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Three IU researchers recently published their findings on mood and happiness in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, according to an IU news release.
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Three IU researchers recently published their findings on mood and happiness in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, according to an IU news release.
In an episode of “Wheel of Fortune” Friday, junior Kelsey Kapral will compete in the show’s annual “College Week,” which was filmed in Chicago this year. Kapral, a Chicago native, found out she was chosen as a contestant a few weeks before she taped the episode May 8 at \nNavy Pier.\n“Over Christmas break, I got an e-mail from them saying they were looking for students for their ‘College Week,’” she said. “And then, like, two weeks later I got an e-mail saying I was selected for a closed audition.”\nKapral said she competed mainly against students from Big Ten schools, such as the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa, but students from other schools also competed. She added that she’s always been an avid “Wheel of Fortune” fan.\n“I’ve watched it since I was little,” she said.\nKapral will appear alongside other college students on the “Wheel of Fortune College Week: From Chicago” at 7 p.m. Friday on NBC.
Students can stuff their faces and pig out for Sen. Barack Obama.\nFrom 6 to 9 p.m. today at Buffa Louie’s, students can attend an all-you-can-eat buffet to raise money for the \nObama campaign.\n“I’m not a member of anything particular,” said Eric Love, director of the Office of Diversity and Education and creator of the event. “I’m an individual who supports Barack Obama. I basically wanted to create some excitement. I wanted to do something not so much to raise money but to cause awareness.”\nStudents, faculty and the community are encouraged to come and purchase a buffet of wings, salads and drinks while registering to vote. The buffet will cost $12 for students and $15 for the general public. Buckets will also be set up so people can donate.\nAttendees don’t have to order the buffet. They can come in and purchase a drink, register to vote and donate if they’d like, Love said.\nThe main goal for the event is to register as many people to vote as possible. Members of IU Students for Barack Obama will be at the event helping attendees register for the May 6 Indiana primary. The goal is to register 100 people to vote, Love said.\n“Usually the decision is made before it reaches Indiana so we just go through the motions,” he said. “This time it could go either way so it’s important that people participate whether it’s for Hillary \nor Barack.”\nBuckets will be set out around the restaurant so participants can contribute to the campaign. Entertainment will be held throughout the night. There will be an open mic night with singers, poets and a couple of speeches. If somebody has something to say, they are welcome to speak positively about Obama, \nLove said.\nInformation will be provided about the April 7 registration deadline and early voting, which starts April 8 for Indiana, Love said.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology will present an Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award to Eugene M. Helveston, founding director of the pediatric ophthalmology program at the IU School of Medicine and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. He will receive the award at the group's annual meeting Nov. 15-18.\nSince Helveston, professor emeritus of ophthalmology, retired from regular clinical duties at IU in 1998, he has devoted much of his time to humanitarian work.\nOne his most well-known accomplishments was the development of Cyber-Sight in 1999. Cyber-Sight uses the technology of the Internet and digital photography to provide a continuing consultation program to underdeveloped parts of the world. Helveston has started programs in Cuba, Romania, India, Albania and the Dominican Republic.\nConcert to benefit ill IU employee\nThe Hoosier Bar and Grill, located at 4645 W. Richland Plz., will be holding a night of bands and prizes in order to raise money to benefit Trent Whitaker, a night custodial worker who worked for the IU Health Center. Whitaker suffers from cancer and has been unable to work at the center since March. He received his last paycheck in June. All cover charges from the event, which will be donation only, will benefit Whitaker, his wife and two kids. Raffle tickets will also be sold for $1 with prizes ranging from a soccer ball signed by coach Jerry Yeagley to a one-hour massage donated by Daniel Selvaggi.\nFor more information, contact Dan Swafford at the Hoosier Bar and Grill at 935-6333.\nCampus groups to hold 'One Night in Harlem'\nKappa Alpha Psi, Union Board and Voices of Hope will hold "One Night in Harlem," an evening of comedy and entertainment, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight in the Frangipani Room, Marketplace and Commons of the Indiana Memorial Union. Comedian Spike Davis will perform. For more information, e-mail kappa@indiana.edu.\nLecture to focus on early Russian cinema\nRoman Timenchik, associate professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will present a lecture on Jewish images in early Russian cinema, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. tonight, at Ballantine Hall Room 109. For more information call the Institute for Advanced Study at 855-1513 or log on to www.indiana.edu/~ias.
The International Student Travel association will hold meetings beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, in the Indiana Memorial Union's Persimmon Room for any student interested in doing volunteer work overseas this summer.
