WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.4
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FEATURES
Lawrence's acid test
The "new" New Orleans acid jazz sound returns to the local music scene, Page 12A.
SPORTS
Defensive doctor
New football defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz wants to turn around the Jayhawk defense. Page 1B.
NATION
Congressman found guilty
Rep. Mel Reynolds, D-III., was found guilty of having sex with an underage campaign worker, Page 10A.
WORLD
Talks resume in Middle East
PLO and Israeli leaders are negotiating after a deadly bombing in Jerusalem, Page 11A.
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INDEX
Features ...12A
Scoreboard ...2B
Horoscopes ...4B
National News...8A
World News ...11A
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KU offices adapting to hiring freeze
Staff vacancies remain unfilled
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
a hiring freeze is in full force at the University of Kansas, but many University offices seem to be doing just fine.
The freeze, which went into effect.
June 1, is part of a University-wide budget reduction.
It temporarily prevents departments on campus from filling vacant classified and unclassified positions.
University officials hope it will help cut KU's 1996 fiscal year budget by $3 million.
Many University departments have been able to adapt in spite of a shrunken staff—for now.
Bence Williams, assistant direc
tor of personnel at Facilities Operations, said the duties of many employees there had been expanded since the freeze.
"People are being asked to do more than they had before," he said.
Marc Adin, director of Human Resources, said his office had lost two positions that had not been filled.
With a bit of reorganization and redesign, he said the office had
been able to cope.
"It hasn't decreased our ability to serve the needs of the campus," Adin said. "But, if we permanently lose positions, the dynamics of the office will change."
Ralph Oliver, assistant director of KU Police, said the department, although subject to the freeze, was not affected.
Some offices would like to have the freeze lifted for individual hiring, but they don't count on that happening.
"We haven't hired a new officer since 1990," he said. "When a position becomes open, we use it for
shrinkage or for overtime. it really doesn't affect us."
Campus departments can appeal to a vice chancellor for a lift of the hiring freeze. The request is considered by the chancellor.
The freeze will be in effect until June 30,1996.
KU researchers now have a way to get more Internet in less time
CYBER Magic
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
Photo Illustration by Paul Kotz / KANSAN
This will be accomplished through MAGIC, also known as Multidimensional Application and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium.
With a new development called MAGIC, or Multidimensional Application and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium, people using the Internet will have access to more information in record time. MAGIC was the product of a KU research project.
In the not-too-distant future, computer users will be able to access information from the Internet in record time because of recent technologies developed by KU researchers.
The system was developed by researchers from the KU telecommunications department.
"To put that in perspective, the campus network today has 10 million bits per second, so this is 200 times faster," Frost said.
Victor Frost, director of the KU Telecommunications Laboratory, said through the use of fiber optics, MAGIC operates at 2.4 billion bits per second.
MAGIC was created as the result of a three-year project started in 1992. Frost said that instead of having separate phone and cable lines, MAGIC enabled users to connect their phones, computers and televisions onto the same line. The system would be more efficient and quicker.
"It's basically the model that the future will look like," he said.
Frost said using MAGIC was different from using a computer with a modem because signals sent through the phone line are in the form of tones, which must be translated by the computer into information.
Information sent through MAGIC is digital from end to end, so nothing needs to be translated, allowing the transmission to
be completed more quickly, he said.
Mike Swink, a Lenexa graduate student who completed his telecommunications master's thesis on MAGIC, said MAGIC was great for sending video and voice transmissions over long distances. He said that, unlike current images sent over the Internet, MAGIC allowed those receiving the images to see a clear transmission without any delay.
Swink said the system would be useful
as a teaching tool for those who wanted to instruct others far away on using the computer.
"It allows you to show others your screen as you use it." Swink said.
Through MAGIC, teachers can manipulate the students' computers so that they are all looking at the same screen. That way, students can see everything from what commands are being used to where the teacher is moving the mouse.
Swink said one project in the works for the telecommunications department was a way to use MAGIC over radio waves so that it could be used with mobile phones.
Swink said this new system would be beneficial for military field work because MAGIC did not require that every server be connected to a central host.
"That way, if one instrument gets knocked down, the whole operation is not disconnected," he said.
KU's student radio station sports new logo
KJHK's connection to campus clears up
By Sarah Wlese
Kansan staff writer
In an effort to increase the student radio station's connection to the University of Kansas, KJHK 90.7 FM has changed its logo from "The Sound Alternative" to "The Hawk."
revealed that per- pead he had heard of KJHK but didn't know it was a campus station, said Jay Berberick, student station manager.
The executive staff's decision comes after years of surveys that
"It's just one of the bricks in building a better, more popular, more listened-to station," said Hawke, who's been general manager since May 1994.
Increasing the number of listeners is the intended outcome of the new logo. Hawke said.
our strongest goals was to be identified as the campus radio station," Berberick said.
Gary Hawke, the station's general manager, said the use of the original Jayhawk, illustrated by Henry Malloy in 1912, was a creative twist to the loto.
"We felt one of
Although the staff tossed around several ideas, they kept coming back to "The Hawk," Berberick said. The station's call letters are even short-hand for Kansas Jayhawk.
obvious," Berberick said.
"The name is only intended to be
Logo changes often signal coinciding format changes. For example, when 98.9 FM in Kansas City changed from "The River" to "The Rock" the
musical offering went from easy listening to heavy metal.
This is not the case with JKHJ. Its format will stay the same — a combination of up-and-coming rock, jazz and other types of music, as well as sports, news and special programs.
David Day, Wichita senior and music director, said the old logo didn't represent the music KJHK played.
"There are so many genres of music in our rotation, that to call it alternative isn't quite right," Day said.
Day said KJHK specialized in offering listeners up-and-comending musical groups that commercial radio stations don't play.
"We don't play what's on MTV," Day said. "You can only hear the music we play on KJHK."
Berberick said the station played groups such as Pavement, Sonic Youth and Primus months, if not years, before the commercial stations picked them up.
"The Sound Alternative" to some people meant underground music, period, said Jana Blackburn, Lawrence senior and KJHK's news director.
"It was a connotation people didn't relate to." Blackburn said.
"A lot of people didn't realize we're even doing news." Blackburn said.
The new logo should increase awareness that KJHK has more than music to offer, she said.
Newscasts reported, anchored and produced by students, covering the University and Lawrence community, run Monday through Friday at 7.8, and 9 a.m. and 5 a. p.m.
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Berberick said the sports department broadcasts football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball games live, in addition to regular
sportscasts at 8 and 9 a.m.and 9 n. m.
The student-run station has added two new special programs as part of its continuing effort to get better, he said.
Sports Talk, hosted by Zach Klein and Chris Ronan, is a daily call-in show that begins after the 5 p.m. newcast and lasts until 6 p.m. The show regularly will feature sport. Karen
trum will lead a candid discussion of current issues. Students who want to express their opinions can step up to an open mike and fire away.
"We felt one of our strongest goals was to be identified as the campus radio station." Jay Berberick KJHK station manager
feature sports guests, including Kansas athletes.
Starting today, KJHK will broadcast a new talk show, called Flint and Steel, from noon to 1 p.m. each Wednesday from Wescoe Terrace. A moderator and two students on opposite ends of the political spec-
In addition to expanding programming, KJHK has also expanded its potential audience. Last December KJHK became the first radio station in history to broadcast a continuous live signal over the Internet. Berberick said they had received emailed responses from places as far
away as Scotland, Japan and Australia. KJHK's internet address is: http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~kjhknet
"If students give us a chance, they'll like what they hear," Bericker said. "I think we're setting the pace for college radio all over the world."