Monday, December 4, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Fees and tuition could be due earlier
Deadline could speed process of add/drop
By Jason Krahl
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Tuition and fees could be due a week before classes begin for the spring semester, after the University of Kansas permitted students to pay them up until the first day of classes this semester.
University Council last week unanimously approved a proposal that could make tuition and fees due as early as Sunday, Jan. 7 — nine days before the first day of class. With the council's approval, the proposal goes to University Senate Executive Committee and the University Senate. Both SenEx and the University Senate will have to approve the proposal for it to go into effect.
AL Lata, lecturer of chemistry and member of the council, surprised some council members with the proposal, which was not on the agenda. Lata said that whether students paid campus fees, which are $229 on the
Lawrence campus, determined whether an enrolled student was returning. If the fee isn't paid by its deadline, the University registrar's office begins removing those students from the classes in which they're enrolled.
That process takes two or three days, Lata said. If the process is taking place in the first days of the semester, it keeps out students who want to add classes that are crowded or closed by students who no longer attend the University.
Two or three days into the semester, when the registrar's office removes departing students' names from class lists, many other students have given up on add/drop. That leaves open seats that students would have enrolled in had the courses been open earlier.
Lata said he wasn't sure if tuition would need to be due along with fees by the Jan. 7 deadline in order to remove former students from classes they had enrolled in. University Senate will determine the final deadlines, he said. The proposal requires that students who have not paid the required fees be removed a week before the first day of class. That would be Wednesday, Jan. 10 for the coming semester, and payments would have
Earlier deadlines have been imposed as recently as last fall, Lata said, and the due dates may have been pushed back in recent semesters to spread out the payments required from students.
to be due by Jan. 7 to give the registrar's office time to process the cancellations.
Tom Belseeker, president of the SenEx and associate professor of communication studies, said the committee would discuss the measure at its meeting Tuesday. He said council members favored the proposal because it would allow more students to add crowded and closed classes.
"The primary concern of University Council was making sure that students were able to be enrolled in the classes they wanted." he said.
Lata said it would be difficult to calculate how many spaces the change could open up during the add/drop period.
Erin Simpson, off-campus senator and Lenexa senior, said she supported the proposal because it helped students who were returning to the University get into the classes they wanted.
"It does put pressure on students to get their fees in on time. If you don't have the money, you don't have the money and the
WHAT IT MEANS
What happened: University Council last week unanimously approved a proposal that could make fees and possibly tuition due as early as Sunday, Jan. 7, nine days before the first day of class.
What this means: Students who do not pay their fees by the deadline could be removed from their classes, freeing up space in crowded or closed classes before the semester began. That would make it easier for students wanting to add classes.
What's next? With the council's approval, the proposal will go on to University Senate Executive Committee and the University Senate, and both SenEx and the University Senate will have to approve the proposal for it to go into effect.
date becomes kind of arbitrary," said Simpson, who is also a member of SenEx. "It's a situation where you balance the needs of students who can pay fees on time and try to give as much leeway as possible to students who don't."
Edited by Clay McCuistion
Chase Richards, McPherson freshman, Amanda Hendrix, Prairie Village freshman, and Cody Marrs, Wichita freshman look at their Web site, which they are creating for an online literary magazine. The students plan on having the first issue posted early next year. Portrait by Brad Dreier/KANSAN
Online magazine strives for larger audience
By Meghan Bainum
By Meghan Bainum writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students looking for a creative outlet now have a high-tech option.
Swallowing Metis, a new online literary magazine, is taking submissions to be included in its first publication on Jan. 22, 2001.
Chase Richards, McPhrerson freshman and co-editor of the magazine, said that everyone was encouraged to send work to be published in the magazine, which will be reposted every month except June, July and August. He said people all across the world would be able to read the submissions.
"With little to no cost we can reach anybody in the world," he said. "Whereas with a lot more cost, only the campus can be reached with a paper-based effort."
"It's kind of surprising that there isn't already one at KU," Richards said. "There is Kiosk, but for a university as large as KU, it is surprising there is only one literary magazine."
Richards said Web-zines and online literary journals were becoming popular at other colleges, such as Brown University in Providence, R.I.
Cody Marrs, Wichita freshman and co-editor of Swallowing Metis, said the online magazine's format would allow more work to be published than traditional paper-based formats.