Residents of Bordner Hall of McNutt Quad were evacuated Monday night after a fire started in the wing's hallway, IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nThe fire broke out around 9 p.m. in the basement of Bordner. According to the IU Police Department, there had been paper on the floor of the basement that caught fire. The fire was quickly put out by the Bloomington Fire Department.\nDamage was sustained to the floor, walls and a room door, according to a police report.\nMinger said the fire was large enough to call for replacement of the carpet in Bordner hallway. The estimated damage was around $1,000 and the investigation is ongoing.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- About 300 students were denied access to their dormitories on Penn State University's main campus this week because they didn't comply with a new state law requiring meningitis vaccinations.\nThe law, passed last summer, requires that students who live on campus be vaccinated or sign a waiver saying they understand the risks and choose not to be vaccinated.\nSeveral other states have similar laws, but IU students are not required to be vaccinated or sign a waiver for access to their dorms, an IU Health Center official said.\nThe students at Penn State who were denied access had been told of the requirement several times last semester but didn't return their forms before dorms opened Sunday for the spring semester, said Kathy Krinks, assistant director of assignment operations for Penn State University Housing.\n"I don't know -- I guess I just never got around to filling it out," said Zack Hiscock, a freshman who turned in his form Monday afternoon.\nStudents who didn't turn in their forms on time also were not able to use their student ID cards in dining halls.\nBacterial meningitis, an infection of membranes around the brain and spinal cord, kills in roughly 10 percent of cases and does serious harm, including brain damage, in another 10 percent.\nBecause crowded dorm conditions can spread the disease, it strikes about 100 college students annually nationwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nOfficials weren't sure how many Penn State students filled out the waiver form Monday.\nGary Schwarzmueller, executive director of the Columbus, Ohio-based Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, said he didn't know of any other instances where students were denied access to on-campus housing.\nAt the University of Connecticut, where students arriving last fall were required to have a meningitis vaccination, students and parents had a year's notice, said Michael Kurland, director of student health services at the University.\nBecause Pennsylvania's law didn't go into effect until three days after Penn State's dorms had opened for the fall, schools had little time to inform students.\nKrinks said only about 5,000 of the 13,000 who live on campus at the main University Park campus had their forms filled out when the fall semester started. When finals ended last month, some 700 had yet to turn in a form.
HANOVER, Ind. -- Most of Hanover College's students left the campus Tuesday as officials called off classes for fear that a teenager suspected of killing his parents might come in search of his brother, who is a student at the school.\nHanover officials made the decision Tuesday morning as Kentucky State Police continued their search for 16-year-old Blake P. Walker, who is wanted on two counts of murder.\nBy late afternoon, about 75 percent of the school's 1,000 students had left the campus, Hanover spokesman Alan Clark said.\nHanover junior Liz Housholder, of Kendallville, woke up after a night of studying for finals to the news that classes had been canceled.\n"I went to bed late and our sorority president woke me up and said 'check your e-mail. Finals are canceled,'" she said. "Everyone was like frantic trying to pack up all their things and get out as soon as possible."\nDespite canceled tests, Housholder said it was hard to be happy about the situation.\n"Under the circumstances you think about how horrible the situation is for that student," she said.\nPolice said Barbara Peterson and Brian Walker were found Monday each shot multiple times with a handgun in their home about 100 miles away from Hanover in the southern Kentucky town of Knifley.\nInvestigators believe Walker acted alone in the shootings that apparently happened Sunday afternoon.\nClark said Walker's brother, Hanover sophomore Manning Walker, had been removed from campus for his safety. The school has gotten primarily a positive response to its decision to cancel classes, Clark said.\n"We have received some e-mails from parents back to us thanking us for doing this and saying they felt it was the best decision to make," he said. "The strongest response we've heard from students is primarily concern for their fellow student and his situation."\nKentucky State Police were planning to interview Walker's brother, Trooper Dwaine Barnett said.\nA state police helicopter was assisting in the search for Walker's vehicle. A vehicle similar to a description of Walker's was seen in Adair County in southern Kentucky, but police were not confirming if it was his.\nSecurity was tightened at the liberal arts college near the Ohio River about 40 miles northeast of\nLouisville, Ky.\nHanover security Officer Debbie Krogen said guards were at each entrance to campus and all cars were being stopped.\nKrogen said people coming to campus and students were being cooperative.\nCampus buildings were open Tuesday, but Clark said school officials are taking extra security precautions and might reschedule public events set to take place on campus this week.\nStudents and staff were notified of the closure through campus e-mail and dorm personnel.\nClark said students who could not immediately find transportation home and foreign students who planned to remain on campus through the semester break were being allowed to stay.\nThe school had three days remaining in the semester, and Clark said professors would decide when classes resume in January whether finals would be rescheduled.\nAbout 85 percent of Hanover's students come from Indiana, Kentucky or Ohio, he said.
