University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 12, 1988
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Rules for visitors in Oliver to allow for more leniency
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
Oliver Hall will have a more lenient visitation policy next fall, and Lewis and Templin hall residents will be able to choose Oliver's current visiting hours as an option, a housing official said yesterday.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the Residential Programs Advisory Board decided Thursday that escorted visitors, which the board defined as members of a religious group, to Oliver's private rooms and floor lounges any time next fall with a roommate's consent.
Except for Gertrude Sellars Pearson Corbin Hall and Oliver, all residence halls already have that open visitation policy.
Students planning to live at Lewis and Tempin can note on their student housing contracts next fall whether they desire a floor with limited visiting hours. The change will begin in the fall because this spring's residence hall contracts already have been approved.
Oliver's current visitation hours limit visiting in private rooms and floor lounges from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Monday through Thursday and continuously from 10 a.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Monday Roommate consent is required, because he began to be enforced in September.
The new visitation policy was the outcome of the original Oliver Hall government proposals, which were well thought out and planned. Stoner
Oliver's government presented the visitation proposal and an escort policy proposal to the board in October. The escort policy proposal, which will be required visitors to be escorted only during Oliver's security hours.
All residence halls require visitors to be escorted at all times.
Dan Simon, president of Oliver, said he was satisfied with the board's decision.
“That’s really a progressive step for the University. Simon said ‘It’s time we do this.’”
The board is a planning organization for student housing that has the power to change student housing contracts. It comprises elected student housing representatives, housed institutions and faculty representatives.
Plan to halt copying of software sought
Bv David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
The University Senate Academic Computing and Computer Facilities Committee is developing a Universitywide combat broadsheet copying by faculty
Bob Nunley, chairman of the committee, said a report would be ready next semester.
At the Dec. 1 University Senate Executive Committee meeting, Bob Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research, said that many faculty members were copying what was licensed to the university.
"There's a lot of copying going on," he said.
Nunley agreed that it was a big issue. He planned to spend a few minutes on the topic at the computer committee's Dec. 7 meeting, but the group ended up spending an hour and a half on it.
Copying licensed software for personal use is a catastrophe waiting to happen, he said, but it is not clear whether such conving is illegal.
"Apparently, the clauses put in licenses are not clear that they are
legally binding," Nunley said. "Clear legal guidance simply is not available."
Nunley said that most software packages had licensing agreements that began when the package was released. The company says it sarsly create a firm legal contract.
He said that some universities, such as the University of California at Berkeley, allowed copying of software that they owned and simply would let software companies try to sue them.
But the problem is not only legal; it also is ethical.
David Downing, professor of aerospace engineering, said that copying software for personal use opened faculty members up for criticism.
"I have trouble telling my students to write an ethics paper on bootleg software when the faculty is bootlegging." Downing said.
In fact, Nunley said one committee member had said the attack on copying software for personal use had to begin with the faculty.
Nunley said the committee member told him, "When I can get the faculty to stop pirating, then I'll go after the students."
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TOP: Caren Prideaux, CPR first aid instructor, right explains how to find a pulse to Beth Godfrey, Merriam freshman. About 75 people attended the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation training seminar Saturday in Robinson Center. The class was sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. LEFT: The abdominal thrust, a method for aiding a choking victim, is one of several techniques taught. Milisa Simon, Lenexa junior, practices the technique on Jennifer Marks, Overland Park sophomore.
Photos by Jeffrev Johnston/KANSAN
Business students approve honor code
Kansan staff writer
By Katy Monk
Kansas staff writer
A School of Business honor code proposed last spring could become reality in time for next semester if business faculty follow students' lead.
Business school students had passed the honor code by a wide margin when voting ended Thursday. School faculty members are expected to act on the code before the end of the semester.
Barb McCloud, chairman of the honor code committee and Overland Park graduate student, will present the code to the Faculty Executive Committee and the committee may act on them or delay a decision.
expressed confidence that the faculty would pass the code.
Dave Shulenburger, associate dean of business
"I don't know whether the faculty will suggest any modification," he said. "But my guess is, the professor doesn't think."
Among several points, the honor code defines academic misconduct, explains how to file a complaint in that area and specifies action to be taken in case of misconduct by students or teachers. The code closely parallels the University's academic misconduct rules and regulations.
It is intended to give business students an awareness of the importance of ethical behavior in
McCloud said undergraduate business students
Student voting was planned to be completed during enrollment, which ended Nov. 4 for business undergraduates, but voting continued until Thursday because of the small number of undergraduates who voted.
passed the code by a 3-10-margin and graduate students by a 5-10-margin.
"Some of the people who ended up directing the enrollment process forgot to tell people they had failed."
Sulenburger said that fewer than 50 of about 80 undergraduate business students had voted by
"The honor code committee decided they wanted a better sampling of student opinion," he said.
State investigating outbreak of mumps virus in Lawrence
The Associated Press
State health officials are investigating an outbreak of mumps in Lawrence, where more than 90 people have been reported since October.
The Douglas County Health Department said 97 cases of mumps have been reported in the Lawrence county. Forty-nine of those cases were reported at
Lawrence South Junior High School, where one out of every 12 students has been infected.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has been notified of the outbreak, said Richard Dempsey of the Department of Health and Environment.
Symptoms of the disease are a swelling of the face, possible chills and possible fever.
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