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Calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 9
What: "Transcendental" Reading and Book Signing
When: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Jayhawk Ink Lounge, KU Bookstore, Kansas Union
About: A reading, book signing and reception with science fiction author James Gunn
Thursday, Oct. 10
**What:** Tamale Road; A Memoir from El Salvador
**When:** 6 to 8:30 p.m.
**Where:** Wescoe Hall, 4012
**About:** A documentary screening with two-time Emmy award winner Marcos McPeek Villatoro
What: Merienda Brown Bag Lecture with Artist Diego Teo
When: 12 to 1 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
About: Public presentation open to English and Spanish speakers with artist-in-residence Diego Teo and lunch
What: Haim concert
When: 8 p.m.
Where: The Granada Theater
About: Concert presented by Student
Union Activities and KJHK
Cost: $7 advance KU student / $10 KU
student at door
Friday, Oct. 11
**What:** Midwest Sarbojonin Durga Puja
2013
**When:** All day
**Where:** Kansas Union, Big 12 Room and
Woodruff Auditorium
**About:** Introduction of the Pratimas for
public viewing, cultural program by Raja
Govindarajan, Viswa Mohan and Amit
Desai
What: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors When: 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Bailey Hall, Room 318
About: Film night and snacks hosted by Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
Saturday, Oct. 12
TECHNOLOGY
What: Wrapped Words
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: Public art project inspired by Leslie Dill's "Thread Man" for the Art Cart series
What: Cosmic Bowling
What: Cosmic Bowling
When: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Where: Jaybowl, Kansas Union
About: Free bowling for KU students presented by Student Union Activities
New app promotes bicycling to campus
mfarber@kansan.com
MADDIE FARBER
As an avid bicyclist, graduate student Jay Decker wanted to help make biking more popular on campus. He created the Racklt App to help bicyclists at the University find places to leave their bikes.
The app, which was finished last week, uses both Google maps and satellite imagery similar to Google Earth to give bicyclists a visual of where bike racks are located on campus. Users can search for bike racks at a specific campus location or building, and "click" on a particular rack to see its capacity. The app is free and currently available to Android phone users.
"I already had the resources to
create the app, and biking has been gaining popularity here. The app creates transparency for bike racks around campus to help people find ones that aren't very eye-catching." Decker said, adding that he hopes this app will help the University become bike-friendly.
Decker, who is in the urban planning master's program, hopes the app will expand beyond campus.
The KU Center for Sustainability has worked closely with Decker and other members of the KU
"Lawrence is a bike-friendly community. Depending on the popularity the app gains, the logical next step would try and coordinate with the city regarding expanding the app. This way it can apply not only to campus riders, but the whole city," Decker said.
Bicycle Advisory Committee to promote biking on and to campus
promote biking on and to campus "Biking is popular through
Biking is popular through many avenues on campus and
"It's free, it's fun and if it's not raining,it's a great option."
JAY DECKER
Racklt app creator
throughout Lawrence" said Kari Cantarero, Outreach Coordinator of the KU Center for Sustainability and head of the KU Bicycle Advisory Committee. "There is a large biking community at KU,
both with the KU Cycling group and with students, faculty and staff who cycle to and around campus. By continuing to develop resources such as this app, we hope to ease the ride for those groups and encourage new riders to join."
Jeremy Chabot, a fifth-year senior from Wichita, is working with Cantarero to create covered bike racks, especially around student housing areas where bikes are exposed to the elements for long periods. Chabot, who is also a bicyclist, recently downloaded the RackIt app.
"After downloading the app, I did discover a few bike racks that I didn't know were there. I was surprised there was a rack by Malott," Chabot said.
So other than promoting a
healthier lifestyle, reducing transportation costs, and being environmentally friendly, why should students take an interest in biking on or around campus?
As Decker explains, "It's free,
it's fun and if it's not raining, it's a
great option."
Tuesday, Oct. 21 is "Bike KU Day" during Campus Sustainability Week. Students can learn more about biking on campus, the Bicycle Advisory Committee and Racklt during the week's events, but for now, those interested can visit bike.ku.edu to learn more about biking on campus and in the Lawrence community. Visit the Google Play store to download the Racklt app.
Edited by Kayla Overbey
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KU Fights Hunger organizes campus food drive
There are 433,260 Kansans who insecure about food. Of those, 18,570 live in Douglas County.
with the hope of feeding some of these struggling citizens, KU Fights Hunger has organized its fifth annual food drive across campus and throughout the Lawrence community.
Thelma Simons, coordinator of KU Fights Hunger, hopes that the food drive and the accompanying events will spread awareness of the hunger crisis in America.
"Engaging, educating and doing some good. That's what we want to do," Simons said. "We want to inform people about events going on and we want to inform them of
the need for donations."
the need for donations."
Simons, who started the KU
Fights Hunger group five years ago, got the idea after making
years of donations to the Salvation
Army when her kids were growing up. What started out as adopting a family for Christmas turned into an effort to fight hunger in the local community.
"One year I started asking what else they need, and they mentioned their food supply was low," said Simons, who works in the computer center on campus for KU Information Technology. "Then we got into the habit where he would email me when their food was low and I would gather donations from my building."
From that point, Simons occasional donation runs grew into a
Though KU Fights Hunger is currently run only by University staff, Simons hopes to get more students involved with the cause.
collaboration with the University that kicked off the first KU Fights Hunger food drive. In the years since, the organization has continued to grow and include more of the University and Lawrence communities.
"This idea continues to grow and develop, and the way it evolves is determined by who's involved," Simons said. "So we would really like to get students involved because they would give us a new perspective."
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The drive will last the entire month of October and will feature events that are aimed to educate people about the hunger situation in America. These events will include an Oct. 17 showing of “A Place at the Table,” a documentary on hunger in America, and hunger advocacy training on Oct. 24. Dry and canned food donations can be made at several locations on campus and across Lawrence. Monetary donations can be made online at justfoodfund.org by selecting KU Fights Hunger, or through the KU Bookstore by adding $1 to your purchase. Donations made through KU
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"If we can get the KU community involved, with 5,000 faculty and staff and 27,000 students, we can make a huge impact on our local community," Simons said.
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