Musical Theory Colloquium set for today\nThe School of Music will present a Music Theory Colloquium Series with a speech by Jeffrey Gillespie of Butler University. The speech, called "Recent Research in Aural Skills," will be given at 3:30 p.m. today in the Music Library, room 267. For more information, call the School of Music at 855-1583.\nApparel Merchandising meeting today\nThe Apparel Merchandising Organization will have a mass meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight in the McNutt Flame Room. For more information, e-mail: kjtaylor@indiana.edu or kcolds@indiana.edu.
CHICAGO -- Sanver Deren is new to the country and new to the University of Chicago. He's an 18-year-old freshman from Turkey and, well, getting used to America and being away from his family.\nHe lives in Palevsky Commons,and so do U. of C. music professor Martin Stokes and his family. A few Sundays ago, Deren wandered down the hall to the open-house brunch that Stokes and his wife, Lucy Baxandall, have for students every few weeks. And there was Stokes, a stranger, welcoming him.\nDeren told Stokes, 40, about his adjustments -- but he didn't indicate where he was from. Stokes, an Englishman, could relate to the culture shock; he looked at Deren sympathetically -- and started speaking to him in Turkish.\nAnd so began a conversation that only two people in the room understood, in which the pair discovered that they both play the same instrument, the Arabic lute. \n"He speaks really perfect Turkish," Deren marveled later. "It's a sign that the professors are close to us." \nAlthough the Turkish conversation was a coincidence, the success of Stokes' arrangement is no accident. He and Baxandall, a former teacher now pursuing a graduate degree at Columbia College, are what's known as "resident masters" at the U. of C., and they are one of several senior professors and their families who live in the largest dorms to help build a sense of community among underclassmen. \nThe masters and their assistants do this with brunches, dorm olympics and pumpkin-carving sessions -- even a blues concert. In September, Stokes and Baxandall welcomed students by inviting their friend, Chicago bluesman Eddie C. Campbell, in for a concert and jam session.\nThe setup is called the "residential college" system and, although it's old hat down at the University of Chicago, a growing number of colleges across the country are taking the RC plunge.\n"I do see a trend there," said Robert O'Hara, a biology professor at Vermont's Middlebury College. "My reading of it is that it's a fairly widespread reaction to the lack of attention paid to housing, student life and campus life over the last several decades. \n"I think the world is coming around again."\nA few professors have lived in U. of C. dorms for decades on a more casual basis, but it wasn't until 1970 that the university crafted its meticulous residential-college plans and retrofitted faculty apartments into the larger dorms. In so doing, it was following the lead of Harvard and Yale in the 1920s, which had followed the lead of Oxford and Cambridge over in Britain. \nToday, it's not just the expensive, intellectual schools that bring willing profs into the dorm rooms and dining halls. To varying degrees, schools from Ohio State and the University of Pennsylvania to University of California at Santa Cruz have implemented parts of the residential-college program.\n"For those who are a part of them, residential colleges really function as a second family," said Mark Ryan, former dean of residential colleges at Yale University, who wrote "A Collegiate Way of Living" ($15, Jonathan Edwards College) for the school.\n Edward Cook, a history professor and former dean at the U. of C., thinks the system has worked pretty well during the 15 years that he and his wife, Lee, have served as residential masters.\n"You go to class and, some days, the kids are really alert and really into whatever you're doing," Cook said. "And some days, they're almost falling asleep, and you don't know why. Well, actually, if you live here and you talk to them at meals, you get a better sense of what the rhythm of a student's schedule is -- what are the weeks in which they have a lot of midterm exams, and what are the kinds of courses that take up huge amounts of their energy"
ST. LOUIS -- Dan Morrison, a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of Missouri at Columbia, could conceivably finish out his school career without ever opening his wallet.\nLike about 13,000 other students at the campus, Morrison uses his student ID card, which is attached to something called an EZ account, to do everything from getting a burger to washing a load of clothes.\n"It's a real convenience," Morrison said of his ID-swipe card, which has the nickname because of a magnetic stripe on the back that records all the information campus accountants need to tote up charges on Morrison's account.\n"That's your ticket to about everything," Kiehn said of the student ID.\nAlong with enabling access to campus facilities, such as the library, dorm rooms and the recreation center, the ID card can be used to activate either an EZ charge or an Upfront account. The EZ charge is a typical charge account, only this one has a $400 limit. Kiehn said the university holds students -- and not their parents -- liable for the charges.\nThe Upfront account is a declining limit card, which works like a debit card. Cash is deposited into the account first, and then purchases are subtracted from the balance. Each of the accounts has to be set up in advance with the university.