---
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2004
NEWS AFFILIATES
NEWS IN BRIEF
KUJH-TV News
Tune into KUJH for
Look here every day for information about KUJH-TV News, the student television station of University of Kansas.
Tune into KUJH for weekday newscasts and other programming on Sunflower Cable channel 32 at 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
On KJHJ, 90.7 FM, listen to the news at 7 a.m.,8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Then again at 6 p.m.
kansan.com
Check the all-new, 24-hour Web site of The University Daily kansan.com.
TALK TO US
Tell us your news. Contact Henry C.
Jackson, Donovan Atkinson or
Andrew Vaupel at 864-4810 or
editor@kansan.com.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR GUIDELINES
Maximum Length: 200 word limit
Include: Author's name and telephone number, class, hometown (student) or position (faculty member)
Letters may be sent by e-mail to editor@kansan.com or opinion@kansan.com or by mail to Kansan newsroom, 111 Stauffer Flint.
WEATHER
Today
6450
FOUR-DAY FORECAST
Rain possible later
Wednesday
67 44 60 36
Cloudy with rain Getting colder
Thursday
Friday
Thursday
58 32
Clear and cold
Clear and cold
Partly cloudy
60 34 Partly cloudy
Justin Geslin, KUJH-TV
ON THE RECORD
- Police arrested a 22-year-old KU student at about 2 a.m. Friday morning in the 1100 block of Tennessee Street. He was charged with an OUI and a red light violation.
A 20-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police the theft of his 2000 Jeep Wrangler between 10 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday from his apartment in the 4100 block of 24th Street.
His loss is estimated around $15,000.
Rumsfeld responds to troops
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq —The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government forces continue to expand and improve, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
with hundreds of Marines assembled in a concrete-line aircraft hangar at this desert air base in western Iraq, Rumsfeld was asked what the future holds for the length and frequency of troop deployments in the country.
In a question-and-answer session
Rumsfeld, on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June, said the insurgent violence is likely to get worse in the weeks ahead, so troop reductions are almost
out of the question. The United States now has about 135,000 troops in Iraq
"Our hope is that as we build up Iraqi forces, we will be able to relieve the stress on our forces and see a reduction in coalition forces over some period of time, probably post-Iraqi elections," the Pentagon chief said. "But again, it will depend entirely on the security situation here in this country."
A sea of blue and crimson
Fans in the student section at Saturday's game against Kansas State cheer and twirl rowdy rags before a play. Memorial Stadium had its first sell-out of the season with a crowd of 50,152. Kansas' 31-28 win was the first in the Sunflower Showdown since Oct. 10, 1992, when the Jayhawks won 31-7.
Amanda Kim Stairretti/KANSAN
Bush, Kerry roam swing states
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ELYRIA, Ohio — President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, their animosity stirred by a contentious second debate, lit into each other over Iraq, jobs and debate performance on Saturday in critical battleground states. Kerry also criticized the administration for the shortage of flu vaccine.
"We now know the administration knew ahead of time that there wasn't going to be enough vaccine," Kerry asserted as he campaigned in Ohio. The administration has denied it had any warning.
Instant polls did not give either Bush or Kerry a clear edge in Friday's wideranging debate in St. Louis before an audience of uncommitted voters. But Republicans were heartened by what they saw as a steadier, more focused and aggressive performance by the president than in the first debate, where he displayed bouts of impatience and peevishness.
Bush and Kerry ventured into each other's "must win" states. Bush campaigned in Iowa and Minnesota, states won by Democrat Al Gore in 2000. Kerry had stops in Ohio and Florida, states won by Bush in 2000.
"The administration, we've learned today, is playing fast and loose again with the facts and the truth to the American people because they pretended and they've acted surprised that we didn't have the vaccines," Kerry said at a nursing school. "Rather than tell the truth to the American people, they've acted surprised and pretended it just sort of happened on their watch."
Campaigning in northeastern Ohio, Kerry accused the administration of misleading Americans on the flu vaccine shortage.
Kerry did not elaborate, but a story from London in Saturday's editions of The Washington Post quoted British health officials as saying their American counterparts were told in mid-September that problems at a drug manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt vaccine supplies to the United States.
A Food and Drug Administration statement disputed the British account, saying "there had been no communication" between the U.S. and British governments on the matter until the British government acted earlier this week.
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt called Kerry's criticism "basteless and hypocritical. So few companies make flu vaccines because of a broken medical liability system that Kerry falsely claims to want to fix but has voted 10 times against reforming."
Both candidates sharply critiqued the other's debate performance of the night before.
because he saw the latest job numbers." Kerry told about 10,000 people at a rally in this northeastern Ohio community. At another point, Kerry joked that he was "a little worried . . . I thought the president was going to attack (moderator) Charlie Gibson."
"The reason I thought he was making all those scowling faces was
Kerry said the nation's choice "could really not have been more clear than it was last night."
