TUESDAY,APRIL9,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Housing rule stymies search for subleasers
By Maggie Koerth Kansan staff writer
Editor's note: Because of a printing error, this story was printed incorrectly on Friday's front page. The story appears herein its entirety.
Students who wish to sublease their apartments may have a hard time reaching their target audience. AKU Department of Housing policy banning advertisements in residence halls makes it hard for the two groups to find each other.
Paige Higgins, Denver sophomore, said she was going to sublease her apartment because she wanted to go home for the summer, yet she was struggling to find a temporary resident because of the policy.
"it's really a problem," she said.
Diana Robertson, associate director of housing, said subleas-
flyers were not allowed in residence halls because housing prohibited all advertising, which subleasing flyers are classified under, except those pertaining to student groups. She said the issue of student subleasing presented a special problem, but she said she didn't think housing would be changing the policy any time soon.
"We want to have consistency in our policies throughout the year," she said. "When the Off-Campus Living Resource Center opens that will help. In the meantime, if housing residents have a problem with the policy they should talk to their hall government leaders."
The Off-Campus Resource Center is a Student Senate program that will set up a place where students can pick up information on all kinds of off-campus living. It will be located in the Kansas Union next fall.
Megan Johnson, Troy freshman, who lives in Ellsworth Hall said she thought finding a room for the summer would have been easier if sublease flyers were allowed in the residence halls.
"It would have been nice. I could have just gone down the hall instead of all over the hill," she said.
Johnson said it was intimidating for freshmen to find a sublease. She said next year she would probably use the Off-Campus Resource Center to find a place to sublet.
Kyle Browning, student body vice president, said he thought the center would be helpful to students looking for subleases.
"We plan on having an apartment board where people can put their flyers and lots of information to help students find a place to live," he said.
contact Koerth at mkoerdx@kansan.com. This story was edited by Gillian Titus.
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Expert warns of overpopulation
By Mike Gilligan Kansan staff writer
At the current rates of population increase, Nigeria would be as bigas the United States in the year 2050 and 27,000 species of plants, and animals are lost every year because of the annual growth in the world's population.
Werner Fornos, an expert on population issues and the president of the Population Institute in Washington D.C., presented these and other facts in a lecture last night on the issue of population and the problems it posed. About 40 people attended the lecture in Woodruff Auditorium.
Sigma Xi, an honors society for scientific research, chose Fornos to give its annual lecture.
Sigma Xi President Wakefield Dort Jr., a professor emeritus of geology, said Fornos was selected because his topic was "the single most important subject facing mankind."
Fornos said 80 million people were born last year, but 80 percent of them were born in poor countries.
He said this was because a lot of people in poorer countries were not educated about birth control and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. As a result, they have children they are unable to feed.
"86 countries can't feed their populations," he said. "That means some 800 million people will go to bed hungry tonight."
Fornos said it was not too late
to change the problem of overpopulation.
"We need to eradicate female illiteracy and educate women on the ways of dealing with unwanted pregnancy," he said.
Formos said the countries that used most of the resources needed to be more cautious of how much they used. He pointed out that the U.S. made up four percent of the world population but used 30 percent of the world's resources.
He had a warning for the crowd as well.
"Unless we change things, we're headed for environmental armageddon," he said.
Contact Gilligan at mgilligan@kansan.com. This story was edited by Justin Henning.