\n"The main reason we have it is for student convenience, so they don't have to handle cash," Kiehn notes.\nThe cards with accounts are now also usable in vending machines, washers and dryers, convenience stores and at the Burger King, Pizza Hut and Chick-Fil-A fast-food restaurants on campus.\nMorrison and his peers have to be aware of at least one potential problem with the cards, aside from controlling their buying urges. The cards do not require use of a PIN, which means that anyone who picks up a card can use it in places that don't require a signature or where a clerk won't look at the photo and the user to make sure they match.\nStudents at other college campuses, such as Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, don't have the same easy access systems as the University of Missouri students.\nMike Dunlap, Washington University controller, said students there still need cash for vending machines, laundry, some bookstores and food that is not part of a university meal plan.\n"It was not as successful as we had hoped it would be," he notes, adding that the cards themselves were expensive because of the microchips, and that they were not widely used by students.\nStill, Washington University administrators said that students needed change for washers and dryers and real cash for other purchases.\nGene Barton, associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Illinois, said state lawmakers effectively put the kibosh on using swipe cards for retail purchases on campus.
University of California President Richard Atkinson, who championed diversity in the post-affirmative-action era and whose threat to drop the SAT ignited a national debate over the value of standardized testing in college admissions, said last week that he will make good on a long-delayed plan to retire.\nHe will leave the University of California's top job on Oct. 1, 2003, giving regents nearly a year to find a successor and capping a nearly 30-year career with the university.\nAtkinson, 73, is the most visible architect of the admission strategies the university has put into place since the system's regents voted in 1995 to ban affirmative action. Those new approaches, including admitting students in the top 4 percent of their high school class and de-emphasizing standardized test scores, are credited with increasing black and Latino enrollment after a plunge when affirmative action ended.\nHe said he did what he thought was right and is confident the changes "will permit access for more underrepresented students to the university."\nAtkinson will have served eight years as president by the time he steps down, and points out only four of the system's 17 previous presidents served longer. For 27 years he has held high-pressure positions, including director of the National Science Foundation and chancellor of UC San Diego.\n"It's a long time in jobs of that sort," he said. "I think I am due to step down, and this is the perfect time to do it. I took on this job rather late in life, and I've certainly enjoyed it. I think I've been energetic and productive."\nA cognitive psychologist who has studied memory and learning, Atkinson said he plans to retire to San Diego where he will return to his research and stay active in higher education and science policy. He also said he is looking forward to having more time with his wife and grandchildren and sleeping for eight hours a night.\nAt an address in early 2001 at a meeting of the American Council on Education, he said he planned to scrap the SAT. The move made him nearly a household name. The shy, white-haired testing expert said he favored tests that are tied to the high school curriculum rather than exams that test "vague notions of aptitude" or innate intelligence.\n"He certainly has led a national re-examination of college entrance exams," said Sheldon Steinbach, vice president of the American Council on Education. "That's no small feat."\nRegent Ward Connerly, the man behind California's affirmative action ban, said although he sometimes disagreed with Atkinson, he admired him for not ducking the tough issues.\n"He guided us through political storms without the university becoming unraveled," Connerly said.\nAtkinson "set the tone for how critical scholarship is for the university's very nature," said Gayle Binion, chairwoman of the systemwide Academic Senate. "In this role he has always been steadfast."\nBeing president of the University of California "is still one of the premiere academic jobs in the world," said Steinbach from the American Council on Education. "This is as attractive as it gets"
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- James Ramsey, appointed Thursday as president of the University of Louisville, quickly embraced an agenda aimed at gaining national prominence for the school while improving lives at home.\nRamsey, the acting president since early September, was the unanimous choice of university trustees to become U of L's 17th president, culminating a six-month nationwide search with a homegrown choice.\nRamsey, who grew up in Louisville, entered the meeting moments later to a standing ovation and told the trustees that "it's a time to recommit ourselves to the task at hand."\nHe pledged his commitment to a 1997 higher education reform law that set a goal for U of L to become a pre-eminent metropolitan university.\nRamsey said the university also has an obligation to uplift lives.\n"Our goal is to see the quality of life, economic opportunity and standard of living for people in this community and in this state to be improved over time," Ramsey said.