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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JULY 19TH, SEPTEMBER 20TH
POLITICS
Attorney General announces run for Senate
BY GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press
BOSTON — Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Thursday she will run as a Democratic candidate in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Kennedy died last week of brain cancer at age 77.
The 20-year prosecutor said she can continue to be "an effective voice for the people of Massachusetts."
Cookey said at a news conference the state has had a "crisis of confidence" following Kennedy's death and she wants to pick up his mantle.
"We've depended on him here in the Commonwealth and in Washington, and we will miss his strength and leadership and his sense of humor. As some have noted, no one can fill his shoes, but we must strive to follow in his footsteps," she told supporters at a downtown Boston hotel.
Coakley sidestepped a question from reporters whether she favored the changing state law to allow the governor to appoint an interim
senator, as Kennedy had requested in a letter before his death. Legislators hold a hearing on the matter next week.
"For me, personally, I am fully focused on the race," she said, adding she trusted legislators "will make the right decision."
The 56-year-old Coakley becomes the most prominent candidate to officially declare. Several others are waiting for Kennedy's nephew, former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II to decide if he will run.
Coakley said in response to a question she decided to commit to the race without waiting to see if a Kennedy family member would run because the senator had declared, in his letter seeking an interim appointment, the state needs strong and effective representation in Washington.
Growing up in the Vietnam era has made her wary of President Barack Obama getting dragged into a protracted military engagement in Afghanistan, but "I trust him for now."
In a follow-up interview with The Associated Press, she said:
She has focused on health care
cost containment as attorney general, since Massachusetts has the nation's first universal health insurance law, and is in favor of it being included any overhaul law the president signs. She also said a so-called "public option" for providing government-sponsored insurance should be considered.
She dismissed as "trivolous" a Massachusetts Republican Party complaint that she used $24,000 in state campaign money to pay Washington-based consultants as she considered a federal campaign. She said all her actions have been in compliance with state and federal ethics laws.
Coakley told her supporters she decided to run "because government should work well and it has to work for everyone," adding that the performance of government "has been in some ways disheartening and discouraging."
Other potential Democratic candidates include U.S. Reps. Michael Capuano and Stephen Lynch. Potential Republican candidates include former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, state Sen. Scott Brown and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley speaks to reporters in Boston. Thursday, where she declared herself a Democratic candidate in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Kennedy died last week of brain cancer at age 77.
Student shot by stray bullet while walking on campus
CRIME
Officials will hold town hall meetings to discuss safety
Associated Press
BY DORIE TURNER
ATLANTA - A 19-year-old college student walking on campus with friends was struck and killed by a stray bullet early Thursday at Clark Atlanta University, police said.
the historically black Atlanta University Center.
Jasmine Lynn, of Kansas City, Mo., was struck in the chest when shots were fired during a fight nearby. A Clark Atlanta student who was with Lynn was hit by a bullet on the
"One the friends actually heard the gunshots, actually saw the weapon and told her to get on the ground," Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows said. "As she was getting on the ground, she got shot in the chest." Meadows said Lynn was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where she died.
Meadows said officers believe only one gun was fired, but that it was fired at least six times. He said there may be more than one
"One of the friends actually heard the gun-shots, actually saw the weapon and told her to get on the ground."
LT. KEITH MEADOWS Atlanta Police Dept.
wrist and was treated at a hospital and released, police said.
Lynn was a student at neighboring Spelman College, part of
suspect.
Police said security cameras probably captured the gunfire but they do not yet have a clear description of the shooter.
He said police were interviewing someone they considered a possible witness, not a suspect.
Hours later, students hurried across the campus complex in a
morning rain
Achanti Perine, 19, a junior public relations major at Clark Atlanta. from
Prince George's County, Md., was walking to class, as she usually does, near the scene of the shooting. She said she had not heard about the killing.
"We all are aware of what goes on around this campus, so I'm not surprised. That's too close to home."
"We all are
ACHANTI PERINE Clark Atlanta junior
aware of what goes on around this campus, so I'm not surprised," she said of the neighborhood. "That's too close to home."
At a memorial service at Spelman's chapel, college president Beverly Daniel Tatum said she had spoken with Lynn's mother and grandmother. "They are devastated." Tatum said.
Students cried and held each other at the service. One had to leave because she was crying so
"I know this is very unsettling for all of us. But this is the kind of horrible incident that could have happened anywhere;" Tatum said.
hard.
An administrator said the chapel would be left open for students to use as needed and that grief counseling sessions that started Thursday morning will continue.
Clark Atlanta, Spelman, Morehouse College and the Morehouse School of Medicine make up the Atlanta University Center. The historically black colleges are next door to each other in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood. The campuses are so close it's often hard to tell where one ends and another begins.
Campus officials said they will hold series of town hall meetings on Thursday for faculty, staff and
students to give updates and discuss campus safety.
Students commonly cross between schools to visit each other and can take courses on each other's campuses.
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CULTURE
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piece," Marsaglia said.
Marsaglia is currently doing an article on the swine flu that focuses on how quickly things spread by word of mouth today.
"It's a good, little microcosm of the culture we live in today," Marsaglia said.
Epilogue is on the Web, but the creators said they hoped that it would flourish into a print magazine one day.
— Edited by Lauren Cunningham
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Huscher estimates that a single inch of rain can easily fill the entire barrel because water flows off the roof and into the barrel. He said the rain barrels at the Ad Astra house were almost always full. The water is accessible through a faucet on the side, but Stanford said they were sure a "NON-POTABLE" label was displayed above it so it was clear the water was not safe to drink, but great for gardening.
— Edited by Jonathan Hermes
NEWS
NEWS Bones and antique gun found under old shed
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Construction workers installing support for a new deck at a home outside Boston dug up the concrete floor of a shed and found a skeleton buried there with a gun that appears to be about 100 years old.
Police spokesman Frank Pasquarello says the items found Thursday afternoon may be from a market on the property.
Forensics examinations are expected to reveal the age and gender of the skeletal remains found at the 149-year-old home in Cambridge, a city of about 100,000 residents where Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are located.
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