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Welcome back, students! 2012 is a big year for KU. It is the 100th year of the Jayhawk and the 100th year of KU Homecoming.
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Wednesday
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Northwest winds at 7 mph and 38 percent humidity
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Southwest at 12 mph
Welcome back to school - it's hot!
Tuesday
tesday
HI: 91
LO: 56
Southeast winds
8 mph
It's getting warmer...
Don't forget your sunglasses.
Monday, August 20
WHAT: Argentine Tango Open Practica
WHERE: Signs of Life
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Newcomers are welcome at this free weekly tango class, no partner required.
WHAT: Fall 2012 theatre auditions.
WHERE: Murphy Hall
WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m.
ABOUT: College thespians of today
tion to be stars of tomorrow.
WHAT: Poster sale
WHERE: Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ABOUT: You can spiff up your crib with posters of all kinds of interests.
Tuesday, August 21
WHAT: KU Info Tables
WHERE: Wescoe Hall
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ABOUT: KU staff can answer questions you still may have after the weekend's activities.
WHAT: Music recital: Heather Paisar
WHERE: Bales Organ Recital Hall
WHEN: 7.30 to 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Come watch a fellow student perform on
organ.
WHAT: Poster sale
WHAT a foster sale
WHERE: Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ABOUT: You can spiff up your crib with posters of all kinds of interests.
Wednesday, August 22
**WHAT:** Poster Sale
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
**WHEN:** 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
**ABOUT:** After classes, a Michael Jordan or Al Pacino poster might be in order.
WHAT: Global Population Growth lecture WHERE: Ecumenical Campus Ministries Center WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. ABOUT: Listen to how we can be leaders on the issue of population growth for the planet.
Thursday, August 23
WHAT: Veggie Lunch
WHERE: Ecumenical Campus Ministries
Center
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ABOUT: "I'm a vegetarian and I ain't
scared of him."
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 3 p.m.
ABOUT: Crumpties may not be included,
but getting involved with Student Union
Activities is.
WHAT: Red Molly concert
WHERE: Lied Center
WHO: 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Bluegrass and folk music fans will be treated to original music by band Red Molly. Tickets are $25.
ELECTION
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Candidates criticize Medicare policies
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stops to talk with voters before attending a fundraising event on Saturday in Nantucket. Mass.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Showing no signs of letting up, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are doubling down on claims the other would threaten seniors' golden years.
Both campaigns sharpened their critique of the other's Medicare policies in recent days and planned to intensify them yet again on Sunday, as the already acrimonious race for the White House reached a new level. Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, on Saturday told seniors here on Florida's western coast that he sees parallels with Europe's debt crisis that cut seniors' benefits. He warned the same could happen right here at home.
Ryan has stood out in Washington for laying out tough spending choices that many lawmakers in both parties avoid. So it was almost inevitable that his selection as running mate would vault Medicare to the top of the campaign debate. But it isn't clear it will remain the top priority in an election that, to this point, has been a contest between Romney and Obama over who would be best for jobs and the economy.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Obama said it is a sure thing that Romney would tear apart Medicare.
Medicare, the popular — though costly — health program for seniors, has become a flashpoint in the presidential race in the frenzied week since Romney picked Ryan as his vice presidential pick. Ryan, a deficit hawk and the House Republicans' chief budget writer, brought buzz to the ticket but also left Romney trying to explain to seniors that he would not take a wrecking ball to the program seniors see as a right.
Obama wasted no time reaching for the upper-hand on Medicare and his spokespeople were ready to take to the Sunday talk shows to plant doubts about what Ryan would do to seniors' programs in the name of balancing budgets. Romney's and Ryan's were at the ready, too, to point out Obama had shifted billions from the program to pay for Democrats' health care law.
"They've been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before," Obama told his audience in Windham. N.H. "It did not work then. It will not work now. It will not reduce the deficit, it will not create jobs. It's the wrong direction for America."
It's a familiar charge already,
On Saturday, Ryan accused
Obama of raiding the Medicare
"piggybank" to pay for his health care overhaul.
Ryan's proposal in Congress would encourage future retirees to consider private coverage that the government would help pay for through a voucher-like system, while keeping the traditional program as an option.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Medicare over time would spend thousands less per senior under the Ryan plan than under current policy. Critics say that would shift heavy costs to individual retirees. The government could always spend more than anticipated to meet changing realities, but at the cost of deeper deficits.
Obama countered that seniors shouldn't trust their golden years to Romney.
Speaking to donors who paid as much as $50,000 to have dinner with him, Ryan compared the United States with Europe, where a financial crisis has led to cuts in benefits for retirees.
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
- A 19-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 5:43 a.m. on the 600 block of Michigan Street on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
● A 21-year-old University male University student was arrested Sunday at 1:30 a.m. on the 1400 block of Ohio Street on suspicion of being intoxicated in the roadway. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
POLICE REPORTS
- A 21-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Saturday at 5:15 a.m. on the 1400 block of Tennessee Street on suspicion of criminal deprivation of property to a non-vehicle, battery and domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 22-year-old Shawne man was arrested Sunday at 1:25 a.m. on the 1300 block of Ohio Street on suspicion of possessing, purchasing or consuming alcohol by a minor, possession or use of a fake driver's license and interfering with duties of an officer. Bond was set at $300. He was released.
- An 18-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 12:23 a.m. on the 700 block of 23rd Street on suspicion of possessing drug parapherna
lia, criminal carry of a club or knife and cultivating or distributing a controlled substance. Bond was set at $21,750.
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