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The University Daily Kansan
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Friday, November 17, 2000
Sports: The basketball team will compete in its regular season home opener today against North Dakota.
SEE PAGE 1B
Inside: A program attempts to make prospective minority students feel more comfortable at the University.
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(UPS 630-640) • VOL. 111 NO. 58 For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansan.com
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Basketball game to create detours
Bv Rob Pazell
By Rob Pazell
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The first men's regular season home basketball game tonight will mean heavy traffic before and after the game.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said that traffic would flow normally before the game and that officers would be on hand to help pedestrians cross the streets.
"People need to plan ahead and come early to avoid pregame congestion." Mailen said.
Don Kearns, director of parking, said that lot 90, south of Robinson Center and east of Allen Fieldhouse, would be open to everyone for $6 a car. The Irving Hill Road parking garage, lot 54 east of Green Hall and lot 72 east of the Burge Union are reserved for Williams Foundation Contributors only.
The Oliver Residence Hall parking lot is reserved for residents with Oliver Hall passes. Kearns said that on cold nights in the past, students with yellow permits had driven from the Daisy Hill residence halls and tried to park at Oliver.
Although others are restricted from parking in the Oliver lot, students from the residence hall still have trouble getting into the lot, especially directly after the game.
Jeremy Clarkson, Toronto, Ontario junior,
said he had a tough time getting into his hall
after games because of the way traffic was directed.
"It makes me mad because I have to take detours all around campus," Clarkson said. "I'd want to take a right or a left somewhere, and it's blocked off."
After the game, Naismith Drive will be closed from 18th street to Shwegler Drive. Traffic from the Robinson Center lot will be directed north on Naismith from the Shwegler Drive exit and south on Naismith from the 18th Street exit.
Mailen said barricades would be set up to indicate the flow of traffic.
Traffic from 15th Street and Irving Hill Road will flow two lanes westbound only to Iowa Street, and cars coming south from the Robinson lot will flow two lanes southbound only on Naismith Drive to 19th Street.
Malien said people living in Jayhawker Towers, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the Pi Beta Phi Sorority might have trouble getting into their lots during the traffic jam. He urged those students to plan ahead.
"It becomes a headache for people at the Towers and other places in the area," Malen said. "They may have to park somewhere else until traffic is diminished."
Mailen said traffic after the game would be congested for about 15 to 30 minutes.
Traffic flow after basketball games
- Edited by Kathryn Moore
The arrows show how traffic will be directed after the Kansas men's basketball game tonight. It will cost $6 to park in lot 90. Lots 72, 54 and the Irving Hill Road parking garage are for Williams Foundation members only. Lot 112 is open only to Oliver Hall residents.
Jason Elliott / KANSAN
KU may get $3 M for meeting its goals
By Jason Kraill
By Jason Krall
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas could beef up its budget by $3 million by 2003 through a new Kansas Board of Regents program that would award funds based on progress toward Regents goals.
At a meeting in Goodland this week, the Regents hammered out four areas for the 37 universities, community colleges and technical schools it governs on which to evaluate themselves: teaching and learning, research, service and institutional management. By July, the universities will collect information about improvements in those areas. Each school that reports progress satisfying the Regents will be awarded a 2 percent increase in its budget.
For the University, that means about $3 million.
KU will be responsible for coming up with its own goals and measures of progress within the categories, said Ben Walker. student body president.
"KU will have to come up with indicators to see how we're progressing in specific areas." Walker said.
In March, the Regents will approve each school's plan for evaluating performance. By May, they'll accept outlines of planned improvements. Each university, community college or technical school will prepare reports on their progress next summer to become eligible for the funding boost in fiscal year 2003.
Provost David Shulenburger said he planned to meet with deans, department chairs and other administrators to determine the University's performance indicators. They'll be based on the
What's happening: The Kansas Board of Regents has chosen areas on which to evaluate its institutions. Schools that meet the Regents' standards are eligible for a budget increase.
What it means: If KU meets the standards, it could receive a 2 percent budget boost, which would be about $3 million. by 2003.
What's next: KU administrators will form a system for tracking progress to show that they have met the standards for teaching, research, service and institutional management.
University's strategic plan, which calls for service learning, undergraduate research and international experiences, he said.
This program gives rewards for improving the quality of programs, Shulenburger said.
Under the bill, the Regents will not reduce funding if universities do not meet their goals, Shulenburger said. University Council, Faculty Council and other University governance groups will be involved in the process, he said.
The Regents program will be funded with Kansas Senate Bill 345, passed in May 1999, which redefined the Regents' jurisdiction to include community colleges and reserved funds in the state budget to provide incentives for performance and increase faculty pay.
"There could be a lot of money riding on this," Shulenburger said.
"This gives us an opportunity to move away from numeric goals," he said.
