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THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008
quote of the day
"I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind."
Robertson Davies,
Canadian author (1913-1995)
fact of the dav
Source:www.webexhibits.org
When the clocks fall back one hour, all U.S. Amtrak trains that are running on time stop and wait one hour before resuming. At the spring time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time.
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A clockwork cleaning
Electric Time Co. employee Walter Rodriguez cleans the face of an 84-inch Wegman clock at the plant in Medfield, Mass., on Thursday. Daylight-saving time ended early Sunday morning when clocks turned back one hour.
ASCIIATED PRICE
ELECTION 2008
Students' brochure explains candidates'tax plans
BY CARNEZ WILLIAMS editor@kansan.com
In an effort to clear the smoke surrounding Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama's (D-ill.) plans for the economy, two University accounting majors have created a brochure outlining the presidential hopefuls' tax plans.
Joe Isaac, Wichita senior, and Carlie Bittel, Hays senior, laid out the candidates' agendas, costs and shortcomings of their tax plans as well as general tax information and key tax terms to know.
Isaac said he wanted to help students and other voters make more informed decisions about whom they would vote for based on tax issues. He said he hoped the
brochure would appeal to those who normally wouldn't find taxes interesting.
"The economy is the focal point of this campaign," Isaac said. "Their tax plans act as the backbones for their economic visions."
After being confused by numbers and figures thrown out during the presidential debates, Isaac questioned how the candidates' rhetoric measured up to their actual tax plans.
Isaac said both candidates proposed tax cuts, but the major difference was that Obama's plan proposed an increase in taxes for the top two tax brackets, benefiting those in the lower tax brackets, while McCain proposed no changes. The tax code laws are set
to change in 2011.
"We really wanted to stress that point." Isaac said. "Whoever is the next president — they're going to set that bracket according to the new law in 2011."
Raquel Alexander, accounting professor, helped pull together resources for the brochures publication.
Alexander, who read, verified and circulated the brochure's material, said both Isaac and Bittel worked hard to sift through a great deal of tax information and codes to compile accurate information about the candidates while leaving out their own biases.
"Sometimes you get lost in the information and messages," Alexander said. "We just wanted
to help voters make informed decisions.
In a press release. Bittel emphasized the role getting voters to the polls played in putting together the brochure.
"This publication was created to help voters make an informed decision on Nov. 4," Bittel said. "The subject matter is of interest to everyone at KU as well as the community at large."
Copies of the brochure are available in the Koch Commons in Summerfield Hall. The brochure is also online at www.business.ku.edu/_FileLibrary/PageFile/959/08.Election.Brochure.pdf.
Edited by Rachel Burchfield
ODD NEWS
Couple makes vote count by traveling 9,300 miles
NEW YORK — A New York City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty.
Susan Scott Ker and her husband arrived in New York on Wednesday after flying 9,300 miles to vote in Tuesday's presidential election.
They have been working in India but decided to return to New York when their absentee ballots failed to arrive. Their trip began in Bangalore with stopovers in New Delhi and Chicago.
New Zealand-born Scott-Ker and her Morroco-born husband became American citizens a year ago.
It will be their first time voting in a presidential election. The
They estimate the trip will cost $5,000.
Subprime a welcome name for horse race gamblers
For gamblers, however,
Subprime drew cheers this week.
That was the name of a horse
that won the ninth race Thursday
at the Aqueduct race track in
New York.
NEW YORK — The mortgage problems that have helped shape the current economic downturn have made "subprime" an unwelcome word to investors.
It was the first win in three tries for the 2-year-old filly,but the name made her an instant crowd darling.
The horse ran as the favorite and paid $6.30 on a $2 bet.
Maybe it's a family connection Subprime was sired by a stallion with another name inspired by Wall Street: High Yield.
ATLANTA — A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luqgage.
Cheetahs give baggage handler a Halloween spook
Two cheetahs were being
flown in the cargo area of a Boeing 757 passenger flight from Portland, Ore., to Atlanta on Thursday when one escaped from its cage, Delta spokeswoman Betsey Talton said Friday.
"They told us a large animal had gotten out of a container in the cargo hold and they were having to send someone to tranquilize it," said one passenger, Lee Sentell of Montgomery, Ala.
He said luggage was delayed, but baggage handlers promised to send his bags to him in Alabama.
The good news for passengers: The escaped cheetah didn't damage any of their luggage.
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The seminar "Jazz: 1958 & 2008" will begin at 2 p.m. in the Lawrence Senior Center, located at 745 Vermont St.
The lecture "Linguistics Colloquia" *Semantic typology* semantics of locative relations in Rongga" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake.
The lecture "KU Department of Design Hallmark Design Symposium Series" will begin at 6 p.m. in 3139 Wescoe.
The seminar "Big Scandal, Small Town, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The seminar "I Always Wanted to Learn How to Draw Portraits" will begin at 7 p.m. in Continuing Education.
The film event 'Revolution in Film: 'Crossing the Line' (North Korea)" will begin at 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
on the record
— On Nov. 2, the KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of a bicycle from KK Amini Scholarship Hall. The perpetrator cut through a cable lock to steal the bicycle.
— On Oct. 27, a student reported that someone in Georgia had made three withdrawals of $125 each from her bank account without her approval. Local authorities are coordinating with the appropriate Georgia agency to investigate the crime.
— On Oct. 29, a student reported a burglary and the theft of a Coach purse and wallet, valued at $95, and the purse's contents, valued at $280.
"Lunch & Conversation: Peer Review in Real Time" will begin at noon in 135 Budig.
The last day to drop a class is Nov. 17. Please understand that you will wait in very long lines if you choose to drop a class on the last day.
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