THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 2009
NEWS
5A
TECHNOLOGY
KU campus now featured on Google Earth
BY BETH BEAVERS bbeavers@kansan.com
Navigating the 1,000 acres of campus can be a daunting task, and differentiating between the almost 130 buildings can be even more confusing. But now, thanks to Google and a little help from a University graduate, getting around campus will be much easier.
Brian McClendon, a1986 graduate and vice president of engineering at Google, said the company had incorporated a few hundred campuses across the United States into its maps.
The University of Kansas and Wichita State are the only two campuses in Kansas to be included.
The interactive maps include buildings around campus, as well as their addresses and phone numbers. The street view feature also shows a picture of the building.
"We are always happy to have additional resources available to
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help people navigate and explore the University," Jill Jess, associate director of University Relations said. "While KU already provides an interactive map with many features, Google offers another tool to assist Jayhaws and would-be Jayhawks."
Laur said Google maps were the default maps on her iPhone. Though she no longer confuses GSP with JRP, she said the maps were still helpful.
"When I was a freshman, I went to GSP the dorm instead of JRP the education building." Laur said.
Kris Laur, Milwaukee senior, agreed the Google map of campus could help with some of the confusion new students face.
McClendon is in charge of Google's geographical content, which includes Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Street View. He said Google decided to add campus maps to improve the coverage of Google maps.
"I would use them because of how easy I can access them on my phone," she said. "It's way easier than carrying a map around."
time as an electrical engineering major at the University he did more with software than hardware.
McClendon said during his
He said he learned how to work with graphics, and that it was the beginnings of Keyhole, which eventually led to him helping create Google Earth. The Google Earth application opens at Meadowbrook Apartments because that is where he lived as a child.
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McClendon said people used Google maps everywhere, not just their desktop computers. He said many people accessed the maps from their phones and laptops.
A screenshot of the Google map of the University of Kansas campus. The map is one of many Google is releasing to help navigate college campuses across the country.
NATIONAL Audio from balloon boy 911 phone call released
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Police have released a 911 call they received from a Colorado couple who told authorities they believed their 6-year-old son had floated away in a giant helium balloon.
CRIME
The audio released Wednesday is of Richard and Mayumi Heene talking to a police dispatcher before being transferred to a Larimer County dispatcher. Audio from that call was released last week.
A breathless Richard Heene says he called the Federal Aviation Administration and then 911, saying his son got inside the experimental craft before it took off. A dispatcher asks to talk to his wife, who says her other son thought he saw his brother inside. She can be heard crying.
The boy was later found at the family's Fort Collins home.
Sheriff Jim Alderden says it was a hoax, which Richard Heene has denied.
Associated Press
Marine Corps sergeant sentenced for taking wounded soldier benefits
ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUANTICO, Va. — A Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months confinement and fined $25,000 for pretending to be an injured war hero to get free seats at rock concerts and professional sporting events.
Sgt. David W. Budwah also will be reduced in rank to private and dishonorably discharged after any appeals. He must forfeit all pay and benefits during his confinement and is subject to up to 3 1/2 years of additional prison time if he re-offends within two years.
Navy Capt. Bruce W. MacKenzie, chief judge for the Navy and Marine Corps, gave the sentence after Budwah pleaded guilty to seven counts in a military courtroom on the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. The offences included making false statements, malingering, misconduct and unlawful appropriation, and carried a combined maximum prison term of 81/2 years.
Budwah, 34, of Springhill, La., acknowledged during the hearing that he was never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, as he had claimed. He said he lied about having helped with the 2004 tsunami relief effort and didn't earn eight medals and ribbons he wore on his uniform.
"The truth of it is, I was never deployed and I was never injured." Budwah said. "Everything that I said was false."
He was actually a radio operator in Okinawa, Japan, from early 2000 to early 2006, when he
was transferred to Quantico and worked as a retail store stock clerk and warehouse laborer.
He admitted to bluffing his way into 13 events last year including banquets; Counting Crows, Boston and Collective Soul concerts; a Washington Redskins football game; and a Washington Nationals baseball game.
He also lied to obtain a laptop computer and personal digital assistant from Soldiers' Angels, an organization that helps wounded service members.
"It does a lot of damage," Kassie Claughton, a Soldiers' Angels representative, testified. "People who actually have been in combat — it kind of neglects what they're going through."
Budwah acknowledged he lied
when he told young boys at an American Legion camp in western Maryland in July 2008 that he was wounded in Afghanistan when he dove on a homemade grenade to shield a buddy from the blast.
He apologized to those he deceived, especially workers and volunteers at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he was an inpatient during the second half of 2008.
He said he initially was sent to the hospital for outpatient treatment for stomach problems and then became depressed and suicidal after a romantic relationship
"You were only trying to help me and I betrayed that trust," Budwah said.
cidal alter a romantic relationship — his first since a divorce — ended in April 2008.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARINE Sgt. David Budwah leaves LeJuene Hall during a break in his court-martial hearing in Quantico, Va., Wednesday. Budwah pleaded guilty to a variety of charges relating to faking war injuries in order to get free benefits for wounded soldiers. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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