Christening bejeweled boats
Joanne Abbas, Iowa City, Iowa, junior, puts her boat and jewelry into Potter Lake as a part of a balance critique in Matt Mattson's advanced metals class. Floating the jewelry on water helps determine if it is balanced and would be comfortable to wear. Photo by Matt J.
Daugherty/KANSAN
Senate can't tackle tuition without help from students
By Kursten Phelps
writer @kansan.com
Kansan's writer
Students can't control how much they pay in tuition, but Student Body President Ben Walker wants to change that.
Walker is the principal representative of students when it comes to lobbying at the Board of Regents and state Legislature, and he said the system needed to be updated. Currently, a few student body presidents are members of the Regents budgetary development committee, which approves tuition increases, he said.
"The current system has a mechanism for student input, but it's not a very good one," Walker said. "We are members of the committee, but if the Regents want to increase tuition, we really won't be able to have any influence."
Walker said the tuition increases approved last year proved that more student input was needed in the tuition debate.
"Students were basically ignored," Walker said. "We were basically shut out of the process and not even informed of a tuition increase of pretty dramatic proportions. There was not enough talk about it. It indicates that student opinion is given virtually no weight in this system."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway, however, said students did have an impact on the Legislature's tuition decisions
"Students have a certain credibility with Legislature," Hemenway said. "The Legislature knows students want to have a good education. I've felt that students have supported the University to a considerable extent when the University can show it's proposing to do something that will make for a better education and a better experience for students at KU."
Walker said he hoped to use students' lobbying power to persuade the Legislature this winter to address a series of tuition legislation that he called the Tuition Bill of Rights.
The proposed package of laws would reduce the Board of Regents control on tuition decisions, he said, and give students more protection against tuition hikes.
One bill to link need-based financial aid increases to tuition hikes failed in the Kansas House of Representatives last session by a close vote, and Walker said he thought the bill had a good chance of passing in the upcoming session.
"Students can have a whole lot of impact if they go up and lobby." Walker said. "There's only so much I can say. I can't give personal stories about how many jobs they're working and the difficulties they have paying for school. I can stand up there and say tuition increases are pricing people out of higher education until I'm blue in the face, but if we don't have other students there proving the point from an individual level, we're not going to have any success."
Hemenway said he considered Student Senate to be an integral part of the tuition discussion.
"I think if you have a good system of shared governance, which we do, students are always going to have a part in the dialogue." Hemenway said. "I would see student involvement."
Allison Deutch, KU graduate, is one of two "hotdoggers" who visited campus yesterday driving the Oscar Mayer
Wienermobile.
Deutch said her job was exciting because no matter where she went,
people always smiled and waved as she passed them in the Weinermobile.
Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
— Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
Weinermobile provokes diverse responses
By Meghan Bainum
writer@kansas.com
Kansas staff writer
What's 11-feet high, 8-feet wide, 21-feet long and makes college students trip on their own feet?
The famous hot-dog shaped vehicle visited campus yesterday, turning heads and offering interested students a chance to apply to be Wienermobile drivers.
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, of course.
Allison Deutch, a 2000 KU graduate and the first "hotdogger" from the University, drove the 2000-model mobile hot dog to campus yesterday.
Deutsch was one of 12 college graduates out of about 1,000 applicants chosen to drive one of several
Wienermobiles.
"I was in a new state with a new group of friends starting a unique job," she said. "I've definitely gained confidence and independence."
The job began on June 1 — about one week after graduation. Deutch said the transition was slightly shocking.
She said her job started out at a place called Hot Dog High where she and other new recruits learned the ways of the Wiener.
After training, Deutch and her partner, Michael Shuck, a graduate from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., hit the road.
Deutsch and Shuck have driven the 7-ton Wienermobile from the northern part of Michigan to southern Florida. After their brief KU visit,
HOT DOG FILLED SUMMER
Interested in becoming a "hotdogger?" Send resume to:
Hotdogger Adviser
The Wienermobile Department
Oscar Mayer Foods
PO Box 7188
Madison, WI 53707
Or visit the Oscar Mayer Web site at
www.oscarmayer.com
they were off to Los Angeles. Shuck said the only vacation they would have would be for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Despite the long traveling hours, Deutch said she had fun.
"It never gets boring because we get so many great reactions," she said. "Every single day people come up to us and say, 'I've never seen
this before — can I touch it?""
Shuck said they fielded many questions when they were in the car.
"We have people who ask us if it flies or if it's a boat," he said. "And they're serious."
Though the hot dog does not fly, it does feature a CD player, 27-inch television, and six comfortable seats.
Travis Franke, Topeka junior,
approached the hot dog with a smile
on his face to get one of the popular
"wiener whistles."
After obtaining the whistle, he stood and looked at the huge meat vehicle with a peculiar expression on his face.
"I really want a hot dog." Franke said.
Edited by J. R. Mendoza