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A town kind of like ours
Firm working to improve Internet speed for students By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com
Photos courtesy of Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau
LEFT: High Street in downtown Morgantown, W. Va., is a lot like Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence: unique restaurants, quirky shops, professional offices, a historic hotel and seats of government. “And this is a family town, much like Lawrence is,” says Michelle Sandrey, who earned her doctorate at Kansas University and now serves on the faculty at West Virginia. TOP RIGHT: Woodburn Hall, at West Virginia University, sits atop one of the many hills in and around Morgantown. And doesn’t it look at bit like Old Fraser Hall? BOTTOM RIGHT: West Virginia University’s Personal Rapid Transit system is just that, whisking students, faculty and staff anywhere along the system’s 8.7-mile track — connecting three campuses — within five minutes.
Kansas University is working with an outside company that provides Internet service to its student housing to boost its basic-tier Internet speeds after student complaints. KU switched this semester from providing its own in-house Internet service for university housing, ResNet, to an outside contractor, Apogee, a company based in Austin, Texas, that provides Internet services to a variety of college campuses across the country. As part of the contract, Apogee provides Internet services to KU residence halls, scholarship halls and on-campus apartments. It KANSAS does not receive money from KU, UNIVERSITY and relies on fees from student users to pay for the service. With KU’s old system, students paid $98 per semester for Internet access, but didn’t have any restrictions on bandwidth, which could be variable depending on who else was trying to access the system, said Diana Robertson, KU’s director of student housing. “They essentially had one large pipe of bandwidth going out” to everyone who was using the service, she said. The first ones who grabbed the bandwidth got it. Under the new system, Apogee offers three tiers of service. The basic tier costs the same as Please see INTERNET, page 2A
Coyote reports Morgantown is the home of KU’s in Leavenworth new rival in the Big 12: West Virginia prompt study
By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com
When Michelle Sandrey first moved to Morgantown, W. Va., she couldn’t help but be reminded of her years in Lawrence and elsewhere in Kansas. Having relocated to the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains a dozen years ago, she saw large spaces reminiscent of the Kansas prairie... and a river running alongside downtown Morgantown, not all that unlike the Kaw... and plenty of retirees attracted to the university and its activities and culture and everything else. And then she set out to run. “I used to walk from the gym, Robinson Gym(nasium),
up and down the hill to the education building,” said Sandrey, who spent three years in Lawrence, taking plenty of classes at Bailey Hall on her way to a doctorate in physical education. “Here, there’s hills all over the place. It’s not just Mount Oread and that’s it.” Sandrey figures Kansas University friends, fans and others will have fun getting to know Morgantown and WVU — where she serves as an associate professor and director of the Graduate Athletic Training Program — as the school joins the Big 12 Conference. “I just don’t know when that’s going to happen,” she said. While everyone waits for conference-realignment issues
to settle — and for Missouri to finally make its play to shift into the Southeastern Conference — here are some numbers behind the school and community lined up to be the 10th member of the Big 12:
1 Number of people — Gene Budig — who have served as president of West Virginia University, then as chancellor of Kansas University. 28,654 Population of Morgantown.
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KU COULD SHOOT for evening 29,617 the score against West Virginia — Number of students enrolled 1-0 all-time versus the Jayhawks at WVU for the fall semester, in football — by taking to the hardwood against Bob Huggins’ Please see WVU, page 2A Mountaineers in men’s basketball.
Be careful: Time change can lead to more accidents By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com
A day when everyone has the potential of getting an extra hour of sleep might seem like an odd time to remind drivers to be extra careful on the road. But that’s exactly what the National Road Safety Foundation does every year. At 1:59 a.m. on Sunday, clocks will be turned back one hour as daylight saving time comes to an end. And with the change in the clock — whether it’s fall or spring — comes an increase in the number of traffic accidents. A 2000 study by Jason Varughese and Richard Allen looked at data from 21 years’
worth of fatal accidents in the Unitthe day of the time change, increased States. Not surprisingly, the ing the risk of driving under the study found that in the spring influence of alcohol or driving (when an hour is lost) there while sleepy. was a significant increase in In Lawrence, and all across the number of accidents on Kansas, bars stay open an the Monday following the hour longer on Sunday morntime change. The researchers ing since clocks are technically attributed the spring accidents pushed back a minute before to sleep deprivation. the 2 a.m. closing time. But they also found an increase “It’s a riskier time to be on the in accidents on the Sunday of the fall road,” said David Reich, director of time change. The researchers believe that public relations for the National Road Safeincrease is due to changes drivers make in ty Foundation, of the days surrounding the their behavior anticipating the longer day. time change. In other words, they think people tend to Please see TIME, page 2A drive later in the night or early morning on
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LEAVENWORTH (AP) — Leavenworth city officials are considering ways to reduce the number of coyotes inside city limits, possibly by including the animals in an ordinance designed to control the urban deer population. City Manager Scott Miller said he has received reports of coyotes in city yards as well as in the county and neighboring Atchison County. Miller told the Leavenworth City Commission during a study session Tuesday that the state allows municipalities to set their own policies Leavenworth City for regulating coyotes, Manager Scott Miller which are not a protected species, The said state officials Leavenworth Times told him there are reported. no recorded coyote “Certainly we don’t attacks on humans want to be shooting coyotes, you don’t in Kansas. want to be shooting guns off in the city limits,” he said. “Traps, you don’t want that either.” He said the city could add coyotes to its management plan for urban deer that allows licensed bow hunters to take deer on city property and on other properties with written consent from the landowners. Resident Jesse Jones told the commission he sees coyotes regularly and he’s concerned about the safety of children in his neighborhood. “If one of those coyotes is rabid and jumps over that fence and gets a child, it’s not going to make a difference to them,” he said of the coyotes. But Mayor Mark Preisinger, who lives near Jones, said he did not think the city had a coyote problem. “I’m not a hunter, but I very much support hunting,” he said. “I do believe that coyotes probably do form some ecological purpose, they’re somewhere in the food chain, do something necessary.” Miller said state officials told him there are no recorded coyote attacks on humans in Kansas. The commission decided to consider the proposal for a final vote at a future meeting.
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