Volume 128 Issue 93
kansan.com
Thursday, March 12, 2015
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FRANK WFIRICH/KANSAN
Safety apps like HopStop can be worth the download on spring break trips.
Apps to download for a safe spring break vacation
TRAVIS DIESING
@travis_diesing
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Spring break is almost here. Whether you're heading somewhere tropical, visiting a new city, exploring the great outdoors or even taking it easy at home, here are five apps to make your spring break even easier.
DISCOVER LOCAL CUISINE
Odds are wherever you go, you won't be too familiar with local restaurants. The Urbanspoon app lets you find exactly what you're looking for based on reviews from critics, food bloggers and other users. When you
open the app. the home screen allows you to choose a meal based on type of food, popularity, proximity, price, top picks and award winners chosen by Urbanspoon.
The app includes user reviews, price rating and other general information. You even have the option to reserve a table through the app's reservation system once you know where you want to go. If you're feeling spontaneous, Urbanspoon's 'Shake' feature lets you literally mix it up. Enter the name of the city, type of food you're look-
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New printers reduce wasted paper by 11 million sheets
RYAN MILLER
@Ryanmiller_UDK
Since the introduction of multifunctional printers on campus, the University has reduced the number of pages printed in a year by 11 million, according to David Day, director of IT External Affairs.
The amount of 11 million pages is equal to a stack 3,600 feet high. Day said.
Day said the cost savings of printing for the fiscal year of 2014 was $254,377. Multifunction devices, or MFDs, allow users to scan, copy and print on one machine.
"That is about 30 campaniles stacked on top of each other, or if the [sheets of] paper were laid end to end, about 1,900 miles," Day said.
"Prior to that, students would print off a document, realize they made a mistake on it, or had an error they needed to correct, or just forgot to pick it up, and at the end of the day there would be stacks and stacks of paper left that were unused," Day said.
Day said the University has taken some steps to help reduce the amount of paper being used on campus. One such initiative requires students to log in to release their print jobs in the computer labs.
Day said a benefit of MFDs is that students can send print jobs from anywhere that has Wi-Fi access. A student can send a print job to any public MFD on campus and have four hours to pick it up. All students have to do is go to any MFD on campus, swipe their ID card, and their work will print.
In total, about 17,521,495 pieces of paper were used during this year, which works out to about 48,000 a day.
With about 30,000 staff/faculty/students on campus, about 1.5 pieces of paper are used per person per day.
That equals to about 5,714 cases of paper a year. There are 10 reams of paper to a case.
REDUCTION IN PAPER USAGE:
Since introducing multifunctional printers, KU libraries have reduced the number of pages in year by 11 million.
MFDs also introduced document scanning and workflow, which allows departments to both scan and route documents internally and email them to recipients instead of
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printing multiple copies to hand out, Day said.
In addition to saving paper, the required login for students
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BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Beak 'Em Bucks is a partnership between the University and the CBORD group that allows students to load money on to their KU IDs and use it to pay for food at local resteraunts.
The methodology behind popular Beak 'Em Bucks
With the relocation of Buffalo Wild Wings to Iowa Street, the restaurant is also going through the process of accepting Beak 'Em Bucks again.
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
While the former location on Massachusetts Street accepted Beak 'Em Bucks as payment, for now, they are not valid at the new location. This change might generate questions about the methodology behind Beak 'Em Bucks and how the relationship between the University and local businesses work.
According to Nancy Miles, director of the KU Card Center, the University first expressed interest in connecting Beak Em Bucks to off-campus businesses in 2005. Student housing originally planned to allow Domino's to deliver to campus and let students pay with their IDs.
"There turned out to be a competitive bidding process as several pizza places responded to the proposal." Miles said.
"We aren't a bank, so we knew we needed to work with an outside company that would be able to do daily settlements, provide terminals and more." Miles said.
Though the University originally partnered with "Off Campus Advantage," this program became a subsidi-
Domino's was ultimately chosen,but the list of businesses that wanted to accept the new form of payment began to grow.
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PUZZLES 6
SPORTS 1B
OPINION 4
A&F 5
Index
CLASSIFIEDS 7B
DAILY DEBATE 9B
Psychic Heat to headline at Bottleneck this Friday
"ADHD fuzz rock" is a genre not known to many, but the members of local Lawrence band Psychic Heat plan to change that. Psychic Heat, a four-man band, will perform at the Bottleneck this Friday March 13.
LILY GRANT
lilygrant_UDK
the band is made up of lead vocalist/guitarist Evan Herd from Lawrence, guitarist Tanner Spreer from Wamego, bass player Sam Boatright
Don't Forget
The band compares its music to that of the '60s and '70s, taking much of its inspiration
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from Lawrence and a former University student and drummer Ricky Barkosky from Tucson, Ariz. The band has played around 100 shows since its inception two years ago. Joel Coon will fill in for Ricky on drums this Friday.
Friday's show will open with two other acts: The Sluts and Gnarly Davidson. All three of the bands know one another and have played shows together. Spreeer said The Sluts have been supportive of their band since they first got started.
The band describes its sound as "ADHD Fuzz Rock," which, according to Spreer, is, "really noisy, and a lot of our songs don't sound exactly the same." Boatright said the band doesn't like to pigeonhole its genre as psych, rock or metal, but rather they try to play songs they like.
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Media Crossroads' lease at Union extended to December
LANE COFAS
@alleynahC
Media Crossroads, a student media studio in charge of producing 14 different newcasts, will relocate its studio come this December, instead of its original plan to move this summer.
Media Crossroads' lease extension is due to the success of its new LTN system, which
was installed last year but began being used last month.
"Because we have this new LTN hookup ... they [the University] want to expand on that," Media Crossroads Director Cal Butcher said. "So the University kind of went to the Union and said, 'Can we delay that move?' "
An LTN system delivers video via the LTN Global Smart-Cloud and "enables broadcasters to deliver live video content globally and cost effectively," according to the LTN Global Communications website.
Happy Spring Break!
Today's Weather
The system is now giving the University's professors and staff the opportunity to be nationally and globally recognized.
"It basically lets us do broad-
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Sunny with no chance of rain. Wind SSE at 11 mph.
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