Volume 124 Issue 70
Thursday, December 1, 2011
kansan.com
CAMPUS
Rental cars for students
There will be four new cars parked on campus this spring, and they will be available to whomever wants to borrow them for a few hours.
IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
The Hertz car rental company is bringing its On Demand service to campus beginning in the spring semester. The service provides cars to rent by the hour or day to students, faculty and anyone who signs up for a free membership. The idea is to make cars available to students and faculty who, for whatever reason, don't drive to campus but might need a car temporarily, said Margretta de Vries, a spokeswoman for KU Parking and Transit.
24/7 vehicle access
Hourly and daily rates available
"I could think of all kinds of reasons why renting a new car for a few hours or an evening could be attractive," de Vries said. "Even if you owned a car."
HERTZ ON DEMAND
FREE MEMBERSHIP
Gas and insurance
KU Parking and Transit is contracting with Hertz to keep two of the cars in the parking lot across Jayhawk Boulevard from the Kansas Union, and two others from a lot across from the Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall. Membership is open to anyone 18 years older, with hourly rates between $8 and $10. For about $62, members can rent a car for the day. After signing up for a membership on the Hertz On Demand website, which will be live and linked on the parking and transit website in January, members will receive an electronic card in the mail that unlocks and activates the cars. They can reserve a car online and be alerted by text when it's ready.
The cars will include two Ford Escapes and two Chevy Cruzes, according to Lomore Hecht, manager of communications and social media for Hertz. Hertz already offers this service on more than 50 university campuses in the U.S. and 30 cities around the world. Hetted said. She said that, as with any car rental, members would need to put a debit or credit card down to pay for the rental. But the rental includes insurance and there is no mechanism for Hertz to charge for gas or minor damages. The cars will be maintained, Hecht said, but they are also likely to change hands several times each day.
"We kind of ask our customers to be conscious of that and not smoke in the vehicles or bring pets in the cars," she said. For updates on when the On Demand membership page goes live, de Vries recommends following KU Parking and Transit on Twitter.
For more information, visit:
http://www.parking.ku.edu/
hertzondemand/
180 miles per 24-hour period
Edited by Sarah McCabe
24/7 roadside assistance
GPS, Bluetooth® and iPod connectivity
In-car 24-hour member care
SOURCE: HERTZ,
KU PARKING AND TRANSIT
LATEX LOVIN'
CONDOM ART
Students' projects recognize World AIDS Day
IAN CUMMINGS
icummings@kansan.com
It's hard to know what the men's basketball coaches must have thought if and when they received a photo of art project number 29 at Wednesday's Latexibition.
taeter Nieder, a senior from Lawrence, said she messaged them a photo of the diorama after building it with her teammates as part of their Human Health and Sexuality course's World Aids Day art contest. Allie Townsley, a senior from Wichita, and Bridget Clark, a senior from Garden City, worked with Nieder on the project and said they had received some positive feedback from passersby. Even so, they criticized their own work, which shows condoms decorated by photos of KU basketball players.
"I was going to put Bill Self somewhere," Clark said. "But there wasn't space."
The Latexhibition art contest started at San Francisco State University in 1992 and has been a part of the KU curriculum for years, said Sonya Satinsky, assistant professor of health, sport, and exercise sciences. But it went public for the first time Wednesday in the Awards Foyer of the Robinson Center, Satinsky said, because the students deserved an audience for their work. The idea is to promote a "safer sex" message in honor of the day, which has been on Dec. I every year since 1998, according to the World Aids Day website. Satinsky said she asked students to create art projects out of latex condoms and gloves because these are still the best weapon against HIV infection for those who choose to have sex. But she said people need to be educated in their use.
"It's one thing to use a condom," she said. "It's another to use it correctly."
AIDS is a serious subject, Satinsky said, and students often associate latex projects with "sexually fraught" situations.
"A lot of them will think of it as kind of啼" she said.
So, she encouraged her students to be creative in their projects. One goal of the contest, she said, was to give students a hands-on opportunity to use the latex projects in a comfortable environment.
