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Resident inquiries answered by peer
Brian Wozniak creates Kansas residents.
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
Three weeks ago, Woznian, Lawrence senior, became the University of Kansas' first peer counselor helping students apply for Kansas residency.
Basically, we're smart people who will come to your home and help you out.
"I help out a lot of people that just don't understand the process," Wozniak said. "They have problems and so they come and talk to me."
The idea for his position came from Cindy Sanders, who works with residency and veterans services.
When students had questions about applying for residency, Sanders was either too busy to help or could not answer certain questions because, as a person who helps approve the applications, there was a conflict of interest. However, Sanders wanted to find some way to answer all students' questions.
Sanders went to the Educational Opportunity Fund Committee and requested a grant to pay for the position. The fund was created in 1990 by the Board of Regents to help provide money for groups that need extra funds. The committee consists of KU administrators, faculty and students appointed by the Student Body President. The money it awards comes from a $6 fee included in the student campus fee.
Sanders' request was granted by the committee with two stipulations. The grant only lasts for one year and the peer counselor is not allowed to work more than 10 hours a week.
Wozniak, who works out of the Registrar's office, said he understood that his paycheck came from student fees.
Sanders said she hoped Wozniak would be so successful that permanent funding could be found when the grant expires.
"My duty is to the students first," Wozniak said. "What I tell a student is between me and the student. A lot of times I will tell students things the Registrar might not, but I will also tell a student if I think that they don't have a chance of getting their application approved."
Rates, fines to increase at downtown meters, lots
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
On Jan. 1, the city will raise downtown parking rates and fines in an effort to reduce illegal parking. Lawrence City Commission voted on the issue Tuesday. The increased revenue will add three new police officers to the downtown patrol.
The changes include a hike in the basic parking fine from $1 to $2. If a person receives more than four tickets in a 30-day period, every ticket after the fourth will cost $15. In addition, the 10-hour parking meter rates will be increased form 25 cents to 50 cents.
Mike Wildgen, city manager, said the request for the increases came as a reaction to concerns about security downtown. Another issue was the abuse of the free, two-hour parking lots by downtown employees.
"There are a lot of spoiled folks," Wilden said. "The two-hour lots are closer than the ten-hour lots, and the fine is very low. Most people think nothing of paying $1."
Jill Legler, manager of Sunflower International Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., said she did not think that the fine or police-force increases were fair solutions to the parking problem.
"It seems like a double whammy," she said. "They are being hard on us about parking, but they are also making us pay more. I'm not sure that it's the downtown employees' job to pay for more policemen."
The two-hour lots are specifically for downtown shopper.
Legler also said the issue is not laziness, but safety. After dark, she does not feel safe walking to the ten-hour parking lots. Many of the lots are not well lit and are in poor condition, she said.
She also said the 110-hour parking lot closest to her store was usually full because of the nearby Aquatic Center at 701 Kentucky St.
Formal rush participants are sparse
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
Many fraternities found themselves faced with a dilemma during formal rush this year—lack of participants.
Alex Protzmian, Overland Park sophomore and head rush chairman for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said the number of formal rush participants was ridiculously small this time around.
However, about 20 had already pledged by the time formal rush started.
"This year, there were 34 guys total for formal rush, and there were 80 the year before," Protzman said.
Bill Nelson, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center and the coordinator for Greek programs, said there were 85 rushes on the list for formal rush for all fraternities.
"It is a challenge for fraternities to rely on formal rush as a mechanism to get the bulk of its members," Nelson said. "They should rely on informal rush."
Informal rush is recruiting year-round.
Most fraternities have informal rush, while sororites have only formal rush at the beginning of each fall semester.
Fraternities' all-year recruiting may be a reason for the drop in numbers during formal rush, but for some houses, this reduction can cause a problem in trying to fill vacancies in the fraternities'houses.
Whether the numbers are down for rush as a whole has yet to be determined.
"It depends on the number of spaces that a house has open," Protzman said. "If they have 15 spaces and get two guys, they're screwed."
Fraternities use signing cards as a form of commitment and rushes turn in these cards to the fraternity they want to pledge.
Until all these cards are turned in, the actual number of participants in both formal and informal rush will not be known.
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