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NEWS
THURSDAY,MAY1,2003
STUDENT SENATE
Student Senate hands out first achievement awards in service and leadership
Administrators, students, senators and award winners gathered last night for Senate's first end-of-the-year awards. David Ambler, former vice chancellor for Student Affairs, was the special guest. He spoke about the student's role
in a university, Claire Zeigler, former communications director, and Paige Isaacson, residential senator, organized the event.
Outstanding Organization:
Asian American Student Association
Outstanding Organization Member: Lindsey Hodel, Alternative Breaks
Outstanding Project: Rock Chalk Fest
Student Senate Project of the Year: the new Multicultural Resource Center
Outstanding Adviser: Cornel Peweardy, First Nations Student Association
Student Senator of the Year: Kyle Johnson, former engineering senator and finance committee chairman
Finance Committee Member of the Year: Kaelyn Fox, Pittsburg, junior
Graduate Affairs Committee Member of the Year: Ellen Mir, Lawrence graduate student Multicultural Affairs Committee Member of the Year: Andrea Pantoja, Mission freshman Student Rights Committee Member of the Year: Amanda Flott,
University Affairs Committee Member of the Year: Jason Boots, Plano, Texas, freshman
Cate Batchelder
Confederate warship found off coast
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - An underwater survey found what might be remnants of the Confederate ironclad warship Virginia, the former USS Merrimack that fought the Union's ironclad Monitor in the 1862 battle that redefined naval warfare.
The underwater survey, for the proposed construction of a
"It would be a stroke of incredible luck to discover it after all these years," said Dick Hoffeditz, curator of the Virginia War Museum in Newport News.
The Associated Press
marine terminal on the Elizabeth River, describes two shipwrecks in the area and says there is "a distinct possibility" that they might be parts of the Virginia and of a schooner that hit the submerged wreck and sank next to it.
The Monitor and the Virginia which was built on part of the salvaged hull of a Union sailing ship, the USS Merrimack - fought a pounding battle near Newport News on March 9, 1862.
It was the first clash of wooden ships armored with iron plates to repel cannon balls. Most historians consider the four-hour battle a draw.
On May 11, 1862, the Virginia ran aground near Craney Island. After the crew was evacuated, the ship was set afire, detonating the 16,000 pounds of black powder in the ship's magazine. Documents show that salvage companies later removed two boilers and parts of the wooden hull.
What was left of the ship was again blown up, and some sections were dragged to the Navy Yard in Portsmouth.
Several parts of the Virginia survive in museums, including
dented armor and the ship's wheel at the Mariners' Museum, and an anchor and part of a propeller shaft at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources has called for a follow-up investigation to decide if the wreck spotted in the survey is the Virginia. If it is, federal and state laws require that the ship's remains be removed before any dredging can take place.
The Monitor sank at the end of 1862, landing upside down in 240 feet of water, 16 miles off Hatteras, N.C.
Ad Astra per Aspera
Bob Dinges, DNS Masonry employee, steadies the last piece of the Kansas seal being installed at the Dole Institute yesterday. There were four pieces of the seal and Dinges said each weighed approximately 2,900 pounds.
Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Sebelius to reject any proposal that would delay tax refunds
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said yesterday she would reject any budget-balancing proposal that delays refunds to taxpayers, but a key proponent of the idea dismissed the governor's threat.
Sebelius issued a statement on the budget as legislators opened their wrap-up session facing a projected $254 million deficit in the $10 billion budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Kerr said he saw little significance in Sebelius' pledge.
Senate President Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, and House Speaker Doug Mays, R-Topeka, have offered a plan to reduce the state's expenses in fiscal 2004 partly by delaying about $60 million in tax refunds
"I will not sign any proposal that balances the budget by holding refunds we owe to hardworking Kansans," Sebelius said.
"We all do dictums from time to time, and we sometimes have to reconsider them," Kerr said.
Debate was expected today in the House on a budget cleanup bill containing the proposal to delay tax refunds.
Also on the table is a proposal by 16 House freshmen to balance the budget and boost funding for education and social services through a higher sales tax and a surcharge on affluent
kansans income taxes.
But Republican leaders and the Democratic governor want to avoid tax increases. They have agreed so far
on one step to balance revenue and expenses - delaying a $213 million payment of state aid for
Sebelius
public schools from June 15 to July 1, the first day of fiscal 2004.
Sebelius is also proposing that the state issue $300 million in bonds and license more kinds of gambling, which produces revenue for the state. In her statement yesterday, she asked for a "fair opportunity" for gambling to be considered.
A Senate committee has endorsed a bill to allow slot machines at dog and horse tracks
with local voters' approval. But Senate leaders do not plan to schedule a debate, and Kerr was noncommittal yesterday on Seboius' request.
"All that has to get worked out," he said.
In the House. Rep. John Ballou, R-Gardner, a supporter of expanded gambling, said he would try today to force debate on a proposal to allow slots at tracks and casinos in Dodge City and Geary County.
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