+
Volume 126 Issue 99
kansan.com
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
+
CAMPUS
JETT JACKSON
news@kansan.com
In an effort to eliminate the use of non-academic Internet resources on campus, the University of Kansas technology board processed a bill on Monday establishing a restricted Wi-Fi service for all KU students.
Starting in the fall of 2014, students will be required to purchase data plans in order to use the Internet via University channels, including ethernet and wireless access.
Plans will range from 500
to 5000 minutes and will cost five cents per minute. Students can purchase multiple plans throughout the semester through the optional fee page on the school's Enroll and Pay website.
tweet they send out."
"After using back door analytics to see how students spend most of their time when using campus Wi-Fi, it became increasingly clear that little to no school work is done during common class hours, and even less in the libraries after," Tech board president Dan Arnold said. "It has been my stated goal since I took this position
to focus solely on academics, and to see so few students hold up their end of the bargain is appalling."
The swift action comes after three students were expelled for using their cellphones
"Professors can rest assured: If their students are using computers during class, they'll be paying for every tweet they send."
DAN ARNOLD Tech board president
"Now our professors can rest assured: If their students are using computers during class, they'll be paying for every
during a midterm to Snapchat the test's answers to each other. While administrators can't completely curb this use of
non-academic websites, the hope is that students will have to budget their minutes and seriously think about what they use the Internet for.
Kansas students are calling the move communistic and have started advocacy groups to fight the rule, such as Students Hate Internet Tracking.
"It's not the student's fault that these professors and teaching assistants are boring as hell," S.H.I.T. member Zavie Goldenberg said. "We fully understand that we are paying for these courses, however what we as students take away
from these classes aren't the lessons learned, but the Buzz-Feed quizzes completed. Is it more important to learn the economic history of Europe or which Game Of Thrones character you resemble most? That's a question for the student body to decide."
Members of KU's technology board feel quite comfortable that the new campus-wide rule won't be challenged saying.
CRIME
"Those moronic students will get distracted by Reddit before they ever have a chance to figure out some type of plan to strike this down."
'House of Cards' inspires murder on Wescoe Beach
MARNIE CROMWELL
news@kansan.com
Police are questioning a student, whose name is not being released, for a "House of Cards"-inspired homicide on campus. A male student was seen pushing a female student in front of a campus bus Monday. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
"I must get to the top," the student said when asked why he did it. "Zoe was in the way."
Authorities are still investigating the murder, although there were three witnesses who saw the attack clearly on Jayhawk Boulevard. One was a hotdog salesman who declined to comment.
"I just saw him running down the stairs with a crazy look in his eye," another witness said. "He was specifically targeting a female student who was waiting for the bus then he just pushed her right in front of it. It was so quick and non-chalant."
The suspect's lawyer stated publicly that in the event of a trial, his client will plea insanity, saying he has multiple
personality disorder. State psychiatrists say the suspect said he wanted to "take the Vice Presidency," and are unsure if these thoughts are related to the attack. Full psychological evaluations of the suspect are still in progress.
"This is the first Netflix related incident we have seen in the state," a psychiatrist said. "We've seen reports from the coasts recently, but we were not prepared for this in Lawrence."
The Lawrence Police Department and the KU Public Safety Office are organizing a task force to help prevent any other "House of Cards"-related attacks. Authorities are concerned similar attacks may see an increase.
"We have heard threats of ricin poisoning among cigarette smokers, but we were convinced this was just a hoax," a Lawrence police officer explained. "Now we might need to look into other avenues of investigation — mostly likely related to 'Breaking Bad'."
TERRY RICHARDSON/KANSAN
Check back with the Kansan for further developments with this investigation.
A KU student was found dead on Wescoe beach Monday. Police are questioning another student about the "House of Cards"-inspired homicide. The Lawrence Police Department and the KU Public Safety Office are organizing a task force to help prevent any other "House of Cards"-related attacks.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ/KANSAN
Second graders from Grasslyawn Elementary attended Dollar Night at the Jayhawk Café after a field trip to the KU Natural History Museum.
LAWRENCE
Elementary field trip ends at Hawk
FORREST APPLETON news@kansan.com
The Grassyawn Elementary group, most of whom said they had "been once or twice, but the last time is a little fuzzy, ha," sidled up to the line at 4 p.m. after stashing their lunchboxes in a bush next to the Beta house. Arnold Reynolds, an 8-year-old second grader, said he has never run into problems using his prized Nidoking Pokemon card at the entrance.
After a giddy afternoon of touching massive fossilized lizards, sipping Capri Suns crosslegged on a hard floor and arguing about whose dad could beat up whose, Mrs. Wellsworth's second grade class marched confidently from the KU Natural History Museum down to Dollar Night at the Jayhawk Café.
Fitzgibbons, whose relationship recently progressed to the "talking to one another" stage, made a beeline for the boom room.
"I just love getting hyphy to
"My only thing is the crazy amount of girls in there who are, like, in kindergarten. Come on, man — that's a little creepy."
"I mean, I sort of have the
ARNOLD REYNOLDS
Second grader at Grasslaw Elementary
same hair color and height as that Nidoking, so nine times out of 10. I feel like they don't really care that it's a Florida Nidoking," Reynolds said as he shuffled his light-up Spi-
Mrs. Wellsworth said she is not concerned her students may be learning bad habits by attending the bar.
Newstown added that she does get a bit weared out when older fifth grade boys stare at her and offer to buy her Soco Lime shots.
touch the seat when you use the bathroom, it's totally a fun time," she said. "Let me repeat that: Hover when you go pee, for the love of God."
derman velcroes excitedly. "My only thing is the crazy amount of girls in there who are, like, in kindergarten. Come on, man — that's a little creepy."
Index STOCK ACTIVITY 4A CRYPTOQUIPS 5A SPORTS 8A CROSSWORD 5A OPINION 4A SUDOKU 5A
jams in that dark, dank cesspool of bacchanalian revelry," said Fitzgibbons, winner of this year's Grassylawn Spelling Bee and spring writing contest.
"Let's face it, elementary school kids are going to find ways to drink anyway," she said. "We might as well ensure they can chase vodka shots with the Juicy Juice they brought in their backpacks in a fun, social environment."
Once inside, the group began trading in their juice boxes for test tube shots and Vegas bombs. Some of the more adventurous whippersnappers, such as second grade lovebirds Kylie Newstown and Freddie
Newstown, handing her purple Dora the Explorer backpack off to a friend on the sidelines, offered her thoughts on the bar's pros and cons.
"As long as you pregame it enough and don't actually
A recent Gallup poll showed seven out of 10 Lawrence area elementary school students think sixth grade is wayyy too old to be in the Hawk.
All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2014 The University Daily Kansan
Don't Forget
April Fools!
Today's Weather
Chance of snow, thunderstorms and tornadoes.
HI: 88
LO: -15
---
Just don't even try to go to class.
+