THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., signs "I love you" to the crowd during a campaign rally in Scranton, Pa., Monday.
Clinton uses historical images, bin Laden for commercial campaign
BY NEDRA PICKLER AND
RA PICKET
LIZ SIDOTI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLUE BELL, Pa. — Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall and Osama bin Laden as she reached for a victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to recharge her comeback effort.
Barack Obama said she would probably win but he hoped to keep it close in Tuesday's voting.
Clinton made her closing arguments Monday for the biggest primary left on the election schedule.
running an ad with historic images to ask voters whom they would trust most in the White House during a time of trouble. It's the same tactic she used successfully in the "3 a.m." ad
she aired in the closing days of the Ohio and Texas contests last month.
It was the first time a Democratic candidate has used bin Laden in a campaign commercial in the 2008 race for the White House. The terrorist appears along with images from the stock market crash, the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the Soviet threat, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Hurricane Katrina as an announcer tells voters the political contest is for "the most important job in the world."
"It's ironic that she would borrow the president's tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points."
an outdoor plaza in suburban Philadelphia, where tulips and daffodils bloomed and children played in the background.
"You need to be ready for anything, especially now, with two wars, oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis. Harry Truman said it best, 'If you
"I thought this would be a nice change of pace," Obama said. A bank of TV cameras captured the soft images — early enough in the day to ensure that voters would see the images on Philadelphia newscasts the night before the primary.
Pennsylvania's demographics suit Clinton. The state has a higher median age, a higher percentage of whites, a lower median household income and fewer bachelor's
"It's ironic that she would borrow the president's tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points," Burton said.
BILL BURTON
Obama spokesman
degrees than the country overall. These are the voters — working-class whites and voters older than 50 — who have flocked to her in past contacts
can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.' Who do you think has what it takes?" the announcer says at the end, as Clinton appears on screen.
O b a m a
spokesman Bill
Burton said the
Leaving the negative talk to aides, Obama himself tried to end on a positive note after days of escalating accusations against Clinton. He didn't criticize his rival as he spoke with voters at
ad "plays the politics of fear." And he said Clinton is to blame for allowing bin Laden to escape by supporting war in Iraq and diverting the U.S. military.
Obama suggested in an
interview with Pittsburgh radio station KDKA that Clinton probably would come out on top. "I'm not predicting a win. I'm predicting it's going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect," he said.
"We really need to bear down in these last few days. The whole world is watching."
Clinton aides tried to keep expectations down, insisting they would be grateful for a win no matter how close. While the New York senator began the race with a hefty 20-point lead in several polls in the state, Obama's extensive campaigning and heavy TV ad purchases significantly cut into her lead.
She told supporters in Scranton, "We really need to bear down in these last few days. The
whole world i watching."
HILLARY CLINTON Presidential nominee
race, with Obama leading in delegates and the popular vote.
The primary comes after a sixweek break in voting that allowed Clinton and Obama to spend more time in Pennsylvania than in any state since the primaries and caucuses began at the first of the year.
Pennsylvania is the largest of the 10 contests remaining, with about four million registered Democrats and 158 delegates up for grabs in the primary. Polls were to open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. EDT.
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New Web site offers downloadable notes to students who miss class
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BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE csommerville@kansan.com
Students who miss class have a new way to catch up.
A new Web site, Schoolology, com, allows students to post class notes, assignments and other class materials. The site offers these services as a free download to anyone who registers.
Creator Jeremy Friedman, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, started the Web site in February with his partner Greg Mervine. They later got Ryan Hwang to help with marketing and design, and Timothy Trinidad for Web site development.
Friedman said they wanted to start a site that was a collaborative space for students to be able to share knowledge, but also maintain a quality that students could rely on. Students who have uploaded something receive a small compensation every time students download their material.
"By giving students monetary incentive, we can ensure a higher quality of knowledge and services," Friedman said.
"We believe education is reaching a turning point," Friedman said.
He also called it a part of Web 2.0, meaning a Web site that has user submitted content, such as eBay, Facebook or Wikipedia.
Friedman came up with the idea in spring 2007. The site went through many redesigns and critiques before in finally went up on Feb. 25. Schoology is technically in beta, meaning its still in development.
"We did not really anticipate the type of publicity we would be getting, nor did we think the Web site would grow as quickly as it did," Friedman said.
He said that with the amount of people using the site and the increasing popularity, a new site design should be online in fall 2008.
About 700 files are currently uploaded to the site, but none are from the University of Kansas.
infringing on a professor's copyright", Moran said.
