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The Weekly Weather Forecast
TUESDAY
HI: 77
LO: 50
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014
Partly cloudy. Highs in the high 70s and lows in the low 50s.
Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid-70s and lows in the high 50s.
WEDNESDAY
HI: 75
LO: 59
THURSDAY
HI: 75
LO: 50
Showers. Highs in the mid-70s and
lows in the low 50s.
FRIDAY
HI: 62
LO: 44
mostly cloudy, Highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s.
Calendar
Monday, Oct. 6
What: Auditions for "Mary Poppins"
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Theatre Lawrence
About: Singing and dancing roles available. Auditions will also be held on Tuesday.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
What: Flu Vaccine Clinic
When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Strong Hall
About: Student Health Services offers seasonal flu shots for $30 and nasal mists for $40.
What: Film Panel Discussion When: 7-9 p.m.
Where: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
About: A discussion about American Winter, a documentary feature film of the aftermath of the Great Depression.
Wednesday, Oct. 8
What: UGRA Information Session When: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Where: English Room, Kansas Union About: Student poetry, fiction and nonfiction will be featured in the reading series.
What: Undergraduate Reading Series When: 7-8.15 p.m.
Where: Noon to 1 p.m.
About: Learn details about Under-
graduate Research Awards which
provide $1,000 for students to complete
faculty-mentored research.
Thursday, Oct. 9
What: Cafe Castellano
When: 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Henry's Coffee Shop
About: New, experienced and native Spanish speakers can engage in conversation.
What: The Midtown Men
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: A production that celebrates music of the 60s.
IT tour explores Internet on campus
RILEY MORTENSEN
@RileyMortensen
Across the street from the Dole Center and next to the school's tennis courts sits the Price Computing Facility, the campus' home to the IT equipment that powers programs and technologies including Internet, email, Blackboard, and Enroll Pay. Jeff Perry, KU's former IT manager, gave the Kansan one of his last tours after more than a decade of working at KU.
IT SERVERS:
- Electricity monitored every 12 seconds in the server room
- Nearly 1,300 servers
- 30,000-40,000 handwritten labels for individual wires
- About 85 racks of servers in the Price Computing Building
- About 20 racks of servers in annex of Ellsworth
- When standing in the server room you are about 15 feet below ground
- It takes 200 tons of air conditioning to cool the server room,enough to cool eight to 10 full-sized homes in Lawrence
- It only takes 10 minutes for the room to become unbearable hot if one air conditioner shuts down
KU DEVELOPMENT PAST AND PRESENT:
YOU'VE GOT MAIL:
- Blackboard and other programs most commonly fixed from 4-7 a.m.
- KU was one of 10 founding universities to help develop Internet2,a partnership project with other universities and the government to design new web applications and technologies
- The University is commonly asked why it doesn't outsource its 60,000 to 70,000 email boxes, but price comparison shows just how much they save by doing things themselves. The University pays $1.01 per email box to host them in-house compared to $5.00 per student if they were outsourced to Google.
- IT keeps three copies of all emails campus-wide for cases of disaster recovery
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
CAMPUS INTERNET
CONNECTION:
- There are a few 20-gigabit connections on campus
- 1,000 megabytes equals 1 gigabyte
- There are 2,500-3,000 Internet access points on
- 10-gigabit connections run through campus — 10 times stronger than Google Fiber's
The Data Center for KU IT is housed in the Price Computing Facility on Sunnyside Avenue. The equipment powers all campus technologies.
CALL IN BACKUP:
- UPS battery system designed to power the entire Price Computing Facility for about 12 minutes in power-outage
- Generators on campus have 5,000+ gallons of fuel in them as backup
ENERGY EFFICIENCY:
- 15 minutes: Time the furnace in Price has been on since it was built in the 1970s. The building runs on the heat created by the servers — 14 minutes spent repairing it, one unknown minute
Edited by Ashley Peralta
PROTEST FROM PAGE 1
also banks and finance [institutions]," Kennedy said.
Though the protests have been peaceful in nature, counter-protesters who have clashed with the original group may have been motivated by the negative economic impact of the protests.
"You have two sides coming out," Kennedy said. "One says they were paid thugs from the central government. However, another point of view suggests that they were saying 'We can't get to work, we can't pay our rent, you need to clear these streets.'"
Pro-democracy supporters like Wendy Yung, a 2013 KU graduate, stand by the protest, nonetheless.
"Because of the protests, the economy is not as well as before, but that's the tradeoff of it though." Yung said. "You cannot have everything at the same time."
Though no timeline has been set for a resolution, protesters and the Hong Kong government have begun to talk of negotiations.
"I think it's a good sign that they're going to start talking," Leung said. "We're making progress. I don't know how long it's going to be, it will be a while."
That could be one way of dealing with protests, to let it fizzle out," Kennedy said. "We've seen that in mainland China, we've seen that in European countries, we've seen it in the US. It's possible the Chinese government's doing that."
As for what happens in the meantime, Kennedy said letting the protests lose momentum naturally was possibly the Chinese government's plan.
Kennedy said compromise may be possible and the full suppression of the protest was not likely.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
In the article titled "Kansas Quidditch to host tournament Saturday" in Thursday's issue, the physical description and background information given to senior beater Samy Mousa was incorrect.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS
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David Auburn
7:30 p.m., October 3,4,7,8,9,2014 2:30 p.m., October 5,2014 William Inge Memorial Theatre Proof is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
General admission tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices. University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS;
and online at www.KUtheatre.com.
Tickets are $15 for adults,
$14 for senior citizens
and KU faculty and staff,
and $10 for children. KU
Student tickets are $10 in advance,
$15 at the door.
All major credit cards are accepted. The University
Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate
Activity Fee. The University
Theatre's 2014-15 season
is sponsored by Truity
Credit Union.
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