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Kansas State Arts and Sciences facing $2.6M budget shortfall, raising worries about possible layoffs • Kansas Reflector
The Kansas State University College of Arts and Sciences faces a $2.6 million annual budget shortfall in addition to $13.5 million owed for loans from the administration, a situation that may eliminat...
![TR: I always say that if Frank’s Place had stayed on for say six years, five years, race relations in America would be different. Not necessarily better, but different. I think culturally there would be a wider acceptance of the history, the hidden history that now is popping up. I think there would have been more pride kept within the culture of Black America. Resurfacing I would say is a better word. I come from a completely segregated community. I never even spoke socially to a white person until I was a freshman in college. And Colortown, as it was called by the people in Norfolk [Virginia]. White folks. We call it home. They call it Colortown. It was an incredible place to grow up. There were seven movie theaters in walking distance of my house. Everybody I knew, Black, who had a shop, were the head of the shop. The drug store was run by Black folks or owned by them—some had two or three drugstores. The cafes. The bars. It was such a rich Black environment. All my heroes and the heroes that I would hear about, like Lena Horne, Count Basie, they used to come through Norfolk and perform. And of course they couldn't stay in hotels, so they stayed in these apartments. Stars would come through. They had the midnight ramble. I saw Moms Mably, Pigmeat Markham. So, my world was very segregated, not by our choice but by the system. But the entertainment, the visuals that we saw, were so powerful.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qcgmjzw4ty77w5zk46mvg25x/bafkreiac2wkig7wweplc2clx5yswyx33t2gmqe5wpdp5iohsh5ti2w5lyq)
![As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."
3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study).
Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azpq3hfq3llpowyqpjkqwgxs/bafkreibpynfdssvr5aehvgzmcuerbo3romumydje4qsdhog7a3tnazrh2u)
