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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY LONDON
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2006
YOUTH (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
midterm election could be due to candidates and their parties targeting the youth more, Cigler said. Marc Langston, Wichita junior and president of KU Young Democrats, said he "absolutely" thought more youth would vote in this election because the Democrats had the chance to retake both houses of Congress.
This election is important because "the president's power can be severely limited, or he is going to get a lot more power," he said.
The Harvard poll of 2,546 people, which was conducted from Oct. 4 to Oct. 16, found 68 percent of 18- to 24-year-old voters disapproved of the job President Bush was doing.
Elizabeth Roybal, Wichita senior and vice-chair of KU College Republicans, said that it would only be possible after the election to know whether the youth vote was the deciding factor in close races.
"If our age group does become the deciding factor, there will be more politicians listening to what we have to say," she said.
"I believe that issues that are being discussed in this election, 18- to 24-year-old voters see as directly affecting their lives," Roybal said.
Royalal said that many young voters knew someone who was fighting in Iraq and it could be one of the main reasons voters headed to the voting booth today.
"I think so many of these races are too close to call," Roybal said. She said she thought the control of Congress could go either way.
Mark Joslyn, associate professor of political science, said he thought the 32 percent figure quoted by the Harvard poll seemed high. He said it was important to remember that some people would report in polls that they planned to vote but then wouldn't vote.
For the first time, Harvard's Institute of Politics conducted the poll entirely online.
"I think this is inflated" he said of the 32 percent figure and estimated that "20 to 25 percent, max" of 18- to 24-year-old voters would vote today.
Joslyn said he did not know how the institute ensured it was a representative sample.
Kansan staff writer Kim Lynch can be contacted at klynch@kansan. com.
Edited by Aly Barland
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Mark Simpson, Morrison's campaign manager, said, "Phill Kline told us these records would be kept private but now that Kline has them, the host of a national talk show Kline is on says he has seen the records. O'Reilly would not be claiming to have seen the private medical records of Kansans if Phill Kline had not
violated Kansans' privacy by seizing these records"
Kansan staff writer Erin Castaneda can be contacted at ecastaneda@ kansan.com. The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Edited by Dianne Smith
ELECTION 2006
Final day frantic for Ryun,Boyda
JOHN MILBURN ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAWRENCE — Jim Ryun and his family spent Monday's cold, drizzly morning at a busy intersection hoping to reach voters on their way to work or school.
Motorists honked and the congressman and his family waved enthusiastically. It was a sign of how tight the five-term Republican congressman's race with Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda was with the election a day away.
Ryun beat Boyda two years ago by 15 percent, but a wave of partisan angst has Democrats confident they can knock off Ryun and many others to regain control of the House.
The night before, Ryun and 7,000 other Republicans were re-energized by President Bush at a rally in Topeka. Bush spent 40 minutes saying why Congress needed to stay Republican, why the war in Iraq was important and why tax cuts passed early in his administration were helping the economy and families.
Boyda is winding down a frenetic campaign and remains optimistic.
"All I want to do is win by 50 percent plus one vote. That all I can ask for," Boyda said. "At this point, I'm not sure there's much more that can be done."
Democrats attending a Boyda rally Sunday at the Statehouse seemed confident she could pull off an upset that months ago seemed a pipe dream. They say the time has come to send Ryun home and make Congress more than a mouthpiece for the administration.
Boyda's campaign has found favor with Democrats not wanting her to be beholden to the national party.
Marchiony didn't provide a timetable for when construction would begin or finish, but he said the department maintained that construction of the boathouse would begin by spring 2009.
"That's what our hope is," Marchiony said. "If it isn't finished, our intention is that it will be well on its way so that won't be an issue."
Athletics Director Lew Perkins promised KU students last spring that construction would begin within three years or he would refund all money for the project that had come from students' pockets.
Of the increase, $15 will go toward construction of the boathouse.
Jeff Peterson, principal of Peterson Architects, said the Athletics Department officials made it clear to him when his firm was hired last week that they would like to move quickly.
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Peterson said he didn't foresee the three-year promise to be a problem.
"What we are looking at for KU is a phased program," Peterson said. "There'll be an initial phase where probably boat storage, locker rooms and showers will be built and then there may be some additional work in the future that may have training facilities like a rowing tank."
geted $4 to $6 million for its boathouse and Peterson said when all the phases were finished, he anticipated the University's boathouse would be slightly larger than what was built for Tufts.
He said the athletics department had met with the city and would continue to do so.
Students voted last April for a $20 fee increase, which began this semester, for women's and non-revenue sports.
"That's realistic assuming that there's no issues with permitting, things that are not within the University's control," he said. "And
I don't think that there will be, to the degree that it would prevent that from happening."
He said he envisioned building a boathouse similar in stature to a 9,000 square-foot boathouse his firm built for Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
Peterson has been to Lawrence to survey the land where the boathouse is expected to be built. It is currently the location of the "cage", which houses the rowing team's equipment.
Peterson has planned or helped construct boathouses at Princeton, Boston University, Wisconsin, Tufts University and Clemson. The boathouse at Tufts cost slightly more than $2 million. Kansas has bud-
Kansan staff writer C.J. Moore can be contacted at cjmoore@ kansan.com.
- Edited by Nicole Kelley
FIRE
Reinhold Matay/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fire crews work to extinguish the smoldering blaze at Gatorland, one of central Florida's oldest attractions, Monday in Orlando. Fla. Tim Williams, the park's director of media production, said Gatorland's alliances were believed to have hidden安全 in a lake, but the fire may have claimed 2-5-foot long crocodiles and 2-8-foot pythons in a holding pen near the gift shop.
Fire damages Florida attraction
ORLANDO, Fla. — A fire early Monday destroyed a section of the venerable Gatorland tourist attraction, likely killing four animals. Among the charred areas was its main entrance, a huge concrete all-
BY TRAVIS REED ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gatorland's alligators were believe to have hidden safely in a lake, but the fire may have claimed two crocodiles and two 8-foot pythons kept in a pen near the gift shop, said Tim Williams, the parks
The park opened in 1949 and attracts about 400,000 tourists each year. It features people wrestling gators, a "jumparoo" show where the big reptiles leap for food, and up-close encounters where guests can hold snakes, scorpions, spiders and birds. Gatorland has a few thousand animals, Williams estimated.
The blaze, reported at 5:55 a.m., badly damaged the gift shop, entrance and ticket booth.
The giant concrete gator head that serves as the main entrance was charred, its formerly white teeth blackened with soot, its mouth full of debris. The mural facade around it, which had just been given a fresh coat of paint in a $1.5 million overhaul, was torn and burned.
here for 57 years. We're not going anywhere."
gator mouth.
director of media production.
“This park is like an old alligator. Gators fight, they get scarred up, they get beat up, they tear each other up, but they're resilient,” Williams said. “This park's been
Fire crews were still extinguishing the smoldering three-alarm blaze late Monday morning, but park officials said they hoped to be back in operation as quickly as possible.
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