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Pier 1 Imports is keeping its doors open after announcing last month that it would be closing.
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The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas, alleging the state did not research coal alternatives.
pollution
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a law Wednesday
Studie Red Corn, Shawnee junior and Delta Force member, said a list of e-mails was created but that addresses were entered individually.
to allow casino gambling at several locations around
"The code says an e-mail can't be sent out over a Listserv, we had people working hard to insert every e-mail address so it's within the code,"
Sebelius
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Delta Force accused of violations
BY ASHLEE KIELER
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With Student Senate elections underway, hostility between the United Students and Delta Force coalitions continues to grow.
United Students claims coalition used illegal campaigning
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The complaint filed claims that Delta Force used a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to create a mass mailing list of student e-mails.
tion lists, where individual addresses are not typed but a list server is used, is in violation of the code.
The interpretation of the rule states that campaign e-mails must be addressed to student's individual addresses. E-mails sent on distributu-
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regulates "token," which is any nonpaper campaign material distributed to individuals, including e-mails.
United Students filed an elections code violation complaint on Wednesday morning against Delta Force for using mass e-mails
The election code in question
to remind students to vote. The Elections Commission will hear the complaint Monday evening, along with a previous defamation complaint against United States by Delta Force.
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ONE LAST CHANCE TO CAST A VOTE
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Brian Smith, Oklahoma City sophomore, votes outside of Wescoe Hall for the Student Senate elections. "I think it's important that we exercise our right to vote. Everybody should vote,"Smith said. Students can vote in elections until 4 this afternoon by going online to www.ku.edu.
At left, Hannah Love, United Students presidential candidate, hands out fliers to students passing by Wesco Beach on Wednesday. At right, Vanessa Coppel, Salt Lake City freshman, talks to a student in front of Budig Hall. Coppel is running for a freshman-sophomore CLAM seat with Delta Force
Crop artist to create stamp replica
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A KU professor and Lawrence crop artist are working together to create a half-acre replica of a Southern dogface butterfly stamp, to catch the public's eye about the increasing loss of habitat for pollinators around the world.
BY DANAE DESHAZER
Purple petunias, yellow mari golds, and other flowers, greenery, and mulch will be used in the design to replicate one of the four stamps the U.S. postal service will issue for the first ever National Pollinator Week, June 24 to 30. National Pollinator Week was issued by the U.S. Senate with collaboration with The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign and The Coevolution Institute.
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"We need to create some sort of image that will help us get the mess."
The Southern dogface butterfly stamp is one of four stamps created for National Pillow Week.
sage out to the public — that pollinators are important and we have to recognize their value." Chip Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said.
Taylor is working with Stan Herd, Lawrence crop artist, to create the image.
Birds, beetles, bats, flies, butterflies, bees, and thousands of species
are called pollinators. These species are responsible for the reproduction of plants and flowers by the transfer of pollen. About 80 percent of vegetation on the planet requires pollination to exist.
Six thousand acres of farms, ranches and undeveloped forest land is being converted to shopping malls and housing developments each day, said Taylor.
That results in 2.2 million acres a year.
"You can't have your cake and eat it too," Taylor said. "If you want to get the services from these organisms, then we're going to have to provide the support for them."
Herd, Lawrence crop artist, said he would start growing his favorite vegetable, squash, to be used in the
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Environment underexposed in news media
Kennedy says changes must be made
BY TYLER HARBERT
Robert Kennedy Jr. stood at the podium, flashed a handed-down smile and explained why he's fought for environmental changes for two decades.
"I don't want my kids to grow up in a world where there are no family farms in Kansas," he said.
also a best-selling author of three books including, "Crimes Against Nature," and "The Riverkeepers."
Kennedy, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, gave his "Crimes against nature," speech at the Lied Center on Wednesday night. Kennedy is
He said the key methods for encouraging environmentalism in a "broken democracy," are reforming campaign finance rules and reforming the media so that they actually inform the public rather than sway and harm it.
Before his lecture, Kennedy said he had been interviewed by the YUKK radio station and asked why
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Lawrence resident Sean O'Neal bends down to talk to his dog, Dice. Dice, a 10-month-old Daimon-Pit ball-Boxer mix, lost his when he was聘 by a police officer two weeks ago.
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Pit bulls victims of stereotypes, fanciers say
Dangerous dog debate continues
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
It's been two weeks since Sean O'Neal's 10-month old dog, Dice, was shot by a Lawrence police officer.
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His leg amputated as a result of the damage done, Dice now lingers a bit behind O'Neal's other dogs, B.J. and Blackjack when the three play inside the fence. Besides a four-inch scar where the leg used to be, O'Neal said his pet has remained the same dog it was
before the incident.
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"Same old dog," O'Neal said of his dalmation-boxer-pit bull mix. "You stand over there and see him from the side, you wouldn't ever know anything happened."
According to the police report, what happened on March 28 outside O'Neal's North Lawrence home was a response to two dogs running loose. One of the dogs was Dice, and the other was neighbor Kathy
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