"We're not limited by the medium," Marrs said. "We can put a lot more people's work up, and we're not limited by length. That's also why it can contain art and photography."
kendall Irwin, Russell sophomore and assistant editor of Klosk.
said she wasn't worried about the technology of Swallowing Metis taking away from the submissions to the readership of Kiosk, which also is published online.
"There's definitely still a market for written and published works," she said. "Technology has been around this long, and there are still magazines."
Irwin also said that *Kiosk* offered another edge against the newer magazine.
"People are more aware of Kiosk," she said. "They know that it is a reputable magazine."
David Brodie, Prairie Village junior, said the reputation of a magazine would overshadow the fact that the Internet is the easiest way to get literary work out to the world.
"It might be unfair," he said "But it looks better on paper to say that some publisher was actually interested enough in your work to use actual physical resources — that it was actually paper and ink."
Still, Brodie said he was not against the idea of having something published online.
Though Swallowing Metis was originally Richards' brainchild, the work to make the Web-zine a reality has been split between Richards, Marrs and Amanda Hendrix, Prairie Village freshman and feature/visual editor of the magazine. The group said they had plans to go to Student Senate and ask for funding to help with the purchase of a scanner and a digital camera.
The name Swallowing Metis comes from Greek legend. Metis, whose name means creative intel-
gence, was impregnated by Zeus. When Zeus found out Metis' offspring would overthrow him, Zeus ate Metis. She stayed in Zeus' body and became his counselor. Metis always has been known as a goddess of wisdom.
Richards said Swallowing Metis was intended as an alternative place for literary creativity besides Kiosk. He encouraged any person affiliated with the University to submit a piece of work.
"I hope that we can become a name on campus that's associated with giving a place for people and their creativity," Richards said.
Edited by J. R. Mendoza
SUBMITTING WORK TO THE ONLINE MAGAZINE
- **The Swallowing Metis Web site can be found at:** http://www.ukans.edu/~metis.
- Information about the magazine can be found at:
- Submissions to the magazine can be sent to:
Chase Richards at terabay@ukans.edu for poetry,
Cody Marrs at cadywr22@ukans.edu for prose,
Amanda Hentrix at hentrixRSA@gho.com for *
Submission deadline for the first issue is 5 p.m. on Jan. 19,
2001. First publication will be in January 22
■ If you wish to send your submission by mail: 1515 Engel Road #174 Lawrence, Kan. 60404. For those who would like to submit a visual such as an illustration, other artwork, or photography, but do not have scanner access, contact terraby@ukans.edu.
Program will offer national local papers free of charge
By Kursten Phelps
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
University of Kansas students will be able to read local and national newspapers for free when they head back to classes in January.
A four-week newspaper readership pilot program will start on the first day of spring classes, Tuesday, Jan. 16, said Ben Walker, student body president. The New York Times, USA Today, the Kansas City Star and the Laurence Journal-World will be available at the Kansas Union and Wescoe and Oliver halls.
"I think that students want access to that kind of news," Walker said "The Kansan does a good job of covering the campus, but it doesn't have the size to adequately cover what's going on in the outside world. I think students will value access to that kind of information every day and recognize the contribution to their education."
Walker said newspaper companies would pay for the initial pilot program but if a permanent program was established, it might require a moderate student-fee increase.
"If that fee passed, then a permanent program would start next fall." Walker said. "I'm optimistic about the chances of having it next year. It has been incredibly successful at Penn State and I don't see any reason why it won't be here."
David Martin, Leawood junior,
said he still would read the Kansan
but would pick up the other papers,
too.
"I read the Kansan mostly for sports stuff, so I get my KU fix," he said. "But there's not a whole lot of attention paid to national stuff."
He said he thought students would take advantage of the program because it was free.
"I think anything that there's will get taken and read," he said. "If you've got to pay a dollar to read USA Today, but the Kansan's free, you're going to choose the free Kansan. But I think if it's free, it will go just as quick as the Kansan does."
Sheri Martin, Topeka senior, said depending on the size of a potential fee increase, she would support the program.
"If it's less than the cost of one yearly subscription, it's worth it," she said. "But if it's just as much as a yearly subscription, I wouldn't want it. It's fairly unlikely that I'll read three papers a day."
She said there would be other possible advantages to the readership program.
"Maybe if people start mastering the crosswords in the UDK, they can move on to the ones in The New York Times," she said.
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