4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2005
On-campus
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"It's free. I'm willing to put up with it for the benefits that it offers," he said.
But he said he had the opportunity to live on his own after he graduates.
Michelle Goodrick, Meriden senior, is as a resident assistant at Templin Hall. She said the rules didn't bother her because she didn't think they affected her sense of freedom.
"It depends on what you consider important," she said.
The freshman-dominated environment of the residence halls has shown some noticeable differences, Xenos said. She said she'd noticed a difference in priorities among the freshmen on her floor compared to her own.
She said helping freshmen with their college experience and living in the residence halls had been rewarding, no matter what others thought.
"I'm not interested in going out all the time," she said. "I've noticed that they have a lot to learn."
"It items like a crazy idea, but it's worth it even if it sounds like it may not be," she said.
Hoffman said he's enjoyed helping freshmen entering the college life and has gained a better understanding of people.
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"Living within close quarters with people helps you discover who you are," he said. "They should try to live in university housing for one year."
The coastal plaine of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is seen in this July 2001 file photo. Senate opponents to drilling in the wildlife refuge failed on Thursday to strip the measure from a massive budget package. Environmentalists had acknowledged that it was a long shot to kill the provision and now aim to defeat the overall budget bill.
— Edited by Becca Evanhoe
India
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Classical Indian dance is distinguished by its unique use of facial expressions and face and hand movements.
It requires dancers to be coordinated and flexible in order to contour their bodies into the correct positions. Datla said learning to classically dance was a lot like learning to play an instrument.
It takes years of practice and professional training.
The remainder of the dances will be performed by amateurs in the modern Indian dance style. Taking inspiration from both eastern and western influences, like disco and break dancing, it is less structured in style.
Datla will be one of the modern dance performers.
Afterward, an Indian buffet at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union will follow the show. Ruchi Indian Cuisine will cater the dinner. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased from Ruchi or Datla.
"Pretty much I just watch Bollywood movies and trv to imitate what they are doing." he said.
ENVIRONMENT
Edited by Patrick Ross
Wildlife refuge cleared to drill
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Senate insisted Thursday on opening up the Arctic National Wildlife refuge for drilling after being blocked by environmentalists for decades, then voted overwhelmingly to prohibit exporting any of the oil pumped from the region.
With a 51-48 vote, the Senate approved requiring the Interior Department to begin selling oil leases for the coastal plain of the Alaska refuge within two years.
Repeated attempts to approve such drilling have failed in the Senate because supporters were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. This year, supporters wrote the ban on drilling to a budget measure that is immune from filibuster.
Opening the refuge, which was set aside for protection 44 years ago, has been one of President Bush's top energy priorities.
Bush, in Argentina for a two-day summit, hailed the vote.
"Increasing our domestic energy supply will help lower gasoline prices and utility bills," he said in a statement. "We can and should produce more crude oil here at home in environmentally responsible ways. The most promising site for oil in America is a 2,000-acre site in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and thanks to technology, we can reach this energy with little impact on the land or wildlife."
Bush and other drilling advocates argue that the country needs the estimated 10.5 billion barrels of oil that are believed to lie beneath the refuges coastal tundra in northeastern Alaska and slow the growing dependence on oil imports. The United States now uses about 7.3 billion barrels of oil a year.
"America needs this American oil," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. He called opposition to pumping the refuge's oil "ostrich-like" and said the refuge's reserves are "crucial to the nation's attempt to achieve energy independence."
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash,
who led the effort to continue the
ban, called drilling in the refuge a gimmick that would have little impact on oil or gasoline prices, or U.S. energy security.
The Senate's decision to keep the provision in its bill "gives us a little more flexibility," said Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo. A decision on ANWR would then be made when the House and Senate try to mesh their two budgets.
"Using backdoor tactics to destroy America's last great wild frontier will not solve our nation's energy problems and will do nothing to lower skyrocketing gas prices," Cantwell argued.
Meanwhile, the Senate in an 86-13 vote, required that none of the oil from ANWR be exported. Otherwise "there
is no assurance that even one drop of Alaskan oil will get to hurting Americans," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a drilling opponent who nevertheless sponsored the no-export provision. He co-sponsored the amendment with Sen. Jin Talent, R-Mo., who strongly supports drilling there.
Drilling supporters argued that ANWR will give the country more domestic oil production. Today about 60 percent of the oil used in the United States is imported.
But no oil is likely to flow from ANWR for 10 years and peak production of about 1 million barrels a day isn't expected until about 2025, according to the Energy Department. Currently, the United States used about 20 million barrels of oil a day.
Environmentalists cited a report by DOE's Energy Information Administration that concluded that ANWR oil would slightly affect gasoline prices and marginally lower the growth of imports by 2025, when imported oil would account for 64 percent of U.S. demand instead of 68 percent without ANWR's oil.
Environmentalists said drilling platforms and a spider web of roads and pipelines would threaten the ecology of the refuge's coastal plain which is used by caribou, polar bears, musk oxen and millions of migratory birds.
Proposing to drill for oil in ANWR has raised the passions of conservationists of all political stripes, according to William Meadows, president of the Wilderness Society. "It would translate into a real outpouring of anger directed toward members of Congress," he said.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has countered that modern drilling techniques and stringent environmental regulations would safeguard the coastal plain and its wildlife. "We can develop ANWR oil without harm to the environment and to the wildlife that live there," she said, adding that development would create tens of thousands of jobs both in Alaska and elsewhere.
The provision in the budget bill assumed $2.5 billion in federal revenue from oil lease sales over the next five years.