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Scanning provides free, eco-friendly alternative
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER
Alessandra Stellino, a freshman from Quincy, Ill., scans pages from a magazine using the BookEye copy machine in Watson Library. More students are using the free scanners on campus and transferring material to home computers, rather than paying to make photocopies and print in the library.
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More students are quitting the copier, avoiding the cost to themselves and the environment.
Scanning has become a popular and eco-friendly alternative to making copies because students can e-mail scanned material to themselves or save it to a disk for free.
Jeromy Horkman, a service desk supervisor at Watson Library, said the scanners were popular because they were free, as opposed to photocopies, which cost eight cents with a KU card and 10 cents with cash.
"We've definitely seen an upswing in the use of the Easy Scan as opposed to photocopiers," Horkman said.
Youyang Xu, a sophomore from Beijing, said she used the scanner because she didn't have time to buy
the textbook she needed for class.
"I have homework to read for tomorrow so I'm scanning it," she said.
KU Libraries installed the first set of scanners about a year ago with funding from the Parents' Campaign managed by the University of Kansas Endowment Association. Smith said the scanners cost about $20,000 each.
Watson Library,AnschutzLibrary and the Art and Architecture Library each received one scanner. Smith said KU Libraries were eventually planning to purchase scanners for Spahr Engineering Library, the music and Dance Library, as well as additional scanners for Watson and Anschutz libraries.
Smith said the scanners were an improvement from photocopiers because they were gentle on books and helped save paper.
"You can get what you need quickly, you can get a high-quality
scan and you're not bogged down with paper or the expense of printing." Rebecca Smith, spokeswoman for KU Libraries, said.
Sarah McLain, a sophomore from Kansas City, and Anschutz Library employee, said she usually saw five or six people using the scanner during one of her three-hour shifts. She said students usually used the scanner to copy textbook pages or their classmates' notes.
"It's cheaper for them to just scan it and e-mail it to themselves," McLain said.
Horkman said the scanner at Watson was especially busy between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and could have two or three people waiting to use it during peak hours.
"It's been very popular." Horkman said.
Edited by Becky Howlett
Watch a demonstration of the scanner at kansan.com
PROPOSED CHANGES
Route 26
Route 26 is currently over capacity because of the several large apartment complexes it serves. Right now the route goes from 25th and Melrose to campus by way of 24th street, Naismith and 21st street. The proposed changes suggest continuing from 24th Street anti Ousdahl Road to 21st Street, thereby avoiding Naismith. The modification is meant to decrease pressure on the route that usually fills up with students before the bus even reaches Naismith.
No changes are expected in the frequency of service.
Route 5
Currently this route serves as a cross-town connector linking Wakarusa to the East Hills Business Center just outside of town. Proposed changes involve breaking the route into an east and west route, with the west route including all of Wakarusa Drive. The route would also serve at a 60-minute frequency instead of 40 minutes.
Based on the recommendations, this would be a new route created to assume the southern portion of the current route 6 running from 6th Street and Wakarusa Drive to the KU campus via Bob Billings Parkway. The new route would maintain route 6's 60 minute frequency.
Route 12
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The changes will not affect the transit system's operating budget, which comes from a previous sales tax vote. Nugent said the recommendations are based primarily on ridership, public input and overall route evaluations. He said the continued coordination between the
changes in eight of the current 16 routes. Nugent said route changes will affect student transportation. The most significant changes will be the addition of route 12 and tweaks that will improve quality of service to routes 26 and five.
two systems is a long and working process that takes patience and skill.
Nugent said the city is always open to suggestions on how to improve services on the bus systems. No final decisions will be made until August.
"It's a mind game." Nugent said. "There's an art to it as well."
"Everything is on the table and everything can be off the table just the same," Nugent said.
POLITICS
Alaska changes code of ethics after Palin
JUNEAU, Alaska — The fallout from Sarah Palin's hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her final days in office.
Edited by Ashley Montgomery
Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska's ethics rules that Palin complained helped drive her out.
Sullivan's proposals are on track to take effect after a review of public comments unless the legislature passes superseding law. The prospects for that happening — in an election year,
with many Alaskans worried about job losses and energy prices — appear dim.
"I think a lot of these issues ... would benefit from the passage of time, and likely are better issues for the (next) Legislature to take up," said Ramras, who often found himself at odds with Palin
None of Sullivan's proposals would retroactively benefit Palin, according to the state's ethics attorney. But they do speak directly to complaints raised during her tumultuous two-and-a-half years in office, and are aimed at clearing up gray areas and, according to Sullivan, discouraging abuse.
There is also a sense that some of this is simply cleaning
the slate of all Palin's issues.
Painted the probes financial and psychological toll as key in her decision to resign. Her legal bills have run into the hundreds of thousands. Disclosed costs incurred by the state have neared $370,000.
"You want to make political points against Sarah Palin? Hire a hall," said Rep. Mike Doogan, an Anchorage Democrat and former journalist. "Don't make the state of Alaska your soapbox. ... This is really about what's right here, for anybody who finds themselves in that situation."
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