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VOL.116 ISSUE 49
▼ COURTS
BY STEVE LYNN
slynn@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Amended tickets raise premiums
Collin Davidson got his speeding ticket changed to a lesser violation to avoid an increase on his auto insurance premium.
Davidson, Eden Prairie, Minn., senior, decided to pay double the amount of the original fine in exchange for a lesser court charge that wouldn't show up on his motor vehicle record.
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The city prosecutor said the practice allowed the Lawrence Municipal Court to save money. However, drivers who use this option, which is available in most cities in Kansas, are causing drivers with clean records to pay higher premiums than they otherwise would, Ted Kummer, owner and manager of Kummer Affiliated Insurers said.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 2005
Kummei said the reason behind the higher rate was that insurance companies use motor vehicle records as a major contribu
The city prosecutor said the practice allowed the Lawrence Municipal Court to save money. However, drivers who use this option which is available in most cities in Kansas are causing drivers with clean records to pay higher premiums than they otherwise would,Ted Kummer, owner and manager of Kummer Affiliated Insurers said.
tor in establishing a proper rate for all drivers. The more infractions a driver has, the higher premium he will pay because drivers with multiple infractions represent a higher risk to the insurance company, Kummer said.
If a bad driver's record appears spotless when offenses are really going unrecorded, then the risk is not divided equally among all drivers, Kummer said. That means good drivers share the financial burden, he said.
Despite this, drivers such as Davidson are willing to pay higher fines for tickets to avoid having the infraction on their motor vehicle records.
From Sept. 15 to 30, the court filed 367 speeding charges and amended 100 tickets to inattentive driving, according to Lawrence Municipal Court records.
Evening the score
ENROLLMENT
BY GABY SOUZA
gouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
SEE PREMIUMS ON PAGE 4B
Female enrollment level with men
The Big 12 North is finally catching up to the University of Kansas in terms of female enrollment.
"The News Hour," a PBS news show, reported that 56 percent of the nation's college students were women. This statistic is reflected in the Big 12, where women are being encouraged to attend college and enter previously male-dominated fields. Universities are changing
The University of Kansas reported in 2004 that 52 percent of its students were women, an amount which hasn't varied for the past decade. The University had the largest representation of women in 2000. at 52.9 percent.
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to accommodate the growing female populations.
Overall, the population of women and men at the University has been pretty equal, said Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett,
senior vice provost of academic affairs. The number of women on campus was not something she could see changing any time soon, she said.
McCluskey-Fawcett said she attributed the equal population to the fact that there were no programs at the University that were exclusively dominated by one gender. There has also been a history of women attending college at the University since it
began. There were women in the first graduating class, she said.
Ann Korschgen, vice provost for enrollment management, said she had noticed that some programs used to be male-dominated but now had a growing number of women.
The University of Missouri-Columbia also has enrollment figures that, like the University of Kansas, have been consistent for the last four years. In 2004, 51.5 percent of students were women.
SEE ENROLLMENT ON PAGE 4B
Percentages of women in four Big 12 universities:
Iowa State University
* 2000- 44.6%
* 2004- 43.9%
University of Kansas
♦ 2000- 52.9%
♦ 2004- 52%
University of Missouri
♦ 2000- 52.7%
♦ 2004- 51.5%
HEALTH
Kansas State University
◆ 2000-48%
◆ 2004-49.7%
Dialing to drop pounds
Sources: Iowa State University, the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri, and Kansas State University.
Illustration by Samantha Peters
Phone aids in weight loss
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Getting help with weight loss could be as easy as making a weekly phone call, according to a recent study by the KU Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management.
The study found that participating in weight loss clinics over the phone was almost as effective as attending them in person. Lawrence post-doctoral student and researcher Elizabeth Stewart said a conference call was not better than a state-of-the-art weight management clinic, but it appeared to be an effective alternative.
"This could be very promising in the future as people become busier and busier." Stewart said.
WEIGHT-LOSS STUDY STATISTICS
She said that because of today's busy world, physi-
Participants:
* 26 men
* 54 women
* Age range of 41 to 59
* Weight range of 174 lbs
* to 242 lbs
Results of the study:
* The group attending
the clinic in person lost an average of 29 the
cally attending a clinic every week is not possible for everyone.
an average of 28 lbs The group attending
the clinic by phone lost an average of 22 li
Source: KU Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management
♦ The control group gained an average of 7 lb
The group attending
The control group
"We thought the phone idea might be a way to capture individuals who are unable to attend the conventional face-to-face clinic," Stewart said.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Claim your tickets on the Web
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
He said as long as students have a copy of the confirmation page, they would be allowed into the game. If the ID does not scan, he said students would be allowed into the game if the student section is not full.
Students will be able to claim their men's basketball tickets online Monday.
Students can either redeem their tickets in person at the athletics ticket office, located on the west side of Memorial Stadium, or use the Athletics Department Web site. www.kuathetics.com, to redeem tickets through the online ticket office.
There is no charge for redeeming tickets in person, but there will be a $1 fee for each ticket redeemed online.
Students' ID cards will serve as tickets to games at Allen Fieldhouse this season.
This year students will be able to give their tickets to other students for a $2.50 charge. Both students must go to the ticket office together to complete paperwork to transfer the ticket.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the department was prepared for problems with IDs not scanning and students not finishing the online process, two of the most common problems at schools with similar ticket systems.
Nick Sterner, student body president, said he presented the idea for a possible online ticket system to the Athletics Department last spring.
SEE TICKETS ON PAGE 4B
PICK YOUR TIX
SEE WEIGHT LOSS ON PAGE 4B
Students must register their account online at the Kansas Athletics Web site before Oct. 31.
To claim tickets online:
1. Go to www.kuathematics.com and select "tickets" on the menu bar
2. Select "Buy Tickets Online" from the menu bar.
3. Once logged into the system, a pick-up screen will appear with available games for the period displayed.
4. Choose the games to attend by clicking
6. After entering a quantity, select the "Add to Cart" option.
5. The display will change to a screen where only one ticket per game can be validated.
7. If validating tickets for more than one game, select the "Continue Shopping" option.
♦ To validate tickets and pay the online transaction fee:
1. Select the "Check Out" option.
2. The next screen will aks for a credit card number to pay the online transaction fee. After approval, tickets for the games selected will be registered to the student's KUID.
3. The confirmation page will appear after the transaction is processed. Print the confirmation page and take it to the game as proof of the transaction.
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
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