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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
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Where's My Bus app joins KU mobile plaza
RILEY MORTENSEN
@RilevMortensen
The wait is finally over. The Department of Parking and Transit has teamed up with an outside company to develop and release KU's first GPS bustracking app.
WHAT: Where's My Bus is a free app that allows users to view all routes going to and from the University with departure times from each stop calculated down to the minute, with a few easy steps:
1. Pick your city: Lawrence.
2. Pick your bus, for example Route 43, which goes to and from Daisy Hill and campus.
3. Pick your stop, for example Snow Hall. 4. The app will list departure times for the next bus and all buses after that until the end of the day.
WHEN: Parking and Transit web designer Margretta de
Vries said the department first heard about the app being live online on August 18.
COST: Free.
- You can also call the Department of Parking and Transit, use the transit guide, look at the department website or Google maps to find information about bus routes and times.
— It's best to be at your stop five minutes before the bus
WHERE: It can be found online in the app store or on KU's mobile plaza at mobileplaza.ku.edu. The mobile plaza features a link to all other University mobile apps and University websites. The mobile plaza was officially launched in 2012 and started with four apps, and it has since grown to 19 apps with mobile website links for easy download.
Tips from Margretta de Vries:
arrives, just to be safe. Many people think the times given on the app are arrival times, but they're actually departure times.
— The app gives estimated times. When it's sending the information, it takes time for the information to get from the GPS to a satellite, to a system and translate the location and send it back to you.
Tips from Davis Day, Director of IT external affairs:
Students can use the maps view or the list view to see all the stops every bus makes in case they are riding a bus that is unfamiliar or they need to get to somewhere new.
- This app makes it easy to wait inside buildings during inclimate weather and still get to the bus on time.
Edited by Ashley Peralta
GRAY-LITTLE FROM PAGE 1
"When you get to procedures and implementation [the University] decides what that means, how it's going to be carried out, who's going to be involved in it," Gray-Little said. "It gives each university the opportunity to tailor it to the values of the campus."
"I'm looking for recommendations from this group about things we might do or should be doing."
BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE Chancellor
Gray-Little said she trusts the University Senate procedure to address faculty concerns about when the policy will be applied.
"I think that that group will work in a way to address the question of academic freedom and free speech and to do all that it can to make sure that those privileges are not infringed upon through the implementation of the social media policy," she said.
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Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said she is excited to see what recommendations the task force has to update the current sexual assault policies.
KU Endowment's record level of donations will help
Budget
This fiscal year the University will work with the Kansas Board of Regents and the state to secure funding for a Drug and Vaccine Center and a set of new science buildings that would replace Malott Hall.
contribute to building new science teaching and research labs.
These facilities will help expand and improve scientific research, as well as attract faculty to the University.
"It's both to have quality space for what we are already doing and to expand into those additional areas," Gray-Little said.
Edited by Emily Brown
Students not immune to license plate theft
DEREK SKILLETT
@DerekSkilllett
Carley Trentman, a senior from Garden City, woke up two weeks ago to discover her license plate was missing.
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"We live in a college town," Trentman said. "I was surprised, but at the same time I wasn't incredibly surprised because in college towns stupid stuff happens like this, even if it's safe."
Lawrence is not immune to license plate thievery, and events like these have affected many University students, said Sgt. Trent McKinley of the Lawrence Police Department.
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However, there are a couple of different reasons why people would steal license plates.
McKinley said license plates are continuously being stolen, but it also isn't a recent trend.
License plates have been stolen from cars parked in the area by Memorial Stadium. If your license plate gets taken, you must pay $3 to get a replacement plate from the Douglas County Treasury.
"After I found out my license plate was stolen, I Googled
a bunch of stuff about why people would steal license plates and Google came up with options such as people can use it on stolen vehicles so that they can do crimes without being tracked. I think that's what would have happened to my plate," said Sonny Tallavajhala, a senior from Overland Park.
"I was there to take my MCAT. I got out of my hotel, walked over to my car and noticed that my door was unlocked and a bunch of stuff was stolen," Tallavajhala said.
Tallavajhala said his license plate was stolen in Kansas City.
As he went to a gas station to get change to pay for parking, Tallavajhala discovered his license plate was stolen.
Trentman's story was a little different. When she woke up to head to class, she found out her plate was stolen. Despite this discovery, she still went to her daily
classes. After filing a police report, Trentman went to the Douglas County Treasury to pick up a replacement license plate. She still has not gotten her original plate back.
According to the Douglas County Treasury Department, there is a $3 charge to acquire a replacement license plate. Anyone getting a replacement license plate must go to the treasury department office and get the plate in person.
McKinley said people who steal license plates will receive a misdemeanor charge, meaning they will have to pay less than a $1,000 fine and possibly serve a prison sentence based on the value of the items stolen.
McKinley said some license plates do not get recovered. He added that if a person's stolen license plate is seen on another car, the police should be called immediately.
Edited by Drew Parks
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