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4A NEWS
BY ERIN SOMMER
STUDENT SENATE
Freshman senators announced
esommer@kansan.com
Results for freshman elections to Student Senate were announced last night. The five senators elected, in order of most votes received:
1. Katy Clagett
2. Michael Wade Smith
Clagett
2. Michael Wade Smith
3. Andy Haverkamp
5. Drew Carlson
Smith
Twenty-four students ran for senate seats. Adam McGonigle, Wichita sophomore and freshman election commissioner, told those not elected that they could still participate in
Student Senate through committees
Katy Clagett, Colorado Springs,
Colo., freshman, received the most
votes of any candidate. Clagett said
that she was excited to be elected and
that she was ready to start working in
Student Senate.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"One thing I think we really need to get done is getting KU wireless,"
U. S. should stop training and equipping the foreign units altogether.
Clagett said.
The freshmen attended Senate committee meetings last night immediately after election results were announced, and they will soon attend an orientation to learn Senate rules and regulations.
ORVILLE Redenbacher brand popcorn is seen on shelves at a market in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday. The nation's largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods Inc., will change the recipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands to remove a chemical linked to a lung inflammation.
Edited by Chris Beattie
IRAQ WAR Marine study finds Iraq security forces ineffective
WASHINGTON (AP) Iraq's security forces will be unable to take control of the country in the next 18 months, and Baghdad's national police force is so full of corruption it should be dismissed entirely, according to a new independent assessment.
The study, led by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, is a detailed look at Iraq's security forces that will factor heavily into Congress' upcoming debate on the war. Republicans said success by the Iraqi forces was critical to bringing U.S. troops home, while an increasing number of Democrats said the
The 20-member panel of mostly retired senior military and police officers said that Iraq's military, in particular its Army, showed the most promise of becoming a viable, independent security force over time. But the group predicted that an adequate logistics system to support these ground forces was at least another two years away.
The report also offered a negative assessment of Baghdad's Ministry of Interior and recommended scrapping Iraq's national police force, which it described as dysfunctional and infiltrated by militias.
》 HEALTH
'Popcorn lung' forces recipe change
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. — Four of the nation's biggest microwave popcorn makers are working to remove a flavoring chemical from their products linked to a lung alliment that has arisen in popcorn plant workers, while reassuring consumers about the safety of the snack.
Several of the companies discussed their plans Wednesday, a day after a leading lung research hospital warned that consumers also could be in danger of the butter-flavoring diacetyl.
The three companies that sell Orville Redenbacher, Act II, Pop Secret and Jolly Time microwave popcorn said they planned to change the recipes for their butter-flavored popcorn and remove diacetyl.
The chemical diacetyl has been linked to cases of bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare life-threatening disease often called popcorn lung.
ConAgra Foods Inc., General Mills, and American Popcorn Company all said they would remove the ingredient because of safety concerns. Together, those companies
accounted for more than 80 percent of the market for microwave popcorn over the last year, according to the research firm Information Resources Inc.
Last week, another popcorn manufacturer, Weaver Popcorn Co. of
Indianapolis, said it would replace the butter-flavoring ingredient.
The popcorn makers said consumers who were worried about diacetyl could buy microwave popcorn that is not butter-flavored and that doesn't contain diacetyl.
STUDENTS FREE WITH KU ID
》 MISSING PERSON
Search continues for pilot after series of false reports
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINDEN, Nev. — Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett vanished somewhere across a landscape of high peaks and sagebrush desert notorious for winds so powerful they can swirl an airplane like a leaf.
As the seaarch for Fossett dragged on into its second day on Wednesday with some false leads, there was still no sign of the 63-year-old aviator or his plane. Some veteran pilots said he may have fallen victim to the sometimes deadly Sierra Nevada winds that tunnel through the narrow canvons.
"There's been times when I've been flying in the wind, and
my blood turns cold," said Adam Mayberry, a private pilot and former spokesman for the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
"There's been times when I've been flying in the wind, and my blood turns cold."
Fossett, who over the
years risked his life circling the globe in a hot-air balloon and an experimental lightweight aircraft, disappeared after taking off from a private airstrip Monday in an ordinary single-engine plane. He was going to scout sites for an attempt at a land-speed record in a rocket-propelled car.
Crews from three states searched by air and land over an area the size of Connecticut, marked by mountains as high as 10,000 feet.
Wind gusts in the area can intensify without warning from any direction, with sudden downdraft that can drag a plane all the way to the ground. Passengers flying even on
that allows pilots to turn a knob and immediately signal their location, said Granger Whitelaw, a fellow pilot and co-founder of the Rocket Racing League. No such signal was activated.
ADAM MAYBERRY Private pilot
Fossett always wears a Breitling Emergency wristwatch
Authorities said that at one point they thought they had spotted Fossett's plane and sent in a helicopter crew to confirm.
Fossett's plane, a Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon, had a locator device that sends a satellite signal after a rough landing, but no such signal had been received.
"We thought we had it nailed," Nevada Civil Air Patrol Maj. Cynthia Ryan told reporters late Wednesday. "Unfortunately, it turned out to be one of many dozen unmapped wreck sites from previous years."
commercial airliners between Las Vegas and Reno know to keep their seat belts fastened for a ride that is rarely smooth.
In 1999, three well-known glider pilots were killed in two separate
accidents after taking off from the Minden airport.
Donald D. Egen, director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, died along with the former president of a gliding organization after their sailplane broke apart and fell more than 4,000 feet. And nationally ranked glider pilot Clem Bowman died when his glider plummeted 100 feet shortly after takeoff.
Ryan said she doubts any sudden wind burst would have caught Fossett by surprise on Monday.
"It was just a really delightful day to go flying," Ryan said. "He knows mountain flying, which is an art in and of itself."
The weather report indicated winds were calm for most of the day.
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