Thursday, March 10, 2005
The Student Voice campaign will concentrate on making wireless Internet in residence halls a possibility.
The decision was made after members received students complaints about ResNet, the Internet provider to residence halls.
Students complained that the Internet service was too slow and wasn’t always reliable, Dennis Chanay, presidential candidate for Student Voice, said.
“Kill ResNet” is the title of the issue on the coalition’s platform. Chanay, Paola freshman, said the goal of the platform was to give students a choice between ResNet and wireless Internet.
However, KU Information Services has reservations about the proposal by Student Voice and question if it is even possible.
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Allison Rose Lopez, public relations and marketing manager for KU Information Services, said that adding wireless Internet to residence halls presents issues is cost and feasibility.
“It is technically feasible to provide KU Wireless Zones in the lobby areas of student housing facilities,” Rose Lopez said. “It just isn’t feasible to provide 100 percent coverage for 4,000 students down every wing of every hall.”
Chanay said that providing 100 percent coverage isn’t necessary for now because not everybody living at residence hall has wireless Internet.
“This is what students want and this is what we will deliver,” Chanay said.
Rose Lopez said that Information Services works with KU Student Housing to improve services in residence halls.
Decisions about Internet connectivity in residence halls cannot be made independently by students.
Student Voice has not yet talked with Information Services, but is attempting to schedule a meeting with it.
The University is falling behind in technology compared to other universities, so it is important that something be done now, he said.
Recently, Intel published a list of the 100 most un-wired campuses in the country, signaling the campuses with the best wireless plans.
Five schools from the Big 12 were on the list: Iowa State, Kansas State, Missouri, Baylor and Texas.
Chanay said that if these schools can service the residence halls, so can Kansas.
“It should be a reasonable goal to get on that list,” Chanay said. “We are encouraging adaptation because we are behind the times.”
Chanay said that if the University does not implement it now, it will continue to fall further and further behind its main competition.
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