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CAMPUS
The top to do's on the top of the hill
BYTOM SLAUGHTER
As students return for the full semester, there will be plenty of opportunities to explore scholastic ventures on campus. What might be lost are the niceties that "the hill" offers students when they need to take a break. Kansan reporter Shungher polled KU students to find out what they prefer doing on campus when they aren't in class. The responses are compiled below.
Best Bathroom
1. BUDIG COMPUTER LAB
This was the winner hands-down. Five urinals one lowered, four stalls, four sinks, including one in the handicap stall, and one full-length mirror. This is truly the daring bathroom of the University. For guys, at least.
2. WATSON LIBRARY FOURTH FLOOR
"It's a nice, quiet place to use the bathroom," Jacob Colbe, Baldwin sophomore, said. Colbe was reluctant, however, to confess that the Watson bathroom was his favorite. "Now everybody will know my secret."
3. ANSCHUTZ "QUIET ZONE"
The reason people go there to study is also the reason they go there to do their business: you can be down there for hours and not be bothered.
Parking Lot #72, just east of the Burge Union, is typically the first student lot to fill up during the day. In order to ease traffic congestion and free up space, the Parking Department is currently constructing a New Park and Ride Lot on West Campus.
Best Place to People Watch
1. WESCOE BEACH
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Whether it's a white-haired preacher screaming Bible verses or a guy in a chicken-suit handing out flyers, Wescot Beach is never short on its list of characters.
2. THE LIBRARY
3. THE CROSSING
Being at the library implies being studious, not precrastinating. However, there are always people to look at if one needs a study break.
The consumemate slacker's place to people watch. Unfortunately, patrons need to take advantage while they still can; it might be closing soon.
1. CHICK-FIL-A
Best Campus Restaurant
2. SUSHI STATION
The campus favorite narrowly defeated the Sushi station as the best restaurant on campus.
3. BRELLAS SANDWICH CRAFTERS
The small boutique serves "Cream Cheese Rolls," "California Rolls" and the "Fullmoon Crab Combo," amongst a plethora of others.
With servers who prepare sandwiches to order, they also have such meals as the "Roasted Picnic Chicken Sandwich," "Meatball grinder" and the "Mega Veggie Delight."
While these three restaurants had the top three responses, they were various other choices on campus that received votes.
"I'm hooked on the Chinese place at the Under ground," Warren Parker, Olate junior said.
Rect Place in Sleep
There is a lot of room to hide on the fourth floor at Watson, particularly toward the back of the stacks. Drool-laden naps are a common occurrence. Parker said that he has never slept on campus, but if he did, this would be the place. "Td imagine the library would be, probably Watson," he said.
1. WATSON LIBRARY, FOURTH FLOOR
While this building is bustling with students, the three feet of space between the walls and the carpeted benches offer welcomed seclusion.
Self explanatory. The deals with dividers that line the walls offer dozoes seclusion in the otherwise busy 24 hour-a-day library known as "Club Anachora."
WESCOE, FOURTH FLOOR
3. ANSCHUTZ "QUIET ZONE"
Best Place to Starboard
"The setting is perfect for a late afternoon bake Campanie Hill, Memorial Stadium and the rollag hill of Eastern Kansas are just perfect. "It's not right on the main flow of traffic," Chavis Lickov, Houston junior, said as to why he thinks it's a great place to bake.
1. POTTER'S LAKE
2. FRASER HALL
The lawn in front of Freser is often occupied by an impromptu game of Fakebee on warm days, but students agreed that this was the next best place to be out.
Sort of an odd place to want to enjoy, nickname alike. Despite herds of passer by on the way to class say the carnival nets of the tunic in film of Warner Hall students enjoy catching was here.
3. WESCOE BEACH
Kenyan staff writer Tom Slaughter can be reached at tomslaughter@kansan.com
CRACKING THE PARKING COLOR CODE
PARKING
BY TOM SLAUGHTER
There are 135 parking lots at the University of Kansas that consist of more than 13,000 spaces. Considering those figures, one would think that finding a parking space on campus is an easy task. While available parking might seem ample, anyone who has ever tried to park on campus knows that it isn't that easy finding a space.
As students approach the 2006-2007 school year, it is important that they have an idea of the parking situation on campus.
