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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2005
VOL.116 ISSUE 67
FACILITIES
Raising roofs, money Tax would allow needed repairs
BY GABY SOUZA
gousa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Repairing roofs, steam tunnels and electrical systems are at the top of the list if the state legislature approves a plan to improve facilities at Kansas state universities.
MAINTENANCE NEEDS
The maintenance backlog for seven campuses of six state university campuses
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday that would fund improvements through a one-tenth of a cent sales tax increase. The tax would be defunct after 10 years.State universities have a maintenance backlog for university buildings that totals $584 million. If that number continues to increase, it could reach close to $800 million by 2014.
Kansas State University - $209.4 million
The University of Kansas - $168.5 million
The University of Kansas Medical Center - $68.8 million
Pittsburg State University - $39.8 million
Fort Hays State University - $35.2 million
Wichita State University - $33.9 million
Emporia State University - $28.9 million
"The longer we don't address the problem, the bigger the problem gets," said Kip Peterson, director of governmental relations and communications for the Kansas Board of Regents.
The University of Kansas has $168.5 million in backlog. The
University of Kansas Medical Center has $68.8 million.
The state also would raise $150 million in bonds through the state's Educational Building Fund. After a certain period of time, the state would pay what it owed to the fund as well as the interest it collected.
In order to prevent further backlog, state universities would need $74 million a year in maintenance funds. Only $7 million was available in 2005. The University had to raise the
The fund also would receive a $1 million increase to provide funding for annual maintenance.
rest of the money for improvements itself. Peterson said.
The steam tunnels that run through campus are crumbling, and the electrical distribution is not working as well as it should. The electrical distribution system regulates how power runs through campus.
SEE RAISING ON PAGE 4A
MEDIA
Magazine moves to Web-only format
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Sports Illustrated On Campus will soon be onv online.
Sports Illustrated's biweekly college sports magazine will publish exclusively online following its Dec. 1 issue, the magazine announced earlier this month.
The magazine's print version was previously available only on 150 college campuses of all sizes across the country, such as North Carolina, Air Force Academy, Utah Valley State and Kansas.
It will now be available to everyone at its Web site, www.sioncampus.com.
Terry McDonell, Sports Illustrated Managing Editor, said the change was made to reach an audience larger than it could reach with its print version.
"The successful launch of SIOncampus.com has enabled us to deliver both the attitude and substance that made SI On Campus click with students to an even broader audience," McDonell said.
Despite the move online to gain more readership, students such as Amy Adams, Hays junior, think the move online will draw less readers than the print version.
"I just don't think that anyone will read it online," Adams said. "It was just easier to read it in the paper on Thursday."
Allison Keane, Sports Illustrated media relations representative, said the magazine had planned a guerrilla marketing campaign to advertise the move online to college campuses, specifically those schools that hadn't received the magazine in the past.
"We'll market through blogs and campus events done by our campus consultants." Keane said.
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ARIZONA 61 - KANSAS 49
SEE MAGAZINE ON PAGE 4A
Arizona junior center Kirk Walters, right, shoots over Kansas sophomore forward Sasha Kaun in the second half of an opening round game of the EA Sports Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii, Monday. Walters scored 13 points in Arizona's 61-49 victory against Kansas.
Giving thanks away
HOLIDAY
Suse Goericke will celebrate Thanksgiving casually, just how she likes it.
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Leipzig, Germany, graduate student said she planned to eat dinner with some professors and see a movie. Holidays are different here than at home in Germany, she said.
"I like American family holidays because they are so chill," she said.
Goericke faces the dilemma of what international students and Americans abroad face: what to do with the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Some celebrate casually like Goericke. Others who can't go home stay with families throughout Kansas with a University exchange. Students abroad who can't come home make do with celebrations in their host countries.
Scholar Services offers an exchange program so international students can stay with a family for all or part of Thanksgiving break. The program has been around for 51 years and has 32 students staying with nearly 20 families throughout Kansas.
Down-home Thanksgiving
International Student and
Tom Grimwood has had students eating Thanksgiving at his home in Burns, a town of 271 people 40 miles northeast of Wichita since his parents started
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LAWRENCE
WIRELESS ACCESS
Lawrence Freenet is planning on providing wireless Internet access to the downtown Lawrence area between Sixth and 11th streets from New Hampshire to Vermont streets.
Joshua Bickel/KANSAN
Wireless Internet: It's up in the air
Group seeks donations to fund project
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Anyone with a laptop should be able to access wireless Internet anywhere in downtown Lawrence as soon as June 2006.
Lawrence Freenet, a nonprofit organization attempting to set up free broadband Internet throughout Lawrence, announced its "FreeZone Project," a Wi-Fi network that will provide free wireless Internet access from Sixth Street to 11th Street on Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets last week.
Joshua Montgomery, founder and director of Lawrence Freenet, said along with providing everyone access to the Internet, the project would also help Lawrence's reputation.
Downtown Lawrence will have a competitive edge when companies look to locate a business if the area is equipped
If the area has free Wi-Fi,it will seem more technologically advanced making it a more desirable place for businesses to locate.
with wireless access, he said.
Joshua Montgomery
Founder/Director of
Lawrence Frenet
in wireless access, he said. "If the area has free Wi-Fi, it will seem more technologically advanced, making it a more desirable place for businesses to locate," Montgomery said.
Anyone who wants to access the network must register for an account with Lawrence Freenet online.
"We've been quick to work out an agreement so they can have the access where they need it," Rundle said.
Once Lawrence Freenet validates the account of the person registering, that person would be given a username and password, which would be required to access the network.
Karl Banks, Topeka senior,
said he was thinking about buying
a laptop computer for one
Montgomery said the city would have to approve the project first, but Lawrence Freenet already had an agreement set up with Weststar Energy and would set up access points on Weststar's light poles.
Mike Rundle, city commissioner, said he thought the city commission and staff would give solid support to Lawrence Freenet, as they have in the past.
of his classes next semester. He said he liked the idea of free wireless Internet downtown, he said.
"Any kind of wireless addition would be attractive to me and my efforts to get a laptop," Banks said.
Montgomery said Lawrence Freenet was currently serving customers at 23rd and Waka-
rusa streets, 31st Street and Kasold Drive and the 2900 block of 31st Street.
Donations toward any of Lawrence Freenet's projects can be submitted online at www.lawrencefreenet.org or by calling 785-312-9943.
Edited by Theresa Montaño
Freshman O&A, at almost-end of first semester On The Boulevard questions a Wichita freshman on her best experience at Kansas thus far and the hardest part about living in Lawrence. PAGE2A
Tournament bid on the line for Jayhawks The Kansas volleyball team has an opportunity to repeat last season's 9-11 record and proceed to the Big 12 tournament if it can defeat Missouri at home. PAGE 16A
One More Victory
One More Victory Kansas will face Iowa State on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. With a victory, the Jayhawks will become bowl eligible for the second time in the last three years. Kickoff is set for 11:30 a.m. PAGE 11A
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