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Full Senate takes steps forward on several bills
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Student Body President Morgan Said updates Student Senate about business on campus at Full Senate on Wednesday night.
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Transcription notation policy will move forward
What it is: A notation policy Kansas Board of Regents Student Senators have been trying to push through, which would support the adaptation of a nonacademic misconduct notation added to transcripts. KBOR has to write its own language of the new policy, but is in support of it.
What this means for students: Students who are suspended or expelled for non-academic misconduct will have a notation added to their transcript, alerting other universities in KBOR of the suspension or expulsion. The transcript adaptation is one of the Sexual Assault Task Force's ways of combatting sexual assault, as assault falls under the nonacademic misconduct field.
Why students should care: "This is all about transparency at the end of the day," Graduate Senator Angela Murphy said, "making sure from institution to institution in Kansas that we are clear about the quality of our students."
What this means for students: If it passes, minors across the state of Kansas will be exempt from legal charges such as Minor in Possession or Minor in Consumption should they seek medical attention for something like alcohol poisoning while drinking.
Senators will travel to Topeka tomorrow in support of Lifeline 911 legislation
What it is: A bill that would grant legal amnesty to minors who seek medical attention while drinking alcoholic beverages.
Why students should care: "This is important for students and it's important even on a larger scale," Student Body President Morgan Said
Why students should care: "Student's should care because this will allow Student Senate to better reach out to them and reach out to every voice on this campus by putting more outreach on our Senators and allowing them to be better equipped to reach out to their constituents," current Outreach Director Patrick Jacquinot said.
said. "For any resident of Kansas who is under 21, or any resident of Kansas who cares about anyone under 21, I think this supports general safety and responsibility, and many of the legislators have said 'I have children at the collegiate level. This makes sense because I want them protected."
Line-item funding approved What it is: Line item is the money allocated to student organizations for general funding such as annual events.
What it is: The bill, authored by the current Executive Secretary and Outreach Director, will combine the two positions into one Communications Director position.
Bill approved to consolidate Executive Secretary and Outreach Director into Communications Director
What this means for students: Having one position will save students a little over $7,000, as a second position will no longer have to be funded.
Line-item funding approved
What this means for students: Student Senate will allocate $116,925 to student organizations, which comes from the Student Senate activity fee.
Why students should care:
"Line-item budget gives student organizations the ability to plan their groups and security for the next fiscal year," finance chair Jessie Pringle said.
Funding for honorarium featuring Allison Kafer approved
What it is: This honorarium will be open to any members of the community or campus and will involve an open dialogue in regards her research about disability students.
What this means for students: The honorarium is open to the public and will be held on April 23 at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium.
Why students should care:
"Allison is important because she brings to the table this kind of ability for people who identify with any [identity],
and AbleHawks is all about supporting people that are multifaceted," President of AbleHawks and Allies Jennifer Macinkowski said. "We can all come together and share these ideas and these perspectives and learn from each other and it's wonderful, so we're really excited to co-sponsor something like this."
Edited by Mitch Raznick
APPS FROM PAGE 1A
ing for and a general price range, lock the settings and hit shake to search for something new.
Finally, the app can keep a history of the places you've been before. Check in to a location whenever you're there, and the app will compile data based on your check-ins. Alternatives to Urbanspoon include Yelp and Foursquare.
Don't waste time during break trying to find your bearings. If you are in a new place without a car, figuring out a city's transportation system can be complicated. HopStop provides you with information to get around a big city by subway, taxi, bus, walking or a combination as fast and painlessly as possible. HopStop also estimates the cost and amount of time it will take you to travel a certain distance. Finally, just for fun, the app tells you about how many calories you burned on your route and how much CO2 you saved. (Only available in the App Store.)
NAVIGATE A NEW CITY
Vacation time is precious. Don't waste time standing in long lines waiting for food and drinks. Here's where
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Boppl comes in: an app that allows you to browse local bars and restaurants, order via a secured credit card on your phone and watch your order in real-time. The app presents a list of nearby places where you can take a look at the menu or order right away. After you choose your items, it shows you the "order status" page that details when the business received your order, when it is processing and when it is ready. You can even order on your way to the next bar. This app is ideally used for late-night bar-hopping in a new city.
