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Steve Owen, front; John Zehr, Lawrence junior, middle; and Dave Shelton, Lawrence sophomore, back, perform with the KU Jazz Ensemble II in the afternoon during Saturday's Jazz festival in Swarthout Recital Hall. Owen, director of Jazz Studies at the University of Oregon was one of several special guest soloists who performed throughout the festival held Friday and Saturday.
Learned gets wireless funding
STUDENT SENATE
BY NICOLF KELLEY
nkelley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Student Senate gave $9,798 to the School of Engineering Wednesday to help cover the cost of installing wireless Internet in Learned Hall.
The School of Engineering is the first school to approach Senate for funding for this type of project. The entire project will cost about $22,000 and will include 12 access points throughout the building. Mehrdad Hosni, School of Engineering senator, said many students will benefit from having wireless Internet in Learned Hall now and in the future as people continue to move into a more technologically
advanced era. The School of Engineering will pay the remaining cost of the project. Hosni, Manhattan junior, said when plans were getting started, he met with the school to discuss different solutions of how to raise the remaining amount.
"Students wanted this, and Student Senate represents us," he said. "We felt it was appropriate to go through them with funds."
In the past, other schools that put wireless Internet into their buildings have used sources such as differential tuition to pay for the project.
At the Senate meeting on Wednesday, Chris Jones, School of Business senator, spoke out against Student Senate passing the bill to fund the project.
Jones, Iowa City, Iowa senior, said that because the School of Business was able to fund installing wireless Internet into Summerfield Hall, the School of Engineering should be able to do the same in Learned Hall. Jones said he felt like he would not be representing the business school if he supported funds proven that could be raised through other means.
He said the School of Engineering never planned for the funds raised through differential tuition to be used for this type of project.
Hosni said the wireless Internet project was not only important to the 1,600 engineering students, who make up 7 percent of the University population, but also to the students in the approximately 10 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences classes also held in Learned Hall.
"Having the additional funds will be able to benefit students in other ways through scholarships," Hosni said. "It's more appropriate for how differential tuition should be used."
Marynell Jones, student body vice president and Dallas senior, said that Senate would most likely give funding for wireless Internet to any school that came and asked for it. However, she said that so many schools have wireless now that she didn't expect to see many more coming to Senate to fund it.
Edited by Vanessa Pearson
Two Kansas sports could lose scholarships next year because they have fallen below the Academic Progress Rate, the NCAA's measure of academic success.
How's know the Academic Progress Rate in Kansas?
ACADEMIC PROGRESS RATE
Here's how the Academic Progress Rate is figured
During the course of an academic year, a player's academic success is worth four points: two for eligibility and two for retention. Those are divided by semester, meaning a player is worth two points per semester. These points are tallied like this:
A player who stays at his or her current school and is eligible earns two points.
A player who transfers while eligible earns one point.
A player who transfers and is ineligible earns zero points.
Source: Associate Athletics Director Paul Buskirk
If a team's Academic Progress Rate falls below 925 — meaning that the team earns less than 92.5 percent of all possible points — the team could lose one scholarship the next year for each player who earns zero points.
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Before the Academic Progress Rate went into effect, there were few rules on graduation requirements. Many schools abused student athletes by recruiting them, using up their eligibility and then not graduating them.
Buskirk said what the Academic Progress Rate did was add enforcement to academic reform, something that was lacking during much of the 1980s and 1990s in basketball.
UNLV didn't graduate a single basketball player who arrived between 1988 and 1995. Syracuse didn't graduate an African-American player who started playing between 1987 and 1995. Also, neither Arkansas nor Louisville graduated an African-American player who arrived between 1989 and 1995.
