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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS BRIEFS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2004
Power outage causes LSAT to be delayed
By John Scheirman
jscheirman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Some students spent Monday afternoon retaking the Law School Admission Test, which they had nearly completed one week before. A sudden power failure in the Burge Union forced them to return and retake the exam this week.
According to Jeff Dunlap, Leawood senior, who was taking the test when the incident occurred, the test-takers had completed four of the exam's five sections when the lights flickered and then went out. The students were told to move to Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The test administrators then realized that the auditorium had no desk surfaces attached to the seats.
"After a good deal of confusion we went to the Union Ballroom. The Union was going to set up tables for us. Then they told us they were canceling it," Dunlap said.
When the test-takers left the Kansas Union, they had no idea when they would be allowed to complete the LSAT. Wendy M. Rohleder-Sook, pre-law advisor, sent University pre-law students an e-mail message on June 16. They were told they could retake the exam at a make-up session on Monday or at the next regularly scheduled date in October.
Wendy Margolis, director of communications for the LSAT, said there was too much disruption to complete the test on June 14, and that moving to the new site had given test-takers the opportunity to discuss the test among themselves, which was unacceptable. She confirmed that the test-takers had to retake the entire LSAT.
Hayley Urkevich, Kansas State University senior, did not find out about the make-up date until Thursday, and it forced her to change her travel plans.
"I think there could have been a way that we could have continued taking the test," she said. "You have to take the whole test again. The first time is entirely void. We'll never know how we would have done the first time if it had counted." Urkevich said.
Robyn Conaway, Sallisaw, Okla., senior, who took the make-up exam Monday looked at the situation as a mixed blessing.
"At first, I didn't want to take it again. But it seemed like one thing positive came out of it — I was more confident the second time," she said.
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Edited by Joe Burke
David Guseman, of DPI Contracting, measures the posts for a new playground piece near Hilltop Child Development Center. Guseman said the piece was one of four new playgrounds that was going in near Hilftop. He said the construction would go smoothly barring any rain, and they should be finished by the end of this week.
A place to play
CORRECTIONS
Two 'Hawks drafted
The Wednesday, June 16, edition of The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The photo of junior third baseman Travis Metcalf tagging out an opponent was mislabeled. The opponent was from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.
Baseball
Overland Park Junior, 30, dies; survived by husband,daughter
The Wednesday, June 16, edition of The University Daily Kansan contained an error. A photo of Matt Baty accompanied a brief on Ryan Baty.
CAMPUS
— Amanda O'Toole
Micheline "Mimi" Morton, Overland Park junior, died Friday, June 18, in Overland Park. The 30 year old worked at a Dillon's branch in Overland Park and is survived by her husband and daughter. Services were yesterday at the Lenexa Christian Center, 17500 W. 87th St. Parkway, Lenexa. She was entombed at Johnson County Memorial Gardens, 11200 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park.
Discrimination case against University thrown out by court
The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals threw out Michael Cuenca's case against the University of Kansas June 15.
Cuenca, who claims both Filipino and Hispanic backgrounds, filed suit for racial discrimination after he was denied a promotion and tenure.
Amanda O'Toole
The appeals court said it could not rule on the case because Cuenca did not support his arguments with fact.
STATE
Sprint announces $1B plan to boost wireless speed up to 10X
The company will begin the upgrade to the evolution data optimized (EV-DO) technology in the second half of this year in selected markets. That did not identify, expanding to what it described as "the majority of top metropolitan markets" in 2005.
OVERLAND PARK — Sprint Corp. will boost speeds on its wireless network up to tenfold in a technology upgrade costing about $1 billion, the company announced yesterday.
Sprint customers who want to use the higher-speed capability will need to buy new handsets and Sprint PCS connection cards. Existing handsets and cards will continue to work at the slower speeds in areas where the upgrades are made.
The new technology will push access speed from the current 50 to 70 kilobits per second to average user speed of 300 to 500 kilobits, with peak rates of up to 2.4 megabits for downloads, providing wireless Internet access at speeds similar to that of wired broadband service.
Sprint now has about 6.2 million wireless data customers, providing revenue of about $700 million a year.
Sprint's announcement came the same day that SBC Communications Inc. said it would spent $4 billion to $6 billion over five years on a new fiber optic network.
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