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ONLINE AND MOBILE DATING ARE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO MEET SOMEONE
BECCA HARSCH
Bridget checks her account online once a day. It's not Facebook or Twitter — it's OkCupid. Bridget, Westwood senior, says she has been using OkCupid, a free online dating service, for about a month. Bridget says she became an OkCupid user because she doesn't have a lot of time to meet people.
Unline and mobile dating provide fun, innovative ways for students to meet other singles in their area. Mobile dating, a $550 million industry, is the biggest growth market for college students and is increasing at an average rate of 20 percent, says Julie Spira, cyber-dating expert and author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating; Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. That number is expected to reach $1 billion by next year.
a date. But her help doesn't hurt. Brin, a New York University master's student, co-founded the site "Date My Single Kid" with his mom. Brin also has a profile on the site, which allows parents to search for potential matches for their son or daughter.
Brin says using the internet can only increase your odds of meeting someone. Students use the internet to make social arrangements, so why not use it to find a potential match? "If you inherently believe those things can be done over the Internet, I don't see why you would exclude dating from that pool," Brin says.
Spirasaysmobiledatingisaboutconvenience, and can be an efficient way to meet someone. Students who need to dedicate more time to their love lives can do so by using their computers and smartphones."They need to take advantage of the fact that their computers are already on and in their laps," Spira says.
Though you might think these ways of meeting someone are more time-consuming, they may in fact, take less time. By dating the old-fashioned way, you could spend an entire evening going out with your single friends in hopes of meeting someone, but have no luck. But with online and mobile dating you can log into an account at your convenience and narrow down your potential matches.
Colby Brin doesn't need his mom's help to get
with their eyes shuit, trying to find their fellow mooers or quackers.
To better promote this initiative, the group designed a year-long program with monthly themes to teach third- and fourth-graders at the school how to become healthier, both mentally and physically. This month's theme is teamwork. The children played games where they
The activity was part of a program that the on-campus group GROW started this year. Erica Bennett, a junior from Emporia and co-coordinator of GROW, said the club is an initiative to promote healthy habits.
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Monica Powers, left, and Erica Bennett, are co-coordinators of GROW, an on-campus group that promotes healthy habits for children.
Audit finds School of Business to be mostly consistent in course fee usage
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Some of the MBA students also called for Fuerst to be fired. He announced Sept. 22 that he would step down after the academic year, but a school spokesperson told The University Daily Kansan that his
BKD LLC's audit found that 0.2 percent, or about $60,000, of the $30 million in spending was inconsistent with the original fee proposal. BKD reported that almost $28,000 in payroll to some professors over the summer of 2005 was inconsistent with the fee proposal. The audit also found that the school used more than $24,000 of course fees inappropriately to pay for fees related to accreditation and membership in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
"The report "conforms that we have used those funds for the benefit of our students and the advancement of the programs in our school," said William Fuerst, dean of the School of Business.
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BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
The proposal established a student advisory committee, responsible for overseeing how the course fees were spent. But the committee was disbanded by 2006, perhaps the students' biggest complaint.
The school instituted the course fees in 2004, and the tuition proposal for it specified where the money could be used.
resignation wasn't related to those demands.
The report addresses concerns from several MBA students who lodged complaints with the Kansas Board of Regents this summer. The findings are from an audit by BKD LLC, the same accounting firm that investigated the Athletics Department ticket scandal.
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banding the committee "an oversight," and said that keeping the committee might have prevented conflict.
Of the $30 million the School of Business has raised since 2004 from course fees, a third-party accounting firm reported that the school spent 99.8 percent appropriately.
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"Could we have avoided the controversy by having a mechanism in place?" Vitter said. "I think the answer is yes."
The committee was re-established Oct. 21 and agreed to meet again to discuss the findings of this review.
Julie Spira, cyber-dating expert and best-selling author of "The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online," offers these tips to create a one-of-a-kind profile online:
Course fees, also called differential tuition rates, represent about 40 percent of the school's budget. On top of normal tuition, business students paid an extra $102 per credit hour in course fees this semester, and master's business students paid an extra $187 per hour.
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Include your hobby, favorite travel spot, or passion.
Provost Jeffrey Vitter called dis-
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BKD's report, released Thursday,
includes an appendix accounting
for just under $30 million, listed
by year and broken down into 17
categories of spending.
Although BKD found that the school spent nearly all of the fee money appropriately, the report also said the fee proposal was vague in places and that "there could be differences of opinion" about whether an expenditure conflicted with the fee proposal.
"If this doesn't answer the issues of critics, then that's their issue," Vitter said. "I don't think anything
will ever answer their issue."
Photo illustration | Jerry Wing
A match made on the Internet: College students are using online and mobile dating more and more to find their significant other. As opposed to traditional bar pick ups and awkward first dates, students can create their own profile as well as peruse others' sites for a potential mate.
Vitter said the committee will receive reports on expenditures and planned expenditures in the future.
In a response letter at the end of the report, Fuerst said the school will review what BKD identified as inappropriate spending with the student advisory committee.
The provost's office contracted BKD to perform the audit, which cost an estimated $50,000 and was overseen by a committee of students, faculty and staff. The provost's office paid for the audit with private donations.
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Columnist Kate Larrabee explains how the University scored a higher grade this year, but still needs more student involvement and leadership in sustainability. Kansas received a 'B', just behind Texas and Colorado.
Resurrected club lets the paint fly in growing sport
The University's new paintball club is starting practices for competitive and recreational players alike. The members hope to compete against other schools later in the year as well.
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