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'A FANTASTIC RIDE'
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Men's basketball coach Roy Williams addresses the crowd of people at yesterday's welcome-home rally at Memorial Stadium. He described the season as "a fantastic ride."
DEBATE
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Barbara Ballard, associate vice chancellor of student affairs, David Ambler, vicechancellor of student affairs and Michael LeCount, Student Senate law senator, asked the coalitions questions about how they would best serve the University.
The questions covered the definition of leadership, tuition issues, the purpose of student representation in University government and qualities that set each coalition apart from the others.
Keith and her running mate, Kit Brauer, Denver sophomore, favor improving recycling programs on campus and encouraging the University to purchase recycled and environmentally conscious products. The candidates said they also wanted to strengthen Student Senate's relationship with the University's administration.
Ng and his running mate,
Loren Malone, Senatobia, Miss.
junior spokeabout their commitment to the Multicultural Resource Center and
STUDENT SENATE elections 2002
providing centralized services to the University, such as a comprehensive campus calendar that would inform students of activities and club meetings.
Paul Bammel, presidential
candidate with the SMILE coalition and Andover junior, promised as part of its platform that the University would hold the world's largest homecoming parade and would pass a bill in Student Senate that would require all teachers to begin and end class with smiles on their faces. His running mate is Jared Hiatt, Salina junior.
Students are invited to ask the candidates questions at an informal debate to be held at Wescoe Beach at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8.
Contact Hill at shill@kensan.com This story was edited by Sarah Smash.
Vietnam vets victorious in Agent Orange lawsuit
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO—Vietnam veterans suffering from diabetes and prostate cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange won a round Monday in their court battle against the federal government.
The payments must date to when veterans initially applied for benefits under a law that allowed them to do so beginning Sept. 25, 1985.
A federal appeals court ruled that the Department of Veterans Affairs must pay retroactive disability payments to thousands of Vietnam vets.
Because of a complicated rulemaking procedure, the government said the cancer victims could not receive benefits until Nov. 7,1996, if they filed a claim after Ian.4,1994.
The appeals court nullified that government interpretation, which affects an estimated 1,200 veterans, said Barton F. Stichman, executive director of the National Veterans Legal Services Program.
Also undermined by the ruling was the government's position that veterans suffering from adult onset diabetes could not get benefits until July 9,2001, if they filed a claim between Jan.4, 1994,and July 9,2001, Stichman said.
"All I can tell you is for the last 20 years the VA has dragged its feet on the Agent Orange issue. They try every way they can to come up with theories to why they shouldn't give benefits," said Stichman, who filed suit in 1986.
Between 1962 and 1971, the United States sprayed 19 million gallons of herbicides over southern Vietnam to destroy jungle cover for communist troops. About 55 percent of that was Agent Orange.
Phil Budahn, a Veterans Affairs spokesman, said the government had not seen the decision and could not immediately comment.
The ruling puts prostate cancer and adult onset diabetes in line with the other diseases acknowledged by the government to have links to Agent Orange, meaning disability benefits would be paid from when a claim was first filed.
cancers, including cancer to the lung, larynx and trachea. Last year, the government recognized adult onset diabetes.
Over the years, the government has added a host of diseases associated with Agent Orange entitling veterans to disability benefits. Those include several
Clifford Nash, a Vietnam veteran with prostate cancer, said the court decision will allow him to keep about $11,000 in benefits that he may have had to return had the court ruled the other way.
For many veterans, the government has paid retroactive benefits while litigation continued. The government reserved the right to take back the benefits if it won the lawsuit.
"I've heard some veterans say we fought there and now we got to fight for what's right and ours," said the 71-year-old Nash, of West Enfield, Maine. "Everything seems to be taking a turn for the better."
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