At the end of 2008, an estimated 1,178,350 people ages 13 and older were living with HIV infection in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That year, at least 17,374 died.
About 80 students participated in the exhibition, and a group of health educators served as judges, casting votes for the best projects. Three winners will be announced by Friday, Satinsky said, including "most educational," "best use of latex," and "overall winner." The projects will continue to be on display for the remainder of the week.
Townsley and Clark said they weren't sure if they would win the contest, but they were proud of their work.
"For school spirit, we're pretty good," Townsley said.
Edited by Sarah McCabe
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A basketball-themed project with the message 'Always Protect Your Head in the Game' was made by Taeler Nieder, a senior from Lawrence, Bridget Clark, a senior from Garden City; and Allie Townsley, a senior from Wichita. The projects were for World AIDS Day as part of a health and human sexuality class and be judged by how well groups used condoms and latex gloves. Projects will be displayed in the awards foyer in the Robinson Center until Friday.
FOOTBALL
Leach taken, Zenger still searching
MIKE VERNON
mvernon@kansan.com
Following their 38-21 loss to Washington on Saturday, Bud Witheres of the Seattle Times reported that Washington State head coach Paul Wulff's time leading the Cougars was likely over.
When the report came out, Turner Gill was less than 24 hours away from being fired. Withers reported that a top candidate of Washington State's athletic director Bill Moos to replace Wulff would be former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, who was also the first name out of most Kansas fans' mouths as a possible replacement.
Three days later, Wulff was out at Washington State, and it only took one day for a replacement to be named.
On Wednesday afternoon,
Bruce Feldman of CBSSports.com
reported that Mike Leach had verbally accepted the head coaching position at Washington State.
While the timing and scenario appeared to be the right fit to bring in Leach, it is clear that either Leach or Kansas thought otherwise.
On the same day Leach was forced to exit the mind and mouths of most Kansas fans, The Kansas City Star first reported and The Kansan confirmed that Athletics Director Sheahon Zenger left Lawrence Wednesday in his next move with the coaching search. And while the media and fans alike speculated that Leach was Kansas' top target, Zenger has never mentioned Leach and there is no concrete information outside of rumor that Kansas ever contacted Leach.
And Witthers frequently pointed to Washington State's Bill Moos as the most likely reason that Leach
"You have the presence of Moos who's a real dynamic athletic director who was at Oregon during its dramatic rise in facilities," Withers said. "He was a guy that brought Phil Knight into the fold as a big donor. He's an old Washington State football player. He's
ended up in Pullman, Washington, instead of Lawrence.
SHEAHON ZENGER
KU Athletics Director
definitely a football minded guy. Very much an athletic director that any football coach, I think, would like to look for."
In his time at Oregon, the athletics department budget grew from $18.5 million in his first year to more than $40 million by 2007. The donor base increased from 4,930 donors to 12,292, resulting in an annual gifts increase from $4.1 million to $15.3 million. He also oversaw $160 million during facility improvements in his 12 years at Oregon, so it makes sense that he could get the money needed to sign Leach at Washington State.
who has contributed approximately $230 million to the University of Oregon. Moos was the athletics director at Oregon for 12 years, from 1995 to 2007.
Witthers was referring to Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike
And he did just that, reportedly giving Leach $11 million dollars over five years. Washington State is also undergoing an $80 million renovation to its stadium.
As for Kansas' first year athletics director, Zenger told the Kansas City Star Wednesday that he was considering six to 10 coaches, but associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said that the number could change at any time. Zenger has not put a timetable on the length of the coaching search and told The Star that the search will end when he finds the right guy for Kansas.
Earlier in the week, Zenger told The Kansan he will not be near sighted in the hunt to find the next football coach at Kansas.
"I like people with strong pedigrees, meaning whether that be a sitting head coach, former head coach or coordinator," Zenger said. "I believe that you have to come from programs that are proven, that have similar histories and demographics to the institution you're at. It's all about fit."
Edited by Jennifer DiDonato
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SUA is showing "Our Idiot Brother" tonight at 8 in Woodruff Auditorium.
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see page 2A.
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