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As Student Senate continues into its third wave o platorm initiatives, here is a look at what has happened so ar this semes-ter and what is happening with programs that have already been established. 
SPANISH MINOR 
he ull Senate passed a resolu-tion at the beginning o October in support o the creation o a Spanish minor with a vote o 68-3-0. Senate submitted the reso-lution to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little on Oct. 5, and the Spanish and Portuguese depart-ment is currently working on a proposal that will be orwarded to the College o Liberal Arts and Sciences by the end o November.“It has to go through a lot o dierent steps, but the irst step has to be the Spanish department sending that proposal through,” said Hannah Bolton, student body president. “We’ve done everything we can on the student side.”Bolton said that i plans to implement a Spanish minor were approved, the minor program would most likely be put into eect the next school year.Bolton and student body vice president Brandon Woodard spent the summer semester doing research and speaking with pro-essors in the department, as well as Stuart Day, chair o the depart-ment, and Danny Anderson, Dean o CLAS.he University is the only school in the Big 12 and the Kansas Board o Regents that does not oer a Spanish minor.“KU always emphasizes how strong our academics are, and we make a name or ourselves in being a leader in many areas,” Bolton said. “he Spanish minor was one o those things that we need to get up to speed on.”
STUDENT BODY ADDRESS 
During homecoming week, Bolton gave the irst-ever student body address. his was an idea Woodard brought up when he served as Senate outreach director last year, and it is part o a ocus to create more video content or student engagement with Senate.he address jump-started the  video production schedule; Alek Joyce, the current outreach direc-tor, will be creating videos or every legislative cycle. Now, Joyce is working on a video to introduce the committee process, which is open to all students.Joyce said he hopes the stu-dent body address will become an annual tradition.“I’d love to see it continue with more people rom year to year to year,” Joyce said. “I’ll tell the next outreach director that this is something to keep on the radar.”In the address, Bolton dis-cussed several senate initiatives that are underway, including the construction o cell phone charging stations, the Responsible Rereshments initiative and Recycle and Blue KU. 
‘RESPONSIBLE REFRESH- MENTS’ 
his week, several local bars and restaurants will receive plas-tic wristbands inscribed with the Student Senate and Responsible Rereshments logos. Bar-goers who identiy them-selves as designated drivers will be given these wristbands, which are tickets to receive ree ood, nonalcoholic beverages and/or cover rom the venue.he initiative is a result o a partnership between Senate, the Jayhawk Buddy System and the participating venues throughout Lawrence. Woodard said a lot o the most-requented bars in town are part o the initiative. Participating ven-ues include: the Hawk, the Wheel, onic, the Ranch, the Yacht Club, Johnny’s avern, Louise’s West, the Cave and apas.“We wanted to make sure we provided some resource besides Saeride and Saebus,” Bolton said. “hose are obviously key resourc-es or saety on campus, but this gives students another route, too.
— Edited by Joanna Hlavacek 
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FOUR MORE YEARS
Two forms of ID needed for some students at polls 
For some students, it may be easier to get into a bar underage than it was to vote on Election Day.Ater Kansas joined the 33 states in the nation to pass voter ID laws, senior Vanessa Phillips, rom Wichita, remembered her driver’s license when she showed up to the polls. But when she tried to get her ballot, she was told she didn’t look enough like her picture. o prove her identity, Phillips provided a second orm o identiication.“I was just so rustrated. I threw down my KU student ID and asked, ‘Is this enough?’” she said.here were 221 incidents o  voter raud reported in Kansas rom 1997 to 2010, and voter IDs are strictly regulated. Brittany Bezler, a sophomore rom Kansas City, Kan., had a simi-lar problem. A poll worker scru-tinized her ID or several minutes until giving Bezler her ballot, but ater she cast her vote, the poll worker asked to look at her ID once more.“It made me eel like a criminal. Everyone else passed right through the line, and I was held up,” said Bezler. “I’m 20 years old. Why would I lie to vote?”It is illegal to intentionally vote under a alse identiication. he 2011 Kansas voting law, which requires registered voters to show photographic identiication, aims to combat voter raud. Critics o the law claim it disenranchises certain groups o voters. Attorney Rich Benson, who helped address reports o possible voter suppres-sion on Election Day, said young  voters are likely to be hurt by the law.“It’s a student issue because young people change so much at this point in their lives, rom their appearance to their address,” he said. Even though she was inconve-nienced, Bezler said she is still glad she got the chance to vote.“It was my irst presidential elec-tion,” she said. “Nothing can take that eeling away.”
— Edited by Allison Kohn
AMERICA’S VOTING RESULTS
PAGE 6
ELECTION VER
NIKKI WENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com 
TRAVIS YOUNG/ KANSAN
Students react to poll results early in the election watch party. The election watch party was held by Student Union Activities on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union last night.
About 50 students gathered in the lobby o the Kansas Union to watch as Barack Obama was announced the winner o the 2012 Presidential Election last night.When Obama reached 270 elec-toral votes and Wol Blitzer o CNN announced that he was re-elected, cheers erupted rom many o the students in atten-dance.“I voted or president Obama,” said David Gier, a sophomore rom Overland Park. “It’s looking like Demo-crats will have majority in Senate, so we’ll see how he will be able to enact his agenda, but I’m hopeul. He ac-complished a lot in his first term.”Gier’s riends, Chris Rice, a soph-omore rom Overland Park and Sa-mantha Brunker, a sophomore rom Kansas City, Mo., agreed.“I’m really happy with how the results turned out,” Rice said. “We sort o expected him to win. We did a lot o research and mapped it out.”Brunker said she would like to see Obama ocus more on social is-sues in his second term.“I’d like to see more social chang-es, especially or abortion rights and birth control,” she said. “But I think it will be tough with the Congress.”As state results were announced throughout the night, attendees let out cheers or booed the screen. Swing states like Iowa and Ohio elicited the most reactions, as did Caliornia, which gave Obama 55 electoral votes.Students stood up and applauded when Ohio went to Obama at about 10:20 p.m. When it was announced that Obama was projected to win the state and its 20 electoral votes, it brought him to 274 electoral  votes with Romney trailing at 201. A ew watch party attendees, like Hannah Boyd, a reshman rom Derby, shook their heads in exasperation and lef worried. “I eel a little nervous. I’m not sure what Obama’s agenda is or the next our years,” Boyd said. “I’m not sure what our country will be like in the next our years. I’m anxious to see what he has planned.”Boyd said she does not affiliate with a political party, but she sup-ported Romney because she be-lieves he would be better or the country economically.Student Union Activities hosted the watch party. Students began ar-riving at 5 p.m. Tey waited in line to grab re-reshments and crowded around the screen located at the west end o the ourth floor.
— Edited by Brian Sisk 
Students cheer and jeer after election results
ELECTION
CAITLIN DOORNBAS
cdoornbas@kansan.com 
Senate initiatives includes safety, Spanish minor
CAMPUS
NIKKI WENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com 
“The Spanish minor was one of those things that we need to get up to speed on.”
HANNAH BOLTON student body president
Obama 
 
