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English translation bill fails in committee
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Winning a majority vote of 17-14 in committee was not enough to send an English translation bill to Student Senate.
The bill, which would have eliminated a Senate rule that says all publications paid for by Senate must be in English, or have an English translation, needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
Patrick Quinn, off-campus senator, voted against the bill but proposed that it be sent to Senate with an unfavorable recommendation. Quinn said the bill was important enough that it should be addressed in full Senate.
"I think our function as a committee is not just to pass and fail bills," Quinn said. "But to also
send to. Senate bills that are important to students."
Marci Deuth, engineering senator, countered Quinn by stressing the importance of the committee.
power of the committee.
The vote to reconsider the bill and send it to full Senate next Wednesday with an unfavorable failed.
In other Senate news:
Addressing the Graduate and Professional Students committee, Associate Vice-Provost and Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence) outlined two sources for increased state income, gaming and tourism.
Ballard was accompanied by Sue Hack, Lawrence city commissioner, Rep. Paul Davis (D-Lawrence), Rep. Tom Sloan (R-Lawrence) and Rep. Mark Buhler (R-Lawrence). All spoke to the committee about funding higher education and making it a state priority.
Ballard said that the state must include higher education equally with transportation, primary education and services as the cornerstones of the state's budget.
"If we are starting early and building a foundation,we should continue through higher ed,"Ballard said.
Davis, addressing the lack of funding for higher education, said gaming was a possibility, but that it was hard to get interested legislators to back one plan.
SENATE SPOTLIGHT
Name: Marci Deuth
Mondavs
Favorite TV Show: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Deuth
Favorite Concert: New Kids on the Block from the fourth row when I
"Every year there seem to be more and more people getting in on it." Davis said.
He added that nothing could
was in second grade
Best thing about being a Senator:
"Meeting a lot of people from a group that is hugely diverse and learning a lot about events on campus."
Worst thing about being a Senator: "Having my friends thinking I can control what is going on. It's not all in one persons hands."
Politician dead or alive I would most like to meet: "John F. Kennedy, because I would have liked to see what he would have done if he had been in office longer."
really get done unless it was put on the agenda by the governor.
- Edited by Nikki Overfelt
State Olathe mother charged with newborn's murder
OLATHE — An Olathe woman accused of leaving her newborn baby in a trash bin has been charged with reckless second-degree murder.
Prosecutors content Aubrey Christine Owen, 20, abandoned the full-term newborn after the baby was born alive. Owen turned herself in to Johnson County authorities Tuesday and was later released on $100,000 bond.
A trash collector found the body in a duffel bag in a trash bin on Oct. 13. Authorities sought Owen because they also found materials containing her name.
Prosecutors said Owen "unintentionally but recklessly" killed the baby by putting her inside the bag and abandoning her in the bin.
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