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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014
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CarShare program provides convenience
ALANA FLINN
@Alana Flinn
A new University of Kansas program this semester is the Enterprise CarShare, which allows students and faculty to rent cars for hours at a time. Students and faculty must sign up with Enterprise for an annual membership price of $35 to be able to use the service.
The goal of the program is to provide a low cost and convenient way for students and faculty to do things like run errands or go to appointments for a couple of hours without having to worry about parking, walking or using the bus system. Jennifer Gaskill, intern for Enterprise Rent-A-Car Division, said the CarShare program offers numerous advantages.
"It's beneficial because it offers peace of mind knowing
you don't have a car out in the parking lot, don't have a place to park, have to pay a huge amount to park or have your car hit," Gaskill said. "It takes away the liability if you have a car here."
international students, we accept international drivers licenses. And freshmen don't have to rely on a bus, friends or anything else for a ride."
JENIFIER GASKILL
Intern for Enterprise
Rent-A-Car Division
While the CarShare program is new to campus, it has been launched at more than 100 other Universities with great success.
There are currently two cars
available to rent, a Ford Focus and a Jeep Patriot. To reserve the cars, renters must be 18 or older, have a valid drivers license and must be students or faculty members of the University.
Gaskill said the program will add more cars to be rented once demand shows it's necessary. Their goal is to reach 120 memberships, or 60 memberships per car, and the program will add another car from there.
"The program is so new, and we're starting from scratch," Gaskill said. "We haven't gotten to the point of needing another [car] yet, but we're approaching that threshold. Once we get enough members or observe need for the cars, we'll get a new car."
Gaskill said the program is especially popular among international students and
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and Telecommunication Technology Center. Netflix is currently paying Verizon and Comcast to ensure that its video content reaches customers at unhindered speeds, Peters said. However, Netflix and other content providers publically have said they hope the FCC prohibits this practice in the future.
KU Libraries also opposes a two-tier system, said Scott Hanrath, assistant dean of information technology and discovery services.
The University has been on the forefront of the "open access" movement, which is based on the idea that all research and information that KU libraries provides to students and faculty from databases and other sources should be easily accessible to
all, Hanrath said.
"If our resources are put on the 'slow lane' then we aren't providing that open access," Hanrath said. "We can do our part to make these resources freely available on the Internet, but if all of a sudden those aren't being delivered on the 'fast lane', it wouldn't be enough to just provide access to the information available."
"Common carrier is an old idea," Peters said. "Basically it means that a company that is hired to deliver a message shouldn't interfere with the message in any way."
To avoid this hindrance of information delivery to consumers, Obama is calling for the FCC to re-classify the Internet as a common carrier and to regulate it as a utility.
ones sending a message and the consumers of the Internet are the ones waiting for the message to arrive. Under the idea of a common carrier, a two-tier system would be illegal because it would directly impact the delivery speeds of some customers' contents.
Peters said big Internet providers are the message carriers in this scenario. Content providers are the
Not only would this hurt the consumers' ability to freely access all information and media available from content providers, this two-tier system would also hurt entrepreneurs who want to start up a new website, Peters said.
"The startups and entrepreneurs are the people who are not going to be able to afford the fast lane," Peters said. "The fear is this would choke off innovation at its source by preventing companies from getting on the fast lane."
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a ride."
CarShare Locations
Damage and liabilities, as well as gas, are covered in the renting rate. Either car can be rented for eight to 10 dollars hourly.
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freshmen.
"For international students, we accept international drivers licenses," Gaskill said. "And freshmen don't have to rely on a bus, friends or anything else for
Panelist Ryan RedCorn, KU graduate and past president of FNSA, is part of a comedy group, the
"There needs to be an increase, an urgency to recruiting Native American students and faculty to the University", Harding said.
is a lack of representation at the faculty and administrative level. Harding said a strategic recruitment plan would greatly benefit the University.
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"We're really trying to get a lay of the land," Thomas said. "We have to do better."
About 50 people attended the panel discussion at the Kansas Union on Friday afternoon. Panelists were RedCorn, Harding, Moses Brings Plenty, Dan McCarthy and Shelley Bointy.
Thomas, who was in attendance, said the University's efforts need to be intentional versus informal.
Brings Plenty, cultural outreach liaison for the Kansas City Indian Center, said if students want change, nothing is automatic, and they have to be positive and vocal.
"If you want change, it's you, it's you the people," Brings Plenty said. "If everyone got together and went to these administrative offices, what are they going to do? They can turn away 10, but can they turn away 50 or 100?"
1491's, which was recently featured on the Daily Show. RedCorn said there is a lack of institutional support for Native Americans at the University.
Harding said there needs to be programs for specific cultural groups, as opposed to programs that lump people of color together. Harding said there are only two institutional entities uniquely for Native Americans: FNSA, which is student run, and the Haskell Bridge Program. The Bridge Program facilitates Haskell students' transition to 4-year universities to study biomedical sciences.
"The things that are supposed to be there to remediate issues are not," RedCorn said.
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