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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2016
Photo by Brian Hayes
The Twisted Java Coffee Bar, right, and the Noble House, center, provide many meals and coffee options for students located across the street from the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).
Food trucks sticking around the Innovation Campus BRIAN HAYES
REPORTER
@sunflowernews
Steve Jones, co-owner of Twisted Java and newcomer to the food truck scene, finds a lot of pride in being a part of the Wichita State Food Truck Plaza. Jones brings extra chairs and a broom to keep the area clean. He often walks around and schmoozes with guests. The Wichita State Food Truck Plaza opened on June 20 near the National Institute for Aviation Research (NAIR) on the east side of the main
campus. Despite the sweltering heat and construction, students and faculty keep coming back to enjoy the food and new, meticulously landscaped space. It remains open and operating despite the vendors not having contracts. The grand opening of the food truck plaza was a banner day. People f locked from all over campus for free shaved ice and a jazz band. Chef Akamu, Owner of Noble House Hawaiian Plate Lunch, was serving up his traditional Hawaiian food on the first day. Two months
after the opening, he’s still parking his big blue trailer on campus. He plans to return to the food truck plaza as long as the university will have him. “This is instant business, so I don’t know why we wouldn’t come back,” Akamu said. “It rivals any other good location we have.” Jones and the Twisted Java truck arrive as early as 7 a.m. and often stay until 3 p.m. serving their custom drinks. During a windy day this summer, an umbrella blew out from the tables. Jones got on
his hands and knees to tape the umbrella to the table, making sure it didn’t blow away and disturb any guests. “This is top-notch,” Jones said of the food truck plaza. “We’re proud of it. It’s a very nice place. It’s beautiful and we’re lucky to be here. We’re appreciative of it.” The smell of Asian-fusion and barbecue keep drawing patrons back to the plaza. Jeff Schauf is co-owner of The Flying Stove, a longtime fixture in the f lourishing Wichita food-truck business.
“It’s nice to be on a college campus because there’s a lot of young kids and people that seem really energetic and enthusiastic,” Schauf said. “It’s also a really nice facility. It’s been fun watching all that.” Schauf personally delivered food across the plaza to a group of Wichita State volleyball players. The food trucks owners love all the business at the food truck plaza as much as the WSU students and faculty enjoy the huli huli chicken and truff le fries.
Dallas-area students can now get in-state tuition TJ RIGG REPORTER @tj_rigg
Infographic by Talisha Thompson
Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area can now attend Wichita State at an in-state tuition rate. Shocker City Partnership, a tuition assistance program, applies to 14 counties in Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Aaron Hamilton, associate director of Admissions, said the program started in the fall of 2015 as a way to attract students living along the I-35 corridor, which runs from Houston to Minnesota. “The goal of that is to bring students in that can keep us connected (to the I-35 corridor),” Hamilton said. “And to help us fill roles locally in terms of what employers are looking for and growing those different industries around Wichita.” The tuition rate applies to all undergraduate and graduate students from the Dallas area. Hamilton said students who live in that area can receive in-state tuition status after proving their residence at the tuition and fees office in Jardine Hall. The program is part of an on-going recruitment for Oklahoma and Dallas students to receive lower tuition rates. Under the Shocker Select program, students from Texas and Oklahoma who live in counties outside the Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas can receive a 33 percent discount
off non-state resident tuition. “The idea behind that is just to expand the I-35 corridor even further and continue to grow enrollment,” Hamilton said. Bobby Gandu, director of undergraduate admissions, has said the programs will help WSU increase the number of students. “We’ve taken nonresident tuition costs out of the equation and think this will help expand Shocker nation in an intentional and meaningful way,” Gandu said in a November 2015 WSU news story about Shocker City. Hamilton said the university has seen large increases in admission numbers in Oklahoma and Texas since the discounts were announced. Oklahoma student enrollment numbers have increased from 11 to 43, when compared to fall 2015, Hamilton said. In Texas, the number went from 25 to 37 in the same time frame. In addition, Hamilton said the university does not expect an increase in admission from the Dallas-metro area until fall 2017. Hamilton said discussion about offering tuition decreases to other states and areas along the I-35 corridor have not been held. “We’re kind of seeing how these work and then if they work, how do we keep expanding them, if they’re successful, which it has been so far,” he said. “We want to be strategic about it.”
WSU offers a healthy type of PaperCut CONNER CLAPHAM REPORTER @clapdaddy1
If you find yourself needing to print off an essay that you forgot at home or in your dorm room, you don’t have to worry. Wichita State offers plenty of printing locations found all around campus to do just that. Ablah Library is a popular place on campus to print with its central location and easy access. The library, located on the east-central side of the main
campus, offers two separate printing options. Five printers are inside the library. One of them offers color printing. Outside of the library is the 24-hour study center with one printer available at all times of the day, even after the library is closed. The library also uses PaperCut for its printers. PaperCut is an online service that makes printing available anywhere on campus that uses it. The PaperCut service can get confusing, but is also beneficial to students.
A student simply needs a computer, and can print to any of the given locations on campus — Ahlberg Hall, Elliott Hall, Lindquist Hall and Wallace Hall are just a few places. A full list of printing locations can be found on the PaperCut website. To print, log in to the PaperCut website at https://papercut. wichita.edu with your Shocker ID. Students can add credit to the site either online or with cash at the Ablah Library. Click on “Web Print” on the left-hand margin.
To submit the print job, select the building and printer name you wish to print to. After that, select how many copies you wish to print and attach the document in PDF format. With PaperCut, all documents desiring printing needs to be converted to PDF format before printing them. After the document has been uploaded to the PaperCut website, it needs to be released to the desired printer. Log in to PaperCut on the printer’s attached computer, and release the print job.
In the Rhatigan Student Center, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion allows students to print for free. ODI is located on the second floor of the RSC, and allows up to 10 free pages of printing per day. ODI does not use the PaperCut service. For students in the Honors College, free printing is also available. The Honors College is located just past the main lobby of Shocker Hall. With a Shocker ID, they offer unlimited free printing to those who are eligible.