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Four die in violent attacks in Gaza Strip yesterday
NETZARM, GAZA STRIP — Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and two others blew themselves up in botched suicide bombings yesterday, which was one of the deadliest days yet in a growing crisis in Middle East peacemaking.
The bombers meant to destroy Israeli school buses outside Jewish settlements, Israelis said. The attacks came during a deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the suicide bombings were evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had sanctioned attacks by Islamic militants.
Arafat said it was Israel's prolonged security closure of Palestinian areas that created a climate of violence.
The Palestinians demanded that Israel stop construction of a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, the sector they claimed as a future capital. Until the work stops, Palestinians said they would refuse to help Israel with security, such as detecting Islamic militants plotting attacks on Israelis.
Netanyau insisted that Arafat restore order and peace before negotiations resumed. He refused to halt the construction.
All but one of the candidates said they would be willing to recommend execution a requirement to serve on a capital trial in federal court.
only one prospective juror said she had already made up her mind that McVeigh was guilty, based on what she had seen in media reports.
"I'm a very honest person, and I'm a good listener," she said.
Jury prospects narrow after intense questions
DENVER — Jury selection in the trial of Timothy McVeigh is creeping along, as only nine prospects have been interviewed after a day and a half.
At-risk drinkers reduce intake after counseling
Given the exhaustive interrogation of each candidate on everything from the government siege at Waco to the O.J. Simpson trial, it could take weeks to whittle the 350 prospects down to 12 jurors and six alternates.
One of the prospects was dismissed yesterday — the first publicly announced dismissal — after she cried in court while describing her problems with stress.
CHICAGO - People who drink too much but are not alcoholics will often cut back if their doctors counsel them about the health risks, a study found.
The study, reported in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, found that two 15-minute counseling sessions from specially trained doctors helped at-risk men drinkers cut their alcohol consumption by 14 percent after a year and at-risk women cut their alcohol consumption by 31 percent.
The study examined men and women who were not chemically and psychologically hooked but drank enough that they ran a higher risk of problems such as cirrhosis, cancer and heart disease.
The study was led by Michael F. Fleming, director of the Center for Addiction Research & Education at the University of Wisconsin.
The woman initially said that despite her problems, she felt she could serve.
The research was based on 2,450 at-risk drinkers among 17,695 patients at 17 Wisconsin clinics.
At-risk drinkers were defined as men who averaged 1.4 or more drinks a week or five or more drinks at one sitting per week and women who averaged 1.1 or more drinks a week or four or more drinks at one time per week.
The Associated Press
Linear tuition costs KU
By Ann Marchand
Kansan staff writer
Linear tuition will cost the University of Kansas at least $1.23 million more than expected this year.
To compensate for the shortfall, the Legislature plans to bail the University out of its financial disarray.
Student Body President Grey Montgomery, Junction City senior, said he was not surprised that linear tuition, or paying by the credit hour, impacted the University's budget to such an extent.
"It shows that a lot of students really do think rationally," he said. "They had no idea of what the behavior change was going to be, and I think they just pretty much took a stab at it."
University officials agreed that it was impossible to accurately predict how students' behavior would change with last fall's implementation of linear tuition.
As a result of paying per credit hour, average enrollment dropped by 3 - 4 credit hours, according to Lindy Eakin, associate provost. He said that average declines before linear tuition had been approximately 03 credit hours and that the lower enrollment meant less revenue for the University.
But some legislators were unhappy with the plan and thought the University should have planned for an enrollment drop rather than relying on the state for extra money.
"It was sort of a surprise to us that
they ended up with a shortfall," said Sen. Stephen Morris, R-Hugoton, who served on the Senate Ways and Means subcommittee on higher education. "There was thinking that we had made a deal — my perception was that once we went to linear tuition, whether there was a tuition shortfall or if they got more money, they would be able to take care of it."
Morris said he also was surprised at the shortfall because both the University and Kansas State University increased tuition 6 percent last year, rather than 3 percent like the other Regents' institutions. The subcommittee report reflected that the two schools were allowed to increase tuition more than the other four to compensate for losses
caused by linear tuition
Chancellor Robert Hemenway told the subcommittee last week that this would be a one-time allocation. Eakin agreed and said that because the University had an example of student behavior using linear tuition, projections should be more accurate in the future.
"We all knew that there would be some behavioral change, but we didn't know what it would be or how great it would be," he said. "I don't think it will go any lower."
Flat vs. Linear Tuition The linear tuition plan changed in-state costs as follows:
Kansas State University has experienced a similar decline in credit-hour enrollment due to linear tuition. K-State administrators have requested more than $800,000 to compensate for their shortfall.
Rebecca Sutherland/KANSAN
Ballots bring new blood
One incumbent, two others win; professor loses
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
Voters in yesterday's Lawrence City Commission election demonstrated that they wanted fiscally responsible, growth-oriented commissioners running the city.
