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Staff tickets go from paper to plastic
The Athletic Department announced recently that faculty and staff would be issued a new debit access card that holds their basketball season tickets. This made the University of Kansas the first school in the nation to issue electronic cards holding season tickets. The University had previously done away with paper tickets for students.
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said the University wanted to attempt to prevent unauthorized use of the tickets, which includes scalping and said the printing of cards is also much cheaper than tickets. Marchiony said Kansas is preparing for the future and is ahead of the curve on electronic tickets.
Kansas offered regular season ticket holders the ability to accept the electronic cards—about 200 did so.
However, not everyone is happy with the University's initiative.
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ABOVE, Students walk into Mrs. E's Dining Hall for dinner Tuesday evening, Mrs. E's has been the target of several acts of vandalism, Including multiple gunshots to the rear windows.
RIGHT, Sometimes Saturday night, someone fired shots at the rear window of Mrs. E's Dining Hall.
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Bullets damage rear window of Mrs. E's
BY MARK DENI
mdent@kansan.com
Amber Cline and her friends saw the bullet hole in the back window of Mrs. E's on their way to eat on Sunday. They weren't frightened. Cline's friends started taking pictures.
"We saw the bullet and thought it was funny," said Cline, an Overland Park freshman. "I just hear people laugh about it."
The opinion of Cline was the same throughout Daisy Hill. Students interviewed said most people weren't too worried about the second criminal damage incident at Mrs. E's in the last month.
The latest one occurred last weekend. Someone fired gun shots into back window of Mrs. E's, according to police reports. The incident occurred sometime between Saturday night at 9:30 and Sunday morning at 11:30.
During Fall Break last month, someone fired shots at two of the back windows of Mrs. E's and the front window of the third floor lobby of Lewis Hall. Both cases were filed as criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor.
"A lot of people, it's just in the back of their heads," Levsky said. "A lot of it will be
Levsky said the first incident was a major conversation topic when it occurred and that even more students are talking about the second shooting. But like Cline and her friends, he said most students weren't scared.
The first time someone shot at Mrs. E's, KU Police talked with students at a voluntary meeting to discuss the incident. Adrian Levsky, a Glastonbury, Conn., freshman, said students asked police a few questions about the incident, but police also asked students questions about what they thought happened and if they knew any information about who did it.
Captain Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said police have no suspects yet from either shooting, but the KU Crime Stoppers Board is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of the person or people involved in the shooting. Bailey wouldn't discuss any changes the police were making in the area in hopes of not tipping off the people who vandalized Mrs. E's.
jokes. It's the parents who are worried. They freaked when I told them."
Students interviewed said they and their friends weren't worried about the incidents because of the location and time the shootings occurred. Both happened at night when no one would be in Mrs. E's. Paul Elser, Atchison freshman, said he thought the shootings were just acts of vandalism.
"I could see why people would be nervous," he said, "but I don't think that it's an intentional attempted murder shooting or anything. I don't think anyone has anything
to worry about."
Instead of thinking about safety, Levsky said most students just wanted to know who shot the windows. Levsky said he didn't know anyone with information about the shooting, but he did know that "a lot" of students had guns for hunting. He thought a student committed the crimes.
"No kids here have been saying stuff about who could've done it," Levski said. "It was probably just kids fooling around."
Edited By Rachael Gray
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Students can help Chipotle video win
Anadvertisement made by University of Kansas students was chosen as a finalist for Chippewa's national advertising contest, "30 Seconds of Fame." Out of 120 other universities and colleges, the KU ad, "Burrito Friends Forever," is among 11 other finalists, and is in second place behind the University of Texas ad.
The students who made the video are members of a strategic communications campaigns class. They encouraged other KU students to get on YouTube and watch the video because the ad
The students tried to focus on Chipotle's message, "Food With Integrity," and keep it humorous for student viewers. The ad features Andy Chipotleg, a large walking burrito, and his stalker, on the KU campus, and claims Chipotle is "something to stalk about."
with the most views would win. The winning school will receive $30,000 in prize money.
Andy Chipotlegs will be on campus today to motivate students to view and rate the ad on YouTube.
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Nathan Markley, Wellington senior, plays Andy Chipotlepis in an advertisement video for Chipotle's national contest, "30 Seconds of Fame." The ad was created by KU students and is one of 12 finalists left in the contest.
DEVELOPMENT
Make way for the highway — err — Oread Circle.
Contractors have proposed a plan to demolish another building to make room for the development of Oread Circle.
Contractors discuss demolition of building
The plan would displace at least seven residents. It would also greatly reduce a common meeting space for students.
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