\nAs president of the 21,000-student university, Ramsey will bring considerable experience ranging from college classrooms and board rooms to the halls of state government.\nRamsey begins his duties immediately as president and will step down as state budget director, a job he retained while acting president. Trustees will work out a contract to negotiate with Ramsey, a process that could take weeks, said spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith.\nIn Frankfort, Gov. Paul Patton said Ramsey's expertise would be missed but said he was pleased for his longtime budget chief and U of L.\n"Jim's academic credentials, knowledge of government and his unwavering commitment to Kentucky's historic higher education reform movement, make him the ideal person to lead U of L to the next level of academic excellence," Patton said in a statement.\nAs acting president, Ramsey stepped in to fill a void left by the departure of U of L's top two administrators.\nJohn Shumaker gave up the U of L presidency in June after seven years to become president of the University of Tennessee.\nCarol Garrison, the school's provost, was appointed as acting president, but she left on Sept. 1 to become president of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.\nRamsey was a late entry in the presidential search. He initially said he wasn't interested but said he had a change of heart after receiving encouragement from people on campus and off to consider the post.\n"His name kept surfacing," said U of L board of trustees chairwoman Jessica Loving. "He hadn't been here 30 days before people started calling me saying, 'The man is doing an incredible job.'"\nA search firm that assisted U of L had contacted 1,000 potential candidates. The pool of candidates was narrowed to eight semifinalists, then pared to a group of finalists, Loving said.\nBased on the groundswell of support for Ramsey, search committee members then asked Ramsey if he would consider the job, and he expressed interest, Loving said. The school's search committee never formally interviewed any candidates before recommending Ramsey be hired.\nLoving said the search process was "as open and as fair" as possible since no candidates wanted their names revealed. She said the finalists were an impressive group but that Ramsey "was not like a second choice by any means."\n"Jim Ramsey has some qualities that really no one else had," she said. "In addition to his brains and his knowledge and his credentials, he has some very solid knowledge about higher education in general, nationally and locally, that no one else had," she said.\nIn outlining his goals, Ramsey cited initiatives under way to make U of L more efficient amid a tight budget and to foster greater diversity.\nRamsey said U of L would seek opportunities to work with other Kentucky universities, but would "compete fiercely" with the other schools for research dollars and top high school students.\nBefore the vote, trustees took turns praising Ramsey.\nTrustee Marie Abrams said that with Ramsey's background as a university administrator he "will hit the ground running."\nStudent trustee Chris Marlin said Ramsey had the full support of students and had displayed an ability to communicate with them.\n"They are excited that not only do they get a new president but they get a new advocate on their behalf," Marlin said.\nRamsey teaches an economics course on campus, and earlier Thursday he had given his students an exam.\nRamsey was accompanied by his wife, their two daughters and his father as he accepted the presidency. Ramsey, who turned 54 Thursday, was serenaded by a U of L pep band with a version of "Happy Birthday To You" and with the school fight song as he left the board room as the school's new president.\nRamsey's resume includes stints as a faculty member or administrator at several universities. He was vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and vice president at Western Kentucky University.\nHe was a finalist for the president's job at WKU in 1997 and has taught at Western, the University of Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State University and Loyola University in New Orleans.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday the creation of a Homeland Security Department is the "single-most important business" before the lame-duck Congress, and summoned lawmakers to the White House for private arm-twisting sessions.\nAs the House and Senate began what will be an abbreviated postelection session, some lawmakers were expected to join in the president's push to end a Senate stalemate over the proposed agency. Democrats, who will control the Senate for a little while longer, have fought Bush in connection with labor rights provisions of the bill.\nA defiant Bush said he will not sign a bill unless it gives him authority to lift labor rights in response to a national emergency.\n"I will not give up national security authority at the price of creating a department we badly need," he said after touring the operations center of the District of Columbia Police Department.\nAs both sides considered potential compromise, Bush said he was confident the lame-duck session will create the new department.\n"I believe we can get this done. I believe Congress can show the country that they can finish their work on a high note of achievement," the president said.\nLater, Bush was to sit down to a White House strategy session with House and Senate Republican leaders and, separately with Dean Barkley, the interim senator from Minnesota, to try to win his vote.
