Kansas budget panel rejects $2M for new institute - Associated Press

A Kansas Senate budget subcommittee has rejected a proposal to spend $2 million for a new institute at the University of Kansas to work with pharmaceutical companies on new drugs and technologies. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1oGMMlf ) the subcommittee's action Monday led Democratic Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka to accuse Republican subcommittee Chairman Tom Arpke of Salina of having a personal vendetta against the university. Arpke denied it and said the university would be seeing much larger cuts in spending if its budget were tied to its declining enrollment. http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/state/article_ed44c749-e56d-5464-84ca-ad1a562c6e98.html