KUCAMPUS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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KU Computer Center offers e-Mail service
By Erin Johnson Special to the Kansan
An e-mail account allows users to exchange mail by computer with friends, family or classmates who also have accounts. Users also can talk on-line with friends who also are online at the same time.
Academic Computing Services offers enrolled students, faculty and staff free e-mail accounts.
Accounts must be obtained in person at the center. A current KUID is necessary at the time that people open the account.
Students who want to connect their personal computers to their account must pay $30 per year to dial in to one of the computer terminal servers. E-mail accounts do not need to be renewed every semester.
KU has several multi-user systems. FALCON and KUHUB are two of the most common accounts. Both provide easy access to e-mail
and news. FALCON is the best choice for users who are not as familiar with computers.
Computing Services offers free one hour introductory seminars.
"If planning on getting an e-mail account, you should attend 'Intro to Pine (the e-mail program) and 'Dialing in with Your PC/Mac,' advises Laura Green, a consultant in Academic Computer Services.
Documentation for the software is available at the computer center inside the user area, which is open 24 hours.
Pamphlets listing the seminars and work-
shops are also available.
Users need to have a password in mind when they open their account. The password cannot be a common word, name or number.
Each account only is issued to one person and sharing of passwords can result in having an account terminated.
For more information call the Academic Computing Services at 804-0100.
Computing Workshops
Academth Computer Services also offers three hour work shops for a fee. Programs for both PC and Macintosh computers, as well as some platform-Independent workshops, are offered.
Complete descriptions of all workshops and seminars are available at the Computer Center reception desk or on KU Facts.
Some of the workshops available are:
Intro to Word
Intro to Excel
Intro to Quark XPress
Intro to FoxPro
Intro to WordPerfect
Intro to Lotus
The Internet Explained
Internet Applications
The Web Explained
Setting up a Web Server
Creating Documents with HTML
Traditions abound at University of Kansas
Amanda Traughber Special to the Kansan
New KU students have a variety of activities to choose from that will help them get acquainted with the campus and its traditions.
Not only do the activities teach new students about traditions, but most of them are traditions themselves.
Hawk Week
Hawk Week, the week before classes, is packed with social events and icebreakers organized by the New Student Orientation Center.
Hawk Week activities:
First, new and returning students pay fees and buy books. Once they have done this, they get acquainted or reacquainted with the KU campus and Lawrence.
Another traditional Hawk Week activity is Beach-n-Boulevard, a
The first activity, Playfair, is an icebreaker for new students held on the front lawn of Allen Field House. The activity is organized by a group called Playfair, which trains about 20 KU students to entertain and ease new students into KU's social atmosphere. Icebreakers include asking students to find someone with a birthday during the same month as their own, said Kathryn Kretschmer, director of the office of New Student Orientation.
party at Wesco Beach, the area in front of Wesco Hall where many students congregate. Since 1987, Beach-n-Boulevard has featured local musical groups, a dance, the KU Band and prize giveaways.
Also during Hawk Week, students can go to Traditions Night to learn the alma mater, the significance of the waving of the wheat, the passing of the torch and the evolution of the Jayhawk mascot.
KU cheerleaders usually lead the crowd at Memorial Stadium in the Rock Chalk chant. The Marching Jayhawks play the Jayhawk fight song, and the Student Senate president gives a speech to introduce
himself or herself.
Traditions Night has been held since 1985, but the final Hawk Week activity, Opening Convocation, has been a tradition for almost 130 years, since the University opened, Kretschmer said.
Opening Convocation is a ceremony to usher in the academic year, and the chancellor, vice chancellor and other University figures address the students.
Originally, Opening Convocation was in Hoch Auditorium, which was destroyed by a fire in 1991. It now is held at the Lied Center while Hoch is being rebuilt.
Day on the Hill
An end-of-the-year tradition called Day on the Hill usually is scheduled the last weekend in April or the first weekend in May. Day on the Hill is a day when several local, regional and national bands play. The day is organized by Student Union Activities has organized every year since 1988.
In 1986 and 1987 a similar concert known as the Jayhawk Jam was held. Some headlining bands that played at Day on the Hill in recent years were Pearl Jam, the Glin Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket. Susan Hoffman, program adviser for SUA, said the organization usually tried to schedule five or six bands for the day.
“Walking down the hill”
Another spring tradition since 1924 is the graduates' walk down the hill. Each spring, graduates have formed a processional line starting at Memorial Drive and walked a winding path down the hill, until they reached Memorial Stadium, where the graduation ceremony is held. This year the tradition changed with the splitting of the one line into two lines.
"Usually, instead of saying that they are going to graduate many students say that they'll be 'walking down the hill in May,'" said Harlan Roedel, news coordinator at University Relations.
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