10A NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
MAIL (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
She said that students who hadn't filed change of address forms would show up at the post office as many as three months after they moved looking for their mail. But the post office can only hold mail for 10 days before it is returned to
before it is returned to sender.
The Lawrence post office has been working on ways to educate students about changing their addresses. Raney mentioned that they had contemplated sending a post card to addresses where they knew students lived.
up occurs it can take up to two weeks, but added, "that is very rare."
So far students at residence halls haven't had the problems receiving mail that Garner has.
Kyra Sims, Memphis Junior.
She said that earlier
It's amazing how many people move each year.
this month, processing a change of address form took up to 14 days,a process that typically takes four to seven.
works as a desk assistant at both Oliver Hall and Hashinger Hall. She said neither of those two residence halls has had any mail problems yet.
TERRY PENLAND Customer relations manager
Penland said the process usually takes about a week, and when back
" W e
haven't had any passionate complaints." Sims said.
She added that it was probably too early to know whether there were any problems with delayed mail because the dorms just opened last
Sunday.
According to the Postal Service, three ways are available to submit a change of address form: At the local post office, online or through the Postal Service call center.
"it's amazing how many people move each year," Penland said.
Penland said that the Postal Service doesn't keep statistics for individual cities, but Raney estimated between 25,000 and 30,000 change of address forms were filed in Lawrence last year.
"That's a conservative estimate," Raney said. "I don't want to overstate it."
Kansan staff writer Jack Weinstein can be contacted at jweinstein@ kansan.com.
Edited by Travis Robinett
Chris Neal/KANSAN
Karen Anderson, Sales and Service Associate helps John Tonkin of Leawood mail a package on Wednesday afternoon at the Lawrence Post Office at 7th and Vermont. The Lawrence Post Office moves about 100,000 pieces of mail a day, destined for all parts of the country.
Leak causes safety scare in Malott Tuesday night; no gas leak discovered
About 10:30 Wednesday night custodians working in Malott discovered a leak in an air pipe inside a lab room on the third floor and thought it might be a gas leak.
from the building.
A fire truck and ambulance arrived on the scene minutes later and the custodians were evacuated
Fire captain James King said a split in a hose connected to an air dryer caused the leak. King said that the leak posed no danger and that the building was safe to conduct classes in.
He said that even though fire alarms existed in the building he was not aware of any other systems to detect possible gas leaks.
Head custodian Henry Wilkes said there were eight custodians
working on different floors in the building at the time of the leak. Wilkes said many of the employees had just started their shifts and were entering the building as it was being evacuated.
Custodian Judy Bryant said she was just coming off of a break when she noticed flashing lights from the fire trucks and employees filing out of the building.
Courtney Hagen
HAWKLINK (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
More than 320 students have signed up for membership in the HAWK Link program at orientations during the summer, while more were expected to sign up during the two events.
Juan Izaguirre, HAWK Link program director, said the progran was founded in 1998 to help keep multicultural students coming back to the University after their freshman years. Izaguirre said that most recently HAWK Link added a sophomore transition program, which would ease sophomores into their junior and senior years.
HAWK Link attracted multicultural student organizations to publicize events and issues at Take Over The Beach. Those that showed up included the Office of Multicultural
Affairs, the Black Student Union,
the Htispanic American Leadership
Organization, NPHC and others.
Amanda Ostgulen, New Student Orientation special projects assistant and Lenena senior, said the Office of Multicultural Affairs has supported the HAWK Link program for many years to help ease the transition for first year multicultural students.
"These events are very important to the Hawk Week schedule." Ostgulen said. "We are always excited to have their programs included in Hawk Week because they are very important to the University and they help promote diversity on campus."
jonathan Lathan, Omaha, Neb., freshman, used the block party on Tuesday night as such. Lathan attended the block party after he finished moving into his residence hall and said the event was meaningful to him as a new out-of-state student.
new and returning students.
"This is a good chance to meet new people," Lathan said. "I didn't know anyone coming here when I got here, but then I met a new group of people."
Ostgulen said the events were also useful as a social transition for
Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
—Edited by Travis Robinett
POLICY (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
McCluskey-Fawcett, a member of the task force, said the elimination of late drops combined with the threat of the "WF" would make students stay in classes they started.
"Students will persist rather than take the 'WF,' McCluskey-Fawcett said.
Thomas Powell, Tonganoxie senior, said he was comfortable with the change to the policy.
"It'll make people get a better idea of how they're going to handle their classes," he said.
changes to affect him in future classes.
Powell had dropped a class on the last day because he said he had been lazy, but he didn't expect the
Kansan staff writer Danny Lupino can be contacted at dluppino@kansan.com.
—Edited by Mindy Ricketts
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