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CJ Brune plays an active role in protesting and campaigning for rights in Lawrence. "When we first started protesting in Lawrence in the 60's and 70's we were big on the fist. This poster originated in Lawrence." Brune said.
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Making her mark
Original February Sister remains active in anti-war protests
BY BETHANY BUNCH
It's noon on Saturday and Caroljean Brune — CJ to her friends — stands in front of the Douglas County Courthouse on Massachusetts Street, a white peace flag in hand. She has shown up every Saturday for the last four years to protest the war in Iraq.
Brune is one of those rare activists who came of age on the KU campus in the turbulent 1960s and
On a similar afternoon 37 years ago, Brune chained herself to the front of the KU Military Science Building to protest the war in Vietnam.
is still active today. She was arrested three times during protests when she was a student here, including the takeover of a building by a group of feminists now known as the February Sisters. Today, she is a KU employee, working for the same University that expelled her for her political radicalism. During the week, she is business manager of the School of Education. But on Saturdays, she puts on her jeans, grabs her white peace flag and heads for the anti-war rally on Massachusetts Street.
The Lawrence home she's had since 1970 is a living history of her activist past, its walls displaying
black and white photos of past rallies, vintage protest posters, bumper stickers and pins, its garage stuffed with old campaign signs.
Sitting cross-legged in front of a wall of books. Brune tells her story.
"it's really gigglesome, the things I did," Brune said.
Brune was on the "graduate in eight" plan. She enrolled at the University of Kansas in the summer of 1964 and received an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1972.
Getting kicked out of school three times, getting married and having two kids slowed down her undergraduate process, but she regrets nothing from her past.
"Looking back, it was really worth it." Brune said.
Brune married a good friend after her first year of college. She said they both knew it wouldn't last and they later divorced. However, she said she still valued the relationship because her two sons came from the marriage, Gregor Brune, 40, Brune's oldest and only living child, works at the Lawrence Public Library. Her younger son Charlie died in his sleep from a seizure shortly after turning 25. Brune went on to receive an MBA from the University. She's been the School
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BUSINESS
Local kitchens make cooking easier
BY MATT ERICKSON
Two new Lawrence businesses could help students replace ramen noodles and delivery pizza with items such as bacon-wrapped steak with gorgonzola sauce and butternut squash lasagna — for a reasonable price.
Blue Plate Dinners, 4931 W,
Sixth St., and Social Suppers, 3514
Clinton Parkway, call their business
concept "meal assembly." They both
allow customers to come in and put
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Barb Willoughby and her daughter Annie Wedman, both of Lawrence, prepare different entrees together at Blue Plate Dinners. "It's so much fun. We prepare the food here and then take it home to cook later. It's a great place," Willoughby said.
While the meal-assembly concept is traditionally aimed at parents who want to feed their families with little time or effort, the owners of both businesses said they wanted to reach out to University students.
Social Suppers is a franchise with 14 other locations, mostly in the Kansas City area. The Lawrence location opened in March.
together meals to take home, freeze and cook later.
Johns helped start the Blue Plate Dinners business, and the Lawrence store is its only location. It opened in January.
"It's a fast, easy, fun way to get dinner on the table," said Lori Lohns, co-owner of Blue Plate Dinners.
Barclay Hagen, co-owner of
Hagen said one group of college-age women came to Social Suppers for a meal session last week. One mother came in and prepared some meals to give to her daughter, a college student at a school away from Lawrence, to take back to school.
Social Suppers, said the concept could provide a way to split the cost of food among roommates.
"Sometimes one person ends up doing all the cooking, or it's every man for himself", Hagen said. "This is a good option to make things available and ready."
At both meal-assembly businesses, customers can move between
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>> CLIMATE CONCERNS
Government action wanted
BY TYLER HARBERT
Cities all over the nation participated Saturday in the National Day of Climate Action that asked Congress to "step it up" and reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050.
Lawrence was one of those cities, and the KU Environs was one of the organizations that helped plan an afternoon march on Massachusetts Street from South Park to the Riverfront Plaza, a tour
of the Bowersock Mills and Power Company on the Kansas River, and two different speaker's panels. All of the events were a combined effort to raise awareness and appeal to legislators about climate change.
Environs president Nicole Reiz, Wichita senior, organized about 100 protesters in South Park on the east side of the park gazezo for a premarch picture that would be sent to the national Step It Up program and
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Nonconference schedule out soon
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Kansas basketball fans eager for next season may soon have something to talk about other than who will or won't return.
Senior associate athletics director Larry Keating said the nonconference schedule was nearly completed and could be released in the next few weeks. The Big 12 Conference schedule won't be released until July, but Keating said the nonconference schedule could be released separately because of its early completion this year.
Games certain to be included are visits to the University of Southern California, Boston College and Georgia Tech as well as home matchups against Arizona and DePaul, all of which are the second games in home-and-home series. Teams play each other twice, usually during a two-year period, in a home-and-home series with each team playing
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elections
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Sunday's games against Baylor brought mixed results.
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Texas A&M's strong pitcher gives Kansas problems.