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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
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Daisy Hill halls to open year-round from 2015-16
JAMES LAMB
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The 10 extra days residence and scholarship halls will be open next semester for free are:
Thanksgiving: 4 extra days
Spring: 6 extra days.
For the 2015-16 academic year and into the future, KU Student Housing is planning to provide greater options for student accommodation over breaks, such as opening up Daisy Hill year-round for students who choose to stay there.
Daisy Hill residence halls and Oliver Hall will be open 33 extra days for a cost. Oliver will be open over winter break for students in scholarship halls.
"Traditionally, we have had all residence halls and scholarship halls close over breaks, with the exception of McCollum," said Jennifer Wamelink, the associate director for residence life at KU Student Housing, "Next year, all residence halls and all scholarship halls will remain open over Thanksgiving Break and Spring Break. They will not close. Students will not need to sign up [to stay], they won't need to pay extra, it will just be included in the contract."
Wamelink also said the Daisy Hill residence halls and Oliver Hall on Naismith Drive will remain open for Winter Break as well, giving students an option to remain on campus over the holiday season.
Wamelink said students will be able to stay over Winter Break at an additional charge. She said since scholarship halls, GSP and Corbin close over the break, students in those communities can choose to move into Oliver Hall since it has rooms that aren't occupied, similar to McCollum.
These changes are driven by two factors. The first is the closing of
McCollum Hall at the end of the current academic year, where students can currently stay over breaks. The second is the expected increase in international undergraduates, many of whom live in residence halls and may not have elsewhere to go during these breaks.
JUSTIN HEATON McCollum RA
"Breaks are a time to spend with family and go home and take a break from school."
"In particular, there's a new program called the KU Academic Accelerator Program," Wamelink said. "It's a new program for international students, and we're expecting that our international student undergraduate [population] will dramatically increase over the next two years."
However, in order for these changes to be effective, some residence assistants in the residence halls may need to sacrifice their own breaks so the halls remain staffed.
opportunity for RAs to preference which breaks they would want to work, but RAs would be working over Thanksgiving Break, Spring Break and Winter Break," Wamelink said. "Not all of them at one time, but some staff members would be working over [those breaks]. It would probably not be an option to work none of the breaks."
"There would be an
Currently, working breaks is optional for RAs. Justin Heaton, a senior from St. Louis and a current McCollum RA, said he sees the change to making working breaks mandatory as unfair.
"Breaks are a time to spend with family and go home and take a break from school," he said. "I don't think it's in our job description to have to work breaks like that. There's going to be an issue too with divvying it up fairly because some RAs are going to be having to work on the holiday."
Edited by Lyndsey Havens
CONWAY SPRINGS — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook parts of Kansas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, the largest since a series of temblors began rattling Kansas a little more than a year ago.
Earthquake shakes parts of Kansas, Oklahoma
The quake's epicenter was near the town of Conway Springs, about 25 miles south-west of Wichita, according to the U.S. Geological Survey said. It came at 3:40 p.m., less than a day after a magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded near the southern Kansas town of Anthony.
"It was a little spooky," Van Allen said.
Kansas Emergency Management spokeswoman Sharon Watson said the only reported damage was from an uprooted tree that cracked a home's foundation. No damage was reported in Oklahoma, said Keli Cain, a spokeswoman at the state's Department of Emergency Services.
walls and ground began shaking. It was earthquake he can recall feeling.
Just 15 miles from the epicenter, farmer Scott Van Allen was taking a break with a friend while remodeling his garage in Clearwater when the
Kansas began experiencing an upsurge in earthquakes starting in fall 2013. So far in 2014, the state has experienced more than 90 earthquakes, with the smallest registering only on monitors, said Interim Kansas Geological Survey director Rex Buchanan.
In Oklahoma, Andrea Hutchison was in a state Senate committee room at the Capitol discussing property rights issues with lawmakers and others. "I felt the earth move," Hutchison, of Canton, Oklahoma, said.
Studies have shown earthquakes can be caused when fluid, which is byproduct of various methods of oil and gas production, is injected into disposal wells. But a panel commissioned by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback found there wasn't enough evidence to link the Kansas quakes to oil and gas exploration.
Associated Press
Irving Hill Road bridge construction delayed
traffic on the bridge for buses. The road will be open to all vehicle traffic; however, the changes were made specifically to maintain bus routes.
The University received approval from KDOT on Tuesday, Young said. The next steps for the project include finalizing updates to the construction drawings, followed by request bids from the Universities on-call contractors.
Construction to improve the railings and sidewalks on the bridge was scheduled to begin this month, but a delay in receiving approval from the Kansas Department of Transportation has set the project back. Young said.
Construction on Irving Hill Road Bridge will likely be delayed until late January or early February, said Gavin Young, assistant director of strategic communications for the University.
Issues with KDOT arose after a change to support two-way
The planned construction is still scheduled to take between eight to 12 weeks to complete, Young said.
— Riley Mortenson
The person with quite possibly the coolest title in the country is speaking tonight at 7 p.m. in The Commons. Emily Graslie, who works at the Chicago Field Museum as their Chief Curiosity Correspondent, is the host of the popular YouTube
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