Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Bus pass updates face roadblocks
Transportation board will meet tonight to discuss difficulties with the card system
By Nadia Mustafa Kansan staff writer
Students trying to update their bus passes for the spring semester may run into some problems.
In previous years, students were able to get a bus pass sticker for their KUID cards from the KU on Wheels office. But because students cannot put stickers on their new KUIDs, a separate card is now required to ride the bus.
Nicole Skalla, Student Senate transportation coordinator, said that getting the separate bus card was frustrating for
some students last week.
"It turned out better than we thought, but some students did not buy a bus pass because it was a hassle," she said.
To obtain a bus card, students must go to the KU on Wheels office in the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center in the Kansas Union. Next, they need to go to the card center in the union to get the card printed. Then they need to go back to the KU on Wheels office to pick up the final product.
"If they keep having problems, I might not get a bus pass," said Eddie Shafer, Shawnee freshman. "It's ridiculous how the whole smart card thing didn't work."
Students who bought bus passes Thursday and Friday had to come back yesterday because the card center could not print cards because of new student orientation in the
"A couple of students were unhappy that they had to come back.I'm a little pessimistic about the fall semester when we get 7,000 students coming through instead of 3,000."
Nicole Skalla
Student Senate transportation coordinator
union.
"A couple of students were unhappy that they had to come back," Skalla said. "I'm a little pessimistic about the fall semester when we get 7,000 students coming through instead of 3,000."
The Student Senate Transportation Board will meet at 5 p.m. tonight at the Governor's Room in the Union to discuss how to ease the process of distributing separate bus cards.
The new KUID originally was supposed to function as a bus pass, but the machines that read
the cards malfunctioned last semester. In addition to this problem, buses often were delayed by as much as 15 minutes because students had to swipe their KUIDs through the machines.
Skalla said that the separate bus card was a hassle for all students but that it was mainly a problem for new students who did not have a KUID or a bus card because they had to get both at one time.
Proposal encourages Internet freedom
Subcommittee requests electronic media policy to outline KU students' Web access, link content
By Nadia Mustafa
Kansan staff writer
The Electronic Media Policy Subcommittee of the Student Senate Rights Committee drafted a policy statement concerning free expression on the World Wide Web last night.
The proposal, which will be finalized at a 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting at Alcove D in the Kansas Union, would allow KU students or faculty members to freely express themselves on University Web sites and servers as long as the content does not violate any state or local laws.
Greg Smith, Olathe junior and vice chairman of the subcommittee, said the University of Kansas was one of only a few among its peer institutions that did not have an electronic media policy. He said the University only had simple usage rules.
"As it is now, the University could either do nothing if something happened, or it could do a lot," Smith said. "We're trying to make it so that students maintain freedom of speech while not infringing on others' rights. The University server should be used to further the KU charter of free expression."
The subcommittee also proposed that the University should not be able to regulate what students access on the Internet and that students should be able to put any links and include any content that does not infringe upon copyright laws on their Web sites.
The subcommittee began discussing student's electronic media rights last semester after controversy about some Templin residents' Web site.
"A policy is a good idea," said Michael Grobe, assistant director of Academic Computing Services and staff adviser to the Kansas University Campus Internet Association. "It will let administrators sleep better at night."
STUDENT SENATE PROPOSAL
Last night, a Student Senate subcommittee drafted a proposal regarding free expression on the World Wide Web.
- The draft states that the University should not be able to regulate what students access on the Internet.
The committee also proposed that students be allowed to put any links and include any content on their pages that does not infringe upon copyright laws.
Also, the proposal would allow students and faculty to place content on University Web sites and servers as long as the content does not violate any state or local laws.
Justin Bradford, Olathe senior and subcommittee member, said the committee hoped to preclude any policy the University might draft.
"We're trying to make a student contribution before they write their own policy," Bradford said.
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