UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 23,1993
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Technology aids security monitors in night check-in at residence halls
Photo illustration by John Gamble / KANSAN
Photo illustration by John Gamble. KANSAN Security monitors in residence halls must now run student's KUID through a machine in order for students to be admitted into their hall. The machines are new to most residence halls this semester.
By Brian James
Kansan staff writer
Templin Hall security desk monitors Ashley Ressler and Cenamon Newton deal with hundreds of residents during a weekend night.
But a little brown box with an attached phone cord assures that they will not have many hassles.
A new security device installed earlier this month in all KU residence halls allows desk monitors to run a student's KUID through a magnetic reader. This device instantly verifies the student's status as a hall resident. The device replaces the former system used by monitors during security hours check-in that included thumbing through a list of hall residents for verification.
The change is welcome, said
Ressler, Newport Beach. Calif.
senior, and Newton, Tulsa, Okla.
junior. They are responsible for
checking in residents who return to
Templein during security hours, 11
p.m. to 7 a.m.
"It was more time-consuming looking them up, and sometimes nobody." Pressler said.
did it?, Ressler said.
b The new magnetic device is the
basis type of reader used in the KU
dining halls, said Fred McElhenee,
c associate director of student housing.
d The device instantly reads the in-
formation and sends it to a central pro-
cessing unit at the student housing
missing unit at the student housing office that returns verification back
to the device.
A red bulb then lights up next to the words "permitted," "denied" or "not valid" after a card has been swiped through the reader.
Nonresidents can enter a residence hall during security hours only with permission of a resident and by leaving an ID at the security desk.
McEllenie said he did not know the exact cost of the security devices or the cost of installation. He said it was
McElhenie said the security box had been used at McColm Hall for three years. The student housing office this summer decided to expand the service for several reasons.
inexpensive because the system already was linked to the dining hall system.
"It is a simpler and quicker process for residents and staff," he said. "But it is also more precise since the rosters always will be up to date."
Registration helps trace stolen bikes
By Scott J. Anderson
A city ordinance requires bicycle owners to register the model and serial number. Registration is 25 cents.
KU police began offering bicycle registration Thursday at Unionfest in front of the Kansas Union.
bicycles this week during the organizations and activities fair in the main lobby of the Union.
Many students use bicycles as their primary mode of transportation on campus, and the KU police department is helping students prevent losing their bicycles to theft.
"Having the serial number available makes a bicycle easier to trace in the event it is stolen," said officer Burdel Welsh, who was registering bicycles Thursday.
In addition to registering bikes.
Welsh also was distributing copies of the laws regarding bicycles.
Jada Drach, Manhattan freshman,
took the opportunity to register her
bicycle, which she said was her only
transportation at KU.
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"I knew I should register my bike, but I didn't know I had to," she said. "I'm glad it is required though, because with so many bicycles on campus I'd like the best chance for it to be recovered if it's ever stolen."
As an added convenience, Student Union Activities also is registering bicycles this year, Welsh said.
"SUA was looking for more ways to serve the students," he said. "And this gave us another location that was open six days a week. A lot of students are in the Union anyway, and we were looking for ways to get where the students are to make it easier to get a license."
Bicycle licenses may be purchased this week at the Kansas Union and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the KU Police Department, 302 Carruth-O'Leary.
Bring the following:
Bicycle serial number — usually located on the bottom of the frame near the pedal and the sprocket, between the handlebars and the front fork, or on the side of the frame near the rear wheel axle.
Brand name of the bicycle. Registration fee of 25 cents. Licenses are valid until December 1994.
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