CAIRO, Egypt -- In an audiotaped message aired across the Arab world Tuesday, a voice purported to be that of Osama bin Laden praised terrorist strikes in Bali and Moscow and threatened Western nations over any attack on Iraq.\nIf bin Laden's voice is authenticated, his references to recent events would be the clearest indication the terrorist mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks survived U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan last year.\nThe speaker on the tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television referred to the Oct. 12 Bali bombings, the killing last month of a Marine in Kuwait, the bombing of a French oil tanker last month off Yemen and the Chechen hostage taking in Moscow, saying the attacks were "undertaken by sons who are zealous in the defense of their religion."\nHe said those attacks and others were "only a reaction in response to what (President) Bush, the pharaoh of the age, is doing by killing our sons in Iraq and what America's ally Israel is doing, bombarding houses with women and old people and children inside with American planes."\n"Our people in Palestine are being killed, are being subjected to the worse kind of suffering for almost a century now," the speaker said. "If we defend our people in Palestine the world is disturbed and allied against Muslims under the banner of combating terrorism."\nThe speaker then castigated U.S. allies that have joined the war against terrorism, specifically Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia.\nAfter listing those countries, he warned: "If you don't like looking at your dead...so remember our dead, including the children in Iraq."\nIn Washington, intelligence officials were evaluating the tape to verify bin Laden's voice, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The chairwoman of the University of Louisville board of trustees says people in the community and at the university are recommending acting university president James Ramsey for the job permanently.\n"He has really impressed people," said Jessica Loving, who is also a member of the presidential search committee. "If he is willing to be considered, it would not be out of the question."\nRamsey, who also is the state budget director and on loan to U of L, said previously that he wasn't interested in being a candidate. But he declined to reiterate that Monday.\nIn an interview in September, shortly after he took over as acting president, Ramsey said, "While I don't plan on becoming a candidate for the permanent position of president, I want to make a positive difference helping maintain the university's momentum."\nOn Monday, Ramsey said through U of L spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith that he "does not feel it is appropriate to comment."\nRamsey referred questions to Junior Bridgeman, the Louisville businessman who is co-chairman of the committee searching for a new president.\nBridgeman said he couldn't comment on possible candidates. The committee was meeting Tuesday to review names of potential candidates, he said.\nChris Marlin, president of the Student Government Association and a member of the search committee, said he hadn't heard anything about Ramsey as a possible candidate. But he has done a good job as acting president, Marlin said.\n"I think he's done an excellent job for this university and he has been a pleasure to deal with," Marlin said.\nMarlin declined to comment further, citing a restriction that the search committee adopted last month. The committee voted to let only Bridgeman speak for the committee.\nAnyone else "speaking out substantially" on the search could be removed from the committee, the motion said.\nU of L mechanical engineering professor Glen Prater said Monday that he had not heard of Ramsey being a possible candidate but said Ramsey has experience in two key areas, budget and politics.\nIt's especially important that a state university president be effective in working with lawmakers, said Prater, who serves on a faculty committee advising the presidential search committee.\n"He would certainly have a leg up on dealing with issues unique to commonwealth of Kentucky politics," Prater said.\nRamsey, 53, who is also a professor of economics and public policy at U of L, took over this summer after acting president Carol Garrison accepted the job as president of the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Garrison had stepped in for John Shumaker, who became president of the University of Tennessee.\nRamsey also has served as vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and vice president at Western Kentucky University.\nHe was a finalist for the president's job at WKU in 1997 and has taught at Western, the University of Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State University and Loyola University in New Orleans.\nRamsey holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Western and master's and doctoral degrees in economics from UK.
NORMAL, Ill. -- Illinois State University hopes $3 million in federal grants will help bridge the achievement gap for the state's growing number of non-English speaking students.\nThe five-year grants from the U.S. Department of Education will help provide bilingual training for ISU education majors and some current teachers' aides.\nEducators say the lack of such training affects achievement scores and dropout rates among minority students, and only one in four Illinois teachers has adequate bilingual training.\nA $1.7 million grant will provide a streamlined teaching degree for bilingual teachers' aides. ISU expects 20 aides will become certified teachers each year, benefiting more than 500 students annually.\nInitially, ISU will work with four districts north of Chicago that have major shortages -- Waukegan, Zion, North Chicago and Diamond Lake, near Mundelein. The university hopes to expand the program after five years.\nA second, $1.5 million grant will provide English-as-a-second-language training for teachers and education majors who have no foreign language experience. The program, which teaches strategies such as using pictures to teach English, is expected to certify 110 teachers a year.\nISU will initially work with elementary schools in Elgin, where 50 new teachers a year are needed to work with more than 5,000 Hispanic students.\nAbout 150,000 students in Illinois list English as their second language, and 110,000 of those list Spanish as their first.\nThe State Board of Education said Hispanic enrollment at Illinois schools hit a record 16.2 percent in 2001-2002, up from 15.4 percent the year before and 8.3 percent when figures were first tracked in 1987.
