THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
From the mid-80s to the mid-90s, camping for basketball games actually meant camping outside Fieldhouse overnight. Tents were pitched between the Fieldhouse and the parking garage.
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Sunday
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Partly sunny and much much warmer.
Partly sunny and cold. Northeast winds 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.
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Warmer weekend.
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Friday
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Partly sunny, a bit warmer. East-southeast winds 10-15 mph.
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Sunny.
Warming up slightly.
Saturday
Grab your sunglasses.
Thursday, Jan. 19
WHAT: Brad Paisley with The Band Perry and Scott McCreery WHERE: The Sprint Center Kansas City, Mo. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. ABOUT: The country singer brings his "Virtual Reality World Tour 2012"
WHAT: Doomtree with Steady P
WHERE: The Granada, Lawrence
WHEN: 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT: The Midwest hip-hop collective comes to Lawrence
WHAT: The Cast Pattern with Khaldera and Silent Habit WHERE: The Replay Lounge, Lawrence WHEN: 10 p.m. ABOUT: A local band brings the rock to The Replay Lounge
Friday, Jan. 20
WHAT: Jack's Mannequin with Jukebox the Ghost and Allen Stone WHERE: The Beaumont Club, Kansas City, Mo. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. ABOUT: Rock out to some piano music in KC
WHAT: "Bloody Murder presented by Theatre Lawrence WHERE: Theatre Lawrence, Lawrence WHEN: 7:30 p.m. ABOUT: Theatre Lawrence puts on a comedic murder mystery spoof
WHAT: Blackout with Skrause
WHERE: The Granada, Lawrence
WHEN: 9:30 p.m.
ABOUT: The Granada hosts its 20th Blackout party
Saturday, Jan. 21
WHAT: Girl Scout
Cookie Sale
WHERE: Wal-Mart, 33rd and
iowa streets, Lawrence
WHEN: 9 a.m.
ABOUT: Get your Thin Mints fix
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: "Paranormal Activity 3"
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, Lawrence
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Bring your popcorn and be ready to get scared
WHAT: The Good Foot
WHERE: Jazzhaus,
Lawrence
WHEN: 10 p.m.
ABOUT: A '60s soul band
covers all your favorite
funk hits
Sunday, Jan. 22
WHAT: Chinese New Year Gala
WHERE: The Lied Center of Kansas, Lawrence
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Ring in the Chinese New Year
WHAT: AWOLNATION with White Wives and The Epilogues
WHERE: The Beaumont Club, Kansas City, Mo.
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Chill out in KC
WHAT: Smackdown! Trivia
WHERE: The Bottleneck.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Make that money before you head back to class
Political Fiber
Changes in voter registration laws
In April 2011, Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill that requires all voters to show photo identification at the polls. The state will issue a free photo ID card through the Department of Motor Vehicles to anyone who is eligible to vote. These changes have already gone into effect.
But, beginning Jan. 1, 2013, this bill requires any person registering to vote in Kansas for the first time to submit a document, such as a birth certificate or passport, that proves their citizenship. However, Secretary of State Kris Kobach has pushed to have this enacted sooner — in time for increased voter registration prior to the November elections.
Kobach will likely attempt to
pass further changes to voting laws by proposing a bill requiring a birth certificate for everyone registering or re-registering to vote in Kansas, not just first-time voters.
These changes create several hoops for college students to jump through, especially if they live out of town or out of state. In addition to navigating new voter laws in Kansas and possibly their home states as well, students would have to make a trip home or arrange for their birth certificate to be mailed to them in time to register to vote. For a group notorious for its poor showing at the polls, any obstacle could prove to be a big one.
From Erin Heger for PoliticalFiber.com erin@politicalfiber.com
CONGRESS
Redistricting committee offers new boundaries
TOPEKA, — The chairman of the Kansas Senate's redistricting committee proposed redrawing the state's four U.S. House districts Wednesday by moving Manhattan and Fort Riley into the 1st District.
Sen. Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, offered the new boundaries as the committee began redrawing the congressional districts and the 40 Senate districts.
"This is not without its controversy," Owens said. "This is a template. This is something you put down over the terrain and then you adjust to the terrain."
Manhattan and Fort Riley are now in the 2nd Congressional District of predominantly eastern Kansas. Owens proposes consolidating Douglas County into the 2nd District. It's currently split between the 2nd and 3rd districts.
Dick Carter of the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce said city and county leaders would prefer to stay in the 2nd District when maps are redrawn. Manhattan is home of
Kansas State University and where the Department of Homeland Security is proposing to build the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility to conduct plant and animal research.
Keeping the area in the 2nd District would align it with Fort Leavenworth and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, which Carter said were significant "communities of interest" to consider when drawing boundaries.
"We understand that there's always a starting point for discussion," Carter said.
Other changes include moving Montgomery County from the 4th District, which centers on Wichita, to the 2nd District, and adding all or parts of six counties in central Kansas into the 4th District.
Reno County was kept in the 1st District, represented by Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a freshman Republican. Sen. Anthony Hensley said Reno was moved into the 1st District 20 years ago.
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