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Provost to distribute funds
Money marked for technology
(USPS 650-640)
By Mike Perryman and Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writers
The provost's office will distribute about $340,000 in technology funding to a select group of University of Kansas schools and departments.
Provost David Shulenburger issued a memo in July asking all schools and departments to submit proposals for
funding for technology upgrades by Oct. 1. The memo generated 40 proposals requesting a total of $3 million.
A committee headed by Richard Givens, assistant provost, finished reviewing and prioritizing the proposals yesterday. Shulenburger will review the committee's assessment and could make a decision sometime this week. Givens said.
A 0.5 percent increase in this year's tuition generated the $340,000. Gives said.
The committee, which included three graduate students and three undergraduates, reviewed the proposals for 10 days and prioritized which schools and departments
needed the money. Givens said.
"Every one of the schools submitted proposals," he said. "A lot of the requests included technology for enhancement of classroom learning, such as video projectors, computer labs and computer software."
Equipment from the fund could be in classrooms as early as next semester, Givens said.
Sally Frost Mason, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said departments in the college requested $1.5 million. The college then prioritized its requests and forwarded them to the provost's office.
The prioritized requests, totaling
$750,000, included money for construction of new computer labs, expansion of existing facilities and resources for technology-enhanced instruction, she said.
Jack Fincham, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said his school submitted proposals, but he declined to comment on specifics until the money has been awarded.
Committee members also declined to discuss the specific proposals.
Givens said the $340,000 was a one-time expenditure.
The University might use a similar proposal system to distribute future technology funds, including funds allocated by the Legislature, Givens said.
Party puts green group in the black
By Daniel E. Thompson dthompson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A benefit concert last night at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., brought in greenbacks for the green causes of the KU Environs.
But in addition to fighting for the environment, the organization had been fighting debt for five months.
"Being in debt really hurts us," said Andrea Repinsky, co-coordinator of KU Environs. "It's not just the debt; we need money for general operations."
"We just recently paid back members who loaned money," she said. "Our lack of funds has affected our organization and our progress. We haven't been able to be as active."
Natalie Sullivan, the organization's treasurer, said that after a home-brew fund-raiser sponsored by the Action Alliance brought in $116 for KU Environs earlier this semester, the organization was hovering around the break-even point. The books never went into the red because of loans from Environs members.
But the bottom-line problems haven't stopped KU Environs from continuing low-cost education. Last night at the Bottleneck, as in past weeks in the Kansas Union, the organization had an information booth. On the beer-soaked table-top were petitions to construct bike lanes and stop the South Lawrence Trafficway, two causes KU Environs has fought for. The booth also had information on dissection and the beef industry, as well as not-so-tender tender.
uted fake dollar bills with a "fat cat" representing fossil fuel gracing the front. The bills were postcards pre-addressed to President Clinton and Vice President Gore, urging them to ignore special-interest money and
reduce greenhouse pollution.
The postcards were supplied to KU Environs from Climate Countdown, a project of the Environmental Information Center.
Genuine money problems started last year for KU Environments during Earth Week, when a guest speaker and T-shirt printing drained the account.
"During the spring semester, we had
Robert Rebeck, Lawrence resident, sings at the Bottleneck during the KU Environs benefit. the benefit was held last night. Photo by Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
The biggest expenditure in the spring was to bring David Brower, the first executive director for the Sierra Club and founder of the Earth Island Institute, to Lawrence to speak for Earth Week. He charged $5,000, plus room and board. Student Senate allotted Environs $2,780 for the speaking engagement.
KU Environments supplemented the Bower money from Senate by soliciting donations from other sponsors. Donations ranged from $5 to $100.
Repinsky remembered the chaotic communication breakdown.
"I had enough money," she said. "But then at the same time we got the T-shirts. More money was spent than we had. We spent a lot of money on T-shirts and the decision wasn't made by all."
"The Bottleneck is completely donating the space and aren't taking a cut of the door charges except to pay the sound guy," Repinsky said. The sound technician cost $100.
Before Rubber, Einstein and The Band That Saved The World had taken the stage last night, $60 had dropped into KU Environs' coffers.
