"The first time my wife and I had seen the gun that actually killed Rachel." — Darrell Scott, whose daughter, Rachel, was killed in the Columbine High School shootings, on a new display of evidence from the tragedy.
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All 16 Senate Democrats voted for the bill but the GOP split 15-15, with support coming from Republicans who traditionally take moderate positions on social issues as well as those usually aligned with conservative-backed stances.
Monday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article,"NASA researchers to replace Hubble," Bruce Twarog should have been identified as a professor of astronomy and physics.
sion of opinion:
All 16 Senate Democrats voted for the bill but the GOP split 15-15, with support coming from Republicans who traditionally take moderate positions on social issues as well as those usually aligned with conservative-backed stances.
Yesterday's University Daily Kanan contained an error. Shanna Meyer, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, was misidentified in Heard on the Hill.
Yesterday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. An item on the front page should have said the men's basketball game against Oklahoma was on Sunday.
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TOPEKA — Republican leaders promised yesterday to look for alternative education funding proposals after the Senate dispatched Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' plan and the House cut short its own school finance debate.
Governor's education plan voted down in Legislature
The Senate, on a 25-14 vote, rejected the governor's $304 million package to phase in higher taxes on property, sales and personal income over three years and earmark the revenue for specific uses in public schools.
Majority Republicans, including Senate President Dave Kerr, supplied all the votes against the bill. Five Republicans and nine Democrats voted for it, and one Democrat abstained.
Defeat of the plan had been expected, but Kerr said the chamber's consideration of it was a useful step in the school finance debate.
The Associated Press
Bill to allow cheaper tuition for illegal immigrants passes
TOPEKA — A bill allowing illegal immigrants to pay cheaper, in-state tuition at Kansas' public universities won Senate approval yesterday and moved toward an uncertain fate in the House.
The Senate passed the measure on a 25-15 vote that pointed up a broad division of opinion.
with conservative bias Under the bill, students who are in the country illegally but have lived in Kansas at least three years would be charged the lower, resident tuition rate at public universities, community colleges and vocational colleges. Such students would
have to prove that they are seeking citizenship or legal resident status.
The House passed the measure in slightly different form last year on an 81-43 vote and must now consider whether to accept the changes made in the Senate.
The Associated Press
Typically, the two chambers would negotiate over such changes. But House Speaker Doug Mays said he might assign the bill to a committee for another full round of hearings and debate in his chamber.
Kansas legislators pass bill to increase some speed limit
TOPEKA — Motorists on some stretches of Kansas highway could see higher speed limits — but might to pay them special heed — under legislation passed by the Senate and sent to the House yesterday.
The bill would let the Department of Transportation raise the speed limit to 75 mph on divided highways that have at least four lanes and a current limit of 70 mph
Those conditions are probably met only on rural sections of Kansas' interstates, department officials have said. Freeways in urban areas would not qualify, nor would those that lack medians or barriers.
Proponents contend the higher speed limit would make Kansas more attractive to those motorists who, they say, detour from Kansas to Nebraska so they can drive 75 mph on Interstate 80.
Under current law, speeding tickets — which affect insurance rates — are only noted on a driver's record if he or she is caught going at least 10 mph above a posted limit of 55 mph or higher.
The Associated Press
Meatpacker plans to test its products for mad cow
WICHITA—A Kansas meatpacker said yesterday it plans to voluntarily test every animal processed at its Arkansas City plant for mad cow disease, a move that has sent shudders throughout the U.S. beef industry and government regulators.
John Stewart, chief executive officer of Creekstone Farms, said his company has assurances from its Asian customers they would accept his beef products if the company tests every carcass.
Japan has insisted on 100 percent testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, before they reopen their market to U.S. beef.
But the idea has been resisted by the Agriculture Department and the meatpacking industry as an unnecessary expense that does nothing to make beef safer.
J. B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the
Battered bus
Craig Spencer of the Lawrence Bus Company examined an axle on a former University of Kansas bus yesterday. The axle needed to be removed. The bus was being prepared to be hauled to a scrap yard in Kansas City.
100TH ANNIVERSARY
FROM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ARCHIVES
FEB.27
45 years ago
Emily Taylor, dean of women, and the Women's Panhellenic Association set up the University's first sorority rushing rules. The rules ranged from not corresponding with potential members to men not being
allowed to participate in sorority rush.
85 years ago
ings in order to accurately give the students information about the body to students through the paper. Also being petitioned was a request to make commencement a three-day event.
The Kansan petitioned Student Senate to allow a representative from the paper to sit at the Senate meet-
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department, said the agency has received a request from Creekstone Farms to perform voluntary testing. The company has also asked to establish a laboratory for BSE testing at its plant.
Stewart said he was waiting to discuss the matter with Asian governments until the Agriculture Department's concerns are resolved.
If the department does not approve the testing within 60 days, Creekstone Farms will be forced to lay off between 10 and 15 percent of its work force at the Arkansas City slaughter plant, where it employs 750 workers, Stewart said.
The Associated Press
A 19-year-old KU student reported a theft, auto burglary and criminal damage at 12:57 p.m. Tuesday in 3900 block of Overland Drive. The dashboard of a 1999 Camry was damaged and the CD player stolen. Damage was estimated at $440.
A 22-year-old KU student reported a theft at 3:43 a.m. Wednesday at Abe and Jake's Landing. A wallet, valued at $180, was stolen.
A 27-year-old KU student reported a theft, burglary and criminal damage at 8:51 a.m. Sunday at Stouffer Place. The ignition switch on a 1996 Accord was stolen.
Question of the Day
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How many species of birds are in Kansas?
According to the Audubon Society's Bird-a-Thon, Kansas ranks third in the nation for avian species diversity. Kansas ornithologists have counted at least 225 different species of birds.
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9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m Friday, Feb. 27 and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 28 See the biggest and best "toys" on campus as KU Engineering students display their research and class projects. Keynote Address: 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Lied Center Exhibits open at 11 a.m. Friday in Learned Hall and Eaton Hall
DOZENS OF INTERACTIVE DISPLAY Heat-transfer pancake feed Make your own concrete Flight simulator Chemistry show Robotics AND MORE!
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