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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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February 5, 1998
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Vol. 108 • No. 94
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The No.3-ranked Kansas men's basketball team cruised to another Big 12 victory last night, beating Iowa State 83-62 in Ames.
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Commerce Bank will be provider
By Gerry Doyle gdoyle@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas can bank on receiving financial services with their new ID cards.
The president of Commerce Bank of Lawrence announced yesterday that the bank would be the financial vendor for the University's smart-card program. Commerce will provide services for cardholders that will include a checking account with a debit card and a stored-value purse with
a limit of $100.
Students could use the debit card at any store that accepted other bank debit cards. The stored-value purse, separate from a checking account, could be used for smaller purchases, such as making copies or washing clothes.
The new ID cards will be issued during enrollment for Fall 1998.
"The University was looking for the highest quality best fit," Goddard said. "Our decision was based on services and service possibilities."
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Commerce was chosen because of what it offered and because its bid was combined with CyberMark, said Diane Goddard, director of purchasing.
responses from local companies were collected from the University's bid requests. The University negotiated with three of the four other banks involved, which were Mercantile Bank, InTrust Bank, United Missouri Bank and First-Bank. The University dealt with Commerce and CyberMark exclusively during the last phase of contract agreements. Goddard said.
Commerce was drawn to the deal by the opportunity to attract students, Carl Bradbury, Commerce Bank, his debt-card manager, said.
"At Commerce, we always want more customers," he said. "In the future, we expect all credit cards to have a chip. We're interested in
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Colored burpaks cover open ground on Sunnyside Avenue. The ground was torn up by the construction of a sidewalk. The area around the new sidewalk will be seeded after the chance of a freeze has passed. Photo by Holly Groshong/KANSAN
University police may gain territory
By Brandon Copple
Kansan staff writer
Campus police will enter a jurisdictional agreement with the city of Lawrence if the Legislature approves a bill introduced by Attorney General Carla Stovall. The bill also has been recommended by a task force of Board of Regents police chiefs.
The long arm of the University of Kansas police department may be extended.
A House committee discussed the bill yesterday and likely will take action sometime next week.
The agreement would give a KU police officer the power to intervene in off-campus crimes.
Existing law confines KU police's jurisdiction to areas owned by the University
Ralph Oliver, KU director of public safety, said the jurisdictional agreement probably would limit KU police authority
For example, KU police officers frequently transfer large sums of cash from the University comptroller's office to local banks. Olver said.
"We would like to have the power to take immediate law-enforcement action if we see a crime in progress in those areas," Oliver said.
to stopping crimes in progress and patrolling areas close to campus that are heavily populated by students.
Oliver, who served on the task force, said the bill would allow an officer crossing into city jurisdiction to take action.
The proposed legislation grew out of a task force created in 1997 by Stovall. The task force, known as Campus Awareness Makes for Protection and Ultimate Safety or CAMPUS, was created in response to the March 1966 murder of a Pittsburgh
"If there's a bank robbery, an officer ought to be able to act without worrying about jurisdiction problems," he said.
State University student. The victim was murdered in an off-campus apartment.
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The task force decided that University police should not be limited to campus boundaries, said Mary Horsch, attorney general press secretary.
Amendment might protect e-mail privacy
"Students live off campus and on campus," she said. "The police departments needed more cooperation to provide the best protection to those students."
By Aaron Knopf
aknopf@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas employees and students probably have a legal right to e-mail privacy, a KU law professor said yesterday.
Kim Dayton, the speaker at the University Forum weekly lecture series, said that employees of public institutions such as the University are protected against unreasonable searches and seizures by the Fourth Amendment.
"The Supreme Court determined a great many years ago that the interception of electronic communication constitutes a seizure," Dayton said.
The University's proposed e-mail policy respects people's e-mail privacy rights, Dayton said.
The policy explicitly recognizes that it is not inappropriate for KU employees to use email for personal reasons as long as it does not impose extra costs or burdens on the school. Dayton said.