“I’d like to see more social changes, especially for abortion rights and birth control.”
— Samantha Brunker
sophomore
 
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office booking recap.
• A 57-year-ld Lawrence man was
arrested Tuesday at 1:16 a.m. on mile
marker ve f Kansas Highway 10 n
suspicion of no proof of liability insur
-ance and driving while suspended, third ffense. Bnd was set at $1,750. He was
released.
• A 35-year-ld Lawrence man was
arrested Monday at 8:42 p.m. on the
2900 blck f west Sixth Street n suspi-cin f theft f service. Bnd was set at $100. He was released.• A 20-year-ld Lawrence wman was arrested Mnday at 7:40 p.m. n the 500
block of California Street on suspicion of
battery. Bnd was nt set.• A 24-year-ld Lawrence man was
arrested Monday at 6:49 p.m. on the
2500 blck f Iwa n suspicin f culti-
vating or contributing a controlled sub
-stance, n tax stamp, bstructing the le-
gal process and possessing a controlled
substance. Bnd was nt set.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
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Friday, Nov. 9
WHAT:
 Printmaking Workshop
WHERE:
 Kansas Union
WHEN:
 2-4 p.m.
ABOUT:
 Channel yur inner artist with this wrkshp ffered by the Lawrence Arts Center and Student Unin Activities.
WHAT:
 2012 Educatin Career Fair
WHERE:
 Kansas Unin, 5th r
WHEN:
 12:30-3:30 p.m.
ABOUT:
 Learn mre abut emplyment pprtunities in PK-12 educatin. Mre than 60 schl districts frm Kansas and Missuri will be represented.
WHAT:
 NaNWriM Write-In
WHERE:
 Lawrence Public Library
WHEN:
 6-9 p.m.
ABOUT:
 Participating in National Novel Writing Month? Stop by the library for snacks
and writing prmpts.
Saturday, Nov. 10
PoLICE REPoRTS
Strong, early voter turnout in Kansas 
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Voter turn-out early Tuesday in Republican-leaning Kansas seemed heavier than expected, as Democrats scrambled to staunch the GOP-dominated Legislature’s push to the right and allies of conservative Gov. Sam Brownback sought to shore up their gains.With no U.S. Senate race this year and Republicans expected to comfortably win re-election to all four of the state’s U.S. House seats, the most closely watched races as  voters filed into polling stations Tuesday were for the Legislature. Republican Mitt Romney was expected to carry the state in the presidential race, as every GOP nominee has done since 1964.Secretary of State Kris Kobach toured polling locations in Wyandotte and Johnson counties Tuesday morning and said poll workers were reporting a strong turnout. Kobach had predicted that 68 percent of eligible voters would weigh in, but he said Tuesday that his estimate may have been too low. He said a polling site in Lenexa had a long line before the polls opened at 7 a.m., but voters man-aged to get in and out in less than 30 minutes.“We’ll see if it turns out to be  just heavy voting in the morning. I think there is just a lot of interest in this election,” Kobach said.President Barack Obama had a relatively strong showing in Kansas in 2008, grabbing nearly 42 percent of the vote. But there were signs early Tuesday that any momentum the president had created for state Democrats was fading.“I’m just ready for a change,” said Jim Clark, a 42-year-old com-puter administrator from Topeka. He’s a registered Republican who  voted for Obama last time, seeking change, but voted for Romney this year. Clark lost a full-time job two years ago and has worked tempo-rary assignments since then.“It’s tougher for me, personally,” Clark said. “The economy has not improved.”Marianne Moore, a 47-year-old human resources director at a Wichita long-term care facility, said she voted only for Obama and other Democrats and skipped races where Republicans were run-ning unopposed. She also said that through her job, she encounters a lot of people without health insur-ance, and she believes Obama’s health care overhaul will help fix this.“I go back to health care reform — no matter which party you have, you have to have health care reform,” Moore said.Kansas elections officials had been expecting about 1.2 million registered voters to cast ballots on Tuesday. More than 330,000 people  voted early, either by mail or in person at election offices.Legislative races were intense because Democrats have worked with moderate Republicans lead-ing the Senate to stall some of Brownback’s agenda, even though the GOP had majorities of 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House.
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-tins n Tuesday, Nv. 6.
A FRIENDLY REMINDER
WHAT
: Wreath-laying ceremnies and memrial walking tur, Wrld War II Memrial
Campanile
WHERE:
 Memrial Drive, Wrld War II
Memorial Campanile
WHEN
: 3 p.m.
 
