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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2007
STUDENT SENATE
Lack of voter turnout kills
referendum prematurely
The special election held Wednesday and Thursday for two transportation referendums failed them both.
Ten percent of the student body needed to vote for the election to be considered certified or valid. Both referendums lacked the necessary 2,677 votes the Student Senate considers to be 10 percent.
According to the Student Senate Election Committee Website 1,435 students voted for the first referendum. The second received 1,462 votes.
The first would have increased student transportation fees $20 for purchase of 30 buses equipped with wheelchairs by KU on Wheels by this fall. The referendum also would have made it possible for KU on Wheels to purchase three
The second referendum would have increased student transportation fees $15 and an approved fare-free bus system for the University. The new system would have given students the opportunity to ride University buses just by showing their KUID. The new system would have made bus passes null and void beginning next semester.
Each referendum looked to be on track for passage had more students voted.
new buses each year for the next 10 years.
According to the Web site, 68 percent of those voting for referendum one voted yes. Seventy percent approved referendum two.
Earlier this week Jessica Mortinger, Transportation Committee Chair, said the referendums could be re-worded and added to the April election ballot if they failed at the special election.
STATE
Teacher charged with having sex with student
SPRING HILL (AP) - A former suburban Kansas City high
teacher has been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old female
Graham
attended the school where he once taught
Lenexa, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Graham is free on $20,000 bond.
Jamin Glenn Graham, 28. of
As in all cases where the safety and welfare of a student is involved, the District has cooperated fully with the investigating law enforcement officials," Spring Hill Superintendent Barton Goering said in a statement.
Graham was a science teacher at Spring Hill High School just a few months before his resignation Dec. 12, 2005.
Bush asks NATO to increase aid
>>WAR IN IRAQ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Thursday that NATO allies need to supply more soldiers to Afghanistan and be willing to send them into the most violent battles with Taliban fighters, who are gearing up for a new spring offensive.
"When our commanders on the ground say to our respective countries we need additional help, our NATO countries must provide it." Bush said.
Flash with money from heroin-producing poppy crops, Taliban fighters have proven much tougher than NATO expected when it deployed its first contingent
About 15,000 of the American troops in Afghanistan are serving in the NATO-led force, which now totals about 36,000. The other 12,000 are special operations forces or are training Afghan troops.
of peacekeepers there in 2003.
"I have made my concerns to President Karzal pretty clear not pretty clear,very clear."
"I've ordered an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan," Bush said in a speech that comes five years after U.S.-led forces topped Afghanistan's repressive Taliban regime. "We've extended the stay of 3,200 troops now in the country, for four months, and we'll deploy a replacement force that will sustain this increase for the foreseeable future."
"I have made my concerns to President Karzai pretty clear — not pretty clear, very clear
The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that 3,200 soldiers scheduled to go to Iraq would be sent to Afghanistan instead, replacing the troops extended for four months. Deployment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vicenza, Italy, would keep the force at the current strength of 27,000 — the highest of the war.
GEORGE BUSH President
—and that in order for him to gain the confidence of his people, and the confidence of the world, he's got to do something about it, with our help." Bush
"What we want to do this spring is have this spring offensive be our offensive and, and have the initiative in our hands rather than reacting to them," he said.
said in an hour-long speech sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute.
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, just back from a trip that included a stop in Pakistan, said the planned offensive in Afghanistan was an attempt to react ahead of an expected seasonal Taliban offensive.
The call for NATO nations to supply more soldiers and equipment to fight the Taliban was a nudge to Germany and other NATO nations that have kept their troops out of the most violent parts of Afghanistan.
NATION Icy roads leave motorists stranded in traffic iam
HAMBURG, Pa. — National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies Thursday to hundreds of motorists stranded on a 50-mile stretch of highway for nearly a day by a monster storm blamed for 15 deaths.
The traffic jam on the icy, hilly section of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania forced authorities to also shut down portions of I-81 and I-80 Thursday afternoon as they struggled to gain ground on the colossal traffic jam.
Drivers were frustrated they were let on the road at all. State police did not close all the entrance
ramps to 1-78 until around 5 p.m. more than 24 hours after vehicles starting getting caught.
"Why would they have that exit open if they were just going to let us sit there?" said a crying Deborah Miller. Her 5-year-old son was trapped in the car with her.
The sprawling storm system hit Wednesday and blew out to sea Thursday, leaving huge snow piles, frigid temperatures and tens of thousands without power across the Midwest and Northeast.
Numerous areas saw more than a foot of snow, with 42 inches falling in the southern Adirondacks in New York. Gusty wind had morning wind chills below zero, and in some areas, the snow was followed by several inches of ice.
When pigs fly
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A piglet jumps during a hurdle event at Jinan, capitol of east China's Shandong Province. on Thursday. A piglet athletic game was held as a part of Year Animal Festival at Jinan Zoo in Shandong Province.
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