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"The fight that we began can and must continue," Howard Dean after ending his campaign for the Democratic nomination and beginning a new initiative for changing the party and the country.
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2A the university daily kansan
thursday, february 19, 2004
CLARIFICATION
Tuesday's issue of The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "Program promotes success," stated there were 225 rooms available for upperclassmen in Ellsworth Hall next year. The article should have stated that space will be allotted for 225 upperclassmen in the hall next year.
For the first time, the University of Kansas mock trial team received two bids to national tournaments.
CAMPUS
Two mock trial teams prepare for national tournament in Fla.
Mock trial competitions are three-hour mini-trials where undergraduates play the roles of attorneys and witnesses. The actual verdict of the trial is not decided and does not affect the scoring.
The team is composed of two subteams — the experienced team and the novice team. The experienced team will go to the Gold Flight Nationals April 2 to 4 in Des Moines, Iowa. The novice team will go to the Silver Flight Nationals March 5 to 7 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
If the novice team places in the top four in St. Petersburg, it will go on to the Gold Flight Nationals with the experienced team.
The Mock Trial team is sponsored by the School of Law, Student Senate and the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association.
Anna Clovis
STATE
Senate endorses proposal increasing speed limit to 75
TOPEKA—A Senate committee endorsed a plan yesterday to raise the speed limit to 75 mph on rural parts of some Kansas highways.
Sen. Robert Tyson (R-Parker) said the change would promote economic development.
He said long-distance travelers prefer Interstate 80 in Nebraska, which has a speed limit of 75 mph in rural areas. That has led to the development of restaurants, motels and truck stops on the Nebraska route, Tyson said.
"I-80 is called Nebraska's main street," Tvson said. "Let's do the same for I-70."
David Church, chief of the Transportation Department's bureau of traffic engineering, said he didn't think an increase in the speed limit would lead to more freeway accidents.
"When we raised the speed limits from 65 to 70 a few years ago, we did not see an increase in crashes," Church said.
NATION
The Associated Press
Bush doesn't back forecast on employment increases
WASHINGTON — The White House backed away yesterday from its own prediction that the economy will add 2.6 million new jobs before the end of this year, saying the forecast was the work of "number-cruncher" and that President Bush was not a statistician.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked repeatedly about the forecast but declined to embrace the prediction, which is in the annual report of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Unemployment and the slow pace of job creation are political liabilities for Bush as he heads into a battle for re-election. Despite strong economic growth, the nation has lost about 2.2 million jobs since he became president.
The jobs forecast was the second recent economic flop for the White House. Last week, Bush distanced himself from White House economist N. Gregory Mankiw's assertion that the loss of U.S. jobs overseas had long-term benefits for the U.S. economy.
He said the annual economic report was based on data from about three months ago. Since then, Bush has said that things are improving.
The Associated Press
Department issues guidelines, raises fines for illegal items
WASHINGTON — Anyone trying to sneak a knife onto an airplane could be fined $250 and a passenger with an explosive could get as much as $10,000 under new guidelines.
Thousands of airline passengers board planes every year carrying banned items such as cuticle scissors, box cutters and guns.
Tom Blank, assistant administrator for transportation security policy, testified before Congress last week that the Transportation Security Administration has intercepted more than 1,650 firearms and more than 3 million knives since Sept. 11, 2001.
When Congress created the Homeland Security Department last year, it raised the maximum fine for trying to carry prohibited items through airport security from $1,100 to $10,000. The TSA, which became part of Homeland Security, issued the guidelines yesterday spelling out the range of fines applied to each violation.
The guidelines list aggravating factors, such as "attitude" and "artful concealment," that can bring a heftier fine.
The Associated Press
War on Wescoe Beach
Drew Smith, Lawrence junior, and his girlfriend played thumb war in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday. Smith was on his way to Journalism 101 in Budig Hall.
Kit Leffler/Kansan
100TH ANNIVERSARY
FROM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ARCHIVES
FEB.19
50 years ago in the Kansan
The Kansan reported on a speech given by David Adeney, member of the China Inter-varsity Christian fellowship. In the speech, Adeney said that communists at Chinese universities were trying to convert Christian students through psychological intimidation.
25 years ago in the Kansan
25 years ago in the UK Staff reporter Doug Hitchcock wrote about the efforts of Amnesty International to establish a chapter in
Lawrence. "An organization that fights for the humane treatment and release of political prisoners throughout the world," he called it. 75 years ago in the Kansan
The Kansan reported on a temperance play given by the Kansan Players theatrical company. Writer Jack R. Morris wrote, "Through nine scenes of drunken debauchery, murder, pathos, and comedy, the audience responded to the temperance lesson with laughter and applause."
ON THE RECORD
■ A 23-year-old KU student reported an auto theft at 6:30 a.m.
A 22-year-old KU student reported a theft at 8:10 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of Arizona Street. Some CDs and DVDs, valued at $155, were stolen.
Tuesday on West 22nd Terrace. A 1996 Prelude, valued at $15,000, was stolen.
A 23-year-old KU student reported an auto theft at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday on West 19th Street. A 1994 Honda Accord, valued at $4,500, was stolen.
90 years ago in the Kansan
The Hawk Club announced it would not be putting on a play for the year. Clarence R. Sowers, manager of the club, said, "The members of the club do not seem to take an interest in it and they want one man to do all the work, and this takes too much time." The Hawk Club's decision meant the only amateur theatre at the University that year would come from the Senior and German plays.
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Who's on the $100,000 dollar bill?
Woodrow Wilson, 28th president, served during WWII.
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