She said that employees also had an expectation that their e-mail, whether personal or job related, was private.
Dayton said that there had not been a case that related directly to e-mail but that it was likely that the courts would protect the right to e-mail privacy.
"If you look at the cases and try to draw the best analogies you can to the situations that the court has dealt with, and if you take into account the fact that the judge's themselves are beginning to use e-mail and understand its implications, they are not going to come up with decisions that say e-mail is not subject to the Fourth Amendment," Dayton said.
She said public institutions such as Wayne State University and the Shawnee Mission School District had instituted policies that claimed the right to examine all electronic communications. Dayton said that if these police were challenged in court, they probably would be found unconstitutional.
She cited the Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down a random drug-testing policy of all state employees in Georgia. Dayton said the Supreme Court had upheld such policies only when there was a compelling public interest.
"To say to employees, 'We can monitor anything you do, no matter what, for whatever reason we want,' really goes beyond what the Supreme Court has ever said a public employer can do with respect to its employees." Dayton said.
Information about KU's proposed policy is listed on the World Wide Web at www.ukans.edu/~tipolicy/committee.html.
Sorority seeks enrollment of new members to lift chapter Numbers well below Panhellenic goals
By Carl Kaminski
ckaminski@kansan.com
Kansan co. writer
Cassie Barnhardt, an educational leadership consultant who has come to the University from the n ation a l organization in Indiana to help with the campaign, said she was excited about the KU chapter's future.
Alpha Xi Delta sorority at the University of Kansas is looking for a few good women.
This week, the chapter has launched a massive public relations recruitment campaign to add about 100 women to its ranks.
"We are in a state where we are going to grow." she said.
RECRUITING
Barnhardt said she expected change, along with the growth. The women who join the sorority will be able to make the
**Who:** Alpha Xi
Delta sorority
**What:** Recruitment
campaign
**Goal:** To recruit
140 members
For more information, contact:
Cassie Barnhardt, educational leadership consultant
phone: 331-4493
e-mail: cassie@alphaxidelta.org
The KU Panhellenic Association encourages sororites to have about 140 members, Barnhartt said.
organization whatever they want it to be, she said.
Since the sorority's reinstatement at the University during 1992, its numbers have fallen more than 100 short of that goal.
"Recruiting just wasn't as successful as it could have been," Barnhardt said. Barnhardt will be in charge of recruiting this semester.
Wes Simons, assistant director of greek programs, said the problems Alpha Xi Delta had with recruiting stemmed from a lack of history at the University. Alpha Xi Delta recolonized at the University in 1992. It had not been at the University since the Depression.
He said that most high school students had an idea of which sororities they would like to join before they came to the University.
"Alpha Xi Delta is not a name they hear out in the community yet." Simons said.
Karen Isley, Syllabus, Ohio, junior, and Panhellenic Association vice president for public relations, said the sorority had been going through some difficult times.
"The most important thing now is where they go from here," she said. "They are so motivated and so excited."
Barnhardt said this kind of recruitment campaign never had been done with an existing sorority chapter. She said campaigns such as this one usually were conducted for new branches.
Amy Heinemann, Alpha Xi Delta president and Newton junior, said, "This is a new idea; it's a pilot program."
By conducting the recruitment campaign, the sorority avoids starting from scratch. Barnhardt said.
Normally, in this kind of situation, the national organization would allow existing members to graduate and then start over by recolonizing. Barnharrd said. Instead, the organization chose to revitalize the sorority behind the leadership of its members. Barnharrd said.
"I in this case, I think we have some really great leaders in the chapter." Simons said.
Barnhardt said she was confident that the campaign would be a success.
"By April, we will have 140 members," Barnhardt said.
Sorority members will be handing out filers and brochures, and manning information tables and tents at several on-campus locations.
Isley said that other sororities were helping the women of Alpha Xi Delta.
When one chapter on campus is having difficulties, the entire greek community is affected, Isley said.
Barnhardt said the process of selecting new members would begin later this month.
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