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Vol. 109 • No. 87
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Vol.109·No.87
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The Kansas women's basketball team extends its home-court winning streak to 20 games after defeating Colorado last night.
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New bill may change residency restrictions
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By Kristi Reimer Kansan staff writer
A University of Kansas student is trying to gather support for a bill in the Legislature that would make it easier for some out-of-state students to gain residency status and pay in-state tuition.
Sean Brennan, a law student originally from Wahoo, Neb., is one of several students who approached state Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, about having been denied in-state tuition despite having made Lawrence their permanent homes.
Their stories prompted Sloan to sponsor legislation easing the requirements at Board of Regents institutions.
RESIDENCY
"They work here, they've bought a home, their cars are registered here, they vote here," Sloan said. "If students show a commitment to the community by becoming homeowners and have all the
Under the bill, a student who meets the following conditions for one year would be considered a resident and pay in-state tuition:
owns property in Kansas
- registers vehicles in Kansas
- has a Kansas drivers license
- registers to vote in Kansas
earns 7.5 percent of income from Kansas employers
other trappings, they should be considered Kanss."
The bill states that a student who owns property in Kansas, registers all vehicles in Kansas, has a Kansas driver's license, is registered to vote in Kansas and who earns 75 percent of his or her income from Kansas employers for one year would be considered a resident.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost, said that if the bill was passed, applicants to the University would no longer have to prove they did not come to
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KU Internet service paralyzed
By Chris Hopkins
Kansan staff writer
A large part of the University of Kansas' Internet service was paralyzed yesterday for more than two hours, leaving students and faculty without access to e-mail and Web sites.
The problem began when a Computer Center router, which is a device that sends data between networks, failed to work properly with a newly installed set of software and hardware. Concerns a customer assistant at the Computer Center.
Dave Ferguson, a customer assistant at the Computer Center,
described the router as the backbone of the server system.
He said that when the network's spinal cord was severed, the body attached to it — some of the biggest servers at the University — became paraplegic.
Ferguson said that the Computer Center had received many complaints from students who were unable to access the Internet or e-mail accounts.
Yu estimate about a orion personality. I look at Chaplin Mcwhorter, Dallas senior, said that she and a class partner had problems working on an assignment after the failure occurred.
"I'd estimate about a billion, personally," he said.
ng a real issue," she said.
"I think it's creating a real issue," she said.
Bill Klein, the assistant director of Network and Telecommunications Services, said that there had not been problems Tuesday when the programming was tested.
When the hardware installation took place yesterday morning, it was a different story.
The hardware and software upgrade would have improved the router's performance and the servers connected to it, which include raven, eagle, falcon, kuhub.
Bill Pesek, the production service manager for Academic Computing Services, said that most of the affected servers were related to academics, research and the administration. One of the affected servers stored the Peoplesoft program, which keeps track of KU personnel and payroll
One of the affected servers stored in
grams, which keeps track of KU personnel and payroll.
Pesek said that no corruption had been detected and that no long-term damage was expected to occur to the data.
Klein said the problems led to the removal of the new program and hardware and reverting to the earlier setup. The servers were working by 5 p.m. yesterday.
Klein said his department would not give up on the new software and hardware vet.
He said that it would work with the company that designed the system and would try and find the problem with the router.
After all of the problems have been corrected, it would try to reinstall the system, Klein said.
to reinstall the system, Klein said.
He was unsure how long it would take to fix the problem.
It was unsure how long it would take to fix the problem.
"How long does it take to find a lost item?" he asked. "It's
the same sort of problem. It could take a few hours, it could
be a matter of days."
Klein said that the telecommunications services had worked with the software and hardware company for a long time and that these sorts of problems were rare.
When they reinstall the software and hardware, it will be an early-morning job that will take the router and servers down for two hours.
New set of software and hardware causes network to fail for two hours
Illustration by Jeff Shumway
Crunch time
Heidi Spann, Lawrence junior, tries to power past Olathe sophomore Megan Spaulding's tackle yesterday in front of Strong Hall. The women's rugby team was playing "Tackle Booger Ball," an informal inner-squad scrimmage, in preparation for its upcoming Mardi Gras trip. Photo by Dan Elavsky/KANSAN
Senate sets appeals process for campaigns
By Nadia Mustafa Kansas staff writer
Student Senate passed a bill last night allowing candidates to appeal elections commission decisions.
The bill allows candidates to appeal to the University Judicial Board regarding decisions on campaign procedures, such as campaign spending limits. The bill does not allow appeals regarding decisions on election procedures, such as ballot tabulation.
Dave Stras, graduate senator, said that the appeals process would prevent misapplications of University code, student rights and responsibilities and state and local laws. He said that the bill had to be passed last night because a delay would limit candidates' chances to appeal this semester.
"It's really important to protect civil rights when it comes to elections," Stras said. "This bill puts appeals in front of a law professor and law students."
Seth Hoffman, Nunemaker senator, said the bill should not have been passed last night. He said that there was false urgency because some senators wanted to appeal the elections commission's decision to retain spending limits.
"It just gives coalitions another opportunity to up-end what the elections commission has done." Hoffman said.
Senate also passed a bill giving candidates the right to be identified by coalition names on the ballot.
Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator, said that there was no need for Senate to pass the bill because on Monday the elections commission had revised its initial elections code to include coalition names on the ballot.
"to be consistent, Senate should stay out of elections politics," he said. "If you do it the right way, taking the coalition names off the ballot might not be a bad thing."
Stras said that it was important for Senate to include candidates' rights to be identified by coalition in Senate's rules and regulations to avoid a conflict with the elections commission next year.
"It's much better to pass it after the commission has agreed with us instead of having to do it next year over their heads," he said.
More information about Senate legislation See page 2A
Credits awarded to international students
By Heather Woodward
Kansan staff writer
International undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will receive credit for English as a second or English as a foreign language classes at the Applied English Center.
At Monday's meeting, the College Assembly passed a proposal that would grant students three to nine hours of credit after completing the required level of English language proficiency, as measured by a test at the AEC.
"I think it's a fairness issue," said Betty Soppela, director of the AEC. "International students are doing a very high level of foreign language study, like a fifth or
International students have not received credit for English as a second or English as a foreign language classes until now, even though they are required to take the classes until they are deemed proficient in English by the AEC test.
sixth level foreign language class for native English speakers."
"Quite a number of institutions are already
Soppelsa said she did not know when students would start receiving credits from the University.
Joe Potts, director of International Student Services, said he thought the proposal would make the University competitive with other universities that allow ESL/EFL classes to be taken for credit.
doing this," Potts said. "In the face of rising costs, it will really help international students if we let these credits count toward graduation. It makes it much easier for them to afford the price of education at KU."
The proposal would make ESL/EFL courses worth credit in the hopes of retaining more students at a time when enrollment of international students is falling at the University.
Potts said he wanted international students to be rewarded in some way for their accomplishments.
"This is an excellent way to recognize their level of proficiency by the time they graduate from the University of Kansas." Potts said.