About a decade and a half ago, the first requirements for graduation rates went into effect. Since then, Buskirk said, Kansas has tended to track ahead of other programs when it comes to graduation rates and academic success. Kansas fared well in the latest Academic Progress Rate results, Buskirk said. Women's basketball, baseball and football all fell below the rate's minimum standard, but women's basketball will not be subjected to punishment because the team didn't have
Buskirk said what the Academic Progress Rate did was add enforcement to academic reform, something that was lacking during much of the 1980s and 1990s in basketball.
enough players to be judged.
Ten Big 12 schools' Academic Progress Rates have been released publicly. Between Kansas and those 10 schools, Big 12 schools averaged 2.2 teams falling below the standard. Texas A&M, like Kansas, is appealing the NCAA results. Its results haven't been released on the NCAA Web site. The Kansas Athletics Department released its results to media last week.
Buskirk said the department was confident its cases for appeal in baseball and football would win once the NCAA reviewed them. He said the NCAA would likely acknowledge extenuating circumstances under which players left and wouldn't punish the department.
Because the progress rate is so new, Buskirk said he didn't know how long it typically took for the NCAA to rule on an appeal. He did say he expected a result by the end of the month.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
— Edited by Frank Tankard
Time to Till?
KU Campus Garden Project Volunteers & Coordinators Needed
pictures & information at:www.ku.edu/~cgarden
Informational Meeting Walnut Rm., KS Union March 9, 7pm Garden Tour, weather permitting
NTSF is sponsoring Parents' Night Out!
Friday March 10, 5:00-9:00 pm
Relay Room, Burge Union
Appropriate games, activities, food,
and drinks provided
Please RSVP by Monday, March 6 by contact-
ing Megan at nontrad_meg@yahoo.com
or Susie at 785-840-4618.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Friday, March 10
Come join our pot luck of Swiss cuisine and other European dishes and drinks. We will be expressing our respective countries' influence on Switzerland.
The 2nd Annual KU Professionals for Disability (KUPD) Student Conference Theme: Research to Practice
Date: Friday, March 10, 2005
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Kansas Union
6th floor-Centennial Room
For more information see www.ku.edu/~circolo or email circolo@ku.edu.
Keynote: Dr. Hank Bohanon, a 2000 graduate of the University of Kansas, is currently employed as an assistant professor at Loyola University.
K U P D
Friends of Mental Health Buildings for Success
Hosted by the Italian, French, and German Clubs See website for location details
Questions; email any of the following student conference planning committee members; Sunday Dove (sdove@ku.edu), Sheila Smith (smsm21@ku.edu), Amanda Tyrrell (alt@ku.edu), Cecile Komara, (cecile@ku.edu), Jan Klein (kleinja6@ku.edu), Kai Chien Tien (kaisimai@ku.edu), Katie Davis (goddess@ku.edu), Aimee Collier (acolier@ku.edu)
March 7,2006
Swiss Party!
"We were so close to
were so close to getting
getting a bomb. We
the world was lucky."
bombs. Looking back,
tens or hundreds of
SUA and Student Senate present the 2006 Student Lecture Series
An evening with Dr. Mahdi Obeidi former chief scientist of the nuclear Weapon program under Gamal Hussein
{ Tuesday, March 7, 2006
  7:30 PM 120 Budig Hall
Ticket vouchers available in SBA Box Office
All Rows Kansas Union
the Bomb in My garden
March 7th, 2006 * 7:00 pm *
Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union
http://www.ku.edu/~kucsw
email: comstwomen@ku.edu
Commission on the
status of women's feMENism:
Men in feminism panel discussing the role of men in support, as feminists, and in current stereotypes.
funded by:
STUDENT
SENATE
for more information:
616.826.8001
BSU activity@hotmail.com
Doors open at 9pm, show starts at 10pm. Buchanan Entertainment is presenting this event in conjunction win the Black Student Union at Kansas University. Tickets will be on sale for $20 in the Office of Multicultural Affairs in 145 Strong Hall and in the Kansas Union.
JUELZ SANTANA IN CONCERT
by a representative from the University Career Center, with a brief meeting following. All are welcome!