ABOUT:
 Jin the Arnld Air Sciety and Cllegiate Veterans Assciatin n a tur f
the memorials on campus.
WHAT:
 Campus Movie Series: The Dark Knight Rises
WHERE:
 Kansas Unin, Wdruff Auditrium
WHEN:
 8-11 p.m.
ABOUT:
 Christian Bale reprises his role as the caped crusader in the third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman revamp.
WHAT:
 Quixtic Fusin - pen master class
WHERE:
 Rbinsn Center, rm 240
WHEN:
 10:30 a.m. t 12:15 p.m.
ABOUT:
 Learn mdern dance techniques frm the Kansas City-based Quixtic perfrmers befre they demnstrate their skill at the Lied
Center on Friday night.
WHAT:
 Tea at Three
WHERE:
 Kansas Unin, Level 4 lbby
WHEN:
 3-4 p.m.
ABOUT:
 There is n better way t celebrate a Thursday afternn than by enjying free tea,
punch and cookies.
WHAT:
 237th U.S. Marine Crps Birthday Cake
Cutting Ceremony
WHERE:
 Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN:
 10-11:30 a.m.
 
ABOUT:
 Jin Lawrence residents, Marines and veterans celebrating the Marine Crps’ 237th
birthday.
WHAT:
 Quixtic
 
WHERE:
 Lied Center
 
WHEN:
 7:30-9:30 p.m.
 
