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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014
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TUESDAY
HI: 29
LO: 13
Mainly sunny. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
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WEDNESDAY
HI: 46
LO: 26
Windy with times of sun and clouds.
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THURSDAY
HI: 42 LO: 20 More clouds than sun.
More clouds than sun.
Ahoy, ye clouds.
Monday, Jan. 27
Calendar
**what:** Last day to enroll/add/change
a class without permission
**When:** All day
What: Peace, War and Global Change/Gender Seminar
When: 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room 1
About: Benjamin Uchiyama, an assistant professor in the history department, will speak. The topic is "The Wartime Dandy: Mobilization and Masquerade on the Japanese Home Front." Free for students, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, Jan. 28
What: July 1914: Countdown to War When: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Where: Lied Center Pavilion About: Sean McMeekin, a visiting professor from Turkey, will lecture about the causes of World War I.
What: Science on Tap: Bullying throughout the lifespan When: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Where: Free State Brewing Company About: Professor Robert Harrington will lead a discussion of research and topics related to bullying throughout various life situations.
Wednesday, Jan. 29
What: Chet Cadieux presents QuikTrip: A Values Based Business"
When: 4 to 5 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: Chet Cadieux is the chairman president and CEO of the QuikTrip corporation. This event is presented by the School of Business Dean's Executive Llecture series and is free to the public.
TRANSPORTATION
Thursday, Jan. 30
What: Facing Genocide and Its Aftermath Seminar When: 3:30 to 5 p.m. Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room 1 About: John Janzen, an anthropology professor, and Nimrod Rosler, a visiting assistant professor in the Jewish Studies program, will speak. The topics are "Deciphering Images and Voices of War: Trauma in Africa's Great Lakes Region" and "Israel-Palestine: Negotiating Peace & Land."
Before,riders could only guess when the bus would
Texting service benefits bus riders
MEGHAN KETCHAM news@ketcham.com
news@kansan.com
Students now have the ability to text the bus to find out when it will arrive.
With new GPS trackers in place, university and city buses can now transmit arrival times more accurately to riders with a service called "Where's My Bus?"
(785) 312-2414 - with the stop number, which is located on the stop's sign or at lawrencetransit.org/wheresmy-bus, gives riders a more accurate prediction of the bus arrival time.
A simple text to the bus service's provided phone number
With this service, riders should have a shorter wait because they can plan around a more precise arrival time.
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arrive based on the estimated time given on the sign. With this new technology, bus riders can know exactly when to expect the bus.
Lawrence is not alone in providing a service that can give real-time arrivals to its riders. Nugent said larger cities pioneered the idea.
"It will make it easier for people to use this service," Lawrence Public Transit Administrator Rob Nugent said.
Although the service will be more convenient for riders, Nugent warns that attempting to catch the bus last minute could still cause people to miss the bus, even with the texting service.
"I think the major drawback would be that people may use this service to run out the last minute to catch the bus," Nugent said. "Usually, when you ride the bus, you tell people to
"Recycling rates keep going up," Day said. "The easier you make it for people to be sustainable, the more likely they're going to do it." Day said that 2.74 million pages were printed last year
go out earlier to catch the bus. That could be a problem for some people. You still need to be out there earlier."
In addition to riders leaving too late, Tho Nguyen, a freshman from Overland Park, used the service on Friday and found it takes more than a couple of minutes for the text line to respond with bus times.
Nugent said that this is because many of the stops have multiple routes passing through them, and it helps to text both the stop number as well as the route number. When riders only text the stop number, they will receive
"I wanted to check when the bus would come so I wouldn't have to wait so long in the cold," Nguyen said. "I sent the text at 9:04 and it came back at 9:10. By the time I checked it, I was already on the bus."
Bus Breakdown
City and university riders can now text (785) 312-2414 to find bus arrival times.
In the text,riders must type in the stop number (found on the stop's sign), and may type in the route number for a more accurate estimate Ex: If a student wants to take a bus from stop 277(GSP) on bus 43,the student would text "277,43" to the phone number to receive arrival times.
The Student Senate's primary objective was to reduce paper, which will cost the environment and university less.
Riders should still arrive a few minutes before the allotted time to ensure that they will not miss the bus.
Though it was slow for Nguyen, she said that it could help students save time.
the times for all of the routes passing through, which could take more time.
TECHNOLOGY
"In the future, I hope that it is fast enough so that more students will find it useful." Nguyen said. "It's a matter of saving a minute or two doing
Go to Kansan.com to view a how-to video for "Where's My Bus?"
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University printers to default to double-sided pages
AMELIA ARVESEN
news@kansan.com
Scratch paper will have to be found elsewhere now that printers across campus will be set to a new default: double-sided.
The changed setting will go live this week, meaning the default of all printers in Watson, Budig, Anschutz and public labs will be set to double-sided, or duplex, printing. Individual schools' printers will not be changed.
The sustainable idea was brought to KU Information Technology (KU IT) by the Student Senate to reduce the use of resources while also saving the University money on paper. David Day of KU IT said the only disadvantage of the change is catching people off-guard, so signs will be placed on printers to alert students. Instructions on how to print single-sided will also be included.
Easan Selvan, associate director for support services, calculated the savings if the 78 percent were double-sided instead. The change would save 11.5 trees. It's also the equivalent
of turning a 60 watt light bulb off for more than 30 years and removing two metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere.
and of that, only about 608,000 were double-sided. That means almost 78 percent of printed pages were on one piece of paper.
"A small change by each individual student collectively is a huge change for the environment," Day said.
The air will be spared but student's pocket change won't be
because the price students pay is per page of ink.
"If it all worked out perfectly, we'd love to see the cost of printing a page go down for students in the future," Mark Savoy said, an author of the resolution and third-year law student from Overland Park.
"We also recognize that we don't have control over that,"
Day said funding for printing resources comes from KU IT and libraries. The savings will go toward supporting current and new student initiatives, for example, the charging stations
Savoy said. "We just know the money will be spent on better things"
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