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Senate race remains tight
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TOPEKA — In the state's closest Senate election, the Democratic challenger's margin of victory over the Republican incumbent widened yesterday.
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A review of previously uncounted ballots in Shawnee County left Democrat Laura Kelly 100 votes ahead of Republican Dave Jackson, out of more than 50,000 ballots cast in their Topeka-area district.
The first final, unofficial results from last week's election had Kelly winning by only 39 votes.
Jackson had until today to ask the secretary of state's office for a recount.
The district covers northern Shawnee County, including parts of north and central Topeka, and Wabaunsee County.
Most ballots reviewed yesterday by the Shawnee County Commission were provisional ones, cast when poll workers don't know whether someone is eligible to vote in a particular precinct. The Wabaunsee County Commission did a similar review Friday.
If the result holds, the GOP would maintain its 30-10 majority in the Senate, rather than picking up a seat.
On election night, the tally was 15,046 votes for Kelly and 15,007 for Jackson. After yesterday's review, the tally was 15,383 for Kelly and 15,283 for Jackson.
ETHICIST: Speaker's 'in-your-face' style effective
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University an "A" grade for character development. The majority of audience members, however, gave "B's" and "C's".
After recurring positive self-reflection from the panelists, Josephson began to repeat his question a little more strongly.
Reggie Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the Regents, offered the first attack on Josephson's pillars.
"Pillars are important, but those can bleed into personal values." Robinson said.
In order for the University to implement pillars of character, it requires a real clarity of the characters, he said. Robinson hinted that the University would not want to impose personal values on all of its students.
Josephson eventually made his way to Bill Self, who provided most of the remaining discussion.
"Are we ethical? I think we kind of are — kind of," Self said.
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The University does a great job of instilling ethical character into its students, but it is never enough, Self said. We owe it to our students to expose them to different situations so they will be prepared when they leave college, he said.
Josephson brought up the
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Joan Hunt, University of Kansas Medical Center senior associate dean for research and graduate education
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large rate of student athletes who cheated in high school, hinting that collegiate athletes were really not at the University for an education.
Self said he did not know why so many high school athletes cheated, but admitted that basketball players did not live in reality at the University. Because of their celebrity status, they often face the temptation to have extra help in academics from people wanting to be associated with them.
academics away from the University, though, because people change and athletes sometimes gain a respect for education the longer they stay. Self said.
it would be wrong to keep athletes not fully interested in
Ally Levy, Dallas senior, attended the event last night and said she thought Josephson's in-your-face method was effective in getting honest responses from the panelists.
"They weren't expecting to be grilled to death," Levy said. "It made them think on the spot."
Nathan Vernon, Houston senior, said he enjoyed hearing non-scripted responses from the panelists. He also said he thought Josephson came off as a bit of a know-it-all, but it made the evening interesting.
The Lawrence JournalWorld, Sunflower Broadband and World Online sponsored Josephson's trip to the University, where he gave a speech titled "The University's Role in Creating and Maintaining a More Ethical Society" before leading the discussion with panelists. Josephson, founder of the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Los Angeles, travels around the country, giving speeches and moderating panel discussions on the role of and issues in ethics.
— Edited by Janette Crawford
Arafat's wife angered at Palestinian delegation
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CLAMART. France — Palestinian leaders rushed to Paris yesterday to check on the critically ill Yasser Arafat, but hospital officials said visiting rights were restricted — setting the stage for a dramatic showdown between the delegation and Arafat's wife.
Early yesterday, Suha Arafat accused the leadership — including top lieutenants Ahmed Qureia and Mahmoud Abbas — of coming to the French capital with the sole intention of usurping her husband's role as head of the Palestinian Authority.
"I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive," she shouted, using Arafat's nom de guerre, in a furious telephone call with Al-Jazeera television from the 75-year-old Arafat's bedside in a hospital southwest of Paris.
"He is all right, and he is going home," she insisted.
Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a senior Arafat aide, called a news conference in the West Bank to dispute the claims. "What came from Mrs. Arafat doesn't represent our people," he said, accusing her of wanting "to be the lose decision maker."
And Palestinian Cabinet minister Salah Taumri said, "We are Yasser Arafat's family. We knew Yasser Arafat even before Mrs. Suha Arafat was born. We care for Yasser Arafat and one has the right to deny the truth from the Palestinian people."
The Palestinian leadership abruptly called off the Paris trip, then reversed its decision. Qureia, the Palestinian prime minister, and Abbaas, a former prime minister and the current PLO deputy chairman, landed in France late
vesterday on a private jet.
The prospect of their being barred from Arafat's hospital bedside was bound to inflame an increasingly tense power struggle.
suha Arafat, his wife of 15 years and mother of his daughter, seems to have aligned herself with hardliners who apparently seek to take over the Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat era, though some Palestinian officials said her motives are more financial. According to a senior official in Arafat's office, she has received monthly payments of $100,000 from Palestinian coffers and is widely believed to have control of vast funds collected by the PLO.
This year, French prosecutors launched a money-laundering probe into transfers of $11.4 million into her accounts. She has refused to talk to reporters about Palestinian finances.
COLORS; Nature's fall display not so spectacular
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He said this transfer of nutrients nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous — from the leaves to the roots was the main benefit of the entire process. Nonetheless, the changing colors attract the human eye and attention.
Shorter days and cooler temperatures trigger the leaves to change their colors. Martin said some trees focused on one change more than the other, but usually combined the two conditions. For example, change in temperature does not affect some trees that do not produce red pigment. Hormonal changes then occur within the leaves, which trigger the pigment to change.
As Lyndsay Rush watched high school kids take a campus tour a few days ago, the
"One of my favorite memories of KU in the fall is all the orange and I just don't feel like I saw as much or barely any this fall," she said. "Walking on campus, I usually stop and go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so pretty because of all the orange.' Not this year."
Plymouth, Minn., senior wondered if they were disappointed by the faded fall season. She said she remembered the campus's prettiness during her freshman year.
Martin said sunny, warm days followed by cool nights will produce the best red pigment. Sunny, warm days produce the best photosynthesis and cool nights allow the
Besides dazzling passers-by, the leaves produce sugar that provide necessary nutrients to the tree to survive the winter season.
leaves to trap more sugar. More photosynthesis results in more sugar, which results in more red pigment, which then results in red leaves.
Although the peak color-changing season passed, Martin said students could still watch some late-turning plants change colors, such as sweet gum and the non-Midwest native burning bush.
He also mentioned the unique beauty of prairie grasses native to the Midwest, which turned deep shades of gold, copper, pink and yellow late in the season.
"You don't get that in New England or California," Martin said. "It's kind of special that most people aren't aware of that and really should take a drive out and have a look."
— Edited by Steve Vockrodt
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