lawrence had a clear interest in safety on K-10 because of the large number of people commuting along the highway for work and school. Cromwell, a University alumnus, grew up in Overland Park.
"For many KU students, it's their first highway driving experience," he said. "Obviously, we want to do whatever we can to help keep them safe."
Thousands of people in Eudora and surrounding communities have joined a Facebook page in support of the effort to install guard cables
and those affected by the April 16 accident. Hopson invited city officials from all affected communities to attend a meeting on K-10 safety measures at the Eudora Recreation Center on May 12.
FACEBOOK PAGE
Edited by Caroline Bledowski
Support the Effort to Install Cable Barriers on K-10
www.facebook.com/
K10crossovereffort
- On April 26, someone damaged a headlight on a car outside Ellsworth Hall at a loss of $180.
- On April 26, someone kicked a door damaging a lock at Ellsworth Hall at a loss of $75.
- On April 27, someone took a bicycle and lock outside Strong Hall valued at $37.
- On April 25, someone removed a locked bicycle at Ellsworth Hall for a loss of $700.
- On April 26, someone was found to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia during the execution of a search warrant at Ellsworth Hall.
Jefferson's Restaurant, 743 Massachusetts St., is set to reopen during the first week of May. While the sports bar and grill
Jefferson's plans to reopen in May
BUSINESS
Jonathan Shorman
has new owners, it will keep the same sports-loving, wing-eating, beer-drinking atmosphere as before — right down to the dollar bills on the wall.
Brandon Graham, the new owner, has remodeled the
bathrooms and installed all new equipment. He also decided to keep the same menu as before. The restaurant was shut down due to unpaid back taxes in Febraury.
Amanda Kistner
DRUGS
Event collects boxes of expired medicine
As part of the Drug Enforcement Agency's national "Got Drugs?" campaign, various groups on campus teamed up with Lawrence Police to collect expired and unused medication for safe disposal.
University of Kansas students dropped off enough expired medication to fill three large boxes during a four hour collection on Wescoe Beach on Thursday.
This year marks the second annual DEA Take Back Initiative event, but the first that local organizers decided to add a campus location to the drop off sites.
Pharmacist-in-charge Cathy Thrasher said they added a campus event in hopes that students would pick through their unused medications before packing to leave campus for the summer.
"The fact that this many
people showed up and the fact that it helps them clean out their medicine cabinets, I'm happy with that." Thrasher said. "I'm looking forward to doing it again."
When the boxes become full, the police seal them with evidence tape and give them to the DEA for proper disposal, which usually means incineration.
In addition to yesterday's campus collection, a community-wide event will take place this weekend.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.the KU Public Safety Office and Lawrence police will collect medications, even offering a drive-and-drop option.
— Laura Nightengale
The collection site at 11th and Massachusetts streets is one of more than 5,000 throughout America as part of the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday, April 30.
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