GOLF Golfer Andrew Price will return to his home golf course in Lake Forest, Ill., this weekend. PAGE 1B
FOOTBALL Breaking a 35-game losing streak to the Cornhuskers in football this Saturday will be difficult for the Jayhawks to accomplish. PAGE 88
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2004
VOL.115 ISSUE 31
CAMPAIGN VISIT
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Kris Kobach, Republican candidate for the 3rd district U.S. House seat in Kansas, listens to a student's question while campaigning at Wescoe Beach. Kobach was on campus yesterday to promote civic involvement on the collegiate level.
Candidate visits Wescoe Beach
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
This interview with Kris Kobach, the Republican challenger for the 3rd District U.S. House seat in Kansas, is the second in a series designed to give students more information about the race. Kobach's opponent is U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.). The University Daily Kansan staff writer Andy Hyland talked with Kobach yesterday during Kobach's campus visit.
Q: What do you worry about when you think about the state of the nation in 10 years?
A: I worry that we're not doing enough to address the threat of terrorism. There are very specific flaws in our
laws right now ... For example, being a member of a terrorist organization is not a basis for deporting someone under U.S. law right now. There are certain programs that allow terrorists to enter the country legally that are problematic and need reform. There are all kinds of problems that we could fix in our legal system that we could fix and make real gains in the war against terrorism, but it's not happening right now.
Q: What are your plans for education, particularly for college students here in Kansas?
A: I think it's critical that we give tax benefits to saving for college. I think that one of the most important ways we
SEE KOBACH ON PAGE 5A
KU alum on SNL
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Back when he was a theater and film major at the University of Kansas, Rob Riggle never imagined he would brush elbows with a different celebrity each week.
On Monday he met Ben Affleck.
The 34-year-old KU alumnus will make his first appearance as a featured player when Saturday Night Live premieres its new season tomorrow night on NBC at 10:50 p.m.
stranger on the set his first day. He had previously worked with Horatio Sanz and Amy Poehler at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.
Riggle didn't feel like a complete
RIGGLE
Affleck will host and Nelly will be featured as the musical guest on tomorrow night's show.
Riggle grew up in Overland Park and graduated in 1989 from Shawnee Mission South, where he got his first taste of acting.
"He was really nice," Riggle said of Afferck.
"I was the only guy on the football team to do forensics," Riggle said.
He said he worked at the radio and
He was always the funniest guy in the
room no matter where he was. People would always just stop and watch him."
television stations, playing music and performing skits for the lunch crowd at his high school.
"He did a lot of fake interviews and really original skirts for a high school student," said Jeff Robbins, Riggle's high school football teammate and college roommate. "He wanted to talk more than play music."
Jeff Robbins
Riggle's college roommate
Topical comedy may offend some viewers, but the only subject Riggle stays away from is death because of the loved ones left behind.
SEE SNL ON PAGE 5A
"If it doesn't offend me," Riggle said,
"That's my barometer."
"He was always the funniest guy in the room no matter where he was," Robbins said. "People would just stop and watch him."
Riggle arrived at the University in the fall of 1989. He decided to major in the
Riggle said he was voted most humorous in his graduating class.
Debate shows clash of views
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLA
lfarcoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
In the first presidential debate, Bush and Kerry agreed that preventing the nuclear proliferation was the most pressing issues for the next four years.
Katrina Fox, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said she wished the candidates would have discussed in more detail how people would be affected by the PATRIOT ACT and the draft in the next four years.
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Fox she would have like to hear how these issues would affect her life in the immediate future.
"They also didn't talk enough about reducing terrorism. There were not enough facts." she said.
DEBATE IN-DEPTH
For notable quotes from last night's presidential debate, see page 5A.
A group of more than a hundred faculty and students watch the first presidential debate in the Big 12 and Parlor rooms at the Kansas Union.
Fox was one of about 200 students who watched last night's presidential debates at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union last night. The event was a part of Civic Literacy week, designed to raise awareness and turnout on campus.
The audience included people from all parts of the political spectrum: Democrats, Republicans, undecided voters and even supporters of third-party candidate Ralph Nader.
After the 90-minute debate, moderators led students in a roundtable discussion. Fox, who is voting for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), said she thought Bush tried to instill fears in the hearts of Americans rather than keeping America safer.
"Bush was more focused on winning hearts of patriots," Fox said.
Erica Viviano, Alton, Ill., sophomore, said she was turned off by Kerry's stronger stance on the war against terrorism. She said she didn't agree with his language; he used the words "kill" and "attack" in the debate.
Students panned some of the cordiality the candidates displayed. Luke Doyle, Denver sophomore, said the candidates' exchange about their daughters was not necessary.
That doesn't have anything to do
"I think it does a lot for undecided voters."
Jason Boots
Jason Boots Student Senate community affairs director
with it." he said.
community affairs director; said the debate provided a service to students.
The event's organizers said they were happy with the turnout for the debate watch. Jason Boots, Student Senate's
"I think it does a lot for undecided voters." Boots, Plano. Texas, junior, said.
Boots, who didn't say who he was voting for in November, said the event helped to fight against voter apathy. Boots said that hearing candidates talk for more than 30 seconds, as in soundbites, would benefit students.
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Speaker criticizes war
Former presidential hopeful watches debate at Lied
BY ANDY HLYAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The war on terror is leading us down the wrong path, said Gary Hart, former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado and presidential hopeful.
Hart delivered the first installment in the Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture series at the Lied Center last night, and he was critical of both the Bush administration's war in Iraq and the war on terror.
Hart said the administration hid the real reasons for going to war in Iraq from the American people.
He said the reasons were to gain influence in that region of the world and to secure oil for America and its allies.
Hart said "grand strategy" should incorporate several different aspects. America should transform itself from a consumer of goods into a producer of goods,"strengthen and expand our existing democratic alliances," and employ those alliances against terrorism he said.
Hart said the war on terror was not a
"It's a lot easier to have a strategy to fight a war than it is to have a grand strategy to keep the peace," he said.
sufficient strategy for a world power to pursue.
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Hart also criticized the administration for not following the recommendations of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on National Security, of which he was a member.
Gary Hart, former U.S. Senator, relaxes in the Green Room at the Lied Center before giving his speech. Hart spoke about "Security in the New Age of the 21st Century" last night right before the Presidential Debate.
The commission convened in 1998 to address growing concerns of the war on terror, Hart said. He said the commission recommended that the Bush
administration create a Department of Homeland Security on Jan. 31, 2001.
"The problem was the administration didn't listen, and the press didn't
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Minority Recruitment
More minority students are enrolled at the University, and the key to retaining campus diversity is in the partnerships and mentoring programs the campus offers. PAGE 3A
Taking the Field
The softball team begins fall play this weekend in the Jayhawk Fall Classic against Washburn, Emporia State and Johnson County Community College. PAGE 1B
Index
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Weather ... 2A
Opinion ... 4A
Sports ... 1B
Counties ... 6B
Crossword ... 6B
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