If you're planning to travel alone, Watch Over Me can be a built-in buddy. The app allows you to determine and input a time interval, with which you must check back in to let it know you are safe. You can enter what you will be doing, and then set a time frame for how often you want the app to request you to "check back in." If you fail to press the in-app button during the allotted time frame, the app will alert your chosen contacts with your GPS location via text, email or Facebook, as well as send real-time audio and video to those friends.
STAY SAFE WHILE TRAVELING
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PREVENT HEALTH RISKS
Hundreds of University
students will head out of state or international destinations next week. While you're away, your health can be right at your fingertips. Healthvana is an app, similar to Yelp, that allows users to find and rate STD and HIV testing centers wherever they are. Healthvana shows you your test results digitally, advises what your next step should be and timestamps the time. The app can also send your health information to your doctor, family or partner. This app can keep you and your loved ones up-to-date on your health. (Only available in the App Store).
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ary of The CBORD Group in 2007. Despite this company handling business relationships, CBORD cannot partner with a business without the University's approval.
Once CBORD has established a formal relationship and completed a merchant agreement, the card center provides that business with one card reader, a set of guidelines and some advertisements that promote card use. The business is also required to pay a one-time fee of $250 and take on a monthly fee for access to the network. Sami Takiedine, director of operations at CBORD, said this monthly fee is usually between $30 and $40.
"Beak 'Em Bucks cannot be used to purchase things like alcohol, tobacco and pornography," Miles said.
As far as funding from the University, Takieddine said the University is one of the few schools that pays an annual fee.
"Most universities don't pay CBORD an annual fee, but there are some that do in order to receive a share based on the interchange we collect," Takieddine said.
The interchange Takieddine is referring to comes from a fee that is charged for every transaction.
"The flat percentage can be as low as three or four percent, but maybe as high as 10 [percent]," Takieddine said.
Each purchase includes a transaction fee. According to Takiedine, this is usually around 20 to 30 cents. These fees vary depending on the type of business.
"CBORD has different national agreements with partners like Chipotle, Panera Bread and CVS Pharmacy because they are corporations that might have multiple locations," Takieddine said. "We still try to keep rates fairly standard across the board."
Takiedine said CBORD provides training to businesses for the hardware upon their initial partnership and continues to offer support whenever needed.
One chain restaurant that didn't want to be named doesn't like the card reader because it constantly malfunctions. Another that also wished to stay anonymous has a similar problem with the card reader; however, they said they are more unhappy that their requests for repair have been ignored for months.
Takieddine was unable to share the percentage of revenue the University receives on behalf of transactions.
Despite this slight loss of profit for businesses like Minsky's Pizza, general manager Jon Studtman said accepting Beak 'Em Bucks allows the restaurant to appropriately serve the community.
Phil Toevs of Biggs BBQ said the form of payment makes the business more student-friendly. Even though students benefit from using their IDs off campus, some businesses are unhappy with the system.
"It's a way to bring in more guests to our restaurant," Hicks said. "While it's nice for the students, it's also good for bringing in volume."
"I think having the option opens us up to the students, especially freshmen and sophomores that might be on a limited budget but who still have parents that put money into their KU accounts," Studtman said.
Noodles & Company's General Manager Ben Hicks said the Beak 'Em Bucks program is definitely convenient.
Two recent "racially unjust" incidents have affected the University community, according to a statement by the University's Greek Government Council addressed to the Kansan.
"This severe cultural insensitivity contributes to lack of understanding of our community as a whole," the statement said. It continued to say the behavior is unacceptable and intolerable.
Edited by Callie Byrnes
The statement referred to the character "Paco" from the Rock Chalk Revue show "These Boots were Made for Dancing," which was performed by a group of members of Pi Kappa Phi and Delta Delta Delta last weekend. "Paco" drew criticism from students in the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and
Greek Government Council gives statement to Kansan regarding 'racial injustices'
"This incident is a testament to the amount of progress we have yet to make," the statement said. "We must ensure that, as members of the Greek community, we are culturally competent in a rapidly changing society."
The statement also addressed an incident involving the Oklahoma University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. It said the incident reminds them to acknowledge "the issue of bigotry and own the injustices that can happen here." The statement concluded with an announcement that executive teams will meet after spring break.
The Greek Governing Council presidents are Chris Pyle, president of the Interfraternity Council; Ramiro Sarmiento, Multicultural Greek Council president; Camille Douglas, National Pan-Hellenic Council president; and Hannah Reinhart, Panhellenic Association president.
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