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said, "If they don't get the funding, they can't continue their work." He said that if he didn't win research awards, his career would be over and he would ultimately have to leave academics.
"It's difficult, it's not a good time to be looking for money."
Blagg said, "We've been extremely lucky."
Blagg also said it was one of the most difficult times to get award money in the history
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of National Institutes of Health.
Kenneth Audus, dean of pharmacy, said winning federal research money, specifically from the institutes, was a competitive business. He said the competition had grown in recent years due partly to more proposals from other universities and the institutes having a flat budgeting budget.
"We've got a very aggressive group here," Audus said.
Bootright said KU researchers had a good reputation for success, a strength that appeals to the institutes.
Despite this hardship, the University's pharmacy school is third in the nation in receiving funding from the institutes, winning 35 awards last year that totaled about $16 million.
"The more successful you are, the more successful you become; Boatright said.
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan.com.
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Celebrating the New Year
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A couple of tourists ride in a rickshaw for a quick tour in a street in Kyoto, Japan Jan. 11. Throughout the first two weeks of the new year, the city spins spirit and legacy of tradition they have long protected for. Kyoto, former capital of the country for over 1,200 years, retains thousands of century old temples and shrines as well as traditional lifestyles.
Panel begins work on state-wide smoking ban
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TOPEKA — A bill aimed at imposing a statewide ban on smoking in most public places, including restaurants and many bars, is being rewritten by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The panel began working on the bill Wednesday but didn't finish, and Chairman John Vratil, R-Leawood, said he isn't sure when a revised version will be ready.
However, the senator pushing the measure, David Wysong, R-Mission, isn't discouraged with the committee'sinkering.
"I think it's moving along" he said after its meeting.
The committee added amendments that narrowed the bill's scope, exempting veterans homes. Veterans Administration hospitals, nursing homes and halls run by veterans and fraternal groups from any ban.
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A shooting at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., in February 2006 killed one man and left another injured. The most recent incident involving downtown violence was a large fight at Abe and Jakes Landing, 8 East 6th St., following the Kansas Relays in May 2006.
Some say additional public policy is not the answer to such violence.
Ryan Lantz, a manager at Abe and lake's, agreed that there was a problem with downtown night crime, but said the solution may already be available.
they can do."
"Essentially, the problem seemed to be enforcement," he said. "My take is that the city should look into current city codes and see what
Lantz said an increase in patrol units could help stem the violence.
Other bar owners away from the busy downtown area say they shouldn't be grouped with the city's more populated bars.
Stu Harwood is the owner of Stu's Midtown tavern, 925 Iowa St., and the problem was downtown, not throughout the Lawrence bar scene.
"They need to take a look at how dense downtown is and how it thins out as you go west," Harwood said. "I can't believe they have the audacity to reach up to the top of the hill."
But Corliss said the plan was intended to promote city-wide
safety across the board, and that bars without trouble didn't have anything to fear.
"This plan would just give us the ability to have pieces of land examined one-by-one," Corliss said. "I don't think they have anything to fear."
Harwood was skeptical of any steps that might change the policy of bars away from downtown.
"How can they expect us to pay for someone else's sins," he said. "We're not Jesus."
Kansan staff writer Erick R. Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidt@kansan.com.
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Bush's plans for war anger Senate
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WASHINGTON — In a calculated snub of President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee dismissed plans for a troop buildup in Iraq on Wednesday as "not in the national interest" of the United States.
"The president has made his decision," Vice President Dick Cheney fired back, a response that made it clear the administration would go ahead anyway. "We need to get the job done."
The 12-9 committee vote, mostly along party lines, capped hours of debate in which Republicans and Democrats vented their frustration and anger — both with the administration and their own past unwillingness to change the course of a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops.
"There is no strategy. This is a pingpong game with American lives," said Republican Sen. Chuck
Hagel was the only one of 10 committee Republicans to support the nonbinding measure. Several of the panel's 11 Democrats said they favored stronger legislation to register their opposition to the war.
"This Congress was never meant to be a rubber stamp," added Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., "Read the Constitution. The Congress has the power to declare war. And on multiple occasions, we used our power to end conflicts."
Hagel of Nebraska.
In the wake of midterm election losses, Bush announced two weeks that he would order an additional 21,500 troops into the war zone. In Tuesday night's State of the Union address, he implored skeptical lawmakers to give the strategy a chance.
Bush got his answer in less than 24 hours, the timing dictated by Democrats, and Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the panel's chairman, said tougher measures were likely to follow.
Margretta de Vries, administrative associate at KU Parking and Transit, said students have shown interest in the service.
She said students have been calling with questions.
But some students would still rather drive than ride a bus.
Lillie Moore, Overland Park junior, rides the bus every day. She said it saved her time and money.
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
"I like my own little personal time," said Colin Pilant, a student at JCCC who commutes from Lawrence. "I like to listen to some music before I go to class. A bunch of people all loud and smelly; I wouldn't like that."
"It's about $85 a month more economical, and I have more time to do homework while I'm on the bus."
Moore said. "But they need more times and more buses."
too early to determine if the service would continue past that. So far there have been more than 100 one way trips taken each day.
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Kaiser said that there were usually spots open in the lots that may lose spaces.
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of parking and transit, said he has been told that every spot may not be replaced. "There can't be a huge shortage once this is over," he said. "It's gotta be close."
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Billy Fleming, Garden City junior, usually parks in the lots that will be torn up for the football facility. He
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expected to be completed in the next few weeks.
"If they're not replacing all of them it's definitely going to be a problem," he said. "Campus parking is already crowded enough as it is."
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan. com.
said that he occasionally had to park on Maine street north of the stadium on test days when the lot was more full than normal.
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