INSIDE Salary increases Administrators hope a 6-percent pay increase will keep top professors at the University. PAGE 3
Dole Institute anniversary
As the Dole Institute marks its one-year anniversary, concerns remain over
who's in charge. PAGE 4
Movin' out
The end of July marks the end of student leases and the beginning of a new problem. PAGE 12
Relays director honored
Kansas Relays director Tim Weaver will manage the track and field USA Men's Team. PAGE 17
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VOL. 114 ISSUE NO. 158
Just when you thought it was safe...
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Victoria Brack, 12, and Kimberly Brack, 10 listen to a lifeguard's instructions to get out of the pool at the Lawrence Downtown Aquatic Center yesterday afternoon. The pool was cleared for thirty minutes to allow for clean-up of an accident in the water.The aquatic center works to ensure safety from health-related problems such as cryptosporidiosis which is often spread in swimming pools. For more on pool safety see PAGE 11.
Officials study new fuel
University continues research in biodiesel alternatives
By Abby Tillery
atlery@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When University of Kansas representatives contacted Dennis Hupe about the use of biodiesel on campus, the director of field services for the Kansas soybean commission was more than happy to help and answer questions.
The University is advancing its investigation of biodiesel options for campus, which it has been following for the past three or four years.
Since 1992 the United Soybean
Board has been spearheading research about biodiesel as an alternate fuel. Soybean oil is a major contributor in making biodiesel and Kansas has more than 16,000 soybean producers.
Jim Long, vice provost for facilities planning and management at the University, said research was ongoing but no decisions had been made about using biodiesel as a substitute for regular petroleum diesel.
"The information we've needed has developed to a point that the University is engaged in a study of potential use of these fuels," he said.
Warranties on vehicles are one of the concerns being looked into. Hupe said fuel containing 20 percent biodiesel would not void or change a warranty for any major engine manufacturer in the United States.
Biodiesel has become an attractive alternative to petroleum diesel because of its feasibility in diesel engines and its reduction in sulfur and particulate matter - the top two pollutants produced from the burning of petroleum diesel.
Particulate matter is the dark solid
SEE BIODIESEL ON PAGE 24