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Professor speaks on evolution hearings Joseph Heppert, professor of chemistry explained Kansas State Board of Education science curriculum hearings regarding evolution and intelligent design. PAGE 3A
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006
WWW.KANSAN.COM
VOL.116 ISSUE 150 ADMINISTRATION
Transferring students face hassle
BY MIKE MOSTAFFA
mmostaffa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
"You can never go home" does not hold much weight with Kansas native Andrew Buser. Buser, a sophomore at Gonzaga University
Provost David Shulenburger, left, cuts the ribbon for the University's Park and Ride project with city and state officials Tuesday afternoon in front of the Kansas Union. The five new buses for the program feature better wheelchair accessibility and air conditioning.
and Overland Park native, he had enjoyed his time at Gonzaga but had grown tired of the rainy Washington weather.
He wants to transfer to the University of Kansas and be closer to his girlfriend, who attends Pittsburg State University.
Andrew Buser Gonzaga University sophomore and Overland Park native
Like many college students beginning the
"If more credits don't transfer, I'm not going anywhere," Buser said.
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transfer process, Buser is finding out that there is a lot bureaucracy in the business of transferring schools. Out of the 60 credit hours Buser has earned at Gonzaga, only 13 have been approved to transfer.
Buses ready for route
TRANSPORTATION
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
fdisavs@kansan.com
KANSAST WRITE WRITER
Park and Ride will open its new lot in the fall
Jared Gab/KANSAN
The University's $9.6 million Park and Ride project is half complete — the rides are ready.
In a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday afternoon in front of the Kansas Union, Provost David Shulenburger, along with state officials, unveiled one of the five new buses that will be used exclusively for the Park and Ride service.
"This is a wonderful beginning." Shulenburger said.
the new Park and Ride 101, schedul ed to open by Aug. 14, came about after an April 2005 study advised the University of Kansas to seriously rethink its parking situation.
"The University's traffic situation is already at gridlock," said Park and Ride project manager Peg Livingood.
The new lot, located on West Campus near Iowa and 23rd streets, is hoped to ease that gridlock with the 1,472 parking spaces it will provide.
The five new 35-foot Optima Opus buses — $270,000 each — feature a low floor that allows greater accessibility and seats that are easily adjusted to make space for wheelchairs. The new buses can hold as many as
50 passengers and are the first KU buses with air conditioning.
The shuttle service from the new lot to the main campus will run from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. There will be 11 stops on the
shuttle route, and there is no cost to ride. The cost for a Park and Ride permit is $205 and the permits are on sale now.
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PROFILE
Tori performs Thursday night at AllStars in North Lawrence. She has been dancing topless for the last five years, although she was raised in a conservative Mormon family.
Tori tucks her money into her garter belt, which she wraps around her ankle. Thursday night at AllStars, she earns $200 to $800 a night as a dancer.
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It's Friday night and Tori, the long-legged brunette, struts in 7-inch heels toward the stage. Wearing a thin black thong and bra, she grabs the pole with her right hand, spins in a swift circle and smiles at the staring men as they sip from longneck beer bottles.
Tori — as she is known on stage — has danced topless for the last five years at AllStars in North Lawrence. While her job implies she shows all, what patrons can't see is a KU student and National Merit Scholar raised in Lenexa by a conservative Mormon family that adhered to church rules banning pre-marital sex, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.
Student's occupation conflicts with family, former religion
With the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" bellowing from the sound system, Tori crouches down, crawls over the man and drags her bare breasts past his face. She snatches the dollar from his teeth and sends him away.
Soon she strips off her top as a 20-something man in jeans — dollar bill in mouth — lies down on the stage.
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ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Athletes' grades hit high this year
BY ERIC JORGENSEN
ejorgensen@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Even after the Athletics Department announced that baseball would lose a portion of its scholarship funds for not meeting the NCAA's academic progress rate standards, the department will finish the year with high overall academic scores.
Baseball, along with football and women's basketball, had come under scrutiny for below standard academic success. Despite the apparent slip up, the department had one of its more successful academic school years, with 214 student athletes averaging a 3.0 grade point average, and 69 earning academic all-conference accolades, Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said.
The 214 student athletes earned their 3.0 averages in Fall 2005. Current GPAs will not be released until after finals.
The number of athletes to finish with a 3.0 or above increased by 10 in the Fall 2005 semester. In this academic year, 69 student athletes have been named to the Academic AllBig 12 Team. Baseball, softball, men's and women's track and rowing have not yet announced academic teams.
"We've been on a pretty good run the last couple years," Marchiony said.
Two teams broke the record for highest GPA. In the spring and fall of 2005, the women's tennis and volleyball teams averaged a 3.49 GPA, the highest in KU athletics history.
The baseball team recorded its highest GPA when it averaged 2.96 in Fall 2005, which helped the team raise its multi-year cu-
Men's basketball: 5
NUMBER OF PLAYERS NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-BIG 12 TEAM
Women's basketball: 3
Football: 10
Tennis: 3
Men's Golf: 4
Women's Golf: 4
Men's cross country: 7
Swimming/Diving: 12
Soccer: 10
Volleyball: 4
Women's cross country: 7
Rowing: No results will be released.
Men's track: Not yet released.
Women's track: Not yet released.
Softball: Not yet released.
Baseball: Not yet released.
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
mutative academic success rate closer to the NCAA standard for academic progress.
"One of Lew's first commitments when he arrived here was to support the academic support area," Marchiony said. "I think the results speak for themselves."
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