Republicans marched toward continued control of the House on Tuesday and Democrats fought to defend their slender Senate majority in midterm elections. President Bush's brother coasted to a new term as governor of Florida.\nRepublicans won two high-profile Senate races, Elizabeth Dole prevailing in North Carolina and John Sununu in New Hampshire.\nIn Maryland, Robert Ehrlich was elected governor -- the first Republican in more than three decades. In Illinois, Rep. Rod Blagojevich captured the statehouse for the Democrats for the first time in more than a quarter century.\nDemocrats needed to gain seven seats to win control of the House, and the trend was against them.\nRepublican Rep. Anne Northup won a new term in Kentucky, while Democratic Rep. Karen Thurman trailed narrowly in Florida. In Indiana, the Republican candidate led for a Democratic open seat, and the GOP retained an open seat in New Hampshire.\nAt the White House, Bush made a round of congratulatory telephone calls -- including one to his younger brother in Florida. The president campaigned in 23 states over the final five weeks of the campaign, hoping to elect congressional candidates who could advance his legislative agenda over the next two years and for gubernatorial hopefuls who could aid his re-election in 2004.\nHe and the Republicans battled history as well as Democrats in the congressional races.\nThe president's party had lost House seats in every midterm election except three in the past century, an average of 30 seats. The average midterm loss of Senate seats was four.\nBut the GOP had advantages, as well. These included a political landscape transformed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and a president whose approval ratings remained at enviable levels despite a sputtering economy.\nRepublicans also enjoyed financial superiority. A Federal Election Commission analysis said the Republican National Committee and its congressional campaign arms had outraised their Democratic counterparts by $184 million through mid-October.\nIn the last campaign of a free-spending era, all 435 House seats were on the ballot, as well as 34 Senate seats and three dozen statehouse races. Voters filled state legislatures and school boards, decided whether to legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in Nevada, and settled countless ballot issues elsewhere.\nDemocrats, too, campaigned with one eye on the next election, none more so than Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, the party's House leader and a likely presidential contender in two years.\nEven the top gubernatorial races had presidential overtones. Democrats made defeat of the president's brother in Florida a top priority, seeking a victory in the state that was at the center of the nation's convulsive White House contest in 2000.\nIn all, Republicans defended 23 of the 36 governorships on the ballot, while Democrats were defending 11. Two seats were held by outgoing independents.\nThe GOP was defending 20 Senate seats, to 14 for the Democrats.\nBesides Dole, who succeeds a retiring Sen. Jesse Helms in North Carolina, Republican Lindsey Graham won the South Carolina seat of retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond. Lamar Alexander kept a Tennessee seat in Republican hands.\nSenators winning re-election included Democrats John Kerry in Massachusetts, Richard Durbin in Illinois; Jay Rockefeller in West Virginia, Joseph Biden in Rhode Island, Jack Reed in Rhode Island, Carl Levin in Michigan and Max Baucus in Montana.\nSen. Frank Lautenberg was elected to the Senate from New Jersey, two years after retiring, and less than a month after he replaced Sen. Robert Torricelli on the ballot.\nRepublican winners of new terms included Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, John Warner of Virginia, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Susan Collins in Maine and Pete Domenici in New Mexico.\nDemocratic Sen. Tim Johnson battled Rep. John Thune in South Dakota, and Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan ran against former Rep. Jim Talent in a bid for the four years remaining on her late husband's term in Missouri. Embattled GOP incumbents included Sen. Tim Hutchinson, up against Mark Pryor in Arkansas; and Wayne Allard, in a Colorado rematch with Tom Strickland.\nIn Minnesota, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale sought a return to the Senate in a race against former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman. Mondale took his place on the ballot less than a week before the election, following the death of Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone.\nAnd in New Jersey, former Sen. Frank Lautenberg replaced Sen. Bob Torricelli on the ballot in October.\nThe battle for House control came down to roughly 40 competitive districts, races scattered across the country where the parties spent millions in campaign advertising --much of it negative -- in search of an edge.\nSeveral were new seats, the result of redistricting mandated by the Constitution to adjust House districts for population shifts. Others were seats left open by incumbents who retired or sought other office.
