Issue 04, Volume 123
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
One Stop offers customer service for enrollment, registration, financial aid and payment needs. The high-tech express center is on the ground floor of John C. Hodges Library and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
‘One Stop’ bundles student services to provide convenience R.J. Vogt Managing Editor UT opened One Stop Express Student Services Monday afternoon, bringing orange pillars of glowing light into Hodges Library to efficiently guide students on common campus problems. Located on the ground floor of Hodges, the newest addition to campus consolidates the Financial Aid Office, Bursar’s Office and Registrar into one central and especially well-lit location. Amidst four self-service kiosks, six modern chic desk locations and two flat screen televisions, cross-trained counselors like Taylor Shields hope to eradicate the infamous “Big Orange Screw.” “Instead of calling the bursar’s office and having to be transferred to the registrar’s office and finding out you were originally supposed
to be in the financial aid office, you can just come here and we’ll take care of you,” Shields said. The program has been in planning stages since the beginning of Chancellor Cheek’s Top 25 initiative and has been spreading from campus to campus across the nation. There are currently One Stop centers at Texas A&M University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Cincinnati and Abilene Christian University, among others. UT’s One Stop director, Darren Curry, came from ACU after seeing the job listed in January 2012. He said one of the priorities of One Stop is to head off problems before they start. “If we can identify those students who will need our services on payment due date, we can … begin helping them and encouraging them to complete some steps,” Curry said. “Whatever happens can happen more efficiently and quickly, and they don’t have to be
Victoria Wright
The Associated Press
He said increased use of pesticides is decreasing areas for wild honeybees roam, and chemicals inside the hive are affecting bees lives over the long term. “It’s just a whole raft of things that bees rather not deal with,” Stovall said. It’s the weather, too. Stovall said increased rain this spring has an affect on bee behavior. When flowers begin to bloom, bees emerge from their hive and begin making honey from the nectar and using the pollen for food. When it becomes cold inside the hive, bees begin to cluster to protect the queen, the only one who lays eggs. “At sometime around 55 degrees, if it gets warmer than that, they tend to break out of their cluster,” Stovall said. “Wind affects bees too by making it difficult to fly.” Bees are also susceptible to
Honeybees are dying, but scientists have yet to pinpoint why the insect population is decimating nationwide. According to a report by the United States Department of Agriculture regarding Colony– Collapse Disorder, about a third of the honeybee population has died from this past winter. Recreational beekeeper and journalism and electronic media professor Jim Stovall said that the reason behind the dying bees is not one culprit, but a myriad of possibilities. “We don’t have a good environment and we don’t treat bees very well,” Stovall said. He has been beekeeping since 2007 and said that this particular year, the loss has been especially detrimental for commercial beekeepers who keep the insects for profit by using them for agricultural purposes. See BEES on Page 2
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stressed out on due date.” When campus activity ramps up near the start of the fall semester, both Shields and Curry predict a busy August for One Stop. But thanks to a technologically savvy queue system, Shields said students will barely have to wait. “You can actually check online on the One Stop website before you even come to the library to see how long the queue is,” Shields said. “Then, when you check in, you can go print a paper or do some edits and we’ll send you an email when it’s getting close to your turn so you don’t have to stand and wait. “We’re trying to make it not such a burden; all UT students know that the lines at the bursar and financial aid office when school starts are insane.”
• Photo courtesy of Jim Stovall
Germany’s chancellor will raise the issue of the U.S. National Security Agency’s eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President Barack Obama here next week — the latest sign of the international backlash over America’s sweeping electronic surveillance programs. Obama has defended the once-secret programs that sweep up to an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers, saying they are a necessary defense against terrorism. He assured Americans on Friday that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” That has given little assurance to Germans and other foreigners, who routinely use U.S.-based Internet sites for voice and data communications. European nations often have much stricter privacy laws than those in the U.S., and their citizens defend those privacy rights with more vigor. In Brussels, senior European See GERMANY on Page 2 Union officials said they would
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also question their American counterparts about the impact of such programs on the privacy of EU citizens during a transAtlantic ministerial meeting in Dublin starting Thursday. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters on Monday that Chancellor Angela Merkel would question Obama about the National Security Agency program when he’s in Berlin on June 18 for his first visit to the German capital as U.S. president. The issue could tarnish a visit that both sides had hoped would reaffirm strong German-American ties. Germany’s Interior Ministry said it had already been in contact with U.S. officials to determine whether there had been any infringement of German citizens’ privacy — considered an almost-sacred right in a country with a history of deep privacy infringements under Nazi and East German governments. In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague sought to assure Parliament that allegations that the British
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