Thursday, January 21, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Dial-in users must renew accounts
Previous billing errors forced implementation of new Jan.31 deadline
By Jennifer Roush
Kansan staff writer
The deadline for students and faculty to renew dial-in accounts this semester is Jan.31.
This deadline also applies to those users who chose the automatic renewal option last fall.
Individual users can renew their accounts on the Internet by completing a form at the web site
www.cc.ukans.edu/account.htm. Any account that is not renewed will be deactivated Feb. 1 and removed from the system Feb. 8, said Wes Hubert, associate director of Academic Computing Services.
Hubert said dial-in users who forget to renew their accounts before the January deadline will have until Feb. 8 to reactivate them.
Once an account has been removed from the system, individuals will have to apply for a new dial-in account.
Hubert said in previous years, the automatic renewal option had been successful. However, manual renewal was necessary to avoid billing mistakes.
He said some former students had been billed last semester for dial-in accounts they hadn't used because they had forgotten to cancel their automatic renewal.
Not all students were happy about the new requirement.
"I have enough to do without worrying about my KU dial-in account." said Phil Gross, Chicago freshman. "We're here to study, and this is just an extra hassle that we don't need."
Other students were not as concerned about the change.
"it's not really a problem," said Fletch Coulson, Mission senior. "They advertised it far enough in advance. I found out about it from my roommate, so I did it in December."
Students and faculty who have e-mail accounts, but not dial-in access, will not be affected by the change. Hubert also
DIAL-IN ACCESS
Renew online at
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/accounts.htm
- Accounts deactivated Feb. 1; users can reactivate them online.
Accounts deleted Feb. 8; users can apply for new dial-in accounts online.
said e-mail accounts will not be deleted for those who choose not to renew the dial-in privilege.
E-mail accounts will be unaffected.
The $35 per semester fee for dial-in account access will remain the same.
Internet shopping sites court college students
Some online stores attract KU customers with discounts, free shipping of textbooks
By Jennifer Roush
Kansan staff writer
For many college students, buying books doesn't necessarily involve standing in line or lugging heavy bags of books across campus.
web-savvy entrepreneurs are now enticing students to online bookstores with such perks as reduced prices, no sales tax and free shipping.
Eric Kuhn, CEO of Varsity Books.com, said that students at the University of Kansas were taking full advantage of the opportunity to bypass bookstores. Kuhn said that KU students were some of the company's best customers.
varsity Books isn't the only company offering books strictly to college students, though. San Francisco-based BigWords.com is also a major player in the battle for student dollars. BigWords.com was one of the first e-commerce companies to go online. While they advertise savings of up to 40 percent, co-founder John Bates said that students can realistically expect to save 15 to 20 percent over retail bookstore prices.
"I feel very safe saying that the University of Kansas is in the top ten in terms of the schools listed on our site," he said.
Despite the convenience of Internet
book shopping, many KU students find themselves excluded because ordering online requires a credit card. Also, many students who do have credit cards don't always feel safe releasing the numbers to strangers over the Internet.
"I'm very wary of ordering things online," said Rebecca Rosanske, Overland Park sophomore.
Students should also remember that Internet commerce is in its infancy, said Mike Reid, manager of KU Bookstores.
"Like anything else, it's buyer beware," Reid said. "I checked out one of the online bookstores with a schedule I got from the lost and found. I couldn't find any of the books on the list, and it took me 12 minutes to do it. I took the same schedule out on the floor, and found six of the books in the list in about half the time."
ONLINE BOOKS:
www.BigWords.com
www.varsitybooks.com
Although there are risks to ordering books online, some KU students said that they might be interested.
www.Amazon.com
"I thought about it," said Nick Miller, Moberly, Mo., sophomore. "If I'd known about it beforehand, I would've."
Pancho Rodriguez, Inglewood, Calif.,
imunlor agreed.
"I spent $350 for 13 hours worth of books," Rodriguez said. "One-third of that was on one book. If I'd known about it, I definitely would've checked it out."
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