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Volume 128 Issue 108
kansan.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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ADVANCE ACCESS: This includes publishing course evaluations, cultural competency training, a shuttle to the MCI airport, and extending the 100 percent class refund time period, establishing semi-monthly conversations between students and administrations, and more human trafficking prevention work.
ADVANCE COMMUNITY: This platform includes creating a student-athlete relationship, a Senate accountability program, a student organization fund and improving the University-Lawrence government relationship.
ADVANCE SUSTAINABILITY: This platform focuses on environmental policies like a campus sustainability plan with plans to work with the University's Center for Sustainability. The coalition also wants to implement motion sensor lights and additional energy efficient air dryers.
Platform information taken from advanceku.com
GET THE GRADES: Includes creating an easier add/ drop class form, requiring professors to release syllabuses early so students can drop classes before the 100 percent refund period is over. It also includes creating a textbook checkout system.
BETTER STUDENT LIFE AND CONNECT COMMUNITIES: The coalition would create a KU mobile app, an equity and diversity certificate and an incentive to increase student attendance at non-revenue athletic events. This platform would increase sexual assault awareness and prevention and reestablishing the Haskell Bridge Program.
FIX SENATE: To fix Senate, the coalition wants to establish an open door policy with all senators and demand accessibility from all senators along with translating Senate meeting minutes and rules and regulations into additional languages.
Platform information taken from the Imagine KU Facebook page
HOW TO VOTE
TIME: Polls will open online at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning and will close on Thursday at 4 p.m.
HOW: Students can only vote online this year through Rock Chalk Central. Students will use their KU login information to access their ballot. Rock Chalk Central is located at https://rock-chalkcentralku.edu/ and the "log in" button is located in the top right corner of the page.
WHERE: The Student Senate Elections Commission will host locations around campus where students can login to a laptop and vote. Wednesday: Wescoe
Beach and Mrs. E's from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Thursday: Wescoe Beach and Mrs. E's from noon to 4 p.m.
WHO CAN VOTE? All current University students. This includes seniors, nontraditional students and international students. When students login to Rock Chalk Central, they will be directed to their specific ballot which will allow them to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate as well as the senator for their specific school at KU (Journalism, Business, Engineering, etc.) as well as for an off-campus or on-campus senator depending on where the voter lives.
All voting information courtesy of the Student Senate Elections Commission
Uber threatens to leave Kansas if Brownback passes proposed bill
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
Uber users in Kansas may be forced to find other forms of transportation if Gov. Sam Brownback signs SB117, a bill that regulates ride-hailing services.
Amendments were added to the bill that tighten restrictions on insurance for company drivers, as well as requiring some to pay for even more coverage depending on how their car is financed.
"Other cities in Kansas have shown interest," Altmin said. "This bill is just going to impede innovation."
These provisions were what led to Uber threatening to cease operations in the state. Currently, Uber is only offered in Wichita and Kansas City. However, despite Kansas not being a huge market for the company, Uber Spokeswoman Lauren Altmin said every city is important.
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State senators Richard Wilborn, left, of McPherson, Jeff Longbine, center, of Emporia, and Steve Fitzgerald, right, confer at the Statehouse in Topeka on April 2 before a debate over a transportation bill that ride-hailing company Uber says would force it out of the state.
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SPORTS 10
Professors weigh in on Kansas' new EPA regulations
KELLY CORDINGLEY
@kellycordingley
CLASSIFIEDS 9
DAILY DEBATE 8
Don't Forget
Kansas and 18 other states are butting heads with the US Environmental Protection Agency, claiming they weren't given enough time to comply with the regulations effective this July.
"The legislature has been upset with environmental regulations, period, because they don't think they're necessary," Feddema said. "If you go back and look [at] why did we start the EPA in this country, it's to manage things like the Clean Air Act and the Water Act, which came out of really bad air pollution and water problems."
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While the legislature doesn't think these regulations are necessary, history has shown us otherwise, said Professor Johannes Feddema, chair of the geography department and affiliate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"The reality is that the burden will be on some of these interest groups that currently are benefitting from the fact they don't have to pay for these emissions."
SHANNON O'LEAR Associate professor of environmental studies
Professor Shannon O'Lear, associate professor of geography and environmental studies, said regulations are necessary to reduce these emissions even though there are varying views on whether states have been given enough time to take the necessary steps.
"If we're trying to reduce the
The EPA proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions last year in the effort to reduce carbon monoxide emissions.
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A&F 5
TAKEAWAYS
Sophomore Brannen Greene will be sidelined for five months due to hip surgery, the Lawrence Journal-World reported after the Kansas basketball banquet on Monday. Greene won't be able to participate in the World University Games this summer with the rest of the team. The games will take place in Gwangji City, South Korea, from July 3-14.
Greene sidelined for five months for hip surgery
Kansas, along with 18 other states, sent a letter opposing regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from coal fire plants and other such industries to the EPA.
Greene has a torn labum and is on pace to return for the 2015-16 campaign at full health. Bill Self reports that redshirting will not be necessary.
carbon emissions, there's going to have to be regulations," O'Lear said. "Chances are the industry isn't going to do it themselves without some kind of incentive."
The states said the EPA took longer than the governmental requirement allows to impose these regulations which burdens the consumer and the industry.
The Kansas Attorney General's office issued a press release April 8 stating that Attorney General Derek Schmidt, "along with 18 other Attorneys General, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking her to withdraw the proposed new Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Stationary Sources"
The states argue the "EPA will have missed the mandatory deadline by anywhere from six to eight months, thereby subjecting sources or proposed sources to at least 1.5 times the delay permitted." Regulations will burden the state and any businesses involved, according to the press release.
“[His hip] hurts, but that’s not the problem. The problem is it’s continuing to get worse.” Self said to the Journal-World. “He’s had [the problem] for years, and they’ve decided to get it corrected. He’ll be pain-free.”
"These interest groups are saying, 'The consumers are going to pay for this, we're going to have to close down some facilities before we can even open renewable energy plants and this is going to be a burden on the consumer,' and that's the way they're painted it," O'Lear said. "The reality is that
O'Lear said the reality is that interest groups will bear the burden, not the consumer.
Greene logged 15 minutes per game last season, recording 5.7 points per game on 42.2 percent shooting from three-point range. The sophomore was considered one of the best shooters in the nation by college basketball analysts, including ESPN's Fran Fraschilla.
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Greene
Kansas will now be forced to choose players from other rosters because of certain player restrictions and Greene's injury to fill the roster.
During a six-game stretch last year, Greene posted 10.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game, while shooting 17-of-24 (71 percent) from three point range. Over that stretch, the Jayhawks went 6-1, with their lone loss coming to Oklahoma State on the road.
Ben Felderstein
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