The benefit last night has solved their monetary malady.
The Bottleneck provided its services mostly free of charge.
Environs wasn't sure whether anyone would show on a Tuesday night during midterm week.
The show was $5 for anyone 21 and older, and $4 for the 18 and older crowd.
"We didn't pick this night," Sullivan said.
to the jazz, the concert pulled the
crowd off the street to
But from the Rock 'n'-Roll to the funk
Mandy Godowns, Nixa, Mo., junior, goes after an instructor during a hands-on self-defense class put on by邦B Thorman, far left, called Counter Attacks. The class was held last night at the Kansas Union Ballroom in the Kansas Union. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
Self-defense
Additional information is available about the self-defense program sponsored by the department of student housing.
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Parking department ticked about fees from city officials
By Tim Harrington
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
For a change, the parking department has become the source of a grievance instead of the recipient.
The parking department is concerned that the ordinance charges the department for lots it does not oversee and lots into which drainage already has been built.
The ordinance mandates that the University pay $3.79 per year for each of its more than 11,400 parking spaces.
A city ordinance enacted in April calls for a fee to be levied on all impermeable surfaces in Lawrence — rooftops, sidewalks, streets and parking lots — to help pay for storm-drainage improvements.
That's more than $43,000 per year, all of which comes out of the financially self-supported parking department budget.
Don Kearns, parking department director, said that the fee was foreseen and budgeted for and that it would not affect parking rates.
"I think it's a good program as long as the money is used to do what it's intended," Kearns said. "There are parts of Lawrence that have drainage problems."
Kearns' main concern, however, is not where the money goes, but that too much of that money is coming from his department.
Kearns said that he paid the bill despite the error and notified the University administration of the mistake about a week ago. He had not yet received a response.
Kearns said that the parking department received its first drainage bill from the city only to find that it had been over charged for parking spaces in three lots in which it had no control. Parking lots for Oldfather Studios, Continuing Education and the Adams Alumni Center were all tallied on the parking department's bill, Kearns said.
The fee for the lots will still have to come from the University, just not from the parking department.
Kearns said that the Lied Center parking lot and the parking garage north of Allen Field House both were built with storm-drainage facilities.
Kearns said he also was concerned about on-campus parking that already had storm-drainage facilities and whether the department would be eligible for some kind of credit toward the drainage fee.
"The question is whether or not we get credit for that," Kearns said.
Mike Wildgen, city manager, said that the answer was no. Every other structure that is built in the city has to meet drainage requirements, he said, but that does not exclude those structures from the fee.
"The city has regulations that require structures to be built with drainage facilities," Wildgen said. "The University doesn't have those requirement because it's state-funded."
Being state-funded, however, doesn't exclude the University from city ordinance.
Steven Green, associate director of finance, said that the fee, which also is imposed on buildings, streets and sidewalks, will cost the University $4,400 per month or about $52,800 per year.
City Ordinance
A city ordinance enacted in April mandates that the KU parking department pay $3.79 per year for each of its more than 11,400 parking spaces in order to help pay for storm-drainage facilities.
■ The ordinance costs the department $43, 422 per year.
■ The fee will not affect parking rates, but Don Kearns,
director of the department, expressed concern that the city
was charging the department for three parking lots it does
not control.
KU student confesses to pulling false alarm
A 19-year-old Oliver Hall resident confessed Monday to setting off a false fire alarm in his residence hall.
Police said they received information about the student from their Crime Stoppers hotline.
Oliver Hall had four false fire alarms in six nights last week. Police said the man they arrested Monday afternoon may be involved in more than one incident, but they have not completed their investigation.
The false fire alarm resulted in the evacuation of the residence hall, police said. Triggering a false alarm is a misdemeanor under Kansas law.
Police said that Crime Stoppers played a key role in the arrest. A person who called the hotline provided information which led University detectives to arrest the student.
Anyone who gives information to Crime Stoppers which results in an arrest receives a cash reward. Police encourage anyone with more information to call the hotline at 864-8888.
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