Donna Hultine, director of Parking Services, said that the beginning of each fall semester posed difficulties for students, faculty, staff and visitors.
"We will have gridlock," Hultine said.
There are 19 different parking permits available on campus. However, approximately 70 percent of the lots on campus correspond with a color-coded system. Access to these lots is based upon certain merits, including age and position. Gold is of the highest color distinction, followed by blue, red and yellow. Permits of higher distinction supersede lower ones, meaning people with the higher-ranking permits can park in lots below their color distinction.
Most students purchase yellow permits, available at the Parking Department, just north of Allen Fieldhouse, for $140. There are 35 yellow lots on campus, and approximately 5,500 corresponding spaces.
A new policy will prevent incoming freshmen from purchasing yellow permits this year. Hultine said the new policy was a result of the implementation of the Park and Ride system on campus. Freshmen can purchase a Park and Ride permit for $205 through KU on Wheels. Failing to pay parking tickets can result in enrollment holds, and the department can have a car towed.
Hultine said that the majority of students who received parking tickets got them because they confused the color distinctions.
Brian Stites, Olathe graduate student, has received tickets throughout his time at KU. He hasn't had his car towed, but he has dealt with some consequences of outstanding tickets.
Hultine said that the meter
Hultine said that the department generally would tow a violator's vehicle if there were three outstanding tickets for more than ten business
days.
parking spaces on Sunnyside Avenue stuck out in her mind as being a highly-ticketed area.
"I would bet you could have a ticket-writer there all day," Hultine said.
Kansan staff writer Tom Slaughter can be reached at tslaughter@ kansan.com
—Edited by Dani Hurst
EMPLOYMENT
On-campus jobs offer students convenience
From July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 there were 4,500 students employed by the University of Kansas, Two thousand of those students were graduate teaching assistants, while the other 2,500
BY ADRIENNE BOMMARITO
students worked in various departments and offices on campus.
Having an on-campus job can be beneficial to students because it offers flexible schedules, understanding employers and the opportunity to meet people within the
Ann Hartley, associate director of the University Career Center, said an on-campus job could also prepare students for post-graduation success.
University.
"Sometimes offices become a really good reference for after graduation," she said. "It helps build resume and skills, even if it's in an area different from their major."
Kessan file photo
Students have many on-campus job opportunities, including working for KU Dining Services at The Underground in Wescoe Hall. Students looking for jobs at the University can go online to www.ku.edu and click on jobs.
Kolobrodova, who doesn't have a car, walks to work everyday from her house at 19th and Alabama streets. Even when she did have a car, Kolobrodova still did for the on-campus job because of the convenient location.
Anastasia Kolobrodova, Overland Park junior, works for KU's computer labs as a computer lab assistant in Anschutz Library, which is adjacent to Budig Hall. She said it "is the best job ever" because it's convenient and her boss is great.
Kolobrodova said she had friends who worked long or late-night hours that upset their sleep schedule, which was another reason she appreciated her job.
"Whenever we have time,we can work," she said. "And we don't have to work obnoxious hours."
Students interested in finding an on-campus job can visit KU's job Web site, which is located under jobs at www.ku.edu.
Hartley said finding an on
"It's helpful in terms of availability between classes," she said. "Sometimes it's easier to go back and forth with a campus job because it's convenient."
Hartley agreed that an on-campus job benefited students in accommodating their class schedule.
campus job could be competitive because the Web site allowed easy accessibility to the applications.
"Before online applications, students had to run around to each office, so there weren't as many applications," she said. "Before they only got 15 to 20 applications. Now they might get 40."
But don't get discouraged yet. With 1,430 jobs posted between July 1. 2005 and June 30, 2006, there is bound to be a job position that fits.
"It becomes more important for applications to look good and have lots of information on it," she said. "Make sure everything is complete and class schedule is up-to-date."
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Hartley recommended that students stay persistent when applying, and put lots of information on the applications, especially in the skills section.
Hartley said there were a variety of on-campus jobs available to students, from office and department jobs to tutoring and grading to positions in the campus labs, computer centers, libraries and residence halls.
"It's a real interesting mix," she said.
Kansan staff writer Adrienne Bommarito can be reached at abonmarto@kansan.com
Edited by Dani Hurst