Wednesday, September 13, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Nation
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Democrats smell 'rats' in GOP ad
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A GOP commercial that flashes the word "RATS" is coming off the air amid allegations that Republicans were trying to send a subliminal message about Al Gore.
George W. Bush said the notion was bizarre, and his campaign denied a conspiracy, but Gore's campaign and experts in political advertising said the word choice was not an accident.
"I've never seen anything like it," the vice president said Tuesday in Middletown, Ohio. Bush noted that the word appears for only a fraction of a second. Played at full speed, it is barely noticeable, particularly if the viewer isn't looking for the word.
"One frame out of 900 hardly in
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"I am convinced this is not intentional. You don't need to play, you know, cute politics."
The ad says that senior citizens will have more control of their health care under Bush's proposal.
Words flash on the screen
Bush: Said accusations of conspiracy were not true
to echo the announcer's message:
"The Gore prescription plan:
Bureaucrats decide."
As the announcer says "bureaucrats," the word "RATS" flashes across the screen.
Alex Castellanos, who made the ad for the Republican National Committee, said that he flashed the letters to make the ad more visually interesting and that "rats" was a coincidence.
Outside analysts said they found it hard to believe the word was not deliberately placed.
"The word ' rats' is so carefully superimposed. It's not like it just randomly appears on the screen," said Darrell West, an expert on political advertising at Brown University.
Bush made it clear he did not endorse subliminal messages. The term itself gave him trouble all day, repeatedly coming out as "subliminable."
Karen Hughes, Bush's communi
"One frame out of 900 hardly in my judgment makes a conspiracy. I am convinced this is not intentional. You don't need to play, you know, cute politics." George W. Bush Republican presidential nominee
cations director, said the word "wit" also flashes by during the phrase, "Interferes with doctors."
"I can assure you that we are not spending Republican ad money to call Al Gore a wit," she said.
California grants reward good grades
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nani Escudero is a part-time worker and a full-time student. Without financial aid, she said, she wouldn't be able to concentrate on her studies.
Now she, and hundreds of others who attend California's colleges, can look forward to dipping into the nation's biggest state scholarship program.
California is promising to spend at least $1.2 billion a year
to cover college tuition for all low- and middle-income students with at least a C average
Under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Gray Davis, all California students whose grades are high enough and incomes are low enough can get a Cal-Grant scholarship, starting with the 2001-02 academic year.
The expansion is made possible largely by a boom-time state surplus and a push by lawmakers and Californians to improve
public education, particularly for low-income students.
The state actually promised college access to all students with good grades in its 1960 Higher Education Master Plan.
Five years ago only 23 percent of eligible Cal-Grant applicants received awards. For the 2000-01 academic year, the state gave awards to 57 percent of those eligible and is spending $503 million on 130,000 students.
When the Cal-Grant program is fully expanded in 2006, it will
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cost the state an estimated $1.2 billion a year. According to the state Student Aid Commission, which runs the program, the grant will provide scholarships for about 250,000 students.
House to decide fate of Boy Scout charter
The Associated Press
The legislation was another challenge to the long-standing relationship between the Boy Scouts and the federal government rising out of the group's stance on excluding homosexuals. A vote on the bill, expected to be easily defeated, was likely to take place Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — A small group of House lawmakers, charging that the Boy Scouts' policy toward gays was a badge of intolerance, moved Tuesday to repeal the organization's federal charter.
The bill's chief sponsor, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., said she was a Girl Scout and one of her sons was a Boy Scout.
"We're not saying the Boy Scouts are bad; we're saying that intolerance is bad," she said in introducing the measure earlier this summer.
Republicans were quick to condemn the bill and its Democratic supporters.
"I scheduled this bill to demonstrate the lack of support for those who have declared open season on the Boy Scouts," said House Majority Leader Dick Army, R-Texas.
The Boy Scouts of America got its federal charter in 1916, six years after it was founded. It is
one of about 90 groups with such designation, an honorary title given to patriotic, charitable and education organizations.
While it confers no specific benefits, receiving a federal charter is a mark of prestige and national recognition for a group. Among other groups with federal charters are the American Legion and Future Farmers of America.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in June, upheld the Boy Scouts' ban on gays serving as troop leaders. That ruling may also give legal backing to the 6.2 million-member organization's rejection of gay youths as members.
The Scouts asserted that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the values it seeks to instill.
The high court sided with the group's First Amendment rights to "expressive association." But President Clinton, five days before the ruling, issued an executive order barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in federally conducted education and training programs.
After the June Supreme Court ruling, Clinton said he was generally against discrimination against gays. But he refused to criticize the Scouts or the court's ruling.
"The Boy Scouts still are — they're a great group," he said. "They do a lot of good."
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