Two new commissioners
City Commission candidate Lisa Blair embraces her son, Sean, 10; while she and her husband Cliff await the final tally for the election results last night at the Douglas County Court-house. Despite being neck and neck with incumbent Bob Moody for the majority, Moody eventually won by 396 votes.
Tvler Wirken / KANSAN
two he and one incumbent, who all ran in favor of these issues, were elected. The final placement of
Alan Black
candidates mirrored the City Commission's primary election in February, as each candidate finished at the same ranking.
Marty Kennedy had the lead from the beginning and won the election with 6,041 votes, or 20.53 percent of the final unofficial count.
Erv Hodges took second place with 5,380 votes, or 18.29 percent.
Bob Moody, the incumbent commissioner, had a close race with Lisa Blair, trailing her during most of the ballot tallying, but he became the third and final candidate to be appointed to the next commission, with 5,151 votes, or 17.51 percent.
Blair received 4,755 votes or 16.16 percent.
Hodges attributed Andersen's loss and the close contest between Moody and Blair to actions taken by the current commission.
Incumbent Jo Andersen lost, with 4,359 votes, or 14.81 percent.
"Some mistakes were made, primarily with the rec center," Hodges said. "There have been a lot of new taxes over the last several years, such as the stormwater tax."
Kennedy credited his strong finish to his support of business growth and entrepreneurship, as well as his simply being himself.
"I'm just representing the whole community," Kennedy said. "I'm just being me—honest and open-minded."
Burdett Loomis, professor
of political science, said that the winners in the election were essentially the most pro-development, which gained them support from business people and those who want to see more growth in Lawrence.
"Moody is essentially the third candidate in the pro-development Chamber of Commerce," Loomis said. Andersen is seen as less pro-development."
Alan Black, professor of urban planning, finished sixth with 3,652 votes, or 12.41 percent. Black ran a campaign in favor of public transportation, which is what hurt him, Loomis said.
"You may think transport is an issue, but it really wasn't. " Loomis said, "No one's ready to write the
Black said that he was disappointed by the loss but that he hadn't expected to gain a seat on the commission in the general election. Black was in sixth place in the primary election as well.
check."
"It just didn't work out this time," Black said. "The other candidates outspent me alot."
Black said that he might consider running for public office in the future but that at this point he didn't know. Should he run again, Black said, he would do things differently.
"I would try to decide earlier and get an earlier start," he said.
Loomis said that the incoming commissioners
may change the goals and views of the commission, but he said that certain issues, such as public transportation, were not likely to take the prominence that Black wanted.
Hodges said that he was happy with the results and that he had a positive view of the new commission.
"I have no hesitation that we'll have a good commission," he said. "They are nice people that I can work with. It will be a very fiscally responsible commission."
After the unofficial final results from 58 of the 62 precincts were in, 14,479 people in Douglas County had voted.
Voter turnout on campus highest among greek students
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
Voter turnout in the last five Student Senate elections has only averaged 16 percent of students on the Lawrence campus. But fraternities and sororites have consistently sent a higher percentage of their members to the polls.
Although voting records do not track students' living arrangements, Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., junior and elections commissioner, said that more members of fraternities and sororites participate in Senate elections than other student groups.
Next week's Student Senate elections on Wednesday and Thursday pit the Delta Force and Unite coalitions against each other in a battle for 65 Senate seats. Although coalition members run individually for the positions, many Greek students ignore the individual races and vote for all the members of one coalition, some fraternity presidents say.
"When we have a member on a coalition, it's usually a straight ticket," said Jake Wassenberg, Marysville senior and president of Delta Upsilon fraternity. "It's kind of expected almost."
Approximately 24,000 students on the Lawrence campus are eligible to vote. Ashley Udden, Derby senior and KU Panhellenic society member, said that approximately 4,000 to 4,200 KU students were members of fraternities and sororities; around 17 percent of the student population.
Josh Newville, Omaha, Neb., junior and president of Delta Chi fraternity, agreed with Wassenberg.
I think they vote for the entire ticket unless they know someone on another coalition who will do a good job," he said.
Other fraternity and sorority presidents said their houses simply encouraged house members to vote, regardless of what names they checked on the ballot.
Newville estimated that more than half of the members of his house vote in Senate elections.
Coalitions visit houses, present their views and field questions. In some houses, members discuss the candidates and then individually decide for whom they will vote.
Awareness of elections and candidates is often spread by word of mouth, said Brandi Montague, Wichita senior and president of Delta Gamma sorority. She said a large majority of members in her house voted in Senate elections.
Ash Taha, Watching, N.J., junior and president of Kappa Sigma fraternity, said his house did not endorse specific candidates but would fully support a member of the house running for Senate.
No one in the Kappa Sigma house is running for Senate this year. But in previous years, Taha said the entire house would go to the polls.
"We all went down and voted as a house. But obviously, any group would do that," he said.
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