Aer a Labor Day trip away,Chris Ackerson opened the gate tothe backyard o his Lawrence housethat he’d rented or more than ayear.Aer a long car ride, his twodogs needed to use the restroom.As Ackerson, a Wichita junior,made his way into his backyardSept. 3 on the 1800 block o IllinoisStreet, he elt sick to his stomach.Te storm door had been kickedopen and he stared into his now empty living room.“I honestly wanted to cry,” Acker-son said. “Pretty much everything Ihad ever worked or or bought onmy own, other than my urniture,was gone.”Te victim o a burglary, hecalled the Lawrence Police Depart-ment and learned he was the victimo a crime on the rise in Lawrence.According to Kansas IncidentBased Reporting Statistic numbersby LPD rom the beginning o theyear through June 30, 2012, LPDhas responded to 331 incidencesinvolving a burglary. Burglaries areup 33 percent when compared tothe 248 burglaries or the rst-hal o the year in 2011.Sgt. rent McKinley, an LPDspokesman, said they began no-ticing the increase in March andbegan to see patterns aer investi-gating.Specically, most o the increasedburglaries in Lawrence have beenaggravated, meaning someone is inthe home or structure at the timethe oense is committed.McKinley said rom March 17 toAug. 27 there were approximately 83 aggravated residential burglar-ies reported in Lawrence. Force togain entry was reported in six o the cases.“In the vast majority o thosecases the doors were le un-locked,” McKinley said. “Aerentering through an open or un-locked garage, ront or side door,the burglar(s) would quickly grabpurses or other valuable items andget out.”McKinley said the LPD has ar-rested eight people alleged to beinvolved in the burglary string. Temost recent arrest was 18-year-oldCody Barnes, who was charged lastweek or his alleged involvement inour July burglaries.But despite several arrests, theburglaries continue to happen andthe pattern originally associatedwith it has changed.“In late August, the vast majority were doors and windows that werele unlocked,” McKinley said. “Butwe are seeing more o a change withorced entries, and we don’t know what to make o that yet.”On Sept. 17, two orced entry burglaries were reported. Te rsthappened about 3:30 a.m. on the1700 block o Ohio Street. McKin-ley said a neighbor called policeaer hearing glass breaking. Tesecond burglary happened about6:30 a.m. in a student house on the1000 block o ennessee Street. Aresident heard someone breakingglass on the door and called police.In both cases, the suspects fed be-ore police arrived.Police have responded to sev-eral cases involving students, whoMcKinley said may be easier vic-tims because they oen rent housesand are accustomed to noise in themiddle o the night.“We had one case in particularwhere someone heard noise and as-sumed it was their roommate aera night o drinking,” McKinley said.“It’s important students realize thati you hear something, don’t just as-sume. Get up and check it out.”I you do nd or hear someonebreaking in, McKinley said the bestthing to do, aside rom calling po-lice, is to ollow your natural reac-tion.“Most o these people have notbeen conrontational,” McKinley said, reerring to the potential bur-glars. “Do what eels right. It may be to hide until they leave, to con-ront them or to call police as they are in your house.”
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Colombian president, JuanManuel Santos, will receivethe Alumni DistinguishedAchievement Award rom theCollege o Liberal Arts and Sciencestoday at the Robert J. Dole Instituteo Politics. he award is the highestrecognition the college gives.According to a University newsrelease, Santos graduated rom KUin 1973. Since his time in Lawrence,Santos has served in variousColombian gov-ernmental posi-tions, includinginance minis-ter and nationaldeense min-ister. In 2005,he ounded thePartido de la U,Colombia’s largest political party.Santos won the presidential elec-tion on Aug. 7, 2010, obtaining 9million votes, the highest any can-didate has received in Colombiandemocracy history. He will servehis term until 2014.he award ceremony will beginat 2:30 p.m., and is ree and open tothe public. Chancellor BernadetteGray-Little will present the awardater Santos speaks and answersaudience questions.Santos will also be interviewedby Bill Lacy, director o the DoleInstitute o Politics. KU News willlive stream the conversation. Go tohttp://news.ku.edu/live/ to watch.
