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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
WWW.KANSAN.COM
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 24
TECHNOLOGY
Students to log on in residence hall lobbies
BY HALEY JONES hjones@kansan.com
Soon Internet users in residence halls will have a little more freedom to move around. Information Services plans to install wireless Internet access points in the main lobbies and some common areas of all residence halls by Oct. 31.
"My assumption is students would love to have it in all places," said Diana Robertson, director of the Department of Student Housing. "Our intent is to work to that goal." The addition of wireless access points to residence hall lobbies is the first of three phases of Information Services' plan to provide wireless Internet access in all residence halls, Robertson said. At the request of the donor, Carl C. Krehbiel, the Floyd H. and Kathryn Krehbiel Scholarship Hall will have wireless Internet installed as well.
wireless on campus
Robertson said Information Services was working to get estimates for the cost of phase two, which would provide wireless coverage in all scholarship halls, residence hall floor lobbies and conference rooms. If approved, the third and final phase would add enough access points to give all individual rooms in the residence halls wireless Internet access, Robertson said. She said Information Services and the Department of Student Housing didn't know how much installing wireless would cost or how it would be funded.
These areas are scheduled to have wireless Internet access by Oct. 31. Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for Information Services, said no specific plans had been made for expanding coverage beyond these areas.
McColum Hall: Second floor toppy area
Ellsworth Hall: Third floor lobby area
Robertson said most scholarship
Hashing Hall: Fourth, sixth and eight floor lobby areas.
Templin Hall: Second, fourth and sixth floor lobby areas
Lewis Hall: Second floor common area and conference rooms 224 and 228
GSP-Corbin Hall: Lobby area Oliver Hall: Living room
halls needed structural and rewiring improvements to support wireless Internet.
She said security had been her main concern in developing a wireless network in the residence halls.
"What I didn't want was to set up a system that wasn't secure," Robertson said. "Because if you're in the building, online, you assume your access is good."
Photo illustration by Chance Dibben/KANSAN
Information Services plans to install wireless Internet access in many parts of the residence halls by Oct. 31. It is the first of three phases to provide wireless internet access in all residence halls.
Bill Myers, director of assessment and funding the wireless improvements to outreach for Information Services, said the residence halls would be a challenge.
SEE TECHNOLOGY ON PAGE 3A
ELECTION
Student leaders talk about voter registration
The National College Conference for Political Engagement was held this past weekend at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Five students from the University and Barbara Ballard, associate director for outreach at the Dole Institute of Politics, attended the conference. Students from 43 different universities attended the conference.
FULL STORY PAGE 6A
EDUCATION
Athletes meet'true measure of success'
The Athletics Department released its Graduation Success Rate data on Monday. Seventy percent of athletes who enrolled at the University of Kansas from 1998 to 2001 graduated. Two sports teams, women's golf and volleyball, graduated 100 percent of their athletes, but women's basketball graduated only 42 percent.
FULL STORY PAGE 8A
A NASA administrator spoke Monday about the necessity for changing policies related to climate change. He said that carbon dioxide emissions were a main part of the problem and suggested world energy producers wean themselves off of fossil fuels.
MEMORIAL
Speaker discusses climate change
Curt and Christie Brungardt, parents of Jana Mackey, recall Jana's influence on their life. A vigil was held for Mackey Monday evening at the Kansas Union. Professors and friends of Mackev's also attended the vigil and spoke of their memorable moments with her. Mackey was a second year KU law student who was murdered in July
Family and friends remember Jana Mackey
FULL STORY PAGE 3A
ENVIRONMENT
Jerry Wang/XANSAN
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
Friends, classmates and family members of Jana Mackey, a law student who was murdered last July, fought tears and shared laughs last night at a memorial service.
The mournful circumstance was mixed with joy as people remembered Mackey's life. Speakers sprinkled their speeches with light humor, recalling Mackey's playful and light-hearted temperament and sharing stories of her bold nature and determination.
Gail Agrawal, dean of the School of Law, said in an opening statement that Mackey was every law school dean's ideal student.
"Jana had a strong sense of herself," Agrawal said. "Not anyone at any age can make that claim."
Mackey, who received a bachelor's degree in women's studies from the University of Kansas in 2004, was passionate about equality, especially for women.
Aside from being a lobbyist in the Kansas Legislature for the National Organization for Women and routinely aiding assault and abuse victims, she also organized seven bus loads of women for the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C.
Mackey's mother, Christie Brungardt, recalled her daughter's sudden decision to apply for law school one month before the date of the LSAT, an exam for which most law school hopefuls spend the better part of a year preparing. Jana passed, and entered KU Law to become a better advocate for women's rights and against domestic abuse.
On July 2, Mackey was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Adolfo Garcia-Nunez, in his Lawrence home. She had broken up with him three weeks before.
Lawrence police officers discovered Mackey's body in Garcia-Nunez's home at 409 Michigan St. late on the night of July 3. Police did not release details of the cause of death in accordance with her family's wishes.
Friends had reported Mackey missing after she failed to attend class the morning
of July 3 and police discovered her abandoned car in the parking lot of Lawrence Memorial Hospital that afternoon. Following tips from family and friends, police tracked down and arrested Garcia-Nunez, who had fled cross-country to Elizabeth, N.J. Garcia-Nunez then hanged himself in his New Jersey jail cell, leaving Mackey's grieving family and friends without any explanation for his actions.
In her speech, Jennifer Berry, Wichita law student and friend of Mackey's, urged others to continue in Mackey's fight against the unjust.
"Jana leaves a hole in the world that can never be filled," Berry said. "But if everyone learns one thing from their time with Jana we make a dent."
60 percent of domestic violence fatality cases in which the victim was in the process of leaving the perpetrator
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20-24 average age of women who were victims, most of whom were Caucasian
The memorial closed with a slide show
17. 4 days average time between each domestic violence murder
22 minute 48
22 minutes, 48 seconds average time between domestic violence incidences
708 number of reporter domestic abuse incidents in Douglas County in 2006
445 number of domestic abuse arrests in Douglas County in 2006
Source: 2007 Governor's report on Domestic Violence
of photos that painted her as a bright, vibrant person. Mackey's friends and family said they hoped that others would pick
index
up Mackey's torch and carry on her work.
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