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FRIDAY,MARCH 15,2002
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Campus Place Apts. ...6A
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KU Bookstores ...5A
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CAMERA ON KU
Alicia Ho, Wichita graduate student, and her friend My May bask in the sun by Potter Lake yesterday afternoon. While the temperature reached a high of 74 degrees yesterday, it is expected expected to stay in the lower 60s throughout the weekend.
ON CAMPUS
Rock Chalk Bridge Club will meet at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Pine Room at the Kansas Union. Lessons begin at 6 p.m., games begin at 6:30 p.m. Contact Don Brennan at 550-901.
Do you want to see your face in the Kansan? This is your space, so bring photos or negatives of parties, athletic events or just you and your friends hanging out to 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Label them "Camera on KU" and include the names of those photographed as well as the event and when it took place. Provide your name and phone number so we can verify the photographs.
■ Ki Aikido Sports Club has practice from 10 a.m. to noon. Tomorrow at room 207 in Robinson. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's gold 1984 Toyota Camrywastaken between 8:45 p.m. Wednesday and 2 a.m. yesterday from the 1000 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police reported. The vehicle was valued at $1,000.
A back-up light belonging to the civil engineering department was taken between 5 p.m. March 7 and 8 a.m. March 8 from KU parking lot 41, west of L learned Hall, the KU Public Safety Office reported. The item was valued at $150.
A 22-year-old KU student was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence at 12:18 a.m. yesterday in the 3000 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police reported.
Kansas House rejects efforts to raise tobacco sales taxes
The Associated Press
Topeka — House members continued to demonstrate their distaste for raising taxes, rejecting efforts yesterday to increase taxes on tobacco.
Their actions came a day after repeated efforts to increase the state sales tax and repeal nearly $3 billion in exemptions.
On Wednesday, Rep. Bonnie Sharp offered the biggest revenue-generating measure yet suggested — repealing most of the exemptions from the state's 4.9 percent sales tax to bring in nearly $3 billion.
Sharp, D-Kansas City, said the economy had changed and that the state had grown increasingly reliant on retail sales and services, which was not reflected by a taxing system that depended on income and property taxes.
The debates Wednesday and yesterday were the latest exercises in the House to gauge members' support for various ways of closing a projected budget gap of more than $679 million over the next 15 months.
Earlier in the week, the House voted down proposed increases in the state's income tax, estate tax and property tax for public schools.
"We're taxing under a model that's not working," Sharp said.
Her amendment was defeated 100-22. The bill to
Yesterday's debate began
with a proposal to raise $148 million with an increase in taxes on tobacco products, offered as an amendment to a tax bill. House members voted 99-22 against it.
Sharp said repealing all exemptions in a single amendment was ambitious, but that it points to the need for legislators to rethink all exemptions and become serious about tax policy.
which it would have been attached — a sales tax exemption for hearing aids — was rejected later in the day, 64-41.
Opponents were not amused.
"I'm offering you some lettuce,some green stuff," Sharp said.The week-long tax debate has been dubbed "build-your-own salad week."
House Taxation Chairman John Edmonds, R-Great Bend, labeled Sharp's amendment a "$3 billion tax increase" and said there was much to dislike in its 76 provisions.
CAMPUS
Honor society sponsors photography contest
Photos taken on a spring break vacation out of the country may be worth prizes.
The Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars is sponsoring an international photography contest titled "Picture the World." Mike Ediger, assistant director of international Student Services said that the contest was open to any student, faculty and staff member traveling abroad.
Ediger said that there would be first, second and third place winners for the categories of people, places and cultural traces. Winners for first place in all the categories will receive prizes and the Best in Show winner would win a camera from Image Works. 711 W.23rd St.
Ediger said the winners would be exhibited at the KU Museum of Anthropology during the last week of April for International Student Association's annual International Awareness Week. Entry forms for the contest are available in 300 Strong Hall and submissions are due by April 1.
— Leah Shaffer
WORLD A photographer's death shows the danger of war
JERUSALEM—On one side are Israeli soldiers, on the other are Palestinian gunmen—and caught in the middle are journalists trying to cover an increasingly chaotic conflict raging in the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Gaza Strip. The death of an Italian photographer in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Wednesday — the first foreign journalist to be killed in 17 months of fighting in the Israeli warring hazards faced
— points up the growing hazards faced by those reporting in the Middle East
This week, Israel launched its biggest military operation in a generation, using troops, tanks, Apache assault helicopters and F-16 warplanes against Palestinian militants and weapons-makers.
For the most part, the recent fightin has taken place at breathtakingly close range, in crowded Palestinian towns and refugee camps throughout the West Bank and Gaza.
The danger, of course, is not limited to journalists. This has been the bloodiest month since the conflict erupted in September 2000. So far in March, more than 170 Palestinians and at least 62 Israeli, including combatants and civilians on both sides, have died.
Italy has demanded a thorough investigation of the death of photojournalist Raffaele Ciriello, 42, who witnesses said was struck by machine-gun fire from an Israeli tank on Wednesday as he walked with Palestinian gunmen in the center of Ramallah. Ciriello was on assignment for the Milan daily Corriere della Sera.
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