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University artists have the chance tget eedback r criticism n their wrksin prgress tnight at 5:30 in ElizabethSherbn Theatre, rm 240 in RbinsnCenter.The Department Dance’s InrmalStudent Shwing is penc t pets,playwrights, chregraphers, lmmak-ers, singers and anyne willing t giveartists eedback. It is ree r artists tenter and r the public t watch andcriticize.The department is still deciding n armal name r the series and is ask-ing r students t vte r their avritename nline. The winner will be an-nunced tnight.The next inrmal perrmance seriesare at 240 Rbinsn Center at 5:30 p.m.n oct. 22, Feb. 11 and March 11. Artistsmust sign up a week in advance with theDepartment Dance by calling 785-864-4264 r emailing kudance@ku.edu.
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WASHINGTON—LorettaMitchell is 100 percent sure she’sgoing to vote in the presidentialrace come November. She doesn’thave a clue who’ll get that vote.That makes her a rare and highly sought after commodity: an unde-cided likely voter.The challenge for PresidentBarack Obama and RepublicanMitt Romney is how to lay claimto this small but mightily impor-tant swath of the electorate. Thesepeople are truly up for grabs, claimthey’re intent on voting and yetaren’t paying that much attention.With six hard-fought weeks leftin the campaign, just 7 percent of likely voters have yet to pick a can-didate, according to an AssociatedPress-GfK poll. When combinedwith those who are leaning towardone candidate or the other but farfrom firm in their choice, about17 percent of likely voters are whatpollsters consider “persuadable.”That includes 6 percent who givesoft support to Obama and4 percent for Romney.Mitchell, a 68-year-old inde-pendent from the small town of Lebanon, Ind., voted for Obamain 2008 but says both candidatesthis year strike her as “true politi-cians, and I’m just really down withWashington and politicians.”Like a lot of undecideds, sheisn’t sure what’s going to determineher ballot, and she’s in no rush todecide.The triggers for how and whenthe undecideds will make up theirminds are intensely personal.So the campaigns have to hopeto pick them off as they pursueswing groups in the most com-petitive states — segments of voterssuch as independents, seniors andwhite working-class voters.People such as Donna Olson,a 66-year-old semi-retired truck driver from Oskaloosa, Iowa, whocalls herself a former Democrat.Olson expects to wait untilNovember to make up her mind, just as she did four years ago,when her vote ultimately went toRepublican John McCain.“I don’t like either one of them,”Olson says of Obama and Romney.She specifically mentions Obama’ssupport for gay marriage andRomney’s proposed tax breaks forwealthy Americans.So how will she make up hermind?“I’m just trying to watch a lit-tle bit of everything,” says Olson.“It probably will come down toNovember, but I’m open to seewhat happens between now andthen.”At least Olson’s tuned in to therace. One huge hurdle for bothsides in the next six weeks will begetting the attention of the unde-cideds.While 69 percent of likely votersreport they’re paying a great dealof attention to the race, the figuredrops to 59 percent for persuad-able likely voters. Among the largergroup of all registered voters, just31 percent of persuadables show much interest in the campaign.
Candidates strive to win over swing groups and undecided voters
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Adventures in Film Histry
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• A 27-year-old Long Lake man
was arrested n 200 blck 8thStreet Saturday at 12:38 a.m. nsuspicin public urinatin. Bndwas set at $100. He was released.
• A 18-year-old Lawrence man
was arrested n 5700 blck 6thStreet Saturday at 2:25 a.m. n sus-picin perating a vehicle underthe infuence. Bnd was set at $500.He was released.
• A 29-year-old Lawrence man
was arrest n the 1700 blck Massachusetts Steet at 2:45 a.m.n suspicin a suspicius r cti-tius tag and driving with a revker suspended license. Bnd was setat $200. He was released.
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