WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29. 2003
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Student and state leaders to discuss tuition increase
Student Body President Jonathan Ng and the student body presidents from Fort Hays State and Wichita State universities will discuss Kansas' higher education situation with state legislators tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at the Capitol. The three presidents will highlight the University of Kansas and Kansas State University's possible tuition increase.
Ng said the two universities were facing sizable tuition increases and would discuss where tuition dollars were going.
Cate Batchelder
Spiritual discussion open for student opinions
Student Union Activities is sponsoring an open forum — "Are You Spiritual? A Forum about Religion" providing students with the opportunity to relieve a variety of religious views, opinions and theories at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"This is a really good chance for people to get a lot of different opinions in one place at one time, and express themselves," said Quinn Gorges, forum coordinator and Wichita senior.
Survey A 10-person panel of students, clergy and KU teaching staff has been assembled to host the event. They will represent differing beliefs including Catholicism, Protestantism, Mormonism, Judaism, Buddhism, Atheism and Wicca.
Cal Creek
STATE
Money shifted from roads into Kansas schools
TOPEKA-A bill to withhold $143 million from cities, counties and highway projects to help balance the state budget received a Senate committee's endorsement yesterday.
The Ways and Means Committee's 9-1 vote sent the bill to the Senate for debate. The Legislature is revising the budget so the state does not end the current fiscal year with a deficit.
The Senate measure withholds $95 million from road improvement projects and $48 million in aid to local governments.
It also takes $35 million in fee revenue normally used for specified purposes and diverts the money to education, social services and other programs.
Gov. Bill Graves proposed the steps before leaving office, and Gov Kathleen Sebelius has embraced them.
The Senate bill is less comprehensive than a budget-balancing measure endorsed last week by the House Appropriations Committee, which included all proposals for rewriting the current budget.
But State Budget Director Duane Goossen said the Senate bill contained most of the important proposals Sebelius had forwarded to legislators.
The Senate bill adds $21 million to the current budget to deal with public school's unexpected costs.
Pentagon short of cash debt still could grow
NATION
WASHINGTON — The cost of fighting the war against terrorism has left the Pentagon at least $15 billion short, and the budget gap must be filled soon or troop training will have to be scaled back, the Pentagon's budget chief said yesterday.
Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon comptroller, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the military also was ringing up unbudgeted charges as it sends tens of thousands of troops and tons of equipment to the Persian Gulf region in preparation for a possible war in Iraq.
He would not say how much the troop buildup cost.
"We're still estimating," he said. "It's changing almost daily."
The budget problem could grow dramatically if President Bush should decide to attack Iraq and Congress does not cover the extra costs, Zakheim said.
Zakheim said the administration had not yet decided how to structure its request to Congress for extra money.
The Associated Press
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Bush pledges to fight to disarm Iraq
WASHINGTON — Building a case for war against Iraq, President Bush said last night he has fresh evidence that Saddam Hussein seeks to "dominate, intimidate or attack" with weapons of mass destruction that he could share with terrorist allies. Bush pledged to "fight with the full force and might of the United States military," if neces sary, to disarm Iraq.
forward tax cuts, Medicare changes and other domestic policies geared toward his 2004 re-election drive.
For the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks transformed him into a wartime president, Bush faced the nation amid serious questions about his leadership. Most Americans don't approve of his handling of the economy, poll indicate, and only a bare majority support his policies on Iraq — an area where the president enjoyed support of more than 80 percent a year ago.
"A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all," the president said in a State of the Union address that also put
The first half of Bush's hour-long address was devoted to domestic policy, a reflection of his desire not to let Iraq overshadow domestic issues dear to Ameribans. The heart of his package is a $674 billion plan to revive the economy, mostly with tax cuts, and a $400 billion, 10-year proposal to overhaul Medicare, sprinkled with Initiatives to combat AIDS, produce energy-efficient cars and give religious groups access to federal community service money.
The Associated Press
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Student Union Activities will sponsor "Are You Spiritual? : A Forum about Religion and the KU Community" at 7 p.m. at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Representatives from major religions and spiritual groups will provide information about their faith and then answer questions from the audience. Call 864-SHOW.
Mentors in the Lives of Kids will hold an information session for those interested in volunteering from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Shannon Cline at 864-4073
Men Can Stop Rape will hold its
first meeting from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Alcove C of the Kansas Union. Contact Travis Weller at 838-3194 for more information.
Hawks for Health will sponsor a Mini Volunteer Fair from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Room 208 in Smith Hall. Contact Lindsay Eplee at 864-4073.
Brown Bag Classics will present Kip Haaheim, electronic musician, at 12:30 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3436.
can: The Cheyenne Ledger Book and Genre in Art/Literature," to be given by Denise Low-Weso of Haskell Indian Nations University, at 3:30 p.m. at the Hall Center conference room.
Hall Center for the Humanities will sponsor an American seminar entitled "Distinctly Indigenous North Ameri-
University Career and Employment Services will present the workshop "How to Attend a Career Fair" at 3:30 p.m. at the Relays Room in the Burge Union.Call 864-3624 for more information.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold a meeting for those interested in studying abroad in Australia at 7 p.m. at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3742.
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