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KU introduces new campus safety app
NOLAN BREY
@NolanBrey
University students, staff and faculty can now download a free safety app called Rave Guardian to travel more safely on and off campus.
Students were made aware of the app in an email from the Office of Public Affairs earlier in March. The app is provided to students by the offices of Public Affairs, Public Safety and Student Affairs.
"Rave Guardian is another tool the University can use to enhance campus safety," Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations for the University's Office of Public Affairs, said in an email.
Rave is also the system the University has been using for text message alerts and emails, Barcomb-Peterson said. According to Rave Mobile Safety its products and technologies are used at over 1,400 campuses, more than 40 percent of U.S. higher education institutions.
Barcomb-Peterson said the University has a three-year subscription to the app, which is available to both graduate and undergraduate students, as well as staff and faculty.
"Campus safety is of the highest importance to colleges and universities," a spokesperson from Rave Mobile Safety said in an email. "Rave Guardian empowers students, faculty and staff to be proactive about their safety."
The app enhances safety in several ways.
"Rave Guardian increases personal safety because if a student is walking alone at night, they can set a safety timer on Rave Guardian Campus Safety App to alert friends or Campus Safety if they don't make it to their destination and need help," the spokesperson said.
In addition to an alert inbox and a 911 call button that shares the user's GPS location, the app includes a safety timer. If a safety timer expires, the user's guardians will be notified. The app allows group messaging and photo sharing.
The app promotes communication with law enforcement through tip texting.
"Rave Guardian enhances Campus Safety because students also can submit anonymous tips discreetly through the app, creating an instant 2-way connection between concerned students and Campus Safety," the spokesperson said. "Additionally, the Rave Command View gives Campus Safety supervisors an easy way to clearly visualize the Rave Guardian Safety Timer sessions and anonymous tips on a secure, web-based map."
The app is currently available on the Apple App Store and on the Google Play Store. To get started, users will need to enter their ku.edu email and their phone number. Students will also have to create a PIN, which is used to activat safety timers.
The Rave Guardian app is provided to students by the offices of Public Affairs, Public Safety and Student Affairs.
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Lawmakers, KU take on opioid epidemic
► ANGIE BALDELOMAR @angiebaldelomar
With the country in the middle of an opioid epidemic, people at the University, as well as in the Kansas legislature, are working to cut down on overdoses.
Opioids are a class of drug that include prescription painkillers and heroin. In 2015, more than 33,000 people in the United States died from an opioid overdose, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In Kansas, opioid overdoses killed 329 people.
Earlier this month, the Kansas House of Representatives approved a bill that would allow first-responders to treat people overdosing on opioids with reversal drugs. The Senate is now considering the bill.
At the University, the School of Pharmacy trains students about opioids in different ways.
Karen Moeller, a clinical associate professor, said students initially learn about opioids their first year. During their second year, they learn more about the
antagonist" drugs like naloxone, which work as a reversal, stopping fatal symptoms of an opioid overdose. The law will also allow pharmacists to provide the drug without a prescription, as well as grant immunity from any civil or criminal liability in administering the drug.
Moeller teaches a class on drug abuse, where she tries to teach the warning signs of addiction and overdose.
pharmacology and medicinal chemistry of opioids.
"I really try to hit harder on this and make sure they understand the signs and symptoms of an overdose," she said. "I quiz them a lot on that so that they can recognize this."
Students also learn about the chemical component of opioids, Thomas Prisinzano, a professor and chair of medicinal chemistry, said.
"If someone has a family member that struggles with drug addiction and they are just worried that they're going to be in that situation where they find them unresponsive, not breathing, a family member could go to the pharmacy and get that and have it on hand in case an emergency happens," Mo-
Under the proposed law, first-responders would be able to administer "opioid
eller said.
Prisinzano said one cause of the epidemic is the liberty doctors have when prescribing prescription painkillers.
"What we're seeing is that doctors have been pretty free on prescribing prescription opioids ... and then when it happens they get addicted, they are expensive and so then they immediately switch to heroin," he said.
Between 1991 and 2013, the number of opioid prescriptions escalated from 76 million to nearly 207 million, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since then, states have created regulations to control prescription abuse.
Rachel Saylor Crowley, a medicinal chemistry graduate student who works with Prisinzano researching opioids, said that drug abuse is cyclical, so when law enforcement officers crack down on a type of drug, people will look for a different one.
"If you close one door, they're going to find a way to figure out a different way," she said.
Crowley said the ideal solution is to find non-addic-
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which funds general operations, sports clubs, facilities maintenance and a phase two expansion bond, the rec approached the Student Senate fee review with three options: an $8 increase to keep services exactly the same, a $3.50 increase that would mean cuts or no increase at all that would ultimately mean trouble.
"As students when you guys vote for you know, a rec center or whatever, you now become somewhat owners of that building and owning and operating buildings are expensive," Krone said. "Expenses change, utilities go up. We're doing everything we can to keep them down."
According to Krone, a depletion in the center's savings, unexpected repairs and the cost of living all contributed to the rec's financial needs.
Junior Taylor Zabel, who serves as chair on the 12 person Fee Review Committee as well as chair of the
"The primary goal in mind is how we can best utilize funds paid by students for those students," Zabel said. "Some of the factors that go into that is how will this impact students' perception of their time here at KU, how will it impact their ability to graduate and in general what debate completely goes around is do we feel like this important for students to contribute towards."
Not only are students the main factor in what services are cut at the rec, but also a vital part of the millions of dollars being distributed to student services each year, Zabel said.
larger Finance Committee, was one of the people who ultimately helped decide on a $3.75 increase to the current student recreation fee, making it $66.25.
"We can discuss this fee all semester and that's fine, that's the goal," Zabel said. "It's such an important opportunity that students get."
"They play a role, but they represent us, they don't represent the individual candidates," Dillon said. "They represent us in the process, but they have become friends with many of these folks and so they pretty much know the lay of the land."
Dillon also added that, while the firm has many connections to candidates, the firm represents the institution they were hired by first.
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Dillon said. "A real estate agent is familiar with all of the real estate in the area you're getting ready to go move to and they also learn and become familiar with you and they try to find the combination that works best."
Funk III said it is important for institutions like the University to use a firm.
Dillon said Funk and Associates have developed a connection to the University and that is why the Kansas Board of Regents hired them to help with the search.
"Colleges and universities typically only conduct president or chancellor
"If I were doing it myself from the beginning, Funk is who I would go hire based on the experience we've had so far," Dillon said.
searches once every seven or eight years or longer, hence, they don't have the internal expertise or the organization to conduct these searches themselves," Funk III said.
Dillon also said he trusts Funk and Associates with the search because of their commitment to finding a good fit.
"I'm really pleased that the regents decided to use a search firm, and I'm really pleased at the choice they made in the Funk search firm," Dillon said. "So far he's proving his value."
tive chemicals to create painkillers. This process is in the very early stages, however, so it will take a while for it happen, she said.
"One of the things that we look at in our research is we look at developing treatments for pain that don't have addictive properties," she said. "But we also look at developing therapies for people that are already addicted."
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