UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. April 14. 1995
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McCollum Hall one step closer to Ethernet capabilities for students
Four other halls slated to be wired during next year
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that Ethernet lines were something that students in the residence halls will come to expect
residence halls will come to expect such as telephone lines and cable television.
"It's technology," he said. "I think we need to provide it."
Ethernet lines would allow on-
campus residents to access the Internet without using a modem and would eliminate long waits for a terminal server, which can take up to an hour using modem lines.
The lines are now one step closer to becoming a reality, Stoner said. After testing spare phone lines in McCollum, Networking and Telecommunications Services at KU have determined the lines, intended as backup, are capable of maintaining a signal.
"Right now, we're just going back and forth on the mechanics of it." Stoner said. "I'm optimistic that this is going to happen."
The first residence hall with Ethernet capability will be McCollum.
which should have the lines by next fall. Stoner said the residence hall was selected because of its large size. It will be the most difficult building to wire, and housing wanted to discover any potential problems early on. The estimated cost for installation in McCollum is $99,392.
Six concentrators, which strengthen signals, will be installed in McCollum during the summer, and telephone outlets in all rooms will be converted to multiple-outlet iacks.
Stoner said installation costs would be made up by user fees within a few years. Although the user fee has not been determined, Stoner said a $3 per month fee was being
considered.
After McColllum, Stoner predicted the order of hookup would be: Ellsworth, Hashinger, Lewis and Oliver. He said most halls should have Ethernet by the end of the next academic year. Templin will have Ethernet capability after its renovation, scheduled to begin during Summer 1996.
Jerry Niebaum, executive director of Information Technology Services, said that he thought putting Ethernet lines in the residence halls was worthwhile.
"More and more faculty are expecting students to have ready access to information," he said. "It will be a another way for students to learn."
Center sponsors run fitness walk for ALS
M. Otread Medical Arts Centre is sponsoring a 10-kilometer run for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease, at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
A two-mile run and a non-competitive fitness walk also will be held. Contestants may register at 7 a.m. at the center, 3211 Clinton Parkway. The entry fee is $15, and entrants will receive a T-shirt. All proceeds benefit the ALS Association.
The center also will sponsor a speech by health specialist Bob Arnot, entitled "Be Your Personal Best," at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Astronaut to speak tonight
Franklin Chang-Diaz, a Costa Rican astronaut, has spent more than 656 hours in space
flying for four space shuttle missions.
When he is not flying, Chang-Diaz continues his research on plasma rockets, which will be used for human missions to Mars.
Chang-Diaz will give a free lecture at 7 p.m. today in the Kansan Union Ballroom as part of the events of Central America Week.
Chanz-Diaz became an astronaut in 1981.
One of his more important missions was in October 1989, when the space shuttle Atlantis deployed the Galileo spacecraft on its journey to explore Jupiter.
In December of 1993, he was appointed adjunct professor of physics and director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at the University of Houston.
For his next mission in space, scheduled for launch in early 1996, he will serve as payload commander.
GTA: Administrators say union not needed
ter ways for GTAs to achieve their goals. The University does not want to exploit GTAs — they want to work with them, he said.
The University has brought GTA salaries to 101 percent of GTA salaries at peers schools, while faculty salaries are only 89 percent of their peers, Shulenburger said.
"It's very hard for me to see that GTAs have been disadvantaged," he said.
He suggested that an organization within the University would be more effective.
"The organization GTAs really need is one that interfaces with schools and departments," Shulenburger said.
But Murtaugh said that an organization within the University would not have enough power to do anything. A union is the only viable option for GTAs, he said.
The one thing that both administrators and GTAs agree on is the importance of voting. All GTAs should vote, no matter which side they support, both said.
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