The University of Kansas

NTS moves to new location
Networking and Telecommunications Services has moved to the bottom level of McCollum Hall. The hours remain unchanged and are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Gail Schaplowsky, NTS project manager, said the move was permanent and done in preparation for future renovation at Ellsworth Hall, NTS’s former location.

Update your phone listing
The Office of University Relations is now gathering information for the annual update of the front sections of the University Telephone Directory, pages 1 to 50. This does not include information for the faculty and staff section (blue-bordered pages in the current directory).
Letters requesting updates have been sent to all departments.
If you have any questions, please call John Reimringer at 864-8856.

Faculty elected to SenEx committee
At an organizational meeting April 28, the University Council elected six faculty to the Senate Executive Committee for the 2001-02 academic year.
Elected were: Lloyd Sponholtz, history, as chair; Tom Mulinazzi, civil engineering; Mohamed El-Hodiri, economics; Maria Velasco, art and design; Bud Hirsch, English; and Morris Faiman, pharmacology.
Elected by the Student Senate to SenEx were Michael Roessler, graduate student; and Jessica Bankston and Dallas Rakestraw, undergraduate students.
Representing classified staff is Kathy Jansen, Office Supply Store, and representing unclassified professional staff is Eric Jeppesen, Department of Environment, Health and Safety.
Ex-officio members of SenEx will be incoming University Council President Tom Beisecker, communication studies, and student body President Justin Mills.

Doctoral student to study wage equity
A doctoral student in educational policy and leadership has received a $14,000 grant from the Association for Institutional Research to fund research into wage equity for women faculty.
Christine Keller-Wolf of Shawnee will use the grant to fund research for her dissertation, Moving Forward or Standing Still? Progress in Achieving Wage Equity for Women Faculty in the 1990s. Keller-Wolf plans to explore the extent to which the relative earnings of men and women faculty members have changed since the early 1990s. She begins her year-long work June 1.
The Association for Institutional Research awarded more than $175,900 in research and dissertation grants for 2001.

Libraries to institute laser printing fees
Beginning in June, University Libraries will charge users 8 cents per side for laser printing.
Laser printing is currently free at KU libraries, but annual costs of more than $65,000 for maintenance and supplies forced the libraries to begin charging for the service.
Julia Rholes, interim dean of libraries, said that charging for laser printing is common in academic libraries. “We’re somewhat behind the curve when it comes to charging. We’ve been planning to do so for some time, and now the technical capabilities are in place.”
Users will be able to use the KU card or their library cards to pay to print out information from Web resources, articles from electronic journals, and results of bibliographic searches from the online catalog and other databases.
Income from printing will allow the libraries to improve service by hiring more student assistants to maintain the printers and will also finance equipment replacement. The fee also will probably cut down the amount of printing.
“With no restraint on printing, we see a lot of waste here in the Watson Reference Room,” said Kathy Graves, head of the reference department. “We hope that the fee will actually make some people more discriminating as to what they choose to print.”
Laser printing is available in the Watson, Anschutz, Murphy art and architecture, Gorton music and dance, and Spahr engineering libraries.
Libraries with laser printers will also keep one or two workstations connected to dot-matrix printers, which will be available for printing a few pages free of charge.