Tuesday, August 23, 2005
If the plan goes as it was drawn up, students may be only a few months away from making copies without stepping off campus.
The University of Kansas is in negotiations with FedEx Kinko’s to develop a contract to bring the company to the Kansas Union. Pat Beard, director of Building Services KU Memorial Unions, said he hoped to have FedEx Kinko’s available by late October or early November.
“We’ve not got a lease agreement yet. As I understand it they are still negotiating their contract with the state for that service. Once they’ve confirmed a contract with the University then we’ll look in earnest at Level 3 South Atrium space,” Beard said.
Beard said the goal was to create a mini-mall environment in the Kansas Union to provide students with all their needs.
“We’re starting to kind of develop a hub here and that’s kind of our role on campus. Our goal is to make it as convenient as possible and this is one of those conveniences we can add,” Beard said.
Nicole Westerbeck, Leavenworth senior, said she thought that the location would be more convenient than the downtown business for students, especially those who lived on campus.
“It’s closer for people in dorms and it’ll be more convenient for people on campus,” Westerbeck said.
Carrie Callen, Garden City senior, said there was a definite need for a FedEx Kinko’s on campus but disagreed with the location.
“I think it’s a bad location. I think it should be more centrally located,” Callen said.
Lacey Hautzinger, spokesperson for FedEx Kinko’s, said the company already had 29 campus locations nationwide and planned to provide packaging and shipping, self-service black and white printing, and full staff to assist students with more advanced projects.
“We should be providing all of our standard services,” Hautzinger said.
The Union’s use of postal services such as Mail Boxes Etc. and US Postal Service has not been successful in the past. All University departments had to print through KU Printing Services, leaving only student business for the Union. Students alone did not generate enough profit for the Kansas Union’s postal services.
“You can’t really generate a profit on stamps,” Beard said.
Now that Printing Services has closed, Beard said he predicted that FedEx Kinko’s would have more business than past postal services because University departments as well as students would use it.
“We were competing with KU services, who had an exclusivity for printing services here on campus. When they closed, that kind of opened the door for the income that could be derived from a copy operation,” Beard said.
— Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
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