TUESDAY,AUG.28,2001
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
A.C.: Hall just last in line, Stoner says
"He links our current behavior in the last few years to our not having air conditioning." Roby said of Stoner.
Roby said he didn't think Stephenson would ever get air conditioning.
Stoner said behavioral problems had no effect in the decision of when Stephenson would receive air conditioning. He said when work is done in sequence, one hall goes first and one goes last.
"You put the plan together and someone goes last, but there's no magic associated with that." Stoner said.
S o m e Stephenson residents are not optimistic about the plans.
"A lot of the guys take a pillow and go downstairs and crash in the rec room because it gets too hot. It gets pretty nasty when you wake up in a pool of your own sweat."
Nathan Clark, Topekajunior and Stephenson proctor, said he was
Nathan Clark
Topeka junior and
Stephenson proctor
not sure if the hall would get air conditioning because of the age of the building.
"The primary reason that Stephenson doesn't have air conditioning is it just can't take it." Clark said. "Stephenson is celebrating its 50th year."
Clark said the hall was made to handle the amount of electricity from the 1950s but not for the amount needed now.
He said this year the heat hadn't been a big problem, but some nights rooms were too hot for residents.
"A lot of the guys take a pillow and go downstairs and crash in the rec room because it gets too hot." Clark said. "It gets pretty nasty when you wake up in a pool of your own sweat."
Ethan Fosse, Manhattan junior, tries to keep cool in his room at Stephenson Hall. "The fans help a little, but not much," Fosse said of his efforts to make the room more tolerable.
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Student Senate studies online voting option for spring election
Student body vice president hopes for better voter turnout
By Luke Daley Kansan staff writer
Students could cast their votes online in the Student Senate elections this spring.
Kyle Browning, student body vice president, said the University should have the system established by the Senate election this spring. He said the University of Oklahoma worked with him to develop a way for students at KU to log on and vote from anywhere within about a 48-hour period during Senate elections.
"We're waiting for other schools to get their software together," Browning said. "Once we get the software, we will turn it over to the elections commission."
Browning said that even though online voting had its benefits, he was concerned that students could use their friends' KUIDs to vote.
"Fraud is definitely a concern that we have to be careful of," he said. "I am pretty confident that we can find a good system."
Holly Dunoo, a Chicago freshman, said online voting could increase voter turnout.
"A lot of people would be more likely to do it if it's more convenient for them," Dunoon said.
The University of Iowa has
Going to the virtual polls
What happened: Student Senate is trying to implement an online voting system for next spring's elections.
Contact Clarkson at 864-4810
What it means: Students would be able to vote from my computer with Internet access.
What's next: Senate is waiting on a report from the University of Oklahoma on the online voting system implemented there.
used online voting for two years in its Senate elections.
Dan Rossi, student body vice president at the University of Iowa, said online voting produced instant results.
During the 1999-2000 school year at Iowa — the first year the school offered online voting — Rossi said 2,705 students voted during elections. The next year, 4,198 students participated.
"The voting almost doubled from last year." Rossi said.
Brandon McNeely, a Seaside, Calif., junior, said students might be more willing to vote if it fit into their schedules.
"Getting online might make it easier," McNeely said. "I'd probably do it."
n Contact Daley at 864-4810
Discarded newspapers cause recycling burden on campus
By Luke Daley Kansan staff writer
Some members of Student Senate are scrambling to find a way to make recycling around campus easier.
Amy Cummins, graduate senator and president of the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, said students needed to do their part to recycle the extra newspapers left from the student newspaper readership program.
"Everyone needs to work together to make sure that the program is successful," Cummins said. "Student Senate is committed to recycling."
"Apparently, the Department of Student Housing didn't do what they were supposed to do." Cummins said. "The plan was to have the bins and train the RA's."
One of Delta Force's platform issues was increasing recycling in the residence halls. However, the halls lack enough recycling bins to effectively run the program, Cummins said.
She said the University had to do more to encourage recycling.
Maha Masud, Wichita freshman and Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin resident, said she wasn't sure if students in her residence hall made use of the available recycle bins.
Things that can be recycled around campus
- paper
- plastic
- glass (inselect places)
- aluminum
"I don't really know how much people recycle anyway," Masud said.
Some senators were concerned that the newspaper readership program, which was instituted this fall, would create more trash around campus.
Anna Gregory, Student Senate executive secretary, said they considered the recycling problem that came with the newspapers as early as last semester.
"We knew the new readership program was going to provide a lot more papers than we could handle," Gregory said. "If the readership program is going to work, we're going to have to provide recveling."
Coca-Cola has a contract with the University, obligating it to provide recycling bins around campus. Those bins have not yet
"Apparently, the Department of Student Housing didn't do what they were supposed to do. The plan was to have the bins and train the RA's."
Amy Cummins graduate senior and president of the graduate teaching assistants coalition
been provided.
Cummins said she wanted action taken to bring in the extra bins earlier to avoid pile-up of stray newspapers.
"I think for the leadership program to work, it should have been done last May." Cummins said.
Contact Daley at 864-4810
Federal court rules affirmative action policy unconstitutional
The Associated Press
ATLANTA (A) — A federal appeals court rulec yesterday that a University of Georgia affirmative action policy is unconstitutional because it arbitrarily gave nonwhite applicants a statistical boost.
The three-judge panel of the The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of three white women who were denied admission in 1999.
The appeals court said the policy, which awarded race-based points to borderline students, violated the Constitution's equal-protection clause.
"UGA's policy is not only rigid and incomplete, the benefit it awards each and every nonwhite applicant is wholly, and concededly, arbitrary," the court said. "If a university cannot even articulate a basis for the amount of the numerical bonus it awards nonwhite candidates, then it has no right to award such a bonus."
The university suspended the consideration of race last year while it awaited the court's decision. The school could appeal yesterday's ruling to the full appeals court or to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ninety percent of students at the university were accepted on grades and test scores alone. The policy applied to only the remaining 10 percent, assigning them points on factors ranging from alumni relatives to race, with nonwhite applicants getting a boost.
Lee Parks, an attorney for the women who challenged the practice, cheered the ruling.
"The policy that was in place was functioning as a quota," Parks said. "Under any set of rules that would be unconstitutional."
Similar admissions policies at other schools
have been challenged and the issue may ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which can resolve differences among appeals courts' rulings.
The university's lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment.
The University of Georgia had argued that campus diversity is a compelling state interest and that the policy helps remedy a long history of discrimination. No black students were allowed at Georgia until 1961.
The university has struggled for years to boost black enrollment. Blacks make up about 6 percent of the student body, while the state population is more than one-quarter black. About 13 percent of the student body is nonwhite.
State Rep. DuBose Porter, chairman of House Higher Education Committee, said the university was prepared for such a ruling and has taken other steps to bring more blacks to campus.
"I think the focus UGA is taking is more on recruitment than maintaining the old way of having additional basis points for admissions," he said. "They're looking more at how to recruit graduate students, how to recruit transfer students from two-year colleges and how to recruit minority students as you would any other student."
House Republican Leader Lynn Westmoreland said the court made the correct decision.
"I think it does matter that we have an equal protection clause to the Constitution and I'm glad to hear that the judges upheld that," he said.
The University of Georgia eventually granted admission to the three women who sued in 1999, though only two accepted.
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