With no major problems at the polls today, Monroe County Clerk Pat Haley said things went fine. There were some minor problems with machines early in the day, she said, but they were quickly cleared up.\n"Everything went pretty smooth," Haley said. "We had a good day."\nThe biggest trend this year was the increase in absentee voters, Haley said.\n"We had almost 3000 absentee ballots; that's quite a bit for an off election year," Haley said.\nFirst year poll worker Ken Rogers said he hadn't known quite what to expect, but that voting was slow but steady throughout the day, perhaps due to the rain.\nRogers worked the polling site on North Curry Pike at the Elletsville Fire Station. He said several voters remarked that they had difficulty finding the location.\n"I don't know if anybody didn't vote today because of that," Rogers said. \nVoter turnout was lower than Monroe County Elections Supervisor expected, but Haley said people did show interest in the election.\nCounty Recorder Jim Fielder said voters showed more attention than usual to making sure they visited the correct polling site. \n"It was one of our busier days as far as phone calls," Fielder said. "I think the electorate was very good about calling before they went to the wrong place."\nIn U.S. Congressional races, Baron Hill (Dem.) won the Indiana's District 9, and Steve Buyer (Rep.) won District 4. In the highly contested nearby District 7 of Indianapolis, incumbent Julia Carson (Dem.) beat out Brose McVey (Rep.). \nBloomington Mayor John Fernandez (Dem.) lost his bid for Secretary of State, as did Bloomington resident Rebecca Sink-Burris (Lib.), to Todd Rokita (Rep.). \nIn state senate races Peggy Welch (Rep.) won over L. David Sabbagh (Dem.) and Jim Billingsley (Lib.) in District 60. In District 61, Matt Pierce (Dem.) beat Clark Brittain (Lib.) by a landslide, earning 75 percent of the vote.\nFor the Monroe County Council, several races were close. Green party candidate Julie Roberts earned 15 percent of the vote in District 2 votes, where Trenton A. Jones (Rep.) won with 46 percent over Bill Hayden (Dem.) with 40 percent. District 1 was taken by Susan L. West (Rep.), District 3 by Martha (Marty) Hawk (Rep.), and District 4 by Mark Stoops (Dem.). \nIn other local races, Carl Salzmann (Rep.) won the job of Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney, and Stephen E. Sharp (Dem.) was named Sheriff. \nThe newly elected Circuit Court Judge for seat 5 is Kenneth G. Todd (Rep.), and in seat 6 is David L. Welch (Dem.).\nThe Clerk of Court position was taken by Jim Fielder (Rep.), and the new County Recorder is Pat Haley. Judith A. Sharp (Dem.) was elected Assessor, and Herb Kilmer (Rep.) is now County Commissioner in District 1.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by a group of minority students to fast-track a suit filed against the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions system. \nThe high court's ruling Monday on procedure in the closely watched case will delay the court's review by about two weeks, according to lawyers on both sides. \nThe request, to shorten the briefing schedule by two weeks, was made to keep the undergraduate case on the same review schedule as a similar case against U-M's law school, said Ted Shaw, a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which represents the students. \nThe high court is scheduled to discuss the law school case Nov. 27. \nOn Oct. 1, lawyers from the Center for Individual Rights, representing Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher, who claim they were denied admission as undergraduates in favor of less-qualified minorities, asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, although the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has not yet ruled. \nOn Oct. 15, the minority students who intervened as defendants also asked the high court to hear the Gratz case and shorten the time for CIR to file its response from the usual 30 days to two weeks, according to court documents. \nU.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan in Detroit ruled in 2000 that U-M's current undergraduate admissions system is constitutional, but an earlier system that set aside seats for minorities was not. He also said diversity is a compelling governmental interest that justifies the use of race in admissions. \nBut in 2001, Duggan ruled the minority students did not prove discrimination at U-M justified the use of a race-conscious undergraduate admissions policy. \nThe students appealed that ruling to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also has not ruled on that portion of the case. \nShaw said he is asking the high court to take the undergraduate case to consider whether U-M's alleged history of discrimination, as well as the value of diversity, justifies the use of race in admissions. \nA ruling in both cases would provide guidance for undergraduate and graduate admissions programs throughout the country, Shaw said Monday. \nIn 1997, Barbara Grutter sued U-M's law school, claiming she was denied admission in favor of less-qualified minorities. \nIn August, CIR asked the high court to review a decision by the appeals court that said U-M's law school admissions policy, which considers race as a factor, is constitutional.