Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
KJHK receives recognition by Rolling Stone for Web site
By Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
KJHK 90.7 rocks — digitally, any way.
Or at least that's what Rolling Stone said. The national music magazine named the University of Kansas' student-run radio station one of the six college radio stations that rock the World Wide Web in its Oct. 14 issue.
"I'm thrilled," said Gary Hawke, general manager of the station. "We think of those six, we're No. 1."
In reality, Rolling Stone didn't give the stations actual rankings, but Hawke said the exposure it gave KJHK was still nice.
"It's nice to know that someone feels we're doing a good job on the Web, especially someone with the national prestige of Rolling Stone," he said.
In the paragraph about KJHK, Rolling Stone cited it as the first college radio station to do a 24-hour live broadcast on its Web site — kjhk.ukans.edu. Hawke said KJKH began Web broadcasting on Dec. 8.
The magazine also praised the show "Plow the Fields," which gives airtime to
local bands every Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Kim Downing, station manager, said she thought the award was more for the music KJHK played - including
that of many local bands — than the Web site itself.
"At the time they were researching this, the Web site was undergoing significant changes, and it was under construction," she said.
constiction, she said.
Matt Dunehoe, Shawnee senior and assistant music director, said he found it interesting that KJHK would receive an award from Rolling Stone not long after KLZR 105.9 the Lazer — which was named one of the "Ten Stations That Don't Suck" by Rolling Stone last year — changed its format. He said he hoped the Lazer's disenchanted listeners would recognize that they had an alternative.
"ine Lazer is not the last hope for people who want to hear new music," Dunehoo said. "People should check us out."
Downing also said she hoped the recognition would turn students' attention to KJHK.
"I'd like students to go. 'Hey, we're not being served by any of the radio stations in this market except for one: KJHK." she said.
Edited by Brad Hallier
Student Senate may condemn Lazer
Resolution would support fan protests of changes
By Chris Borniger writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Thousands of disgruntled radio listeners will have Student Senate on their sides if Senate passes a resolution condemning local radio station KLZR 105.9 tonight.
The resolution would petition the station's managers to bring back the station's alternative music format. Although it did not go through committees last week, the Student Senate Executive Committee has the power to put it on tonight's Senate agenda.
Sarah Schreck, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, sponsored the resolution. She said it focused on three premises: that the survey the station used in researching the format change was flawed, that several Top 40 popular music stations already broadcast in the area and that the format change could affect the local music scene.
"A lot of people thought they were left out on the decision," Schreck said. "Especially when they first changed, there were a lot of people pissed off."
She said the survey was inaccurate because it was conducted during the summer when thousands of University of Kansas students were away from Lawrence. Moreover, she said, the survey didn't reach many areas that the station's broadcasts do, including Topeka and Johnson County.
Schreck cited the thousands of names on similar petitions on the Internet as proof that the Lazer's audience was not pleased.
"They've alienated a large portion of their listeners." she said.
Schreck and Erin Simpson, CLAS senator and one of the resolution's co-sponsors, said advertisers' support was the Lazer's biggest soft spot. Simpson said that although Senate's influence may be limited, she hoped it would motivate students to boycott businesses that advertise on the station and write letters of protest to the station
"This is a chance for some good, old-fashioned college activism," she said.
StudEx will consider the bill at 4:30 p.m. today at the Governors Room in the Kansas Union.
Ben Walker, StudEx member, said that he was not opposed to the resolution but that committees should have reviewed it first.
"I'll definitely have questions as to why it didn't go through the committee system, but I don't foresee any problems with it," he said.
Full Senate will meet at 6:30 tonight at Room 100 in Smith Hall.
Edited by Julia Nicholson
STUDENT SENATE
In other business, Senate will consider:
A bill to allow committee members to co-sponsor legislation.
A resolution requesting two-far-one parking passes for students living in married housing at Stouffer Place and Sunflower Apartments.
Senate will also consider bills to allocate:
$952 to the American Red Cross Blood Drive.
$ 105 to the Taiwanese Student Association.
$247 to the American Institute of Architecture Students.
