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STUDENT LIFE
Vandalism mars residence halls
BY KATY BLAIR
Fire alarms aren't the main problem in McCollum Hall nowmore.
Residence halls have become a haven for inappropriate — sometimes illegal — behavior, and this semester has definitely had its share.
"I've seen used condoms there a lot," said Talal Alsahli, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, freshman. "They put them in the ceiling."
Alsahli said he's seen other strange things in McColum this year. On his cell phone, Alsahli had a picture of
soiled underwear that he saw on the eighth floor.
Another McColllum resident, Tariq Musa, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, freshman, said the ninth floor wasn't as bad as others because women lived in two of the three wings.
Musa said he expected to see that kind of behavior in residence halls because it could be boring otherwise.
"The furniture is upside-down all the time." Musa said.
Alsahli and Musa said that people have also used the elevators to urinate and defecate in.
Jennifer Wamelin, interim associate director for resident life for the Department of Student Housing, said major incidents like these are isolated.
"We don't have a real repeated problem," Wamelink said. "But everyone loses when students make the choice to damage property and then don't come forward."
She said the protocol for solving issues in the residence halls was to first try to find the culprit. If the guilty party doesn't come forward,
GSP-Corbin Hall has become a problem area for students tampering with fire safety equipment. Wamelink said many fire extinguishers had been set off without anyone taking responsibility. Wamelink
the department of Student Housing has to absorb the cost of repairing or replacing the damage.
Wamelink said this would raise the department's cost of maintenance, and thus, the cost of room and board for students.
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AUCTION
Andrew Stangl, Wichita senior and president of SOMA, auctions off Henry Bernberg, Northbrook, Ill., sophomore and treasurer of SOMA. For the winning bidder Henry was willing to work three hours for a local charity and teach sword fighting. Half of the proceeds from the auction go to the Douglas County AIDS Foundation.
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SOMA sells souls for charity
BY TYLER HARBERT
The devil looked them over, set a price for their souls and one-by-one auctioned off students who were willing to sign their lives over, at least for a few hours.
Souls were the hot commodity last night at the Hawks Nest in the Kansas Union during the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics' third annual soul auction.
Participants were introduced by SOMA president Andrew Stangl, Wichita senior, and then evaluated by the devil, played by SOMA member Jon Voisey, St. Louis senior, who called out the opening bid.
The participants were sold to the
highest bidder who then negotiated what the person would do for them from a preset list of activities, like going on a date, tutoring them, volunteering at their desired venue or doing general labor.
Some of the less conventional activities participants were willing to do for their purchaser included lessons in sword fighting, saxophone and poker tutoring and a trip to St. Louis for a concert to see The Police.
"Generally, I think people are going for $20 to $30 on average." Stangl said.
So what's the going rate on a soul these days?
Douglas County AIDS Project. More than $800 was raised from the sale of 24 souls.
The funds raised at the event were split equally between SOMA and the
The soul that raised the most money belonged to Hilary Hauber, Overland Park junior and SOMA member.
"I guess I'm just happy to raise money for AIDS," she said. "It's obviously a really important cause."
Hauber said she was surprised her soul sold for $100.
Her buyer was her friend Bailey Perkins, Newton sophomore and SOMA member, who won her soul after a heated bidding rivalry.
"It went from $80 to $100 and I thought, 'Why not?' " Perkins said. "She's worth it."
buying Perkins's soul for $60, and they decided they would pay off their debts by spending time together.
"It will give us an excuse to hang out but we paid for it in advance," Perkins said.
Stangl said in one instance in a previous year, a pair of souls sold together for $400. He said women tended to sell higher than men.
He also said the event was SOMA's largest fundraiser each year and the money given to SOMA is used to organize other events and speakers.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
Hauber returned the favor by later
Edited by Trevan McGee
Stations created for breast feeding
PARENTING
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
In an ice pack filled cooler in the trunk of Blythe Glemming's car lies chilled breast milk she pumped hours earlier.
Glemming, Oklahoma City graduate student, has been using the Burge Union lactation station for the past two months, which has helped her save time, ensure privacy and
Similar to the Burge lactation station, Kathy Rose-Mockry's office has been used as a lactation station four times since the stations opened earlier this semester.
keep a good supply of milk for her son, born on Dec. 10, 2006.
"I need all the time I can get," she said. "It's really worth it."
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Lactation Stations
There are several lactation stations on campus where students and faculty can nurse their children or express their milk. Users should call a couple of weeks ahead of time to ensure the room's availability.
Higuchi Complex, West
Lean Complex, W
Campus
Contact: Susan Sloop
864-5142
Blake Hall
Kansas Union
Burge Union
Kansas Union
Contact: Kathy Rose-Mockry
or Kristen Abell
864-3552
Blake Hall
Contact: Melanie Hepburn
864-8937
Burge Union
Contact: Carol diVilbiss
864-7682
Multicultural Resource Center
Contact: Santos Nuñez
864-4364
For more information, visit the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center Web site at www.etwrc.
ku.edu.
》 BINARY BEATS
KJHK to use digital archive
BY ASHLEE KIELER
Transfer process to take months
Listeners of KJHK can expect improved quality of programming as early as this fall with the implementation of a new digital archive.
The digital achieve provides a secure storage for all of KJHK's vinyl records and compact discs.
Student Senate approved a bill on Wednesday securing $15,000 from the Senate reserve account for the archive.
Tom Johnson, general manager for KJHK, said the secure storage would cost about $32,000. Twenty-five thousand dollars will go to the actual secure storage, $4,000 wil go to equipment and $8,000 wil go to paying student hourly positions for archiving.
Chris Dickinson, Derby junior and director for information services, said the archiving process should begin by the end of the month.
"We'll start with CDs, which should be done by the end of summer," Dickinson said. "The vinyls will take longer to ensure good sound from them."
Nick Ray, program director for KJHK, said the new system would allow for KJHK to preserve music forever and to share it with future generations.
"We get music from independent retailers and labels, and sometimes they only make 10 copies, so it will be nice to know they are secure." Ray said.
Some music from the '70s and '80s can't be found anymore, Ray said.
Justin Brown, Overland Park senior and host of Alternative Flashback on KJHK, said the digital archive would benefit the station in more than one way.
"It's great for preserving the music and more convenient for some DJs to fill requests more quickly." Brown said.
Danielle Basci, Houston, Texas, senior and host of Grey Radio on KJHK, said the new system will lessen the time it takes to find requests.
Through time the vinyls have deteriorated from being played so many times. At times it's difficult to find the records because they are out of place or their sleeves are hard to read, Brown said.
"We can actually find the requests instead of saying we will and not having time to look before a new song comes on," Basci said.
The new program also lessens the chance that music will be lost or stolen.
Melissa Knudsen, Wichita senior and music director for KJHK, said in the past a problem existed when music went missing.
"If we have the music in a secure digital setting we'll always have it in case something were to happen," Knudsen said.
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