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BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
The Student Senate finance committee proposed cutting all funding from the required campus fees to four community health services - the Douglas County AIDS Project,
Matthew Blankers, a graduate student in social work from Clearmont,
Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center — on Tuesday.
By Thursday, dozens of students had expressed their disapproval of the measure.
Proposed reallocation of student fees
Calif., and a former senator, printed and distributed 250 flers promoting students to contact senators. The budget would remove all funding from the Willow Center starting next year and all funding for the
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$11.41 from student fees to block allocation per semester
ARGUMENTS IN BRIEF:
Student Senate finance committee:
Wants to cut all funding for the Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center from the student activity fee by fiscal year 2012; funding for these services is currently $2.11 of $11.41 (18 percent of total).
- Plan to set up a taskforce to find ways to fund these services outside the activity fee
  *Sources: David Cohen, treasurer; Aaron Dollinger, chief of staff*
- They say they don't want these services to lose funding but believe they should not be funded through the Student Senate activity fund
- The Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center
- Funding cuts are coming from federal and state levels — even if student contributions are relatively small, every little bit helps, especially in preparation for Gov. Brownback's proposed budget, which cuts state funding to community mental health centers completely
- Wants funding to remain at $2.11 per student, per semester
Sources: Sarah Terwelp, executive director of the Willow Center; Olivia Burchett, outreach coordinator of DCAP
BY IAN CUMMINGS jcummings@kansan.com
Take a look at the sky on April 8 and you just might see a balloon flying over Lawrence. They call it Project GeoHawk, an assignment in Geography 726, Remote Sensing II.
Weather permitting, the balloon will lift off from one of several possible launch sites on public land around the city. As the balloon rises, the camera will take hundreds of pictures of Lawrence and Douglas County. The students will use the balloon's flight data for several research projects on remote sensing, mapping, image processing and the effects of high-altitude on photography. Because the mission depends on obtaining good photographs,
The balloon will expand in response to the decreasing air pressure as it rises, and the team expects it to pop at about 100,000 feet.
A team of 18 geography students is preparing to build and launch a weather balloon 20 miles into the sky.
The self-destruction of the balloon will release the parachute, as it returns to earth. GeoHawk team member Ryan Callihan, a graduate student from Lenexa, said the team would track the vehicle's entire flight, but could not predict the landing exactly.
"The cameras worked great," said Kelly Miller, a senior from Waterloo, Ill. "If we can get that quality from the flight it will be amazing."
some team members boarded an airplane on Thursday for a test flight, removing one of the aircraft's windows to experiment with a variety of camera settings and lenses.
"We have no idea where it's going to land," he said. "It could land 300 miles downwind or in
The entire apparatus will be about 23 feet long, with the balloon measuring four feet wide and six feet tall, pulling a tail strung with a parachute, radar reflectors and two boxes of electronic equipment. The equipment, which includes GPS trackers, will measure internal and external temperatures, air pressure and the orientation of the contraption. A camera will dangle from the end, pointed downward,
Miller said that the vehicle, along with its data, could be destroyed if it lands in Clinton Lake or on Interstate 70. She said Olympus, the lens the students two Flagship E-5 cameras, also accepts that possibility and had been promised copyright of any images taken with their equipment.
Kansas City."
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Group hopes to end use of fake IDs in Lawrence
ALCOHOL | 3A
The New Traditions Coalition works to promote awareness of alcoholism through new initiatives to stop underage drinking.
TECHNOLOGY|3A
INDEX
The future of cars is here
A guest speaker discusses the prospects of new electric cars.
Classifieds . 11A
Crossword . 4A
Cryptoquips . 4A
Opinion . 5A
Sports . 12A
Sudoku . 4A
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