O'Bannon looks to raise
taxes
By Matt Poston
City Editor
Gov. Frank O'Bannon's State of the State address
Tuesday night began by recognizing several Hoosiers who served others
at Ground Zero in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks.
"These Hoosiers understand how important working
together is to the success of any mission. As their leaders, we can
do no less. Our mission this session is to do the things that must
be done if we are to build a better Indiana for all our citizens,"
O'Bannon said.
O'Bannon stressed that if the projected $1 billion
budget deficit was not dealt with during this year's session, many
of Indiana's advances in education and attracting high-tech jobs would
be undone.
"We cannot slow down; we cannot stop; we cannot
wait," O'Bannon said.
Many of those advancements in education include
higher test scores among fourth and eighth grade students, new facilities
and groundbreaking research at both Purdue and Indiana Universities
and making higher education more readily available to Hoosiers through
community colleges.
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Decorated war veteran to
talk about patriotism
By Kelsey VanArsdall
Campus Editor
He was a decorated soldier in the Vietnam War,
a ranking officer in the National Security Council and he testified
about his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Now he's coming to Purdue to speak about patriotism.
The College Republicans are hosting their fifth
annual Gov. Harry G Leslie Day Dinner, and Oliver North will be the
keynote speaker at the event.
Stephen Lovejoy, the College Republican's faculty
advisor, said that when he heard the group wanted to have North come
speak he thought it was pretty ambitious of them.
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Drunk driving laws may change
By Emily Baldauf
Senior Writer
New state legislation being introduced this winter
could bring much tougher consequences to drunk driving offenders.
State Sen. Mike Young (R-Speedway) announced earlier
this month that he plans to introduce a new bill that would increase
mandatory jail time sentences and requires lifetime license suspensions
for some offenses.
"The whole idea of this is to save lives,"
Young said. "Hopefully this will send a strong message.
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