SPORTS The women's basketball team earned the program's 600th win last night. The team defeated Denver, 67-44. PAGE 10A
Coach Bill Self wants to balance out the Jayhawks this season by giving his other players more opportunities to play. PAGE 10A
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KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1,2004
VOL. 115 ISSUE 70
Newspaper in demand
Students could receive The Wall Street Journal
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLIA
lfrancoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The University of Kansas could be among one of the first universities in the nation to offer the The Wall Street Journal to all students, said Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president.
Dunlap, Leawood senior, presented a proposal to offer the Journal to KU students through the Newspaper Readership Fee.
That fee currently pays to bring the USA Today, The New York Times, The Kansas City Star, and The Lawrence Journal-World to KU students.
After the Newspaper Readership Committee's meeting last night, 675 paper copies and 675 online subscriptions may be available on campus beginning next semester. The online subscriptions could be available to students on a first-come, first-serve basis through Student Senate, Dunlap said.
The proposal still needs to be approved by the provost, administrators at Facilities and Operations and University Council.
Dunlap said he expected all parties to approve the contract with the Journal in time for the beginning of the spring semester.
Leo Khayet, Overland Park senior also presented the proposal to bring the Journal to campus. He said he had hundreds of tallies of conversations with students interested in it.
"There's an enormous demand, especially for business students," he said.
Business school students are practically required to buy subscriptions to the Journal for class, said Khavet, who
is a business student.
He also said he had spent two years negotiating with representatives from the Journal.
Funding to supply the newspaper to KU students will come from the readership fee, a required $5 per semester student fee.
By offering the Journal through the readership fee, the 400 students who currently subscribe to the paper will save $99.95 per year on subscriptions.
About $40,000 per year would be
SEE NEWSPAPER ON PAGE 5A
Photo illustration by Kit Leffler/KANSAN
Campus emergency blue phone usage increases despite cellular phone use
It was 9:30 on a Wednesday night when Adilynn Beadles went out for a run on campus. She noticed that someone was following her and
that someone was following her and she began to pick up her pace.
she began to pull me closer.
"I didn't know the person and I couldn't see his face, but he kept getting closer and then started yelling," the Wellington sophomore said. "I was scared. It was someone following me at night."
Beadles is not alone on campus when it comes to using the blue phones. The number of calls placed on the phones, which link directly to the KU Public Safety Office, has increased in the past two years.
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She ran to a blue emergency phone and pushed the red button. In the seconds it took for a dispatch officer to respond, Beadles realized that she knew who her follower was: He was just a friend trying to get her attention.
An interior emergency phone serves as a direct line to the KU Public Safety Office
A total of 247 calls were made in the first ten months of this year; 37 of those in October alone. The trend is similar to that at other Big 12 schools. Even in an era when most students carry cell phones, they are
Beadles learned about the blue phones during a safety meeting last year at Corbin Hall. The meeting was held in response to a February 2003 incident where a man threatened a female student with a knife in the GSP-Corbin parking garage. Beadles used the blue phone in February after she had heard about this incident.
The blue phones are useful if they are used for the right reasons, she said. Beadles said that she had watched drunken people in the parking lot near GSP-Corbin lean against the phones and accidentally push the emergency button.
using the emergency phone service.
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"I feel bad because I know people who push the button for no reason," she said.
Just in case
Meredith McCarter, Lawrence freshman, said that she was not even sure where all of the emergency phones were. Still she said she felt safer just knowing that they were there.
Even though most students at the University have never used the emergency phones, they want them available. The phones serve as protection for students walking alone at night, Ramsi Lindgren said.
"I think they are necessary to have," the Topeka freshman said. "I'm just not sure how often they are used."
In 2002,160 calls were made from the emergency phones. Calls increased 46 percent in 2003, with 234 calls made.
The main campus has 78 emergency phones,31 of which are located inside buildings.
"I have no reason to believe the
LOCATIONS OF INDOOR EMERGENCY PHONES
There are 31 indoor emergency phones on campus.
SEE PHONES ON PAGE 3A
Bailey Hall 2
Blake Hall 1
Budig Hall 4
Danforth Chapel 1
Dyche Hall Auditorium 1
Eaton Hall 1
Fraser Hall 3
Haworth Hall 2
Kansan Union Tunnel 1
Learned Hall 2
Lindley Hall 3
Malott Hall 1
Murphy Hall 2
Parking Facility 1
Stauffer-Flint Hall 2
Strong Hall 2
Wescoe Hall 2
Source: KU Public Safety Office
Bracelets sell, help to fund scholarship
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Matt Zenner wants to carry on his wife's legacy.
"I'm trying to set up to help people just the way Teri was," he said.
Teri Zenner was his wife, a University of Kansas graduate student and social worker, who was killed while visiting the home of a client in August. Now her
ZENNER
He said he didn't want people to avoid going into the field of social welfare because of what happened to Teri.
Zenner has already raised $5,500 from a bike rally on Nov. 12.
husband is in the process of creating a scholarship, the Teri Zenner Memorial Scholarship, for a master's student in the school of social welfare in Teri's name.
To help raise more money for the scholarship, he and his daughter came up with the idea of selling bracelets bearing the slogan "Teri Tough," a term he and his 9-year-old daughter coined to remind them of the way Teri would want them to be following her death.
He said he wanted to award the scholarship to a student annually, ranging from $1,200 to $1,500. He would like to award the first scholarship in fall of 2005.
Zenner has been selling purple rubber band bracelets with the slogan and two ribbons imprinted on them, but he said there was some concern with the writing rubbing off.
Now he has ordered 10,000 bracelets similar to Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong bracelet, only in purple and with the words "Teri Tough" imprinted on them. He will sell them for $2 each, he said, as opposed to the rubber band bracelet, which is available for $1.
He has already sold 2,000 of the Lance Armstrong-style bracelets, which should arrive next week.
Zenner is also selling car magnets to raise money for the scholarship, which are available along with the bracelets at www.terizenner.com.
Ann Weick, dean of social welfare, said she thought the scholarship was important because it helped preserve Teri's memory.
"She was a very courageous and bright social worker whose life was lost all too soon," Weick said.
She also said it was important because it would provide financial support for future students.
"It's still a field that calls many people to it." she said.
Zenner has also met with leaders such as Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kansas) and U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kansas) to push for laws to protect social workers.
"I'll rest peacefully when I know that social workers can go into a home and not worry about their own safety," he said.
Primarily, he said, he wants to make sure no family ever has to go through what he has.
"There's no words to even 10 percent describe what it's like," Zenner said. "I wouldn't even wish this for my worst enemy."
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City Commission
Two items were removed from the agenda at last night's meeting. The two recommendations were a shelter permit extension and a planning commission appointment . PAGE 5A
Soccer coach reviews
Mark Francis, Kansas women's soccer coach, answers questions about the season's end. He was named Big 12 Coach of the Year. PAGE 10A
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