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What's the weather, Jay?
Wednesday
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013
HI: 63
LO: 37
HI: 70
LO: 50
Thunderstorms. 80 percent chance of rain.Wind S at 16 mph.
Sunny. Zero percent chance of rain. Wind NW at 14 mph.
I'm conflicted.
Friday
Thursday
HI: 60
LO: 40
Mostly cloudy. 10 percent chance of rain. Wind S at 16 mph.
I don't think it's supposed to be like this.
Is it really November?
Tuesday, Oct. 29
Calendar
What: The U.S., Drugs and Guns in Mexico
When: 7.30 p.m.
Where: ECM Center
About: Lecture discussing the Mexican Human Rights Organization
Comite Cerezo
What: Rocky Horror Picture Show When: 8 to 11 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Kansas Union Ballroom About: Screening of the cult classic, audience interaction, costumes and dance competition presented by Student Union Activities
Wednesday, Oct. 30
What: How a Generation of People is Getting Hungrier
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: ECM Center
About: Lecture with Jeremy Farmer,
Just Food CEO, discussing food distribution system
When: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Dole Institute of Politics
About: Lecture with Gracita Arrindell,
St. Maarten president of parliament,
about untapped economic markets
.
Thursday, Oct. 31
What: A Case for Social Resilience
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: Fraser Hall, 706
About: Informal talk on social resi-
lence in Kansas with Robert Wuthnow
What: Digital Wall Drawing: Halloween
When: 4 to 5 p.m.
Where: Anschutz Library, Level 3
About: Spooky drawings, with optional costumes
CAMPUS
What: Application for Graduation
Deadline
When: all day
Where: all university
About: Undergraduate and law school
deadline for graduation
Friday, Nov. 1
**What:** Deaf Education; Current Research and Issues
**When:** 1 a.m.
**Where:** Joseph R. Pearson Hall, 203
**About:** Lecture with Barbara Luetke
Doctoral students awarded Self Graduate Fellowships
ASHLEIGH TIDWELL
atidwell@kansan.com
The University has selected six doctoral students to receive the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship, a four-year award given to new or first-year doctoral students.
This year's Self Graduate Fellows are:
- Theodore "Ted" D. Harris: ecology and evolutionary biology
- Brittany N. Krutty: physics
- Michelle McWilliams: molecular and integrative physiology at the KU Medical Center
- Andrea L. Nuckolls: neurosciences at KU Medical Center
- Joseph M. Siegel: chemistry
- Michael T. Stees: electrical engineering and computer science
The mission of the Self Graduate Fellowship is to identify and recruit exceptional Ph.D. students
who show promise in the way of making significant contributions to their own fields of study and society. The Fellowship also provides development opportunities for these students.
opportunities for these students Fellowship recipients are chosen for their vision, career goals and achievements in their fields of study, according to the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship website. Candidates are students in business, economics,
engineering, mathematics biological, biomedical pharmaceutical and physical sciences.
Fellows receive annual monetary support to cover tuition and fees and are appointed as graduate research or teaching assistants within their departments.
Madison "Al" and Lila Self started and endowed the Self Graduate Fellowship based on their belief in the importance
of developing leadership for tomorrow. The six new fellowship recipients, along with the other current fellows, make 30 in a total of 146 students who have benefited from the fellowship since it was established in 1989.
Edited by Sarah Kramer
ENVIRONMENT
Pacific leaders sign climate deal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — The governors of Pacific coastal U.S. states and a Canadian province official on Monday vowed to collectively combat climate change by coordinating policies that place a price on greenhouse gas pollution and mandating the use of cleaner-burning fuels.
The governors of California, Oregon, Washington and the environment minister of British Columbia, Mary Polak, gathered in San Francisco to commit to working together to coordinate efforts with the hope of stimulating a clean-energy economy in a region with a combined gross domestic product of $2.8 trillion.
"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change
— through cap-and-trade and a carbon tax, respectively — and have also already adopted clean fuel standards.
California and British Columbia already have placed a price on greenhouse gas emissions
and we are the last generation who can do something about it," Washington Gov. Jay Insele said
Under terms of the agreement announced Monday, Oregon and Washington's governors are committing their states to move forward with similar policies, even though the legislatures of both states have denied previous attempts to adopt cap-and-trade.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Gov. Jay Inselee, right, shakes hands with California Gov. Jerry Brown before signing an agreement with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Mary Polak, a representative of the premier of British Columbia, to collectively combat climate change on Monday.
It was yet another climate-change related agreement with other states and nations for California Gov. Jerry Brown. In the past year he has inked non-binding deals with Chinese provinces for better collaboration on science and technology, linked the state's cap-and-trade market to Quebec, Canada's and signed on with northeastern states to increase electric vehicle infrastructure.
Brown conceded the fact that alone, these states can't do much to change climate change. But he hoped the collaborations would gain momentum and scope.
This is global. So, if it's only
Oregon, Washington, California and British Columbia, nothing's going to happen. You got to get everybody," Brown said. "You've got to get China, you're going to have to get India. You have to get Texas and Alabama ..."
The deal stems from the work of the Pacific Coast Collaborative, a group meant to organize climate change and clean energy policies in a region with 53 million people.
Washington's Inslee supports a statewide cap on carbon-fuel
emissions, among several ideas to get the state closer to reaching goals set in 2008 to cut global warming pollution.
KANSAS
Secretary of state candidate drops out
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas City-area businessman said Monday that he's dropping out of the Kansas secretary of state's race for family reasons and will endorse a former legislator who switched parties to run for the Democratic nomination.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Randy Rolston, of Mission Hills,
jumped into the race at the end of
last year and gained notice by
immediately loaning $201,000
to his fledgling campaign for
the Democratic nomination.
Former state Sen. Jean Schodorf,
of Wichita, who served 12 years
in the Legislature as a moderate Republican, confirmed last month that she would also seek the Democratic nomination.
Schodorf's decision set up a contest in the August 2014 primary for the right to challenge conservative GOP incumbent Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Rolston said Monday that he reconsidered running after his 94-year-old father was diagnosed with untreatable leukemia earlier this year.
"I really can't spend the time on this," Rolston said of the campaign. "I am going to back out and endorse her."
Schodorf plans to formally launch her campaign Wednesday at a news conference in Wichita. In recent weeks, prominent Democrats have talked up her candidacy.
She was chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee but lost her Republican primary in 2012 as conservatives successfully targeted most of the chamber's GOP moderates.
Schodorf and Kobach did not immediately return telephone messages seeking comment about Rolston's decision. Rolston said Schodorf will make a strong candidate against Kobach.
THE
NAT
While Kobach has contributed some of his own money to his campaign, he's also been able to raise funds from outside contributors. Kobach began the year with about $61,000 in his campaign fund.
Kobach, a former law professor, is the architect of one state law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and another mandating that new voters provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering. Kobach contends the laws combat potential election fraud, but critics contend they will unnecessarily suppress turnout.
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As a senator, Schodofv voted for both requirements in 2011. However, she's since criticized the proof-of-citizenship rule and has said voters should oust Kobach because of the number of registrations on hold.
As of Monday, about 17,200 prospective voters' registrations were on hold because they have not presented a birth certificate, passport or other papers documenting their citizenship to elections officials. Until they do, they aren't eligible to vote.
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