THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008
NEWS
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ELECTION 2008 (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
undecided voter.
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Stephanie Bell, Leawood junior, answers a question during a discussion about the upcoming election at the Dole Institute of Politics Thursday morning as Jay Edwards of News Radio 980 KMBZ looks on. The radio station broadcasted from the Dole Institute to get students' opinions on the presidential candidates.
Stephanie Bell, Leawood junior, said if she had to select one of the two candidates, she would vote for Obama because of his ability to connect with young voters.
"Assuming I don't put in a writein, it's my only choice at this point," Bell said after Schenk pointed out that Bell had little in common with Obama, a 47-year-old black man.
George Dungan, Lincoln, Neb., junior, said he too would vote for Obama because he supported Obama's initiative to make college affordable for all students. Dungan said he liked Obama's plan to exchange community service for tuition dollars because he planned on joining AmeriCorps or Teach For America after college.
"I want someone who can represent the entire nation," he said, "someone who has experience."
Students generally had similar views on "SNLs" portrayal of the candidates and the sketches' effects on the election.
Alex Earles, Salina sophomore and John McCain supporter, said voters needed to focus on which candidate was the best choice overall.
Jesse Vaughn, Mound City senior and president of KU College Republicans, said he watched "SNI" for the comic relief and the program would not influence his vote.
"I know that Democrats don't want to give her any credit," he said of Palin's appearance on "SNL" last Saturday, "but she did get them the highest ratings in 14 years."
Amanda Applegate, Wichita senior and Obama supporter, also said she watched the sketches purely for entertainment.
"A lot of their portraits, even of Barack Obama, have a little bit
of basis in truth," she said. "They wouldn't be funny otherwise."
Thursday's event was part of the Dole Institute's Civic Engagement Week, which was extended to a month this year because of the presidential election. The KMBZ 980 morning radio hosts said they broadcast from the University
because they thought it was important that the youth vote was not overlooked. The show also came to the University at the request of Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute. Lacy is a regular on the morning show at 7:20 a.m. on Tuesdays.
NATIONAL
Edited by Ramsey Cox
Government repays veteran's family The kin of the soldier in WWII received the payment because he was wrongly imprisoned for part in riot
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ORLANDO. Fla. — It took six decades, but a wrongly convicted World War II veteran's family is finally getting his back pay with interest.
Samuel Snow's widow, Margaret, and son, Ray, received a check for $27,580 on Thursday, 64 years after Snow was wrongly convicted of participating in a riot that led to his imprisonment for more than a year. Snow died at age 83 in July, hours after the Army apologized and reversed his dishonorable discharge.
Ray Snow compared his father to the Biblical hero Job — an upright man who was punished for no good reason.
"A good, upright man who was struck down ... yet he held on," Ray Snow, 56, a school teacher, said after his family received the check. "He held onto to the belief that this could be done."
Snow was among 43 soldiers court-martialed for participating in a 1944 riot at Fort Lawton in Seattle that led to the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war. Those
found guilty of rioting, 28 in all, were sentenced to as much as 25 years in prison. It was one of the largest courts martial of World War II.
A year ago, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records set aside Snow's conviction, noting that prosecutors had withheld important evidence and that the defendants were denied access to their attorneys. The board also ruled that four soldiers who petitioned the board, including Snow, should be given honorable discharges and compensated.
Not long afterward, Snow received a check for $725 — the amount the Army said he would
have been paid between the time he was convicted and the time he was released from prison about 15 months later. It was not adjusted for inflation and failed to include 64 years worth of interest. At the time, the Army claimed the amount was in keeping with regulations.
Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., filed legislation to award interest on the back pay owed Snow and any other soldier who has a conviction overturned by courts or the Army Board for Correction of Military Records. It was passed as part of the Defense Authorization Bill,
PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES
What Does a Liberal Society Owe the Disadvantaged?
What Do We Owe the World's Poor?
Loren Lomasky Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, University of Virginia
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (Oxford, 1987) for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Prize (best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under age 40). He co-authored with Geoffrey Brennan Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993), and he edited with Brennan Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Theory (Cambridge, 1989). His essay "Is There a Duty to Vote?", also co-authored with Brennan was awarded the 2003 Kavka/UCI Prize by the American Philosophical Association.
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Research center introduces new wing with ceremony
BY JOE PREINER
jpreiner@kansan.com
U. S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) speaks at the Structural Biology Center dedication ceremony on Thursday afternoon. U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-KS); U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS); Steve Warren, vice provest for research and graduate studies; Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Richard Lariviere, provost (left to right); also spoke at the event. "The research conducted here at KU is world-class," Roberts said.
Jessica Sain-Baird/KANSAN
A dedication ceremony for two new wings of the Structural Biology Center took place Thursday on West Campus.
The additions, which have been under construction since 2006, were completed this month. They will house about 100 researchers in biomedical and bioscience fields. The researchers will be analyzing and evaluating proteins with medicinal potential.
semester and joined the staff after spending 10 years at Penn State.
Kevin Boatright, director of research communications at the University, said the construction of the center had cost about $22.2 million. The research that will be conducted within the Structural Biology Center, or SBC, is largely funded by research grants. During the past decade, the SBC project had been awarded more than $60
million in federal research grants.
Peterson previously told the University Daily Kansan that
Each of the new wings will house a different specialization. One wing is reserved for the Specialized Chemistry Center, part of the deal in the $20.1 million
"This is as new as it gets. These two additions really complete the building."
KEVIN BOATRIGHT Research communications director
Peterson, a Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar, was recruited by the University last
grant from the National Institutes of Health in September. The other wing will cater to the specific needs of Blake Peterson, professor of Medicinal Chemistry, and his research on finding and developing drugs to combat cancer.
he believed researchwas all about failure. He said having even a small percentage of studies work out meant he was doing a good job.
Boatright said about 100 researchers would make use of the finished SBC. The researchers range in experience from graduate students to faculty professors.
The majority of the work researchers will perform in the SBC will be related to bioscience. Researchers will study the structure of protein molecules and evaluate their medicinal potential. Boatright said the researchers would create "libraries" of these molecules. Once promising targets are found, researchers will evaluate the molecule's ability to target specific illnesses, eventually becoming pharmaceuticals.
Boatright said that although the new wings were not yet functional, the center itself has been operating since June.
"This is as new as it gets," Boatright said. "These two additions really complete the building."
An open house accompanied the dedication ceremony, allowing the public to see exactly what was new within the building. Boatright said the open tour let people see what researchers would be working with.
Boatright also said the SBC on West Campus would eventually house of the School of Pharmacy. He said having related fields working in close proximity would benefit the research down the road.
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