$279 to the KU Psychology Club
$342 to Amnesty International
$188 to the Women's Empowerment Action Coalition.
- $312 to Students for a Free Tibet.
- $362 to the KU Campus Internet Association
$143 to Music Mentors.
$418 to the KU Pre-Nursing Club
Teachers to learn new technologies
By Todd Halstead
writer @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The KU Center for Research is the windfall recipient of $1.3 million and will pursue programs designed to prepare teachers for the 21st century.
The money is from the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program, a project to improve technological preparation of teachers.
leal preparation of teachers Jerry Chaffin, who works with the program for the University, said that the funding had the potential to enhance technology in schools throughout the country and to improve technological literacy of teachers.
The University of Kansas is in consortium on the project with universities in four other regional states: Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Each state centers on a different aspect of educating teachers about technology, said Chaffin, professor of education.
Chaffin proffer "All the states contribute to the learning-object repository," Chaffin said. "One state might focus on integration skills, while another might focus on computer skills."
Chaffin said learning objects were any resources that educated teachers about technology, including tutorials for teachers wishing to utilize multimedia in lectures or learning how to use online projects in the classroom.
He said a portion of the federal funding would be used to assist the University of Missouri in developing a faculty mentoring system.
Faculty mentoring involves utilizing experienced people to assist faculty in learning about different technologies, Chaffin said.
There are three different forms of grants within the program: capacitybuilding grants, implementation grants
and catalyst grants.
Capacity building grants support universities and schools by developing a technological infrastructure and acquiring computer equipment for schools; implementation grants support full-scale innovations to prepare teachers technologically; and catalyst grants, for which Chaffin is a leader, stimulate ideas for technological improvements.
Ron Aust, project leader of the implementation grant, said that his group recently received $1.38 million for a project called Learning Generation.
ect canteen." Learning Generation resources will be used to enrich teacher education at the University of Kansas School of Education in cooperation with six regional school districts," he said.
Christy Blauer, project coordinator of professional development for the catalyst grant, said that most of the $1.3 million would go to online development of resources and a creation of a central Web site that allowed instructors from other consortium universities to share resources.
RESOURCES "Most of the money is going toward online development of resources, and it will help take advantage of existing knowledge of faculty in the department," Blauer said.
Robert Barnhill, vice chancellor for research and public service, said that the amount of money granted was not surprising.
"These people do such good work we expect some good things to happen," Barnhill said.
Blauer said that the amount of funding was nice but warranted because of the group's success in the past.
"I felt our group had enough evidence of previous success," Blauer said. "But I was still excited about receiving that much funding."
Edited by Jamie Knodel
Phony e-mails irritate students
Continued from page 1A
That's a phrase that sets off alarm bells in Smith's head.
"If you see anything in the subject line like 'Win a million dollars!' or 'Answer this now!', it's probably fake," Smith said. "If you get the sense someone is trying to to sell something or get you to do something, it's suspicious."
The e-mail's promise of riches is simply not true, she said.
It gives the name and phone number of a person who claims to have made $800 from it, but callers to the number receive this message: "If this call is regarding the Microsoft/AOL e-mail, it is a hoax. Please do not forward it to anyone."
That's a sentiment Smith echoes. And in the meantime, Academic Computing Services is cracking down on those who have forwarded it because spammings is a violation of University policy.
Voltage of the vehicle Smith said it was the standard policy to temporarily shut down accounts of those who had been reported spamming. If the
same people violate any network policies again, they will be reprimanded more severely, though there is no specific penalty, she said.
But the owner of one of the e-mail addresses from which spam originated said he hadn't done it.
Christopher Walla, Colorado Springs,
Colo. freshman, said he wasn't even
aware spam had come from his e-mail
account.
Smith said all of the recent spamming had been done using Webmail's address book, a tool not available to spammers in previous semesters because Webmail came online this summer.
Smith said that Webmail's address book had been restricted somewhat because of the spamming but that she would like to keep it as open as possible.
"It's very important that we help facilitate communication on campus by providing people's e-mail addresses," Smith said. "But we can't afford to have people spamming like this. It's a losing battle."
Edited by Brad Hallier
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