Friday, March 10
10:00pm - 2:30am
Last Call
729 New Hampshire
Special Presentation
Tuesday March 7th · 7PM Parlors Room KS Union
The Balkans
Dan Wildcat, Instructor of American Indian Studies at Haskell Indian Nations University, will share his experience as a traveler in many of the six countries that historically have become known as the "Dollars."
March 4th - 11th, 2006 The Brazilian Week
Sat - Culinary Workshop
@ THE MECRl w/Dovis Pollock 2-4pm, $15 (not a BRASA event)
Sun - "Beijada"
@ ECM, 5:30pm - Brazilian Typical dish made with
black beans, meat, and rice (vaccination offered)
Mon - Capoeira Workshop
@ ECM (upper level), 6pm - Brazilian Martial Art workshop
Tue - Movie: "The Man Who Copied"
@ 4045 Wescoe, 5:30pm - Led by Prof. Cacilda Rego
Wed - "Brazil, The Challenges Ahead"
@ 305 Courtside, Burge Union, 5:30pm - Symposium on
political, social, and environmental issues in Brazil. Led by
Prof. Christopher Brown and Prof. Gary Richard
Thu - "Samba & Axe" Workshop
@ ECM (upper level), 5:30pm - Camaval dance workshop
Fri - The BIG Brazilian Table & Open Mic
@ Hawk's Nest (KIS Union), 5:30pm - Practice your Poetries
w/ Brazilian Cheese Rolls and Guarana
Sat - BRASA's Carnaval Party
@ Abeja.lake's, 9pm - tickets @ SUA
Brazilian Student Association
KU SPRING 2006 BLOOD DRIVE
MARCH 6 - MARCH 10
Community Blood Center
BLOOD IS LIFE, SAVE IT!
known as the "Balkans."
Thursday, March 9
Monday, March 6
Macdonald Hall - 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Meadowview Hall - Kansas Union - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Meadowview Hall - Christian Ministers - 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7
Macdonald Hall - 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Office Hall - 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Bloodwell Hall - Kansas Union - 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8
Friday, March 10
Kansas Union Ballroom – 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Blood Vessel – Student Flea Center – 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Murphy Hall – 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 9
Penrose 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Oakland Hall 10:30 a.m. to 7:20 p.m.
Hartford Hall 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Midwest Education Center* 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
*Bloomington Ballroom* 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
*Blossom Visual* Student Room, Center 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Sign up to akee lives for
kubu.kolldrives.com
Everyone who comes in to
donate will have a free KU
card.
Sponsored by Panhelme
AURH, AURH, ROTC, KU
Student Senate, KU Alumni
Asoc. IFSC, KUAC
Speaker: Chuck Ahner, Candidate
for 2nd District
or 3rd District Ceng
Tuesday March 7th
7:00pm
Kansas Union
Jayhawk room
KU school of Nursing will have an event for students speak about their Nursing Career Options Day in April Our main focus of our speakers is NICU & Pediatric Nurses. Tuesday, March 7th 6:30 pm Watkins, 1st floor conference room
Pre-Nursing Club meeting
Featured Speakers:
- Nancy Mense, RN,
- Amanda Meats, RN, BSN
- Melanie Foltz, RN, BSN
March 8th: 12-1pm is the lecture with a $3 lunch served at 11:30 or brownbag Hosted by ECM
Pizza & Politics With Steve Nelson & Ed Quick
Listen to two former Congressional staffers give a talk titled "Stories from Capitol Hill" --Ed Quick, former aide to retired Sen. Tom Eagleton (D-MO) and Sen. David Pryor, (D-AR): and, Steve Nelson, former advisor on the House foreign affairs committee on intelligence.
**When:** March 8, 2006
12-1:30pm
**Where:** Kansas Union,
Malott Room, 6th Floor
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Presented by the Student Legislative Awareness Board & the Dole Institute of Politics
Politics