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The KU debate team won its first tournament of the season on Sept. 17 through 19 at the Ulrich Season Opener in Cedar Falls, Iowa. University of Northern Iowa played host to the tournament.
The 10 KU debaters competing took first place overall in both the varsity and junior varsity competitions, defeating 45 teams.
The varsity team of Andrew Jennings, Silver Lake sophomore, and Matt Cormack, Lincoln, Neb., senior won the varsity division. Three other KU teams reached the elimination round.
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First lady aids coastal 'Extreme Makeover'
Chris Thomas and Erum Shah, both Overland Park freshmen, won the junior varsity competition.
NATION
BILOXI, Miss. - First lady Laura Bush made her reality TV debut yesterday, helping with a taping of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" in a sweltering community building as she toured hurricane relief sites on the Mississippi coast.
Hundreds of people crowded into the Biloxi Community Center where a mountain of donated clothes covered a stage. Bush and Preston Sharp, a designer on the ABC TV show, greeted storm victims and handed out donated items from big plastic bins.
"Extreme Makeover" came to the coast to distribute items donated for victims of Katrina, which displaced as many as 1 million people in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Bush said she was struck by the devastation in Biloxi, where every building was damaged and mounds of rubble lined streets.
"It really is heartbreaking," she said.
A spokeswoman for the first lady said the "Extreme Makeover" segment would likely air in December.
The Associated Press
NATION
Eight students die in Utah van crash
BY PAUL FOY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah State University van that crashed after a tire blew out, killing eight students and an instructor, was traveling over the 75-mph speed limit, a Highway Patrol trooper said yesterday.
The university has been inspecting its 50-van fleet and said it may stop using the top-heavy vehicles that sit high on their axles and have narrow tires.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued four warnings since 2001 about the safety hazards of 15-passenger vans.
Another of the university's 15-passenger vans rolled in 2001 near Laramie, Wyo., tossing around six volleyball players but leaving them without serious injury.
Trooper Jeff Nigbur said speed was a factor when the van overtook another vehicle Monday on a northern Utah highway before blowing its left rear tire. "They were definitely going over
the_posted_speed_limit" of 75 mph, he said.
None of the 11 occupants of the crushed Dodge van was wearing a safety belt, violating a school regulation, and all were ejected from the vehicle as it rolled over, according to a preliminary accident report from the Highwav Patrol.
The van was carrying agriculture students on a field trip. Two surviving students were listed in critical but stable condition at Ogden hospitals Tuesday night.
- The crashed van was among 10 or so kept by college departments and not returned daily to a motor pool where it might get more regular inspections, but maintenance records didn't indicate any problems with it, university spokesman John DeVilbiss said.
The blown tire had 16,000 miles of use,a moderate amount, DeVibiss said.
The instructor, Evan Parker, who died at the scene, had received training and certification to drive the van, DeVilbiss said.
ership works in isolation; its medical response capability is fragmented and ill-prepared to deal with a mass casualty event and ... DHS lacks an adequate medical support capability for its field operating units" said the report.
U.S. 'ill-prepared' to weather storms
Homeland Security officials said the problems identified in the Jan. 3 report were being addressed when the hurricanes hit. Secretary Michael Chertoff was reorganizing his department and created a new chief medical officer to take the lead on preparedness, they said.
HURRICANES
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"I thought it (the report) was a great place to start," said Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the department's new medical officer who started his job after Katrina.
Eight months before the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, an internal Homeland Security Department review warned that the nation was unprepared for a medical disaster and lacked a coherent plan for handling mass casualties.
The Associated Press
Government medical teams had difficulty coordinating and delivering help during 2004 hurricanes in Florida, said the report obtained by The Associated Press. The report also said there was inadequate planning for dealing with a surge of patients during a disaster like a biological or nuclear attack.
It called for creation of a uni-
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In a galaxy far,far away ...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This image provided by NASA yesterday shows a blow-up of one small area of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field used to identify where the distant "Big Baby" galaxy, center, is located. Astronomers using the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, identified one of the farthest and most massive galaxies that once inhabited the early universe. The galaxy was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), presently the farthest optical and infrared portrait of the universe ever taken.
WORLD
PORT-ALL-PRINCE Haiti
Parliament elections a potential 'new start'
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that Haitian authorities must move more quickly to prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections set for Nov. 20.
Rice called the elections a potential "new start" for Haiti as the country tries to overcome two decades of democratic failure.
The Associated Press
She met with Haiti's interim leadership, President Bonaface Alexandre and Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, at the presidential palace after a helicopter trip over the area.
Talk about evolution
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Dover school board member Alan Bonsell answers questions yesterday in front of the U.S. District Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., after the second day of a civil trial aiming to resolve whether or not "intelligent design" should be addressed in public school biology classrooms.
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