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Students enjoy limited tailgating, want more time
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Tailgating and pregame partying outside Memorial Stadium before Jayhawk football games have become a staple of many University of Kansas students' fall semester.
But the long-awaited alcohol policy change that occurred in 2001 hasn't been all roses. Some students want the University to
expand the rules about alcohol further so tailgating can continue into game time.
Nick Blasi, Wichita senior, said students should be able to tailgate whenever they wanted.
"Tailgating brings a unity to the fans that the players have on the field." Blasi said.
Joel Rayl, Hutchinson senior, said there should be a compromise on the University's alcohol policy.
"An extra 10 or 20 minutes would be great," Rayi said.
"Tailgating brings a unity to the fans that the players have on the field."
Nick Blasi Wichita senior
The University policy on alcohol states that consumption of alcoholic beverages outside of Memorial Stadium during tailgating activities may begin no earlier than three hours prior to kickoff and must end no later than 30 minutes after kickoff. The policy also states that remaining alcohol beverages must be transported off campus after the end of the game.
the game.
Trisha Reuber, Atwood senior, was one of the few Jayhawk fans to brave the cold and rain to tailgate in the parking lot before Saturday's game. Reuber said tailging created a positive
atmosphere for the games, and generally didn't create any problems.
"We're just grilling, hanging out with friends and drinking a few beers before the game." Reuber said. "It brings people together and sets an air of excitement."
The alcohol policy also prohibits consumption of alcohol on city streets near Memorial stadium such as Mississippi Street, Maine Street, 11th Street, and J.R.
Pearson Drive. Alcohol is also prohibited in the lots north of 11th Street or east of Mississippi Street.
The alcohol policy states that individuals participating in tailgating activities and drinking alcohol are responsible for their own behavior.
Kansan reporter Maggie Newcomer contributed to this story. Story edited by AbbySidesinger.
New Kyou portal launches today
By Amber Byarlay
abyarlay@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Today at noon, a newer, more advanced Kyou portal is scheduled to be launched.
The new portal will put numerous University of Kansas Web sites in one place, said Allison Lopez, assistant to the vice provost for information services.
The portal is a single Web site that will allow KU students, faculty and staff access to a number of Web sites they may commonly use.
Lopez said the newer version of the portal would offer links to Blackboard, the University's library services, KU Info, weather and online enrollment, among other things.
The portal will also allow students working on papers to save information,such as bookmarks or papers and notes, onto their individual portals. Students can then access this information any place where they have Internet acces
This will eliminate the need for for computer disks, Lopez said.
Julie Loats, Web administrator for Academic Computing Services, said the portal would be
"A portal is never done, like a good Web site is never done," Loats said. "You're always adding functionality."
updated continuously.
Loats said the University was not behind the curve in portal development. She said the technology for the portals was only three to four years old.
"The technology is relatively new," Loats said. "We have made incredible time since we started last fall."
The University began working with the software in Fall 2002 and had it available by Spring 2003. The portal was used to allow students to enroll online last spring.
Lopez said the earlier version of the portal that students had used was an example of what could be offered.
Each individual portal will be geared toward the person who uses it so that no two portals will be exactly alike, Lopez said.
saru. The updated portal was funded by the tuition enhancement funds and funds from the University's Information Services.
- Edited by Abby Sidesinger
Senators retreat from mandatory conference
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politic's media room was ready to seat 90 student senators for Saturday's mandatory training retreat. Of the projected number, about 50 senators filled the wood-paneled room for the day-long conference
Surrounded by pizza boxes, water bottles and baskets of fruit, those student leaders who sacrificed a day of their holiday break learned the ins and outs of being a senator.
But it wasn't the free food, the newly added diversity training nor the beefed-up session on
bill writing that caught the attention of the attendees. It was the empty seats.
Lase Ajayi, residential senator, said she was disappointed with the lack of attendance.
"People just wanted to leave for the holiday and made up excuses," she said.
Alaji said she appreciated the effort that event organizer Catherine Bell, student body vice president, put into increasing the detail of the parliamentary procedure session, but wished the absent senators would have "sucked it up and came."
Bell said she worked on the conference all summer to try to educate the senators, and for the
"People just wanted to leave for the holiday and made up
excuses."
Lase Ajayi
Residential senator
most part, was pleased with the results. But she was also disappointed with the turn-out.
Bell said the retreat was important because returning senators had an opportunity to share their experiences while the new senators asked questions, a luxury those who did not attend will miss out on.
It's difficult to remain positive when not everyone shows up," she said.
Cribb Altman, CLAS senator, said his favorite part of the conference was getting to know some of the people he would be working with all year. He said that being at the conference was never a question for him. It was something he thought he needed to be a part of.
All senators will meet Wednesday night for the first full Senate meeting of the year.
Senators who were not able to make the session will have a make-up retreat one evening in the next couple of weeks.
Edited by Cate Batchelder
ID: During transition, old or new identification numbers can be used
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But a change in the computer system that maintains the University's records will change the number that students use to identify themselves from the familiar six-digit number to previously unknown seven-digit number.
dents by a seven-digit number that was given to them when they entered the University.
Bob Turvey, project manager of student administration implementation, said the change occurred because the University combined the information from four database systems into one system.
This new system identifies stu-
Turvey said students would have to use the seven-digit number for things the six-digit number was used for now.
But because the system is new, both the six-digit and seven-digit numbers can be used for now.
"We've got a year or more of transition before the six-digit number becomes inconsequential." Turvey said.
Students can find both their ID numbers by logging onto the Enroll
and Pay system and accessing personal portfolio information. Students then need to click on the demographic data option in lower left. Two numbers are given for the demographic information. The campus ID is the six-digit number and the ID number is the seven-digit number.
KUID cards won't be affected by the change. Information stored on the card's magnetic strip contained both numbers and should work, regardless of which number the University uses
Turvey said students did not need to replace their KUIDs,but
if they did, the seven-digit number would be printed on the card. Incoming students have the seven-digit number on their cards, Turvey said.
Hilary Betley, Washington D.C. junior, said she didn't have a problem with a change in numbers as long as it made the system easier for those who used it.
"Change is the only thing you can count on, and you have to be flexible when something new comes along." Betley said.
— Edited by Abby Sidesinger
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