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Thursday, April 13, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
ALL STUDENTS Elections for Student Senate Are TODAY
Voting Instructions
1. Bring a current valid KUID
2. Pick up correct ballot at a polling place.
* The ballot you receive will depend on where you live and the school you are registered with.
3. Mark ballots with #2 pencil only.
4. Mark only the correct number of candidates.
5. Individually place ballot in box. (Please Do Not Fold Ballots.)
Polling Places
Green Hall Strong Hall Lindley Hall Outside Wescoe Kansas Union Outside Watson Library (in case of rain, it will be inside of Fraser Hall.) Summerfield Hall
April 12th-polls open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
April 13th-polls open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
If polling place is crowded please check another location.
PLEASE COME OUT AND VOTE The Voting Process Takes Less Than Five Minutes!!!
1989
Jayhawker
At enrollment time, students may someday ring for service
APPLICATIONS
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
In the 1950s, it was punch cards at Allen Field House.
Kansan staff writer
In the 1980s, it was an on-line computer system at Strong Hall.
And in the 1990s, it might be a touch-tone telephone in the convenience of students' homes.
Williams said that about 300 universities nationwide already used phone enrollment and that he numbered to double within the next year.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said that voice-response enrollment involved students calling an enrollment number, receiving computer-generated voice prompts and using a touch-tone phone to enter the line numbers of classes.
The enrollment system at the University of Kansas has undergone many changes since the University began, said Wes Williams, dean of educational services, and the next department will voice-response telephone enrollment.
"The chances for it are excellent." Williams said. "So many schools are moving in this direction that one day it will be second nature."
state legislature.
"The students really like the system because they can enroll anytime after their given appointment," said Kathy Jones, associate registrar at Iowa State. "It is very convenient and has run smoothly."
"But our advantage is that we can learn from the mistakes other universities have already made." Thompson said.
Not all installments of phone enrollment have run so smoothly.
At Colorado, students enter their line numbers by phone. A computer then works out a schedule that will give the most people the most classes, and, telling students several weeks later what classes they received.
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Two Big Eight schools, Iowa State University and the University of Colorado, already have phone enrollment.
Williams said that University officials would meet in the next six months to discuss the possibility of voice-response enrollment at KU. It would take six to eight months to complete system after financing was obtained.
Thompson said that when the University of Florida at Talahassee installed its system, not enough enrollment times were set up and all students had to be checked on the same time, jamming the city's phone system and disrupting the
Williams said that KU's system probably would have 48 phone lines and cost about $150,000.
At Iowa State, students get immediate response from the computer and can choose their alternatives immediately.
He said that the system could be used year-round to answer students' questions about University procedures, provide medical information, list available jobs, give students their class grades before mailing and tell students what textbooks they need for certain classes.
"It would take some of the mundane day-to-day operations out of a support staff's life." Williams said. "I never did it, and your phone as a computer terminal."
by Scott Achelpohl
Williams said that students would have their own computer code for security, much like the codes used at banking machines.
Grads to get alumni memberships
Kansan staff writer
Spring KU graduates will be the first to receive six-month complementary memberships to the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
With the memberships, graduates will receive free access to Alumni Association facilities, discount rates in the Alumni Association's credit card program, invitations to future chapter meetings and subscriptions to alumni publications, said Loren Taylor, director of alumni chapters and student activities at the Adams Alumni Center.
Call for more information. 864-3728
The new program is more efficient be said.
"This is unlike anything that's been done before in that records of students who become alumni are usually sent to us several months later," said J. We usually didn't get student records until about July or August.
After six months, graduates can continue or discontinue their alumni association memberships, he said. If membership is continued, the cards will have 16.8 percent interest and a $15 annual fee. If member-ized, the cards will have a 17.8 percent rate and an $18 annual fee, he said.
Donna Neuner, director of membership services, said that the discount rate on credit cards was offered for post-graduation financial security. Travel and also in to lower costs as much as insamplar for the credit card program.
The credit card offers graduates a credit limit of $750, a 16.8 percent interest rate and a $1.25 monthly fee on the second six months of period after graduation.
Taylor said he hoped the gifts would boost membership by helping students realize the value of staying in touch with the University.
"We used to provide for seniors a nominal amount of money to go toward the class gift," Taylor said. "We eliminated that three years ago in favor of purchasing a $5,000 term life insurance policy for that member renewable at their own cost the first year. Now we offer a completely free membership for six months. We think this is the most practical because people can stay in touch with the campus and the University."
"I instead, this year, we were able to ask that student records be sent over in February or March so we could begin this program early."
The program also offers a pre-
Taylor said that receiving the records early meant that the Alumni Association would know which KU students were about to graduate.
The six-month memberships will be offered to graduates in place of other Alumni Association gifts that have been given in the past.
approved credit card.