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A student group is starting an initiative to integrate KU e-mail with Gmail. Google offers a free application to integrate e-mail, and schools like Arizona State and Northwestern have already taken advantage of it. The schools with integrated e-mails save money because Google provides technical support as well as the server space for the e-mails.
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Lindsay Sooby, Larned Junior, prmps in the mirror in a bathroom at the Kansas Union Monday. Student Health Services kicked off Celebrate EveryBody Week. Monday was Positive Affirmations Day, featuring postings on bathroom walls around campus. Other events will continue throughout the week, including free water and granola bars at the Student Fitness Recreation Center Tuesday, a presentation by Stacy Prussman, an eating disorder survivor, Wednesday and Celebrate Food Day Thursday, at the Kansas and Burge Unions and residential dining halls.
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PARKING
Lots vanish during construction of complex
Stadium parking decreases by 222 spots, department looks for new areas to amend loss
BY ANDY GREENHAW agreenhawkansan.com
Students will lose 222 parking spots as a result of the newly constructed Anderson Family Complex south of Memorial Stadium.
Although the Athletics Department and the Design and Construction Management Department had originally guaranteed the replacement of all 667 parking spots, only 445 spots will be replaced said Donna Hultine, director of the parking department.
"It was presented to me that they would replace spot-for-spot what they took," Hultine said. "My understanding was that we'd be getting them all back."
"If someone could find a suitable site that blends in with the topography and the land then it would be considered," Crupper said. "That hasn't happened yet."
The problem is that there are no sites for additional parking available said Dennis Crupper, project manager of the DCM department.
Chance Management Associates, a nationally renowned parking consultant, released a study in April 2005 that said student parking on campus was inadequate and the University had the tendency to build or expand buildings without thinking about parking until later, or not at all. This information was released before the construction of the new football complex began.
Hultine said she receives an average of two phone calls per day from students who complain about the lack of parking.
Since the beginning of the project, the DCM department has built three lots to the west and southwest of the stadium, which have a total of 227 parking spots to replace the ones that were lost.
Hultine said the DCM department estimates that it will also be able to keep 218 additional parking spots once the Anderson
Family Complex is complete. Mark Reiske, DCM associate director, said he expects these spots to be available by next fall.
"Right now it's sort of being used as part of the construction site, but a lot of that will come back." Hultine said.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said he didn't think parking was a big issue on campus.
Marchiony said he'd rarely seen lot 94, east of the stadium, filled to its capacity.
"I've never really heard anyone complain about it," he said.
"I'd be interested to see someone take pictures of the lot to see if it ever fill up," he said. "If those spots aren't being used then I kind of see it as a non-issue."
Hultine said that's only true during the spring semester.
"It doesn't fill up that often during the spring, but it usually fills quickly up during the fall," she said.
"If the track and throwing area moved to a different location, that could open up
"I don't blame them for wanting to have a great facility," Hultine said. "It just happens to take up a bunch of our parking lots."
Crupper said one potential site for a parking lot is the area northeast of the stadium.
some suitable land for parking," he said. "However, I don't think there are any plans to do that at this point."
—Edited by Sasha Roe
While Hultine said she was disappointed that the Athletic Department and DCM department wouldn't be able to follow through with their stated goals, she said she wouldn't hold it against them.
Lot 94 pro-
vides
18 new
parking spots
Map courtesy of KU Parking & Transit
Around the stadium,667 spots lost, but 218 new spots can be expected from the area surrounding Anderson Family Football Complex construction site
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