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Senate passes privacy regulation
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Concerned that students' rights are being infringed upon, the Student Senate passed a resolution last night requiring the University of Kansas to notify any student whose personal information had been requested.
Government agencies, solicitors, parents and associations looking to stop piracy and various other groups can request information from the Bursar's office. 20 Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
There are between 15,000 to 20,000 requests made to the University for student information each school year, said John Noel, nontraditional senator. Noel said he got the numbers from the Bursar's office estimates.
In response to what he called a loss of civil liberties, James Owen, Law senator, wrote the resolu
Owen said the University had an obligation to provide this information.
vacety that they had before coming to the University.
tion, which would require the University to notify students.
This University regulation is why some senators, such as Arthur Jones, freshman/sophomore CLAS senator, said that the feasibility of costs and manpower for implementation should not be a concern to Senate.
"I don't care," Jones said. "We should try for the best that we can get."
The only opposition for the bill came from Patrick Quinn, an off-campus senator, who questioned
the effectiveness the bill would have once sent to University administration.
Quinn said the 83-line resolution was the one shot Senate had to get the administration's attention, and that it is too long and cumbersome to get that attention.
passed and will be sent to Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger, among other administrators, the resolution is in the hands of the administration whether it wants to implement the policy.
The resolution will require the that written notification be given to any student whose information has been requested within 15 business days of the request.
One possible benefit that was discussed in Senate addressed the ongoing problem of music piracy.
Owen said that groups such as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are groups that can ask universities for names of illegal downloaders. The resolution would require the University to notify the student of the request, potentially saving them from a lawsuit.
In other Senate news:
Although the resolution
The online course evaluation that passed University Council last week will not be put into effect until next spring. Computing services does not know if it can get the system constructed by the Dec. 7 deadline, Andy Knopp, student body president said.
The top three vote-getters for next year's lecture series include the political-activist duo of James Carville and Mary Matalin, author Maya Angelou and Pulitzer-prize author Toni Morrison. The speakers would come to the University some time after the Spring 2004 semester.
Jury sentences Kansas man to death
- Edited by Abby Sidesinger
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A northeast Kansas man who admitted to killing a Missouri teenager because he hoped the confession would improve his life in prison was sentenced to death yesterday by a federal jury.
Jurors deliberated 10 hours over two days before pronounce-
ing the sentence for Wesley Ira Purkey, a 51-year-old plumber from Lansing with a long criminal history.
Purkey was convicted Nov. 5 by the same jury of kidnapping, raping and fatally stabbed 16-year-old Jennifer Long of Independence, Mo., on Jan. 22, 1998. He dismembered the teenager with a chain saw and burned her
body in his fireplace.
Long accepted a ride from Purkey after leaving her eastern Kansas City high school following a fight with other students. Purkey had been interviewing for a job with a local plumbing company that morning.
The girl's disappearance was a mystery until December 1998, when Purkey admitted kidnapping and killing Long to officers investigating the October 1998 beating death of 80-year-old Ruth Bales at her home in Kansas City, Kan. Purkey was earlier sentenced to life in prison for killing Bales.
A jury's sentencing decision in a federal death penalty case is binding on the court. U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan will impose the sentence on Purkey on Jan. 23.
KJHK: Dierks excited to return
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Curtis-Dierks had also applied to be general manager, though she said she was glad her husband would be taking the job.
She said that she would probably wind up helping out at events if her husband asked for help.
"I don't know if we ever would have met otherwise," Curtis-Dierks said. "It was definitely through KIHK."
"We're kind of geeky that way," she said. "We both just love the station."
In addition, Dierks also will help select the new student station manager sometime before the end of the semester.
Dierks will start working at KJHK on Jan. 5,2004,reporting within the programs department of the KU Memorial Unions.
Dierks echoed his wife's sentiments about the station, stressing his excitement over going back to it.
— Edited by Abby Sidesinger
"In some ways, it's been an integral part of my life," he said.
PERKINS: Point system to be fair
alumni activities and donating to the Williams Educational Fund, a fundraiser that attracts and retains coaches and student-athletes. Those with the most points will get the best seats.
Faculty seating, in particular, Perkins semi-jokingly described, as a crisis situation, which was part of why he asked the Senate Executive Committee of University Council to figure out faculty and staff seating.
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"Right now it's a hodgepodge, to be honest," Perkins said.
In the end, Perkins promised that no one would get kicked out of the fieldhouse, though many would move position.
"It'll be fair," he said. "You might not like it, but it'll be fair."
"I think he justified his decision pretty well." Owen said referring to the basketball tickets issue.
James Owen, law senator, said that Perkins' comments cleared up a lot of questions he had about the department's actions.
— Edited by Cate Batchelder
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