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student Mina Riazi. Riazi said she watched an online tutorial for instructions and tips — such as emailing classmates to suggest they buy your notes — before uploading notes from one of her classes to StudySoup.com. But none sold, she said, so she didn’t — KU Vice Provost Marta Caminero-Santangelo get the $150-per-class base pay that first tempted her, not to mention money from additional sales. pages of KU class notes for sale on Riazi said she liked the webfor-profit websites that encourage site’s student-to-student concept, students to upload their own notes but when asked if she would try to make money and download selling more notes in the future other students’ notes to study. she said, “probably not.” The practice — which the KU On Flashnotes.com, Florida State administration opposes — is being University’s Tony2050 tops the met with varying levels of concern “Leaderboard” with $11,953 in sales. by professors and, apparently at But hundreds of notes posted by least for now, not much financial KU students over the past year success by students here. yielded only a couple sales, accord“I got an email saying, ‘Would ing to the website’s listings. you like to make some extra Please see SHORTCUT, page 7A money? It’s easy,’” said graduate
Many students who participate in commercial avid Alexander wasn’t note-taking do not recognize shocked when he heard last week that notes from that doing so is against his anatomy lectures were university policy.” Twitter: @saramarieshep
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for sale on the internet. At the same time, he wasn’t OK with it. “It looks like I’m going to have to go back to putting on my syllabi that my lecture notes are copyrighted and I don’t want people selling them,” said Alexander, an associate scientist in KU’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. “It’s one thing if you’re providing notes to a friend who was sick, but it’s something else to profit on what is essentially someone else’s intellectual property.” Multiple students’ versions of Biology 240 notes are among hundreds if not thousands of
Panel to consider expanding liquor licenses Topeka (ap) — With thousands of dollars in campaign contributions at stake in the 2016 election cycle, GOP legislators are weighing the risks of acting on a fiercely lobbied issue: allowing supermarkets to sell liquor. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Nickerson Republican, told the GOP caucus Wednesday that the chamber needs to at least debate the bill, which would allow counties to decide
via ballot measure whether big-box retailers should be allowed to sell liquor, wine and full-strength beer. “I think that we need to run it up a flag pole, get it done. I mean, otherwise, we do have — it depends on what you want to deal with — but we could have an onslaught of lobbyists coming in and out of offices,” Bruce said. Supporters of the move, which include chains such as Iowa-based Hy-Vee, Oklaho-
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When the current City Commission passed a new rental registration and licensing program last year, it was one of the more sweeping program changes made by the commission in recent memory. Now the question is whether the program will be swept out with a new commission. Of the six candidates running for the Lawrence City Commission, all said they support the basic goal of the program — to ensure that renters are living in safe conditions. But candidates were more divided on whether the city should inspect a sample of apartments every year, which is what’s called for with the new regulations. In interviews with the Journal-World, candidates were split into two groups: those who were enthusiastic about the program, and those who were wary that the program may be overreaching. Candidates Terry Riordan, Bob Schumm and Leslie Soden all said they thought the city had crafted a fine program that calls for apartments of all types to be inspected on a periodic basis. “It is going to provide safety at no cost to the taxpayers and very little cost to the rentals,” Riordan said of the program, which is designed to be funded with fees paid by landlords. The program is underway with single-family rental units, but inspections won’t start for all apartment types until July. Riordan and Schumm were both architects of the system, and were among the commissioners who approved the plan on a 3-2 vote. Commissioners Mike Amyx and Mike Dever voted against it. Dever is leaving the commission. Amyx remains. Soden, a supporter of the proposal as it was being
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