He said that having notes available electronically wasn't a problem.
Mike Kautsch, law professor, doesn't see anything inherently wrong with the site, as long as it doesn't do anything more than legitimate tutoring. He compared uploading notes to reference guides and students sharing notes physically.
Moran said that just reading another student's notes was not the same as actually being in the classroom, and that the opportunity to ask questions and be in the presence of the professor was much more helpful. He compared Schoology to students tape recording his lectures,' which he doesn't allow. He doesn't see any problem with students sharing notes informally, but still doesn't approve of the site.
Kautsch, who teaches classes on media law, also said that students shouldn't use Schoology as a crutch to cram before a test.
Kautsch said the site could be a potential problem if it became an aid to not doing work and cheating and somehow getting through a course without doing the requirements.
"You can't commercialize it," Moran said.
Jeffery Moran, a professor with the history department, doesn't see it the same way.
"It's dangerously close to
The University's academic misconduct policy states in section 2.6.1 that giving or receiving of unauthorized aid on examinations or in the preparation of notebooks, themes, reports or other assignments is considered misconduct, and is punishable.
POLITICS
Edited by Sasha Roe
Moore discusses important issues at fraternity
Kansas congressman speaks to students about national debt, Iraqi war
BY JESSICA WICKS jwicks@kansan.com
Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore pulled out a guitar and requested that everyone join him in singing "This Land is your Land," during a speech at Delta Chi fraternity Monday night.
all Americans together and that means putting bipartisan politics aside to focus on what we have in common.
Moore said, this land belongs to
"By no means is America perfect," Moore
to pass on that kind of debt.
"It is time that the government starts living on a budget like every American family has to," Moore said.
He said he agreed with President Bush in that the federal government's first concern in spending should be to defend all Americans.
"We saved the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein. We can't save the Iraqi people from the Iraqi people."
DENNIS MOORE Congressman
said, "but we have more rights than any country in the world, and you are so lucky to be born here."
Moore said people were so concerned with political differences, they don't see that. Moore was mostly concerned that American spending was getting out of control.
He said that when he went into office in 1999 the national debt was $5.3 trillion. It is now $9.4 trillion and rising.
Moore said that the three most significant contributions to the national debt were Department of Defense spending, health care services — Medicare and Medicaid — and interest on the national debt itself. He said he told President Bush that as a grandfather, he felt it was wrong
"They failed on September 11, 2001," Moore said, "and now we need to make sure that doesn't happen again."
He said America already won
He said that the amount of money we werespending on keeping troops there was crippling America's economic future.
the military victory in Iraq, but now it was time for the Iraqi people to step up and take over their government.
"We saved the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein," Moore said. "We can't save the Iraqi people from the
ple from the Iraqi people."
have been fighting there for over a thousand years."
Moore said that no matter how people felt about the occupation, supporting American troops was imperative. He said he worked on a bill that raised the amount of money given to families of dead soldiers from $12,000 to $100,000.
Z a c h W i s d o m, Manhattan junior, said this issue touched him the most because he had family friends in the military.
"No matter what we think about foreign policy," Moore said, "this shows that we value our troops."
"Whether we withdraw now or in 50 years, there is still going to be violence," Moore said. "They
"He is just
"On a federal level, defense is the most important issue, but on a state level, I think it is education."
He is just so down to Earth." Wisdom said about Moore. "He knows the president, but talking to him you wouldn't know it. He's just a passionate guy."
DENNIS MOORE Congressman
ZACH WISDOM
Manhattan junior
the Internet," Moore said.
"He is just so down to Earth. He knows the president, but talking to him you wouldn't know it. He's just a passionate guy."
Moore said that health care had vast opportunities to save money if America could bring it into the 21st century.
"We have this wonderful thing called
cal record database online that would save $260 to $270 billion a year in medical spending
He said that education from kindergarten through college or even tech school should be a
Moore said he was very concerned about how he would leave this land for his children's children.
"In a few years time, that kind of money really adds up," Moore said.
the internet, Moore said. He said he was currently advocating for an opt-in medi-
main priority for state governments.
"On a federal level, defense is the most important issue," Moore said, "but on a state level, I think it is education. And the
federal government should be a junior partner in that."
Marc Langston, Wichita senior, said that President Bush tried to cut student loan budgets in half, but Moore and the democratic congress doubled that budget.
Langston, who met Moore while he was president of KU Young Democrats, said he suggested to Moore that he come speak at a fraternity.
"He promised he would come speak at my fraternity before I graduated." Langston said, "and he really did come though."
Edited by Mandy Earles
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