ABOUT:
 Cme watch a perfrmance fusing technlgy, live music, mvement and expressive emtin.
WICHITA, Kan. — A small plane crash near Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport killed the pilot.The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says the Cessna Caravan struck a tree row Tuesday. The pilot, 52-year-old Brian P. Quinn of Lawrence, was the only person on board.Tony Molinaro, spokes-man for the Federal Aviation Administration, says the pilot reported engine trouble shortly after taking off. Molinaro says the pilot was trying to return to the Wichita airport when the crash occurred about two miles from the airport. The plane was headed to Garden City.FAA records show the plane was registered to Fed Ex Corp. Fed Ex spokesperson Shea Leordeanu said in a statement the company extend-ed its thoughts and prayers to those affected by the crash. She referred questions to Barron Aviation, which operated the plane.
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WENDESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
WELLINGON, New Zealand — Te spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare that nobody has seen one alive, but scientists have proo the species still exists.wo skeletons were identified as belonging to the species a-ter a 17-oot whale and her cal beached themselves in New Zea-land in 2010. Scientists hope the discovery will provide insights into the species and into ocean ecosystems.It was almost a missed opportu-nity, however, since conservation workers misidentified the carcass-es as a much more common type o whale and buried them.In a paper published uesday in the journal “Current Biology,” re-searchers rom New Zealand and the United States say o their dis-covery: “For the first time we have a description o the world’s rarest and perhaps most enigmatic ma-rine mammal.”Previously only three skull ragments o the species had been ound: in New Zealand in 1872 and in the 1950s and the last one 26 years ago on an island off the coast o Chile. Te males have broad blade-like tusk teeth that give the species its name. Both males and emales have beaks which make them resemble dol-phins.“Tis is pretty antastic,” said Ewan Fordyce, a geology proes-sor at the University o Otago who specializes in the evolution o whales but who was not involved in the research. “Tere would be ew, i any, mammalian species in the world that would be rarer. And we know much more about panda bears and other iconic, rare animals.”Te beached whales, an adult and her 11-oot male cal, were discovered on Opape Beach on the North Island on New Year’s Eve in 2010. Conservation workers thought they were Gray’s beaked whales and took tissue samples beore burying them about nine eet under the sand.Tose samples ended up at the University o Auckland where scientists did routine tests about six months later. Rochelle Con-stantine, a co-author o the paper, said she and her colleague Kirsten Tompson couldn’t believe it when the results showed the pair to be the rarest o whales.“Kirsten and I went quiet. We were pretty stunned,” she said.Further tests confirmed the discovery. Constantine said they then retested about 160 samples taken rom other stranded Gray’s whales but didn’t find any more that had been misidentified.Tis year, researchers returned to the beach to exhume the skel-etons.Anton van Helden, who man-ages the marine mammals collec-tion or New Zealand’s national museum e Papa, said it wasn’t a straightorward task to find the remains afer so long and that the mother’s skull, which was buried shallower than the rest o the re-mains, washed out to sea. But they were able to recover the rest o the skeletons.“It’s a hugely significant find,” said van Helden, a co-author o the paper.He said it’s impossible to know why the whales came ashore al-though whales ofen beach them-selves when they become ill. He said almost nothing is known about the species except they live in the South Pacific Ocean and eat primarily squid.Fordyce said it may be possible to use the skeletons o the rare whales to reconstruct their mus-cles and tissues and to find out more about how they live and die and why they are so reclusive.Te scientists say the discov-ery could also provide broader insights into the ocean’s complex ecosystems.“Tis is good reminder,” said Constantine, “o how large the oceans are, and o how little we know about them.”
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puer-to Ricans were facing a fundamental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the Unit-ed States?Citizens in the U.S. island terri-tory cannot vote in the U.S. presi-dential election, but many were ex-cited to participate in a referendum that could push the territory toward statehood, greater autonomy or in-dependence.Car horns blared and party flags waved as voters headed to polling stations, many carrying umbrellas against the blistering tropical sun as temperatures neared 90 degrees Fahrenheit (31 degrees centigrade).Te two-part referendum first asks voters if they want to change Puerto Rico’s 114-year relationship with the United States. A second question gives voters three alter-natives if they do want a change: become the 51st U.S. state, inde-pendence, or “sovereign free associ-ation,” a designation that would give more autonomy for the territory of 4 million people.“Puerto Rico has to be a state. Tere is no other option,” said 25-year-old Jerome Lefebre, who picked up his grandfather before driving to the polls. “We’re doing OK, but we could do better. We would receive more benefits, a lot more financial help.”But 42-year-old Ramon Lopez de Azua said he favors the current sys-tem, which grants U.S. citizenship but prevents Puerto Ricans from  voting for president unless they live in the United States, and gives those on the island only limited represen-tation in Congress.“Puerto Rico’s problem is not its political status,” he said. “I think that the United States is the best country in the world, but I am Puerto Rican first.”Both President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney have said they supported the referendum, with Obama pledging to respect the will of the people if there is a clear majority. Any change would require approval by the U.S. Congress.Pro-statehooders say Puerto Rico would benefit from becoming a state because it would receive an ad-ditional $20 billion a year in federal funds to boost the local economy and combat crime. JOHANNESBURG — New South African banknotes featuring the im-age of former president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela are going into circulation.Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus made the first purchase us-ing the new rand notes at a small shop in Pretoria on uesday. She says the country tries to upgrade its notes every seven years for security reasons as technologies change.Te new 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 rand banknotes feature Mandela’s image on one side and the other side maintains the Big Five animals already on the bills.Marcus said Mandela was shown the new banknotes and that he was delighted.
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New banknotes for South Africa
AFRICA
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CARRIBEAN
Puerto Rico decides its fate 
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A poster showing safety features of a bank note bearing the image of former presi-dent and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela at a press launch in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.
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A supporter of Alejandro Garcia Padilla, candidate for governor of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party, cheers during his closing campaign rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sunday.
AUSTRALIA
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A rare female spade-toothed beaked whale lies dead on Opape Beach, in New Zealand. The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare, nobody has seen one alive. But scientists are sure it exists.
Spade-toothed whale exists 
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