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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013
HEARING FROM PAGE 1A
with personal listening devices, concert going, music, et cetera, since perceptually, our music choice is pleasant to listen to." Reeder said. "If you are engaged in an activity and someone at arm's length, about three feet, has to raise their voice to get your attention, it is too loud."
For Travis Marshall, a junior from Blue Springs, Mo., losing his hearing is not a concern.
"If hearing loss does affect me, it won't be until I'm much older," Marshall said. "I'll probably start losing my hearing anyway."
For Andrew Haase, a junior from Bates City, Mo., preserving his hearing is important, which is why he keeps his ipod at only 30 percent of the maximum vol-
Haase will sometimes pull out his earbuds and test if he can hear them to make sure the sound level isn't too loud.
"My family is from the rock'n roll generation, and their hearing is crap." Haase said. "I want to be able to keep my hearing as long as possible."
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Lorin Jetter, a 2012 Kansas alumna from Topeka, was awarded first place for Sales Rep of the Year. Jetter worked for the Kansan as a major accounts manager, a zone manager, an account executive and a classified account executive. Jetter lives in Miami and works as a web specialist at Socialized.
grammer at the University Department of Student Housing.
CNBAM FROM PAGE 1A
Last year, the Kansan brought home trophies for Best Manager in the Nation for Joe Garvey and Best Designer in the Nation for Graham Greene, a 2012 alumnus.
- First place, Best Training Program
Kansan business manager Elise Farrington, a senior from Apple Valley, Minn., and Kan-
STAFF AWARDS WON AT CNBAM 2013
- First place, Best Classified Page
* First place, Best Digital Rate Card
- First place, Best Sales Promo Materials
- Second place, Best Multimedia Ad Campaign
- Second place, Best Sales
Increase of a Special Section
- Second place, Best Sales Pitch
- Second place, Best Social Media/App Strategy
- Third place, Best Promo Print Campaign
san sales manager Jacob Snider,
a senior from Mulvane, accepted
the remaining awards on behalf
of the staff.
The individual awards combined with the staff awards gave the Kansan enough points to outscore the University of Central Michigan and University of Minnesota for the title of Best Advertising Staff in the nation.
"The talent level that is at this convention is ridiculous," Newton said. "These are the best of the best in the entire nation. What we have accomplished is outstanding. We have started a dynasty and plan to continue it."
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NATION
In this file photo, faces of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims are seen behind Sen. Dianne Feinstein. D-Calif., as she speaks about the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. Congress returns today from a two-week spring recess with gun control and immigration high on the Senate's agenda. Senators could start debating Democratic-written gun legislation before week's end.
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Senators lead push to tighten gun-control laws
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WASHINGTON—Two influential senators, one from each party, are working on an agreement that could expand background checks on firearms sales to include gun shows and online transactions, Senate aides said Sunday.
If completed, the effort could represent a major breakthrough in the effort by President Barack Obama and his allies to restrict guns following last December's massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., could nail down an accord early this week, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private talks. With the Senate returning Monday from a two-week recess, the chamber's debate on gun control legislation could begin as soon as Tuesday, though it might be delayed if the lawmakers need more time to complete a deal, the aides said.
Manchin is a moderate who touts an A rating from the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Obama's gun control drive. Toomey has solid conservative credentials and was elected to the Senate two years ago with tea party support from his Democratic-leaning state.
Expanding background checks to gun shows and online sales is one possibility that has been discussed, and the overall package, if completed, could still change, aides said. The senators are also discussing exempting transactions between relatives and temporary transfers for hunters and sportsmen, they said.
With conservative Republicans threatening a filibuster, Democrats will need 60 of the chamber's 100 votes to prevail. There are 53 Democrats and two Democratic leaning independents in the Senate.
A united front by the two lawmakers would make it easier for gun control advocates to attract support from moderate Democrats who have been wary of supporting the effort and from Republicans who have largely opposed it so far.
Lawmakers will also devote time to the 2014 budget that Obama plans to release Wednesday. It calls for new tax increases, which Republicans oppose, and smaller annual increases in Social Security and other government benefit programs, over the objections of many of the president's fellow Democrats.
The House returns Tuesday and initially plans to consider a bill preventing the National Labor Relations Board from issuing rules until a dispute over administration appointees is resolved.
Bipartisan groups in the House and Senate are expected to present legislation as early as this week aimed at securing the U.S. border, fixing legal immigration and granting legal status to millions who are in the United States without authorization. That will open months of debate on the politically combustible issue, with votes by the Senate Judiciary Committee expected later this month.
"He's been working with both sides to try to get the strongest bill we can that has enforceable background checks," White House se-
Also high on Congress' agenda is immigration, where a decisive moment is approaching.
After 20 first-graders and six elementary school staffers were killed at Newtown, Obama proposed applying the requirement to virtually all firearms sales. Gun control advocates consider expanded background checks to be the most effective step lawmakers could take to curb gun violence.
On Monday, Obama travels to Connecticut to again make the case for gun legislation, with a speech at the University of Hartford.
Federal background checks are currently required only for transactions handled by the roughly 55,000 federally licensed firearms dealers; private sales such as gunshow or online purchases are exempt. The system is designed to keep guns from criminals, people with serious mental problems, and some others.
nior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Asked about the potential compromise, Manchin spokesman Jonathan Kott said, "My boss continues to talk to all of his colleagues."
Other Obama gun control priorities include banning assault weapons and ammunition magazines with more than 10 rounds. Both bans are expected to be offered as amendments when Senate debate begins, but the assault weapons ban seems sure to be defeated and the high-capacity magazine prohibition also faces difficult odds.
Proponents say background checks and records are the best way to ensure that would-be gunbuyers' histories are researched. Opponents say the system is a step toward government files on gun owners and say criminals routinely skirt the checks anyway.
"I'm still hopeful that what I call the sweet spot — background checks — can succeed," Schumer said Sunday. "We're working hard there."
For weeks, Manchin has been part of an effort to craft a background check compromise, along with Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Mark Kirk, R-III. Schumer focused his efforts on conservative Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, but those talks sputtered over Schumer's insistence on — and Coburn's opposition to — requiring that records be kept of private gun sales.
Toomey spokeswoman E.R. Anderson said she could provide no information.
In addition, the gun bill contains language by Schumer expand background checks to cover nearly all gun transactions, with narrow exceptions that include sales involving immediate relatives. Even without a bipartisan deal, Schumer is expected to expand the exemptions to more relatives, people with permits to carry concealed weapons and others.