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KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 71
GE 7A
Senate examines hall parking
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2004
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BY LAURA FRANCOVIGIA
francovigia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
According to one student senator, 24 hour restricted parking spaces at the University of Kansas are underused.
Angela Raab, residential senator, raised the concern because she wants Senate to bring the underused lots to the attention of the Parking Commission at its Dec. 7 meeting.
Student Senate agreed with Raab, passing a resolution in support of more student parking at last night's meeting.
SENATE
one community, many voices.
Members of the Residential Housing Advisory Board conducted a study of 30 spaces in Lot 102, a lot for employees at Mrs. E's located west of Lewis Hall, Raab said.
Members of the board took pictures 12 days between Nov. 1 and Nov. 18, she said, to illustrate how many spaces went unused by employees daily. Raab did not know the number of unused spaces.
In the past, the Parking Department has attempted to make lots available at night or on the weekend, as long as students move their cars out of the restricted lots by 7 a.m.
Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, doubted the resolution would have much of a chance. Dunlap, who has sat on the Parking Commission for three years, said students generally didn't move their cars before 7 a.m. Moreover, the workers, who the spaces are intended for, can't park if the spots are filled, Dunlap said.
Any amendments to the parking situation will have to wait until the Parking
The consultant would help plan the parking situation at the University for the next decade or longer, Dunlap said. He said the results would be in-depth and would affect every facet of parking at the University.
Commission receives the results from a consultant. The commission expects to review the results at the next meeting or the January meeting, Dunlap, Leawood senior, said.
Raab said she would be satisfied with any changes that would open spaces, if only for a few hours at night or on the weekends.
In other legislation:
Senate passed a resolution supporting the concept of guaranteed tuition rates. A guaranteed tuition rate would allow entering freshmen to pay the same tuition rate for four years. The resolution is not a proposal for guaranteed tuition rates but rather supports pursuing a rate beginning in 2007, after the five-year tuition enhancement plan is finished. Senate will send the resolution to administrators.
- Senate passed the resolution supporting and encouraging the lobbying
Web site connects students
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
SEE SENATE ON PAGE 6A
You have been poked.
Thousands of University of Kansas students see this phrase each time they log onto www.thefacebook.com.
Welcome Big Jay
"A poke is an action between facebook friends that signifies someone has been thinking of you, wants to tell you something or someone just wants to give you a good oll" metaphoric jab in the ribs," said Taylor Miller, Colby freshman and self-proclaimed thefacebook addict.
[ Welcome Big Jay ]
Poking is one feature on the site that draws students to spend hours in front of their computers browsing the site. The Web site has grown in popularity since it started at the University this summer, mostly through word of mouth. Students can use the site to communicate with friends across the nation at other universities and make new ones here.
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My Profile [ edit ]
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"Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities," said Chris Hughes, co-founder and spokesman for www.thefacebook.com. "Thefacebook is a Web site that is both a resource for information and communication and a means for recreation."
You are connected to 26,814 [ browse them ]
people through classes.
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Hughes said more than 4,000 students had joined at the University, and more than 974,000 students have joined nationwide. Mark Zuckerberg, one of Hughes' four partners, came up with the idea at Harvard last winter after many late-night dorm room conversations.
Miller made his profile in October after a friend at MIT told him the University had joined thefacebook ranks. Poking is his favorite feature on the site, he said.
He said because of thefacebook he has gotten in touch with friends from high school and met new friends with same interests.
"Coming home and seeing that I have a poke just makes my bunt cake day turn into a four-tiered pastry of desire." Miller said.
Students can meet each other on the
Birthday Reminders
Baby Jay had a birthday on Oct. 9
Enter your mobile info to use the facebook from your mobile phone.
site through groups such as "A Group for Citizens Against Popped Collars," "Paris Hilton for President" and "I Have a Very Unhealthy Obsession with Facebook."
"The whole club creation thing is fun,"
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Oscar Cuevas, Parsons freshman, said.
Cuevas created groups such as "The
Photo illustration by Amanda Kim Stairrett/KANSAN
"Clubs are like profiles for a group of people who share the same common interests with stuff like a message board."
Plastics" for students who enjoyed the movie Mean Girls, and "Ghetto is a State of Mind."
SEE WEB SITE ON PAGE 5A
Solidarity library moves to Mass Street
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Three needs are scribbled in blue in the upper-left hand corner of white board in a library in town that just moved.
The Solidarity Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, 1119 Massachusetts St., moved from its old location at 15 W. 14th St.
"We wanted a more prominent location," said David Strano, Lawrence resident who serves as a group member that
"Book ends, wheelchair ramp,
Revolution!" the list reads.
"We want to be a safe place for
Topeka senior
people to learn.'
The library exists to provide a home for political discussions that may be outside the mainstream line of thought, said Vanessa Hays, Topeka senior, who
runs the library. "We also needed more room for our expanding book collection."
"We want to be a safe place for people to learn." Hays said.
The library has about 2,000 books and magazines on topics ranging from anarchy to race and gender.
Hays said the library also served for a gathering and meeting place for several community groups, such as a prisoner support group, a labor union and an anarchy study group.
Her favorite item in the library is a signed copy Transgendered Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, which she has read multiple times.
"zines," which are photocopied pamphlets from various individuals and groups.
The importance of the library to Hays, she said, was that it could help people who are afraid the government is tracking them. She said the library does keep records of people checking out books, but they destroy them after the person returns the book if that person requests it.
The library also offers magazines and
The new area comes with higher rent, and the library does not have a large budget.
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Leukemia claims life of student
BY STEPHANE FARLEY
sfarley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
On Oct. 30, Grant Reser threw an end of chemo-Halloween-late birthday-full moon party. There was a bonfire, plenty of food and a keg, and everyone was dressed as a superhero. Grant dressed up as a character from the He-Man cartoon.
He didn't want anyone to "wuss
out" too early, said Chelsea Demars,
Grant's cousin and Keller, Texas. senior.
Grant Reser, 23 year-old Toneka sen-
One adjective that describes Grant the best is "fun-loving." That's how others who knew Grant remember him, too.
RESER
He was a senior at the University of Kansas, double-majoring in communication studies and English, Greg Reser, Grant's father, said. He wanted to continue his work with transplant and organ donation organizations after he finished school.
tor, died on Saturday after battling an infection caused by Burkitt's Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer often referred to as B-cell lymphoma or leukemia. Reser was diagnosed with Burkitt's in February 2004.
When he was 3, Grant became the first child in Kansas and 12th in the world to receive a pediatric heart transplant. He received a kidney transplant in 2001.
One of Lacey Tramill's most vivid memories was of Grant having surgery on the last day of Tramill's senior year at Washburn Rural High School, where they went to high school. His family received the call about the transplant and they all went to the hospital, she said. Tramill, Topeka junior, kept calling from school to see how he was doing. The best part, she said, was being able to see him at the end of the day.
Grant was a founding member of Topeka Organ Transplant Organization and Kansas City Heart Line, a support group for patients waiting for or who had had a heart transplant, and their families. He participated in the World Transplant Games in 1993 and the U.S. Transplant Games in 1994, 1996 and 1998.
One of the things Tramil will miss the most is Grant's humor.
He loved laughing and one of his favorite movies was The Royal Tenenbaums. He joked around with everyone, she said.
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Relief from A/C
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Campus-area Lawrence residents are relieved this time of year of the distracting drone of several campus machines that produce the cooled liquid for air conditioners. PAGE 3A
All-Big 12
Nine Kansas football players were named All-Big 12. Sophomore Charles Gordon was the only player in the Big 12 selected for both offense and defense. PAGE 12A
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