The Democrats' advisers said he plans intense attacks in the coming days over domestic issues, including job losses, rising health care costs, and stem-cell research, in the run-up to Wednesday's concluding debate in Tempe, Ariz.
Bush, speaking to more than 7,000 supporters at a Waterloo, Iowa, baseball field, declared himself the winner of the debate and ridiculed Kerry.
"With a straight face, he said, 'I had only one position on Iraq.' I could barely contain myself. He must think we've been on another planet," Bush said, and contended his opponent "doesn't pass the credibility test."
Bush repeated his attack on Kerry's credibility later at a rally in suburban Minneapolis, with his audience chanting "He can run, but he cannot hide" along with him.
Both sides worked to maximize weekend exposure in hopes of winning the post-debate "spin" battle to portray their respective candidate as emerging as the victor.
CORRECTION
Friday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Orchestra plays for 100th birthday," stated that Cori Simmons was a violinist. Simmons plays the viola.
CAMPUS
Mrs. E's added astabling site before election deadline
Days are dwindling to register to vote in this November's elections.
States such as Missouri, Colorado and Texas have already surpassed their voter registration deadlines.
The Student Legislative Awareness Board will add Mrs.E's to its tabling sites for the final days before the deadline from 5 to 7 p.m.The last day to register is Oct.18. SLAB also will be on Wescoe Beach, the Kansas Union Lobby and in the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union with voter registration forms.
"If they haven't registered somewhere else, they should register in Kansas because most likely their deadline has already passed," said Katie Wolff, legislative director of the Student Legislative Awareness Board.
Wolff, Shawnee senior, said SLAB's effort for this campaign season has already set a new record in registering voters. Though she didn't have a hard number, she said SLAB had registered at least 3,500 voters in Douglas County.
"The state controls more funding for KU than the federal government does," Wolff said. "That's a very good reason to vote in Kansas."
Laura Francoviglia
National newspaper on lookout for college scholars
USA Today is recruiting students for the 2005 All-USA College Academic Team.
Three teams will be comprised of 60 undergraduate students; 20 of whom will win $2,500. All winners will be featured in a February 2005 issue of USA Today.
A panel of educators and co-sponsors will choose students based on academic merit and leadership on and off campus. The key component of the contest is "a student's outstanding original academic of intellectual product," according to the nomination form. Entries will be judged on the nominees' skills in writing about their accomplishments.
The nomination form can be downloaded at www.allstars.usatoday.com. Forms are due by November 30, 2004.
For questions, contact Carol Skalski at (703) 854-5890 or www.all-stars@usatoday.com.
— Laura Francoviglia
ET CETERA
The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045.
The University Daily Kansan (ISSN 0746-4962) is published daily during the school year except Saturday, Sunday, fall break, spring break and exams. Weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, KS 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $120. Student subscriptions of $2.11 are paid through the student activity fee. Postmaster: Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 119 Stuffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045
Red Lyon Tavern
944 Mass.832-8228
Print almost anything you need!
The University of Kansas
- Printing Services
Conveniently located on campus!!
1520 Wescoe Hall (right next to The Underground) 864-3554
1501 Crestline Dr.
Bob Billing Parkway
864-4341
Call us at:
(785) 864-4341
or learn more about our services at:
www.printing.ku.edu
Spring Break
Some experiences don't belong on your resume
Subject to change and
availability,
applicable fees not
included. Fees may
range. Hotel parking
airfare from Franses
City. Prises are based
on the rates given at
Book your trip now!
Cancun $562
» 7 nights at Margaritas
» 7 nights at Romano Palace
Acapulco
$672
Nassau, Bahamas $612
> 7 nights at Colony Club Resort
Kansas Memorial Union, Rm 475
(785)864.1271
STA TRAVEL
www.statravel.com
STUDENTTRAVEL & BEYOND
MC
The Empire lecture series will address important questions of historical and contemporary relevance. Some lectures will delve into how nations expanded their power and how they lost it; one will examine the role played by plants, animals and diseases in the control of native society. But at the forefront is the question of whether or not America, the supreme economic and military power, stands on the brink of a new global empire
Each room will be hold at 7:00 p.m. in Regina Hall on the KI Elk Valley Campus, 12800 Cainton, Overland Park, Nebraska.
KU Hall Center for the Humanities
Tues October 12
Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, Washington, D.C.; Former Reagan Administration Trade Negotiator
Program, Princeton University
"Rise and Demise of the Russian Empire"
*
Tues October 26
▶ "Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions"
Stephen Kotkin, Director, Russian Studies Program, Princeton University
English Teacher in Foster City, CA.
Tara Welch, Assistant Professor of Classics, KU
Thurs March 10 Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, KU "Ecological Imperialism"
"The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empires, Myth, Ideology, and Roman Cultural Expansion"
The Empire Lecture Series
Imperial warships: Piraeus, Regent, Bengal, Russia, Japan and Germany get their claws into China.
Credit: A Spartee in the Light of Day '40, front cover. Dai Wan照, 5/11/1900 (AKO Landing).
Y0
x
---
1