The Shack’ Student Senate to Vote on $75,000 Contribution for KJHK’S Relocation by BRENNA HAWLEY [email protected]
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The student vOice since 1904 WOMEN SCORE UPSET ROBINSON: VICTORY IN FIRST ROUND NEW YORKER OF TOURNAMENT AT HEART » PAGE 1B » PAGE 1B WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 www.KANSAN.COM VOLUME 118 ISSUE 113 » ENTERTAINMENT LISTENERS WELCOME A step up from ‘the shack’ Student Senate to vote on $75,000 contribution for KJHK’s relocation BY BRENNA HAWLEY [email protected] Student Senate will vote tonight on paying for $75,000 of KJHK’s move to the Kansas Union. KJHK, the student-run campus radio sta- CONTRIBUTED PHOTO tion, is located in the Sudler Annex — com- The Pilobolus Dance Theatre is known for its exag- monly called “the shack” — a building near gerated body contortions and physical interaction of JRP Hall. The University gave KJHK until its seven dancers. The international touring company Fall 2009 to move out of the building. The performs at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Sudler Annex was donated to the University in 1929 and does not meet current building codes, including handicap accessibility. KJHK has proposed a move to the third Theatre dancer floor of the Kansas Union, which would be a $245,200 remodel project. The alcoves next to the FedEx Kinko’s center would be remod- eled into a studio and production center for performs on the radio station. KJHK plans to contribute $100,000 of its own money, and the Kansas Union will hometown stage pay for $20,000 of the project. The station is asking Student Senate for $75,000 from the Student Senate Reserve Account, which has Lawrence native and KU alumnus Jun almost $360,000. The account is made up of Kuribayashi has spent the last three years money from previous years that isn’t spent. performing with the Pilobolus Dance The station hopes to raise the remaining Theatre. After traveling around the $50,200. world, Kuribayashi finally gets a chance Danielle Basci, Houston senior and sta- to perform in his hometown, as Pilobolus tion manager, said the building was too old Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN comes to Lawrence tonight for a perfor- for the station. She is one of more than 140 The KJHK shack, located on 11th Street, is an old building that no longer adequately fits the needs for the student radio station. The building doesn’t meet building codes and barely mance at the Lied Center. students involved with the radio station, has space for the numerous CDs and albums that the station owns. which has 3,260 listeners daily. SEE FULL STORY ON PAGE 8A “We always joke that it’s about to fall off that hill,” Basci said. Tom Johnson, general manager and pro- by the numbers gram director at KJHK, said the station needed to be updated and made more visible $245,200 — total price of KJHK’s to the campus population. Right now, KJHK remodel project to space in the KU broadcasts from “the shack,” produces in the Union Dole Human Development Center and has a $75,000 — amount the station is business office in the Kansas Union. Johnson asking Student Senate to pay out of said the distance between the different parts the Student Senate Reserve Account of the station made it difficult to operate $100,00 — amount the station will cohesively. pay out of its own reserves “I think it’s really hard for KJHK to show $20,000 — amount the KU Union students how many opportunities it offers,” will pay to fix exterior windows Johnson said. $50,200 — remaining amount KJHK Basci said the station was working on must raise to complete the remodel raising the remaining money by looking for support from local businesses. She said the 13 station would also hold a donation drive on seen and passed by two committees before days until the the air if necessary. She said the move would it can be voted on at full Senate. Schlageck give the station more of a presence on cam- said the bill passed in the Student Rights debate on pus and attract more students like her. Basci, Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN Committee but failed in Finance Committee an art history major, stumbled on the station The University has given KJHK until fall 2009 to relocate their station because the studio does not meet building codes. because members felt like they didn’t have Tuesday, March 25 while driving around. Basci now plans to The station is asking Student Senate to contribute $75,000 to the proposed $245,200 remodel project in the Kansas Union. enough information. Last week the finance work in radio after graduation thanks to her The money would come from the Student Senate Reserve Account, which has nearly $360,000. committee passed the bill because the station experience working for KJHK. provided more information about how the free advertising to student groups promot- Schlageck said. “It makes this legislation a lot Johnson said Senate wouldn’t be giving $75,000 would be spent. ing events that generate revenue because easier to pass.” Submit your questions money to the station and its workers with no If Senate doesn’t approve the $75,000 of a Federal Communications Commission Schlageck said he got involved with the return. In exchange for the $75,000, KJHK tonight, Johnson said it would prolong the policy that says groups must pay for that project after being appointed as a Senate rep- for the coalition will offer 70 campus groups 24 free adver- station’s time in Sudler Annex. The sta- kind of advertisement. resentative to the KJHK Advisory Board and tisements a year for the next eight years, time tion would eventually have to move anyway candidates at www. Sam Schlageck, Manhattan senior and he eventually helped write the legislation. that would cost normal advertisers $80,640. because of buidling codes. He said the group fine arts senator, was involved in writing Schlageck said senators should like the bill Currently the station can broadcast public was creative by nature and would just have to youtube.com/ the bill. He said the exchange of advertising because the Reserve Account money often service announcements about groups, but it raise the money. time would make the offer appeal to other goes unused. KansanDotCom. doesn’t advertise events. senators. The bill to fund KJHK went to Senate —Edited by Madeline Hyden Johnson said the station couldn’t offer “That’s what sweetens the deal for us,” committees last semester. A bill must be weather » PARK & RIDE » CAMPUS 72 38 Mostly Sunny Commission — weather.com Grade policy may change THURSDAY FRIDAY seeks to drop Last week, University Senate’s Executive tee to rewrite its recommendation regarding 60 37 52 30 Committee supported the Academic Policies signatures of drop forms because it thought Showers Showers and Procedures Committee’s recommenda- the wording was ambiguous. The AP&P will A special episode of Video Free for All tion to reinstate the use of the mark “W,” for report back to SenEx after spring break. price of permit will be taped today in The Underground withdraw. However SenEx asked the commit- index from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ask Student Classifieds. 4A The KU Parking Commission wants Senate that one question you want SEE FULL STORY ON PAGE 8A answered. 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