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Grad's death lamented by friends, roommates
By Michaelle Burhenn mburhenn@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Casey Knisley could often be found in front of his computer.
"Most of Casey's friends will say when you think of Casey, you picture him in front of the computer either playing a game or programming something," said Michael Wilson, Pittsburg senior.
Knisley, a 23-year-old University of Kansas graduate from Independence, Kan., died early Sunday morning after his car left the roadway and struck a tree and a fence off West 15th Street.
Casey Knisley
Wilson last saw Knisley, his roommate and fellow Theta Chi fraternity member, Saturday night as he was going out with a friend.
"It wasn't unusual for any one of us to show up really late or rather than driving home, spend the night at a friend's house after going out," Wilson said. "When he didn't show up before we went to bed, we weren't worried."
"It was 8 o'clock in the morning, and he wasn't back," said Travis Nordwald, Minnetonka, Minn., senior. "When I saw the police, he didn't even have to tell me. I already knew."
But when another roommate was woken by an early morning knock on the door, he knew something had happened to his friend.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said Knisley was driving eastbound on West 15th Street near Bobwhite Drive when his white 2002 Acura RSX left the roadway. Pattrick said Lawrence police were investigating excessive speeds as the cause of the accident, but nothing at the scene, where Knisley was pronounced dead, indicated that alcohol was a factor.
Wilson, Nordwald and former roommate Brad Siebert, Minnetonka, mn.
Funeral services for Carol "Casey" Knisley will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Independence, Kan. Knisley's family will greet visitors from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Webb & Rodrick Funeral Home in Independence. The family suggests memorials in his name to the Science and Math Scholarship Fund at Independence High School, and they may be sent in care of the funeral home, 306 W. Main St., Independence, Kan. 67301.
senior, began making about 50 phone calls Sunday to Knisley's friends. Knisley's roommates and about 50 other Theta Chi members and alumni gathered in the evening at the fraternity to talk about Knisley and cone with his death, Wilson said.
Wilson said fraternity members planned to establish a scholarship in Knisley's name to be given to a Theta Chi member each year.
With Knisley as a roommate, computer games and Comedy Central were normal entertainment. Wilson said. Knisley's real name, Carol, also often provided jokes for his roommates.
"When we played computer games against each other, my character's name was always Carol just to make fun of him," said Wilson of Knisley, who
SEE KNISLEY ON PAGE 5A
E-buying brings big bucks
By Aaron Passman
apassman@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
Sean Henning is a bicycle peddler.
The Leawood freshman sold bikes at Wheeler's Cycle & Fitness in Kansas City, Mo., for two years. But in summer 2002, Henning worked for himself and sold 13 bikes from garage sales on eBay.com, making $2,800 in the process.
"I just saw that I had a lot of bikes sitting in my basement that could be money in my pocket, and you can't ride 13 bikes at once," Henning said.
For any student with a similar entrepreneurial spirit, eBay and other online auction sites such as uBid and Yahoo! Auctions can be treasure trove
Founded in 1995, eBay now hosts 49.7 million registered users buying, selling and browsing everything from lawn gnomes to BMWs.
Online auction Web sites are used by individual buyers, sellers and small businesses. After registering for free, eBay users can bid in all auctions on the site. Users can also participate in any of the site's chat boards and forums.
Ann Brill, associate professor of journalism teaches a class on online journalism and how the Internet affects society. She said online shopping services such as eBay and Amazon.com had many advantages, including charging no interstate sales tax and providing convenient shopping from home.
"People all over the world are trading on eBay," Brill said. "The old saying 'One man's junk is another man's treasure' is really true on eBay. It's really like a flea market on steroids."
Brill said some people had become so successful by selling on eBay that they quit their jobs to sell on eBay full time.
"It really puts everyone out there as an entrepreneur," Brill said.
Henning, who races mountain bikes, said he bought a road bike off eBay in July.
"I paid about $150 for it, but I was able to acquire a lot of cheap parts for it, and now it's worth $500," Henning said.
SEE EBAY ON PAGE 5A
Sean Henning, Lea-
wood freshmen,
sells bicycles on eBay as a hobby.
He finds the bikes
at garage sales or
second-hand
shops. Henning's
biggest sale was a
Cervello racing
bike that he sold for
$1,500.
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Student employee wages to increase
By Molly Gise mgise@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Student hourly employees who now receive less than $6 per hour will see a fraction of the tuition increase in their pay-checks next month.
The minimum wage for student hourly employees will be raised next semester to $6 per hour. Federal minimum wage is $5.15 per hour.
University officials announced last week that $150,000 of funds raised through this fall's tuition increase would go toward raising student hourly wages.
"We think the on-campus work experience is valuable to students," said Vice Provost Lindy Eakin. "We need to make it affordable for them to take those jobs."
The raise will help student workers like Jen Bedore, Derby freshman.
Bedore helps pay her way through school by working as a desk assistant and security monitor in Templin Hall. She said she had about $16 in her bank account.
The University has 4,801 positions open to students, and 1,056
"When I say I need a job, I mean I really need a job," Bedore said.
SEE RAISES ON PAGE 5A
Molly Bleier, Topeka senior, studies while she works at Wheatwavers, a snack shop in the Kansas Union. She is one of more than 3,000 student hourly employees who may receive a raise next month.
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Fraternities may offer housing swap option
By Todd Happ
trapp@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Todd Repp
If the Interfraternity Council and the Student Housing department can come to an agreement, fraternities may be able to offer their men several housing options.
At the moment, fraternity members living in student housing are unable to move into their chapter houses because they are legally bound to the department of Student Housing.
The Interfraternity Council has proposed a plan to allow fraternity men contracted to live in a residence hall to
get out of their leases when an equal amount of men move into the residence halls from fraternity houses. The proposed plan would be a swap system. For every man that moves into a residence hall from a fraternity, that fraternity can allow a member wanting to move into the house to get out of its student housing contract under the plan.
"In the past, if a fraternity wanted to break a housing contract, the fraternity had to pay out the remainder of the contract," said Andy Knopp, Interfraternity Council president and Manhattan junior. "It will save them approximately $2,200 per man per semester. When you multiply that by 25 men throughout the system, you are looking at$55,000 of money lost."
Ken Stoner, director of Student Housing, said this was just a proposal, and no program was set yet. He said the current deal with the Interfraternity Council was like that of any landlord. Residents cannot end their leases in the middle of the period.
"At the moment they can't do that. Once the year starts, we don't release people from one contract into another housing contract," Stoner said. "What-ever lease they entered into first is the lease they have to honor."
He said that the program was an interesting idea and that the department was waiting on the final proposals from the Interfraternity Council. He said credit could be offered to the fraternities if men moved into student housing but didn't have a counterpart waiting to move into a fraternity. The credit would only last for that academic year.
Details are still being discussed, Knopp said. If men from one chapter move into student housing and no one is waiting to move into that chapter, the Interfraternity Council does not yet know how it will divide up the credits between the other fraternities.
"A lot of Greek leaders have been pushing for a seamless transition where any student can move out of a residence hall into a fraternity with no penalty," Knopp said.
— Edited by Ryan Malashock and Jessica Hood
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